The White House is back in action, and CNN's coverage of it has been suspended indefinitely to prevent "active disinformation" from being broadcast. Plus, we talk about the new masks the CDC is encouraging people to wear, and why it's a good idea to wear them.
00:03:28.000Well, yeah, more proof that your people can't act.
00:03:31.000Even the people with all the little censors in the video games, like the Gollum guy, like, hey, how would an Asian, how would a Chinese person who shoots ice out of his hands react if he got hit?
00:05:32.000Okay, so we're going to get to a whole lot today, but we're going to be talking about de Blasio because, my gosh, when you get into it, he's done absolutely everything wrong.
00:05:41.000But first, it appears that Joe Biden Running for president, of course.
00:06:23.000I wanted to talk about Whitmer because my heart is in Michigan and she is so awful and it's so clear she's auditioning for the role of Vice President right now.
00:06:33.000I'd be less surprised if they trotted out John Kasich than if Joe Biden were the nominee.
00:06:42.000You know, it is interesting that, you know, you're hearing a lot about Democrats who were, you know, one, they were sad that Biden's even there, but now they're actually starting to even talk amongst themselves about the question of, you've got to pick a vice president because they might have to step in for Biden six days in if he wins.
00:11:19.000Internationally, China is... Isn't that just so bizarre?
00:11:25.000Who was it who got fired because they were talking about someone really strong in the NFL and said, that guy is just like, he's strong like a silverback gorilla.
00:11:44.000So China, you know what I'm talking about, they're signaling that they're planning to officially ban the eating of dogs after the species was recently, now they're excluded from a list of animals approved for human consumption.
00:11:56.000So dogs are now excluded for human consumption in China.
00:14:18.000He's never going to steal with that hand again.
00:14:20.000Can you imagine when they said they were going to turn Aladdin into a real live action film, I thought it was going to be like You know, grizzly.
00:14:26.000I thought it was going to be, you know, gritty and it was going to be like, you know, it would actually be in Saudi Arabia.
00:14:31.000And instead it was just, it was Will Smith doing the genie light.
00:14:34.000Like, I was like, well, hold on a second.
00:14:38.000Yeah, where's all the dustiness that's too clean?
00:14:41.000I want to, I mean, if we want it, Princess Jasmine should be buried up to her head with honey poured on her noggin until the Red Army ants eat her alive.
00:14:48.000I want to see the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight version of each Disney movie.
00:18:22.000When Audio Wade is frustrated, the kind of insults that he delivers are the kind of gut punch that would render an entire bloodline barren.
00:18:32.000Like it is so brutal and it'll say I'll say say it on air.
00:18:51.000He likes that they clear so Here's the thing.
00:18:56.000I want to talk about New York because I think not only is New York obviously leading the United States in coronavirus, Wu flu, Kung flu, Chinese virus, whatever you want to call it.
00:19:06.000And it's not lost on me that the idea of per capita, that's something the media does, by the way, right?
00:19:10.000They say, we have more infections and deaths than any other country, but then all of a sudden when they say, we don't have enough testing, they use the per capita scale?
00:19:19.000Well, hold on, shouldn't we apply it to both?
00:20:51.000So you all know that New York, obviously, New York, they've added a tremendous, in a terrible way, a tragic number of deaths and cases, right?
00:20:59.000They just passed everywhere else, of course, in the country.
00:21:01.000They didn't just pass them, but we just had a surge.
00:21:52.000You are left with an unbelievably small number of deaths.
00:21:56.000Doesn't mean that those deaths don't matter, but it does matter in us gauging the response and the accuracy of the kind of aftermath that we'll have from this disease.
00:22:04.000You know what's the unintended consequence of this, of these reclassifying?
00:22:08.000It's going to skew the concerns that we have about these other types of deaths, right?
00:22:18.000But then you think about, okay, so what does this mean?
00:22:20.000These statistics will be repeated ad nauseum.
00:22:23.000People who are studying the flu, research into the flu, research into these other areas, Preventative measures into all the other things that people are still dying from.
00:22:31.000We'll lose out, not just today, not next month, but next year when the budgets come up and everyone goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:23:30.000Barbell nipples are not a mundane detail, Michael!
00:23:35.000But the New York City mayor, and it's often easy to forget because Giuliani was great, and then you had Bloomberg, who was hysterical, and then you have de Blasio, who's just an assbag.
00:23:44.000So a lot of people forget that he's the mayor of New York City.
00:24:42.000Let's go through the timeline here because I do think that this matters.
00:24:49.000Keep in mind, Donald Trump, restricted travel from China, travel ban, whatever you want to call it, January 31st.
00:24:55.000Of course, it didn't really take long for New York progressives to spin it as racist, and then you had city officials telling people to attend the Chinese Lunar Parade.
00:25:17.000No, no, no, the lady in that first tweet.
00:25:19.000She was one of the health officials in New York City saying, go out there, don't discriminate by not going to Chinatown, was what she was saying.
00:25:27.000I discriminate by not going to Chinatown every day of my life.
00:25:30.000Well, you should, but it's not discrimination not to go to a place that could have people that just came from a country that has an outbreak of a virus.
00:25:46.000What, am I going to store my tilapia in barrels of salt?
00:25:53.000So anyway, de Blasio, not only this, you see those tweets, de Blasio himself encouraged people to eat in Chinatown in late February, and then you have Pelosi even stopped by to promote, like, Let's be honest, you don't just stop by in Chinatown.
00:26:08.000They decided to stage a photo op after the travel ban in Chinatown to gather and eat in public, in case you think I'm lying.
00:26:17.000Should not stop you from going about your life.
00:26:19.000Should not stop you from going to Chinatown and going out to eat.
00:27:30.000So this is what really matters to me too, is you can go back and say that sure, Donald Trump could have taken actions earlier in some specific instances.
00:27:50.000You were telling everyone that they should just go about their merry way, that it's no worse than the flu, and that they should all take the opportunity to eat!
00:30:32.000On March 2nd, while we're talking about timelines here, de Blasio tweeted, I want to make sure I get this right, since I'm encouraging New Yorkers, March 2nd, to go on with your lives plus, the symbol plus, I assume he ran out of characters, plus get out on the town despite coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions.
00:32:12.000So it almost goes without saying when you say the worst place to go during a pandemic with a virus that stems from China, outside of eating in Chinatown.
00:32:19.000And people are like, You wasted some syllables there.
00:33:00.000But let's go through the timeline, because I always go through the timeline trying to make it seem like Donald Trump did nothing in De Blasio.
00:33:10.000In case you didn't know the arc of this segment where it's going... He said that... And here's something that, you know, I'm not a pedemologist.
00:33:24.000So, I'm not an epidemiologist, but even then, when a virus spreads, when there's like a virus out and we don't know a whole lot about it, I would say, well, I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that, since a lot of people don't get it, like, you know, it could be transmitted through contact, or you should clean surfaces.
00:33:44.000The thing is, de Blasio is not a doctor, and he also doesn't understand that, because he said that COVID disappears from surfaces in minutes, like it was a ShamWow commercial, and that it couldn't be transmitted through casual contact.
00:34:59.000And I usually try not to take aim at that singer from System of a Down because he's been through enough with Cenk denying.
00:35:06.000To clarify, because this is a silly show, but let's get serious for a second, and only one second, coronavirus does remain on surfaces for a very long time.
00:36:11.000Not only can it be transmitted by casual contact... By the way, you're not doing a whole lot for helping the negative stereotype that Chinese people are sadists.
00:36:19.000You're laughing too hard at my murder joke.
00:36:33.000I want to see you and call you out for who you are.
00:36:36.000But no one is actually doing it in real life.
00:36:40.000Well, I'll tell you what, that's why I've tried to make it a really important point to delineate between the Chinese government and the Chinese people.
00:37:32.000And I will say, the more that I see this, when I see, you see the voices echoed of the worst Chinese people in the world, because it's always foreign ministers, people who work for the government.
00:37:40.000So I will say this, guys, you do need to guard your heart.
00:37:43.000Because I have, when I read, I'm like, these sons of bitches.
00:37:45.000And then I realize, but not Chinese people, but the Chinese government.
00:37:48.000You do need to make it very clear that there is no one who is targeted and marginalized and oppressed and frankly violently actually, you can talk about assaulted and murdered by the Chinese government and the Chinese citizens.
00:38:00.000So it's easy to hate the Chinese government.
00:38:04.000Do not apply that to people like my wonderful half-Asian lawyer here.
00:38:47.000And what's crazy to me is they will quote a Chinese propagandist, this Li Jianzhao.
00:38:51.000Well, actually, we might need to call some journalists, actually, this week and call them and see if they knew that they were quoting a Chinese propagandist because Alex Jones got banned, deplatformed for less.
00:39:01.000And I don't agree with Alex Jones on a lot of the conspiracies.
00:39:06.000But none of that is as severe as blaming the American military for creating the coronavirus as a weapon, I think in November is what he said.
00:39:16.000That's every bit as bad and worse Plus, there is a little bit of context that you should be Team America if you work for the American media.
00:39:25.000It's unbelievable to me, the double standard here, and it's immensely disturbing.
00:39:45.000If we shake the hands of another person who has a virus, or if we actually touch the surfaces, soon after somebody who has a virus touches the surface and then we touch our face with it.
00:39:58.000Because it enters through our eyes, our nose, our mouth.
00:41:37.000Eastern, every day, in case you can't be bothered to do any of those things.
00:41:41.000Here's something that I wanted to... While we're talking about Donald Trump, I don't resent you, but the fact that I have to plug all that, and at the end of it I have to say, just Eight o'clock.
00:42:48.000And these people, though, when you think about it in the media, their reaction to just saying, hey, you know what?
00:42:53.000We do think that we need to balance the idea of reopening the economy, understanding the risk, making an assessment, and allowing Americans the ability to make a living.
00:43:00.000If anyone says that, it's like you're a Holocaust denier.
00:43:04.000But the vast majority of Americans, and I don't even think it's represented in polling, because I think people are afraid to even tell someone in a poll that we should reopen the economy.
00:43:13.000Everyone I talk with Including many police officers go, yeah, this is really around the bend.
00:43:18.000Well, I mean, we've gotten to the point where finally people feel comfortable saying that initially, and still some people that I know that are close friends feel like I have to do my part.
00:43:25.000There's very much this propaganda, there's an enemy, we have to be afraid, and if your neighbor's not doing their part, they're extending your pain and suffering, so report them.
00:43:34.000Finally people are going, well, wait a minute.
00:44:35.000But I don't understand why people get mad at the president for saying, hey, I'm hopeful that we can do something like this.
00:44:40.000The local government is the one who's going to have to make the decision on whether they reopen a city or a part of town or not during a pandemic or a crisis like this.
00:44:48.000So in New York... You don't understand because you're not a communist.
00:45:37.000It's like when my wife at six years old, her dad took her to Tijuana so she would appreciate what Americans have.
00:45:41.000That's what we should do with Schenectady.
00:45:43.000This really matters because it also, not only does it show the blame game is just totally playing politics, whereas people say, we don't have time for politics, like Governor Whitmer from Michigan.
00:45:52.000I don't have time for politics, and she puts on that hat that says, that lady from Michigan, you don't have time for politics.
00:45:58.000Just time to audition for Joe Biden's vice presidential candidate, so that hopefully, you know, people don't think he's actually retarded.
00:46:07.000They're not going to buy it, by the way.
00:46:08.000So this matters because you need to contrast the reaction time, but also a fundamental misunderstanding, misinterpretation of the role of government, and this directly relates to the Constitution.
00:46:17.000So let me explain this really quickly.
00:46:19.000Yes, we know that they all hate Donald Trump, the media, and we're talking about the media right now, and I'm not his biggest fan, but I think that the pettiness, the childishness, this is karma.
00:46:31.000But, again, they freaked out in misrepresenting him saying that his authority in allowing states to reopen their own economies is absolute.
00:46:41.000As John King was just saying, he's claiming that he has authorities that he doesn't have.
00:46:45.000The Constitution does not give the President of the United States total authority.
00:46:49.000David, is the President's power total in this?
00:47:42.000They'll inform them they need to stop the services and disperse.
00:47:46.000If that does not happen, they will take additional action up to the point of, uh, fines and potentially, uh, closing the building permanently.
00:49:20.000No, because listen, even, I don't care what the virus is, you could bring back SARS-1, I'd get mine, Larry!
00:49:27.000I can't believe that they find someone in a public park, but this to me shows a fundamental incapability of understanding the role of government.
00:49:35.000Okay, I think Donald Trump was wrong in saying he has absolute authority.
00:49:38.000Now, I think in context, it's not nearly as severe as people make it out to be, and if you look at his actions, they've actually been pretty measured.
00:50:08.000Compare that with de Blasio, who is there, on camera, expressly communicating a violation of the First Amendment, saying that he will shut down churches permanently After you just said, go down and eat in Chinatown.
00:50:23.000So churches are going, I guess it isn't that big a deal.
00:50:58.000And here you have a mayor not saying he has the absolute authority to defer to states in reopening their economies as they see fit, but you have a mayor of the biggest city in the country saying, hey, I am going to use my church to step into the church running or synagogue business and shut them down permanently if they don't take my granted conflicting advice.
00:51:26.000That is absolutely a violation of the spirit of the Constitution and basic American rights, and it's actually a violation of the letter of the Constitution and basic American rights.
00:51:36.000So if we want to play the game and try and go back and forth with semantics, no, no, no, no.
00:51:41.000You're the party of the guy who said, eat in Chinatown, and then the next week said, I will shut down churches permanently unless you follow my every order.
00:53:18.000You've seen us use them long before they were a sponsor with the Tulsi Gabbard scenario, with YouTube, and more recently with the Rhett and Link odd comments hiding, can we call it a pandemic?
00:53:28.000And here's the thing, ExpressVPN, ...is the only VPN of their size that I know who didn't have a security breach and not tell the customers about it for a year.
00:56:09.000I just want to keep him waiting so that, you know, it's asserting dominance like the body language experts say.
00:56:14.000He has a show, you know him, you love him, he's a favorite of the show, The Ben Shapiro Show, editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.
00:56:20.000You can follow him at Ben Shapiro, and just to be clear, Lord, this is pre-taped because it is Passover, and Ben, I wanted to make sure that clarified so you don't get in trouble with the Lord.
00:56:32.000It's all of the people who are the not-good Jews watching your show who will then email me and pretend they are good Jews because I'm on your show.
00:56:44.000Every time I do a pre-recorded podcast and then it appears sometime on a Jewish holiday, people be like, oh, so finally you've shown your true colors.
00:56:52.000And it's like, well, you were listening, weren't you?
00:58:11.000I should definitely have some different viewing.
00:58:12.000Yeah, throw some Baby Einstein on there.
00:58:14.000Once you've seen them use Piggy's glasses to build a fire, you've pretty much seen... So the one thing I've just learned there is Ben must really, really can't stand his kids.
00:59:10.000My wife and I, we had kind of a breakthrough a little, not long ago, but we always love spending, we're both quality time people, that's our love language.
00:59:16.000But we don't have to be talking or doing everything together.
00:59:19.000And so we can be in the same room, I can be watching a movie, she can be reading her book about polygamy or some recent like North Korean camp.
00:59:27.000She's really into all like the true crime podcast.
00:59:52.000My brain is not functioning at this point.
00:59:54.000And then we have the newborns, and the newborn's up in the middle of the night.
00:59:57.000So basically, I've seen my wife, like we've been home with each other and pretty much nobody else for a month, and I've seen my wife for a combined total of 72 seconds.
01:00:04.000I mean, when we're not... It's odd that you've been keeping track like that.
01:00:08.000Let me ask... I want to make sure I'm meticulous about this thing.
01:00:19.000I don't know where you come from, Crowder.
01:00:23.000You know exactly where I come from, because you were at my house while I was waterboarded, and my wife came in and served you a beverage while I was being waterboarded by special forces.
01:00:31.000She couldn't be less surprised or concerned.
01:00:33.000It's one of those times when we used to actually be within breathable distance of other human beings.
01:00:38.000It is amazing to watch TV shows and films now, and you just are seeing people eat at a restaurant, and you're like, ah, good times, good times.
01:01:09.000I don't know if we have a disagreement.
01:01:10.000I think that the overall deaths per capita are really the only reliable metric at this point because the fatality rate is so dictated by infection rates and accuracy of testing and them not lying in China.
01:01:21.000So I think that that is true, but I think the problem is that that number only goes up.
01:01:25.000What I mean is that if you're looking at the fatality rate, if you're looking at the number of fatalities per million, then all that's going to happen is that the presumption is that when we all go out of quarantine, if we infect each other and tons of people die, well then that number is going to go up.
01:01:38.000So that does not give you a good indicator of exactly where the number is going to go, whereas the case fatality rate theoretically should give you an idea of how far things are going to go given a certain number being infected, right?
01:01:47.000The only two statistics that really Matter are the ones that we have no numbers on.
01:01:55.000And the other one is the case fatality rate, and we have no clue there because we don't know what the denominator is because we know that tons and tons of people are asymptomatic.
01:02:03.000There was a New England Journal of Medicine piece that just came out, would have been when people watched this yesterday, that looked at a number of pregnant women who were brought into New York City hospitals All of whom were screened for COVID because when you come in they screen you for COVID apparently.
01:02:17.000It was like 211 women, 29 of them tested positive for COVID, only four were symptomatic.
01:02:23.000Which suggests that for everybody who is symptomatic, there are at least seven people who are asymptomatic.
01:02:27.000If you actually applied that statewide to New York State right now, New York State has a 5% case fatality rate.
01:02:33.000It's something like 10,000 dead people and 195,000 positive tests.
01:02:37.000Well, take that bottom number, that 195,000, multiply it by 7.25, and now it's looking a lot more like 1.4 million.
01:02:44.000So your actual case fatality rate is 0.7%, which is significantly higher than the 1.5%.
01:02:49.000So I see what you're saying in that the number, the case fatality rate will go down because as testing is more accurate, it'll be a smaller portion of the overall infection rates.
01:02:57.000And that makes a difference because if we all go out and infect each other, then it makes the overall number of deaths that we expect a lot lower.
01:03:05.000As far as overall numbers that we expect, what I am saying is I think the most accurate metric as far as what we should be using for people to sort of assess their risk, because a lot of this was, oh my gosh, we're seeing at one point a 10% mortality rate, then a 5% percent, then a three percent, and now like well we don't
01:03:19.000know the mortality rate but they predicted 2.5 million deaths, and then a minimum with
01:03:23.000social distancing which wasn't supposed to have kicked in 100,000 to 240,000, and then 60,000.
01:03:28.000The overall, and I think especially when comparing it across countries, the most accurate that
01:03:33.000Here's why, because you eliminate more variables in the sense that, all right, you go to per
01:03:38.000So that matters because you can't just go by a total rate.
01:03:41.000And then testing efficiency is very different, for example, let's say in Belgium and France, Spain or Italy, compared to the United States.
01:03:48.000And then overall, when you look at how many people per million residents or inhabitants of this country have died, it's the only one that we have that's a constant now.
01:03:57.000I know it'll only go up, but I don't think it's going to only go up for the United States.
01:04:00.000As a matter of fact, even as it goes up in the United States, the gap widens between places like Well, it depends, right?
01:04:07.000I mean, because the one thing that's not taken into account is the actual lockdown measures, right?
01:04:11.000So what we're watching, for example, right now in Sweden is Sweden's rate continues to go up.
01:04:45.000But it is fair to compare France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the United States.
01:04:48.000I mean, those are all sizable enough countries.
01:04:50.000Obviously, the United States is very different in that we're... By the way, also, let's be really clear... But it's not taking into account... Again, the reason I'm not going along with this is just because I think it doesn't take into account the lag time.
01:05:00.000Meaning that, is France two weeks ahead of us?
01:05:04.000They shut down, like, a week in advance of us, maybe two weeks in advance of us.
01:05:08.000And so, if you're looking at where the United States is going to be in two weeks, which is kind of what we're trying to figure out as when we reopen, then you want to be looking at something more accurate, like... Well, I will... The reason I'll push back is... Go ahead.
01:05:20.000The one that actually matters to me more than the case fatality rate is what the case fatality rate looks like for young, healthy people.
01:05:26.000Because I think this is where we're being completely snowed.
01:05:37.000And I'm looking, like, right now, this minute, at some of the New York City health data.
01:05:42.000The New York City health data, which has revealed the number of positive tests, the number of dead people, and the number of people who have died without pre-existing conditions, according to the New York City Health Department, There were 26 deaths total in New York City among people aged below 45 with no underlying conditions.
01:05:58.000That's out of over 6,000 deaths and out of over 42,500 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 for New Yorkers under that age.
01:06:06.000Which means that your actual chances of dying in New York City, and this is again a high-end estimate because it's not taking into account all the people who have not been tested and all the people who are asymptomatic, Even using the number of tests that have come back positive versus the number of people who have died under the age of 45 with no pre-existing conditions, you're looking at a case fatality rate of 0.06%, meaning that 994 out of every 1,000 New Yorkers under the age of 45 who are healthy will not die, and that is probably a low-end estimate as to the number of people who will live.
01:06:38.000And the biggest, and one thing that has, I don't want to say valuable, because obviously this is a tragedy and we have to hedge all our words, but one thing that has been valuable with this data that we've seen, particularly from New York, is that the greatest determining factor with underlying conditions is diabetes and heart disease.
01:06:51.000Being obese is the single biggest determining factor outside of age.
01:06:54.000So even if you're below the age, if you want, if we want to expand that, if you're below the age of 70 and you don't have diabetes or you're not obese, the fatality rate is still exceedingly low.
01:07:13.000Heat checks when you go into a theater.
01:07:15.000We're gonna give you a temperature check.
01:07:16.000Which, by the way, is so stupid because a lot of this is asymptomatic, right?
01:07:19.000It doesn't help to actually take somebody's temperature.
01:07:20.000Especially when you take into account the antibody test, which isn't yielding the same kind of results as we did from just the COVID-19 testing positive itself.
01:07:39.000People are going to say, I've lost my job, I've lost my livelihood, I've lost my dreams.
01:07:42.000Like, I'm getting very tired of people doing sort of a one-factor test for how we get out of this, which is, how many people are going to die?
01:07:55.000I know how many people are now waiting at a food bank who never thought they would have to wait at a food bank.
01:07:59.000Because the government decided to shut everything down.
01:08:01.000I'm not saying the government was wrong to shut everything down.
01:08:02.000What I am saying is, if you are young, and you are healthy, we should be talking right now about how you go back to work, wear a mask, sure, so you don't infect other people, even if you have it, go back to work, socially distance, we probably shouldn't go back to theaters, we probably shouldn't have football games right now, but go back to restaurants, make sure that the tables are six feet apart, basically go sweet.
01:08:20.000This is what Sweden has done, and Sweden is not wrong to have done it.
01:08:23.000And everybody who's saying, well, Sweden spiked, yeah, of course Sweden spiked.
01:08:25.000Oh, by the way, by the way, also South Korea.
01:08:49.000You do, because you can't just get every, you can't nerf the whole world.
01:08:52.000But you can get people who are older, you can get people of pre-existing conditions to quarantine themselves, and the outcomes are likely better for them if the economy continues, because we all know the long-term health ramifications when people have no jobs, when employers can't go back to their businesses, and we can't continue to innovate or push forward an economy.
01:09:11.000Long-term, and it's far worse for health.
01:09:20.000I think it is also worth noting that there are a couple of values that, you know, actually matter, and that when we talk, you know, just deaths versus deaths, that aren't taken into account.
01:09:29.000Like, how about living in a free country?
01:09:31.000How about living in relative prosperity?
01:09:33.000Like, these things used to matter, and in fact, do matter for a lot of people.
01:09:37.000Like, quality of life is still a thing that matters.
01:09:39.000Yeah, we can live, but it also matters how we live.
01:09:51.000And also, those people would almost certainly be alive if they were out today, in a mask, at work, and not at a food bank.
01:09:59.000So you do have to pretend that there are not competing values here, and that we don't have to weigh all of those competing values when we make public policy is really a dirty trick.
01:10:09.000Usually this would go behind the paywall, but since it's free Mug Club, Mug Club Quarantine Month, this will be available right here on YouTube.
01:10:14.000But this is where you would see a commercial break, and then we would be right back with Ben at the Blaze.
01:10:42.000And he's the editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.
01:10:45.000The reason that the deaths per million matter is because we largely use the fatality rates for our projections.
01:10:51.000So I would say that it matters because they use the initial mortality rates as a portion of those tested to predict the 2.5 million, to predict the 100,000 to 240,000.
01:10:59.000And what I do think matters is that was taking into account social distancing, a minimum of 100 to 240,000.
01:11:06.000They said, no, no, it's going to be 2.5 million if the social distancing is in effect.
01:11:10.000And they said it would take, it would kick in after we already saw obviously a decreased rate of death to any degree.
01:11:18.000They said it'll be minimum 100 to 240,000.
01:11:20.000So they can change it to whatever they want, and I'm glad.
01:11:21.000I want that number as low as possible.
01:11:23.000But people, especially when we are talking about, listen, a balance of lives and livelihood, we do need to understand that none of the data projections have been close to accurate.
01:11:35.000And I think that kind of goes back to what you've talked about quite a bit, and regardless of how people feel about Donald Trump, the media's vested interest in making people think a certain way, and anyone who disagrees with them, well, you just don't care about Americans, and you're a pariah.
01:11:48.000By the way, I think that it's actually one of the better things that Trump has done.
01:11:51.000I think he's done a couple of things that are really good, aside from sort of generalized making sure that the government gets resources where they are supposed to go, and activating, and the China flight, partial kind of flight shutdown, and the European travel.
01:12:03.000He's done a bunch of good things, but in terms of kind of overall rhetoric, he's been criticized for a lot of his rhetoric.
01:12:19.000Doesn't seem to me that, you know, him comparing his ratings to The Apprentice or to The Bachelorette is particularly... To be clear, by the way, anyone else, your mom is not going to die if she goes out tomorrow unless she's a 75-year-old diabetic with a dry cough.
01:12:31.000But the couple things that Trump has done right are he has resisted the calls for nationalization up until this week when he randomly declared himself emperor and And initiated Order 66.
01:12:43.000Up until that point, he was pretty much on the right track there.
01:12:46.000And also, he really did resist the idea, again, of sort of a centralized national power against the states.
01:12:52.000He was saying that the states are the ones responsible.
01:12:54.000And the media, who are just completely dishonest, they kept saying, okay, so when Andrew Cuomo doesn't shut down his state, and when Bill de Blasio doesn't shut down his city, it's Trump's fault.
01:13:01.000And then when Trump is like, okay, I'm gonna make them do what I want, they're like, oh, he's a dictator now.
01:13:05.000Yeah, and by the way, I want to be clear, when he says I have the authority, what he's talking about is, and yeah, sometimes he speaks where his mouth, his brain moves faster than his mouth can catch up.
01:13:13.000What he was saying is, no, I do have the authority to allow states to reopen.
01:13:18.000States have the right to remain closed.
01:13:20.000But if Donald Trump wants to sign an order that says, alright, Kentucky or Texas, if you guys want to start reducing the stay home, I always forget, what is it, home, cover, shelter, whatever the hell it is, I always forget what's shelter in place.
01:13:30.000That he does have that right to allow states to then make their decisions moving forward.
01:14:26.000But with all of that said, if you had a Democrat in charge right now, and Democrats were pushing for massive radical change, you know, Rahm Emanuel, never let a good crisis go to waste kind of stuff.
01:14:38.000The level of pushback against the lockdown orders would be a hundred times magnified.
01:14:42.000People would be saying, this is all bullcrap.
01:14:44.000This is all, this is all being done for a purpose.
01:14:46.000The fact that Trump keeps saying, I want to open up, is actually one of the things that's allowing the country to give it a chance to breathe for a second.
01:14:53.000Because everybody knows that Trump doesn't want to be in this situation, right?
01:14:56.000People like you, people like me, we're like, okay, we understand Trump wants to get out of this.
01:14:59.000We understand that there are a bunch of Republican governors who want to get out of this, and they're not using this.
01:15:04.000Crisis, as an opportunity to maximize the power of government.
01:15:07.000If Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden were president right now, my great suspicion would be that they were attempting to do a bunch of very politically driven things in order to manifestly change the relationship between citizens and government, and I'm not cool with that.
01:15:19.000I will say one thing on that note, and then we do have to go, that has been really disconcerting for me.
01:15:23.000You know, when we've talked, people often make the argument where they say, oh, you think that if you have guns for the Second Amendment, you think you're going to fight off the government who has tanks?
01:15:29.000Like, well, yeah, because obviously, unless you want to blow up your whole country, You want to preserve the resources.
01:15:34.000And then there have been some people who've said, and mostly rightfully so, but listen, most police officers and national, they're not going to come in and violate people's rights.
01:15:43.000Unfortunately, I do think that we've seen it only takes a couple of bad apples.
01:15:47.000When you have officers fining people or zip-tying husbands because they're kissing their wives in a public park, you do see that there are some police officers out there who are willing to abuse that authority and say, these orders are coming from higher up and it really makes me uncomfortable.
01:16:02.000I mean, the pedotyranny that can be unleashed when people feel power is really dangerous.
01:16:09.000And that's why I'm sort of hoping that one of the things that happens is in the aftermath of all this, there's a bit of libertarian moment because everybody just says, God, that was really terrible.
01:16:16.000Like, everybody was on our ass all the time.
01:16:19.000We just need everyone to leave us alone.
01:16:20.000And I think that I think there is the potential for something like that.
01:16:23.000Yeah, and that's why the left has been really brilliant, and that's why I think it's important to bring up, no, no, no, with social distancing, minimum 100 to 240,000.
01:16:30.000Because after this, when the number is inevitably lower, compared to what they claim, they will say, well, you don't know how much of this, how much of this is from social distancing.
01:16:36.000No, no, no, we know what you claimed would be possible with social distancing, and it's not even close to that.
01:18:09.000You want to aim for a three, two and a half to five minute steep time.
01:18:14.000So really simple, good coffee, what do you need?
01:18:16.000Water between 195-205, eight grams per five ounce cup, and you want it to sit in contact with that coffee for two and a half to five minutes, ideally three.
01:18:25.000Now I'm gonna pour the rest of this coffee, get it up to 544.
01:21:18.000And I think we'll be talking a little bit more about Michigan and Whitmer, because that's a little close to my heart.
01:21:21.000Sometimes it gets a little nerdy where I'm talking about something regional, but Michigan is pretty important.
01:21:26.000Kind of like Detroit is the perfect example of leftist utopia for the entire country, Michigan right now is an example of, if unfettered, what the left would do with the entire country.
01:21:38.000And I want to see this broad, uh, ousted.
01:22:11.000A couple things I wanted to talk about, and I'll keep this brief.
01:22:15.000Listen, there have been some rough things that have gone on personally, separate from the whole quarantine thing, that I won't get into.
01:22:21.000But the truth is, I am amazed when you see a lot of these celebrities out there, even influencers, I guess to use the term now, basically people who sell tea and have big asses, talking about how hard this is.
01:22:41.000And I understand this, by the way, where I've talked about my struggles, whether it's, you know, depression or mental health issues or physical issues or whatever it is that we're going through as a company, so that hopefully you don't have to go through it alone.
01:23:10.000These people who are on Instagram, these celebrities are out there, whether it's Josh Gad or whoever it is, saying, I know how hard this is.
01:23:16.000Oh, we're just longing for connection.
01:23:21.000You're in a wonderful house with everything you could possibly imagine.
01:23:26.000This idea that this quarantine, too, people talk about this.
01:23:29.000Now, I don't like the quarantine because I think that I think certain people should be quarantined.
01:23:34.000I think we should be able to open certain segments of the economy, blah, blah, blah, blah, so that you don't accuse me of hating old people here, okay?
01:23:40.000But the problem that I have With the quarantine is not this idea that it's eliminated emotional connection, because people who say that and who post this and so, they're just looking for emotional connection in the wrong places.
01:23:52.000Like, I have not suffered, I don't know about you guys, I have not suffered from a lack of connection with the people who matter most during this quarantine.
01:23:59.000I see my wife, I see my family, there's literally no one else I would rather be with.
01:24:06.000What am I longing for the people on Instagram or Twitter who I've never seen before?
01:24:09.000I still get to interact with you, I still get to do this for you?
01:24:14.000Am I going to become suicidal because I have to forego the cigar lounge for another quarter?
01:26:03.000We're going to continue to create content for you.
01:26:06.000But when people out there act as though something has been removed from their lives that has caused them to be depressed and sobbing, It means that something has been removed that has been put on an important pedestal where it never should have been and this kind of comes down to a lot of it you know but someone asked me this the other day there was this you know I don't do really a whole lot of press and maybe I'll start doing that maybe I won't I don't know but someone asked me okay how do I want to be remembered and it's
01:26:33.000Like, on a selfish level, everyone wants a legacy, right?
01:26:36.000But listen, this time, I'll tell you exactly how I want to be remembered, and how most people should seek to be remembered.
01:26:43.000At this point in history, this month, these two months, this quarantine, this COVID pandemic, I don't want you to remember me.
01:26:52.000I want you to hopefully remember that I was here for you.
01:26:58.000What I want you to remember is that everyone here worked hard for you.
01:27:08.000Don't seek to be remembered by what you did or what you accomplished.
01:27:13.000Strive to be remembered by what you did for others.
01:27:17.000That's how you cement a legacy worth having.
01:27:20.000And I think that until Hollywood gets this, there's going to be this out-of-touchedness that occurs when you have Gal Gadot sobbing in her own private orchard about how hard this has been on her.
01:27:31.000That's because someone is looking to cement a legacy that is all about themselves.
01:27:38.000I think that this coronavirus pandemic, if nothing else, has really highlighted people's narcissism.
01:27:45.000Everyone's thinking about, how can I relate to people?
01:27:47.000How can I relate my experience to someone else?
01:27:50.000Hey, asshole, how about you ask someone about their experience?
01:27:53.000If you can, like right now, I don't get to talk with you, but I've tried to at least empathize with your experience, tried to put myself in your shoes.
01:28:01.000Everyone at this office has, and said, oh, OK, rather than sharing our experience, let's try to make yours better and more livable.
01:28:10.000And celebrities don't do that anymore.
01:28:12.000And the left isn't doing that right now.
01:28:14.000So I wish this could be a little more inspirational, but I'm kind of pissed off, and I didn't know why I was so pissed off seeing all of these videos and selfies until I realized these people don't give a rat's ass about anyone else or the country.
01:28:25.000They only care about being seen by the country so that it makes them feel good about themselves.
01:28:31.000Anyone out there seeking to cement a legacy, or if you're asking me how I want to be remembered, I will tell you this.