Juno News - March 12, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Trudeau's Coronavirus Spending Spree


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29 minutes

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327

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00:00:00.000 Global oil prices plummet, kicking Alberta while it's down. Everyone's worried about coronavirus,
00:00:04.680 so the Trudeau government throws a billion dollars at the problem. Italy struggles to
00:00:08.980 deal with the pandemic, and the woke left uses coronavirus as an excuse to lecture us
00:00:13.840 with their annoying ideology. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:22.520 Hi everyone, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. We're going to spend a lot
00:00:27.380 of time today talking about coronavirus and what's going on all over the world, but before we get to
00:00:32.140 that, I want to talk about Alberta, because this is something that's kind of getting overshadowed.
00:00:36.260 Everyone's talking about corona, everyone's worried about the economy, the response, what's going to
00:00:40.060 happen, and not a lot of people are really paying attention to what is happening in Western Canada,
00:00:44.660 and let me tell you, it is devastating. I talked about this previously on the podcast about how
00:00:49.180 the tech resource mining project getting pulled was devastating for the province. Obviously, all of
00:00:53.960 the pipeline delays are really, really hard. Alberta has just been struggling, non-stop bad news,
00:00:59.040 one news after another, and what's happening this week sort of from a geopolitical perspective
00:01:03.440 is really, really damaging the province, mainly with the price of oil. So I'm going to read,
00:01:08.760 this is from the Globe and Mail from their Western Canada update, it's pretty good, talking about the
00:01:14.180 price of oil plummeting and how that is impacting Alberta. So it says, Albertans woke up on Monday
00:01:19.540 morning, they were confronted with shocking news about the province's energy industry and its economy.
00:01:24.600 Oil prices had collapsed to their lowest levels in four years, with the single largest day drop in
00:01:29.120 decades, in the face of escalating price wars between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Alberta's budget
00:01:34.580 released less than two weeks ago was in tatters, and the future of Alberta's economy, which is still
00:01:38.960 hurting from a downturn that began in 2014, is now in serious jeopardy. The price crash came as the
00:01:45.160 province was already staring down the problems related to the novel coronavirus outbreak, which
00:01:49.740 had weakened demand for oil and push prices down, and now this. So this is the key part right here,
00:01:54.400 we're talking about the stock valuation of a lot of these big oil companies and oil producers in
00:01:59.080 Alberta. It says this, oil producers saw billions in stock value evaporate in a matter of hours.
00:02:05.840 Ovintiv Inc., which is the successor to Encana, that is now based in the United States, lost more than
00:02:10.680 70% of its share price by the end of the day. Calgary-based Cernovus Energy Inc. lost half.
00:02:16.940 Other energy companies saw their stock prices fall by 30% or more. The TSX Composite Index
00:02:22.040 plunged by 10%. So Cernovus later announced significant cuts to its capital spending plan
00:02:28.240 and suspended its oil-by-rail program. This is just absolutely terrifying for Alberta, again,
00:02:35.960 at a time when there's just so much uncertainty in that province, and really just a lot of
00:02:41.200 unemployment and all the problems that come from unemployment, talking about people losing their
00:02:45.120 homes, obviously losing their jobs, losing their homes. We have all kinds of problems. The suicide
00:02:50.640 rate, for instance, in Alberta is 50% higher than it is in Ontario. So this isn't just an economic
00:02:56.260 issue, it really is a people issue. This is more from that Globe and Mail report. It says,
00:03:01.640 Premier Jason Kenney, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, attempted to reassure Albertans, telling
00:03:05.740 him that the province was ready to weather the storm while calling on the federal government
00:03:08.980 for urgent action. Mr. Kenney acknowledged that his provincial budget, which just came
00:03:13.100 out two weeks ago, projected a deficit of nearly $7 billion in the coming year, with the assumption
00:03:18.960 that oil prices would be double what they are now. So Alberta was already going to be running
00:03:24.140 a deficit, and now we learned that the price of oil has just basically fallen in half,
00:03:28.540 so that will need to be adjusted. Again, just a really unfortunate timing for all of this
00:03:34.100 really tough, tough time in Alberta. So our thoughts go out to all of those who are affected.
00:03:39.680 And really, I mean, I don't really know what else the province and the Premier can do in
00:03:43.120 this situation. This is geopolitics, but it's just really, really bad timing. And so that is
00:03:48.660 really important news for us. Now let's talk about what everyone is talking about, which is the
00:03:52.920 coronavirus. I'll give you some updated numbers here. So as of March 10, 2020, there are 36 cases
00:04:00.980 in Ontario, 39 cases in British Columbia, four in Quebec, and 14 in Alberta. So a total of just
00:04:07.620 93 cases, which is really low globally. It's pretty impressive. There are large outbreaks
00:04:12.840 happening. I think the worst cities hit in the United States right now are Seattle and the Seattle
00:04:17.860 area. There was a nursing home that was hit there that really has been devastating. And then
00:04:22.620 obviously, there's just the runoff that happens with the kinds of infections. And the way that this
00:04:28.100 disease is spread is really alarming, just sort of how easily and how quickly it's spread.
00:04:34.040 Globally, there have been 122,000 cases now, and the death toll has gone up to 4,386,
00:04:42.180 while an additional 66,993 people have recovered from the disease. Now, of course, the problem is
00:04:50.040 that the death rate is so high. So right now, the World Health Organization says that the death rate
00:04:55.260 for this disease is about 3.4%. So people who watch the podcast, listen to the podcast know,
00:05:01.660 in the past, at the very beginning, when the coronavirus news first came out, I was sort of
00:05:06.180 saying, you know, I think the media is overblowing it. Really, if you look at the seasonal flu or
00:05:10.900 influenza, how many people get affected by that, it's not a top news story, because it happens every
00:05:15.700 single year, your physician will encourage you to get a flu shot. And most people do responsible
00:05:21.500 people do. But it's not top news. It's not a top news story every year, despite the fact that
00:05:26.880 1000s of people hundreds of 1000s of people worldwide die from influenza every year. And even
00:05:33.280 in Canada, the death rate about between 500 and 1500 people die every year from the flu. And again,
00:05:38.640 the news media doesn't really cover it. So it's not a big sort of fearful thing in your face.
00:05:44.600 But the comparison, you know, the influenza death rate is less than 1%. So fewer than 1% of people
00:05:50.400 who get the flu every year die from it. Whereas coronavirus at this point, best estimates is that
00:05:56.600 somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5% of people who get this disease, who catch coronavirus, will die,
00:06:04.440 which is really, really scary. So the scary things about it is how fast it spreads, and that higher
00:06:10.400 death rate. And of course, the fact that we don't have any kind of vaccination, there's no known
00:06:14.980 medication that you can take, there's nothing you can take to prevent it, there's no vaccination for
00:06:19.420 it. So at this point, there's just so many unknown things. And that's part of the reason why the stock
00:06:23.620 market has just been going wild. I talked about how the price of oil dropped, and that that really hurt
00:06:28.240 the Canadian stock market. But global markets have just been up and down and up and down and up and
00:06:32.620 down. And so much of it is just because there's so many unknown factors that we just don't know. We
00:06:36.940 don't really know exactly how it's being spread. We don't really know how to stop it at this point. And
00:06:42.240 that's why, you know, it really is important to take precautions, you know, just kind of basic stuff,
00:06:47.300 washing your hands frequently with soap. People at True North will know that I've been
00:06:51.900 enforcing the hand sanitizer rule. We've got them all over the office here, making sure everyone's
00:06:57.020 constantly washing your hands. If you're going to cough or sneeze, do it into your shoulder or elbow.
00:07:02.140 Avoid, you know, handshakes and touching. Social distancing is what they're calling it, which is a
00:07:08.660 good idea. I know a lot of people aren't going into work. A lot of schools have been canceled.
00:07:12.820 I flew over the weekend, and actually there was nothing out of the ordinary. The plane was still full.
00:07:18.780 It was a busy airport. There was nothing out of the ordinary. I was talking to a student
00:07:23.260 on the plane who goes to Stanford, but he lives here in Toronto, and he said that Stanford University
00:07:28.520 has just canceled the rest of the semester. I know a lot of American schools have. Some Canadian
00:07:32.640 schools are also starting to do that. And of course, a big concern is that it is spring break.
00:07:37.460 Spring break is this week and next week. March break, as they call it here in Ontario. And a lot of
00:07:42.280 people have travel plans. A lot of people are going to be out and about. And so that will definitely be
00:07:46.760 a big test for Canada right now. It seems that we're doing a fairly good job just in that there's
00:07:51.360 only 93 cases, and you can compare that to much, much higher cases numbers in other parts of the
00:07:57.660 world. Now, of course, the Trudeau government is finally starting to do something. They've kind of
00:08:02.380 taken a blasé, hands-off approach to the coronavirus and dealing with it. At this point, except for now,
00:08:08.380 they have announced $1 billion in government spending trying to combat the impacts of the
00:08:14.340 outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada. So we'll break down that $1 billion. Here it is. Support for provinces
00:08:22.520 and territories, $500 million. Not really sure what that exactly means, but money going presumably to
00:08:29.220 healthcare facilities, which are run by provincial budgets. Investing in research, that's going to be
00:08:34.360 another $275 million. Immediate and additional public health response, including funding for
00:08:40.060 Indigenous Services Canada, $150 million. Sustained communication and public education, $50 million.
00:08:47.760 That's one of the ones that I'm sort of concerned about. I don't really know what that means,
00:08:51.100 communication and public education. So is that just, again, encouraging people to wash their hands
00:08:57.300 and not sneeze on each other? Or is that going to be some kind of a propaganda effort by the Canadian
00:09:03.260 government? We'll have to wait and see on that one. Personal protective equipment, $50 million.
00:09:09.560 Repatriating Canadians abroad, $7 million. Employment insurance sickness benefits, another $5 million.
00:09:15.740 And then because it's Justin Trudeau, of course, we're sending $50 million in international assistance
00:09:21.340 and an additional $2 million to support the World Health Organization. I think that the World Health
00:09:29.180 Organization is an important source. That's someone that you should be looking to to get most up-to-date
00:09:34.920 research and figures about the coronavirus. Don't necessarily rely on news sources or radio hosts
00:09:43.220 or podcast hosts to find out the latest about coronavirus. Go right to the source, which is the
00:09:48.060 World Health Organization. They do good work. However, there are also plenty of examples of money being
00:09:54.480 misspent by that organization. So I think the biggest example is what's going on in Iran. I touched on
00:10:00.560 this briefly in the last podcast, but there's now a lot more evidence talking about how the Iranian
00:10:05.800 government is just, you're just such a bad actor, just such a ridiculously evil government. So this is
00:10:12.160 from the People's Mohajideen Organization of Iran, which is sort of an opposition party that's fighting
00:10:18.140 against the tyrannical Iranian regime. It says, shortage of med supplies during coronavirus outbreak,
00:10:26.080 IRGC profiting on black market. Iran is suffering from a drastic shortage of medical supplies like
00:10:32.700 masks and disinfectants because the regime's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, is stockpiling
00:10:38.520 them and selling them to the public at a major markup. State-run media reports that health masks
00:10:44.100 priced at 2,000 reals are being sold for 30 times that in many places across Iran. Some places,
00:10:51.020 they now cost more than 150,000 reals. Yet still, people wait in long lines and pay big money for
00:10:57.280 these essentials that are in short supply. Worse still, on social media reports show the IRGC has
00:11:02.800 been labeling air fresheners as disinfectant sprays and flogging them to desperate people. I talked about
00:11:08.020 that in the last podcast. And this is even worse. The regime is selling supplies that the European
00:11:14.140 countries gave to them as humanitarian aid. And one man on social media showing that he bought a
00:11:19.840 German alcohol-based disinfectant on the black market. So people are, out of the goodness of
00:11:24.860 their hearts, donating and trying to help Iran, which is one of the worst hit countries by coronavirus.
00:11:29.580 And that is because there's so much business that gets done between Iran and China. They're both
00:11:35.500 evil communist regimes. And a lot of people in the world don't want to do any business with Iran.
00:11:40.520 And one of the only countries that will is China. So there's a lot of direct flights between the two
00:11:44.140 countries. When a lot of countries were blocking flights and stopping people from coming from China
00:11:48.820 at the very, very beginning of this outbreak, Iran didn't have any precautions. So a lot of people
00:11:53.660 in Iran are suffering and have been infected with the coronavirus. And so because of that,
00:12:00.940 again, the government is just evil and that's why, that's part of the problem. When you give money to
00:12:06.480 international aid and international assistance, it's completely unaccountable for. A lot of times
00:12:11.720 the people who are most in need are the ones with the most tyrannical and backwards types of governments
00:12:16.880 who are exactly the type of people who are going to misuse funds and use it for their own personal gain,
00:12:22.320 not to help the actual individuals in need. So that is sort of a sad situation. Now, this is sort
00:12:29.300 of a big story. The first case of community infection in Canada has been reported. So community
00:12:35.220 infection is when someone gets the coronavirus and they have no idea why. It just, just there's,
00:12:40.720 it's spread throughout the community. So it's not that they have, you know, person, they didn't
00:12:44.640 personally go to China or they didn't have someone in their immediate family or someone that they work
00:12:48.240 closely, that went to one of the sort of origins of the disease, but it's just, you know, someone
00:12:53.300 gets it, then someone else gets it and it gets passed along through the community. So that's sort
00:12:57.600 of terrifying, happened here in Toronto. And interestingly enough, it happened at an event
00:13:04.340 that Justin Trudeau was in attendance. So this is from the Financial Post, says anyone who attended the
00:13:11.460 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada 2020 convention in Toronto being asked to monitor
00:13:17.120 themselves for symptoms of the coronavirus after a man who attended was tested positive in the
00:13:22.760 Sudbury area. Justin Trudeau, as well as Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O'Regan and Ontario Premier
00:13:30.260 Doug Ford were all in attendance at the conference. So that's pretty terrifying stuff, especially given
00:13:36.480 how fast we know that this moves. I know a lot of people who are very worried about this are just
00:13:41.200 worried about how quickly it grows and how fast you can go from saying like, hey, Canada's doing a pretty
00:13:45.900 good job. We only have 90 some cases, 93 cases, to all of a sudden you have a situation like Italy
00:13:52.780 where the number of cases was just doubling every single day for a while. A new research report coming
00:13:58.560 out of the University of Toronto's Dallas School of Public Policy indicates that anywhere between 30
00:14:04.380 and 70 percent of Canadians could become infected by the virus if it continues to spread. I mean, this is
00:14:12.080 kind of like worst case scenario. I know that there's definitely a couple different ways to approach and
00:14:16.720 look at this. You know, we should just go about our daily life and make sure that we're using, you know,
00:14:21.140 cleanliness routines and making sure that we're not exposing ourselves. And then other people who are
00:14:26.220 like on full lockdown and aren't going to leave the house and are completely paranoid. I think when you
00:14:31.080 hear statistics like 70 percent of Canadians could be infected, you know, just to play out that math,
00:14:37.060 and I'm definitely not saying that this is a possibility, but this is just according to the
00:14:40.660 research. 70 percent of Canada's population, so Canada has 20, Canada's 35 million people, 70 percent
00:14:46.580 of that would be about 25 million people if the death rate of this disease is, as it's currently pegged
00:14:52.620 right now, 3.4 percent. That equates to 850,000 people that could potentially die from this disease
00:14:59.220 in Canada alone. Now, of course, the death rate keeps shifting because it really just depends. Like,
00:15:04.500 you could say that the only reason that the death rate is so high is because so many people who,
00:15:10.060 so many people who have coronavirus that don't die from it don't even know that they have it. So
00:15:14.480 if there's 122,000 known cases, but there could be an additional 100,000 or more people who also
00:15:20.720 have it but don't know because they don't show symptoms, and then they recover before they even
00:15:25.280 know the death rate would go down a lot. And again, that's just part of the idea that there's just so
00:15:30.020 many unknowns with this. I'm not sure if, you know, a billion dollars is well spent right now
00:15:36.200 because the problem with the Trudeau government is that they have no sense of fiscal responsibility.
00:15:41.900 They have no concept of money and how bad things are. You would think when times are good, which they
00:15:47.280 have been, frankly, for the last decade or so, that's the time when you sort of save up, when you make sure
00:15:53.320 you pay off your debts, you build up a reserve, you build up a rainy day fund just in case so that
00:15:58.340 if something like this happens, like the world price of oil drops, like the coronavirus outbreak
00:16:02.840 in Canada, you have a reserve funding. And that was, that's sort of the basic economic idea.
00:16:09.580 You know, Trudeau government has done the exact opposite. They have been spending, like there's
00:16:13.660 no tomorrow, racking up really unnecessary deficits and piling Canadians deeper and deeper in debt.
00:16:19.740 They're so over leveraged that now when you hit a point like this, it becomes like a perfect storm.
00:16:24.360 You have all of these investors fleeing Canada. Warren Buffett just announced $4 billion he's
00:16:29.280 pulling out of the country, not to mention the Tech Frontier pipeline news that they're pulling out,
00:16:35.340 the fact that we can't get any pipelines built. I mean, we're just having a major, major problem of
00:16:40.660 confidence in Canada's ability to get the market running. And then add to that the global price of
00:16:46.320 oil, add to that coronavirus. And we have no rainy day fund. So where's this billion dollars even
00:16:51.180 coming from? It's, I'll tell you, it's coming from debt. We're borrowing more and more money.
00:16:56.680 Canada has a budget coming up. And I know that there's a lot of sort of liberal centrists and
00:17:01.660 left-wing voices calling on the Trudeau government to do a stimulus package, to dig in even deeper,
00:17:07.540 to borrow more and more, leverage Canadians even further. That's a terrible idea just from an
00:17:12.300 economic perspective. Now is not a good time to borrow more money and to bury Canadians deeper
00:17:17.780 and deeper into debt. But that's probably the approach that we're taking. And this comes after
00:17:22.500 last week when the federal government announced that it would be spending $27 million on research
00:17:29.280 for COVID-19, which included $2.6 million on research about how to get this, combat discrimination,
00:17:36.700 racism, and social media misinformation. Again, the concern of the Trudeau government is not on
00:17:44.480 stopping the disease, on containing it, on making sure that there's screening at airports. Like I said,
00:17:48.680 I was at the airport on the weekend and there was absolutely nothing. There was absolutely no
00:17:52.420 screening. There were no people taking temperatures. There's not even someone monitoring to see if
00:17:56.380 someone was like coughing or sneezing when they're getting off the plane. They're not doing any kind of
00:18:00.160 monitoring at the airport. And that's Pearson Airport, which is the biggest, obviously, international hub in
00:18:05.000 Canada. But they do want to spend $2.6 million of board money to focus on racism and how Canadians
00:18:11.940 are just racist. And we're, you know, coronavirus is just an excuse for us to show our true colors and
00:18:18.040 how racist we are. That's what the left truly believes. And same with the $50 million for the
00:18:23.200 sustained communication public education campaign. Who knows what that means and why we need to be
00:18:27.880 borrowing money in order to do that. And if we look at Italy, what's going on there, they're really
00:18:35.000 struggling. Italy is an example of a country where the outbreak just sort of happened, you know,
00:18:40.580 overnight. They had a huge, huge crisis on their hands. More than 10,000 people have contracted the
00:18:46.080 COVID-19 strain of coronavirus with tens of thousands of people being tested at hospitals.
00:18:52.020 A medic in Northern Italy said that hospitals were running at, quote, 200% capacity with doctors
00:18:57.260 forced into life or death decisions over who should receive intensive care. This is also part of the
00:19:02.680 problem. It's just a total lack of resources, even in developed societies and developed countries like
00:19:07.740 Italy. And again, this is a concern in North America and Canada, the United States, that we just don't
00:19:12.800 have the capacity to have 35 to 70% of our population in a hospital room getting care if that's what it
00:19:20.860 comes to. So this is from a story translated by the Metro UK. It says, the current situation is difficult
00:19:29.660 to imagine, and numbers do not explain things at all, said an unnamed medic. We've stopped all of
00:19:35.660 routine. All operating rooms have been converted into intensive care units, and they are now diverting
00:19:41.080 or not treating all other emergencies like traumas and strokes. There are hundreds of patients with
00:19:46.880 severe respiratory failure, and many of them do not have access to anything above a reservoir mask.
00:19:53.400 Yeah, so I mean, that's just the concern right now is that we just don't have the capacity if things get
00:19:58.040 as bad as some people are predicting. And I think what's happening in Italy is a bit of a preview of
00:20:03.140 what could happen if this disease comes to North America, like some are predicting it. It's kind of
00:20:09.580 eerie to see pictures of Italy right now. The country's on complete lockdown, so some of the most
00:20:13.760 beautiful, historic places on the continent, places that attract a lot of tourists that they go to,
00:20:21.480 are just kind of empty right now because people are on lockdown, people aren't traveling.
00:20:25.700 Like I mentioned on a show, you know, we have spring break coming up. I know a lot of people
00:20:30.720 who have trips planned, and they just don't really know what to do about it. I was at my church group,
00:20:37.140 mom group earlier this morning, and some of the moms, well, first of all, there's usually like 30
00:20:42.040 people there. Today there was like four people there. And the ladies that I was talking, that I did
00:20:47.960 speak to, you know, they say, you know, we have a trip planned to the Dominican Republic. I don't really
00:20:52.760 know if we're going to go through with it. My own sister is supposed to fly in and visit us next
00:20:57.180 weekend with her one-year-old. And her concern isn't necessarily anything about catching coronavirus,
00:21:03.120 but it's about quarantine and what will happen if she can't get back on her flight. She lives in the
00:21:08.600 U.S. So if she gets stuck at the border for whatever reason, something happens where the border gets
00:21:13.860 blocked or people get into quarantine, that's sort of the fear. No one wants to be stuck in quarantine
00:21:18.460 for two weeks staying, you know, who knows where in a gym or at a motel or wherever they put you.
00:21:25.020 And I think that's part of the problem. I, myself, I went to Costco yesterday to just kind of stock
00:21:30.380 up, get the house stocked just in case there's any kind of a shutdown where they decide to close
00:21:35.540 stores or something like that. I've never seen Costco like that before. It was packed. On a Tuesday
00:21:40.700 morning, it was packed. You couldn't get a parking spot. There was a line to get in because they were
00:21:45.300 wiping down all of the buggies for people. They were completely sold out of toilet paper. They had
00:21:51.400 maximum two, two item limits on a lot of products. So again, it was, it was just really, really a lot
00:21:58.980 of people are panicking and worried about what is going to happen. And not surprisingly, the left is
00:22:06.520 using coronavirus as an excuse to lecture us. So this, this story popped up on my newsfeed and I
00:22:14.540 thought it was a serious story. So I read it, but this is going to be this week in fake news because
00:22:19.280 it is just sort of ridiculous. So this is a Vox news story. It says, want some, want to do something
00:22:25.680 about coronavirus? Here are five ideas. It's easy to feel powerless. Instead, let's help the most
00:22:32.020 vulnerable. Okay, here we go. So the, the, the, the piece starts off not too bad. It says, let's take
00:22:39.520 basic precautions. Talking about how, you know, if you're sick, stay home, make sure you're washing
00:22:44.720 your hands. Make sure you just, you know, avoid interact too much interaction with people. Kind of
00:22:53.040 basic stuff. So you read it and you're like, okay, this is a pretty useful report here. But then all of a
00:22:59.780 sudden you start reading and you realize that they're just trying to lecture you about social
00:23:03.880 justice nonsense. So one of the things they talk about is if everyone's staying home, they don't
00:23:08.800 want to go to the grocery store. They might have to rely too heavily on delivery. Well, the problem
00:23:13.740 is that delivery people could also get sick. So it goes, this is especially important since many
00:23:19.080 delivery workers lack paid sick time. So they start lecturing us about how delivery people should have
00:23:25.500 better benefits. They should be paid more and they should get more sick time, which really, um, sure
00:23:32.060 that might be your pet issue, but you know, we're focusing on coronavirus in this article, but they
00:23:36.360 just can't help talking about how, you know, delivery people supposedly are mistreated. And yet, you know,
00:23:42.160 there's still so many people who want to be delivery people. So I don't quite buy that. The next tip
00:23:46.640 from Vox is don't join in on racism and xenophobia. So it says people have been using the coronavirus,
00:23:54.460 which first sickened people in Wuhan, China, as an example to revive racist stereotypes for months.
00:24:01.980 The outbreak has had a decidedly dehumanizing effect, raining old strains of racism and xenophobia
00:24:08.140 that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, uncivilized, barbaric others who bring with them
00:24:14.360 dangerous, contagious diseases and an appetite for dogs, cats and other animals outside the norms.
00:24:20.840 Well, I mean, this is just sort of unproven. I'm sure that there are some racist jerks out there who
00:24:27.100 have been using this as an example to make, you know, unpolitically correct, politically incorrect
00:24:32.320 jokes on social media. But the fact of the matter is that this disease did originate in China. That is
00:24:38.700 the origin. And from best information that we have right now, it has something to do with the sale
00:24:44.320 of bats and the fact that bats carry so many diseases. So whether they were handling bats or
00:24:49.420 eating bats, that is the origin of the coronavirus. It is a fact. So pointing that out or talking about
00:24:55.800 how, you know, we really shouldn't, human beings really shouldn't interact with bats in that kind
00:24:59.680 of way. That's not necessarily racist or xenophobic to say. It's just sort of a fact that applies to
00:25:04.800 everyone in the world. And to sort of sit here and lecture us about how we shouldn't talk about
00:25:09.680 how this disease originated in China, it's just annoying. Like, why can't we just talk about the
00:25:15.100 facts? Why can't we just be honest about the origin of this virus without having the left, you know,
00:25:20.080 trying to lecture us? It talks about how Chinatowns across the country have lost businesses and people
00:25:25.580 have avoided eating out at Chinese restaurants. I think that's true about everything. I would guess
00:25:30.800 that, you know, shops and malls and all kinds of public places have lost businesses. It's not unique
00:25:37.240 to Chinatown. I'm sure all restaurants have seen less people wanting to go out and eat just because
00:25:42.660 people are concerned. People are worried about going and interacting with other people, having food
00:25:47.780 prepared where they can't see it and brought to them just because you don't know what it is. So
00:25:52.260 I think that this is really just a little bit of over-exaggeration. I think that there is some
00:25:59.560 concern of people. I'll give you an example. Charlie Kirk, who is a conservative activist and sort of a
00:26:05.260 high-profile young conservative, big supporter of Donald Trump on social media. He's a very smart
00:26:10.220 guy. I watched some of his videos and I think he's very intelligent. Unfortunately, he decided to start
00:26:15.720 calling this disease the China disease, just like that China disease, which isn't really that accurate
00:26:21.800 and isn't really helpful. Sure, it originated in China, but it's not the China disease. It's a respiratory
00:26:26.380 disease and it is now global. The problem, you know, nobody cares that Charlie Kirk tweeted that. He can
00:26:32.180 he can tweet stupid, idiotic things if he wants to. The problem is that President Donald Trump then
00:26:37.420 retweeted him, which I think is wrong. I don't think that the president should be kind of weighing in
00:26:42.520 and using those kinds of slang to talk about the disease. And you don't want to give, you know,
00:26:47.260 you don't want to give fodder to the left because they're going to, you know, complain and say that
00:26:51.740 the whole reaction is racist no matter what we do. And so when conservatives sort of walk on that line
00:26:56.940 and do these kind of things, it really just doesn't help. So I wasn't happy to see that. I thought that was
00:27:01.560 unfortunate. And that is also true that the left is over-exaggerating. So back to this Vox article,
00:27:09.180 the next tip for how to react in this coronavirus situation is don't write off the people most
00:27:16.020 vulnerable to the virus, reach out to them. So according to Vox, we should dismiss people
00:27:22.580 as unimportant and say, oh, it only kills the old and sick. I don't know how reaching out to these
00:27:28.600 groups physically should help. I actually think we should probably avoid those groups because on
00:27:32.780 the off chance that you've been infected and you don't know because you're healthy and so you don't
00:27:37.240 have any symptoms. And then you go and start reaching out to elderly members of your family
00:27:42.840 or your neighbors, there's a possibility that you could actually spread the disease to them. So Vox is
00:27:48.540 just, again, giving bad advice, of course. And then their last tip about coronavirus is be informed and
00:27:55.880 mindful of those most impacted. So they talk about misinformation about coronavirus. And then they
00:28:02.000 use it as an example to bash President Trump and talk about how he feeds xenophobia and makes people
00:28:08.280 less safe. So I think both Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have handled the situation rather poorly. I
00:28:14.620 think that the U.S. has taken much more precautions. They were very quick to close the border with China
00:28:19.520 and stop flights, which was good. The problem is that Donald Trump has been contradicting officials and
00:28:25.520 members of the CDC, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which is really unhelpful. It's times
00:28:31.360 like this that the president should just keep his mouth shut and let the experts do the talking. But again,
00:28:37.440 thanks a lot, Vox. Really, you provided nothing in this article of substance, only sort of whiny, annoying
00:28:45.160 lecturing from the woke left, which, you know, most times you just want to ignore advice from the left. And at times when
00:28:51.880 there's actually potentially a big crisis and pandemic, the last thing that normal people want to hear is
00:28:57.620 lecturing and SJW nonsense and someone pushing their ideology. So to the woke left, just stop, just stop.
00:29:05.840 All right, I'm going to leave it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Candice Malcolm and this
00:29:09.860 is the Candice Malcolm show.