Stupid Questions Podcast

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How can you really get COVID-19 and do masks work? Does sunlight kill coronavirus? Or hydroxychloroquine? Does your blood type prevent COVID? When will we have a vaccine and what if the virus mutates in the meantime? And are any of those conspiracies true?Sources:MayoClinic, “Concerns about Waning COVID-19 Immunity Are Likely Overblown by Tanya Lewis @ Scientific AmericanHealthline article by Julia Ries, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the letter to WHO by Dr. Lidia Morawska and Dr. David K Milton.“What does and does not correlate with COVID-19 death rates” by Christopher R. Knittel and Bora Ozaltun”“'Anti-maskers' say medical conditions prevent them from wearing masks, but doctors say that's not a legitimate excuse” by Anna Medaris Miller @ Business Insider“Even Asymptomatic People Can Spread COVID-19 Within a Room” by Nancy Schimelpfening @ HealthlineUsing heat to kill SARS-CoV-2, Abraham, JP, Plourde, BD, Cheng, L., Rev in Med VirSimulated Sunlight Rapidly Inactivates SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces, Ratnesar-Shumate, et. al., Journal of Infectious DiseasesGeorge Washington University @ Milken Institute School of Public Health and CDC.

In Part 2 of presidential elections we discover why we have the electoral college, what they can and can't do, what happens if no candidate gets a majority of electors, and what if a president who loses an election doesn't want to go?Sources:https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/cost.phphttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/04/michael-bloomberg-most-expensive-self-funded-campaign/4952458002/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_Stateshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/05/06/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-joe-bidens-presidential-campaign/#694c66a241d5https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/04/17/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-donald-trumps-campaign/#2a10d2b77989https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/858347477/money-tracker-how-much-trump-and-biden-have-raised-in-the-2020-electionhttps://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/presidential-elections/public-funding-presidential-elections/https://howmuch.net/articles/how-much-us-presidents-spent-campaignhttps://www.investopedia.com/insights/cost-of-becoming-president/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#:~:text=10%20External%20links-,Origins%20of%20the%20color%20scheme,on%20the%20United%20States%20flag.&text=Later%2C%20in%20the%201888%20presidential,and%20red%20for%20the%20Democrats.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/https://theconversation.com/red-state-blue-state-how-colors-took-sides-in-politics-93541https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/contributors?id=N00023864https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraudhttps://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraudhttps://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/10-voter-fraud-lies-debunkedhttps://time.com/4669899/illegal-citizens-voting-trump/https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debunking-voter-fraud-mythhttps://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/false-narrative-vote-mail-fraudhttps://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-does-vote-by-mail-work-and-does-it-increase-election-fraud/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/guardrails-line-journey-life-mail-ballot-n1233032https://www.dictionary.com/e/absentee-ballot-vs-mail-in-ballot/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-support-voting-by-mail-but-not-all-of-them-want-to-or-can/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/app-politics-section/donald-trump-mail-in-voter-fraud-fact-check/index.htmlhttps://www.cleveland.com/nation/2020/07/wealthy-donors-pour-millions-into-fight-over-mail-in-voting.htmlhttps://qz.com/829710/how-do-networks-call-the-election-before-all-the-votes-are-counted/https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/13/projection.explainer/https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Electoral-college-used-instead-of-the-popular-votehttps://news.stanford.edu/2012/08/20/rakove-electoral-college-082012/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/13/a-majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-replacing-electoral-college-with-a-nationwide-popular-vote/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/five-common-misconceptions-about-electoral-college/602596/https://www.270towin.com/content/electoral-college-ties/https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspxhttps://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/electoral-college/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-electoral-college-faithless-electors/2020/07/06/cf88f706-bf8f-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.htmlhttps://apnews.com/5c31277ba2cf43ada82048662eb8b31chttps://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/885168480/supreme-court-rules-state-faithless-elector-laws-constitutionalhttps://apnews.com/5c31277ba2cf43ada82048662eb8b31chttps://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-heres-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/what-if-he-wont-go/606259/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-election-refusal-leave.htmlhttps://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2019/how-trump-could-lose-the-election-and-remain-president/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-leave-office/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-florida-arizona-michigan/index.html

In Part 1 of Stupid Questions about presidential elections, we tell you why Republicans are red and Democrats blue, the truth about voter fraud, and just what the heck is mail-in voting?Sources:https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/cost.phphttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/04/michael-bloomberg-most-expensive-self-funded-campaign/4952458002/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_Stateshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/05/06/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-joe-bidens-presidential-campaign/#694c66a241d5https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/04/17/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-donald-trumps-campaign/#2a10d2b77989https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/858347477/money-tracker-how-much-trump-and-biden-have-raised-in-the-2020-electionhttps://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/presidential-elections/public-funding-presidential-elections/https://howmuch.net/articles/how-much-us-presidents-spent-campaignhttps://www.investopedia.com/insights/cost-of-becoming-president/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#:~:text=10%20External%20links-,Origins%20of%20the%20color%20scheme,on%20the%20United%20States%20flag.&text=Later%2C%20in%20the%201888%20presidential,and%20red%20for%20the%20Democrats.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/https://theconversation.com/red-state-blue-state-how-colors-took-sides-in-politics-93541https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/contributors?id=N00023864https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraudhttps://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraudhttps://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/10-voter-fraud-lies-debunkedhttps://time.com/4669899/illegal-citizens-voting-trump/https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debunking-voter-fraud-mythhttps://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/false-narrative-vote-mail-fraudhttps://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-does-vote-by-mail-work-and-does-it-increase-election-fraud/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/guardrails-line-journey-life-mail-ballot-n1233032https://www.dictionary.com/e/absentee-ballot-vs-mail-in-ballot/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-support-voting-by-mail-but-not-all-of-them-want-to-or-can/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/app-politics-section/donald-trump-mail-in-voter-fraud-fact-check/index.htmlhttps://www.cleveland.com/nation/2020/07/wealthy-donors-pour-millions-into-fight-over-mail-in-voting.htmlhttps://qz.com/829710/how-do-networks-call-the-election-before-all-the-votes-are-counted/https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/13/projection.explainer/https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Electoral-college-used-instead-of-the-popular-votehttps://news.stanford.edu/2012/08/20/rakove-electoral-college-082012/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/13/a-majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-replacing-electoral-college-with-a-nationwide-popular-vote/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/five-common-misconceptions-about-electoral-college/602596/https://www.270towin.com/content/electoral-college-ties/https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspxhttps://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/electoral-college/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-electoral-college-faithless-electors/2020/07/06/cf88f706-bf8f-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.htmlhttps://apnews.com/5c31277ba2cf43ada82048662eb8b31chttps://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/885168480/supreme-court-rules-state-faithless-elector-laws-constitutionalhttps://apnews.com/5c31277ba2cf43ada82048662eb8b31chttps://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-heres-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/what-if-he-wont-go/606259/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-election-refusal-leave.htmlhttps://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2019/how-trump-could-lose-the-election-and-remain-president/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-leave-office/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-florida-arizona-michigan/index.html

This is a new podcast, brought to you by the people behind the Weird World podcast. This is where you’ll go to find the answers to those questions that we think we should know, but we don’t really. Like, how do we know what the Milky Way looks like? Or why are Republicans red and Democrats are blue? If I had Coronavirus, am I automatically immune? What does WiFi stand for? Yeah, we know you can just google your stupid questions, but we need something to do with all our free time and sometimes google isn’t all that smart.