This week, we have Gerald A. Black on the show to give us a legal update on the suspension of TikTok, we discuss the border crisis, and Rand Paul gets called out for his cattiness.
00:01:21.000We'll be talking about that, we'll be talking about Governor Whitmer, we'll be talking about George Floyd, we'll be talking about the border crisis, and we will have Rand Paul on the show, and I'm going to ask him to tone down the cattiness a little bit.
00:01:33.000Well, really, when we're giving puberty blockers little boys.
00:06:38.000Your Honor, we would agree that specifically as worded, the court could grant this with respect to the, shall we say, parties identified specifically in that motion.
00:06:53.000I have to ask, how did this even become a motion?
00:08:20.000Aside from abortion, you can still have abortion up until an afterbirth in Virginia.
00:08:24.000Just make sure you let them swab you first.
00:08:26.000Yeah, they didn't slow those procedures down.
00:08:28.000We wouldn't want it to be an unsanitary, unsafe abortion.
00:08:33.000Be sure to use some Purell on that coat hanger.
00:08:35.000So, also send your chat, people who are on the blaze, MudClub.
00:08:40.000What do you want us to talk about with Rand Paul?
00:08:43.000This is my question though, too, is how do they ban, like the George Floyd trial, how do they ban an analogy saying that it's inadmissible as opposed to actual evidence?
00:09:16.000Hey, before we get into the Twitter stuff, what is that, the inadmissible, when someone just says George Floyd is Jesus Christ?
00:09:22.000Because maybe they in fact think he's Jesus Christ.
00:09:24.000Yeah, so federal and state rules of evidence that govern the trial, they have a rule in the 400s, Rule 403, it's about relevance.
00:09:31.000Relevance is defined as very broadly, a couple of specific categories, but one of them is does the prejudicial effect outweigh the probative value?
00:09:38.000And usually comparing someone who died in a criminal trial to a holy figure is going to sway the jury and not actually be evidence.
00:09:45.000So that's why you can say, I don't want you to make that argument.
00:12:12.000So this is one of the things that's... Yeah, yeah, take it.
00:12:14.000I'm gonna let you... I'll speak off mic because you keep having to adjust it here, so then I'll just ask questions from afar.
00:12:19.000Okay, so here we've heard time and time again whether Jack Dorsey is in, you know, giving an Axios interview, or he's in front of Congress, or he's just tweeting... Chasing his volleyball.
00:12:31.000He took a bunch of ayahuasca and he's up in northern Saskatchewan, you know, out there learning to get with nature.
00:12:36.000He says over and over, we tell you what the reasons are, we let you know what the violations are, we're up front, we're clear, we uniformly enforce our policies, and that's the way it is.
00:13:03.000It doesn't even say what post was the one that was violated.
00:13:06.000And by the way, the only thing is I'll say, hit the notification bell so people are subscribed because notifications don't mean a whole lot before I give the mic over here back to Bill.
00:14:10.000So, Bill, my lawyer, is this also in line with the law, and again, Twitter's own practices, but legally, where does this line up if they don't give a reason?
00:14:20.000So this is exactly the point we've been making with other tech platforms.
00:14:23.000Y'all can set the rules however you want to set them, but if you're going to advertise and draw in consumers from the entire United States, the entire world, creators, people who are advertising and say, we enforce our policies in a certain way, and then you don't actually follow your own rules, that is anti-competitive.
00:14:39.000You've got one media company trying to hurt another media company, and it's deceptive.
00:14:43.000Literally consumers are out there going, hey, No, they don't ban people without giving reasons.
00:14:48.000They don't enforce Twitter suspensions and then reset the clock seven different times in a 24-hour period without saying anything.
00:15:37.000So let's go back to the one that was three weeks ago, which feels like a million years ago at this point, where they actually shortened the ban after we sent a notice.
00:16:36.000And every time they do one of these things they go, well you know a sub of a sub of a subcontractor gave it to his cousin's dog and like he hit the wrong button.
00:17:27.000They didn't tell us which video violated piloting, they just gave us this long list and never explained to us which video violated piloting.
00:18:17.000And we've obviously, we've had people who've committed actual slander, libel on Twitter with people photoshopping swastikas, accusing me of everything under the sun, right?
00:18:26.000And nothing gets done or it doesn't get done for a long time.
00:18:33.000Like with YouTube, for example, we said, okay, what are the rules?
00:18:35.000and the rules aren't what we initially thought the rules to be because then they created
00:18:38.000two, three, four sets of guidelines. Now YouTube has community guideline violations, they have
00:18:42.000advertiser-friendly guidelines, and then they have borderline content. Well, who determines
00:18:46.000that? Nobody really knows. It's not really told. But at least they have some kind of
00:18:49.000a vague page, and they do answer. There is an appeal process. I would say this with YouTube
00:18:53.000with the appeal process. It sucks when they're like, no, this is hate speech, but they tell
00:18:57.000you. Twitter doesn't give any kind of a reason. So my point is, look, with this, if they can
00:19:02.000do it to someone like me, and I don't want to, but I'm not going to self-censor to the
00:19:07.000point of being dishonest on Twitter. And so if I end up losing it because I say, look,
00:19:13.000happy International Women's Day, I'm celebrating the brave and beautiful trans women of Saudi
00:19:16.000Arabia. If that's the reason, then they should take it up with Saudi Arabia, who, by the
00:19:21.000way, Twitter bans my tweets in Saudi Arabia sometimes because it offends the Islamic sensibility.
00:19:27.000We're at least at 25 different countries that Twitter has somehow found a way to actively and instantly determine whether or not it's violating those countries' laws.
00:19:44.000But yet they cannot figure out a way to let an American citizen for an American company know What was the post that created an alleged violation or even what the reason was?
00:19:55.000This is what I'm saying over and over again is that these companies have developed and created for themselves so much power that they're unable to actually exercise it in good faith.
00:20:15.000This is happening to people across the board.
00:20:17.000And yet nothing is being done to actually curb that, whether in Congress, certainly not happening under this administration, but also the question of the courts.
00:20:24.000And if someone's going to have to step up, we're doing that action as well.
00:20:28.000But Twitter itself is now one of the ones that is the most egregious on this front, and I don't think Jack Dorsey in Hiawaska is going to do anything about it.
00:21:26.000The best way at this point is you've got to vote with your clicks.
00:21:29.000Your tweets, everything else like that.
00:21:31.000Whether you're sending a message, it's continuing to share stuff that they don't want to be shared, share it as much as you can.
00:21:37.000Go ahead and like those folks who are doing it, or go find them on other platforms.
00:21:40.000I mean, just the simple existence of Mug Club or other platforms that are making this happen, whether it's Parler, your Rumbles, your other things like that, they're where the advertisers are going, wait a minute, this is not an effective strategy.
00:21:50.000The only thing that apparently matters to them is their pocketbook.
00:21:53.000That's the only thing they're going to listen to, and we can affect it.
00:21:55.000Every one little tweet, maybe not by itself, but all of them together.
00:21:59.000So, while we're taking the fight on the legal side, folks can take that side, whether they're sitting at home, whether they're in their grandma's basement, whether they're at the bus station.
00:22:15.000And they said that AG Paxton was leveraging them to try and infringe on their exact words, editorial decisions regarding what is on... Editorial!
00:22:42.000Like if it says, like, hey, Gerald, you know, Gerald beat me up in a bathroom stall with George Michael, right?
00:22:48.000If someone at the New York Times writes that, they can be held responsible.
00:22:51.000If someone puts it up on Twitter, well, they're not held responsible at all because of Section 230, but then they, in their own lawsuit, say, well, no one can infringe on our editorial guidelines, and it's all opaque.
00:23:02.000Well, it's one of the best analogies is, are you going to hold AT&T liable if a criminal decides to call on a cell phone that goes across an AT&T line, right?
00:23:09.000You're going to say, no, this is utility just because the city provided water.
00:23:12.000Was the city now liable for the fact that that water was used to make the best meth in the country?
00:23:41.000You sign up, you pay the bill, you're in.
00:23:44.000But when you look at the New York Times, they look, they edit, they decide, they cut, they have guidelines for what they're going to put on there.
00:23:52.000They have whole teams that are doing that.
00:23:54.000And that's when you now look at what is more of these platforms.
00:24:55.000I'm saying that's what it would be like.
00:24:56.000It's like the New York Times tweeting out a story about me that's false that I should be able to sue them over and then Twitter locking me out of my account so that I can't defend myself.
00:29:35.000So, Trump to Biden has been trending everywhere, and we want to get to Whitmer in a second, then Rand Paul, which I'm really looking forward to, but the head of border security, is the head of border security, I don't know,
00:29:47.000Roberta Jackson, I see this person all the time, claimed that the border crisis is
00:29:51.000because of Trump's lack of humanity, which was discouraging people from coming,
00:29:56.000which by the way, listen, before I even get to the next part, I'm okay with.
00:30:02.000And then, later in the clip though, she went on to admit that it actually was Biden's fault.
00:30:08.000And I know you think that I'm making this up, so I have the clip right now of Roberta Jackson sandwiched together.
00:30:14.000It's a coincidence that as soon as Trump and his immigration policy were on the way out, and Biden and his stated policy were on the way in, this historic surge at the border started.
00:30:26.000Well, first of all, one of the things I think is important is we've seen surges before.
00:31:23.000I've watched, and I don't always watch the clips, I read a lot of the time, so sometimes I don't see the clips of these people, but that's Roberta Jackson, right?
00:31:47.000I don't, I said, uh, uh, Marcus Jackson.
00:31:50.000Named me one o-line in the NFL, and I said, let me pick the name of a large, 350-pound black man with an under 5'40", and Marcus Jackson is actually a person.
00:32:11.000But no, that was so... I just watched that clip for the first time, and I realized, you know, it's unfortunate, but I did recognize her from somewhere.
00:33:50.000It's like bank robbers going in and there's a lot of bank robberies now and oh well that's actually because we removed all of the security features and I guess it gave them hope that they would make it out alive with money.
00:34:34.000To their wonderful country, which, by the way, sees the same record number of would-be migrants to places like Mexico, because it's a shining beacon of hope for all to see!
00:36:34.000I am trying to say French Canadians are often very racist.
00:36:36.000Now they're not racist in the sense that they hate black people.
00:36:39.000They're just racist in the sense that it's okay to stereotype.
00:36:42.000So they'll be like, you'll be sitting, you'll be talking with them, and I'm like, hey man, you Americans, you're so racist, that's the problem.
00:36:47.000You're like, yeah, yeah, no, listen, I think that's horrible.
00:36:51.000It's wrong to hate, you know, everybody as to be equal, yep, yep.
00:39:04.000And by the way, send in your questions for Rand Paul.
00:39:07.000So yesterday, President Trump released this.
00:39:11.000I hope everyone remembers when they're getting the COVID-19, parentheses, often referred to as the Chinese virus vaccine, that if I wasn't president, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful shot for five years.
00:40:26.000Look, I'm not anti-vax at all, and I'm not even anti this vaccine.
00:40:31.000I know some of them have used apparently embryonic stem cells to be developed, and in which case, morally, ethically, I'm against that kind of medical experimentation, because you can use adult stem cells, right?
00:40:43.000I just have weighed the risk-rewards for someone like myself, where the side effects are ironically, in some of the vaccines, worse for someone who's young and healthy, worse in some cases than the virus itself, and I think that older people who are susceptible, like I've always said, we should be quarantining them, we should be locking them in Buffalo Bill's basement, all old people, out of humanity and compassion, they should get the vaccines first.
00:41:06.000And you remember everybody who came out when Donald Trump said, yeah, we're going to have this in, what, October, November or something like that.
00:41:56.000Operation Warp Speed meant removing government bureaucracy, red tape, allowing more medical developments to happen at warp speed.
00:42:02.000So, who typically supports Deregulation, removal of red tape, while allowing personal accountability, holding companies responsible, as opposed to having the FDA put a vaccine on the shelf for nine years because it might give you a slight tummy ache.
00:42:15.000Giving the right to the consumer and a speedier path to market.
00:42:34.000And if you're confused as to who does this better, just point to any other vaccine in history that's been developed and rolled out in less than a year.
00:45:19.000Speaking of Cuomo, by the way, let's go to Governor Whitmer.
00:45:21.000Sometimes it does feel good to be a little... Actually, I don't want to say good to be vindicated, because this is horrible.
00:45:27.000Seniors have died at record numbers there in Michigan.
00:45:29.000Michigan is worse than New York, I believe, in a lot of ways.
00:45:31.000Certainly in principle, and I'll get to that in a second.
00:45:33.000But now that everyone's talking about Governor Cuomo, it has brought Governor Whitmer back into the spotlight.
00:45:38.000And for people who don't remember, we've been covering this for a very long time.
00:45:41.000This is what's so funny to me, when people have been saying, with Governor Cuomo, they've been going, how did this go on and nobody noticed?
00:45:48.000Okay, people noticed you decided to ban the stories from social media.
00:45:52.000Do you want to know why people didn't notice?
00:45:55.000And by people, I mean you, you dumb son of a bitch.
00:45:57.000The reason that you didn't notice, not our audience, but the rest of the audience, the rest of the people in America, the reason you didn't know is because of the same, for the same reasons that I've been suspended from Twitter for six days without any reason or cause.
00:46:09.000The Hunter Biden story of him doing crack with his niece nude in a stand-up shower at the Andaz.
00:46:14.000I don't know, I don't want to disperse the good reputation of the Andaz nice hotel, but the point is, remains, I'm creating a mental picture.
00:46:19.000For the same reason that post was punted from social media, you never know about it because they control the flow of information.
00:46:26.000Us, people like Rush Limbaugh, God rest his soul, there were plenty of people covering the Cuomo situation.
00:46:32.000There weren't so many people covering the Governor Whitmer situation, but that's just because not a lot of people had access to the information, and Michigan doesn't come to the front of your mind when you're thinking about major states with incredible corruption, so it's a state that's near and dear to my heart.
00:46:46.000Born there, lived there for another seven years recently.
00:46:49.000I love the state of Michigan, and I just hate the people.
00:47:10.000Peter Lucido announced that Governor Whitmer may be facing actual criminal charges.
00:47:17.000If we find that there has been willful neglect of office, if we find that there's been reckless endangerment of a person's life by bringing him in, Then we would move forward with charges against the governor.
00:49:17.000And while the media was ignoring Whitmer and fawning over Cuomo, we were the first ones to really sort of bring some national attention to it.
00:49:23.000And by the way, this one is specifically for Michiganders out there.
00:49:27.000Folks in Michigan, what do you think has happened to your state?
00:49:44.000We even went, and then hold that thought, but we even, so for people who don't remember, we went to Michigan and held a rally with thousands of people and that resulted in thousands of FOIA requests, which we'll come back to because that's relevant right now.
00:49:56.000Let me say in no uncertain terms, Governor Whitmer Her policies have directly led to untold deaths of Michigan seniors, thousands, and you have been, at worst, deliberately misled.
00:50:10.000And at best, Deliberately misled about those numbers.
00:50:14.000Michigan's tracking, and it's the only state with these comparable states, doesn't include assisted living facilities, adult foster care facilities, or homes for the aged.
00:50:25.000In Michigan, it's 34% coming exclusively from some nursing homes.
00:50:44.000I say this, President Trump, if you are watching, that I and the people of Michigan all would like to say in unison, Governor Whitmer, you want to conduct that investigation?
00:50:59.000And by the way, the only coverage of that was there were a couple hundred people who showed up and then did any of them try to kidnap Whitmer?
00:51:37.000But it can actually get to the point where information that could save people's lives doesn't get out, and so you have people, politicians, who are no longer accountable, and people die.
00:51:47.000There was a bipartisan bill in Michigan, by the way, to put a stop to this, and she vetoed it.
00:51:51.000Democrats and Republicans said, you've got to stop doing this.
00:51:56.000Well you know the reason is because you care about the seniors that are actually affected by this and what it seems like Governor Whitmer cares about is her image.
00:52:03.000And what people think of the state of Michigan and her job of it because you know her star is rising or at least was before all of this happened.
00:52:09.000But if you look at the numbers according to the CDC per 100,000 so per capita they're the 11th worst state right the country in vaccination and they're blaming the
00:52:49.000They were just stripped from Governor Cuomo.
00:52:51.000Let's see that happen with Whitmer and then she'll have to at least answer some questions.
00:52:54.000But let's go through the misdeeds that have been committed since then.
00:52:57.000Like you said, back then, just record number of old people who she was snuffing.
00:53:01.000And in October, she ignored the Supreme Court's order striking down her months of executive orders, saying that the emergency powers were necessary.
00:53:09.000Like I said, Cuomo has been stripped of those, so that gives us a path moving forward now, where, no, no, no, no, you can't shut down churches, keep pot shops open, and not disclose the numbers of nursing home deaths.
00:53:20.000And then here's, like, I think we have a clip of what you were talking about.
00:53:24.000Noah, if you want to understand Whitmer, okay, I picture a non-Whitmer.
00:53:28.000And I remove all reason and accountability.
00:53:31.000Because here she is, blaming all of it on, you guessed it, you guessed it, Donald Trump.
00:53:36.000The feds are slow-walking the process of getting the addresses to Pfizer for some reason I cannot get an answer to.
00:53:45.000We have Michigan hospitals and nursing homes ready to administer this vaccine.
00:53:52.000And the bottleneck appears to be the White House.
00:53:57.000Okay, well, Paul, let me just wrap this because Rand Paul's gonna want me to point out Governor Whitmer.
00:54:00.000By the way, she was wearing, she fashioned Ted Nugent's guitar strap into a shirt.
00:54:07.000So, she blamed it on Trump, but once Trump was actually gone, Whitmer failed to allocate enough vaccines for seniors.
00:54:13.000She didn't allow vaccines for 65-year-olds until January 11th, and as of January 1st, only 25.7% of the vaccines supplied by the federal government had been administered.
00:55:34.000Well, I was going to say that we can play the Santa clip, but instead, let me tell you, there's several reasons I want to have Rand Paul on.
00:55:40.000First off, he is the candidate I agree with most who also aggravates me.
00:55:47.000I just feel like he does that with a lot of people.
00:55:50.000I don't think there's a candidate, I don't think there's any politician out there who I agree with more on issues, if you were to do one of those political compass useless tests, than Rand Paul.
00:55:58.000But I do, and I say that because you can just see other people getting irritated here when he was talking with Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, doctor, and providing actual scientifically accurate medical information.
00:56:14.000We have a clip and then we have Senator Rand Paul.
00:56:16.000Do you support the government intervening to override the parents' consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?
00:56:28.000You have said that you're willing to accelerate the protocols for street kids.
00:56:33.000Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?
00:56:39.000Senator, transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field.
00:56:44.000Thanks for informing the practicing doctor.
00:56:48.000I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and talk with you and your staff about the standards of care and the complexity of this field.
00:56:56.000Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the question.
00:57:21.000This was a video that was banned from YouTube at the LGBTQ town hall where they were teaching people how to transition children and get funded by the government.
00:57:28.000And I asked them, I posed as someone who had a transgender child, I said, look, you give them the puberty blockers and then if they decide that they're not trans, you take them off it and they probably go back.
00:58:02.000By the way, it's not just, can the kid make the decision?
00:58:04.000It is, at what point does a seven-year-old get tied up with an activist group that then takes the right of their parents away so that the kid can make the decision legally, even if their parents disagree?
00:58:14.000That logic would be like, so look, you guys have done fitness videos for a long time.
00:58:17.000That's how they became really popular.
00:58:26.000And you go, look, Take Trenbolone, and then afterward, if you find it doesn't give you the results you want, it can just go to, you know, lifting weights and eating right.
00:59:21.000The point is, imagine that you think your parents have, you know, have done right by you.
00:59:26.000You get put on, or you get a sex change, puberty blockers, and then once you reach your teenage years, you find out that you're one of the significant percentage of transgender individuals who will never be able to, being blunt, achieve an orgasm.
01:00:57.000But I just showed that clip of you with Dr. Rachel Levine.
01:01:01.000First off, my question to you, Senator Rand Paul, is how did it feel to have someone sitting there at this hearing informing you of the subtle and nuanced details of transgender medicine, of which I'm sure you were not privy?
01:01:17.000Yeah, I thought maybe Dr. Levine was going to say, now son, you can't understand this and I'll come and talk to you.
01:01:27.000We're just not sure you can understand the nuances of giving little kids hormones that change their sexual appearance.
01:01:34.000But no, I think that when you look at the actual issue, it's horrifying to think that the people Biden is appointing would actually say that a 10-year-old's opinion would override their parents' consent.
01:01:47.000So a parent says, no, don't get anywhere near my kid.
01:01:51.000And the 10-year-old says, oh, I want to go to a gender clinic.
01:01:54.000And all of these people who have already become activists and zealots for this, many of whom have done the surgery to themselves, are there telling your 10-year-old kid how brave they are and how it's a great thing for their kid to want to do this.
01:02:07.000And the parents object, and they would take a 10-year-old's word over their parents.
01:02:11.000or 10-year-old's opinion. See, I think that nobody in America believes that. I think maybe
01:02:16.000less than 1% of America actually think that's a good thing.
01:02:19.000But everybody's afraid of the media because the media will beat the hell out of you and
01:02:23.000say you're a big hater if you bring it up. Well, yeah, you were trending on Twitter as
01:02:28.000transphobic that day when again it used to be that you could say, look, you want to put on
01:02:33.000a dress, put on makeup, as an adult, do whatever you want to do, that's fine.
01:02:37.000As a libertarian, more libertarian-minded person, it doesn't infringe on my life.
01:02:41.000The only issue is when we're talking about women's sports.
01:02:43.000But it used to be, and by used to, I mean two years ago, still a relatively safe position to say, but you can't let kids transition.
01:02:50.000No, no, no, we don't want to let kids transition.
01:02:52.000The good news is, if she were to call you son, you could demand some testosterone pills, throw her for a loop.
01:02:58.000Yeah, because that would be some kind of gender hate crime to refer to me by my gender at all.
01:03:03.000No, I think the thing about it is when you talk about this, they're also lying to you.
01:03:09.000They're saying, oh, it's all reversible.
01:03:11.000Well, there's two different things they want to do to your children.
01:03:15.000There is a certain reversibility to that drug.
01:03:18.000But when they get to be 14, they give a girl massive amounts of testosterone, enough to grow a beard, a beard better than your beard, probably.
01:03:31.000Senator Rand Paul is the person with whom I agree the most and still irritates me.
01:03:38.000Here's the thing is, you give a 14-year-old girl that much testosterone, she grows a beard, she doesn't go back to the appearance of a girl.
01:03:45.000It changes things forever and a 14-year-old can't make this decision.
01:03:50.000But they begin grooming these children at 10, because the so-called psychological evaluation is a bunch of people who have changed their sexual appearance through surgery or hormones, telling the child it's okay.
01:04:03.000Do you think anybody is at the gender dysphoria clinic saying, well, you might be careful, this could be permanent, maybe you'll change your mind?
01:04:12.000The American College of Pediatrics has looked at this and 85 to 90 percent of these children who are confused work it out and end up not doing this.
01:04:21.000If you leave them alone, don't give them medicine and don't affirm and coach them into believing that it's a good idea.
01:04:45.000Now, people don't know this, the number of children who transition, if you put them on hormone blockers, is zero.
01:04:52.000So there's a direct correlation right there between intervention, which we know in any other scenario obviously would be considered medically risky, and the outcome of the child.
01:05:04.000And but this is a bigger debate even just beyond the specific issue of whether or not children should override their parents wishes at such a young age and to do something that I think is potentially irreversible.
01:06:10.000Well, actually, nowhere is this more apparent than all the COVID.
01:06:14.000You know, there's been a million different opinions by Dr. Fauci.
01:06:17.000He's been on both sides of every issue.
01:06:20.000But the one thing consistent about Dr. Fauci is that when he lies to you, he's lying for your own good because you're not You're not smart enough to make decisions.
01:06:31.000You might choose not to be vaccinated if he tells you that herd immunity takes 90%, so he's been telling you 70% because he wants to convince you to take a vaccine.
01:06:42.000Likewise, on the masks, the reason he has admitted that he lied I don't know what the lie was because masks probably don't help at all anyway.
01:06:52.000He says, oh the mask will help the mask.
01:06:54.000Well, but he didn't want you to buy the N95s because the N95s are the only mask that actually probably works to a certain degree.
01:07:01.000That's the one the doctors use and he was afraid that the public would buy them and there wouldn't be enough.
01:07:06.000So he lied or you know misspoke or Told you what he thought you were capable of hearing at your low intellectual level.
01:07:15.000This is, you know, Fauci is the paragon of elitism and that he knows better than the rest of us.
01:07:22.000But in a free society, it's the opposite.
01:07:24.000Every individual assesses their own risk, whether you're going to cross the road, whether you're going to wait for a green light, whether you're going to get in a car, whether you're going to get on a motorcycle, whether you wear a helmet, whether you take a vaccine, whether you get the disease.
01:07:35.000Those are individual decisions in a free society, and we can't forget that.
01:07:38.000And before we go to MuggsLonely here really quickly, didn't he mock you on the mere concept
01:07:43.000of herd immunity or am I misremembering that? At every point that he disagreed with me,
01:07:50.000he turned out to be wrong when you examined the evidence.
01:07:55.000But I'll give you probably the worst one, and this one hasn't been publicized.
01:07:58.000In our first meeting in March of last year, as the disease was just starting to go through that first peak, I raised my hand and said, Dr. Fauci, don't you think in some of these very sick individuals that high-dose steroids might work?
01:08:11.000We've used it in other conditions like this where the lungs fill with fluid as a last gasp sort of thing.
01:08:19.000Well, it turns out the most important thing you get if you have to be put on a ventilator is IV steroids at a high dose to try to save your life.
01:08:26.000And it has actually brought down the mortality by 80% using IV steroids.