00:08:40.000in frequent contact with our allies, and we are marshalling the full power of the federal government and the private sector to protect the American people.
00:08:50.000This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history.
00:08:56.000I am confident that by counting and continuing to take these tough measures, we will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately and expeditiously defeat this virus.
00:09:10.000From the beginning of time, nations and people have faced unforeseen challenges, including large scale and very dangerous health threats.
00:09:20.000This is the way it always was and always will be.
00:09:25.000It only matters how you respond, and we are responding with great speed and professionalism.
00:09:31.000Our team is the best anywhere in the world.
00:09:33.000At the very start of the outbreak, we instituted sweeping travel restrictions on China and put in place the first federally mandated quarantine in over 50 years.
00:09:46.000We declared a public health emergency and issued the highest level of travel warning on other countries as the virus spread its horrible infection.
00:09:58.000And taking early, intense action, we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in Europe.
00:10:09.000The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hotspots.
00:10:16.000As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.
00:10:23.000After consulting with our top government health professionals, I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health and well being of all Americans.
00:10:35.000To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.
00:10:44.000The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.
00:10:48.000These restrictions will be adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.
00:10:53.000There will be exemptions for Americans who have undergone appropriate screenings, and these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval.
00:11:07.000Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing.
00:11:12.000These restrictions will also not apply to the United Kingdom.
00:11:17.000At the same time, we are monitoring the situation in China and South Korea.
00:11:22.000And as their situation improves, we will reevaluate the restrictions and warnings that are currently in place for a possible early opening.
00:11:33.000Earlier this week, I met with the leaders of the health insurance industry who have agreed to waive all co payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing.
00:11:50.000We are cutting massive amounts of red tape to make antiviral therapies available in record time.
00:11:56.000These treatments will significantly reduce the impact and reach of the virus.
00:12:02.000Additionally, last week I signed into law an $8.3 billion funding bill to help CDC and other government agencies fight the virus and support vaccines, treatments, and distribution of medical supplies.
00:12:17.000Testing and testing capabilities are expanding rapidly, day by day.
00:12:26.000The vast majority of Americans, the risk, Is very, very low.
00:12:32.000Young and healthy people can expect to recover fully and quickly if they should get the virus.
00:12:38.000The highest risk is for the elderly population with underlying health conditions.
00:12:44.000The elderly population must be very, very careful.
00:12:48.000In particular, we are strongly advising that nursing homes for the elderly suspend all medically unnecessary visits.
00:12:55.000In general, older Americans should also avoid non essential travel in crowded areas.
00:13:02.000My administration is coordinating directly with communities with largest outbreaks, and we have issued guidance on school closures.
00:13:11.000Social distancing and reducing large gatherings.
00:13:15.000Smart action today will prevent the spread of the virus tomorrow.
00:13:21.000Every community faces different risks, and it is critical for you to follow the guidelines of your local officials who are working closely with our federal health experts, and they are the best.
00:13:33.000For all Americans, it is essential that everyone take extra precautions and practice good hygiene.
00:13:40.000Each of us has a role to play in defeating this virus.
00:13:45.000Clean often used surfaces, cover your face and mouth if you sneeze or cough, and most of all, if you are sick or not feeling well, stay home.
00:13:57.000To ensure that working Americans impacted by the virus can stay home without fear of financial hardship, I will soon be taking emergency action, which is unprecedented, to provide financial relief.
00:14:10.000This will be targeted for workers who are ill, quarantined, or caring for others due to coronavirus.
00:14:18.000I will be asking Congress to take legislative action to extend this relief.
00:14:24.000Because of the economic policies that we have put into place over the last three years, we have the greatest economy anywhere in the world by far.
00:14:35.000Our banks and financial institutions are fully capitalized and incredibly strong.
00:14:41.000Our unemployment is at a historic low.
00:14:44.000This vast economic prosperity gives us flexibility, reserves, and resources to handle any threat that comes our way.
00:14:55.000This is just a temporary moment of time that we will overcome together as a nation and as a world.
00:15:03.000However, to provide extra support for American workers, families, and businesses, tonight I am announcing the following additional actions.
00:15:12.000I am instructing the Small Business Administration to exercise available authority to provide capital and liquidity to firms affected by the coronavirus.
00:15:23.000Effective immediately, the SBA will begin providing economic loans in affected states and territories.
00:15:32.000These low interest loans will help small businesses overcome temporary economic disruptions caused by the virus.
00:15:39.000To this end, I am asking Congress to increase funding for this program by an additional $50 billion.
00:15:46.000Using emergency authority, I will be instructing the Treasury Department to defer tax payments without interest or penalties for certain individuals and businesses.
00:17:13.000We must put politics aside, stop the partisanship, and unify together as one nation and one family.
00:17:22.000As history has proven time and time again, Americans always rise to the challenge and overcome adversity.
00:17:29.000Our future remains brighter than anyone can imagine.
00:17:33.000Acting with compassion and love, We will heal the sick, care for those in need, help our fellow citizens, and emerge from this challenge stronger and more unified than ever before.
00:19:12.000We've got a great show for you tonight, and we have just finished watching together President Donald Trump's national address in response to the coronavirus now pandemic.
00:19:28.000And you just saw it, you just watched it.
00:19:33.000We watched it together, and that is going to be our main story tonight.
00:19:37.000We'll be talking once again about the coronavirus and What you can expect, what's going on.
00:19:44.000Obviously, that was just the news, and we'll get into the president's address that he said just now.
00:19:52.000And we'll also get into the latest developments that have taken place throughout the day.
00:19:56.000It's been a busy day, and things are escalating very quickly.
00:20:00.000So, we'll be talking about things like school closures, other efforts to contain the virus, statewide measures that are being undertaken to shut down public gatherings.
00:20:10.000We'll talk about what's happening in Europe and the pandemic classification.
00:21:15.000But anyway, we're going to get into all of that.
00:21:19.000I got to tell you, though, do get your supplies.
00:21:22.000If you're watching now, if you're just tuning in, you didn't catch the president's address, buy your supplies.
00:21:29.000Because, and we're going to get into this, what you're going to see happen next is they're going to shut down the public gatherings.
00:21:36.000They're going to advise that you avoid all non essential travel.
00:21:41.000And what you could see happen, and I'm not saying this is a certainty, it's not guaranteed, but what you could see happen, and this is happening in Italy, like I said, we'll get to this situation in Europe, but there is potential for a US restriction on stores that you're not going to be able to go to the store, that you're not going to be able to go to a restaurant.
00:22:03.000And you just have to think and plan out what I am going to need in the next three to six weeks.
00:22:10.000I don't know how long this is going to last.
00:22:12.000We have no idea how long this is going to be such an immediate threat in our lives.
00:22:19.000You have to think out, maybe a good month, what kind of supplies you cannot live without.
00:22:24.000Where if you are not able to go to a store, what are you going to need to have in your house?
00:22:30.000If you're not able to leave your home or you don't want to leave your home, what are you going to have to have?
00:22:35.000And you should get out there and begin to prepare for that because I went out to the store today and I went out to the store for other reasons.
00:22:43.000You know, I went out to get some juice and I got the twist off Kool Aid ones and I had to get some snacks for the show.
00:22:51.000I got some taquitos, I had to get some office supplies.
00:22:54.000You know, so I went to Walmart just for some other things.
00:22:57.000But I went to Walmart and I'll tell you, even in my neighborhood where there's no coronavirus cases in Chicago, I don't think there's a remarkably high number of cases.
00:23:08.000Even in my Walmart, all the shelves were empty.
00:23:11.000No toilet paper, no Purell, no hand sanitizer.
00:23:16.000A lot of the cleaning products were going very quickly.
00:23:19.000Cases of water flying off the shelves.
00:23:22.000And it's just something to think about.
00:23:23.000Now, not anytime soon are you going to see shortages of things.
00:23:29.000I'm talking about if you're put under quarantine, if the government issues guidance that says everybody should avoid all non essential travel, Are you going to be able to last in your home for like two, three, four weeks without making major trips to the store and potentially risking infection or something like that?
00:23:48.000It's just something you have to think about.
00:23:50.000And I've been saying that, but now there's obviously a little bit of urgency.
00:23:54.000And we might as well just dive into it now at the national address.
00:23:58.000I think watching that statement, my first takeaway is all of this stuff that we're hearing from the big brain Reddit people and scientists and so on.
00:24:10.000People that have been saying, it's just the flu, bro.
00:24:15.000Even the president himself has been saying, well, you look at the rate at which people are contracting the flu, this is no big deal.
00:24:24.000Well, clearly, if the president is doing a national address like this, that in itself dispels any idea that this is not a serious concern, that this is not a serious threat to the country, and that it will not disrupt your life.
00:24:47.000And you go into, I mean, just having a statement like this, I think, proves that.
00:24:51.000But then going into what he said, you know, we just watched it.
00:24:55.000I'm not going to go over every little detail here, but he's gone over what has taken place so far, how this administration, how the government has responded to the virus, and that involves mandatory quarantines for travelers, travel restrictions, other measures, the $8 billion relief fund.
00:25:18.000And then he announced some new measures.
00:25:19.000So he talked about what's been done, and he's now talking about new restrictions, new legislative efforts aimed at stimulating the economy, and we'll get into that.
00:25:30.000But I have to say, the president's task tonight was a little bit complicated.
00:25:34.000On the one hand, it was obviously to announce new restrictions and maybe galvanize public opinion behind these economic measures that he wants to get through the Congress.
00:25:45.000So on the one hand, this was to tell everybody.
00:25:48.000You know, here's the deal, here's the plan, here's how we're going to take care of it, and then maybe lean on Congress a little bit for the economic parts.
00:25:55.000But I think what was also critical about this statement, and maybe why he decided to announce this in a televised national address like this, is to earn back a little bit of credibility on this issue, kind of get back in front of the coronavirus from a PR point of view, not simply from a logistical, from a practical point of view of controlling and containing the virus.
00:26:20.000And getting the information out, but from a public relations point of view, I think public perception right now is that this administration is not handling the virus well.
00:27:01.000And they also want it because they want Trump to fail in the election.
00:27:04.000They think that if it is worst case scenario level and it tanks the economy, then that's going to help the Democrats in November.
00:27:12.000Now, that being said, just because the Democrats want that to be so, just because the Democrats are desperately trying to push that narrative, it doesn't mean that the president's doing a good job because I don't think he is.
00:27:27.000And I think that's the universal opinion.
00:27:29.000Even though Democrats want that to be the case and they're saying that, even Republicans, even conservatives, even I will concede that the president has not handled this very well.
00:27:40.000The president comes out in this statement tonight and he details what has already been done.
00:27:45.000And I think that's to shore up his credibility.
00:27:47.000Again, it's to get ahead of it from a PR point of view to say, look, you might have heard, and he didn't say this, but this is implicit.
00:27:55.000He's saying, you might have heard that we don't have this under control.
00:28:41.000You can say that we did the travel restrictions, and we do do travel restrictions on China, but they probably happened two weeks too late.
00:28:48.000And you could say that we did these mandatory quarantines, which is true, but again, because of the incubation period, you probably didn't catch everybody.
00:28:57.000And moreover, there were a lot of people who got tested, who were false negatives and were released, and there were a lot of people who even escaped the quarantine and ended up having the coronavirus.
00:29:10.000You look at the $8 billion stimulus, and that's good, that's obviously needed, but A lot of people thought it might have been too little, too late.
00:29:32.000The travel restrictions, I'm not going to say it doesn't matter at all.
00:29:36.000But the number one variable, the number one biggest factor in whether or not a country is able to contain this virus is whether or not they are testing.
00:29:47.000Whether or not they are testing the population to see who has the coronavirus and who doesn't.
00:29:53.000Because, as I've been saying, if you don't test, you don't know who has it.
00:29:59.000If you don't know who has it, you don't know who to quarantine.
00:30:02.000And if you don't know who to quarantine, all the people that have the virus are spreading the virus.
00:30:09.000And unless and until you can test every last person that has it and ascertain who has it and who doesn't and quarantine the people that do, You've got people with the virus out there who are actively spreading it.
00:30:22.000They're shaking hands, they're coughing, they're sneezing, they're touching surfaces, and so on.
00:30:28.000And so, unless the testing has happened, you have not even begun to contain the virus.
00:30:34.000The testing has to happen, it has to be widespread and available, and it has to happen for some time.
00:30:41.000And then you can begin to contain the virus.
00:32:16.000You've got more than 1,000 cases now in Spain, Germany, and France.
00:32:21.000It's everywhere, it's in every country.
00:32:23.000And they're already undertaking these huge measures, even in countries where it hasn't begun to spread very far.
00:32:29.000In places like Denmark, they're already shutting down public events and issuing these guidances and advisories about.
00:32:36.000Public gatherings and things of that nature.
00:32:39.000So the president is calling for a shutdown of immigration from Europe, which I'm only, I'm actually just thinking about the phrasing of it.
00:32:48.000And it's very funny to me that this many years into the presidency, I know it's an extenuating circumstance, but we never shut down immigration from Mexico or from Muslims, but we are shutting down all immigration from Europe or travel at least.
00:33:07.000Just thinking about it, it's kind of funny, right?
00:33:10.000So, that was the biggest thing that I heard.
00:33:12.000And then he also talked about an economic stimulus as well.
00:33:16.000There are some new measures being put into place, obviously, to try to contain the spread of the virus from abroad with the travel restrictions.
00:33:23.000New guidances have been issued about social distancing, schooling, and the large gatherings.
00:33:29.000He said that elderly people should avoid non essential travel.
00:33:33.000And lastly, there's going to be this financial relief for workers who are ill.
00:33:38.000The other big part, so that's all part of one category, which I would see as containment and health resources.
00:33:45.000And then the other part of it is the economic stimulus.
00:33:47.000And he said there were three main things that he wants to see happen.
00:33:52.000Two of them will come from the Congress, one of them will come from the administration.
00:33:57.000The two items from Congress is he is calling on Congress to green light $50 billion for the Small Business Administration, the SBA, to administer relief and liquidity.
00:34:10.000Through low interest economic loans for small businesses.
00:34:16.000Congress has the power of the purse, of course.
00:34:18.000He wants Congress to green light an emergency $50 billion to fund these low interest loans to inject liquidity into the economy administered by the Small Business Administration.
00:34:32.000The second item from Congress will be payroll tax relief.
00:34:36.000And again, that's a fiscal measure, so that's going to have to be from Congress.
00:34:40.000And then lastly, what he's doing through the administration is he is Authorizing the Treasury Department to defer tax payments for individuals and businesses affected by the coronavirus.
00:34:52.000And it's interesting about the economic measures.
00:34:56.000I said this last night, and I think I got into this a little bit last week as well.
00:35:00.000Some of this is good, and some of this is misguided.
00:35:03.000The loans are good, the tax relief is good.
00:35:07.000I mean, generally, all of it is good, but we have to think about what's happening to the economy.
00:35:13.000The crisis with the coronavirus, the economic crisis, Is a demand side crisis.
00:35:20.000Supply side cures are not going to work, right?
00:35:25.000The problem with coronavirus, what's slowing down the economy, what's going to take a big chunk out of GDP, what's hurting the stock market, is that people are not consuming.
00:35:43.000And no amount of liquidity from the Federal Reserve, No amount of new and cheap credit into the economy is really going to change that.
00:35:53.000You know, if you lower the interest rate, this is not going to have more people starting businesses this month, obviously.
00:36:02.000You cut the rate for the Fed, which is what was attempted two weeks ago, and that is not a measure that is going to get people to go out now and eat at restaurants and fly on planes and take vacations and things like that.
00:36:16.000People are not buying, businesses are not earning money, it's harder to pay salaries, things like that, right?
00:36:22.000And that's where I think these economic measures are actually much more helpful than what has been tried in the past, which is, and they tried this, I think, a week or two ago.
00:36:31.000All the different central banks said, well, we're just going to inject liquidity into the economy.
00:36:35.000Well, that's really not going to solve anything.
00:36:38.000That's really not addressing the core part of the problem.
00:36:42.000So, these kinds of measures giving the low interest loans, delaying taxes, the payroll tax relief what this does is it helps people cope with the virus because there's not going to be as much activity, right?
00:36:55.000Because the velocity of money is going down, because there's not as much consumption going on.
00:37:01.000This is relief so that when things get back to normal, there's not as much pain in the meantime.
00:37:29.000People are not going to buy as much stuff.
00:37:31.000There's no amount of liquidity or cheap credit that can be injected to change that.
00:37:36.000There's no tricks, there's no computer algorithms.
00:37:39.000It's just going to hurt for a little while.
00:37:41.000And that's why I think this actually makes a lot of sense because this is merely relief.
00:37:46.000Doing low interest loans for businesses is going to help them pay their bills, pay their labor costs, things like that while everything is slowed down.
00:37:56.000And hopefully, then, while we're in this period of crisis, we'll play it by ear, we'll wait and see how it goes.
00:38:03.000Then, when things are resolved, they can pay back their loans at a small interest rate, right?
00:38:07.000And then people can resume paying their taxes and so on.
00:38:11.000So, I think the economic measures are pretty effective.
00:38:13.000And I think the containment stuff is effective.
00:38:16.000And generally, the statement I thought was good.
00:38:18.000It was a good statement from a political perspective.
00:38:21.000And I think the measures are appropriate.
00:38:23.000Restricting all travel from Europe is completely appropriate and actually a very welcome change.
00:38:32.000I was thinking that probably the statement tonight wouldn't be as dramatic as it needed to be because you see the rate at which the virus is spreading and serious action has to be taken.
00:38:43.000So I was concerned that he was going to come on tonight and announce some.
00:38:47.000Half ass measures or something like that.
00:38:49.000So it's good to see that the restrictions are good.
00:38:51.000The economic stimulus is sound, in my opinion.
00:38:54.000The one thing, though, the one overriding thing, as I've been saying, is the testing.
00:39:27.000There has been community transmission within the United States.
00:39:31.000In other words, it's transmitting not just from travelers from foreign countries where you have coronavirus, but you have local transmission, community transmission.
00:39:41.000So, shutting down travel from Europe and from Asia, that's great and that's necessary.
00:39:49.000But that is not at all what is required to address the crisis.
00:39:53.000Now, what has to happen is we have to ascertain who has the virus in the United States and where they got it and who they talked to and so on and quarantine those people and make sure that the people with mild cases of the virus are not taking up hospital space.
00:40:08.000They're not consuming precious and limited resources.
00:40:12.000That's the main concern now, is about hospital resources and making sure that that's available for the most extreme cases, the most severe cases, and the testing.
00:40:46.000They say you should maintain at least six feet between you and another person because the way that the virus spread is largely person to person because of droplets.
00:41:09.000So, social distancing, if you must go outside, but generally you should stay inside, right?
00:41:15.000And that's what everybody should keep in mind.
00:41:17.000But we're going to see the virus spread rapidly in the United States.
00:41:20.000If you've been paying attention and following the numbers, the number of confirmed cases in the United States has been tracking pretty closely with the evolution of the virus in every other country.
00:41:33.000If you look at the number of new cases per day after you've hit 100 cases in South Korea, China, Italy, the United States is tracking right along with all those countries in terms of the rate of growth, and the number of cases is tracking with Italy as well pretty closely.
00:41:50.000So, the kind of scenario that we will see unfold in the United States will be not dissimilar from how it unfolded in Italy and South Korea and China and Iran and all the other countries that are currently on lockdown.
00:42:03.000So, it's really only a matter of time before we now see.
00:42:06.000The response from the government that we're seeing in those countries where you have the transmission of the virus.
00:42:14.000It's going to be disrupted in a big way.
00:42:17.000It's going to be disrupted economically.
00:42:19.000It's going to be disrupted in terms of your social life, things like that.
00:42:25.000And in terms of your home, you want to get your affairs in order so that you're able to eat and bathe and disinfect and all these things, generally without going to the store, without making a lot of trips, because we don't know the extent to which things are going to shut down.
00:43:05.000They're still MAGA 2020, keep America great.
00:43:09.000It's a diverse crowd, everybody's got their own take.
00:43:12.000But I have to tell you, in spite of all the political stuff, I just love him.
00:43:17.000I watched this address, and he just looks so robust.
00:43:23.000He's at the resolute desk, and he looks resolute.
00:43:26.000He's just robust, very mesomorphic, the hair.
00:43:31.000I mean, he just looks and projects strength.
00:43:34.000There's something that's so refreshing about that, even to this day.
00:43:37.000I know he's been president for almost four years now, but I see him in the Oval Office, and there's something that is so perfect about that picture, seeing him at the desk.
00:44:12.000All that $8 billion should have gone to the testing, buying more test kits, making the testing available, getting people to test and all this.
00:44:22.000Because I've heard so many stories of friends and other people who have all the symptoms.
00:44:27.000They check all the boxes, and the symptoms are fever and dry cough.
00:44:31.000Those are the two biggest symptoms, but it's also shortness of breath, and it's fatigue, and it's vomiting, diarrhea.
00:46:06.000But we'll get into what's happening everywhere else.
00:46:08.000I want to get into some other updates on the coronavirus here, what's happening in the United States, what's happening in Europe.
00:46:15.000I guess we'll talk a little bit more about what's happening in the United States.
00:46:18.000If you think I'm like fear mongering, I see it's very weird on Twitter.
00:46:23.000I don't know if you've seen this, but it really is like divisive.
00:46:28.000Like I'm seeing a real split, even within the Groypers.
00:46:33.000Within my friends on Twitter, the America Firsters, conservatives, and one camp is firmly convinced that this is going to be full on like contagion, pandemic level, everything is shut down, buy your supplies, self quarantine, all the rest.
00:46:51.000You know, my friend Sean, some other people, right, Mr. Medicare, they know that shit is about to hit the fan and they're preparing.
00:47:32.000Well, if you think nothing's going to happen, Things are imminently about to happen.
00:47:37.000Yesterday, we talked about the New Rochelle suburb of New York City.
00:47:42.000This is the first containment zone, as far as I'm aware.
00:47:46.000Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that this city of 77,000, New Rochelle, it's a suburb outside of New York City, is going to be put basically in a containment zone.
00:47:57.000In a one mile radius, they're advising people to not go to public gatherings.
00:48:02.000They're sending in the National Guard to deliver food to people that are quarantined and to disperse people in large areas if they're gathering in groups of more than 25.
00:48:23.000This is from the New York Times and a few other different sources.
00:48:27.000It says In San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed announced a ban on large group events of more than 1,000 people, the San Francisco Giants announced that their exhibition game against the Oakland Athletics, scheduled for May 24th, would not take place at Oracle Park.
00:48:45.000Ohio's governor said he would impose a similar ban after new evidence concluded.
00:48:49.000That the virus was spreading through community transmission in the state.
00:48:53.000So in San Francisco, they've now got a ban on public gatherings.
00:48:56.000In Ohio, they are imminently about to put in place a ban on public gatherings.
00:49:01.000In New York, the state and city universities and colleges, with about 700,000 students in all, will shift primarily to online classes starting on March 19th, which is next week, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.
00:49:17.000Many other colleges have canceled in person classes, and some have told students not to return after their spring breaks.
00:49:23.000The coronavirus is upending many of the hallmarks of the American university experience.
00:49:29.000In person classes were canceled or postponed at more than 100 universities by late afternoon Wednesday, according to a list maintained by Georgetown scholar Brian Alexander.
00:49:41.000Across the country, dorms are emptying.
00:49:48.000Even campuses that don't have active cases of the virus shut down their in person offerings as the virus spreads rapidly across the country.
00:49:56.000On Wednesday, Duke University in North Carolina, plus the University of North Carolina, Georgetown and George Washington universities in Washington, the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and others announced that they would move to online instruction.
00:50:15.000So, you know, I've been telling you this for weeks.
00:50:17.000I've been telling you this actually for months that it's going to get bad.
00:50:21.000I've been telling you this since January that this would be our fate, that we would end up in a situation like this.
00:50:40.000A hundred universities just today, and I'm sure there'll be a hundred more tomorrow.
00:50:44.000And I'm sure that by next week, all the universities will be shut down, and all the states, or most of them, maybe the most populous states, will put in place bans on public gatherings.
00:50:56.000And I'm sure that every major city will have containment zones.
00:50:59.000And quarantines, and we'll be putting in place curfews and shutting down businesses.
00:51:06.000Two weeks ago, I said this would happen, and I said it probably sounds silly now, but wait literally, wait like 10 days, and this will be the case.
00:51:32.000Well, we're anticipating the day when the city streets will be empty, the stores will be closed, you'll have National Guard deployed in the major population centers, and people will be advised, and justifiably so, to not leave their homes unless it's necessary.
00:51:49.000And so, when you're thinking about being in just your home for weeks on end, what do you need?
00:54:25.000I mean, if you're safe, if you're smart, you don't have much to worry about.
00:54:29.000The only thing that you have to worry about is if a sick person gets their droplets on your person and you put those droplets in your face.
00:57:21.000But I'll read to you this is a New York Times article about Italy.
00:57:24.000It says Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy on Wednesday ordered almost all businesses nationwide to close.
00:57:31.000As infections and deaths from the new coronavirus continue to soar two days after he announced stringent travel restrictions, pharmacies, grocery stores, banks, and public transit will be allowed to operate, but any other commercial enterprise that is not vital, restaurants, bars, most stores, cafes, beauty salons, must close to limit the contagion.
00:57:55.000Italy reported more than 2,300 new cases on Wednesday, driving its total to more than 12,000.
00:58:02.000With 827 deaths, the second worst outbreak in the world after China.
00:58:07.000Italy has more than half the cases in Europe.
00:58:11.000And the rest of the article goes over all the rest of the numbers that I just talked about.
00:58:15.000So in Italy, they're shutting down all the businesses.
00:58:19.000The only businesses that remain open are banks, transit, grocery stores, pharmacies.
00:58:27.000Hardware stores, restaurants, everything I just read out, it's all closed.
00:58:31.000And this is only two days after he said, You shouldn't leave your house unless it's absolutely necessary and there's going to be a curfew and there's going to be this and that.
00:58:41.000And the reason I'm saying this is because this is the rate at which things are moving.
00:58:46.000So don't hear this and say, oh, well, grocery stores are still open, banks are still open, we're okay.
00:58:55.000Two days ago, it was a countrywide quarantine, countrywide shutdown, right?
00:59:01.000And then two days later, now we're closing all the stores.
00:59:04.000Will they shut down the grocery stores in two days?
00:59:07.000Will they shut down the banks and transit and the pharmacies in two days?
00:59:12.000What's it going to look like a week from now?
00:59:16.000The rate at which the virus is spreading and now the severity with which the government is cracking down, that should alarm people that it has gone from zero to 60 in Italy like this.
00:59:28.000Two weeks ago, Italy was not on our radar with the coronavirus.
01:00:34.000And then, obviously, the other consideration is not simply about your personal situation and not getting the virus, but then it's also about the global economy.
01:00:44.000Because you got to think, this will induce a recession in the United States.
01:00:49.000We're already in correction territory.
01:01:08.000And all the experts are saying this is going to push us into a recession.
01:01:14.000The underlying metrics of what a recession looks like are unemployment, right, and a real contraction of the economy.
01:01:23.000So we're not there fully yet, but there is a widespread concern that obviously when you see this kind of global shutdown, Of supply chains and manufacturing and production, and more fundamentally, demand as well.
01:01:37.000This is going to cause havoc in the markets.
01:01:40.000And while maybe the virus will burn itself out, maybe in these main countries where it's happening, you'll find everybody, you'll quarantine them, you'll stop the transmission.
01:01:49.000Well, then there's still a long road to recovery for the economy.
01:01:53.000It'll probably take a long time for everything to get back to normal, for a true return to normalcy.
01:02:06.000This coronavirus, which once was a meme, it once was a joke, it was something that people kind of saw in the news but didn't really think it was a big deal, has arrived on our shores and it is a big deal.
01:02:18.000It has altered all of our lives, our shared collective destiny, and our individual lives.
01:03:21.000Either way, because of China's mistakes, we pay the price.
01:03:27.000Because of something that either happened in a laboratory, a wet market in China, we now are having to go out and buy toilet paper and Purell, and we have to stay in our houses and cancel our soccer games and cancel our public gatherings.
01:03:43.000Stay home from school and stay home from work and so on.
01:03:46.000And just think about how readily preventable so many aspects of this crisis are if we had real nationalist policies, if we had strict, tight immigration controls.
01:03:57.000And the minute there was trouble, we shut it down, no problem.
01:04:01.000Think about the overburdening of our healthcare system.
01:04:05.000A lot of this is because we are dependent on foreign countries for our medical supplies.
01:04:09.000China, other places, there are shortages, there's price gouging.
01:04:13.000Largely because we don't have the means to produce in our country.
01:04:18.000Across the board, so much of what is going on right now you can attribute to globalization.
01:04:25.000You can attribute to globalism, which is we are so interconnected with all the other countries and economies and peoples of the world that their problems are now our problems.
01:04:37.000And we cannot even solve these problems because the solutions are in other countries as well.
01:05:08.000And he said that the coronavirus just proves how futile nationalism is because the coronavirus spreads and doesn't care about boundaries and artificial lines on a map.
01:05:20.000And it's a completely asinine comment because, well, maybe the virus doesn't care, but we could shut down the virus at our borders.
01:05:28.000If the virus came from China, we could stop people in China from coming here at our borders, at these imaginary lines, these imaginary lines, right?
01:05:38.000Maybe the virus can't distinguish, certainly, which is a completely retarded thing to say.
01:05:52.000We certainly know where the borders are, and we know where the virus is, and we know who's carrying the virus, and we know how to prevent those people with the virus from penetrating our borders.
01:06:37.000You know, traditionally, when you think about national security, when you think about protecting the homeland, you think about protecting the homeland on a very primitive level of protecting people from harm, protecting people from physical harm carried out by antagonists, by hostile actors, by foreign tribes, right?
01:06:56.000And I guess in some capacity, that's what.
01:07:41.000They come maybe carrying that flag in their blood in a certain capacity, but they're not going on behalf of the Mexican government, and certainly not all of them are Mexican.
01:07:50.000They're not coming on behalf of all these countries in a coalition.
01:07:53.000It is a contagion, it is a bum rush for the country through the border.
01:08:14.000These are things that affect everybody, but it's done to us by other countries.
01:08:18.000It's things like this biological hazards, it's terrorism, it's people coming from other countries, non state actors that want to do us harm with chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, biological weapons.
01:08:33.000Or other economic ills, taking advantage of the country through trade, monetary manipulation, things like this, predatory business practices.
01:08:42.000These are the 21st century threats to our country, and they're actually more dangerous than a war.
01:08:48.000When you think about it, when you think about America's history, think about the wars we've been involved in.
01:08:53.000We fought the British Empire for our independence, survived.
01:08:58.000We fought the British Empire in the War of 1812.
01:09:00.000They came to our country and burned down our capital.
01:09:20.000Fight World War II on our soil, but that doesn't mean that it didn't come without a tremendous cost.
01:09:25.000And then think about our Cold War with the Soviet Union and how much money that cost.
01:09:29.000I think it was like $7 trillion, something crazy like that over the course of the war.
01:09:34.000And so, in light of all the adversaries that we fought, either abroad or at home or with guns or other means, think about all the 21st century challenges like immigration, literally tearing apart the social fabric at the seams, bringing in entire populations that have no allegiance to this country.
01:10:35.000The only paradigm that adequately describes, diagnoses, addresses, and prescribes a solution for all these 21st century ills is nationalism.
01:10:47.000That's the only explanation for all of this.
01:10:51.000Neoliberalism, free market ideology, small government conservatism none of this is adequate.
01:10:58.000A small government will never be able to stop these problems.
01:11:02.000The free market will never be able to solve these problems.
01:11:06.000Individualism, that is no way to solve these kinds of 21st century problems.
01:11:12.000The only paradigm, the only lens, the only worldview that adequately and every single one, every single threat, down to a single threat, addresses every one of these things is nationalism that sees this country with its sovereignty as a collective entity that must act unilaterally.
01:11:32.000And decisively in the interest of the people within its borders.
01:15:13.000People are going to be looking at their monthly budget and they'll say, you know, $50 for my phone bill, $100 for my utility, you know, whatever it is, $200 for my utilities, $1,000 for my insurance, $5,000 in $2 super chats.
01:15:31.000Well, something's got to go here, something's got to change.
01:20:45.000Hawaii says first Oval Office address.
01:20:48.000That was not his first address, but he uses these sparingly because they have a lot of gravitas, and I think it makes sense to do it that way.
01:23:50.000You know, in Revenge of the Sith, you've got Obi-Wan and Anakin, they land on Grievous' ship, the Malevolence, to rescue Chancellor. Palpatine, right?
01:24:01.000And they go in, they find him, and he's in a chair, right?
01:24:05.000He's in a chair, he's in a room, and they're about to rescue him, and Count Dooku ambushes them, and they duel Count Dooku.
01:24:14.000Palpatine looks on as Anakin duels Count Dooku.
01:24:18.000And the parallels, the parallels between this scene and the final scene in Return of the Jedi, Star Wars 6, 1983, when Luke Skywalker battles Darth Vader as Palpatine.
01:24:32.000Now, Emperor Palpatine watches on in the Death Star.
01:24:35.000In Star Wars 3, you see the battle over Coruscant play out outside the ship.
01:24:40.000In Star Wars 6, you see the battle over Endor play out outside the Death Star.
01:25:56.000So that is why that scene is definitely my favorite lightsaber battle.
01:26:00.000And I love Phantom Menace, you know, Duel of the Fates.
01:26:04.000That's maybe on a technical level the best.
01:26:06.000But that first scene in Revenge of the Sith.
01:26:11.000The parallels, the parallels, it is masterful.
01:26:16.000And, you know, Palpatine and both, the performance is great, right?
01:26:22.000You know, Anakin's got the red and the blue lightsaber.
01:26:26.000It signifies that he's torn between two options, right?
01:26:33.000And then the parallel, even within Revenge of the Sith, then when Mace Windu is about to kill Palpatine, Mace Windu says he's too dangerous to be kept alive.
01:26:41.000Anakin thinks, well, Palpatine said that.
01:26:48.000If Palpatine says he's too dangerous to be kept alive about Dooku, and he turns out to be the Sith Lord, and then Mace Windu says he's too dangerous to be kept alive about Palpatine, and Anakin saying it's not the Jedi way, it shows it's all subjective, and we just have to use the Force to get what we want.
01:34:05.000You know, a normal Jaden impression is just a southern accent, but.
01:34:09.000To be serious about it, to get a real Jaden impression, the secret to a good Jaden McNeil impression is just to pronounce all your E's as I's.
01:34:20.000So, the classic example is instead of saying sentence, you'll say sentence.
01:34:26.000Oh, Nick, why are you always correcting my sentences?
01:34:30.000Because I'm always correcting his grammar.
01:37:14.000Going to Walmart, prepping, getting a shopping cart.
01:37:17.000I never pushed a shopping cart by myself.
01:37:21.000In my whole life, you know, I haven't pushed a shopping cart like shopping in a store for my whole life.
01:37:28.000The only time I've ever pushed a shopping cart is like when I was a kid, and my mom would drag me out to go grocery shopping, and sometimes she'd let me push the cart.
01:41:02.000If anything, I've told people the opposite.
01:41:05.000I know, and I'm not even doing like this basic bitch, like, you know, self help take where I'm like, don't, hey, I'm going to tell you, listen up.
01:41:17.000In the next five minutes, I'm going to tell you the most important advice you've ever heard in your life.
01:43:22.000They do not understand what it is like to grind and sacrifice and work like you need to because it's a very involved and conscious process.
01:43:30.000It's not just like anybody can grind and get nowhere, but like to do it the right way.
01:43:36.000And very few people have the talent to do things like that.
01:43:41.000So I generally advise people, unless you're one of those people, And, you know, the only way you know, I guess, is if you try and then fail.
01:43:48.000But you really should stick to something that's safe and something that anybody could do.
01:43:54.000Because most, I mean, that's the definition.
01:43:56.000To be exceptional means to be the exception, right?
01:44:09.000If you think that's you, knock it out of the park.
01:44:12.000But, you know, like with me, a lot of people want to do what I do, a lot of people look at my show.
01:44:18.000And they want what I have because it's aspirational.
01:44:20.000You know, I have a lot of people that watch me and they take what I say seriously and I make a living doing something that's pretty fun and all that.
01:44:27.000And I'm, you know, I'm privileged to be in the position that I'm in.
01:44:31.000But I also did this every day for years before it started to pay off.
01:44:37.000You know, I did it every day and I worked hard at it and I was serious about it.
01:44:41.000I showed up on time and I watched my own show every night and I took notes.
01:45:17.000And even in high school, I was grinding at a lot of these skill sets and working on public speaking and debating and building up the knowledge base and so on.
01:45:26.000You know, people think, oh, I want to be a YouTuber.
01:46:49.000I mean, like, I don't know if I've never been triggered, but generally speaking, I don't get triggered.
01:46:54.000I've never been, like, generally mad online.
01:46:57.000Things, like, annoy me or I have a take on things or whatever, but I'm never, like, you know, I never get on Twitter and, like, feel the need to really persecute somebody.
02:00:40.000I laugh at them because they are endearing.
02:00:44.000Jaden would not be Jaden if he didn't talk like a hillbilly, you know, in the same way that Joey Mole would not be Joey Mole if he didn't talk like an angloid, you know.
02:04:46.000Well, Patrick doesn't really have an accent.
02:04:49.000He's from San Diego, so he's got a pretty standard American dialect.
02:04:53.000So, with the Patrick impression, it's really more about getting these phrases correct, you know, getting the basic sentence structure correct.
02:05:02.000And also, it is the general speech pattern.
02:05:09.000It's not so much an accent as it is the speech pattern.
02:05:13.000So, Patrick will speak in these very sort of staccato bursts.
02:05:18.000I would compare the way that Patrick talks to a three round burst.
02:05:23.000You'll have a lot of talking where he'll say some things, and then there's a pause and so forth.
02:05:29.000So, he'll be saying something, and he'll be talking, and we'll be talking, and then there's a little bit of a pause.
02:05:36.000And so that's basically how Patrick Casey talks.
02:05:38.000I think that's really how you nail the Patrick Casey impression.
02:05:43.000Without going too over the top, that's really going to form the scaffolding.
02:05:47.000That's going to be the backbone of the impression that general pacing, that general speech pattern.
02:08:42.000You know, there's a difference between things that we ate as a kid and, you know, that are nostalgic, things that are quintessentially of their time versus things that we just happen to eat.
02:08:52.000Like, I used to drink Pepsi as a kid, too, and here we are.