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00:01:57.000Before we move on to talk about all of the things in the news, not mostly coronavirus related, because we know that you're a little bit tired.
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00:04:21.000Let Your Love Be Known is the U2 frontman's first new music since 2017.
00:04:25.000So for those who haven't heard the story, that means that when you open your iTunes this morning, your phone will have automatically downloaded the coronavirus.
00:05:26.000Well, the real ceremony, of course, was cancelled due to the coronavirus shutdown, so they played it in the Minecraft world, and sadly, tragedy struck when other gamers became bored after playing Call of Duty.
00:05:37.000So there was a crossover with... That's prestige level right there.
00:05:41.000The good thing is they dropped pixelated leaflets beforehand to let everyone know about it.
00:11:03.000So, my question to you, when it comes to the handling of the Chinese virus, have you heard the media celebrate any of the innovations made by the private sector?
00:11:12.000You talk about retooling your factories for masks, for testing, for treatment, for therapeutics.
00:11:18.000I think that it's journalistic malpractice that these aren't being shouted from the rooftops right now.
00:11:25.000Shouldn't we want to give people hope?
00:11:27.000It seems that they want to give people false hope in this idea of Medicare for all or a socialized health care system because of course this is what we need to talk about.
00:11:34.000The claim that we're seeing from the left on the coronavirus pandemic is that we wouldn't have these problems if we had universal health care.
00:11:41.000The public sector could make all of this go away.
00:11:45.000Here's them saying it because you don't have to take my word for it.
00:11:48.000We will talk, I am sure, about Medicare for All.
00:11:51.000But when I talk about healthcare being a human right and all people having healthcare, the coronavirus crisis makes that abundantly clear as to why it should be.
00:12:06.000Coronavirus is a very good case for Medicare for All.
00:12:09.000It's like looking in through the lens of an aquarium.
00:12:10.000If we had Medicare for All, We would have been far better prepared before the crisis.
00:12:19.000There is no middle ground when it comes to dealing with a national security threat and Medicare for All is an example of a policy that would take on that threat with the seriousness that it requires to be taken on.
00:12:43.000I don't think we could have a more crystal clear case that the exact opposite is true.
00:12:49.000COVID-19, the Chinese virus, wolf flu, whatever you want to call it, there has never been more of a crystallization as to the need for private industry due to the sheer ineptitude of the government.
00:13:01.000They talk about, they want to compare us to other countries.
00:13:03.000This is something that actually I stumbled across.
00:13:05.000Let's take the countries at the top of the World Health Organization, their rankings, right?
00:13:09.000They rank us 36, right next to Slovenia.
00:13:11.000Now, let's take them with a comparable population size to the United States.
00:13:15.000Let's look at their total deaths and deaths per capita.
00:13:18.000Italy is number 2 and Spain is number 7.
00:13:32.000And they're being held responsible with fixing it.
00:13:35.000So there are a few examples that we can walk through as to why you shouldn't entrust all of your health and health care needs to the government.
00:13:43.000Let's go back to the Obama administration.
00:13:45.000They never replenished the stockpile of masks.
00:14:24.000So let's be clear that it couldn't be more dishonest.
00:14:27.000That is, if today were opposite day, like if we were going into Scouts where they have opposite day and everyone wears their clothes on backwards because it's fun and we like to have a laugh, he would be tops.
00:14:53.000Only once, the private sector industry Was allowed to step up, and keep in mind too, they were already stepping up, but they weren't allowed to.
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00:16:34.000So each one of those guys that was on in that video, the gals as well, claimed that if we had universal healthcare... We're using the term gals very loosely.
00:16:49.000Do governments around the world that have universal health care or something like it tend to have more hospitals than they need?
00:16:54.000Do they tend to have really short wait times like your video when you went undercover in Canada?
00:16:57.000Was that a short wait time to get in to see somebody?
00:16:59.000It wasn't necessarily a short wait time.
00:17:00.000Because that's the only way you could have had everybody treated is if you had millions of people, beds, laying around waiting on patients that weren't being used.
00:17:07.000That's not going to change the stockpile.
00:17:08.000We didn't have more masks and more tests.
00:17:10.000And nurses, and doctors, and everything else.
00:17:12.000They made claims that they cannot back up at all.
00:17:15.000And by the way, here's something else just to show you how smug the media is.
00:17:19.000Remember they mocked Donald Trump mercilessly when he made this suggestion just either, I think it might have been earlier this week, at the most, last week.
00:17:27.000They're throwing away the mask right away, they're throwing away, and when you hear 55 million masks were ordered, I'm saying, 55 million?
00:17:33.000How could it possibly be such a number?
00:17:35.000And they say, oh, that's just a small fraction of what we need.
00:17:38.000And I said, why aren't we sanitizing masks?
00:17:40.000You know, you look at the masks, I've looked at all the different masks.
00:19:06.000support, whatever it is that you want to assume he's saying, it's not that crazy.
00:19:12.000No, and he said we should be looking into this. And by the way, in a crisis, you do start to go,
00:19:17.000hey, we have to change how we're doing things. We don't have enough masks. In a crisis,
00:19:20.000we need to change the rules a little bit and still maintain sanitized.
00:19:23.000Not only and we'll get to private industry stepping up and creating more masks, right?
00:19:28.000But now you've increased the ability to exponentially, because you can use masks that you already have.
00:19:35.000Every single journalist should be talking about how now they can sanitize tens or hundreds of thousands of masks per day.
00:19:42.000We are going to have hundreds of thousands new masks made because of private industry who stepped up, who by the way, didn't even have to be forced to by the Defense Production Act.
00:19:50.000And the FDA did approve the drug that Donald Trump was touting last week that you said was irresponsible because there was no kind of medical basis.
00:19:57.000And you should be happy that you're wrong, because it's going to save, I mean, let's be honest, dozens of lives with this pandemic here going on.
00:20:04.000Here's another claim that they've made quite a bit, that other countries with the socialized healthcare systems, that they've somehow done better than us.
00:20:13.000But the federal government, the Trump administration, botching the rollout of testing for this virus, it continues to set the United States apart.
00:20:20.000FT at Financial Times in London today put out this graph showing how well various countries are doing in terms of testing for the virus.
00:20:26.000When you look at the best healthcare system in the world, that's something that's up for debate.
00:20:32.000South Korea has up to 10,000 tests per day.
00:20:37.000They've been able to provide tests to any single person that wants it, and here people are scrambling.
00:20:45.000Let's go back to Burt Ward's comments there.
00:20:47.000Burt, Matt, countries that they're talking about who they've praised for years, of course, based on the World Health Organization's ranking, which, by the way, I love now that no one can ever use that again.
00:20:55.000The Young Turks Network, the leftist organizations, you can't say, well, we rank behind France, Italy, Spain.
00:21:00.000Do we really want to talk about that anymore?
00:21:02.000We always knew that was the case because of subjective polling, but now you know it's the case because the entire world has seen it once.
00:21:57.000But now when it comes to a pandemic, there can be no debate.
00:22:00.000There's no denying that the wait times increase the mortality rates.
00:22:06.000And at the very least, it's a violation of human rights to not allow people to purchase privatized health care, which Is increasingly rare in these countries, but that was the case in Canada, at least until 2005.
00:22:16.000This is one that really bothers me as people point to South Korea.
00:22:20.000Sure, they were ahead of us on testing, absolutely, because they quickly mobilized, and what did they do?
00:22:25.000They used the private sector for testing kits, which the CDC here said, no, no, no, you can't do.
00:22:30.000Now that we're doing it, we're surpassing South Korea very quickly.
00:22:33.000Also, something that when people point to South Korea as a successful example of the social distancing protocols, they effectively doxxed their own citizens.
00:22:43.000They were tracking the phones of citizens, and then released detailed information to the public via apps, including age, descriptions, and movements over the past few days, so that people could say, oh, oh, oh, okay, I see, man have a sneeze, go to park, we kill him!
00:22:58.000So if we want to point, this is something really important, because in trying to demonize the United States because of the communist sympathizing media, and I mean that because they were actually parroting communist Chinese government talking points, I say that without a hint of hyperbole, hyperbole, hyperbole, hyperbole is hyperbole and I throw a pipe at the camera, there you go, it's like a 3D show on TGIF.
00:23:18.000Without a hint of hyperbole, this media who is sympathetic to the Chinese government, they will take any opportunity to demonize the American government at all costs.
00:23:26.000Well when you tell them, We should be like South Korea.
00:23:29.000Let the American public know what they did.
00:23:31.000Americans, you think they have a greater success rate here in dealing with Corona?
00:23:36.000Okay, if you just want to use one metric.
00:23:38.000But are you willing to turn over all of your phone's data?
00:23:41.000Are you willing to turn over all of your location services?
00:23:45.000Your private web searching on your iPhone, you want to turn that over to the government so they can release it to the public?
00:25:37.000But before that, a private practitioner had prescribed it off-label, had 699 people who were treated successfully, not to mention all the independent testing, which we talked about on this channel.
00:25:48.000Twitter and YouTube were removing or censoring videos that talked about chloroquine as fake news or talked about Chinese masks being faulty.
00:25:58.000They removed some of these tweets and videos.
00:26:03.000When these people are in charge of fact-checking, and not only are they dishonest, but they are dishonest in a way that could save thousands of lives.
00:26:21.000How many more stories have you seen out there about a dumbass drinking fish tank cleaner than you have compared to the MyPillow guy being able to create 50,000 masks a day, 400,000 masks being sanitized, and the fact that that drug, not the fish tank cleaner, is now FDA approved?
00:26:36.000Because I haven't heard a peep on that from Huffington Post or New York Times, but some mongoloid drinks I don't know.
00:26:42.000Koi pond cleaner and that's at the top of Reddit?
00:27:20.000So here's something, while we're talking about it, we do have to get going with Razor Fist, and then we'll see you tomorrow for Good Morning Mug Club, but this is something that just bothers me so much.
00:27:27.000I don't think it could possibly be more clear at this point that we need the private sector.
00:27:32.000The only other country that's had success beyond doxing its citizens, when you look at South Korea, is because they did mobilize the private sector.
00:27:38.000Once we started doing that here in the United States, guess what?
00:28:10.000This is an amazing situation for me because after 9-11, and I know that a lot of people didn't like George Bush, at the very least we came together for the common good.
00:28:18.000And right now we're fighting this sort of invisible enemy.
00:28:20.000I know some people saying it's not technically invisible.
00:28:23.000The point here is that I don't know if there'll ever be a time now Where we'll come together again against an enemy.
00:28:29.000If something could ever help us find common ground, it would be this right here.
00:28:34.000And I don't just mean fighting a virus, but I mean the idea that we are making unbelievable headway, and we are making headway not from tearing people away from their jobs and place of business and having them holed up in their apartments, though some people need to continue doing that, obviously, but we are making headway because of American businesses Innovating and stepping forward to save fellow Americans' lives.
00:28:56.000I know it's a bad narrative because we want to think that capitalism is greedy and bad, but guess what?
00:29:00.000These people are willing to sacrifice their business' capabilities to step up for the greater good.
00:29:05.000And the fact that these stories are not front page everywhere at a time when the American public is panicked and you could offer them a sliver of hope is, to me, not only dishonest, it is journalistic malpractice.
00:29:20.000I don't even know if that's a real thing, because you're not really held to any kind of a standard like a lawyer or a doctor.
00:29:24.000But if you could be, we'd hang you up at dawn before breakfast.
00:30:56.000Although, actually, our next guest, he can delineate for us, so I know the difference between a trebuchet, even though I'm French, and a catapult, or a proper trebuchet.
00:31:02.000You can follow him on the Twitter at RayZorFist.
00:31:04.000Zero is the RayZorFist, and of course he has the RayJaholic YouTube channel.
00:33:12.000I was going to say it's bizarre, because you look like you're in a Ramones cover band, and this is the first time people cross the street when they see you.
00:33:22.000Speaking of New York, I'd like to, uh, did you see the big, like, red siren on top of the... Some empath in the city of New York decided that the most effective method of allaying the fears of the public was to install the eye of f***ing Sauron on top of the Empire State Building.
00:33:42.000It'll make everybody feel much better.
00:33:45.000It seems like that's honestly a difference in worldview where, you know, Donald Trump said, don't panic.
00:35:57.000I think that is proof positive that there's no logic to the fear of the pandemic.
00:36:03.000Like, if you want to, if you believe that this thing is, you know, contagion and it's gonna have a 20% death rate, as the real pandemics that they portray in the films, you know, the unreal pandemics that they portray in the films, Toilet paper wouldn't be a part of the equation.
00:36:16.000It's not even a digestive-affecting virus.
00:36:21.000It just goes to show you that human beings, particularly the American public, are far more manipulated by the media than they realize.
00:36:27.000The reaction to the reaction is what scares me a little bit.
00:36:31.000Now, I do want to get to your stream being taken down, but since we're talking about this, you did do a video Uh, originally on your channel about the pan- about, uh, coronavirus.
00:36:39.000I think this was back in February, if I'm not mistaken, where you were saying that people should be on guard and paying attention to it.
00:36:45.000So you did think it was at least a threat or something people should be aware of.
00:36:48.000Yeah, I thought you could take, and mind you, this is early February, so I'm trying not to panic buyers or anything, and I'm like, well, you know, maybe having some stuff, like common sense stuff, like, you know, a little bit of water, stuff that you're gonna eat anyway, stuff that you're gonna use anyway, would not be so bad, apparently, but I think what really, it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, though, is, I think when people see empty shelves, they assume, well, s***, I must need that!
00:37:46.000Yeah, this is, it is pretty remarkable.
00:37:48.000What do you think though, since you were warning about this, and I've talked about how Donald Trump did implement a travel ban, which was accused, you know, he was accused of xenophobia by Joe Biden, so the Democrats have picked the single worst candidate to run against Trump.
00:38:00.000They're hoping Russian, you know, the impeachment didn't work, they're hoping the whole Russia It didn't work, so let's get him on coronavirus.
00:38:05.000That's why they want to stop airing his nightly briefings right now, because his approval rating is going up.
00:38:10.000And Joe Biden, really the one thing that we know that President Trump did differently than any other president, because I don't know how much a president controls this, but this guy did go against the grain and ban travel from China, and he was excoriated by the left for it.
00:38:22.000Can we at least say, all right, you know what?
00:38:57.000Seriously, like the skeggy old f**k with facial skin pulled like a condom over a cantaloupe, you know, who huffs ten-year-olds.
00:39:05.000Oh gosh, who could have seen that coming except Stevie Wonder?
00:39:10.000Let me ask you this now, since you were talking about this beforehand, you think it's man-made, which we can get into at some point, but maybe we won't, but do you think that the response has been proportional, or do you think that there's some hysteria?
00:39:22.000For someone who was early on this, but now you see how far it's gone, how do you...
00:39:27.000Oh, there were authoritarians licking their chops waiting for this thing.
00:39:30.000They were just waiting for any kind of crisis of any proportion.
00:39:36.000I think, frankly, you go another week, maybe two, and then you tell the at-risk people to stay home and maybe take extra steps to keep them home.
00:39:46.000And then everybody else who's less at risk probably needs to go back to work and get on with their lives.
00:39:51.000For Christ's sake, we went back with our lives during the Spanish flu.
00:39:59.000We went on with our lives and continued working back then, what's so special now?
00:40:04.000And we understand the exponential growth and so forth, but the same thing was true of the Spanish flu, the same thing is true in all pandemics, frankly.
00:40:12.000I think at a certain point you gotta get on with it.
00:40:14.000Well, I said this a long time ago, and everyone was like, oh, you can't do that.
00:40:16.000I said, well, how about we just quarantine old and sick people, and let everyone else try and implement social distancing where they can, wear masks, wash their hands, so implement all of these measures that we have, let people build up a herd immunity, and protect those who are vulnerable.
00:40:46.000No, it really is remarkable that we have a list of exclusive, or sorry, a list of essential businesses.
00:40:52.000Seems to me we should have created a list of non-essential businesses that probably should have closed down where contamination or, you know, transmission would have been more likely.
00:41:01.000You know, like the ball play pen at McDonald's.
00:41:03.000We could have, you know, put some yellow tape around it.
00:41:05.000Instead, we just shut everything down.
00:41:07.000And I don't know... And pretty much everyone who was at risk was already staying home anyways.
00:42:55.000was an expatriate from China and so forth.
00:42:58.000I mean, the Chinese people, I think, innately have the same desire to go out and work and earn a living that everyone else does, but they're saddled with this post-Great Leap Forward regime that's seven decades in to mass murder and starvation and death, and teabagging the entire planet in their global socialist revolution.
00:43:20.000And I think that's the ultimate irony.
00:43:22.000You know, the world is shut down, And the economy is at a standstill, and people are begging daddy government to step in and divest them of their personal liberty in exchange for momentary safety.
00:43:34.000To me, the Chinese have arguably achieved their world socialist revolution.
00:43:42.000Arguably on a temporary basis, but they have achieved their world socialist revolution, the one they aspired to for 70 years, without firing a shot.
00:43:50.000That actually really is an interesting way to look at it, and certainly shows who their allies are in the American media, right?
00:44:33.000At least it'd be a litmus test, because maybe a lot of Americans would say, fine, I want Apple to hand over my targeting, my location data, and I want to be doxed publicly.
00:44:57.000I think that is just a little bit of sour grapes, because you and I, who work online, know that nothing we ever do, ever, for the rest of our lives, will surpass Gangnam Style.
00:45:13.000Before we move on to you being manually throttled, I guess, actually, banned by the folks at CNN, quick question, since you're obviously a big film fan, what do you think about the film industry, like the decision now to release a lot of titles digitally, and do you think that maybe this is going to become a permanent thing in the future?
00:45:29.000Because this has kind of changed the way I think a lot of releases work.
00:45:32.000I mean, home viewing experience is so good now that I do wonder if they think, you know what, let's just do this.
00:45:39.000Let's not use the multiplex petri dishes.
00:45:41.000Oh man, some of this Robin Williams genie ain't going back in the bottle.
00:45:44.000You know, now that all these businesses know that people can work from home for cheaper, some of these businesses are going to keep them there.
00:45:53.000Some of them will be fired in the process, but you know, 100% that's going to happen.
00:45:58.000So some of this is going to be permanent and that could be part of it.
00:46:01.000But I think honestly, a lot of the stuff that they're releasing, not all of it, but a lot of it is Well, this was obviously gonna bob anyway, so let's just kinda... It's kinda like that... What was that s*** Seth Rogen movie about North Korea that Sony released after being threatened?
00:46:17.000The movie that was OBVIOUSLY gonna go up like a fart in church anyways.
00:46:37.000We'll put it for free as a bonus on their $5.99 Verizon plan with Disney+.
00:46:42.000And we're mostly pissed because we got all the costumes, and we cut a parody intro to Mulan timed to the release, and then they said we're not releasing it.
00:47:10.000So, as RazörFist, Rageaholic is the YouTube channel.
00:47:14.000Before we go, I wanted to ask you, you said you recently had a stream taken down by CNN.
00:47:19.000And, you know, we're no stranger to this, with the biggest companies in the world having forced YouTube to retool their policies because of us.
00:47:28.000Well, I mean, as I'm sure you're well aware, these big media conglomerates now are hiring outside consulting firms to just prowl YouTube on debate night.
00:47:39.000And get streams shut down and channels flagged, and it turns out we encountered a similar issue, apart from being weekly targeted by Sam Seder, I mean.
00:47:50.000We both had streams that were pulled for copyright under wafer-thin premises.
00:47:54.000I mean, I alter the footage, you can barely hear it, you can barely see it, you know?
00:47:59.000It's more or less me roasting the debates, but it was yanked by the free speech advocates at NPCNN.
00:48:44.000You wouldn't happen to know any half-Asians, would you?
00:48:46.000You know what, I was going to say, if it doesn't work out, then definitely I'll put you in touch with them, but that used to be the process.
00:48:52.000The problem is, you don't get those views back, especially when it's a live stream.
00:48:56.000You know, that's what we had with the Oscars stream.
00:48:58.000They know that they never take you to court, by the way.
00:49:03.000And when it happens less and less now, because I think we've been somewhat litigious, not overly so, but we've, like I said, we're never going to be a shark.
00:49:09.000Conservatives can't be sharks on YouTube, but you can be one hell of a puffer fish.
00:49:11.000You can make them wish that they'd picked someone else.
00:49:14.000And so they stopped trying to take us to court, but they still do abuse the system because how many people are watching live and how many people are going to watch within those first 24 to 48 hours?
00:49:29.000The only thing that brings me comfort is the mental image of Jake Tapper saying, "'Gee, that sucks!"
00:49:35.000as he clicked the Submit Copyright Claim button.
00:49:39.000Yeah, and then Wolf Blitzer right next to him just going, "'Gee, that sucks!' He's barely... I mean, there are reporters who... and Jake Tapper, I disagree with him on a whole lot, but Wolf Blitzer is barely walking upright.
00:49:55.000My favorite, the ultimate Wolf Blitzer moment is still Katrina, though.
00:50:20.000Look, it's the kind of playing performance if you put up on the board at a Trivial Pursuit game night with couples you don't even want to be with.
00:51:22.000So just so you know, I'm still not going to get upset.
00:51:26.000And then on Twitter, of course, RazörFist, with a zero, of course, instead of an O. I apologize, I have the most convoluted URLs in all of Christendom.
00:51:38.000But yeah, so, I mean, honestly, that's pretty much where you can beard me.
00:51:43.000I'm also on Bitchute, and it's just normal, it's just Bitchute.com slash RazörFist, which is probably where we're all gonna have to go eventually.
00:51:50.000It could be, although, uh, Mug Club, uh, the water is warm, uh, and even in the, uh, even in the spell of being entirely demonetized, so we can talk about that more sometime, but off air, Mr. Fist, it is Rageaholic.