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00:00:55.000And we're not going to know just how serious the threat is until a little bit of time passes.
00:00:59.000So being cautious, And shutting things down, that is the smart thing to do.
00:01:03.000Now the reason that it's the smart thing to do, the reason that we should be shutting things down and why it's a smart thing, to avoid mass gatherings, why it is a smart thing to use social distancing, why it is a smart thing to stay home a little bit more than usual and Netflix and chill.
00:01:16.000The reason for this is because what we're trying to do is flatten the curve, right?
00:01:21.000You've heard this phrase before, flatten the curve.
00:01:22.000Now here's what people mean when they talk about flattening the curve.
00:01:25.000So let's assume for a second, That you have a sort of bell-shaped curve as to when most of this outbreak is going to take place.
00:01:33.000And let's assume that that bell-shaped curve is early on, meaning that a lot of people get it very quickly.
00:01:39.000And let's assume, as is the truth, that we have limited resources to deal with the number of people who are going to be input in the system.
00:01:45.000Well, if the number of infections is spread out over a broader period of time, then the bell-shaped curve is shallower.
00:01:51.000If it's spread out over time, then you get a shallower shaped bell shaped curve.
00:01:55.000If it is spread out very quickly, then you end up with a very narrow and tall bell shaped curve.
00:02:00.000So I'm going to show you how this works.
00:02:01.000So let's say that here is worst case scenario.
00:02:28.000There's going to be an increase in hospital beds and ICU beds.
00:02:31.000There's going to be an increase in the federal government's capacity to respond, and in private industry's capacity to respond, by the way.
00:02:36.000It is imperative to note, for all the talk of Medicare for All and the federal government handling all this stuff, it is mainly private labs.
00:02:42.000It is mainly hospitals that have private funding that are going to be taking care of a lot of these problems, and that's a very good thing.
00:02:48.000Okay, America does have good public health response.
00:02:50.000America does have some elasticity in its market and some flexibility in what private industry is allowed to do.
00:02:54.000The testing kits that everybody is complaining about, most of those are not going to be coming courtesy of the federal government.
00:02:59.000Most of those are going to be coming courtesy of private labs that are being repurposed, like Quest Diagnostics.
00:03:03.000They're going to be repurposed in order to do lots of coronavirus tests.
00:03:51.000But instead of you getting it in April, you're getting it in September.
00:03:54.000What's important about that is that if you are acting below that dotted line, then yes, there will be a bed for you at the hospital, even if you need a ventilator, even if you need a respirator, that stuff is available to you.
00:04:05.000If, however, there is a glut in the system, this is what's happening in Italy.
00:04:53.000Does that person get higher priority than a publicist?
00:04:55.000You're prioritizing based on age, based on health and life expectancy.
00:04:59.000Do you prioritize the 30-year-old over the 80-year-old?
00:05:02.000Do you prioritize based on the amount of healthcare needed, right?
00:05:05.000Because if you have one person who's going to suck up a lot of resources and live versus five people who are going to suck up fewer resources and live, you pick the five over the one, right?
00:05:13.000You get into basic lifeboat ethics and that's where you don't want to be.
00:05:16.000So it is very good that it's a country.
00:05:22.000It's because people across the country suddenly started taking various and private industry started taking very seriously the threat of coronavirus.
00:06:45.000If we actually want to get this thing under control, if we want to bend that curve below the healthcare capacity, it is imperative that people exercise discretion.
00:06:52.000It is imperative that people continue to do things like washing their hands.
00:06:56.000It is imperative they avoid large public gatherings.
00:06:58.000If you are going to be out in public, you got to have a certain amount of distance from other people.
00:07:02.000This is all changing our way of life and it cuts directly against, it really does, it cuts directly against what we as human beings tend to do in times of crisis.
00:07:09.000When you're in a crisis, when there's a real danger, human beings tend to flock to the herd, right?
00:07:13.000I mean, that's just natural human thing.
00:07:29.000You know, frankly, thank God for the Internet.
00:07:31.000Thank God for the fact that we can communicate as easily as we can in the modern world, that we can FaceTime with friends and family.
00:07:36.000It's not a substitute, obviously, for being in the same room with somebody, or hugging a friend, or shaking hands with somebody.
00:07:42.000Those going the way of the dodo bird, it's actually quite tragic, because these are ways that we communicate with each other, natural human ways that we communicate with each other.
00:07:51.000With that said, We here at Daily Wire, we're gonna make it a point to try and reach out to you more.
00:07:56.000We're gonna try and make it a point so that you don't feel alone.
00:08:01.000And again, there is an end point here.
00:08:02.000Even people who are really pessimistic about this kind of stuff, like Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, even he is saying, we're not looking at a forever change here.
00:08:09.000We are looking at a couple months change, and then there are gonna be some permanent changes to our way of life.
00:08:13.000Like, you know, things may change as far as how movie theaters are seated.
00:08:17.000Things may change as far as how you go to a ballgame.
00:08:19.000But the fact is that this is a temporary thing.
00:08:25.000We are going to bring all resources to bear.
00:08:26.000And if we're smart about it, then we will have bent the curve so that fewer people die, particularly older and sicker people and people with pre-existing conditions, because those are the people who are uniquely vulnerable.
00:08:34.000Okay, I'm going to get to more of this in a second, because information first and politics second, okay?
00:09:01.000OK, that is a secondary priority at this point.
00:09:03.000The only thing that matters is saving lives.
00:09:06.000And frankly, I think that I hope that even our politicians know this.
00:09:10.000I have my doubts, as we'll get to in a second, but I think that most human beings deep down know that this is a time when we need to put the politics aside and really focus on what exactly is going to save lives.
00:09:18.000Okay, we're going to get into more of that in just one second.
00:09:21.000First, let's talk about your sleep quality.
00:09:22.000So, is all this keeping you awake at night?
00:09:25.000Well, thank God for the internet, because the fact is that thanks to the internet and thanks to delivery services, you will be able to get all the things that you could possibly want in your home anyway.
00:09:33.000We still live in a land of plenty and a time of plenty, and that means that if you are lacking sleep, you need the best available mattress, one that is made just for you.
00:09:40.000I mean, this is particularly true for me.
00:09:43.000When I am sleeping, very important, I sleep on a comfortable mattress.
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00:10:38.000Okay, so how bad is this thing going to get?
00:10:40.000Well, Nobody knows is the answer because we don't actually know the transmission rate.
00:10:43.000We know it's easier to transmit than the flu apparently.
00:10:45.000We also know it's more deadly than the flu according to Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease.
00:10:52.000According to Fauci, this thing is at least 10 times as deadly as the flu.
00:10:56.000We don't actually know the rates because in some areas it's a lot lower than in other areas.
00:11:00.000We don't know because we don't know what the public health response is going to be.
00:11:02.000We don't know how much of this is due to lack of proper medical staffing and how much of this is due to the actual deadliness of the disease itself.
00:11:11.000With that said, it is obviously very risky and there have been a wide variety of sort of articles put out there about how bad this thing could get.
00:11:20.000The New York Times has put together a model.
00:11:22.000Nicholas Kristof and Stuart Thompson writing, what's at stake in this coronavirus pandemic?
00:11:26.000How many Americans could become infected?
00:11:28.000The answers depend on the actions we take and crucially on when we take them.
00:11:31.000Working with infectious disease epidemiologists, we developed an interactive tool that lets you see what may lie ahead in the United States, how much of a difference it could make if officials act quickly.
00:11:41.000The lessons are broadly applicable to any country.
00:11:43.000Okay, so they have a bunch of different scenarios here as far as what exactly could happen.
00:11:50.000So they say if we stayed on current track, then the model predicts that roughly a third of Americans, more than 100 million people could become infected, including more than 9 million people at one time.
00:11:59.000As we take no protective measures, basically.
00:12:01.000That's if we just kind of leave everything as it is, we don't build up capacity, we don't stay home, we don't cancel events.
00:12:06.000That, of course, is not what's happening.
00:12:07.000We're already moving along the South Korean tack, which is lock it down, lock everything down, stay home, which is the smart thing to do.
00:12:16.000In this particular scenario, Up to a million people could die in the United States, which of course would be just an unbelievable trauma, an unbelievable trauma to the United States.
00:12:25.000That'd be if no action was taken and if the peak of the infections happened in mid-July.
00:12:30.000That also assumes that presumably the summer would not really curtail the spread of the virus, which is sort of doubtful.
00:12:37.000Okay, interventions early on mattered an awful lot.
00:12:41.000If there are additional interventions, like ending public gatherings, closing workplaces and schools, mass testing, fortifying hospitals, if those additional interventions were to begin sometime in May, which, I mean, frankly, I think that it seems like we've snapped into place pretty quickly here.
00:12:55.000If that happens, then you could see 4.5 million infections at the peak and 475,000 total deaths.
00:13:00.000Now, to put that in perspective, that would be like 10 times the number of people who die from the flu every year.
00:13:04.000So that would still be a massive trauma.
00:13:07.000If it's even earlier, then obviously the numbers go down.
00:13:11.000If the interventions be in one month later, like in the middle of July, the number of infections climbs by more than two million, you get two thirds of a million deaths.
00:13:18.000So, moving as quickly as humanly possible would be the best possible scenario.
00:13:25.000They're sort of suggesting that the best possible scenario, let's say that we put into action these interventions like right now.
00:13:32.000According to the Times model, you'd get 3 million infections at the peak and you get about 320,000 total deaths.
00:13:46.000If you aggressively act, if you get very aggressive, like everything shuts down, then this starts to look more like a seasonal flu.
00:13:54.000If you act right now, best case scenario, you act right now, everything shuts down, the schools shut, we stop going to ball games, we stop going to... If we go to restaurants, we stay far away from one another, we clean our areas.
00:14:07.000If you go to the gym, you wipe down all your equipment, you start doing a lot more things at home.
00:14:10.000Basically, you revert to sort of a cabin mentality.
00:14:12.000You're in here with your family, you go on hikes.
00:14:15.000That's sort of what your life becomes.
00:14:17.000A lot of homeschooling, less communal gathering.
00:14:20.000If you do that, then according to this New York Times model you get 513,000 infections at peak and 51,000 total deaths.
00:14:27.000And then it starts to look much more like a seasonal flu.
00:14:30.000As the New York Times points out, what matters is not only the total number of infections, but also how many occur at once.
00:14:36.000Overloaded hospitals and shortages of ventilators in ICUs would result in people dying unnecessarily from coronavirus, as well as from heart attacks and other ailments.
00:14:46.000We're much better off if the 100 million infections occur over 18 months rather than over 18 weeks.
00:14:52.000If you look at the same number of ICU cases as before, but modeled at a much slower rate to finish beneath the 95,000 available ICU beds in the country, then the number of deaths is a lot, a lot lower.
00:15:04.000So it is really important that people take aggressive actions right now not to get in group scenarios.
00:15:12.000This is according to the scientists, okay?
00:15:14.000So I'm just citing the scientists here.
00:16:35.000So everybody's going to the grocery stores and they're buying out the shelves.
00:16:38.000Producer Pavel was showing me a picture from his local grocery store and everything was taken off the shelves except for the cauliflower, oddly enough.
00:16:45.000Turns out that people would rather die than buy the cauliflower, which is perfectly understandable.
00:16:49.000Vegan dishes are still not seeing an uptick in their spike here.
00:16:51.000But with that said, This will alleviate the one area of American life where things will continue to be produced is in the grocery and pharmacy section.
00:16:59.000So I wouldn't worry too much about that.
00:17:02.000The government is going to take some aggressive actions in terms of shoring up the financial infrastructure.
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00:18:27.000If you look at the outbreak levels and the death levels in various countries, The New York Times, their maps on this are actually quite good.
00:18:35.000The New York Times has some outbreak maps showing exactly how many people have been diagnosed in particular areas of the world.
00:18:44.000The United States currently has over 1600 diagnoses, but we have a tremendous lack of testing.
00:18:48.000Mike DeWine, the governor of Ohio, basically announced that maybe there's a 1% infection rate in the state of Ohio already, which would mean presumably 100,000 infections.
00:18:55.000China, which has been lying about its numbers for a long time, they said there are 81,000 cases in China.
00:20:11.000Cowling's an epidemiologist, Lim is a graduate student in epidemiology.
00:20:15.000They write about Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, talking about how they brought the outbreaks under control.
00:20:19.000They say, in late January, after a sluggish and problematic initial response, the government of mainland China put in place unprecedented containment and social distancing measures and locked down major cities, noticeably Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak.
00:20:30.000And impose various travel restrictions throughout the country.
00:20:32.000There's a piece in the New York Times that ridiculously suggests that China bought us time.
00:20:36.000China is the reason this is a problem in the first place.
00:20:38.000It's because it's a poor, decrepit country that runs top down in a fashion where they silence people who are trying to bring information to the general public, imprisons them, shuts them down.
00:20:47.000And then the country is so poor overall that people are literally eating pangolins because they have nothing else to eat with these crap exotic meat markets.
00:20:54.000You've got a communist dictatorship that is unable to even shut down the meat markets that have been responsible for SARS, MERS, and now this one?
00:21:00.000I mean, seriously, I don't want to hear China getting credit for its literacy programs from Bernie.
00:21:37.000People who had come into contact with anyone infected were sent to designated facilities, typically converted hotels or hostels, for prophylactic quarantine.
00:21:44.000Home quarantine was advised only for those at slight risk of infection.
00:21:47.000Initially, all residents of Wuhan basically were required to stay home.
00:21:51.000Schools and workplaces were closed well after the end of the Lunar New Year festival.
00:21:55.000The scale was extraordinary, but it seems to have worked to contain the spread of COVID-19 in China.
00:22:01.000The number of new cases reported every day is a lot lower than it was before.
00:22:05.000But instead of looking at China, which is obviously a repressive authoritarian country, we should instead look at some less authoritarian and repressive countries, places like Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
00:22:16.000First, let's talk, we're doing things from home now.
00:22:18.000I mean, you don't really want to be in public places, so do you really want to take all your packages, schlep them to the post office, and then stand in line at the post office with a bunch of other people?
00:23:01.000It's no wonder over 700,000 small businesses are already using stamps.com.
00:23:07.000Take advantage of any service that saves you time and money and services that allow you to do both of those things while staying home and not being in giant public places.
00:23:31.000Okay, so let's look at some of these other examples of countries that have done a good job at locking down.
00:23:35.000As of midday on Friday, according to these columnists, one epidemiologist for the New York Times, Singapore had 187 confirmed cases and no deaths for a population of about 5.7 million.
00:23:45.000Taiwan had 50 confirmed cases, including one death for a population of 24 million.
00:23:49.000Hong Kong had 131 confirmed cases, including four deaths for a total population of about 7.5 million.
00:23:56.000All three governments have implemented some combination of measures to, first, reduce the arrival of new cases into the community.
00:24:01.000Those would be travel restrictions, as we'll see in a little while.
00:24:03.000The media, intent on hitting President Trump, are ripping on his travel ban from Europe.
00:24:08.000The fact is, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who I trust a hell of a lot more than any of the people criticizing Fauci on virtually all of this stuff, he was defending the European travel ban.
00:24:16.000In fact, here is Dr. Fauci specifically talking about why the European travel ban is a pretty good idea.
00:25:26.000And that's why the president made those statements.
00:25:30.000Okay, so the media obviously are ripping on Trump for the European travel ban, but everybody acknowledges that a travel ban, shutting down travel for the moment, internationally at the very least, is probably a good idea.
00:25:40.000These columnists, including an epidemiologist for the New York Times, continue, The other measures taken by Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore specifically prevent possible transmission between known cases and the local population, which is quarantines.
00:25:51.000And finally, generally suppress silent transmission in the community by reducing contact between individuals, self-isolation, social distancing, heightened hygiene.
00:25:58.000Each of these countries has a different approach.
00:26:00.000Singapore could take aggressive measures to block the arrival of infection from China, and they did.
00:26:06.000The Singapore authorities also undertook especially intensive efforts to trace the context of people known to be infected.
00:26:11.000We already have community infection in the United States, so we're sort of past that at this point, but...
00:26:16.000Singapore has implemented all sorts of recommended personal hygiene habits, using a tissue when you cough or you sneeze, using designated serving spoons during group meals, using trays when you eat or drink to limit contamination in case of spills, keeping public toilets clean and dry, regular hand washing.
00:26:31.000Taiwan took a slightly different tack.
00:26:33.000As soon as early January, Taiwanese medical authorities would board incoming flights from Wuhan and inspect and screen travelers on the plane.
00:26:40.000Taiwan has also taken a rather mixed approach in its efforts to reduce transmission within the community.
00:26:45.000Home quarantine has been the predominant method of isolation, even when state facilities were in fact available, and they've been ensuring strict penalties against anyone who breaks an isolation order, including fines of up to $30,000 if you're ordered to stay home and then you do not.
00:26:58.000Also, religious institutions, suspended services, organizers of mass events were encouraged to defer or cancel those events.
00:27:06.000Their approach, again, involved screening people who were coming in from China.
00:27:11.000And they also recommended that anybody who arrived from elsewhere was forced to undergo a mandatory 14-day period of quarantine.
00:27:19.000So all of these measures are things that, most of these measures are things that we in the United States can do.
00:27:24.000Now the big question is how widespread this is in the United States right now.
00:27:27.000And the big short fall of the federal government thus far has been the lack of testing kits available those testing kits are mainly going to be produced as i've said before by private industry so while a lot of people are talking about the evils of private industry medicare for all and all the rest of this the fact is that it is private industry that's going to be picking up the slack here it is private companies private testing companies that have picked up the slack in fact there there's new tests that are being brought out as in like right now that are going to allow 24 hour turnaround
00:27:55.000The FDA is allowing the emergency use of a novel coronavirus testing system designed by Roche Molecular Systems, according to CNN.
00:28:00.000Within 24 hours of receiving the application, the first commercially distributed diagnostic test received an emergency use authorization during the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrating once again that when you cut through bureaucratic red tape, it is usually a good idea.
00:28:12.000And remember, just a couple of days ago, the New York Times was reporting that people were ready to do these tests in January in Seattle, and the CDC and FDA shut them down because of the bureaucratic idiocy of all of this.
00:28:22.000Now, Dr. Anthony Fauci, again, being taken out of context, he pointed out that the testing regimen put out there has been failing because we just don't have enough test kits.
00:28:31.000People shorthanded this to say that the government response is failing.
00:29:20.000The media covered this as though Fauci said the entire system was failing, and the media spun this out of control to suggest that this, of course, is President Trump's fault.
00:29:27.000And this is where the politics of this thing comes in.
00:29:35.000We know we gotta stay home as much as possible.
00:29:38.000We know we gotta avoid populated areas.
00:29:40.000We know that if we're gonna order from a restaurant, order delivery, or order out, we know what to do.
00:29:45.000This is no longer a broad-based mystery.
00:29:48.000This is no longer a question of what to do.
00:29:50.000The only question is what measures Congress can take to shore up the economy in the short term, which presumably would include a payroll tax holiday.
00:29:56.000It might include American Enterprise Institute's recommended cash payments to people who literally cannot make their bills, at least in the temporary and short term.
00:30:05.000It would include maybe the government allowing paid sick leave, but the government The government allowing it and it being sunsetted so that it's not a permanent program.
00:30:13.000Like Nancy Pelosi literally wanted to implement in these bills, she wanted a permanent paid sick leave that would include paid sick leave for like spousal abuse or something, right?
00:30:23.000Which has nothing to do whatsoever with coronavirus.
00:30:25.000Like at this point, Put the partisan bullcrap aside, guys.
00:30:46.000And libertarians understand externalities when the entire system is at risk.
00:30:49.000In a time of war, there are no libertarians when it comes to Should there be an army or not?
00:30:54.000Libertarians are not anti-military when you're under attack.
00:30:57.000When a major virus is threatening externalities, I don't know a single libertarian who is suggesting that the government has no role to play in the presence of a pandemic.
00:31:06.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, and we'll get to the inevitable politicization of a time when things really should not be politicized.
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00:34:46.000Okay, so we all basically know what we need to do here.
00:34:54.000That's not stopping Congress from fighting over all of this, basically because Democrats insist on shoveling a bunch of crap into every crisis bill.
00:35:00.000You remember they did this after Hurricane Maria?
00:35:59.000We already told her, like, spend whatever time you need at home.
00:36:01.000We're going to continue paying you, right?
00:36:02.000That is the ideal, is that everybody who's employing other people wants to continue employing other people.
00:36:07.000Whatever facilitates that is going to be good, especially because when we come out the other end of this, whenever that is, in June, July, when we come out the other end of this, there will be a fairly solid recovery, and it should be fairly fast, because the fact is that this is not an underlying threat to the global economic system.
00:36:34.000Also, tip for people who are in the stock market, unless you have to liquidate like right now because you just don't have the cash flow, leave your money in the stock market.
00:36:45.000You want to talk about wealth redistribution?
00:36:47.000If you're a person who's middle-class, middle-upper class, and you don't have to access that 401k, but you think that the market's going to drop further, so you drop it right now, don't do it.
00:36:54.000All you're doing is giving opportunities for younger people who have disposable income the opportunity to go out and buy all of that stock and then get rich on the other end.
00:37:01.000Down markets are where rich people get really rich, is the reality of the situation.
00:37:05.000In other words, leave your money in the market.
00:37:07.000Do not pull your money out of the market.
00:37:08.000Again, I'm not telling you which socks to buy, because I'm not qualified to do that.
00:37:11.000I'm just telling you, why would you possibly sell a depreciating asset when you know it's going to appreciate again in fairly short order?
00:37:18.000Meanwhile, again, Congress continues to argue over what to do about all of this.
00:37:22.000The legislation that Pelosi is proposing includes enhanced unemployment benefits, which again, depending on, I mean, we're going to need cash transfers to people who don't have a job right now, free virus testing, aid for food assistance programs, and federal funds for Medicaid.
00:37:37.000All this sounds fairly good on the surface.
00:37:39.000The question, the devil's always in the details.
00:37:40.000Apparently, Nancy Pelosi was attempting to put in funding that was not subject to the Hyde Amendment, so the funding could eventually be used for abortion.
00:37:46.000She's also attempting to make all of these programs permanent, which is not the goal here.
00:37:50.000It is not a measure that is designed for permanent places in American life.
00:37:57.000This is not a situation in which we should all be thinking, never let a good crisis go to waste.
00:38:00.000That's not what we should be thinking here.
00:38:02.000The package includes 14 days of paid sick leave, as well as tax credits to help small and medium businesses fulfill that mandate.
00:38:09.000Pelosi says she wants another package that will take further effective action that protects the health, economic security and well-being of the American people.
00:38:15.000We will see exactly what this stuff means because Congress is always going to say that.
00:38:19.000The question is how much of that is legit and how much of that is not really legit.
00:38:24.000So once we see more details on the bill, then we can tell you.
00:38:27.000Basically, where we stand on what the government is doing and whether it is a good idea for us to be spending this sort of cash.
00:38:35.000Peter Suderman has a piece over at Reason.com talking about the sort of stimulus that all of these Congress people are calling for.
00:38:42.000He says, the proposal, as explained by the Trump administration, would eliminate the collection of individual employer payroll taxes, which fund Social Security and Medicare.
00:38:49.000The idea is to stimulate the economy by giving workers bigger paychecks.
00:38:53.000They suggest that this plan could result in a lot of lost revenue.
00:38:57.000But it's likely to fail on a lot of levels because not only would it push the already high federal budget deficit to unprecedented levels, it would also offer little help to those who need it most.
00:39:05.000It wouldn't address the underlying crisis or anything like that.
00:39:08.000Also, right now, we have a bit of a debt crunch because who wants to buy debt in a time when, again, the economy is sinking?
00:39:26.000Now imagine for one second, just one single solitary second, that a Democrat were president.
00:39:30.000And let's assume that the response were fairly similar.
00:39:32.000Because the fact is, the response would be fairly similar.
00:39:34.000Okay, Democrats don't have a magic wand to suddenly make testing kits available across the country any more than President Trump does.
00:39:41.000Fauci would probably still be the head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
00:39:47.000The same people who are currently staffing would probably be staffing.
00:39:50.000The same problems that exist would probably exist.
00:39:52.000And all the critiques would be coming from the right.
00:39:54.000Now imagine that it were a presidential race, and let's imagine it was Barack Obama and Mitt Romney again or something.
00:39:58.000Or better, let's imagine that it were Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
00:40:01.000It was 2016 all over again and Barack Obama were president and Donald Trump went on the stump and then he gave a big speech about how the administration was completely botching the response to coronavirus in the middle of what is indeed a public panic, right?
00:40:16.000In the middle of that, went out there and exacerbated all of the doubts that people had about authority, all the doubts that people had about the government, all the doubts that people had about the measures that are being taken place and the sufficiency thereof.
00:40:27.000Do you think the media for a single solitary second would sit there and echo the complaints?
00:40:30.000Or do you think they would say, what are you doing?
00:40:33.000It's a time for us to all bring each other together and recognize, I mean, the election isn't tomorrow.
00:40:39.000The election is eight months from now.
00:40:42.000It's a time for all of us to figure out what we can do best to bring the country together right now instead of sniping from the upper tier.
00:40:51.000But Joe Biden did a speech yesterday widely praised by the media in which he basically echoed most of the things that Trump is already doing.
00:41:08.000But the media were just over the moon about this.
00:41:11.000And this is why I say partisan politics is a hell of a drug.
00:41:13.000So here is Joe Biden yesterday and again.
00:41:16.000Basically, his entire speech was making snide remarks about Trump's insufficiency in this crisis.
00:41:21.000People are going to make their decision based on the actions of the Trump administration.
00:41:24.000Believe me, Trump's getting hit for having downplayed this thing in the early days.
00:41:28.000The Trump administration has taken it on the chin from people who think that the administration basically wasted a month in not ramping up development and testing.
00:41:36.000But with that said, is it a good look for the opposite political party in a time of what?
00:41:40.000I mean, listen, this is the most shocking public crisis that I have seen in my entire life.
00:42:04.000So, like, this is a major moment when the country really needs to come together and we all need to rely on each other and we need to say, listen, there have been failures in the past, but we need to give the government time to do what it needs to do.
00:42:21.000If you think that Joe Biden isn't going to cut a bevy of ads in September of Donald Trump talking about how 15 people are sick and it's going to go down to zero, or Donald Trump talking about how this thing is going to be fine and the market's going to be fine.
00:42:33.000If you think Biden isn't going to cut those ads, you're wrong.
00:42:36.000But now is not the time for that bullcrap.
00:42:38.000Right now is the time when you say, OK, we need whatever you think of President Trump, whatever you think of the administration.
00:42:43.000Now's the time when we all have to be together.
00:42:44.000We're all working together to get this right.
00:42:46.000That's not what Joe Biden did yesterday.
00:42:47.000Instead, Biden decided that it was a perfect time to snipe.
00:42:50.000So here is Biden yesterday to the cheers of the media.
00:42:52.000Being overly dismissive or spreading misinformation is only going to hurt us and further advantage the spread of the disease.
00:43:01.000But neither should we panic or fall back on xenophobia.
00:43:05.000Labeling COVID-19 a foreign virus does not displace accountability for the misjudgments that have been taken thus far by the Trump administration.
00:43:16.000OK, it is not xenophobia to point out this is a foreign virus.
00:43:31.000Because the fact is that they were literally threatening to imprison people who talked openly about Wuhan virus back in December and January.
00:43:39.000And so all of the late breaking, well, you know, now it's European.
00:43:44.000Ebola didn't just stay in Africa, but it was still called Ebola.
00:43:48.000The idea that this is all about Trump's xenophobia, like really, is this what we need right now?
00:43:51.000This is the public debate we need right now?
00:43:53.000Not the encouragement of everybody to take the proper measures, not the encouragement to help out the private companies that you know need help, and help out private people, not any of that.
00:44:03.000Really, we're gonna go on the xenophobia bender right now?
00:44:06.000We're gonna go on the social justice warrior bender in the middle of a pandemic?
00:45:57.000Because you're doing nothing that actually leads the Trump administration to better activity here.
00:46:03.000Protecting the health and safety of the American people is the most important job of any president.
00:46:08.000And unfortunately, this virus laid bare the severe shortcomings of the current administration.
00:46:16.000Public fears are being compounded by a pervasive lack of trust in this president, fueled by adversarial relationships with the truth that he continues to have.
00:46:27.000Our government's ability to respond effectively has been undermined by hollowing out our agencies and disparagement of science.
00:46:36.000And our ability to drive a global response is dramatically, dramatically undercut by the damage Trump has done to our credibility and our relationships around the world.
00:46:48.000We have to get to work immediately to dig ourselves out of this hole.
00:46:52.000And that's why today I'm releasing a plan to combat and overcome the coronavirus.
00:47:00.000Why aren't you encouraging Nancy Pelosi to pass legislation?
00:47:03.000Why aren't you working with the other Democrats to get something together?
00:47:06.000Honestly, the fact the media we're cheering this on demonstrates the Trump derangement syndrome that has set in.
00:47:11.000There's plenty of fair criticism of Trump.
00:47:12.000I've made a lot of it on this program.
00:47:14.000Okay, but it is not a correct thing in the middle of a pandemic to spend your time making giant speeches about how everything Trump is doing is wrong and he's bad for the job and all this.
00:47:22.000I promise you there will be plenty of time for this campaign.
00:47:24.000There'll be plenty of time for this campaign.
00:47:26.000And making hay in the middle of an actual public crisis?
00:47:46.000Andrew Gillum ran as a Democrat in Florida.
00:47:48.000He lost to Ron DeSantis very, very narrowly.
00:47:51.000Apparently, former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was allegedly involved in an incident involving crystal meth at a Miami Beach hotel early this morning, according to an incident report obtained by the Miami New Times.
00:48:05.000The report itself is super disturbing.
00:48:08.000Apparently, an orgy is suspected but unconfirmed?
00:48:12.000This guy was like this far from being governor of Florida, and he was the new up-and-coming Democratic star.
00:48:17.000Just a reminder, politicians are people too, and most of them suck.
00:48:22.000According to the Miami Beach Police report, clear plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth were found in both the bed and floor of a hotel room.
00:48:28.000The three small baggies of suspected narcotics were impounded at the Miami Beach Police Station property and evidence unit for destruction.
00:48:41.000Apparently, two officers responded in emergency mode to a cardiac arrest.
00:48:45.000Upon arrival, Miami Beach Fire Rescue was on scene providing treatment to one patient named Travis Dyson.
00:48:50.000Miami Beach Fire Rescue advised officers that Dyson was being treated for a possible drug overdose.
00:48:55.000He was in stable condition, but he was being transported to a local hospital.
00:48:58.000Officers then made contact with two other males who were inside.
00:49:01.000One was the complainant, his name is Aldo Mejias, and Andrew Gillum, who was an involved other.
00:49:08.000According to Mejias, he provided his credit card information to Travis Dyson to rent a hotel room for the night.
00:49:12.000Mejias was to meet Mr. Dyson later on in the day.
00:49:14.000Dyson rented the room at approximately 4 o'clock.
00:49:17.000Mejias arrived at the hotel at approximately 11 o'clock at night, where he discovered Travis Dyson and Andrew Gillum inside the room under the influence of an unknown substance.
00:49:24.000Per Mr. Mejias, Mr. Dyson opened the hotel room door and immediately walked over to the bed and collapsed in a prone position.
00:49:30.000observed Mr. Gillum inside the bathroom vomiting.
00:50:24.000And basically his campaign where he spoke To the plaudits of people who are college educated on the coast and no one cared, nobody listened.
00:50:33.000He wasn't very funny because this isn't his job.
00:51:08.000So apparently, this was true across the evening, by the way, that the audiences were not there.
00:51:14.000Buttigieg, because nobody's ever told.
00:51:17.000Like, what's amazing about the Democrats is they've never told a self-effacing joke.
00:51:20.000So, Buttigieg joked, when you don't have a real audience, you have to fake one, just like Trump's inauguration.
00:51:27.000See, if Buttigieg actually made the joke, here I am, you know, on a popular late-night show, you know, speaking to people who are of my own ilk, with no audience, that actually would have gotten a laugh, because self-effacing humor is actually kind of funny.
00:51:41.000But the fact that Pete Buttigieg was even doing this in the first place is really kind of amazing.
00:51:46.000It's amazing that this guy was hosting late night and demonstrative of where the entire industry is.
00:51:55.000So, the end of the week, it feels like biblical end times, but let's talk a little bit of Bible.
00:52:00.000So, this week, if I were going to synagogue, because synagogue is closed, then we would be reading the Bible portion of of kitisa which is the the bible portion in which there is in which it talks about the the golden calf and the the golden calf incident is really puzzling obviously because you have a people who have just been brought out with signs and wonders that miraculously brought out of the land of egypt the sea is split for them they walk across god talks directly to them brings them the 10 commandments
00:52:30.000and then they're immediately like you know what we're going to do We're gonna make this fake cow.
00:52:36.000And it is indicative of the attention span of human beings.
00:52:40.000It is also indicative, a lot of commentators suggest, of the fact that if you are going to have a true, long-lasting belief in God, it can't be based on signs and miracles, because people tend to rationalize that stuff away.
00:52:49.000It has to be based on true faith and a real rational perspective on exactly on exactly how the world works.
00:52:58.000So the real question is, why Aaron, who's Moses' brother, took part in all of this?
00:53:03.000Aaron is one of the great figures in Jewish history, in biblical history.
00:53:07.000Aharon HaCohen, Aaron the Cohen, he is the secondary figure in the entire Pentateuch, right?
00:53:14.000I mean, it's Moses, and then Aaron is the one who's actually his spokesperson, going out and talking to the people, much more popular with the people.
00:53:20.000Aaron is a more naturally gifted leader than Moses.
00:53:22.000Aaron is a more powerful speaker, right?
00:53:24.000Moses himself acknowledges this when he's at the burning bush and God says, you should go speak to the Jews.
00:53:28.000And Moses is like, I'm not sufficient for this.
00:53:31.000And then God says, okay, well, you can use Aaron, right?
00:53:33.000That is Moses acknowledging that Aaron is actually a better leader for the people in terms of the people and speaking directly to the people.
00:53:40.000But this is Aaron's downfall, is Aaron refuses to tell the people the truth.
00:53:44.000Aaron is more interested in public approval at this point than he is in telling the people the truth.
00:53:48.000And this is obvious from the text of the Bible.
00:54:12.000He took them from their hands, he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molten calf, upon which they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up from the land of Egypt.
00:54:20.000Now, the reason they did a calf is because calves were worshipped in the land of Egypt, and so they were actually replicating what they had once known as slaves.
00:54:26.000When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it, and Aaron proclaimed and said, Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.
00:54:31.000So this isn't Aaron trying to twist pagan idolatry into service to God.
00:54:36.000He's trying to take the people and channel them towards something better by acceding to their requests.
00:54:41.000So how can Aaron's behavior be excused?
00:54:43.000So there are three basic answers that are offered by the different biblical commentators in Judaism.
00:54:46.000First, they argue that Aaron was just trying to stall.
00:54:49.000That basically he assumed this is going to take a while to make this golden calf.
00:54:51.000In the meantime, Moses is going to come down from the mountain.
00:54:56.000According to the Midrash, which is sort of commentary on the Bible that fills out the narrative a little bit.
00:55:01.000Midrash says that the Jews actually went to Aaron's nephew, a guy named Hur, before they went to Aaron, and then when Hur refused to participate in their idolatry, they murdered him.
00:55:08.000Aaron thought they'd murder him too, at which point they couldn't be forgiven their sins, so he thought that it was better to participate with them in the sin of idolatry than to involve himself in a chain of circumstances that would lead them to kill a high priest.
00:55:19.000Then there's a third theory, that Aaron was attempting to take the sin on himself to avoid the sin of the people, but of course that doesn't work because then there's a massive plague that breaks out immediately after this.
00:55:28.000All three of the theories have one thing in common.
00:55:30.000Aaron cares about the fate of the people above all else.
00:55:33.000The people are the institution he seeks to preserve, not their honor, not their decency, not even really their holiness, their purpose for existing.
00:56:05.000He says, Why, O Lord, should your anger be kindled against your people, whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
00:56:11.000Why should the Egyptians say, He brought them out with evil intent to kill them in the mountains and to annihilate them from upon the face of the earth?
00:56:18.000Reconsider the evil intended for your people.
00:56:20.000Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your very self and to whom you said, I will multiply your seed like the stars of heaven and all this land, which I said that I would give to your seed that shall keep it as their possession forever.
00:56:32.000What Moses is saying is that God's honor is at stake.
00:56:39.000Moses' chief concern here is that the Jewish people cannot exist without their God.
00:56:44.000And when God threatens to remove his presence from Israel and use an angel instead to take the people to Israel, Moses demurs.
00:56:51.000Aaron is concerned with preserving life.
00:56:52.000Moses knows that the people have to come around to the right answer.
00:56:56.000So Moses never would have acceded to the people's request.