Rand Paul, Military Vaccine Mandates, CDC Data, SpaceX, and Inflation || EP 523

Episode • Aug 13, 2021 • 38m

The military is mandating vaccines for troops, the CDC used data from a New York Times infographic to overstate the contagiousness of the COVID Delta Variant by +50%, Rand Paul has a new "scandal" involving stock purchases during the pandemic, Elon Musk is offering to make NASA's spacesuits, and inflation is wiping away the wage raises over the last year.

That's a lot of stuff, and I was by myself today!

CDC Took Mistaken Data on Delta Variant Transmissibility From a New York Times Infographic

https://reason.com/2021/08/12/cdc-took-mistaken-data-on-delta-variant-transmissibility-from-a-new-york-times-infographic/?utm_medium=email

COVID vaccines to be required for military under new US plan

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-vaccine-us-military-requirement-pentagon-3975940c732352f72e41f6e34a3a2669?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Rand Paul reveals in late financial disclosure that his wife bought stock in company behind remdesivir in February 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/politics/rand-paul-wife-stock-gilead-sciences/index.html

Rand Paul discloses 16 months late that his wife bought stock in company behind covid treatment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/11/rand-paul-gilead-stock/

Elon Musk offers for SpaceX to make NASA spacesuits, after watchdog says program to cost $1 billion

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/10/elon-musk-spacex-could-make-new-astronaut-spacesuits-for-nasa.html

Inflation wiped out America's pay raises