Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Subscribe: episode updates covid chapter 2. tom has arrived back in the east coast from his trip down the mississippi, thus beginning a new chapter of rp daily. the country is in the beginning stages of reopening; but concerning images of people coming together—perhaps too close—are circulating. tom and rp highlight the importance of not turning masks into a divisive topic, including north dakota governor doug burgum’s pleaful speech to avoid masks as a political statement. they also discuss the new york times cover with 1000 names on the front page: is it editorial? too dramatic? also, how will the world post-pandemic stratify privileged groups from the less fortunate, and how will industries change as a result? finally, with the dawn of a covid-19 vaccine approaching, what would it mean if the vaccine was developed in america versus china? as the pandemic moves forward, so do tom and rp’s conversations highlighting togetherness and daily life.  tom scott is chairman & co-founder of the nantucket project. rp eddy was the architect of the Clinton administration’s pandemic response framework and the United Nations response to the global AIDS epidemic & is CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo.   rp is co-author of the best-selling award-winning book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with Richard A. Clarke, Former National Security Council counterterrorism adviser. listen to this episode on apple podcasts subscribe to our youtube channel follow us on facebook follow us on instagram transcriptTom Scott [00:00:21] RP welcome back. It's Tuesday.    R.P. Eddy [00:00:26] Nice to see you, Tom. Welcome back to the East Coast.    Tom Scott [00:00:28] Yeah, it's. So the weekend is over. Memorial Day weekend is over. My trip is over. And I think Chapter one is over, and I'll give you my, my theory on it and you can you can fire my idea. It's up. It's up for debate. And first, if I could, I you know, I'm a little sad from my trip. I feel sad because I feel like. I witnessed the world moving on when I got home. Now, that may just be my own paranoia. It may be my own. You know, looking into the future and lamenting my prediction or something. But. Yeah, I mean, I feel like the trip was so special and the people were so special and there was so much hope in it in the midst of the challenges. And so I have hopes that we're going to be a better place. OK. And again, I'm not quitting. I'm not. But then this weekend and there is something beautiful about this weekend. People went out the world. Went out. Emerged, did things. I saw lots of people doing lots of things. Many of them were responsible. A few of them irresponsibly, in my view of things. I know in the case of parents, there's a lot of like, okay, I'm going to let them go see so-and-so. I hear that a lot. And and I do think there's an aspect to it that it was healthy and maybe necessary. Maybe it's just the way we humans are to forget for a little bit. And let's just forget about this for a few days and go to the next place. So, you know, that's a mouthful. But I do think that by and large, the first sort of lockdown part of this is kind of over doesn't mean there won't be more lockdowns. And now we're in this new sphere. And I hope we get it right or do it as well as we can. A and B, and this is this one's more emotional for me. I want to be part of being a better world post, and I. And I know that in some that can sound corny, that can sound romantic. And I mean it like I feel it. I just feel it like I, I we have an opportunity to do something special here and I hope we do. And that's why I'm I'm running up the flagpole. Is it time to call the RP Daily Show Chapter two?    R.P. Eddy [00:03:05] I just love that.    Tom Scott [00:03:06] Thank you.    R.P. Eddy [00:03:08] It was beautiful to watch it, really. You know, I suspect a lot of people who view this felt the same way,