Chapter 1: What is the context of the episode and who is the guest?
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I am your host, Mia Wong, and today is an episode that was significantly delayed by the fact that our guest got shot in the face by riot munitions while attempting to cover an anti-ice protest at an ice facility, and then her co-worker was fucking grabbed by the feds the next day, which she was also still out at for reasons that are semi-incomprehensible to me because, again, she was just shot in the face.
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Chapter 2: What recent events have escalated protests against ICE in Chicago?
I mean, we've been watching these guys for weeks, like, fucking hurt themselves with their pepper ball guns. Like, they literally are, like, dropping shit as they're, like, running around the protest. Like, watching... people have made like call of duty comparisons or like Proud Boy comparisons. And like, it is kind of like that.
It's like, if you just gave a bunch of chuds, a bunch of like military police gear and we're like, all right, go out and like pretend to be a cop. And that's like literally what it feels like. And so I'm trying to thread this needle for people of like, yeah, all cops suck. But like, what's going on with this is like so much worse. Yeah.
Like, they're just out there, like, shooting at people randomly, like, and, you know, for no reason. Like, it is just one of the craziest things I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. And I also, I want to put this into perspective. Like, you have also covered a lot of protests in the city. Yeah, I've covered a lot of cop violence. I've been to a lot of protests.
I mean, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds at this point, right? Yeah. And there's just certain, like, things that you're used to seeing and certain, there's a certain predictability sometimes to, like, a lot of their movement. Yeah.
And what's interesting too is like in some ways they are actually more militarized just in terms of like their riot formations and like how tightly coordinated their units are because they practice and they train for like crowd control stuff all the time.
And then you have these just like ice chuds running around with like way more gear and they look way scarier, but they're like way less organized and way more chaotic. Yeah. And there's not enough of them. Right. So like they're not even like doing a good job of like backing each other up, you know, like in the field.
Like I'm just watching them like leave their own backs unwatched and doing things that are like dangerous for them. Like they want to act like a military unit, but they're like definitely not. Yeah. It's I mean, people have made the comparison of like Proud Boys, which I think I don't know. It kind of works in a sense like Street Fighters. Yeah. Because what they're acting like, you know. Yeah.
It's just it's just been super violent, super awful. Chicago does not have really any experience with like these people. just feds in general, like, to this level. I know that out in Portland for years now, like, there have been various protests outside of the ICE or something. Like, there's just... There have been, like, a lot more fed presence out in Portland, Seattle. Yeah.
Throughout the past few years of protests, I've seen, you know, people interact with them. And we just... We've had nothing like that here. So this is also, like... Yeah. Very unprecedented, like, for this region. Yeah, because usually CPD is, like... brutal enough that they don't, you know, end up with like federal deployments. And now it's like, oh boy. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How are ICE operations impacting local communities?
Good for them. To be clear, they probably interviewed a lot more people than we had capacity to. It's been obviously a huge challenge to even cover all this stuff as this tiny, random, weirdo-ass news outlet. Yeah. And we're still figuring it out as we go.
But yeah, I mean, this, this, I am still, it has been two days and I am like still trying to wrap my head around this raid, this specific raid, because it's just so horrific that this happened. And of course, like the timing, like they knew what they were doing by timing it in the middle of the night, of course. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm going to fucking read the Times article because I've just been reading it while you were doing it. Like, Watson, this is someone who lives across the street, said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers.
It was heartbreaking to watch, said Watson, even if you're not a mother, seeing kids come out buck naked and taking from their mothers. It was horrible. They're literally ripping kids from their fucking mothers at one in the morning and throwing, apparently, allegedly, throwing them into U-Haul vans. Yeah, I mean, this is, like, psycho shit.
The last three weeks, four weeks, has just been a gradual progression of, like, the most evil shit you've ever seen in your life. I don't even know what to say about it anymore, honestly. Because it feels like... Feels like our only way of grappling with things like this is by making comparisons to other things. Yeah.
And I don't know that that is really helping anybody right now, but you know, it's, it's, it's ethnic cleansing. It's genocide. It's like literally. Yeah. I was just saying earlier today, when you drill down to it, there are disappearing vast majority Latino men. There are some women. It's not only men, but they are definitely targeting mostly Latino men.
These are people who are migrating here from Central America who are, if you look at their lineage... mostly like indigenous to this fucking continent, unlike white people, you know, it's just an extension of like the American project, like of the white nationalist, like extermination of the people, indigenous to the Americas. Like that is literally what's happening like right now.
So it, yeah, it does not feel like, I don't know, like, like enough people get it to the level that they should. Yeah.
Yeah well and that's I think like one other thing I wanted to talk to you about was like the way the press bubble has worked around this where again the fact that federal agents dragged naked children from their homes at one in the morning in the third largest city in the United States and That is a story that is hitting the mainstream Chicago press today, two days later.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of federal responses to protests?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's statements on vaccines?
Again, Wakefield was the disgraced author of that vaccine study that tied it to autism, lost his medical license for that, but that has persisted and carried on, and the seeds of that are still growing terrible, terrible plants and trees today. And one of them was this fruit of Trump saying we should break up the MMR vaccine. So I'll just say it up front. One, there's no reason to do that.
There's no reason that shows improved safety. There's no credible evidence to suggest that at least. And more importantly, the more you split these things up, the more likely you're going to end up missing doses. That is like a known fact. Mm-hmm. If you delay vaccines, if you split them up more than they need to be, there is a much greater chance you will miss that.
In case this is not clear, measles is bad. It is one of the most contagious viruses out there, and lower vaccination rates quickly lead to outbreaks, as we're already starting to see. And when there's already some hesitancy in the community, pushing it like this is a terrible thing.
So even though that was a throwaway statement from the president of the United States, it could have serious repercussions. And it's very concerning.
Chapter 6: How does the Wakefield study influence public perception of vaccines?
And I've also I have committed myself every single time this comes up, the Wakefield study, which is where this this whole separate the other thing. Yeah. Like came up. A, it's not it's it's not even a conclusion that even even if you take his completely fake premise that he made up. Yeah. It doesn't actually follow that you should split the vaccines up. Right. It's baffling.
But the second thing is the reason he wanted to split the vaccines up was that he was trying to sell his own vaccine. Correct. Yes. He was just trying to sell his own vaccine. It makes me insane every single time this is talked about because this whole thing is medical. It's literally an industrial complex. It's like the anti-vaccine industrial complex.
Chapter 7: What are the consequences of misinformation about hepatitis B?
They're all trying to sell you something. That's the whole thing. I was watching Trump give this talk, this press conference, and I think I said this on another show here on this channel. I started to disassociate. I'm like, yeah, this can't be real life. Am I dreaming? It felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. It did not feel real to me.
To be fully transparent, I did not make it through that press conference watching it on video. About four minutes in, I was like, fuck this. I'm going to read the transcript. So I'm just working off a transcript because I was like, I can't. It was tough. I can't do this. So on my podcast, The House of Pod, you should all listen to it.
I played a clip from Trump talking about Tylenol and another clip of him talking about hepatitis B. And when you listen to it, when I listened back to it as I was editing it, it sounded like I edited his clips to make him sound crazy. Yeah. I did not. I did not. I just took straight from what he says. And it just, the way he was talking, it's hard to listen to. I mean, it's hard to read, too.
But the way he talks, it's so disjointed. He just goes from one thought to the next. He does this weave thing that he thinks is so clever, but it's just lost. The threads are never brought back together. It's just an unraveled, terrible rug of lies. And that is why it's so hard to, like, listen to him. I totally understand. Yeah.
Yeah, well, and this has also been, you know, one of the things that most of the media has done is that, you know, in order to be able to, like, play a listenable clip on air, right, and also in sort of in service of power, they edit the clips to make him sound like a normal human being. Right.
So the version of it that people are seeing is not the version where he's just sort of completely ranting incoherently and, like, you know, you just see these clips. But then also because they're editing it down progressively more and more, like, just more stuff, more just, like, information content gets lost every time, which is a problem because there's just, like, so much...
Yeah, the fire hose of nonsense. Yeah. Title of my first album, Fire Hose of Nonsense. Incredible, incredible. Oh, God. Okay. So, you know what? All right, we're going to a second fire hose of nonsense. This is slightly early to be doing this, but fuck it. It's chaos week. We're doing it.
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Chapter 8: How are vaccines and public health discussed in relation to political narratives?
Do you know what else is the fire hose of nonsense? Oh, well, I wouldn't say it's nonsense. I would say it's very important and pays bills. So it's very, very important. I believe in, I don't, I'm just kidding. I'm assuming ads and services. Yeah, this is the Fox's services to support this podcast. We are back.
So amidst the torrent of, you know, the MMR stuff, which also I do want to say very briefly is sort of a baffling... thing to be talking about in a thing where you're not blaming the vaccines for autism. You're blaming Tylenol, but then you're still also mad at the vaccine. It's very weird. Yeah. I had thoughts about that.
You know, I felt like what Trump was doing with that by bringing up the vaccine stuff was I felt he was trying to console RFK Jr. in a way. I felt like he was like, okay, hey, we're moving away from the vaccine stuff to focus on the Tylenol stuff, but I know how much you love the vaccine stuff, RFK. So let's talk about that. So I felt like he was just throwing that out there to placate RFK Jr.
That was my guess, but I don't know how to read sociopaths very well, so I could be wrong. Who knows? This could also just be like what comes into his mind when he thinks about medicine. Right. So, you know. Oh, yeah. Again, weird to me that this president was giving medical advice. I mean, he was making statements. Yeah. Do not take Tom Lee said that multiple times.
He talked about breaking up the hepatitis B vaccine, changing the hepatitis B vaccine that the times of which I think we're going to talk about, because that is very important to me and things that, that doctors would have a little pause to say so strongly. And even the people whose paper he's citing would say, oh, slow down a little bit with that. You know, it's very important.
I think it's super impactful. And you're right, it's slipping under the radar. So I would love to talk about the hepatitis B stuff. Yeah, let's do this. So I'll give a little background for your listeners who don't know me. I am a gastroenterologist and hepatologist. That's liver, not herpetologist, which is study of snakes, which sometimes people think online.
I am a doctor that looks at the liver, and hepatitis B has an important place in my heart. It's a disease that can be incredibly devastating. It's incredibly common. It has so many complications. It has such long-term ramifications on someone's life if they have it. so many things they have to consider, do, follow up, so many possible things that can happen with it.
And the thing about it is we have a vaccine for it that is very safe and super efficacious and works really well. And when we use it, it works amazing. And Trump, during this conference, threw that a couple of passing shots as he was doing this whole rant about Tylenol, et cetera. And those passing shots can have a huge impact on uptake in this country. I think it really needs to be discussed.
So I'll stop there. I'll let you see what questions you have for me about hepatitis B because I could talk about hepatitis B for a long time. Yeah. Okay. Let's go back to like the very basic. How would you explain hepatitis B to our dear listener who knows many things, but what hepatitis B is, is not one of them? Yes. So hepatitis just means inflammation of the liver.
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