Could take a night off without suffering financially warningly what do you say to that. Can you repeat that question please are. You know jared corrosion a said that the players could afford to take a night or 2 off because theyre in a financial position that americans arent in. I think i think the point was that money is not everything you know i think the point is you want to avoid i collect voice obviously you know some things are not going to be perfect but i just think that that was the point of taking the night off not necessarily about the money because so many people in america is rich. Or rich and you know everybody is that felons and everybody. John denies it give the magic took some heat in july for standing on the rest of the team during the National Anthem you have defended isaac and said you probably wouldnt have taken then me why not well the thing is this i always like to ask questions so you know if you know how it is how something happens on t. V. Things will happen yes if so any time i see something i always want to ask questions so for me i probably wouldnt do it because everyone else did it but i feel like youre standing on the hill and thats that thats my approach but i get the message that i defy deference whiteness ok what about those who say players should stay out of political areas social justice basically saying just shut up and play its not your area i dont agree with that because the root long and no one must have one mission one alan clinton would you put make it to bring you know let my young son and smile become knowledgeable and you would be a smart ass want to be there but youre i think the message. Be all you can be a leader you know youre asking for you know be multiple. What do you make of the players living in the bubble can you handle that well. I definitely could have handled living in the bubble you know it was. Its just so interesting it reminds me of Old School New york city basketball when you got to play you and its another another team coming on in multiple teams are in the vicinity of the venue i think it had to be asked me. Out a lot of money and you think sports it is handling the pandemic. Not i think. I mean i think they handled it pretty cool i mean we want to see sports and you look at the big athletes i dont think they can get affected by you know kobe so you want want to still have the opportunity to see sports and i think i want a really good job we can have that were sports like not played on television. Would you have opted out of the season. I dont think i actually remember i wanted to retire early i was 22 years old i was a little stressed out i actually call from our time it was just like you know everybody so different now i want to retire for Different Reasons that really but i think its just up to now i probably would not play it so i dont think ill want to just miss. Does the abbreviated n. B. A. Season take away from whoever wins the championship i think. I think this championship is going to be one of the most difficult championship because. You dont even really have Home Court Advantage if you lose the game its not like you can go back home break sos you can potentially get people being swept in there people are losing and theres no Home Court Advantage its really going to come down to ask because higher you know and well. What do you think in clippers they made him i mean road in los angeles cold fabers almost a witness i like to call a person you know i think the look was pretty organization. Great players you know lou williams on that team. And they got a really good team there in los angeles in there and be a team you d know i think you know what bus system they played very well i mean you have a shot they have a legit shot. You know until you so many youve done a lot for you have been a remarkable 2nd magni have done so much for Mental Health awareness dont you feel led them to think that the public now has much more an understanding of Mental Illness than before and i think so you know back in may. If you were just to say you know you have an issue you have a Mental Illness i think media with it one supporter as much as they support or understand coverage and i think people have a better understanding and able to deal with it better and you just want to continue to be a part of that movement. You said that in the past you werent happy you were in a dark place and you can you explain what that was like. Yeah you know just. I think wanting to be number one i think also stress uncertainty shifting thats what causes you know athletes sometimes. You know go to a certain thing so i believe that. You know just those things make it stronger with us strong. Im really happy that i was talking about it. And it was good. The public by the way how are you doing i dont great you know just enjoying the skull they will have a count like a long vacation but you know trying to get through i mean but other than asking people come together and know that it is a different time now but i think thats our home if anything. Does it ever come back to haunt you metta there are periods in your life waiting to go into that dark place again. And im pretty happy. I mean i actually its some of support out there and so many people that go on to Different Things that weve gone through in our neighbors and we just support each other commitments at the dock in congress you know obviously a long time ago you know and all the laws that those are those are doctors times and you know anything you dont personally its pretty easy compared to you know what weve been through just being in america but other than that everybody came and so if you have issues you know its not like youre back alone so you just get through it and you know the most important thing is to enjoy your days thats really really important you know you got a lot of help belden yeah absolutely absolutely along the way a lot a lot of help and actually a lot of support because your family the most important you know and i think i think it starts with the family and then he goes down you know to if you need any extra help it you can always lean on camera and i think thats what. Keep people going and keep keep people strong in his family struggling to raise a good future and thats whats most important we dont always have that well you know sometimes you ash the questions and you can find answers so what are you doing now will you in business what are you doing right now im just home. Yeah going home and you know normally i would come down to check you out action studio you know its on my own i mean i make and writing doing professionally ill professionally well you know just making about number one to make sure the kids for this college and i got kids in college and high school so i think that thats the biggest profession. And in part you know just doing an actress exports is going to youre staying a bass more i really enjoy sports really enjoy the game and im just really excited now im able to once again you know i work with people i love basketball so thats often i can do what i do basketball application experts exports. Some come out come find some names you work with n. B. A. Players well. I did i remember when i let him be i wanted to i was thinking about going to find hundreds when i was thinking about getting my own series 7 clouds all interested in that. And then at the sides of the Digital Marketing but i did at that Management Company we got a place an m. B. A. But it just i dont know if it doesnt interest me and some of the company but i dont really get involved because im finding it doesnt interest me i just like to be around again its much possible. Matter youre a great man i hope when together in person shown absolutely we get together in a yellow love now its logic isnt good argument really your friend over it sounds. You know best metal world peace will lead more politicking right after this. She stressed to make sure that the british at the bowl of. The will to. Stop question was to you she didnt taste the face to face so i pushed. 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We mounted laos well my state is officially the mouth heavily bombed country per capita in all of Human History millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country so i really dont think its happening. Even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u. S. Making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little land on. Back to politicking we now welcome dr abdul siad to our program physician being the ologist Public Health expert hes a progressive activists and hes author of the new book healing politics a doctors journey into the heart of a political epidemic all right of the top doctor is it is this he level. Asked me on november 4th look i think theres a lot of work that were going to have to do to be able to heal d the moment that were in you know the book i talk about this idea of an epidemic of insecurity. That has left us all anxious worried about the future driven by a systematic lack of basic resources and it wont and on november 3rd just because of the outcomes of want to election but its going to be a function of everything that we can do from november 4th onward to try and rectify the lack of access to basic goods Like Health Care and housing and i quality infrastructure and jobs that pay a fair wage that too many people are living without right now particular in the context of this pandemic and so back to school time what do you say to parents who are asking is should i send my kid to school. You know the hard part is a is that it is an answer that really depends on a lot of things that are individual to those parents and ill say this that in Public Health there is never one yes for no very rarely theres one yes or no but its a question of how much risk is worth the circumstance now in some communities where there are still very active Community Spread the risk of sending your kid back to school is a lot higher in communities where theres not very much Community Spread obviously its a lot lower you know is the school in the School District doing what it takes to prevent transmission in that school or theyre requiring masks are they you know improving the quality of their a fax system or are they doing as much as they can outside and then how bored is it for that kid to go to school and what are the risks if in fact they do get sick or someone in the family gets very sick you know some children are living in multigenerational households where theyve got really parents or grandparents who really could have very very bottom if in fact they got sick other kids need really specialized education that they can only do in person and i think for every family they need to weigh the risks against the needs and make a decision for themselves but i would always say that being able to make sure that your kid is wearing a mask at all times that that School District has a real plan around what to do if there is a case how to prevent that 1st case from happening and of course paying attention to what the circumstances around school is and in the in the transmission and at around the community those are all really important things to do a doctor Top White House officials are urging the nations governors to persuade the heads of colleges to keep the students on campus even and in view of the band or do you think that sounds weird. Absurd look i im teaching this term at the university of michigan and you know i like to take my class fully online i really enjoy teaching and i wish i was able to do it in person but i also know that you know that for College Students the ability to learn online via Something Like zone is a lot higher than for younger kids and every day that we keep colleges and universities open while theres active spread on those campuses in particular we are increasing the risk for every other person who lives in that community and you know that means then that you know kids who really do need to learn in classrooms like kids in kindergarten or prek. Are not going to be able to do that and so you know Colleges Universities are not the most important institutions to keep open right now and its worrying to me that the seems more in line with a political agenda driven by the white house than it does to be aligned with science in the Public Health interest of the communities covered 19 has already claimed the lives of more than 183000 how much worse can it get. Oh get a lot worse i hate to say it it could get a lot worse you know that there is no Silver Bullet to cover 911. 00 a vaccine is not a Silver Bullet because of course theres a difference between a vaccine and a vaccination and we know that 50 percent of americans say that they wouldnt take a vaccine right now because the worried about the process that created and so it doesnt matter if you have to radically have a vaccine if people are not willing to take it so theres no Silver Bullet what we need to do is basic Problem Health we need to invest in testing we need to invest in Contact Tracing and the fact that were not doing that as a society particularly as we go into the fall schools open in Colleges Universities open and we move indoors because its getting colder outside the risk of a serious increase in transmissions as is always that we saw what happened over the summer and the last thing ill say is not you know when were worried about deaths in particular watching what might happen with concomitant flu increase could be really really serious particular for the highest risk patients who of course are folks with preexisting conditions and and the elderly and so this is this is this is not a good situation or walking into right now and it could get a lot worse and we have to remember that do you see any cause for optimism. Well we see cause for optimism larry. I believe that you know we got a choice about the leadership that we want and and i believe that if in this country we are willing to put science ahead of the political aims of a particular president if were willing to invest in basic Public Health if we are willing to forego some of our own creature comforts so that those who need to be able to get to be together to learn and in to engage in society if were willing to do all those things then we can keep this this this this virus that they look were at any time or within a month of vastly taking down the transmission but it has to be because all of us decide that were going to be a part of the solution so long as we have people who are trying to divide us and to politicize this virus were probably not going to get there but the fact that we can and the fact that we could make that decision the fact that we could stand up and decide that we are going to take this thing on thats always cause for optimism and im never going to give up on that hope what degree of confidence do you have in the pandemic data i am confident in in the data that we have right now i worry that there is a lot of attempts at political interference but right now i am confident in the data that we have. That being set. The directions that this white house is taking you know taking that data responsibilities away from the c. D. C. And centralizing it with some corporation in in washington d. C. The impact that the pressure that they put on the c. D. C. To change guidelines their appointment of a neural radiologist who is you know a doctor focused on imaging a brain rather than a baby epidemiologist or an Infectious Disease doctor as the Top White House advisor on cove in 1000 these are all really worrying and so while im confident that the data we have right now is legitimate i worry always about the political interference with that data and that we all have to be vigilant particularly the journalists and the 4th estate to make sure that those numbers are real and that they can be depended upon because we need to know whats happening in our society with one of the greatest disasters in modern memory how weve been hearing a lot of the convalescent plasma as a treatment exactly what is it one of the pros one of the cons. So accomplice in plasma is a a portion of the blood of people who have had a cold the 19 and in that blood so its the part of the blood that doesnt have cells in it right so not red blood cells or white blood cells but in the blood there are a lot of other things including antibiotics and the the that the reasoning goes that if you give patients who are actively struggling with over 1000 some of that plasma that the antibodies inside of that plasma will be able to truly in their immune system to over 1000 and help them beat it now this is a treatment that is often used with different factions diseases its being used right now the question is whether or not the f. D. A. Should have given it in an emergency use our youth use use authorization because right now the data that we have to show that it is effective is really li