Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： China’s evil acts

00:00:00.240 China's evil acts, Justin Trudeau's major missteps, the gamble to shut down the global 1.00

00:00:05.840 economy, and authoritarian elites cracking down on our freedom. Hello from self-quarantine,

00:00:11.360 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.680 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the show. We are doing a live broadcast today

00:00:24.800 for several reasons, partially just because everyone is in self-isolation

00:00:28.800 and self-quarantine, so I didn't want to have the team go into our True North office. I thought it'd

00:00:33.040 be a lot easier to just record my show live, you know, I'm in a room by myself, I can't possibly

00:00:38.720 get anyone sick or have anyone get me sick, which is the major concern right now. I think it is probably

00:00:45.360 pretty prudent advice for people to be self-isolating just given what we know about this virus and how

00:00:50.400 quickly and how easily it can spread. That being said though, I think that a lot of the measures

00:00:55.680 that are being implemented and being suggested are pretty scary, that if they had been suggested

00:01:01.120 or tried to be implemented under any other circumstances, we would be crying from the

00:01:05.520 rooftop demanding that our freedoms be upheld, but because there is this health crisis and because

00:01:10.640 nobody really knows, we don't have the full information, we don't have the full picture,

00:01:14.880 we still are learning more and more about this disease, you know, it's better to just be cautious

00:01:20.240 and stay at home. So let me know where you're watching this broadcast from, let me know whether

00:01:25.440 you're taking the quarantine seriously and whether you are yourself in self-isolation or whether you're

00:01:33.200 still going about your day-to-day, whether your job permits you to work at home or whether you can or

00:01:39.680 whether you still have to go out into the workforce, whether you still have to commute and go into the

00:01:44.400 office. I guess it depends on where you live. I think that the approach so far in Canada has been fairly good,

00:01:49.520 that it's sort of the provinces that are taking the lead and, you know, not the federal government

00:01:54.800 that's saying, you know, we're in a state of emergency and everyone has to stay at home.

00:01:58.080 Because to be perfectly honest, if you live in Toronto like I do and there is a major outbreak,

00:02:02.960 or if you live in Vancouver where we know that there has been a major outbreak, you're probably going

00:02:07.360 to be a lot more cautious than, say, if you live, you know, on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia,

00:02:13.600 or if you live in northern Alberta, or if you live somewhere more rural where you're not really that likely

00:02:19.360 to interact with people. I think it really does depend on where you live. But as we know,

00:02:24.800 this virus travels fast and easily and people can get infected and carry it everywhere. I think

00:02:30.880 every single province now has reported cases of this thing. So there's been a lot of talk recently

00:02:40.720 about what we should be calling this thing. I talked about this on my broadcast, I guess it was two

00:02:46.880 weeks ago now. Oh, no, sorry, it was last week, last week, where I criticized Donald Trump for calling

00:02:52.800 it the China virus. He retweeted Charlie Kirk, who called it the China virus. And I thought that they 0.99

00:02:58.000 were being sort of unnecessarily provocative. And, you know, sometimes conservatives do this thing where they

00:03:04.320 sort of almost pretend to be ignorant, but they're really doing it on purpose. And I kind of cringed 0.85

00:03:10.560 at that. So I felt like, you know, we should try to call things what they are. This flu originated in

00:03:16.640 Wuhan. It is, you know, everyone knew about it, because it was it was hitting this city called Wuhan,

00:03:22.720 which, to be perfectly honest, most people had never heard of Wuhan before the actual Wuhan virus. So,

00:03:28.800 you know, we should try to use words that are the most accurate as possible. China is a huge,

00:03:33.280 massive country with over a billion people. It happened a very specific part of China. So I

00:03:38.160 thought, you know, we should call it the Wuhan virus, rather than the China virus. I'll admit it,

00:03:43.280 I've kind of had a change of heart, I think that China is a incredibly bad actor on the world stage. 1.00

00:03:49.120 And we're learning more and more and more about how they suppressed this illness, how they tried to

00:03:54.000 cover it up, how the massive missteps that they made at the beginning, when this news was just first

00:04:00.720 coming out of this virus really caused long term damage. If it wasn't for China, this thing wouldn't 1.00

00:04:06.560 have even existed. So sure, I think we should call it the China virus. I think that people who are 1.00

00:04:11.280 getting up in arms right now over political correctness, you know, the World Health Organization

00:04:15.360 said that it was unfair and it caused stigma. Look, it's not the Chinese people's fault. It is the

00:04:20.640 Chinese government's fault. It is the communist Chinese government's fault. And, you know, if we want 0.94

00:04:26.720 to call this the Chinese virus, to put stigma and to put pressure on the government to stop doing

00:04:32.240 these kind of things in the future, to crack down on these wet markets, which seems to be the origin

00:04:37.760 of this virus, then I think that's good enough reason for the international community to come 1.00

00:04:44.560 together. Instead, we have these sort of nagging left-wing voices saying, don't call it that, call it

00:04:49.760 COVID-19, which is a technical term. It's an acronym. It just stands for coronavirus disease,

00:04:58.240 and then 19 is the year that it originated, 2019. You know, that's not really like the way that

00:05:04.080 people use language colloquially. We usually describe something that helps us understand what

00:05:08.960 it is. So the Wuhan virus, everyone knows it originated in Wuhan. I would be forecalling it the

00:05:14.720 Chinese bat virus, or the Wuhan bat virus, so that that connotation, you know, do not eat bats,

00:05:21.520 do not handle bats. It's a very, very bad idea for human beings to be touching and eating bats.

00:05:29.520 You know, that should be very, very basic knowledge. But we should, you know, use terms that mean

00:05:35.040 something. And, you know, coronavirus is a general term to describe a type of disease. So it's not specific

00:05:42.640 at all to what is happening here. Again, I'll admit, when I think I said something that is wrong,

00:05:49.040 and I do think I was wrong before to criticize Trump for saying the China virus, because I do think

00:05:55.200 China is a bad act, and we're learning more and more about this. A report that came out yesterday found 0.99

00:06:01.680 that China could have reduced this outbreak by 95% if they had acted earlier, they had acted sooner.

00:06:10.080 So the research found that if interventions in China could have been conducted just one week

00:06:16.080 earlier, one week or two weeks or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66%,

00:06:21.840 86%, or 95%, significantly limiting the geographical spread of this disease. So all the Chinese government 1.00

00:06:29.360 had to do was act quickly, be honest about what was happening, and crack down on this. But of course,

00:06:36.320 because it's China, it's a communist dictatorship, that's not what they did. They tried to cover it

00:06:40.080 up, they lied about what it was, they didn't allow information to leave the country, they crack down

00:06:44.640 on individuals who are trying to blow the whistle, they crack down on journalists who are trying to

00:06:48.480 report on this thing. And because of those decisions, we now have a global pandemic, a global health

00:06:54.800 emergency that will probably kill thousands and thousands of people. Well, it already has killed

00:06:59.760 thousands and thousands of people, probably kill many, many more. And it's all because of China's decision 0.89

00:07:06.000 to keep this under wraps. So even after Chinese President Xi Jinping personally ordered officials

00:07:13.680 to control the outbreak on January 7th, authorities in China kept denying it could spread between humans,

00:07:19.680 something doctors had known had been happening since late December. And they went ahead with the

00:07:24.640 Chinese Lunar New Year Banquet involving tens of thousands of families in Wuhan. So that one decision

00:07:31.680 to allow that lunar banquet involving tens of thousands of families in Wuhan really is what led to the

00:07:37.680 massive outbreak. The Chinese government lied about it, they knew that it was something that could be

00:07:43.520 transmitted from humans, they've known about it since 2019, possibly as early as November 2019. And yet,

00:07:50.080 they lied about it, they lied about it, they continued to say that that we should be able to,

00:07:55.120 you know, the people in China should be able to just go about their regular lives. And because of 1.00

00:07:59.200 that, we have a huge global pandemic. So we should blame China, we should, we should call it as it is, 1.00

00:08:06.640 this is this is their fault. And they continued to crack down on journalists who are trying to report

00:08:11.200 the truth. They continued to push propaganda and lies. So no, we shouldn't avoid calling it the China 1.00

00:08:18.000 virus just because we want to stop the stigma. Now, of course, this isn't saying, again, this isn't

00:08:22.400 saying that Chinese individuals are to blame. No, it's the government of China. This isn't, the two

00:08:28.160 things are separate, just like you can criticize, you know, the government of Iran and call that an

00:08:32.640 evil regime without somehow saying that all of the people of Iran are at fault, or saying that you

00:08:38.320 hate the people of Iran. No, you hate the government of Iran. Same thing with China. So again, really,

00:08:44.320 really disheartening stuff. And in the midst of all this, we learned that Canada is sending aid

00:08:50.720 to China. Canada gave 16 tons of medical supplies to China. This is in the Toronto Sun, my colleague

00:08:58.160 Anthony Fury. On February 9th, Global Affairs Canada announced that to support China's ongoing

00:09:03.840 response to the outbreak, Canada has developed approximately 16 tons of personal protective

00:09:08.480 equipment, such as clothing, face shields, masks, goggles, gloves, and has given it to the country

00:09:13.440 since February 2020. Canada's first case was identified on January 25th. And by that time,

00:09:20.000 we started shipping equipment to China. We'd already had five confirmed cases. So why is Canada

00:09:25.760 giving aid to China? Like China is, by most accounts, a way bigger country than Canada. Their GDP

00:09:32.400 is almost eight times bigger than ours. And they are the reason why this disease is here. Canada itself 0.97

00:09:38.480 might not have the capacity, we are struggling, and really concerned that in a couple weeks time,

00:09:43.600 if the growth of this virus is continues in the exponential manner that we've seen, that we won't

00:09:50.160 have enough medical equipment. And yet we're sending resources to China, the person that the regime, 0.68

00:09:55.680 the country that started all this. It's just absolutely mind boggling hard to understand. Thanks,

00:10:02.480 everyone who's watching live right now. Again, let me know where you're watching from. Let me know if

00:10:06.960 you're doing self-quarantine and if you buy into the whole idea that we all have to stay at home and

00:10:12.320 we can't go outside. What you think about all this? I think that there's almost kind of a generational

00:10:18.000 divide. My own parents who live in in North Vancouver aren't really taking this very seriously.

00:10:24.480 Every time I try to send them articles and kind of encourage them to stay inside,

00:10:28.320 they kind of like just know that they're not interested. My dad is still going golfing every

00:10:34.560 day. Every day we can that there's not frost on the course, which, you know, of all the places you

00:10:39.600 could be going, I guess a golf course is pretty isolated and you're not exactly interacting with

00:10:44.240 a lot of people. But still, I mean, if you're in that high risk group, which my dad and stepmoms are,

00:10:51.440 I certainly would be cautious. I'm not even in that risk group and I'm pretty paranoid. I haven't

00:10:56.000 left the house in over a week and I think that it's probably a good idea to at least self-isolate.

00:11:01.840 Okay, I want to talk about Justin Trudeau and his response. So, you know, everyone's sort of praising

00:11:09.200 him for giving these daily updates, addressing the country and staying calm in this time of sort of

00:11:16.800 chaos. I think that there have been some major, major missteps, though, that the Trudeau government

00:11:21.600 has done. And I want to talk about those now. I think that it's good that they've finally closed

00:11:26.640 the borders, although there's just so many exemptions that it's hard to really say they've

00:11:30.800 closed the borders. Like they said, okay, the borders closed to all non-citizens, non-permanent 1.00

00:11:36.880 residents, but then they included Americans in there at first. And then they also included like

00:11:41.520 airline staff and all these other groups. And then we found out that if you cross the border

00:11:46.320 illegally and claim asylum, you're also still allowed to stay and come into Canada, which is just sort

00:11:52.400 contradictory of the whole idea that we don't want foreign nationals. Then they closed the

00:11:57.040 border to the United States, except for there were all these exemptions for anyone doing trade,

00:12:00.720 anyone shipping. Obviously, we don't want to disrupt the supply lines, especially when so many people

00:12:05.920 are desperate to get out and get the supplies, get the food that they need, the groceries.

00:12:11.280 There's been a lot of shortages. I know my husband went out to the Loblaws up the street

00:12:16.640 last night, and he said that the shelves were pretty empty. There was no dairy whatsoever in

00:12:21.600 the store, all the eggs, milk, everything was gone. So obviously, we don't want to disrupt the supply

00:12:27.200 lines in Canada and America and the US. Our economies are so integrated. But still, I think

00:12:33.120 that the fact that Trudeau is just doing this now, just finally coming around to the fact that we

00:12:37.280 should close our border and really take this seriously, it's just, you know, it's almost too late.

00:12:44.080 Other countries were doing it a week, two weeks earlier. We saw what happened in Italy. Italy should

00:12:49.040 have been like a big wake-up call to everyone in the West. You know, the other countries that had

00:12:53.280 been hit prior were all sort of secretive, closed, authoritarian regimes. I'm talking about China

00:12:59.600 and Iran. You know, there was also South Korea and other countries that are a little bit more open

00:13:04.960 in Asia. But really, what happened in Italy was a glimpse at, wow, you know, this is what happens

00:13:10.560 in a free Western society. Their healthcare was absolutely overrun. People didn't take the warning

00:13:15.760 seriously at first until it was kind of too late. And there was just so many sick people that they

00:13:20.480 just couldn't feasibly handle it all. And the healthcare system was really beginning to crumble.

00:13:25.040 It was sort of scary. And if you've read any of the articles written by doctors or people that were

00:13:30.880 at the hospitals, it just seems like a very, very chaotic scene. And so at that point, it was pretty

00:13:36.640 obvious that we should shut down our borders and implement some kind of a self-isolation regime.

00:13:42.240 The Trudeau government said, no, no, borders can't stop this disease. And so they continued to leave

00:13:48.320 them open. And even within Canada, once they made the edict to close the borders and to say non-citizens

00:13:57.840 and non-permit residents can't come, they still said that it was okay to travel within Canada.

00:14:03.120 Well, part of the problem is that when you're experiencing an outbreak in Toronto and Vancouver,

00:14:08.240 and then you tell Canadians like, hey, you can still travel as you wish within Canada,

00:14:12.480 what you're going to do is take the viruses that are in those two cities and spread them

00:14:16.480 throughout the country. And that is exactly what we have seen. There was a large dental conference in

00:14:21.600 Vancouver on March 5th through 7th, where about 20,000 people were in attendance. And they've

00:14:29.840 identified that some cases came from that dental conference and have now been spread all around

00:14:35.600 Canada. There's cases, like I said, in every single province. So why wouldn't the Trudeau government

00:14:39.600 have locked down all travel at that point? We know that that's how the virus spreads. It spreads from

00:14:44.320 people who travel and then come back to a new community. That's how it travels. And so the idea

00:14:49.280 that even at the time the government was saying, go ahead and travel within Canada, I think was a grave

00:14:54.320 mistake and helped the spread. And that's part of the reason why we have the huge growth in Canada. So

00:15:00.000 I guess we can give Trudeau credit for now finally taking some steps towards closing the borders.

00:15:06.800 But really, I think it could have easily been, these decisions could have easily been made two weeks

00:15:11.600 ago, and Canadians would have been a lot more safe. Let me know what you think, whether you think that

00:15:20.320 the Canadian government should have closed the border earlier, whether you think we should be in total

00:15:24.240 isolation, or whether you think this whole thing is overblown. And there's one thing I want to talk

00:15:31.040 about. I feel like even though I personally am taking a lot of measures to stay safe, keep distance

00:15:37.200 from people, especially, you know, I think, you know, I don't really want to go and see my in-laws

00:15:43.360 because I worry about their health. They're a little bit older. I wouldn't go into a grocery store at

00:15:47.840 this point. In case you can't tell, I'm a little under the weather, I'm a little congested. And I

00:15:53.760 had a little bit of a fever earlier in the week. So I wouldn't take any risks at all in leaving the

00:15:58.800 house. Even within my house, I try to keep distance from my family that are here so that I can

00:16:06.080 avoid getting other people sick. But I think that, you know, a lot of the questions when you watch the

00:16:11.280 media briefings that are happening, a lot of the questions from journalists keep going towards,

00:16:16.000 you know, should we start fining people? Should we start arresting people who are not listening to

00:16:20.400 the advice to self-quarantine, to self-isolate? And I think that there's like a little bit of an

00:16:25.440 authoritarian impulse that so many people, especially in the media and in the government, have. You know,

00:16:30.400 first of all, they think that we should all be ruled by experts, so-called experts. The problem

00:16:35.520 is that experts are often wrong. And, you know, who are the experts? Who are the ones that we're

00:16:39.920 talking about? This usually comes down to government employees. So we're talking about government

00:16:45.600 kind of having control top down over everybody that their decisions stand. What, you know,

00:16:49.920 what about the idea that you might be able to challenge an expert or that someone who claims

00:16:53.840 to be an expert might not be the most knowledgeable person on that topic? I think that there's a lot

00:16:59.840 of concern and I do think there's an authoritarian impulse. I'm going to show a bit of an interview,

00:17:05.200 a part of an interview that really kind of highlights this. It really brought it home. So this

00:17:10.160 is from CNN and Jake Tapper is the host. He had the health expert, his name is Sanjay, Dr. Sanjay,

00:17:19.920 and they were talking about how San Francisco is on a 24-hour lockdown. They have had a major outbreak

00:17:27.040 and so because of that they're really taking this seriously, basically ordering everyone to stay home

00:17:31.680 and the only people that can leave are people that work in essential services like health, people who are 0.91

00:17:37.120 delivery drivers and people that are going out to get medical attention or groceries. The mayor

00:17:42.320 of San Francisco did say, you know, of course you can go out and get fresh air. You can walk your dog,

00:17:46.800 you can go for a jog, that kind of thing, because really telling people to stay home, you know, it's

00:17:50.720 one thing if you live in a rural area or if you live in a house, you live in the suburbs like me,

00:17:54.640 you know, there's space, you can go in your backyard. If you live in the city though, if you live in a

00:17:58.960 little apartment, you have a dog, you can't tell someone to just stay inside. So people have to be able to go

00:18:05.280 outside. So Jake Tapper and this medical expert were on CNN and they were watching a clip of San

00:18:14.880 Francisco, the Abarcadero, which is the main sort of strip along the water, and it's 5 30 p.m. so

00:18:21.920 right when everyone's finished work, it shows a clip of people walking, people jogging, people holding

00:18:27.520 your hand, and Jake Tapper is just so furious. He's so mad that these people are actually out outside,

00:18:33.600 like how dare they be outside. So let's watch this clip and then I'll give some feedback about it.

00:18:38.640 What needs to happen in this country is we need to break the cycle of transmission

00:18:43.760 of this virus. And it doesn't look like that that's happening right now. And I'm worried these numbers

00:18:48.240 keep going up and they're going to go up because of the testing, but I think they're going to go up as

00:18:51.840 well because that virus, this virus continues to spread. And look, I mean, the mayor said to me that

00:18:58.240 people are allowed if they need to go out and get a, you know, go for a walk and get a breath of fresh air,

00:19:02.080 they're allowed to as long as they social distance. But that's not what we just saw.

00:19:05.760 We saw people going for jogs, people going about their life as if it's normal.

00:19:10.240 We're being told by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health

00:19:14.720 that this is not normal. First of all, we see a whole bunch of people here who are not

00:19:18.640 distancing. They're holding hands and walking down the street. And you know, normally I'd say bravo,

00:19:24.080 but this is, this is actually kind of enraging. The people of San Francisco, or I shouldn't say

00:19:31.360 the people, but many people in San Francisco have clearly not gotten the message.

00:19:35.920 So there you have it. Jake Tapper is enraged. He is enraged at the fact that people in San

00:19:42.880 Francisco, look at what you can see maybe 10 people. You can see 10 people. He's enraged by

00:19:49.280 that. And he's enraged by the fact that they're holding hands. People are holding hands. Okay.

00:19:54.320 Let me just say a couple of things. First of all, I used to actually used to live close to this area.

00:19:59.760 I used to live in San Francisco. I spent two years living there. I lived a few blocks from where this

00:20:03.760 is taken. At 530 on a weekday, this, this is usually packed. Like I used to ride my bicycle along

00:20:11.040 here. I used to go jogging every day on this path. And you would usually have a hard time even moving.

00:20:15.600 There are parts where you actually had to go onto the road to jog because you couldn't get through.

00:20:19.040 It was so packed with people. So what I'm seeing here is a huge, huge, huge reduction in the number

00:20:23.920 of people. Second of all, these people are social distancing. You know, you can go for a walk. There's

00:20:28.560 not that many places to really go for a nice walk in San Francisco. It's a pretty disgusting,

00:20:32.720 junky city filled with just, you know, lots of just garbage everywhere, needles everywhere, 0.99

00:20:39.840 feces everywhere, tent cities everywhere. One of the few nice places to go for a walk

00:20:44.480 is along the waterfront. And so that's where a lot of people go rather than walking through the

00:20:48.480 streets. So the fact that people are going out, you know, they're not really clustering close to each

00:20:53.120 other from best we know from, you know, the science so far is that you get this disease by sort of

00:20:58.320 prolonged presence in front of someone. If someone's sick and you spend like five, 10 minutes sitting

00:21:02.720 with them, that's how you're most likely to get sick. That's why, you know, airplanes, movie theaters,

00:21:07.600 restaurants are a big concern because, you know, you're sitting next to someone breathing in the

00:21:11.280 same air and you could potentially touch something they've touched. Walking by someone on the waterfront,

00:21:15.600 you know, interacting with them for maybe half a second as you walk by each other, that's not

00:21:21.200 when you're going to be at risk. And also the fact that he's getting angry that people are holding

00:21:26.240 hands. Well, newsflash to Jake Tapper and people who criticize others holding hands. People that hold hands

00:21:32.320 together are usually in some kind of a relationship together and usually probably even live together.

00:21:37.680 So the fact that, you know, if me and my husband want to go for a walk out on the street, us holding

00:21:42.240 hands, that's not how we're going to provide, you know, give each other the virus. It's more likely going

00:21:48.080 to be, you know, the fact that we share a bed together and that we eat all of our meals together

00:21:52.400 and that we live in the same household. So really the raging at people for not specifically following the

00:21:59.520 quarantine and how dare you go for a walk and get fresh air? You know, how dare you hold hands with

00:22:05.360 your spouse during a time of, you know, national crisis? I mean, I think that a lot of people have

00:22:11.920 like an inner dictator, an inner authoritarian, and when they get put in positions of power,

00:22:17.200 and we've all seen this, right? Like an overzealous border agent or, you know, security guard or

00:22:24.960 police officer or, you know, someone, a school teacher or something, they're given a little bit

00:22:30.160 of power and they kind of get on a power trip and they want to start, you know, abusing that power.

00:22:34.720 And I think that people in the media, you know, not to overly pick on Jake Capper, because I do think

00:22:39.360 he's a pretty fair journalist compared to a lot of other people over at CNN, but really, I think you're

00:22:45.760 going to go on TV and rage against people in San Francisco for getting some fresh air, going on

00:22:52.160 the seawall essentially, the barcadero, and going for a nice pleasant evening stroll and having

00:22:59.040 the audacity to hold hands. I mean, I'm sorry, that's fascism. That is fascism, no matter how you

00:23:06.800 paint it. And I think we've seen a lot of this, a lot of people getting really outraged at other

00:23:12.000 people not quarantining enough. I think everyone should, you know, do your best within your family,

00:23:18.160 within your community to avoid the spread. You know, if you're in any kind of position of power,

00:23:23.840 cancel meetings, cancel, you know, conferences. I was supposed to speak at a number of conferences

00:23:30.160 this fall. I think I've had five or six speaking gigs that have all fallen through because the

00:23:34.400 events have been canceled and I was completely for that. I was one of the people kind of leading

00:23:38.560 the front saying, you know, we should really cancel these conferences. We shouldn't do these events that

00:23:42.640 we planned. It's not a good idea for people to be traveling around the country. It's not a good idea to get

00:23:47.360 hundreds or even thousands of people in a room together before, you know, this thing really

00:23:52.160 exploded. I think we should all take opportunities that we can to encourage friends and family to

00:23:57.440 be cautious and, you know, stay home. If you know someone who is on self-quarantine because they were

00:24:03.520 on a trip, say, and they're back in Canada, you know, offer to go get them groceries if you're not

00:24:07.200 sick yourself. Offer to help them. You know, if you have someone in your family who can't leave the house,

00:24:13.280 someone in your neighborhood, you know, that's civil society. That's when people should step up.

00:24:18.800 But the idea that we should start imposing sanctions, like we should start arresting people

00:24:24.000 and fining people who don't adhere to that, I think that's kind of crossing a line and that's getting to

00:24:30.240 a position where I don't, that's not really a society I want to live in. And, you know, it's hard for

00:24:37.600 people to accept. Like, up until a week ago, we all lived in a free society where we could do whatever

00:24:42.480 we wanted. And now all of a sudden we have these like really increasingly strict and authoritarian

00:24:47.600 rules around us. Of course people are going to push back. Of course they are. And we we shouldn't

00:24:52.800 really blame them for that. All right. There was an article that I know I talked about it earlier in

00:24:58.080 the show about how I think we should call it the Chinese virus or at least the Wuhan virus because

00:25:03.840 first of all we shouldn't cower to political correctness. And people who right now are

00:25:07.840 talking, you know, putting out stories and complaining about how it's supposedly racist

00:25:12.960 to call this the Wuhan virus or the China virus, those journalists are doing the bidding work for 1.00

00:25:18.400 the communist government of China. There's no other way of putting it. That's exactly what's happening.

00:25:23.360 They are pushing out propaganda created by the Chinese communists. And it's shameful. It's

00:25:29.920 absolutely shameful. Anyone who's complaining or pushing that line of thinking should just

00:25:35.120 basically be called out and ignored. I will read from an article that I just thought was one of the

00:25:42.240 best articles that I have read about this. I love writing that's kind of punchy, kind of funny.

00:25:48.640 This is definitely an example of that. It comes from the National Review, which is an American

00:25:54.160 conservative magazine. It comes from a writer called David Harsanyi, who writes over at National Review.

00:26:02.560 I'll just read a little bit of it because I just think it's so well written and so

00:26:05.440 well put. So he says, the World Health Organization and other sensitive souls have instructed us to

00:26:11.280 stop referring to the new strain of coronavirus as the Wuhan virus or the Chinese flu because of

00:26:17.440 the racist connotations. I'm disinclined to curb my free speech to placate Chinese propagandists. 0.93

00:26:23.760 And it seems to me the aversion to those terms is less about racism than about averting blame.

00:26:30.720 But in the spirit of comedy and avoiding disparaging an entire nation, I'm happy to call it the Chai

00:26:37.040 Kong flu moving forward. So I like that quite a bit. He talks about how we always name things after

00:26:43.120 where it originates. So he comes up with a bunch of examples, the West Nile virus, Ebola, the Rocky

00:26:49.680 Mountain spotted fever, etc. He says that, you know, when you come to sort of really overly medical

00:26:57.200 terms like COVID-19 or H1N1, they don't exactly roll off the tip of the tongue. He talks about how we

00:27:03.840 still widely refer to the Spanish flu as a virus that killed around 675,000 Americans and tens of

00:27:12.320 millions around the world in the early 1900s. And it turns out that the Spanish flu didn't even 0.99

00:27:17.120 originate in Spain. It actually probably originated in China and spread through soldiers fighting in

00:27:23.200 the First World War. Yet we still commonly call it the Spanish flu. So why should we avoid calling this 0.84

00:27:29.760 the Chinese flu? And then he goes on and on about how he goes really in depth about how this disease

00:27:37.840 really originated and where it started from and how it is the responsibility of the Chinese regime.

00:27:44.560 So he says, the Chinese regime is perfectly capable of administering an array of authoritarian

00:27:50.160 policies to suppress the rights of its own people, but it's apparently unable to exert even mild

00:27:55.280 cultural pressure warning them that their eating habits can be extraordinarily dangerous and hold the

00:28:00.880 potential of creating massive socioeconomic problems. The reports are correct. It was in Wuhan's 1.00

00:28:06.560 popular wet markets that vendors were selling bats, possibly snakes, that may have caused the coronavirus

00:28:12.960 outbreak. Wet means that the meat sold in these unsanitary stalls was only recently slaughtered.

00:28:20.400 The kind of thing happens quite often, and not always in China of course, but the avian influenza

00:28:26.960 was transmitted to humans from chickens in a wet market. Scientists have been warning for years that

00:28:32.320 the eating of exotic animals in southern China is a time bomb. Acute respiratory syndrome known as SARS,

00:28:38.480 also originated in China, probably jumped to humans through bats. I hate to thrust my western cultural 0.99

00:28:45.120 values onto anyone, but maybe it's time we stop eating bats. Okay, this again is from a national review

00:28:52.320 article called COVID-19 is the Chinese government's curse upon the world. I'll continue reading. 0.99

00:28:57.360 It's important to stress that it's not the Chinese people who are the problem. Just look at their 1.00

00:29:02.640 success in places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. It's the Chinese communists, 0.96

00:29:08.720 the chai comms that are the problem. If the Chinese government spent as much time working on educating

00:29:13.520 its people and regulating dangerous markets as it does in secrecy and propaganda efforts, maybe it

00:29:19.200 wouldn't have to worry as much about diseases being named after it, or about the catastrophic death and

00:29:24.400 economic pain. Their negligence helps cause. So I thought that was very good. I recommend reading

00:29:30.960 that article, even though I just kind of read it to you. But that's basically the gist of my view on

00:29:35.360 this. China is a very, very bad actor in the world. And because of this, we're basically, you know, shutting 1.00

00:29:40.400 down the entire global economy on a risk, on a bet, on a gamble to say, like, hopefully, if we all just stay

00:29:47.040 inside, we shut down all the businesses, we can make everyone work from home if they can. And if they can't,

00:29:52.000 then we just shut down their businesses. We let the stock market completely tank. Hopefully, we won't

00:29:58.240 all die from this disease. But we really don't even know if it will be effective. Some, you know, studies

00:30:04.080 are looking and saying that, you know, regardless, we're all still going to catch it. So whether we

00:30:08.320 catch it now, or whether we prolong it, and then as soon as all these self-quarantine measures let up,

00:30:14.000 people are going to go outside, and they're going to catch it just the same. So, you know, is it really worth

00:30:19.680 shutting down the entire global economy that may or may not ever recover? I mean,

00:30:24.240 we're in pretty scary times right now. I'm not sure that anyone really can predict what's going to

00:30:29.360 happen, which is why the stock market is really going haywire. And, you know, there's really a lot,

00:30:35.040 a lot to be concerned about. I don't think that, you know, Justin Trudeau's measures are necessarily

00:30:43.680 going to be of help, but at least they're going in the right direction, compensating people that can't go

00:30:48.240 to work because of government orders. I'm a libertarian. I said this on my other show that

00:30:53.360 I do with Andrew Lawton. I am a libertarian when it comes to government spending. I don't think

00:30:57.440 that government needs to take out loads and loads of debt. I don't really believe in having a big

00:31:02.240 social welfare state. I think that people are better off without all that stuff. But when it comes to the

00:31:07.360 government actually actively shutting down the economy, it's their fault that people can't go to work,

00:31:12.480 and therefore it's their responsibility to compensate people for that. But, you know,

00:31:17.040 it's not like Canada has a rainy day fund. No, we have to take out more and more debt,

00:31:20.560 which we're going to have to pay back eventually. And that's risking, that's based on a bet that

00:31:24.880 everything's going to recover and go back to normal in a couple of weeks or a couple of months.

00:31:28.640 I'm not really sure that it is. I'm pretty skeptical about that. Let me know what you think about that.

00:31:35.040 And I will be back again with another show, Candace Malcolm show next week. In the meantime,

00:31:40.000 my colleague Andrew Lawton and I have been doing a daily show, a daily, we call it True North update,

00:31:46.320 a daily update on everything, all the news with coronavirus, all the latest updates, mostly

00:31:52.080 looking at Canada, but also obviously it's a global pandemic, a global disease. So looking at the global

00:31:57.840 implications as well. Check that out. Our episode today will be up later on this afternoon. So thank

00:32:04.080 you so much for tuning in and don't forget to check out tnc.news. We have lots and lots of content.

00:32:08.480 I know everyone's kind of bundled up at home and people are probably getting bored, people,

00:32:13.120 uh, you know, stuck at home, not, not able to go out and do the things they normally do. So

00:32:17.920 we are trying to keep you entertained and keep you up to date with all the latest. So go check that out

00:32:23.920 at tnc.news. All right. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

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Juno News - March 20, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： China’s evil acts

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