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CDC Flip-Flops on Surface Transmission

from #201 - A Sense Of Time (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show · #201

2 min

Tim mocks the CDC for walking back its warnings about surface transmission after months of frantic grocery scrubbing, then teases the upcoming Ray Kump interview.

In this bit4 moments
  • CDC reverses course on surface transmission, admitting the virus doesn't really live on surfaces after months of telling people to sanitize everything
  • Tim describes the default CDC approach as making people terrified of everything—not just other people, but desks, elevator buttons, anything
  • Surface transmission is actually rather unlikely, though the CDC had people frantically scrubbing groceries for three months based on that fear
  • Tim recalls asking Ray Kump how he was doing during quarantine and getting the response: 'I'm no longer in the dark room, I have a sense of time'
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