Join us as we discuss the latest in the unvaccination pandemic, the VMAs, and Gerald A. Ford's miraculous recovery from the flu. We are joined by Ben Shapiro on the show to talk about his new book, "Out of the Box" and much more!
00:02:34.000We're going to be talking about that today quite a bit, that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
00:02:39.000What level of protection is offered to you with the vaccine according to international studies, according to the CDC, according to the World Health Organization, according to cohort studies, according to meta-analyses from Mayo Clinic, from Israel.
00:02:51.000We're going to get into that because this is something that has been repeated by our president.
00:02:55.000And I know this is a little bit late, but our last show was Thursday.
00:02:59.000But I will say this before we move on.
00:03:01.000Some of the things that former Vice President Joe Biden said, and my wife said this was surprising because I've always been an optimist when it comes to the United States of America.
00:03:09.000You can go back to when Obama was president.
00:03:11.000You can go back to some defeats that Donald Trump ran into.
00:03:14.000And I always said, look, we have checks and balances.
00:03:35.000And I really hope that we're not looking back at this moment as the moment that the America we knew ceased to be.
00:03:42.000And I'm not being melodramatic about it.
00:03:43.000I've never said that on this show before.
00:03:46.000That speech to me, and that mandate, was absolutely a line in the sand, and it has nothing to do with your personal choice to get vaccinated, or the science regarding COVID, which is of course a serious condition.
00:07:40.000As opposed to... Including, uh, there's a shortage in a lot of things, but not, uh, not the, uh, not the, uh, polymer used for blow-up dolls.
00:07:49.000You know, women, I, we have so many questions today, but I really want to know, to women out there, and we have a significant amount of women who watch this show, it always surprises me because I'm like, you are really bought in.
00:08:08.000OK, let's just say that you're totally against it and you don't even understand the science of the fact that you're ending another life, that you are terminating another heartbeat, not your own.
00:10:42.000Oh, this is the guy, this is the guy, by the way, who sold sneakers with vials of blood while doing a music video where he was giving Satan a lap dance.
00:10:52.000Also, didn't get, the funniest part, didn't get permission from Nike to put vials of blood in their shoes.
00:10:57.000He basically just went and bought a bunch of Nikes and then was just putting test tubes in them and Nike's like, you can't do that!
00:11:04.000They're like putting used condoms and Reebok pumps just So anyways, this is the VMA's Lil Nas' performance pantomiming
00:13:17.000If Hitler had two brain cells to rub together, he just would, instead of those, uh, instead of those machine guns, he just would have had those people right up there in the beach.
00:13:25.000And the Allies would be like, all right, we're out of here.
00:14:28.000These women, they were about, they were lining up, it was a Brazilian steakhouse, they're at the salad bar, trying to keep up appearances, love, and they have skirts where you can see their panties, and cellulite that looks like bullet wounds, looking for the exit channel, and then this On a shelf, one lady had this skin-tight dress and was wearing a thong so the spillover was like it was trying to escape.
00:15:18.000This doesn't just end, by the way, with VMAs.
00:15:20.000It would be one thing if it's the VMAs, but, you know, we talked about cuties on Netflix.
00:15:24.000And I will say this does matter, of course.
00:15:27.000We're talking about the culture at large, the hyper-sexualization of children.
00:15:30.000You look at Lil Nas and Sodomy in the Shower, you look at that where she's humping somebody, which by the way, women can't hump like that, it's just stupid.
00:15:40.000But now, this, and I just heard from my friend who went to go see Jungle Cruise, which he's no longer a friend, but...
00:15:48.000This is the new T-Mobile ad that you will see at movie theaters at a children's movie and we have the whole thing but we won't have to watch the whole thing just so you see that we're not editing it out of context.
00:15:58.000You could take your kids, you could put on your internet blocker, you could put on your parental controls on the TV,
00:16:02.000you could make sure that VMAs has some kind of a word block and set to Google alerts,
00:16:07.000but you go to the movie theater and with your five-year-old kid, you still see this.
00:17:52.000There was a kid in a Time Cop shirt when I was in high school and he went to fight my friend and he was just about to step out to him and they were going to get in a fight in the hallway and then my friend Sean walks out of this classroom, looks at me and goes, is that a Time Cop shirt?
00:18:03.000And everybody just laughed at him and it ended the fight.
00:18:33.000So here's something, too, that does, look, when people talk, remember when we used to talk about this, and they would say, oh, no one's coming for your kids.
00:18:39.000Of course, there's a certain percentage of the population that's gay.
00:18:41.000Kids who are gay, they, of course, if my kids were gay, love them just the same as anybody else.
00:18:44.000But a recent insider study found that there's a 222% increase.
00:18:50.000The number of LGBTQ characters in children's cartoons, programming, the kind of stuff that we see here.
00:18:56.000Now, keep in mind that they make up about anywhere from 2 to 5.6% of the population, but more than like 8 to 14% of couples on screen.
00:19:07.000So when people talk about representation, look, there is over-representation in the media, and it's designed to make people think that I'm not just talking about LGBTQ, but look at the VMAs.
00:19:29.000I would like to see the LGBTQ advocate go out there and pull an Elliott Smith Miss Misery from the Oscars, just in a white suit at a piano, and be like, by the way, I love Dick.
00:20:05.000Well, we've gone so far back now where we've told kids that they should find their self-esteem in nothing but the superficial.
00:20:11.000If you were to watch the VMAs, you wouldn't think, oh, you know what, I should go out and be a good person.
00:20:15.000No, you would just go, oh, this is what makes me valuable.
00:20:18.000It's the same thing with a lot of young women today.
00:20:21.000They don't just say, hey, if you're morbidly obese, maybe you're really smart, maybe you're really talented at something else, and maybe you should be healthy and lose weight.
00:20:29.000It's, no, no, no, you should find pride in your identity in something skin deep.
00:20:34.000It's this reverse kind of narcissism that they don't understand.
00:20:38.000You're breeding kids who simply feel entitled to have self-esteem because of how they look, regardless of how offensive they may look.
00:20:46.000Next time you blame the patriarchy for sexualizing women, I'm just going to have Exhibit A. We didn't do this.
00:21:06.000By the way, you can follow me on the Instagram and apparently on TikTok because we're still trying to fight the degeneracy where it lies for as long as they allow us.
00:21:14.000And hit the notification bell, guys, if you're on YouTube.
00:22:21.000This could easily be just a random sampling of the country chanting, we love Trump, followed by a chant about the most popular president in history, 80 million votes, Joe Biden.
00:25:44.000It was either a Levi's or a gap window.
00:25:47.000He breaks the window and he grabs a whole stack of jeans, right?
00:25:51.000And he gets up on a cop car and goes, And then this slightly bigger guy takes one step up the cop car and just grabs his stack and walks away with it.
00:27:37.000So as we talk about vaccine mandates, I get calls all the time, people say, I've already had COVID, I'm protected, and now the study says maybe even more protected than the vaccine alone.
00:27:53.000You know, that's a really good point, Sanjay.
00:27:55.000I don't have a really firm answer for you on that.
00:27:57.000That's something we're going to have to discuss regarding the durability of the response.
00:28:02.000The one thing the paper from Israel didn't tell you is whether or not as high as the protection is with natural infection, what's the durability compared to the durability of a vaccine?
00:28:14.000So it is conceivable that you got infected, you're protected, but you may not be protected for an indefinite period of time.
00:28:20.000Okay, hold on a second. Is that, and you, you can go Joe, because you were talking about the World
00:28:25.000Health Organization. I don't know anyone, anyone in the legitimate medical community
00:28:30.000who is saying that natural immunity is less robust than the vaccination.
00:28:35.000I've only heard that natural immunity is obviously more effective.
00:28:38.000And here's, again, what you're not hearing.
00:28:41.000is how many people who've had COVID have gotten it again.
00:28:44.000We did a story on that about a year in, and there were zero.
00:28:48.000There may be more than zero now, but certainly not nearly as many as people who've been vaccinated.
00:28:54.000Because they've talked about making boosters mandatory, because that immunity was wearing off.
00:29:00.000Not so with people who have natural immunity.
00:29:02.000Now, I'm not saying if you haven't had COVID that the vaccine makes... this is a decision that you have to make, but to act as though natural immunity could in any way be less effective than the vaccine, you are not following the science.
00:29:15.000It's not maybe, it's not allegedly, it's not supposedly, supposedly, it's of course natural immunity is more effective than what you get in the vaccine, period.
00:29:37.000The body is going to, I'll just say it this way, the body will fight a virus that it's already had differently than a vaccine will that does not kill the virus.
00:29:45.000This vaccine has never been about killing the virus.
00:29:47.000It's just about making your outcome better, making sure you don't die, making sure you don't have as high of a hospitalization rate.
00:29:52.000Well, they changed the definition of protection.
00:30:35.000We have all of our links available at loudearthcreditor.com.
00:30:38.000Anyone out there, do you have any published scientific papers that, by the way, meet the same stringent requirements that you have for any other drug, for any other medication, for any other vaccine, that suggest, even for a moment, that vaccination immunity is more long-lasting and more effective than natural immunity?
00:31:23.000I'm hoping that what happens here is that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, all the people out there who are censoring misinformation will actually censor Fauci because the WHO just came out and said that they don't necessarily, they say that we should pause the booster conversation right now.
00:31:58.000Yeah, they'll get in the same room and they'll figure it out.
00:32:00.000And by the way, this is what's also important.
00:32:02.000If the goal is to get us back to normal, if the goal is to get people off of perpetual welfare, if the goal is to get businesses back into operation, if the goal is to try and eliminate the staggering record high inflation that we've seen quarter over quarter, then the science matters.
00:32:17.000If you've had the virus and your natural immunity is more effective, In other words, we do not have right now a protocol, we do not have a plan in this country that even takes into account whether you've had COVID or not.
00:32:51.000Go watch some Lil Nas and remember America in the days of apple pie and white picket fences and sodomy in the showers.
00:32:59.000This didn't stop, by the way, Dr. Fauci from signaling his support for mandatory vaccines for all air travel in public schools, again, regardless of whether you've had the virus or not.
00:33:08.000And what's important here, too, is I was watching CNN this morning, and it's not just what you see in the news, it's what they don't tell you.
00:34:44.000Hey, remember, by the way, when they said you've been Dr. Fauci?
00:34:47.000Maybe someone can bring this up from the control room, because just like masks, he said you're not going to be able to mandate people to get vaccinated.
00:34:53.000He said, you know, if the people won't, you can't force them to.
00:34:55.000Right now saying this so-called choice.
00:37:28.000So, she also said, right here, case in point, that she claimed unvaccinated Americans actually, as far as she knows, don't have a right to travel.
00:37:38.000But there's an even bigger reason too, which is I think we really need to make it clear that there are privileges associated with being an American.
00:37:46.000That if you wish to have these privileges, you need to get vaccinated.
00:37:51.000Travel and having the right to travel interstate, it's not a constitutional right as far as I know to board a plane.
00:38:00.000And so saying that if you want to stay unvaccinated, that's your choice.
00:38:04.000But if you want to travel, you better go get that vaccine.
00:38:06.000Oh, well it's funny that she should mention that.
00:38:09.000Because there actually is a right to travel.
00:39:12.000Hold on a second, wait a second, the CDC doesn't have, those are private property rights, you can't force You can't force someone who actually owns that property to have to allow someone to stay there rent-free for nine months.
00:39:58.000This conditional freedom is just disgusting.
00:39:59.000There's a reason we don't put doctors in charge of everything.
00:40:02.000We said this at the very beginning of this.
00:40:03.000There's a reason that they advise the president because the president has to take into consideration a ton of other things like, I don't know, having an economy and a life.
00:40:11.000There's a reason you don't put doctors in charge of hospitals.
00:40:29.000It's a constitutionally recognized right to travel, and Dr. Leanna Nguyen, who's completely unbiased at CNN, says, not as far as I know, and she can't even be bothered just to run a quick Google search.
00:40:38.000When Barack Obama or Joe Biden say 77 cents on the dollar, you're like, well, that's been debunked by every single economist.
00:40:45.000By the way, She's a completely honest scientist cited by CNN who just so happened to be the head of Planned Parenthood, just so you know, while we're talking about science.
00:41:12.000Planned Parenthood says, we don't care about the science anymore, it needs to be taxpayer funded, on demand, absolutely, period.
00:41:18.000And the really funny part about Leanna Wen is that in January of 2020, I don't want to assume that she's carrying the water for the Chinese Communist Party at this point, she wrote this article CNN, uh, just to be clear, Leanna Nguyen, YouTube, just so you don't auto-correct us, we have the source available at lateralthecard.com, Baltimore Sun, Leanna Nguyen wrote this, that the flu is more lethal than COVID.
00:43:14.000All right, this is another segment we have here before we move on to the pandemic of the unvaccinated and Ben Shapiro.
00:43:20.000We're going to do a new segment here called Curious Coincidences where we simply have to point out crazy coincidences, and I want to be clear here, I want to be very clear, that occur in daily life because a lot of people sometimes think it's fate, a lot of people think that there's a connection.
00:43:34.000These are coincidences that have occurred that are completely unexplainable and are
00:44:15.000So, did you know that the Emergency Use Authorization of COVID-19 vaccines, so it's the Emergency Authorization Act, it requires that there be no safe or existing treatments?
00:44:26.000So the difference between a normal approval is there needs to be an emergency authorization because there's nothing else available.
00:46:48.000And by the way, science is something that changes, at least if you're trusting science, not the science, that this is a pandemic entirely of the unvaccinated.
00:46:56.000And we just had the president basically wage war on anywhere from a quarter to a third of Americans, depending which statistics you use, blaming this pandemic on people who really initially, according to the science, should have no effect on those.
00:47:12.000This is not about freedom or personal choice.
00:47:14.000My job as president is to protect all Americans.
00:47:16.000acknowledged to not be true right now. But let's start with the blame game and
00:47:21.000the bone chilling thing. I've never been this scared for our country as when I
00:47:26.000listened to this speech live from former Vice President Joe Biden. This is not
00:47:30.000about freedom or personal choice. My job as president is to protect all
00:47:36.000Americans. So tonight I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an
00:47:43.000emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employ
00:47:50.000over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated.
00:47:58.000This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And it's caused by the fact that despite America
00:48:05.000having unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost
00:48:11.000five months, free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations. We've been
00:48:18.000patient but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.
00:48:25.000I guess it's a good thing that nobody gives a shit. How about that?
00:48:31.000We offered it to you free, but when you didn't take it for free, we're going to force you to do this.
00:48:36.000This isn't about your freedom or your personal choice.
00:48:38.000Well, if former Vice President Joe Biden says so.
00:48:42.000And what is this, the Department of Labor?
00:48:46.000At the same time, the CDC is the one who basically bypassed the courts with the eviction moratorium!
00:48:51.000The Center for Disease Control is saying, landlords, you're still on the hook for the mortgage, and renters, doesn't matter if you're Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights, you can't be kicked out!
00:49:03.000Well, he's going around Congress both times.
00:49:06.000He's going around Congress both times, and I will say this, look, to people out there, now we have, what, a third of nurses.
00:49:11.000A third of nurses who are going to walk on this job.
00:49:19.000People are getting really upset with the vaccine mandates.
00:49:21.000And keep in mind that that number is probably not going to change much because a large portion of people who are refusing to get the vaccine are people who've already had COVID, which has not even entered into this equation.
00:49:43.000So to be on the safe side, get a vaccine even though you already had the virus.
00:49:46.000Even though we don't necessarily know how your body reacts to that if it's already fought off the virus.
00:49:49.000Look, this is right now everyone out there.
00:49:53.000If you are working for a company and you have chosen not to be vaccinated for whatever reason, and this is a choice that everyone can make, I've advocated some people be vaccinated who I think are at risk, and I think for some people they choose not to, and it makes sense for them.
00:50:07.000Just to be clear, I don't know who is vaccinated and who is not in this office.
00:50:42.000I've never Had the hair on the back of my neck stand up, as I did with, at least Barack Obama would cover it and talk about what a great nation this is.
00:50:52.000It's not about your freedom or your choice.
00:50:55.000The people who just shrieked about a heartbeat bill, which there can be no debate about the fact that the law says you can't stop a heartbeat that's not your own.
00:51:06.000Alright, and by the way, all evidence, let's run through this really quickly.
00:51:09.000Evidence shows that it's disingenuous giving it as many as one-third Recent vaccinations are among the vaccinated.
00:51:16.000Yet to say that we have unprecedented results makes no sense.
00:51:22.000Does one-third of America have smallpox?
00:51:25.000Is one-third of America a Doc Holiday?
00:51:28.000right now? I'm your huckleberry. And this is all sources are available at ladderscrown.com. I think
00:51:33.000the vaccine does help in reducing caseload and making it less likely to go to the hospital.
00:51:37.000Let's be really clear. Yeah. But that's not why most people got the vaccine. They were told that
00:51:41.000they would not catch it. And so now people are saying, well, the goalposts have changed.
00:51:44.000And you've changed where my freedoms are allowed to be infringed.
00:51:49.000So now you get people who are more and more uncomfortable.
00:51:52.000We actually have a perfect example of a case study, and this is something that I found interesting, and a hat tip to some... there was some message boards that talked about this.
00:52:01.000In June, NBC, and I remember this story, declared a victory for the Blackfeet Nation.
00:52:40.000This was 98% vaccination, it was gone, and this was written about everywhere, despite being a small sample size, which by the way I will readily admit didn't stop NBC from running on the homepage, except now...
00:52:54.000It turns out COVID's back and they've had to reissue mask mandates after cases have surged.
00:53:01.000And actually our next guest probably knows all about this, we won't bring him on right now, but the data from Israel is also reflecting a pretty damn concerning trend.
00:53:09.000As of August 31st, I want to make sure I'm reading this so I have it absolutely right, all sources are available at ladderscrowder.com, all the references, you can go and read the entire articles for yourself if you are unemployed or retired.
00:53:21.00078% of Israel's eligible population vaccinated.
00:53:25.000In August, half of the 600 Israeli COVID cases had received two shots of the vaccine.
00:53:32.000Half of them in hospitals, to be clear.
00:53:35.000Now people say overall, overall it's slower.
00:53:37.000Sure, but then Israel will say, well maybe we need to go with a third booster.
00:53:39.000That might actually need to be policy right away.
00:53:42.000In June, the UK also reported 26 deaths among 4,087 cases of the fully vaccinated from February to June 2021, versus 34 deaths In 35,000 cases amongst the unvaccinated.
00:53:58.000As of August 16th, 60% of all gravely ill COVID patients in Israel were fully vaccinated.
00:54:05.000Now, I just came back from... Now, I'm not saying that... When you look at the data, it seems like vaccines seem to reduce the severity of it.
00:54:23.000Well, and the difference between making your own choice to get that vaccine and being forced to by the government is really what the problem is.
00:54:30.000Right, and I want to go to your point real quick, but I know we have Ben Shapiro coming up here.
00:54:37.000You know, I had the surgery, and I have a cold right now, which caused me to sneeze, and I actually asked my surgeon, the head of thoracic at Mayo, and I said, Just so you know, I have a cold, I tested negative for COVID, but I'm sneezing regularly, and given that this is post-thoracic surgery, my medical question is, what's the most effective way to kill myself and make it look like an accident?
00:55:00.000But if you see me sneeze, I just don't want to use a Walther sponsorship, so just shoot me, kill me in any way that doesn't involve a Walther.
00:55:32.000Cohorts of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals from Minnesota, 25,589 each, matched on age, sex, race, history of prior SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing, and date of full vaccination.
00:55:49.000So they separated 25,000 each, fully vaccinated and not, and they found that the Pfizer vaccine was 42% effective against Delta.
00:56:28.000I wonder why people might be a little hesitant.
00:56:30.000So you have a country in Israel, there are a lot of people there, and then you have a study with 25,000 minimum, it might be 50,000 as far as actually if I'm reading this correctly, and that's across a variety of race, races, genders, I don't even know if they include a non-binary, maybe that's the wonder of natural, maybe everyone at the VMAs are immune!
00:57:52.000Don't just change the definition of protection from a vaccination.
00:57:57.000We need to figure out the most effective way forward.
00:58:00.000But we can't, because science has become a religion.
00:58:03.000And one of the tenets of that religion is, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, despite the fact that many of you got that vaccine and you thought, well, you know what?
00:58:10.000At least I don't have to worry about the unvaccinated, because I can't catch it.
00:58:13.000Well, they're saying that's not true now.
00:58:14.000All right, we're going to talk about this and more with my next guest, who's coming up.
00:58:17.000Coming up, we have a stinger, Ben Shapiro.
00:58:46.000You just put out so many hits on random Gentiles you can't keep track and you thought I was going to be buried with those bodies in a shallow grave.
00:59:37.000I have three rods in my chest, and they're actually titanium, because they were like, you're a fat son of a bitch, we can't just put steel rods in here.
00:59:44.000So I had to pay extra for three titanium rods, and I believe they're bulletproof, which we are going to put to the test once I get the insurance waiver.
00:59:52.000So you do have a new book, The Authoritarian Movement.
00:59:56.000Um, which is, uh, where is, is that available right now?
00:59:59.000Yeah, that's been, that's been, I know you've been out of circulation for a while, but that thing's been out for like six weeks, dude, yeah.
01:00:03.000Oh, well, yeah, no, I, I, well, it's, it's, I actually, I have a goo, whatever the opposite is of a Google Alert, I have a Google Mute for Ben Shapiro.
01:00:12.000It's a smart move. I actually have one of those too, because, honest to God, I'm really annoying.
01:00:16.000Yeah, and then I also have one for Bing, which I don't even use, but it's just for safe measure.
01:00:22.000But then, every now and then, because I have an old computer, because we don't all have Ben Shapiro money,
01:00:26.000that little son of a bitch bent back paperclip comes up and is like,
01:00:29.000Do you know what Ben's up to? I'm like, Oh, paperclip.
01:00:34.000Last week, Joe Biden, Annette, we just talked about this, announced that companies with more than 100 employees have to mandate the COVID vaccine.
01:00:41.000That, I guess, so you at Daily Wire, I don't know, do you have over 100, you guys have over 100 employees?
01:02:23.000Over the course of a year, actually some fairly significant money.
01:02:25.000But put aside the money, on principle, we're obviously not going to do this because, number one, I'm astonished by the willingness to undermine the efficacy of the vaccine put out by this administration.
01:02:37.000Like, I got vaccinated pretty much as early as it was possible to do so.
01:02:40.000As you all know, I am, like, a huge vaccine advocate.
01:03:09.000In the same way that everybody gets to make those decisions by that was there was even a case that that wasn't super true before the vaccines.
01:03:15.000But now that the vaccines exist, You can take one.
01:03:18.000And once you have taken one, you are now safe.
01:03:20.000And it drives me up a damned wall to see that all the people who are the most worried, all the people who most want to control other people's lives, are the vaccinated.
01:03:31.000But it does make sense when you understand that the vaccine doesn't protect you against, for example, the Delta variant when Mayo shows that it's only 42% effective.
01:03:38.000Steven, it doesn't make any sense because it does protect you against the things I care about.
01:03:41.000Like, I don't care if I get a flu every year.
01:03:55.000I don't care about them getting a diagnosis of COVID.
01:03:57.000I care about them being hospitalized or getting dead from COVID.
01:04:00.000These are the things that I care about.
01:04:01.000And the truth is that when you look at the waning stats from Israel, what you see, for example, with the Pfizer vaccine is that you're correct.
01:04:07.000The infection protection against COVID from the Pfizer vaccine went from something like 90% down to about 40%.
01:04:14.000But the hospitalization stats went from about 98% protective to about 91% effective.
01:04:20.000And the death stats went from about 99% effective to about 97% effective.
01:04:24.000So in other words, you're not gonna die and you're really not gonna get hospitalized
01:05:02.000I said, the deaths- Per capita is a number that matters, and I remember you saying, well, that number could end up changing, and so, but I agree with you now.
01:05:08.000I think the deaths per capita are very important, and I think that that is an important metric when we're dealing with the vaccination.
01:05:13.000I do think that it is alarming, however, because the change of the definition of success with the vaccination, and this is where we come into a problem with the mandate, right?
01:05:21.000Where it was, if you get the vaccination, you'll be protected against, you won't, protected against the virus meant you won't get the virus.
01:05:27.000And then they changed it in the dead of night, saying, well, you won't get serious symptoms from the virus.
01:07:06.000And it should be over for everyone who's had the vaccine.
01:07:08.000Joe Biden's policy is specifically designed to not accomplish that.
01:07:13.000See, this is the thing that's amazing.
01:07:14.000What Joe Biden is doing is he's basically saying the reason that the economy is tanking, the reason that everything seems to be stagnating is because of the Delta variant.
01:07:28.000In lots of states, they have the Delta variant heavier than they do in Delaware or in New York or in D.C., the places Joe Biden likes to hang out.
01:07:36.000But those places are wide open and they're not seeing their economies tank.
01:07:40.000The top 10 best states in America for unemployment rate are all red states except for Vermont.
01:07:45.000The worst states in terms of unemployment rate are all blue states.
01:07:49.000So what that means is that this is a policy question and Joe Biden is trying to redirect your ire away from him or shutting your life down and making your life miserable and trying to mask your kids and toward the unvaccinated.
01:08:44.000And this is why what you have seen from the left is a consistent attempt to redefine to whom is the risk.
01:08:49.000So they're having a real problem with this because originally they were saying the risk is among the unvaccinated and so we have to do something.
01:08:55.000And then all the unvaccinated were like, yeah, we know and we don't care.
01:09:15.000And then, so what does the left decide on?
01:09:17.000What they've decided on now is the kids.
01:09:19.000What they've decided is that kids are highly vulnerable to COVID.
01:09:21.000Now, the only problem is you have to just lie.
01:09:24.000In order to make that case, you just have to lie.
01:09:25.000You have to lie that there are good studies... And we just talked about Leanna Nguyen on CNN, who's a medical analyst who was the head of Planned Parenthood, and she wrote in January 2020 that the flu was significantly more lethal to children than COVID.
01:09:38.000We just quoted her from the Baltimore Sun.
01:09:39.000So did the CDC, and they changed that.
01:09:41.000So now they just have to lie and say this is a bigger threat than the flu to young children, according to all of the long-term data.
01:09:51.000Leanna Wen could have been wrong back then and so could the CDC, but right now they're trying to act as though definitively it's more dangerous and it's a pandemic for young people.
01:09:58.000Okay, and by the way, even if it were, the question matters.
01:10:01.000If it were more dangerous than the flu, let's assume that's the case, how much more?
01:10:09.000Okay, because we don't shut anything down for the flu.
01:10:11.000So, what- they're also playing with the numbers a little bit here, in the sense that the infection fatality rate, right, the number of cases versus the number- diagnosed cases versus the number of deaths, for this thing, really, really low. But if you have a
01:10:23.000really high denominator, you're going to have a higher numerator, right? If you have a lot more
01:10:26.000people who are affected by COVID because of Delta, you're going to have a higher number of kids who end
01:10:30.000up in the ICU. But the grand total, according to the CDC today, because I checked the numbers
01:10:34.000this morning, the grand total number of people in the United States who have died under the age of
01:10:38.00018 across the entire pandemic, and this is a subpopulation of 73 million people.
01:10:42.000Careful what you're about to say, because just so you know, we were, not long ago,
01:10:46.000Gerald is looking at me, one of our videos, one of our entire shows was removed from YouTube for
01:10:52.000putting the image on screen from the CDC charts of the deaths from the flu in an average year.
01:11:00.000and deaths under 18, I believe, for COVID. That was the reason that our whole episode got removed.
01:11:06.000So if that happens, well, you know what? You can blame me for that. We can bill you.
01:11:10.000We'll tag on to your lawsuit. You and Joe Biden can bill me for the problem.
01:11:14.000But it's absurd. This is the big problem now too, is you can't fight back.
01:11:18.000Look, you and I disagree here, but I don't think that anyone would argue that either of our opinions here have been medical misinformation.
01:11:23.000We've simply talked about where the line is between freedom and individual choice.
01:11:27.000Something here that I think is pretty important, you know, you just talked about the tests, right?
01:12:07.000Also, again... Just like Greg Louganis on the diving board at the Olympics.
01:12:11.000He tested negative, and then he was having a little fun in the Olympic Village, does a backflip, hits his head, and now there's some HIV in the pool!
01:12:48.000The variations will likely get weaker over time because that's what's happened with other viruses.
01:12:52.000And we now live in a world where every adult above the age of 12 has the capacity to get a vaccine and get nearly bulletproof protection against death, which is the number that I care about.
01:13:02.000And hospitalization is pretty damned good as well.
01:13:04.000So what exactly are we continuing to yell at people?
01:13:08.000The real reason that Joe Biden is doing this is twofold.
01:13:11.000One is that he has to distract from Afghanistan, right?
01:13:13.000He knows that this is unconstitutional.
01:13:14.000He knows it's likely to get struck down.
01:13:18.000And he knows that we're all going to yell about this and then take our eye off the fact that he just surrendered an entire country back to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
01:13:24.000So part of this is just complete wag the COVID misdirection.
01:13:29.000But he kind of overshot it, because it's so dramatic, the mandate, that it's almost like, well, it's not really a wag anymore.
01:13:35.000This is on that same playing field, because this was really bad.