is covid. 2021 began with a vaccine rollout, still has ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking to dr. fauci across the pandemic learning about his guidance and what to do if the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating because it is an interesting tenet of virology. the only way a virus can mutate is if you allow it to replicate. so when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3 to 400,000 new infections a day, the virus has an open playing field to replicate so much that it starts to mutate. that s when you get the dangerous mutations. so one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in this country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking, the distancing, the avoiding congregate settin
zerlina maxwell, host of zerlina on peacock, ayman mohyeldin, host of msnbc s ayman, and elise jordan, republican strategist. let s go right to the first revvie award, the ridicu-list. these are the events that i still can t believe happened in a year as bizarre as 2021. here are few of my picks to get us started. facebook goes meta. stuck in the suez. and trump: the blog. facebook s name change. the social network found itself under fire from the right and the left over user privacy and rampant misinformation, and mark zuckerberg decides the solution is to rebrand the company to meta. i don t know exactly what the metaverse is, but i m guessing it has something to do with having your head in the clouds. or how about that ship that got stuck for days in the suez canal? disrupting trade routes all over the world, it seemed like a random event back in march, but little did we know it was a preview of global shipping tie-ups and even a shortage of christmas trees this holida
rollout but it s still ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking with dr. fauci and his guidance and what to do with the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating, it s an interesting tenet of vierology, the only way to mutate is if you allow it to replicate. when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3,000 to 4,000 new a day, that s when you get the dangerous mutations. one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in this country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking. the distancing. avoiding congregant settings. get vaccinated. the vaccination and public health measures will bring the level of virus down so low, you won t give it a chance to mutate. that s what you need to do. there s the other side of the coin. t
chief of staff mark meadows engulfing more and more republicans. new confirmation that congressman jim jordan was one of them. his office confirming the message you re about to see was authentic. vice president pence should call out all the electoral votes that rebelieves are unconstitutional. jordan basically says, and this may sound familiar, it s not something he was endorendorsing. he was considering this. consider this the retweet defense in this era of coup-by-text, by powerpoint, by communications online. it s going down in the dms. what s going down may have been a crime. it s a bombshell that further ties mark meadows into the problems he has as he was just hit with the contempt vote. that means the justice department now will have to decide whether to indict mr. meadows as they did mr. bannon. liz cheney and adam kinzinger are the only republicans that went along with the majority in the house, being comprised of democrats, to hold meadows in contempt for defying th