COVID-19 Comeback: We'll quickly comment on all the latest stats, then we'll focus on the big story locally since Friday's show....Orange County and now Seminole County ordering students to mask up...but with parents allowed to opt out their kids from the mask requirement by sending in signed letters. This is obviously a slick way to get around DeSantis' order against requiring masks on school kids. Questions: How do we and our listeners feel about this opt out plan? Will it avoid a challenge by the Governor? How worried should we be that the opt out will open the door to a big time Covid spread among kids that could shut schools down?
Tokyo Olympics post mortem. They got all the events in. The games were all over the TV dial....so why were the ratings so bad?!
https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-us/suite
POLL: https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-olympics-ratings-plunge-woke-protests
Obama scales down his massive guest list for his 60th birthday bash on Martha's Vineyard, but critics say it was still way overblown, given the resurgence of COVID-19
COVID-19 Comeback: 2 different angles
*The politics of the new school year for DeSantis. His policies forced most school districts into mask-optional mode. When we look back on the upcoming school year, will that be shown to have been the best policy or not, and how will his popularity be affected...positively or negatively? Will the Orange and Seminole County parental opt out prove to be healthier than the mask optional approach. And what about the few counties who are mandating masks for students, in full defiance of DeSantis' mask policy? Will they have better results in the battle against COVID-19 ...or not?
*Also...momentum for 3rd COVID shots is growing. We'll discuss, in the light of my story and Alan awaiting his antibody test results from Dr. Klein
https://time.com/6088422/covid-booster-shots/
Rory O'Neill will join us to speak on applications open for a year log stay in a Mars mission simulated environment in Texas. Give this link a read...it'll prompt lots of good questions
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-year-long-simulated-mission-to-mars-would-probab-1847436787
We'll talk about Bobby Bowden's passing and play an obit
https://sports.yahoo.com/florida-state-football-coach-legend-bobby-bowden-dies-at-91-105721200.html
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