Ep. 704 - Two Different Countries
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Summary
Coronavirus is a viral outbreak that has killed more than 20,000 people across the country since it was discovered in the late 1980s. The CDC has no idea what it is, and no one knows how to cure it. Democrats have been quick to blame the other party, but is it really as bad as they say?
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Democrats, whether at the state level, the local level, now I guess at the national level, have handled the epidemic well.
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Republicans are responsible for every single death.
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We were told this by Joe Biden even when he was on the campaign trail.
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He told us that Donald Trump is responsible for every single COVID death.
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So presumably, if a Democrat had been in charge from the beginning of the epidemic, nobody would have died, right?
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Well, there's just one problem with that, which is if you look at a Republican state like Florida,
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And you look at a Democrat state like California, completely shut down some of the most onerous restrictions in the whole country.
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When you look at how the virus is affecting both of those states, looks pretty much the same.
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Those states are more or less indistinguishable.
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Joe Biden's coronavirus advisor can't quite explain it.
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Contrast states like Florida and California, California basically in lockdown and their numbers aren't that different from Florida.
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Look, there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict.
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That's just beyond a little bit beyond our explanation.
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What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance.
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And the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads.
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Actually, the whole premise of the question is that we don't know that.
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If we did know that, then Florida would be in a much worse place right now on the virus than California is.
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Because Florida, basically not doing anything to social distance and mandate masks everywhere.
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California forcing all that sort of stuff, they're in the same place.
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He says, he admits, yeah, we don't really know anything about this virus.
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But the one thing we do know is you got to do all the stuff the Democrats want.
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But we have got to get better visibility into variants.
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We don't know what role they play, large events, etc.
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But, you know, this is, as we all have learned by this time, this is a virus that continues to surprise us.
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And, you know, all around the country, we've got to continue to do a better job.
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Yes, there's a lot of stuff that you don't know.
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But that is not stopping you, genius expert, you, Biden White House, you, liberal establishment,
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from exploiting the virus to foist these crazy policies on all of us.
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They don't know very much about the virus, but they know enough to exploit the virus to cram a whole new political system down our throats.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Camo Man, responding to Bill Gates' promise that we've got to stop eating real meat, start eating fake meat.
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It says, the fake meat in my area sells so poorly that when they rotate the stock, they put the old stock in the freezer before it expires.
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I remember vividly at the beginning of the epidemic when everyone was hoarding food because they didn't know how serious the virus was, how long we were going to be locked in.
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You go, you wouldn't find any food in the grocery stores.
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And so the meat section would be totally cleared.
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That, they'd be full and say, you know, I would rather starve to death than eat this crappy fake meat.
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But that's what they want to force down our throats, quite literally.
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The decisions that are being made with regard to the coronavirus are political decisions.
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I guess there's a sort of scientific patina to them, but they are political decisions.
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By definition, any decision that a government worker makes that's going to affect the way that we behave,
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the way we live our lives, that's going to affect our rights, by definition, that is political.
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Certain people are given special privileges based on the ruling ideology,
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and we will get into that ideology a lot on this show.
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And the virus shows you this clearly because you have to prioritize what people get treatment.
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You have to prioritize what people are going to get the vaccine.
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since we're supposed to have equal justice under the law for all American citizens,
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it would make sense to me to roll out the vaccine based on people's risk levels.
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There is absolutely no reason for me to be prioritized on this vaccine.
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Frankly, even if there were an unlimited supply, I'm not sure that I would get it.
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Not because I think it's going to install 5G, I don't know what the conspiracy theories are.
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It's going to install 5G in my blood or something.
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That's not the reason I wouldn't get the vaccine.
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Actually, my cell service is a little bit weak, so if I could become a human hotspot, I might consider it.
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And I'm sorry if that offends the liberal regime that insists that we all need to get the vaccine,
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However, if you are, I don't know, 75, 85, 95, probably you should consider getting the vaccine,
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and you should be prioritized in the list as the government decides how this rollout is going to work.
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The California vaccine guidelines are prioritizing various groups, including, I kid you not, marijuana workers.
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Marijuana workers, people in the pot industry, are being prioritized over teachers, to name just one group.
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If some groups are going to get it, some groups are not.
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According to the, quote, updated COVID-19 vaccine allocation guidelines from the California Department of Health,
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medical marijuana workers are prioritized ahead of people in education, ahead of people in working in child care services,
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So, by any, you know, any regime of rolling out the vaccine is going to give some people access over others.
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It seems to me reasonable and equitable and just to give it to the older people,
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because the older people actually are at some risk from the virus.
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So, we all have a right in self-government to shape the way we want to live.
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And we need to get beyond just the procedural questions of do we have this right,
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how do we govern ourselves, to the substantive stuff.
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Do we want to prioritize the old people or do we want to prioritize the potheads?
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And it's not usually being pushed on the basis of how much choom you like to smoke,
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you know, how much of that sin spinach you like to light up in your bowl.
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Really, what is being pushed as the determinant here is race and sex.
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Jen Psaki, our favorite current White House press secretary,
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was just asked what the Biden administration thought about reparations.
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Jen Psaki does not commit to it entirely, but she also doesn't shoot it down.
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Well, he's supported a study of reparations, which I believe is what's being discussed
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and studying the continuing impacts of slavery,
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which is being discussed in this hearing on H.R. 40, I believe it is.
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And he continues to demonstrate his commitment to take comprehensive action
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to address the systemic racism that persists today.
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Obviously, that is, having that study is a part of that.
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But he has signed an executive order on his first day,
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which would begin to deliver on his commitment to having an all-cross-government approach
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to addressing racial inequality and making sure equity is a part of his entire policy agenda.
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But he certainly would support a study of reparations.
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We understand that we don't need a study to take action right now in systemic racism,
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so he wants to take actions within his own government in the meantime.
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Okay, I can't take any more of the jargon in the gobbledygook,
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And part of the job of the press secretary is to evade questions.
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But I don't think that we can, those of us who are reasonable people,
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who don't believe that a system of reparations is going to help anything in the country,
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and it actually will hurt a lot of political questions in our country.
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Everything that Joe Biden has done since entering the White House
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has thrown away this assumption that he's going to govern as a moderate.
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He has governed in probably the most radical way he possibly can.
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She says, well, he can do things for racial equity now, and he's doing that.
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And he could take action, but there's going to be a study and a commission,
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and they're going to study the commission and review reparations.
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Why do we need a study or a commission or a review about reparations?
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We had legal slavery in the country for a long time, ending in 1865.
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The first officially declared slave, you know, in the American tradition of slavery,
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meaning not someone who was given slavery as a punishment for a crime, for instance,
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but someone who was arbitrarily declared a slave for life,
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was a man named John Kasor, a black man in the United States.
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Obviously, slavery became this much more racialized system later on.
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But the first sort of officially declared slave owner in a way that we would recognize it in the United States
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And it raises all these questions for reparations.
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For instance, if reparations are going to be given on the basis of race,
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do recent immigrants or the children of recent immigrants get reparations?
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Let's say a guy from Nigeria comes to America in 1982.
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Well, if systemic racism exists, probably they should get reparations, right?
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Because, yeah, sure, their ancestors were not slaves,
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but, you know, they live in the system where black people are constantly mistreated.
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the first officially declared slave owner in America,
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I mean, they would be black or at least part black.
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Would they have to pay reparations to the descendants of John Kayser?
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It happened, you know, however long ago, 150 some odd years ago.
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not for some ridiculous bureaucratic team to study and then come to an answer,
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because I think the answer is probably predetermined by the progressive left.
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