In this episode, we discuss the latest on the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the implications for the economy, and what we can do to prevent it from killing more people than it already does. We also have a special guest on the show to talk about why we should be worried about it.
00:00:39.000I think the beautiful time-out or whatever mitigates the disease, but I do understand him wanting to be hopeful and get the economy restarted.
00:01:16.000Him changing or extending the guidelines.
00:01:18.000Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread.
00:01:27.000On Tuesday, we will be finalizing these plans and providing a summary of our findings, supporting data, and strategy to the American people.
00:01:36.000Okay, so I want to be clear about something here.
00:01:39.000Everyone's now saying, okay, we're definitely going to have the number is 100 to 200,000 deaths in the United States.
00:01:49.000I think it's as accurate as they can figure out right now, considering that the original study that they used for the modeling predicted 2.5 million in the United States.
00:01:57.000And then in the UK it was half a million, I believe, right?
00:01:59.000and then they downgrade it to 20,000 or keep it or much less.
00:02:20.000But it pays to get some hand sanitizer.
00:02:23.000I appreciate the verbal accuracy though, right?
00:02:26.000If you're like, it's between zero and ten billion people will die this year.
00:02:30.000I mean, it's harder to get more accurate unless you said zero to eleven billion.
00:02:35.000We're just making some space for them.
00:02:36.000The crazy thing is, and I've been watching CNN and preparing for this, and you let me know, we'll be chatting with you over there at BlazeTV.
00:02:57.000That is relevant because he can't compare us to a country that has a tenth of the population, depending on which country we're talking about.
00:03:03.000And if you look at the per capita death in the United States, it's very, very low.
00:03:06.000It's like five or six compared to China, Italy.
00:03:14.000We should all do what we can to avoid the virus.
00:03:16.000But this idea right now that you somehow don't care about the deaths of Americans, if you say, hey, completely crippling the economy, which will lead to mass unemployment, starvation, and, by the way, people losing their insurance and potentially dying from other, more deadly diseases, you do have to weigh the pros and cons of all these issues.
00:03:39.000What I actually find interesting is that you'll see people talking about the lives and, you know, we need to do everything possible, no questions asked, we have to be able to save as many lives as we can, and yet in the same statement they're like, why can't we get back to work?
00:03:54.000Right. And it was like, hold on, hold on, you understand that those two things are different.
00:03:57.000And so you're going to have to make some hard decisions and that the government is wrangling
00:04:00.000with those things, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, right? I mean, no matter what
00:04:04.000side you're on, both of those parties are trying to figure out they have different ideas about what
00:04:08.000that solution looks like. Right. And certainly we believe there's one of the paths is better than
00:04:12.000the other. But it seems to me we're going, I said this before, we're going about it the wrong way.
00:04:16.000We're arbitrarily creating this list of what are the essential businesses.
00:04:22.000In Italy, 99% of people who died, 99%, this is from the New York Post, had pre-existing conditions.
00:04:28.000The guy who created the Imperial Study, or was associated with the Imperial Study, Neil Ferguson, he admitted that two-thirds of the people who died from coronavirus would have died within that year anyway.
00:04:40.000Now I'm not saying let's accelerate it and decrease the surplus population, but that is different.
00:04:45.000If 99% of people have a pre-existing condition, that is relevant.
00:04:50.000People should know that because if they don't have a pre-existing condition and they get the sniffles, not only should you not go panic buy toilet paper, but you should not be going to the emergency room and cluttering up space that could be used for not only people with coronavirus, by the way, There are still people out there with emphysema and stage 4 cancer and other serious illnesses.
00:05:14.000There was another hospital that opened up to just serve non-coronavirus patients because they said they're being vastly under-recognized by doctors.
00:05:22.000One of the big solutions that's worked in other countries, and that certainly could be an option here, is you identify the people who are, well, I mean, I think they're killing themselves.
00:06:11.000But the point is, you've got people who are especially susceptible, and we know, without question, nobody disagrees that certain people in certain age groups or pre-existing conditions are more at risk.
00:06:23.000So what we need to do is very strongly isolating those individuals.
00:06:58.000Why don't we create a list of non-essential businesses that should be closed?
00:07:01.000Why don't we create a list of people who should be quarantined at this point, rather than say, everything shut down, everybody panic, everybody stay in the house, when the fact is, it's affecting a very small percentage of people.
00:07:13.000Here's something else that nobody tells you.
00:07:15.000The coronavirus, not this coronavirus, this is a novel coronavirus, But if you have Lysol, if you have Matt Cleaner, or anything like that, or you clean an industrial kitchen, you have a bottle and it says, kills coronavirus.
00:07:25.000Coronavirus, some form of it, not this form, typically makes up somewhere, I think it was 7-14% of all influenza cases.
00:07:34.000And right now they're not necessarily taking that into account.
00:07:36.000So at this point, if you were to lump in All coronavirus deaths, okay?
00:07:41.000All coronavirus deaths with the flu deaths this year.
00:07:43.000In other words, if we had not recognized it, and we would just attribute all this to flu deaths, it still wouldn't be an abnormally high season for flu deaths.
00:07:55.000Thank God private industry is stepping up and helping us.
00:07:58.000But I'm not going to be shamed into panicking.
00:08:02.000They're using a lot of the same tactics that they use with climate change right now with people if they go, hey listen, I don't think that we should shut down everything indefinitely.
00:08:09.000We might look into some states opening up more industries specifically to people who aren't all that vulnerable, and you are absolutely excoriated.
00:08:20.000It's like you're a pedophile who writes for a salon.
00:08:22.000What's crazy about this is it's already happening right now.
00:08:24.000We've already made the decision to choose certain businesses and suppliers because people go, oh, if you're within six feet of somebody, you're an asshole.
00:08:33.000And it's like, well, you know, I probably should hold my toddler.
00:08:41.000Well, what about at the grocery store?
00:08:42.000Well, as long as you stay six feet away, but if you grab the same box of Cheerios... We already know that there are ways to reduce the risks, and it requires being specific.
00:13:30.000They decided... We know with jeans, if you have button flies, the buttons go all the way down the middle of the pants.
00:13:36.000With pajamas, they decided we're going to close up a gap of four millimeters at the top of the flap, and on the bottom, we'll leave about a foot and a half.
00:14:02.000And I was a late bloomer, so I was embarrassed, because it's very small.
00:14:05.000And then, this Christmas, my mother-in-law gets me a thermal union suit, because we're in Reno, Nevada, and we're skiing and stuff like that.
00:14:15.000I mean, they ski, and I just drink in the cabana.
00:14:19.000And she gets me, buttoned down and plied, I think at night, you know what, I'm gonna put this on and go on down with my mother, show her that I enjoy the jammies she got me for Christmas.
00:14:26.000And as I walk, there's a sliding door mirror in the bedroom, I take one step, one step, and it was enough inertia to, and my, my...
00:14:35.000Pecker fell right out, and I was going, I just avoided, by the skin of my scrotum, I just avoided my mother-in-law seeing all of it.
00:14:44.000Let me know in the chat, or tweet me, if you, as a man, if you've seen this, every brand of underwear, not underwear, pajamas, underwear they get it right!
00:16:18.000And I know that because I do blood work regularly from some of my kind of pre-existing health conditions, where I go there about every two months.
00:16:42.000Now we're talking about five-minute tests that don't require them to go up into your sinus like that film Artificial Intelligence with Haley Joel Osment.
00:16:49.000Did you see the cutaway of what it looks like when they put the thing down?
00:16:52.000Yeah, they're just touching your brain.
00:17:10.000The CDC, they were the only ones who were cleared by the FDA to create these tests.
00:17:15.000They weren't ready in time and it took hours or significant turnaround time.
00:17:19.000They had to swab your brain and it didn't work.
00:17:22.000The second we approve any from private businesses, you can do it in five minutes at home and you don't have to scratch your medulla oblongata.
00:17:29.000It is interesting how many people are like, I can't believe we're gonna let these private companies make money off this.
00:17:59.000I do the corona swab, and you make crappy movies because you have all this money, but for some reason you desperately want to be a part of Hollywood.
00:18:06.000No one understands this about Jeff Bezos, but it really is bizarre.
00:18:55.000It's not the folks at the post office that you want developing this cure.
00:18:58.000You want some folks who have some innovation, have some ambition, and actually want to use the stuff that they have, the skills that they have, and make tons of money.
00:19:06.000And also I would trust the cure more so to FedEx.
00:19:09.000Like if we decided to entrust the cure to a carrier service, it'd go FedEx.
00:19:51.000If you order in the next 10 minutes, we'll include a discount on the Loudmouth Crowder proprietary browning bread box, so that you can actually make your own toast at home.
00:20:34.000By the way, something to keep in mind, the CDC, or it depends, the FDA, who you want to look at with this, they never replenish the stockpile of masks after Ebola.
00:20:44.000This is insane, that they didn't have the foresight to go, hey, we just had a giant We had a giant thing go on, and we used all the masks.
00:21:24.000And it's not a sponsor, I don't think, because they're sold out, but Prepare with Crowder, we had those sort of bombshell- Yeah, that's right.
00:21:28.000Bet you're not calling me a conspiracy theorist now, but my wife and I ate all the oatmeal because it was so tasty.
00:22:57.000He might be retarded, because in Friendship Club, true story, my wife, uh, my wife was, this girl was really jealous of my wife's relationship with her aunt, and what they did was they would go to sometimes Disney World with people, this is a thing, it was like special needs, a group.
00:23:10.000And so they would go to Disney World every year and she, this other mentally handicapped, what do we say, special needs, mentally handicapped, disabled, whatever the term is that doesn't offend you most, she was upset that my wife had a close relationship with her aunt who was leading this function at Disney World.
00:23:27.000And my wife came home, I shouldn't be wearing shoes, should I?
00:23:33.000But my wife came home to her hotel room in Disney World that night and out of spite, the special needs girl, she was snow angling in my wife's bed and rubbing her shoes on the pillow because she was jealous of her aunt.
00:23:47.000But it's the kind of behavior that you accept because she's mentally handicapped, or a member of Antifa, or Rights for Buzzfeed, but that's my point is this prejudice of soft expectations.
00:23:57.000It's wonderful for mentally disabled people, not so much just because someone's a minority.
00:24:02.000Like I wouldn't allow you to rub your feet on my...
00:24:32.000And Donald Trump, remember this, when he had that, what do you call it, summit, press conference, whatever he's doing, the briefings, whatever they call it now.
00:24:39.000And he said, maybe we could find a way to reuse masks, or maybe you could spray them with some kind of liquid.
00:24:46.000And then they said, there's no way to sterilize these masks.
00:24:48.000The FDA has now amended its initial approval granted early Sunday, now allowing Battelle to sterilize the N95 surgical masks without a daily limit.
00:24:57.000They can be sterilized, reused 20 times thanks to the FDA's loosening rules.
00:25:02.000You know, if capitalism is allowed to go unchecked, we're going to beat this coronavirus, and then where will CNN be?
00:25:10.000Ladies and gentlemen, we have to preserve the job of second-rate reporters by allowing this virus to continue.
00:25:46.000The death rate when you account for it, it was 1%.
00:25:48.000And then when you account for people who are below the age of 70, it was much, much lower.
00:25:52.000Like the death rate for people who are below 70 didn't have any kind of pre-existing conditions.
00:25:57.000You were talking about a minuscule amount.
00:25:58.000It's the closest thing that we have to a sample study of knowing who's infected and knowing as much as we could possibly know about their health effects.
00:28:19.000We're going to get to a little bit of President Trump's slow response.
00:28:22.000That's what he's been accused of here recently.
00:28:25.000But before we do that, actually, I want to keep things in context.
00:28:27.000We'll be getting to some of your chat here in a little bit or send in your pictures in the morning with your mug at twitter.com slash s Crowder Keep it in context because in Canada things are very different as a matter of fact right now There are people who are being arrested and fined thousands of dollars right for going outside and violating the sort of lockdown orders, right?
00:28:45.000Just as scary, or scarier than the coronavirus, is the complete absolvement of rights that have been long-standing because we're afraid of a microbe.
00:28:54.000Not saying it's not serious, but that is, equally, we need to weigh this.
00:28:58.000So, actually, our favorite Greek-Canadian, who helps work with the show behind the scenes, but he's going to be our Canadian correspondent right now.
00:29:05.000To provide a little context and hopefully make you feel better about your day, let's
00:31:01.000Hey, let's go to CNN real quick and see what they have right now and see what we've gotten wrong so far.
00:31:06.000And, you know, it's all about how can we help these folks try to get back on their feet, try to, you know, get through weather, this storm.
00:31:14.000This is not just an issue in San Diego, but this is an issue, obviously, all across the country.
00:31:19.000So I really tried to set the tone here in San Diego.
00:31:22.000It's not only if you're Democrat, Republican, it's bringing this city together, putting policies that are going to help people, and help people now.
00:31:35.000That guy on the right looks like a Fred Armisen character.
00:31:38.000By the way, keep in mind they have total cases and deaths on there, then they have the United States total cases and deaths.
00:31:44.000This is something when you tune into CNN, and one of these mornings we'll be doing just watching CNN and fact-checking during the break, almost like an ombudsman.
00:31:50.000Those numbers are significantly lower than deaths from the flu.
00:31:55.000And so it does matter when the models that were used predicted 20 to 50 times higher deaths, especially when you consider the fact that these deaths are significantly lower than are registering right now if you take into account people who are over the age of 80 or if you take into account people who had serious pre-existing conditions who are going to die within that year anyway.
00:32:13.000Not saying we shouldn't take care of them because this isn't a socialized healthcare country.
00:32:17.000That's very common in Canada or in Italy where they just don't help you no matter what.
00:32:21.000The fact that the Do Not Resuscitate Order is a controversy in the United States tells you the different standard of care that we have here.
00:32:28.000But they just want to toss it up to scare everybody and show that the United States has handled this the most poorly.
00:32:32.000Actually, if you look at countries with socialized healthcare systems and you look at the per capita deaths, we have handled it incredibly well.
00:32:38.000The biggest hiccups, the biggest logjams that we have had have been the FDA and the CDC, and it's still happening.
00:33:04.000Apparently the concierge doctors now are reaching out and helping a lot of people.
00:33:07.000I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they start creating at-home care centers.
00:33:12.000There's a lot of doctors, not just a random guy at a truck stop.
00:33:17.000Speaking of the media trying to scare people, it was trending on Twitter this morning.
00:33:21.000CBS News was using shots from an Italian hospital.
00:33:27.000And when they were talking about New York, right and so it's it really is a big part of this narrative and like so if you show if you show these pictures of like 30 beds full of people it's it is gonna make a difference where you say those people are so yeah as I said it was turning on tour this you know it would horrify yeah Americans right outside of the coronavirus shots of Italian hospitals Yeah, period.
00:33:50.000People don't realize, it was Blodgett Hospital when I moved to Michigan.
00:34:35.000And I know not all hospitals are great here, and not all hospitals are terrible, but if you were to take the best hospitals in Montreal, when I lived there, it wasn't even close to this hospital, which wasn't considered necessarily top tier.
00:34:47.000The best hospital in Canada would be a horror show to most Americans, let alone Americans who mostly go into like 24-hour emergency clinics now.
00:35:08.000We should just get a bunch of photos from before and be like, is this the hospital today?
00:35:13.000I mean, it's just a very different standard.
00:35:16.000And in other countries where you have to, you know, the commoditized health care, you just, you can't afford the kind of things that we have here.
00:35:22.000And part of the question is, you're never asking, is Italy going to come up with some cure?
00:35:35.000is criticized for being number one, but then is The sheer fact of being number one is a point to be critical, and then because you didn't do enough because you were number one, you're critical as well.
00:37:07.000There haven't been nearly as many new competitors.
00:37:09.000You can't compete with a never-ending supply of federal funds.
00:37:12.000We need to delineate between that and the people who've been directly affected because the government effectively shut down their business.
00:37:35.000You should give the whole world a discount, by the way, for lying about this, for being dishonest, for not telling people what was actually happening.
00:37:42.000And NATO, let's say, you know what, NATO?
00:38:25.000If you want to use American-made or American-manufactured drugs invented here in the United States from American pharmaceutical companies, you pay a premium.
00:38:36.000This is the America First that I can be on board with.
00:38:39.000Not tariffs, not trying to shut down global free enterprise or trade on a fair level, which isn't happening with China most of the time, but this idea that we shouldn't be footing the bill for everyone else right now.
00:40:48.000We do have to get to it, but a great example is the sort of, if you look at the chasm between people being offended by Chinese virus versus the people of China.
00:40:56.000So the American media is like, you can't say that because there's going to be violence committed against Chinese Americans, which of course none of us want to see.
00:41:01.000But then you look at people who are trying to circumvent the Chinese government and the censorship and they're going, tell the world!
00:41:07.000Tell the world that it's the Chinese virus because they harmed us.
00:41:10.000These people are upset with government.
00:41:11.000Keep in mind that guy who said, Donald Trump, don't trust China, China is asshole.
00:41:15.000That guy was, he was not North American.
00:41:19.000This is how they feel about the government.
00:41:21.000Empathizing with the Chinese people requires ridiculing the Chinese government, because they are... It is amazing that this has been allowed to go unchecked, and you have all these economists go up and say, well, China's the next great superpower of the world.
00:41:35.000Only if good people don't stop them and do something, because there has to be somewhere Where it stops and people are no longer abused by one of the most oppressive regimes that we can think of in modern mankind.
00:41:46.000Let's not act as though American workers in a Ford plant are on the same playing field as the kids working at an Apple factory.
00:41:55.000Do we have on the line, I believe we have right now, our guest for the show, Mahmoud Al-Mahmoud, and he is the Director of Public Relations at ISIS.
00:44:05.000Social distancing, you know, also washing hands.
00:44:08.000It's a little bit different there in your culture because you eat from the communal bowl and, you know, we had a toilet paper shortage, but you guys don't necessarily use toilet paper.
00:44:16.000So how does it affect people like you in respect to ISIS?
00:44:19.000You know, in some ways we do have it easier, Stephen, if that's what you're getting at.
00:45:19.000Like so many things in life, you know, it's a balance of risks.
00:45:23.000Yes, it is a balance of risks, and I appreciate you letting us know that.
00:45:26.000Hey, we do have to get going here, but Mahmoud, what's your hope or what advice do you have to Americans as the public relations director for ISIS?
00:45:36.000Yeah, you know, well, I think that the end is near.
00:46:28.000This is remarkable to me, I will say this.
00:46:40.000These production companies, you look at CNN, you look at these late night hosts, they're so used to having, I think Leno had 147 employees, I know it's over 100 for every late night show, it's well over 100 for most of these shows at CNN, not to mention writers, producers, segment producers.
00:46:53.000And what happens is, they have all this money, and it goes away because of a self-quarantine, and so, they just decide, well, just turn on your iPhone, like, you can all, there's a middle, there's a middle ground.
00:47:14.000This is more, this show, you know what, when people think of Lotto with credit, you don't think polish?
00:47:20.000As a matter of fact, what we told you guys when we said, Mug Club Quarantine Month, everything's going to be free, in front of the paywall, plus more content than ever because we want to interact with you.
00:47:29.000What we told you was, listen, there's going to be less polish.
00:48:38.000They step in and they say, you know what, we're going to try and flag and copyright and shut down people who criticize our content.
00:48:43.000Then they start running more advertising dollars on YouTube so that they can manipulate what gets seen more, what's considered advertiser friendly, and it still doesn't work.
00:48:55.000So there is a silver lining here right now that I think we've learned the media is not the same.
00:49:00.000Well, we've known this for a while, but it's on showcase right now, 24 hours a day.
00:49:03.000They're not the people that we thought they were.
00:49:05.000They don't care about you, and most of all, and most offensively of all, they're incredibly lazy.
00:49:13.000And right now, they're running an ad for St.
00:49:15.000Jude, that's nice, but I've been looking at... it's been nothing but like gold.
00:49:18.000You would think that people who watch CNN spend their days crapping themselves, buying precious metals all day, putting an awning up on their camper.
00:50:35.000And I've had a couple themed weddings that I've had to play at, and one of them was, like, all Yanni songs, one was Enya, one was Guitar Hero songs.
00:51:35.000It was a reminder, because when you were talking about where all the different folks were having to deal with the media and whether they can trust these things and how this platform goes around, The only way it happens is Mug Club.
00:51:46.000And that was the only way we had it back then.
00:51:48.000And thank you so much to everyone who's joined.
00:51:49.000Again, we're doing this because this is how we can give back.
00:51:52.000We have decided to take an acceptable risk, and everyone here is quarantined just at the office and just at home, washing our hands, hand sanitizer everywhere.
00:51:58.000Though, I'm gonna be honest, I'm not really at, none of us here at significant risk, so we're not exactly kamikaze-ing Pearl Harbor, like, going out in our shield.
00:52:36.000The only issue, we tried to get this up and running immediately, you can't put in your username yet.
00:52:41.000So in your comment, just put your name and colon, and that should be fixed here within the next two weeks, because we wanted to make sure that we had the chat up there.
00:52:47.000We don't want to do super chat on YouTube, because not only do they not pay us, but then they can spy on us.
00:52:52.000So we'll be doing that, doing that, talking to people, getting some interesting questions from the biggest fans.
00:55:58.000Areas with few infections can turn into big fires without social distancing.
00:56:02.000It is a fundamental difference, John, between what we were hearing just last week, this idea that maybe those places could start to be open.
00:56:57.000I do realize I thought last night that I was going through some stuff kind of getting ready for this and well you know just doing the kind of browse looking on various social media but also reading news sites and not a single article talks about the lack of testing as it relates to other countries.
00:57:10.000Every single one of them is criticizing the United States, saying there's not enough testing
00:57:14.000here, 300 plus million people, you should have more tests, etc.
00:57:17.000Here, it's a failure of the government, of Trump, etc.
00:57:21.000But not a single one of them is posting about other countries that have even worse systems.
00:57:48.000And yet, we're saying there's no number of testing that's happening there.
00:57:52.000So you're telling me those are the numbers we should believe?
00:57:55.000The only number you can really trust, and you still can't trust it, the most accurate number we have is the total number of deaths.
00:58:01.000Not even the mortality rate as a percentage of the disease, because we don't know how many people have it, and now they're determining that more people have it who are asymptomatic.
00:58:08.000Again, you hear that, you go, oh, okay, so more people have it than we realize.
00:58:11.000They're asymptomatic or it's very mild.
00:58:12.000And they go, that means they can transmit it!
00:58:14.000Well, hold on a second, let's look at the bright side.
00:58:16.000That means that the death rate is much lower.
00:58:19.000It's well under 1%, particularly for people who are under the age of 80 years old.
00:58:25.000Well, yeah, and those are the only things we have to compare it to.
00:58:28.000We can only compare it to how other countries are handling this exact thing.
00:58:32.000So, like, we can look back and see other pandemics and how other presidents may have handled Those, but the only other people who are handling this one are the other countries around us.
00:58:42.000So it depends on what you compare it to.
00:58:43.000And it's remarkable to me when they compare us to South Korea.
00:59:09.000And so South Korea had privatized testing, and the government basically docks their citizens.
00:59:13.000So if you are willing to do that, this is something we need to take into account.
00:59:16.000Should your data be given over to the government, and should they then have the right to post it publicly so people know where to avoid corona hotspots?
00:59:50.000So imagine if we were in an actual pandemic, how quickly your rights would go away.
00:59:55.000And not just because of the government violently seizing them.
00:59:57.000Donald Trump really hasn't been doing that.
00:59:58.000It's because of the people demanding it, and the media demanding it.
01:00:01.000If you don't demand that there is a federal lockdown that puts all businesses out of work as we know them right now, you, for some reason, don't care about the people who are being lost to corona.
01:00:13.000Which, by the way, if you calculate it all up, still less at this point than flu deaths.
01:00:19.000We need to take all of these things into account.
01:00:21.000And by the way, we don't have time for the commercials because we're running a little bit late.
01:00:24.000So Black Rifle Coffee, they are still in business right now.
01:01:37.000about President Trump's really bad job, right?
01:01:39.000This is what they're trying to run with.
01:01:41.000So I think we have a clip right now about Pelosi putting Donald Trump on blast, if you look at the headlines over there at Huffington Post or Salon.
01:03:07.000It was people like you, Pelosi, and people in New York who were saying that it wasn't a big deal and actually discouraged people from actively leaving because they thought there was a threat posed.
01:03:18.000If you don't believe me, here's a clip.
01:04:18.000During that period, Donald Trump finished creating a Chinese virus task force, January 19th, less than a week after the World Health Organization said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
01:04:29.000Then he banned, Trump banned travel to China, this is important to note, which Biden accused him of being xenophobic for doing.
01:05:12.000I always look for bear traps, because wolverines, some guys get caught in them, and then they chew off their own leg and they chase down the person who laid the bear trap because they tracked down the scent, and I wrote a short story about it in grade school.
01:05:20.000I failed miserably, mainly because I just ripped off Jurassic Park and replaced the Velociraptors with a wolverine.
01:06:09.000Donald Trump cut down travel to China, right?
01:06:12.000Put a ban in place, which they accused him of being racist doing that.
01:06:15.000This was, keep in mind, at a time when the World Health Organization, who by the way, when they had their conversations, excluded Taiwan, which to me is very telling.
01:06:21.000Did you see that video of the World Health Organization, the representative there?
01:06:24.000He was being interviewed on Skype and he just acted like he didn't hear the question regarding Taiwan.
01:06:30.000He said, yeah I don't know if we can bring it up or we can bring it up tonight.
01:09:33.000And they just say, look, if you recognize Taiwan as its own country, you're dead to us.
01:09:37.000And so the WHO is an international organization that receives support from another number of countries and of the big five, China is one of them.
01:09:45.000And so when China says, hey, we're going to stop cooperating with you or funding you or whatever it may be, who knows what these conversations are like.
01:09:51.000But we do know what they could be like because it's the same public conversation that China has all the time.
01:09:57.000If you recognize Taiwan, you're dead to us.
01:10:32.000But if you think about the places that are highly at risk, we're all concerned about Korea because it's so connected there to China, just across on another peninsula.
01:10:41.000Taiwan and China, the number of flights between those two countries, I don't know what they are, but the amount of travel directly or indirectly in that hemisphere that includes Taiwan is extraordinary.
01:10:50.000So when you think about a place that's going to need support and certainly wants to know does it have the support of the World Health Organization and they can't even get an answer, it's a big concern.
01:10:59.000And keep in mind, the World Health Organization, this is the organization that went with these studies, right?
01:11:24.000Because they do not get to rewrite history.
01:11:27.000Again, aiming it at the Chinese government, the World Health Organization.
01:11:30.000If you look at the timeline, all of the information that has been fed to the international community from China, World Health has echoed it almost exactly to a T. And then when questioned about Taiwan, again, who was an ally, the United States supports them.
01:11:44.000We certainly understand that they are... Do we officially recognize them?
01:11:50.000It's a complicated issue, but they operate autonomously in a lot of ways, in a way that we would actually be required to provide them with some kind of aid, and we do.
01:12:00.000That should tell you how terrified they are, and how beholden not to the people of China, but to the government of China that they actually are.
01:12:08.000And keep in mind, this is the same organization that ranked the United States, I believe, 36th An international healthcare right next to Slovenia and Colombia.
01:12:17.000So do they have a vested interest in playing down the success of the United States?
01:12:22.000And do they have a vested interest in trying to parrot the messages coming from the Chinese government?
01:12:29.000They've done that thus far, consistently, and it's something that we need to be concerned with, especially if we are talking about shutting down the American economy, and by proxy, the global economy, as the result of this information which is, by and large, being provided to us by the World Health Care Organization.
01:12:46.000Following the money, following the relationships, it does matter.
01:12:50.000And if we leave you with nothing else right now, we will see you tonight at 9 p.m.
01:13:00.000They don't want their grandparents to die, neither do I. They don't want people who are at risk to die, neither do I.
01:13:03.000And people on the other side also care when they say, I don't want every friend I know to be unemployed or small business that I know to go under.
01:13:13.000Sure, the big boys may survive because of the never-ending supply of corporate bailouts, but guess what?
01:13:16.000A lot of small businesses will shutter their doors forevermore.
01:13:20.000There is a balance to be had here, and I think the numbers do matter.
01:13:23.000especially the source of those numbers.
01:13:25.000We're talking about the World Health Care Organization.
01:13:26.000The numbers matter for us to balance the risk-reward ratio.
01:13:31.000It doesn't mean that you don't care about any lives lost if you want to prevent damage going forward as effectively as possible, both health-wise and economically.