Juno News - March 23, 2020


The end of the post-national state


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

187.6224

Word count

479

Sentence count

21


Summary

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Donald Trump has named a virus the Chinese virus. Is this racist? Is this a good or bad thing? What does it have to do with our current global pandemic and the lives of thousands of people who are at risk of getting infected?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, another report from my coronavirus bunker. I hope you and your family are doing well.
00:00:10.100 I think one thing that's very interesting about this moment in time right now is it's helping
00:00:14.840 people put a lot of things into perspective, learning what matters and the things that are
00:00:19.300 really important. One of those is putting our petty politics into perspective. I'm sure you've
00:00:24.560 seen this debate about what to call this virus, and is it racist that Donald Trump calls it the
00:00:29.860 Chinese virus? I guess he's been calling it that or the China virus. Personally, I think calling it
00:00:34.840 Wuhan virus makes a lot of sense because that is where it originated and where all the reporting
00:00:39.720 about it first materialized. So go ahead and call it that. But here's the thing. I don't really care
00:00:45.140 what Donald Trump's particularly calling it, and I'm certainly not going to spend my time writing
00:00:49.160 some long essay about Donald Trump's racist because of what he's named a virus. Why? Because we are
00:00:55.920 currently in a global pandemic where many thousands of people are at risk of getting this and many
00:01:02.080 thousands of people potentially dying from it. And we're in a situation where we have to talk about
00:01:06.840 whether or not we have enough intensive care beds in our cities to deal with those in critical
00:01:11.520 condition. So these bizarre games that we've been playing more and more in recent years about
00:01:16.060 trying to find these sort of low-hanging fruit attempts to label a person racist or transphobic,
00:01:22.140 and all these sorts of terms when, you know, obviously they've just said some average benign
00:01:27.140 comment, that is being exposed as, I think, incredibly petty. I mean, who on earth really cares
00:01:33.060 about an issue like that? What Donald Trump is calling a virus when we're talking about lives at stake
00:01:39.460 and lives on the line? I hope there's a lot of sort of looking back and taking stock at what really
00:01:45.780 matters. For instance, we're not seeing too many people call on the United Nations to solve all of our
00:01:50.800 problems here in life. People are looking to their local levels of government. Something I'll be
00:01:55.400 talking about, writing about a lot in the weeks ahead, is this is actually the end of the post-national
00:02:00.840 state. Not that there ever really was a post-national state, but Justin Trudeau and other globalists,
00:02:07.020 they wanted to pretend that that was the direction we are heading. But the coronavirus has taught us,
00:02:11.360 uh-uh, that ain't the case. Local government, communities, borders, nations, those are still real
00:02:18.360 things. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. So a lot of, I think, interesting thinking and
00:02:24.060 rethinking and refreshing going on right now, if I can at least put one tiny little positive spin in
00:02:30.080 this unfortunate situation we all find ourselves in.