The Candice Malcolm Show： China’s evil acts
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Candice Malan talks about the Wuhan Virus, the China Virus, and why we should call it what it is: The China Virus. She also talks about Justin Trudeau's gamble to shut down the global economy, and authoritarian elites cracking down on our freedom.
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China's evil acts, Justin Trudeau's major missteps, the gamble to shut down the global
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economy, and authoritarian elites cracking down on our freedom. Hello from self-quarantine,
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I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the show. We are doing a live broadcast today
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for several reasons, partially just because everyone is in self-isolation
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and self-quarantine, so I didn't want to have the team go into our True North office. I thought it'd
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be a lot easier to just record my show live, you know, I'm in a room by myself, I can't possibly
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get anyone sick or have anyone get me sick, which is the major concern right now. I think it is probably
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pretty prudent advice for people to be self-isolating just given what we know about this virus and how
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quickly and how easily it can spread. That being said though, I think that a lot of the measures
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that are being implemented and being suggested are pretty scary, that if they had been suggested
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or tried to be implemented under any other circumstances, we would be crying from the
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rooftop demanding that our freedoms be upheld, but because there is this health crisis and because
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nobody really knows, we don't have the full information, we don't have the full picture,
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we still are learning more and more about this disease, you know, it's better to just be cautious
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and stay at home. So let me know where you're watching this broadcast from, let me know whether
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you're taking the quarantine seriously and whether you are yourself in self-isolation or whether you're
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still going about your day-to-day, whether your job permits you to work at home or whether you can or
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whether you still have to go out into the workforce, whether you still have to commute and go into the
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office. I guess it depends on where you live. I think that the approach so far in Canada has been fairly good,
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that it's sort of the provinces that are taking the lead and, you know, not the federal government
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that's saying, you know, we're in a state of emergency and everyone has to stay at home.
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Because to be perfectly honest, if you live in Toronto like I do and there is a major outbreak,
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or if you live in Vancouver where we know that there has been a major outbreak, you're probably going
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to be a lot more cautious than, say, if you live, you know, on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia,
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or if you live in northern Alberta, or if you live somewhere more rural where you're not really that likely
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to interact with people. I think it really does depend on where you live. But as we know,
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this virus travels fast and easily and people can get infected and carry it everywhere. I think
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every single province now has reported cases of this thing. So there's been a lot of talk recently
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about what we should be calling this thing. I talked about this on my broadcast, I guess it was two
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weeks ago now. Oh, no, sorry, it was last week, last week, where I criticized Donald Trump for calling
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it the China virus. He retweeted Charlie Kirk, who called it the China virus. And I thought that they
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were being sort of unnecessarily provocative. And, you know, sometimes conservatives do this thing where they
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sort of almost pretend to be ignorant, but they're really doing it on purpose. And I kind of cringed
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at that. So I felt like, you know, we should try to call things what they are. This flu originated in
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Wuhan. It is, you know, everyone knew about it, because it was it was hitting this city called Wuhan,
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which, to be perfectly honest, most people had never heard of Wuhan before the actual Wuhan virus. So,
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you know, we should try to use words that are the most accurate as possible. China is a huge,
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massive country with over a billion people. It happened a very specific part of China. So I
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thought, you know, we should call it the Wuhan virus, rather than the China virus. I'll admit it,
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I've kind of had a change of heart, I think that China is a incredibly bad actor on the world stage.
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And we're learning more and more and more about how they suppressed this illness, how they tried to
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cover it up, how the massive missteps that they made at the beginning, when this news was just first
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coming out of this virus really caused long term damage. If it wasn't for China, this thing wouldn't
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have even existed. So sure, I think we should call it the China virus. I think that people who are
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getting up in arms right now over political correctness, you know, the World Health Organization
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said that it was unfair and it caused stigma. Look, it's not the Chinese people's fault. It is the
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Chinese government's fault. It is the communist Chinese government's fault. And, you know, if we want
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to call this the Chinese virus, to put stigma and to put pressure on the government to stop doing
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these kind of things in the future, to crack down on these wet markets, which seems to be the origin
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of this virus, then I think that's good enough reason for the international community to come
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together. Instead, we have these sort of nagging left-wing voices saying, don't call it that, call it
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COVID-19, which is a technical term. It's an acronym. It just stands for coronavirus disease,
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and then 19 is the year that it originated, 2019. You know, that's not really like the way that
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people use language colloquially. We usually describe something that helps us understand what
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it is. So the Wuhan virus, everyone knows it originated in Wuhan. I would be forecalling it the
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Chinese bat virus, or the Wuhan bat virus, so that that connotation, you know, do not eat bats,
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do not handle bats. It's a very, very bad idea for human beings to be touching and eating bats.
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You know, that should be very, very basic knowledge. But we should, you know, use terms that mean
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something. And, you know, coronavirus is a general term to describe a type of disease. So it's not specific
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at all to what is happening here. Again, I'll admit, when I think I said something that is wrong,
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and I do think I was wrong before to criticize Trump for saying the China virus, because I do think
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China is a bad act, and we're learning more and more about this. A report that came out yesterday found
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that China could have reduced this outbreak by 95% if they had acted earlier, they had acted sooner.
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So the research found that if interventions in China could have been conducted just one week
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earlier, one week or two weeks or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66%,
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86%, or 95%, significantly limiting the geographical spread of this disease. So all the Chinese government
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had to do was act quickly, be honest about what was happening, and crack down on this. But of course,
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because it's China, it's a communist dictatorship, that's not what they did. They tried to cover it
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up, they lied about what it was, they didn't allow information to leave the country, they crack down
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on individuals who are trying to blow the whistle, they crack down on journalists who are trying to
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report on this thing. And because of those decisions, we now have a global pandemic, a global health
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emergency that will probably kill thousands and thousands of people. Well, it already has killed
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thousands and thousands of people, probably kill many, many more. And it's all because of China's decision
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to keep this under wraps. So even after Chinese President Xi Jinping personally ordered officials
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to control the outbreak on January 7th, authorities in China kept denying it could spread between humans,
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something doctors had known had been happening since late December. And they went ahead with the
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Chinese Lunar New Year Banquet involving tens of thousands of families in Wuhan. So that one decision
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to allow that lunar banquet involving tens of thousands of families in Wuhan really is what led to the
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massive outbreak. The Chinese government lied about it, they knew that it was something that could be
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transmitted from humans, they've known about it since 2019, possibly as early as November 2019. And yet,
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they lied about it, they lied about it, they continued to say that that we should be able to,
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you know, the people in China should be able to just go about their regular lives. And because of
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that, we have a huge global pandemic. So we should blame China, we should, we should call it as it is,
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this is this is their fault. And they continued to crack down on journalists who are trying to report
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the truth. They continued to push propaganda and lies. So no, we shouldn't avoid calling it the China
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virus just because we want to stop the stigma. Now, of course, this isn't saying, again, this isn't
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saying that Chinese individuals are to blame. No, it's the government of China. This isn't, the two
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things are separate, just like you can criticize, you know, the government of Iran and call that an
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evil regime without somehow saying that all of the people of Iran are at fault, or saying that you
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hate the people of Iran. No, you hate the government of Iran. Same thing with China. So again, really,
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really disheartening stuff. And in the midst of all this, we learned that Canada is sending aid
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to China. Canada gave 16 tons of medical supplies to China. This is in the Toronto Sun, my colleague
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Anthony Fury. On February 9th, Global Affairs Canada announced that to support China's ongoing
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response to the outbreak, Canada has developed approximately 16 tons of personal protective
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equipment, such as clothing, face shields, masks, goggles, gloves, and has given it to the country
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since February 2020. Canada's first case was identified on January 25th. And by that time,
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we started shipping equipment to China. We'd already had five confirmed cases. So why is Canada
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giving aid to China? Like China is, by most accounts, a way bigger country than Canada. Their GDP
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is almost eight times bigger than ours. And they are the reason why this disease is here. Canada itself
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might not have the capacity, we are struggling, and really concerned that in a couple weeks time,
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if the growth of this virus is continues in the exponential manner that we've seen, that we won't
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have enough medical equipment. And yet we're sending resources to China, the person that the regime,
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the country that started all this. It's just absolutely mind boggling hard to understand. Thanks,
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everyone who's watching live right now. Again, let me know where you're watching from. Let me know if
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you're doing self-quarantine and if you buy into the whole idea that we all have to stay at home and
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we can't go outside. What you think about all this? I think that there's almost kind of a generational
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divide. My own parents who live in in North Vancouver aren't really taking this very seriously.
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Every time I try to send them articles and kind of encourage them to stay inside,
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they kind of like just know that they're not interested. My dad is still going golfing every
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day. Every day we can that there's not frost on the course, which, you know, of all the places you
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could be going, I guess a golf course is pretty isolated and you're not exactly interacting with
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a lot of people. But still, I mean, if you're in that high risk group, which my dad and stepmoms are,
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I certainly would be cautious. I'm not even in that risk group and I'm pretty paranoid. I haven't
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left the house in over a week and I think that it's probably a good idea to at least self-isolate.
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Okay, I want to talk about Justin Trudeau and his response. So, you know, everyone's sort of praising
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him for giving these daily updates, addressing the country and staying calm in this time of sort of
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chaos. I think that there have been some major, major missteps, though, that the Trudeau government
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has done. And I want to talk about those now. I think that it's good that they've finally closed
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the borders, although there's just so many exemptions that it's hard to really say they've
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closed the borders. Like they said, okay, the borders closed to all non-citizens, non-permanent
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residents, but then they included Americans in there at first. And then they also included like
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airline staff and all these other groups. And then we found out that if you cross the border
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illegally and claim asylum, you're also still allowed to stay and come into Canada, which is just sort
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contradictory of the whole idea that we don't want foreign nationals. Then they closed the
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border to the United States, except for there were all these exemptions for anyone doing trade,
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anyone shipping. Obviously, we don't want to disrupt the supply lines, especially when so many people
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are desperate to get out and get the supplies, get the food that they need, the groceries.
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There's been a lot of shortages. I know my husband went out to the Loblaws up the street
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last night, and he said that the shelves were pretty empty. There was no dairy whatsoever in
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the store, all the eggs, milk, everything was gone. So obviously, we don't want to disrupt the supply
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lines in Canada and America and the US. Our economies are so integrated. But still, I think
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that the fact that Trudeau is just doing this now, just finally coming around to the fact that we
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should close our border and really take this seriously, it's just, you know, it's almost too late.
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Other countries were doing it a week, two weeks earlier. We saw what happened in Italy. Italy should
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have been like a big wake-up call to everyone in the West. You know, the other countries that had
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been hit prior were all sort of secretive, closed, authoritarian regimes. I'm talking about China
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and Iran. You know, there was also South Korea and other countries that are a little bit more open
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in Asia. But really, what happened in Italy was a glimpse at, wow, you know, this is what happens
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in a free Western society. Their healthcare was absolutely overrun. People didn't take the warning
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seriously at first until it was kind of too late. And there was just so many sick people that they
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just couldn't feasibly handle it all. And the healthcare system was really beginning to crumble.
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It was sort of scary. And if you've read any of the articles written by doctors or people that were
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at the hospitals, it just seems like a very, very chaotic scene. And so at that point, it was pretty
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obvious that we should shut down our borders and implement some kind of a self-isolation regime.
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The Trudeau government said, no, no, borders can't stop this disease. And so they continued to leave
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them open. And even within Canada, once they made the edict to close the borders and to say non-citizens
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and non-permit residents can't come, they still said that it was okay to travel within Canada.
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Well, part of the problem is that when you're experiencing an outbreak in Toronto and Vancouver,
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and then you tell Canadians like, hey, you can still travel as you wish within Canada,
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what you're going to do is take the viruses that are in those two cities and spread them
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throughout the country. And that is exactly what we have seen. There was a large dental conference in
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Vancouver on March 5th through 7th, where about 20,000 people were in attendance. And they've
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identified that some cases came from that dental conference and have now been spread all around
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Canada. There's cases, like I said, in every single province. So why wouldn't the Trudeau government
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have locked down all travel at that point? We know that that's how the virus spreads. It spreads from
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people who travel and then come back to a new community. That's how it travels. And so the idea
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that even at the time the government was saying, go ahead and travel within Canada, I think was a grave
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mistake and helped the spread. And that's part of the reason why we have the huge growth in Canada. So
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I guess we can give Trudeau credit for now finally taking some steps towards closing the borders.
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But really, I think it could have easily been, these decisions could have easily been made two weeks
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ago, and Canadians would have been a lot more safe. Let me know what you think, whether you think that
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the Canadian government should have closed the border earlier, whether you think we should be in total
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isolation, or whether you think this whole thing is overblown. And there's one thing I want to talk
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about. I feel like even though I personally am taking a lot of measures to stay safe, keep distance
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from people, especially, you know, I think, you know, I don't really want to go and see my in-laws
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because I worry about their health. They're a little bit older. I wouldn't go into a grocery store at
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this point. In case you can't tell, I'm a little under the weather, I'm a little congested. And I
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had a little bit of a fever earlier in the week. So I wouldn't take any risks at all in leaving the
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house. Even within my house, I try to keep distance from my family that are here so that I can
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avoid getting other people sick. But I think that, you know, a lot of the questions when you watch the
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media briefings that are happening, a lot of the questions from journalists keep going towards,
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you know, should we start fining people? Should we start arresting people who are not listening to
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the advice to self-quarantine, to self-isolate? And I think that there's like a little bit of an
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authoritarian impulse that so many people, especially in the media and in the government, have. You know,
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first of all, they think that we should all be ruled by experts, so-called experts. The problem
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is that experts are often wrong. And, you know, who are the experts? Who are the ones that we're
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talking about? This usually comes down to government employees. So we're talking about government
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kind of having control top down over everybody that their decisions stand. What, you know,
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what about the idea that you might be able to challenge an expert or that someone who claims
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to be an expert might not be the most knowledgeable person on that topic? I think that there's a lot
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of concern and I do think there's an authoritarian impulse. I'm going to show a bit of an interview,
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a part of an interview that really kind of highlights this. It really brought it home. So this
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is from CNN and Jake Tapper is the host. He had the health expert, his name is Sanjay, Dr. Sanjay,
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and they were talking about how San Francisco is on a 24-hour lockdown. They have had a major outbreak
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and so because of that they're really taking this seriously, basically ordering everyone to stay home
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and the only people that can leave are people that work in essential services like health, people who are
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delivery drivers and people that are going out to get medical attention or groceries. The mayor
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of San Francisco did say, you know, of course you can go out and get fresh air. You can walk your dog,
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you can go for a jog, that kind of thing, because really telling people to stay home, you know, it's
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one thing if you live in a rural area or if you live in a house, you live in the suburbs like me,
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you know, there's space, you can go in your backyard. If you live in the city though, if you live in a
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little apartment, you have a dog, you can't tell someone to just stay inside. So people have to be able to go
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outside. So Jake Tapper and this medical expert were on CNN and they were watching a clip of San
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Francisco, the Abarcadero, which is the main sort of strip along the water, and it's 5 30 p.m. so
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right when everyone's finished work, it shows a clip of people walking, people jogging, people holding
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your hand, and Jake Tapper is just so furious. He's so mad that these people are actually out outside,
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like how dare they be outside. So let's watch this clip and then I'll give some feedback about it.
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What needs to happen in this country is we need to break the cycle of transmission
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of this virus. And it doesn't look like that that's happening right now. And I'm worried these numbers
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keep going up and they're going to go up because of the testing, but I think they're going to go up as
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well because that virus, this virus continues to spread. And look, I mean, the mayor said to me that
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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,
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they're allowed to as long as they social distance. But that's not what we just saw.
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We saw people going for jogs, people going about their life as if it's normal.
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We're being told by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health
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that this is not normal. First of all, we see a whole bunch of people here who are not
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distancing. They're holding hands and walking down the street. And you know, normally I'd say bravo,
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but this is, this is actually kind of enraging. The people of San Francisco, or I shouldn't say
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the people, but many people in San Francisco have clearly not gotten the message.
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So there you have it. Jake Tapper is enraged. He is enraged at the fact that people in San
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Francisco, look at what you can see maybe 10 people. You can see 10 people. He's enraged by
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that. And he's enraged by the fact that they're holding hands. People are holding hands. Okay.
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Let me just say a couple of things. First of all, I used to actually used to live close to this area.
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I used to live in San Francisco. I spent two years living there. I lived a few blocks from where this
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is taken. At 530 on a weekday, this, this is usually packed. Like I used to ride my bicycle along
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here. I used to go jogging every day on this path. And you would usually have a hard time even moving.
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There are parts where you actually had to go onto the road to jog because you couldn't get through.
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It was so packed with people. So what I'm seeing here is a huge, huge, huge reduction in the number
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of people. Second of all, these people are social distancing. You know, you can go for a walk. There's
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not that many places to really go for a nice walk in San Francisco. It's a pretty disgusting,
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junky city filled with just, you know, lots of just garbage everywhere, needles everywhere,
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feces everywhere, tent cities everywhere. One of the few nice places to go for a walk
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is along the waterfront. And so that's where a lot of people go rather than walking through the
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streets. So the fact that people are going out, you know, they're not really clustering close to each
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other from best we know from, you know, the science so far is that you get this disease by sort of
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prolonged presence in front of someone. If someone's sick and you spend like five, 10 minutes sitting
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with them, that's how you're most likely to get sick. That's why, you know, airplanes, movie theaters,
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restaurants are a big concern because, you know, you're sitting next to someone breathing in the
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same air and you could potentially touch something they've touched. Walking by someone on the waterfront,
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you know, interacting with them for maybe half a second as you walk by each other, that's not
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when you're going to be at risk. And also the fact that he's getting angry that people are holding
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hands. Well, newsflash to Jake Tapper and people who criticize others holding hands. People that hold hands
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together are usually in some kind of a relationship together and usually probably even live together.
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So the fact that, you know, if me and my husband want to go for a walk out on the street, us holding
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hands, that's not how we're going to provide, you know, give each other the virus. It's more likely going
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to be, you know, the fact that we share a bed together and that we eat all of our meals together
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and that we live in the same household. So really the raging at people for not specifically following the
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quarantine and how dare you go for a walk and get fresh air? You know, how dare you hold hands with
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your spouse during a time of, you know, national crisis? I mean, I think that a lot of people have
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like an inner dictator, an inner authoritarian, and when they get put in positions of power,
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and we've all seen this, right? Like an overzealous border agent or, you know, security guard or
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police officer or, you know, someone, a school teacher or something, they're given a little bit
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of power and they kind of get on a power trip and they want to start, you know, abusing that power.
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And I think that people in the media, you know, not to overly pick on Jake Capper, because I do think
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he's a pretty fair journalist compared to a lot of other people over at CNN, but really, I think you're
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going to go on TV and rage against people in San Francisco for getting some fresh air, going on
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the seawall essentially, the barcadero, and going for a nice pleasant evening stroll and having
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the audacity to hold hands. I mean, I'm sorry, that's fascism. That is fascism, no matter how you
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paint it. And I think we've seen a lot of this, a lot of people getting really outraged at other
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people not quarantining enough. I think everyone should, you know, do your best within your family,
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within your community to avoid the spread. You know, if you're in any kind of position of power,
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cancel meetings, cancel, you know, conferences. I was supposed to speak at a number of conferences
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this fall. I think I've had five or six speaking gigs that have all fallen through because the
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events have been canceled and I was completely for that. I was one of the people kind of leading
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the front saying, you know, we should really cancel these conferences. We shouldn't do these events that
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we planned. It's not a good idea for people to be traveling around the country. It's not a good idea to get
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hundreds or even thousands of people in a room together before, you know, this thing really
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exploded. I think we should all take opportunities that we can to encourage friends and family to
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be cautious and, you know, stay home. If you know someone who is on self-quarantine because they were
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on a trip, say, and they're back in Canada, you know, offer to go get them groceries if you're not
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sick yourself. Offer to help them. You know, if you have someone in your family who can't leave the house,
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someone in your neighborhood, you know, that's civil society. That's when people should step up.
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But the idea that we should start imposing sanctions, like we should start arresting people
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and fining people who don't adhere to that, I think that's kind of crossing a line and that's getting to
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a position where I don't, that's not really a society I want to live in. And, you know, it's hard for
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people to accept. Like, up until a week ago, we all lived in a free society where we could do whatever
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we wanted. And now all of a sudden we have these like really increasingly strict and authoritarian
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rules around us. Of course people are going to push back. Of course they are. And we we shouldn't
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really blame them for that. All right. There was an article that I know I talked about it earlier in
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the show about how I think we should call it the Chinese virus or at least the Wuhan virus because
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first of all we shouldn't cower to political correctness. And people who right now are
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talking, you know, putting out stories and complaining about how it's supposedly racist
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to call this the Wuhan virus or the China virus, those journalists are doing the bidding work for
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the communist government of China. There's no other way of putting it. That's exactly what's happening.
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They are pushing out propaganda created by the Chinese communists. And it's shameful. It's
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absolutely shameful. Anyone who's complaining or pushing that line of thinking should just
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basically be called out and ignored. I will read from an article that I just thought was one of the
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best articles that I have read about this. I love writing that's kind of punchy, kind of funny.
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This is definitely an example of that. It comes from the National Review, which is an American
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conservative magazine. It comes from a writer called David Harsanyi, who writes over at National Review.
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I'll just read a little bit of it because I just think it's so well written and so
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well put. So he says, the World Health Organization and other sensitive souls have instructed us to
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stop referring to the new strain of coronavirus as the Wuhan virus or the Chinese flu because of
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the racist connotations. I'm disinclined to curb my free speech to placate Chinese propagandists.
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And it seems to me the aversion to those terms is less about racism than about averting blame.
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But in the spirit of comedy and avoiding disparaging an entire nation, I'm happy to call it the Chai
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Kong flu moving forward. So I like that quite a bit. He talks about how we always name things after
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where it originates. So he comes up with a bunch of examples, the West Nile virus, Ebola, the Rocky
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Mountain spotted fever, etc. He says that, you know, when you come to sort of really overly medical
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terms like COVID-19 or H1N1, they don't exactly roll off the tip of the tongue. He talks about how we
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still widely refer to the Spanish flu as a virus that killed around 675,000 Americans and tens of
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millions around the world in the early 1900s. And it turns out that the Spanish flu didn't even
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originate in Spain. It actually probably originated in China and spread through soldiers fighting in
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the First World War. Yet we still commonly call it the Spanish flu. So why should we avoid calling this
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the Chinese flu? And then he goes on and on about how he goes really in depth about how this disease
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really originated and where it started from and how it is the responsibility of the Chinese regime.
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So he says, the Chinese regime is perfectly capable of administering an array of authoritarian
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policies to suppress the rights of its own people, but it's apparently unable to exert even mild
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cultural pressure warning them that their eating habits can be extraordinarily dangerous and hold the
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potential of creating massive socioeconomic problems. The reports are correct. It was in Wuhan's
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popular wet markets that vendors were selling bats, possibly snakes, that may have caused the coronavirus
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outbreak. Wet means that the meat sold in these unsanitary stalls was only recently slaughtered.
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The kind of thing happens quite often, and not always in China of course, but the avian influenza
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was transmitted to humans from chickens in a wet market. Scientists have been warning for years that
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the eating of exotic animals in southern China is a time bomb. Acute respiratory syndrome known as SARS,
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also originated in China, probably jumped to humans through bats. I hate to thrust my western cultural
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values onto anyone, but maybe it's time we stop eating bats. Okay, this again is from a national review
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article called COVID-19 is the Chinese government's curse upon the world. I'll continue reading.
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It's important to stress that it's not the Chinese people who are the problem. Just look at their
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success in places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. It's the Chinese communists,
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the chai comms that are the problem. If the Chinese government spent as much time working on educating
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its people and regulating dangerous markets as it does in secrecy and propaganda efforts, maybe it
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wouldn't have to worry as much about diseases being named after it, or about the catastrophic death and
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economic pain. Their negligence helps cause. So I thought that was very good. I recommend reading
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that article, even though I just kind of read it to you. But that's basically the gist of my view on
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this. China is a very, very bad actor in the world. And because of this, we're basically, you know, shutting
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down the entire global economy on a risk, on a bet, on a gamble to say, like, hopefully, if we all just stay
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inside, we shut down all the businesses, we can make everyone work from home if they can. And if they can't,
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then we just shut down their businesses. We let the stock market completely tank. Hopefully, we won't
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all die from this disease. But we really don't even know if it will be effective. Some, you know, studies
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are looking and saying that, you know, regardless, we're all still going to catch it. So whether we
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catch it now, or whether we prolong it, and then as soon as all these self-quarantine measures let up,
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people are going to go outside, and they're going to catch it just the same. So, you know, is it really worth
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shutting down the entire global economy that may or may not ever recover? I mean,
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we're in pretty scary times right now. I'm not sure that anyone really can predict what's going to
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happen, which is why the stock market is really going haywire. And, you know, there's really a lot,
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a lot to be concerned about. I don't think that, you know, Justin Trudeau's measures are necessarily
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going to be of help, but at least they're going in the right direction, compensating people that can't go
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to work because of government orders. I'm a libertarian. I said this on my other show that
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I do with Andrew Lawton. I am a libertarian when it comes to government spending. I don't think
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that government needs to take out loads and loads of debt. I don't really believe in having a big
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social welfare state. I think that people are better off without all that stuff. But when it comes to the
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government actually actively shutting down the economy, it's their fault that people can't go to work,
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and therefore it's their responsibility to compensate people for that. But, you know,
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it's not like Canada has a rainy day fund. No, we have to take out more and more debt,
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which we're going to have to pay back eventually. And that's risking, that's based on a bet that
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everything's going to recover and go back to normal in a couple of weeks or a couple of months.
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I'm not really sure that it is. I'm pretty skeptical about that. Let me know what you think about that.
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And I will be back again with another show, Candace Malcolm show next week. In the meantime,
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my colleague Andrew Lawton and I have been doing a daily show, a daily, we call it True North update,
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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
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00:32:13.120
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00:32:17.920
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