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Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 08/18/2020

The approaching flu season threatens to overwhelm doctors and hospitals swamped by Covid-19 patients, sparking intense efforts to get people vaccinated against influenza. Calling in this morning is Patty Olinger an expert on infectious diseases and executive director of GBAC a division of ISSA.

Facebook will start labeling all U.S. posts about voting to send users authoritative information about the elections. The social network began applying the labels to posts about the voting process by federal politicians, including President Donald Trump, last month. Now it's expanding it to everyone in the country. We talk with Mathew Langston of Big Dog Strategies about this social media issue.

Today’s wannabe social controllers are clearly using the virus as a sort of obedience school where we can be conditioned through isolation to conform to their demands. Are we being conditioned? Political strategist Luke Macias calls in and shares his opinion.