Ep 461 | Nope, We Are Not Masking Up & Locking Down Again | Guest: Steve Deace
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Summary
In this episode, we talk to Steve Dacey, a reporter who has been digging into the data for the past year and a half. He gives us the specifics about the data and what we should actually be doing and thinking about when it comes to the data about the vaccine, the Delta Variant, and the messaging from the CDC.
Transcript
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I have got a full show for you today. We are
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talking about a subject that I, if you would have told me that we were still talking about
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this a year ago, I would have, I don't know, buried my head in the sand and not wanted to
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listen to you. And yet here we are still talking about COVID. And we're also going to talk about
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the vaccine. We're going to talk about the change in messaging that we have heard from the White
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House, that we have heard from the CDC. I'm going to give you just my general opinions on it. And
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then I'm talking to Steve Dace, who has been reporting on this, digging into the data on this
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for the past year and a half. And he was going to tell us the specifics about the data and what we
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should actually be doing and thinking when it comes to the data about the vaccine, the data about the
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Delta variant, the data about the vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and all of that. So he's going to
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tell us the specifics. I'm going to give you a general overview of some of the inconsistencies
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that we have seen, as well as just my kind of, again, general take on all of it. So you have
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heard, obviously, how important it is to get the vaccine. I've told you guys that it's none of my
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business whether or not you've gotten the vaccine. It's none of your business whether or not I've
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gotten the vaccine. There are risks that have been reported by the Washington Post, by the New York
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Times, by the CDC, by the WHO, about the vaccines that I just think that it is up to you to weigh
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the risks, to weigh the benefits, depending on your health status, depending on your age, depending on
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the people that you're around, the circumstances that you're in, the travel requirements for you,
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for your job, that it is your responsibility to make those calculations and to decide whether or not
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you are going to get the vaccine based on those calculations. I, unlike the president of the
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United States, who said that all unvaccinated people are basically dumb, he said, you guys aren't
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as smart as I think you are to people who are unvaccinated. I think that you, as an individual,
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are very smart. I think that you are really good at critical thinking. I think that you have the
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ability to be able to study this stuff and to look at numbers and to look at the research and to decide
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for yourself and for your family what is best. This whole line that, well, no, there is no
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thoughtfulness that has to come with this. There's no critical thinking. There's no questioning. There's
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no data that you need to look at. You just need to listen to the so-called experts and the so-called
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scientists that are really more politicians than scientists. That is bunk because the people who are
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most vulnerable to this, the only group for which COVID is more dangerous than the flu, people who are
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seniors, 60 plus, most of them have been vaccinated. The vast majority of them have been vaccinated.
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So it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to tell healthy young people that you have to get it
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in order to help other people. Well, the people who are most vulnerable have been vaccinated. The
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people who are least vulnerable haven't been vaccinated. That's people ages 0 to 12, really ages 0 to
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19. The flu is much more deadly, according to the CDC, for that group of people, people ages 0 to 19.
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And so telling everyone in the middle that you have to get vaccinated for the sake of other people,
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well, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There may be very good reasons for you to get
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vaccinated. There may be very good reasons. And you should talk to your doctor and you should
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assess all of those things in your life. I am not anti that at all. I am not. I'm not anti
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any vaccine, including the COVID-19 vaccine. I am not. I just think that you are smarter
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than a lot of journalists on the left, a lot of activists on the left, and the president of the
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United States thinks that you are. I give you a lot more credit. I give all of us a lot more credit
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than our social engineers want to give people. And that includes that includes all people, whether
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you have decided to get the vaccine or not. The reason there is vaccine hesitancy is either a
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because people have weighed the risk. They've done the risk benefit analysis. They have decided
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they've decided that it just doesn't make sense for them, doesn't make sense for your life,
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whatever it is. Either that's it or people have had a really hard time keeping up with what's true
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and what's not, coming from the CDC, coming from the government. The government has no one to blame
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and the media have no one to blame for vaccine hesitancy but themselves. The CDC has no one to
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blame for vaccine hesitancy except for themselves, the media, and the government. That is a fact.
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They have gone back and forth on everything. At first, we were told, of course, this has 99%
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efficacy. You should absolutely get the vaccine and you are protected from everything. Now,
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we are hearing that's not necessarily true. It was just reported this morning. I saw the New York
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Post say that apparently scientists are warning that we are just a few variants away in COVID-19 from the
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vaccines no longer working. I also saw the Washington Post report that apparently you have to get a third
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booster shot in order to be truly protected from this Delta variant. At the same time, we are hearing
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a reversal of what we just heard a few months ago from the CDC that fully vaccinated people still need
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to wear a mask, still need to socially distance, and basically do all of the things that they were
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doing at the height of the pandemic, despite the fact that we are at record lows for hospitalizations
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and deaths across the country for COVID. Yes, cases have gone up, but deaths and hospitalizations
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have not gone up. And I think you can attribute that to a few things. I think one of the things
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that you can contribute that to is the vaccine. We're going to talk more about that with Steve
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Days. And now we are hearing not only do adults who have been fully vaccinated, they need to double
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mask and do all of those things that we were still doing a year ago. We're also told, this is according
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to CNN, the CDC will recommend everyone in K through 12 schools wear a mask regardless of vaccination
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status in new guidance. So what is the goal here? Is the goal to incentivize people to get vaccinated,
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vaccinated? Or is it not? Because if you're trying to say that your life is going to be the exact same,
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basically, whether or not you get vaccinated, that is not going to encourage healthy young people to
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get vaccinated. The messaging on this is so absurd. Why anyone trusts the media? Why anyone trusts these
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soulless bureaucrats to dictate your life and to tell you what is best for you and your family? It's beyond
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me. It is beyond me. Look, we're not doing this again. Okay? We're not doing this again. People
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are going to get vaccinated if they want to get vaccinated. More power to everyone who makes your
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own decision whether or not to get vaccinated. For some people, it makes more sense than others.
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People are going to wear their mask if they want to wear their mask. I saw this very troubling thread
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from an anesthesiologist saying that she still goes to the grocery store, full-on pretty much
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hazmat suit, does not talk to anyone, puts on her gloves. You've heard of Amazon Prime, right? Just
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order your groceries off the internet. But anyway, if you want to do that, whatever, that's fine. You
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have the absolute freedom to do that. We are not closing down businesses again. We are not closing
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down schools again. More kids died by suicide in the last year and a half than died by COVID.
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The mental health crisis is worse than it's ever been. We are not shutting down the country,
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shutting down the economy, ruining people's lives, crashing the mental health of young people,
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irrevocably, irreversibly harming young people. We are not going to inhibit the education of young
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kids who actually need to be able to see the facial expressions of their teachers in order to be able to
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learn how to communicate. We're teaching young people to distance themselves in social interactions,
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to not trust people, to view people as vectors of a virus that, for kids, again, has basically
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no threat. It poses no threat to them whatsoever. And we are really rewarding people who don't follow the
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science, who don't follow the facts about that kind of thing, who keep on insisting that mask mandates
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work when there's no data to prove that, who keep on insisting that lockdowns work when there's no data
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to prove that, and actually a lot of data that proves to the contrary. Those people who don't follow the
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science, who don't follow the facts, point their fingers at everyone else for being anti-science?
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No, no, we're not. We are not doing this again. We're not. And I've seen people, you know,
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protests in Australia, protests in France about lockdowns, about vaccine mandates,
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and they're not having it. They're not having it. And so I've seen people, apolitical people,
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even people I think who probably identify as on the left say, no, my kid is not going to wear a mask
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at school. They're not. And because it doesn't make sense, they're not only not getting the virus,
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and they're certainly not dying from the virus, they're also not transmitting the virus from all
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available data. So it's just not going to happen. And you're telling me that we're supposed to trust
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the same media who said that the Black Lives Matter riots and mass protests, most of them maskless
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mass protests, by the way, which I personally don't think makes a whole lot of a difference,
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but we're told that a mask is a sign of your virtue, that that those were actually that didn't spread
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the virus at all, that that was that was totally fine. And that actually may have helped stop the
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transmission of the virus. I'm not kidding you. Let me read you. Let me read you some headlines.
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This was posted by libs of TikTok, which is a very depressing account because he posts the most
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ridiculous takes that you can find on TikTok and he posts them on Twitter. But he did a lot of
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research, I'm guessing it's a he, in comparing and contrasting the attack on the Capitol. So the
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riot that happened on the Capitol, which of course is terrible. We've already talked about that. I don't
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even need to give that caveat. You guys know how I feel about that. Versus how they reported on COVID
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when it comes to the Black Lives Matter protests and riots. Okay, so let's let's just compare some
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of the headlines from last summer to what happened at the Capitol. So this is Vox. Vox said, June 26,
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2020, the effect of Black Lives Matter protests on coronavirus cases explained. Coronavirus cases
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are increasing, but Black Lives Matter protests may not be to blame. Here's why. Then January 10,
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2021, the attack on the Capitol may have also been a super spreader event. Lawmakers may have been
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exposed to the coronavirus during Wednesday's riot. Wow. So first of all, it's amazing what counts as a
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riot and what doesn't. Apparently, burning and desecrating federal buildings, as long as you're a
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left-wing rioter, is not a riot. That is a peaceful protest that actually somehow stops the transmission
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of the virus. But desecrating and storming upon federal property, if you are someone who identifies
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as right-wing, is a riot and also is a super spreader event. This virus is so woke. The wokeness
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of this virus just continues to impress me. Okay, here's what Forbes said. Forbes says in July.
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Getting old, I can't see any glasses. Okay, research determines protests did not cause spike in
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coronavirus cases. That's what Forbes said in June 2020. Then January 10, 2021, Forbes says lawmakers
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sheltering during Capitol riot may have been exposed to coronavirus. Okay, so again, we see this very,
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very woke virus. CNN, June 2020, Black Lives Matter protests have not led to a spike in coronavirus cases,
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research says. And then January 2021, 38 Capitol police officers test positive for COVID-19 after
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Capitol riot. USA Today, June 2020, coronavirus surges aren't linked to Black Lives Matter protests.
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And then we see USA Today reports in January of 2021, Wednesday storming at the U.S. Capitol will
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likely be a surge event for the coronavirus. CNBC, House GOP leaders suggest without evidence that
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protests are driving up coronavirus cases. That's June 2020. Then January 2021, COVID killing nearly
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3,000 in U.S. every day, a CDC warns of surge event from Capitol riots. And so the Capitol riot
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actually didn't just cause a surge there in D.C., didn't just expose lawmakers, but the surge that we
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were seeing across the country actually happened because of what happened at the Capitol. That's
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amazing. The New York Times, June 2020, did Floyd protests lead to a virus surge? Here's what we know.
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Epidemiologists have braced for a surge of coronavirus cases, but it has not come yet.
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Wow. Then January 2021, did mixing a riot with the pandemic yield a super spreader event? Members
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of a mob, many unmasked, roamed the halls of the Capitol, unmasked Republicans jammed into secure
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rooms. The outcome is worrisome to many members of Congress. It goes on and on. We've got NBC saying
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the same thing. We've got Insider saying the same thing. We've got the Wall Street Journal doing the
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same little dance. We've got the AP. We've got The Verge. I mean, we've got media outlet after media
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outlet basically, you know, doing PR for Black Lives Matter, saying that a whole mass of people
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together yelling without masks on doesn't spread coronavirus. If that's true, by the way, then there's
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certainly no reason for lockdowns. Like, there's no reason why people shouldn't just be in maskless
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mosh pits all the time. If that doesn't lead to the coronavirus, but somehow, like, kids in a
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classroom being six feet apart does lead to the coronavirus, we've got some problems here. But of
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course, what happened on January 6th, that was a super spreader event. Again, I just want to say the
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political leanings of COVID-19 are just, they're so incredibly progressive and, of course, worthy of
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the media's applause. And so when you see this kind of inconsistency, you see this kind of inconsistency
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coming from the CDC, coming from the White House, and just the condescension also coming from the
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White House. When you see this kind of thing coming from journalists, that obviously politics are at
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play here. When you see the media reporting that it's only white evangelical Trump-supporting Calvinists
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who are not getting vaccinated when the data doesn't show that at all, when actually there are
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Democrats also who aren't getting vaccinated. And there is a large, a large percentage of
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minority Americans, what they would call black and brown bodies, I think is like the progressive
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terminology, are not getting vaccinated. And somehow, I even saw someone, I think it was on MSNBC,
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blaming that. The fact that black and brown Americans are not getting the vaccine, somehow
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that is also blamed on white supremacy. It's really incredible. This is all political. It's all
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political. And that's unfortunate because this is a real virus and it's killing real people and it has
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real effects. And so do the lockdowns and so does distant learning and virtual learning. All of this
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stuff has a real effect on people who lost their jobs, whose mental health collapsed, who have been
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isolated for the past year and a half. These are hurting real people. Lack of freedom, lack of objective
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information about the virus, lack of consistency when it comes to the release of scientific findings
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about the vaccines. All of that has an effect on real people. But it seems like the people who are
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are giving us these messages don't actually care. They don't actually care. They care about their
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bottom line. They care about their power. They care about their influence. And I'm just here to say,
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like, we're not doing this again. We're not going back to where we were a year ago. And if you as a
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parent of a student, as just an individual, as a constituent, if you don't care enough to stand up
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for truth, to stand up for facts, to stand up for actual science, and to stand up for liberty,
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then you're useless at this point, okay? Like, we're in a very important point in history where
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people have to be willing to say what is true. And you want to talk about loving your neighbor.
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Loving your neighbor is caring about the truth, is caring about a fact, is caring about the science,
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is caring about your neighbor's freedom and their right to be able to live in liberty. That should be
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a given in the United States of America. And it should be up to our policymakers to constantly
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be weighing that, to say, okay, how do we make sure that we're protecting public health as much as we
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can without infringing on the rights of our constituents and making sure that we don't crush
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their livelihoods and their lives? It shouldn't really be. It is complicated, but it shouldn't
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really be all that difficult. And yet, because of the constant politicization in the United States,
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it actually does become very complex. And so we need people like you to stand up and care.
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We need more people to care. All right. Now I'm going to talk to Steve Dace, who has
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so much data for us, so many facts for us. And if you are feeling riled up, you're going to feel
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even more riled up after you listen to him. And that's a good thing. We need to be riled up right
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now. We don't need to be anxious because God is offering over it all. But we do need to care.
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We need to care. Now is not the time for complacency. That's the last feeling that
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you need to have is complacency. All right. We're about to get into that conversation.
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Steve, thank you so much for joining us on your birthday, might I add. I want to talk to you
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about all the COVID inconsistency that you have been talking about for a very long time.
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Let's first start with some of the messaging that we've seen about the vaccine. The latest I saw was
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that actually we're a few strains away from the vaccine no longer working. What the heck does that
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mean? What does that imply for people who haven't been vaccinated? Make sense of that for us.
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Well, we've we've traditionally and I'm citing here somebody who knows a lot more about this than me.
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Martin Koldorf at Harvard, number one rated university in the country. He helped to build the CDC's
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adverse side effects website. He's one of the leading epidemiological researchers and statisticians
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in the world. He says we've never really done going back to the history of vaccination, which really
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dates back to trying to use cowpox to defeat smallpox in the late 18th century. That was kind of
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the first ever vaccination attempt. In all that time, Ali, we have never really attempted while an
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outbreak was still ascendant to some level to try to inoculate or vaccinate people in real time while
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this is happening. Instead, what we have done in this word has now, of course, been bastardized like
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a lot of words that used to have great meaning in our tradition have been in recent years. Instead,
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we practiced for thousands of years what was called herd immunity. And this is by isolating those who were
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either the most vulnerable or were the most symptomatic from the rest of the community or
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the herd. While the herd then built up its immune system and slowly but surely began to build up a
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natural level of immunity to an outbreak. And then eventually vaccines came into play and that helped
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us to reach herd immunity faster. I found it fascinating last year. Everybody said herd immunity is a scam.
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Stay inside until we get a vaccine. Hey, moron, the point of a vaccine is to help us to reach herd
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immunity. That's the whole point of it. Just to do it faster with less of a loss of life and less
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infection. And so what I believe is happening here, Ali, is because we are doing this active vaccination
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in the middle of an ascendant strain of a virus, that it is mutating on us in real time. And you're
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watching it both in terms of the number of cases in the UK and in Israel. You're looking at breakthrough
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cases on a high profile basis here in the United States, for example. And I think what you're
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seeing is now that we're into the Indian variant or the Delta variant, you're seeing that the vaccine
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from a stopping any of the vaccines from a stopping of a transmission or an infection standpoint are
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dramatically losing efficacy to the point that, as the CDC admitted yesterday, the vaccinated
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themselves may be carrying a higher viral load that could infect other people or a form of shedding of
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the virus, if you will. Now, overall, the data and the news is very good. But when most people hear
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vaccines, Ali, they think of, I think I'm about half a generation ahead of you. So when I was going
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to school, we got your typical vaccine cocktail of measles and mumps and those sorts of things,
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which was about a dozen to 17 of them. Now we have so many, many more HPVs, which we even want to
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give to boys and stuff now. And so when people think vaccine, though, they think inoculation or
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immunization. That's what they think. Like, I'll take this shot and not get polio. But in reality,
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a lot of what we sell today as vaccines are really therapeutics, like the flu vaccine, meaning that it's
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devised on a therapeutic level to help lessen your symptoms or to cause a serious infection within you.
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And that's really what we're seeing in real time data from the COVID vaccines,
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that the one area where they do still seem to be holding firm in real time. Now, this is going to
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be tested because in the last couple of weeks here in the US, by some ways you count it, you could make
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a case. Our cases that have exploded 150% here in the last couple of weeks of July. So far, our death
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numbers remain at record lows. Last year in July, we were going to see about 30,000 plus deaths with
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COVID. This year, it's probably going to be around 10. The last two days, we've seen the lowest combined
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death total in America since before we started keeping the stat for COVID deaths on March 19th of last
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year. We have been at 45 consecutive days with 500 or fewer deaths, which is outstanding in a country of
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329 million people. We've been at 109 consecutive days of 1,000 or less current deaths. We have seen an 88%
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decline in daily deaths since we've reached our peak of COVID cases back on January the 31st of
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this year. So those trend lines are all very good. Those should be all great news. But now they're
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going to test the final efficacious claim of the vaccines, Ali. Do they really prevent serious
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infection and death? Because with the rising caseload, if we continue to see our death numbers
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remain at this stabilized level, then we'll know in real time that they do. But if we now start to see,
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you typically see a lag from deaths to a rise in cases, right? So in the next couple of weeks,
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if we start seeing a precipitous rise in our death totals on a daily basis, then I think the last
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kind of remaining fig leaf of the COVID vaccine narrative, which is that they prevent death and
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serious illness, that will be tested too. And I think we all obviously pray that that does not occur.
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But won't they just say that it has nothing to do with the vaccine, that it has everything to do
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with unvaccinated people, even though, as you just said, we know that apparently vaccinated people
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can be asymptomatic and infect other people. We're still hearing that the reason for the rise in cases
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and possibly the potential, you know, rise in deaths is all because of stupid unvaccinated
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hicks that voted for Donald Trump. So won't they just try to continue to push that narrative rather
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than saying, oh, well, maybe the vaccine doesn't work as well as we thought it did?
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Of course they will. But they've also tried pushing lockdowns and mask narratives. And
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and there's been some of us that have been able to use data to destroy their narratives here.
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And let me just start with the politicization of this process. And I want to work my way back to
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the data if you're OK with it. Yeah. In Wayne County, Michigan, Joe Biden got almost 70 percent of the
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vote there last November. Allie, their current vaccination rate in Wayne County, Michigan is barely
00:25:43.420
above 50 percent. The vaccination rate in Wayne County, Michigan is lagging about 20 points behind
00:25:50.180
Joe Biden's vote total. So the idea that this is just a bunch of make America great troglodytes who
00:25:56.320
barely made it out of community college and don't follow the science, that they're the only ones that
00:26:02.980
are resistant to this is just there's just no data to support that. That's just simply not true.
00:26:07.760
And so I think that you're seeing, in fact, Trafalgar Group, who combined was the most accurate in the
00:26:14.500
last two presidential elections. They just did a poll on vaccination mandates. They found they are
00:26:20.400
that 71 percent of Americans oppose vaccination mandates, including almost 60 percent of Democrats.
00:26:27.960
Now, what's fascinating about that is in recent memory, the most unpopular public policy
00:26:32.420
was the TARP bailouts that spawned the Tea Party in 2008 when the government, when we had the credit
00:26:39.160
markets couldn't remain liquid and had to be bailed out. That was actually only disapproved by only,
00:26:45.620
I say, 67 percent of Americans, which would mean vaccine mandates would be the most single most
00:26:52.600
unpopular piece of legislation in recent American history. And I would argue we are even more polarized
00:26:58.840
politically, Ali, than we were in 2008. There's very few things you're probably going to get
00:27:03.860
a majority of people to agree on in Wayne County, Michigan, whether they voted for Trump or Biden.
00:27:11.480
And vaccine mandates or questions about this vaccine are one of them. So I think the political
00:27:16.620
narrative and the more they use that, the more they're going to run into resistance on this.
00:27:21.240
Tyrannies or threats thereof aren't going to work. There are serious questions people have.
00:27:25.840
Why do you ignore natural immunity, for example? We have had this week now two major studies,
00:27:31.260
one at cell.com, one at Emory University, a top 20 university in the country, that show that
00:27:37.240
natural immunity or meaning recovery from a previous infection is superior to what we're seeing in terms
00:27:44.040
of both efficacy and duration to any of the vaccine efficacy. Israel is proof of this. And this is the
00:27:50.900
other problem they have, Ali, is when you look at the data, we have other countries now with real-time
00:27:55.700
data that allow us to push back on the Overton window that exists between big pharma and big
00:28:01.360
tech and big media in our country. So for example, in Israel, Israel's own real-time data from its
00:28:07.260
Ministry of Health found 40% of its new cases, Ali, were coming from fully vaccinated individuals.
00:28:13.060
Meanwhile, less than 1% of its new cases were coming from people who were previously known
00:28:18.400
to be infected and recovered. That is data right out of the nation of Israel, for example.
00:28:23.400
Nowhere in the world so far, and believe me, if they could find that person, they would,
00:28:28.280
because it would be the greatest, pardon the pun, booster shot for selling Pfizer and Moderna
00:28:33.580
jabs than anything else. They have not found a single case anywhere in the world so far of someone
00:28:39.660
who was previously infected and then had a second infection that was as bad or worse. That patient
00:28:47.120
zero has not existed anywhere so far in the last year and a half, anywhere on planet Earth.
00:28:52.460
So there's just too much data now that indicates that those claims aren't true. It's not going to
00:28:58.420
stop them from trying them. But this is where audiences like ours need to be informed, need to be
00:29:04.120
ready, willing, and able to mobilize and to push back against this. And so there is no data to support
00:29:12.940
I'm very confused about what the goal is. It's hard. It's just hard to tell because on the one
00:29:20.120
hand, obviously, they're pushing the vaccines. They're shaming the people who haven't gotten
00:29:23.460
vaccinated. On the other hand, they're saying, you know, like I said, there were a few strains away
00:29:29.040
from the vaccine not even working. We're seeing some of the data that you just talked about.
00:29:33.640
We're also hearing back and forth about masks that actually if you're fully vaccinated, you need to
00:29:38.620
wear masks. Your kids need to wear masks. I think there was something about wearing a mask in your
00:29:43.280
home. Just crazy, like threats of lockdowns, all these things. I saw a Babylon B headline that was
00:29:49.920
like, for this round of, you know, the virus, we're going to try all the things that didn't work last
00:29:54.680
time again just to see. And so we're hearing about that. And obviously, like that kind of messaging is
00:30:01.820
not going to encourage people to get the vaccine because people are thinking, well, why would I?
00:30:06.480
How would my life really change, especially if you're someone who's under, say, 40 and you know
00:30:11.180
that the you know that COVID is not going to affect you probably that badly? So I'm just confused about
00:30:18.120
what the goal of the media is, what the goal of the Biden administration is with all of this back
00:30:22.580
and forth about masks and lockdowns and mandates and things like that. It's just not inspiring very
00:30:27.320
much confidence. That's a great observation. So the question then becomes, is it about using
00:30:33.840
something? Never let a good crisis go to waste. So you use this to implement a quote unquote great
00:30:38.280
reset. Is this a byproduct of the politicization of science? And so we've gone from science to what I
00:30:43.680
like to call the science, which is just a political narrative. Is it just another example of federal
00:30:51.300
government incompetency? The answer to the question is yes. To try to paint a broad brush,
00:30:58.000
I should say, of motivations for all of these people just won't work. I mean, human nature is
00:31:04.620
more complicated than that. But all three of these things at the same time, all three of these impulses
00:31:10.140
are at work within the exact same time, which is why there are so many of their own contradictions.
00:31:18.200
And that's why we ought to be all very thankful. There's three reasons that we, I think,
00:31:27.340
in the United States have not had to face the sort of draconian lockdowns. Right now,
00:31:33.540
if you're an Israeli, your safety, they're announcing that they're essentially going to issue
00:31:38.220
a medical apartheid state on August the 8th. I mean, it's like our colleague Daniel Horowitz said,
00:31:44.000
I liked Prime Minister Bennett's speech announcing this when it was in the original
00:31:47.860
German in the 1930s. I mean, this is just preposterous what's going on in some of these
00:31:53.900
countries where they don't have God-given rights and they don't have a Second Amendment. So there is
00:31:58.560
no built-in fear of the people by the government. The third thing we have at our advantage is we have
00:32:04.280
a control group, and that's Sweden, which is ironic because the country that gave the world Greta
00:32:09.420
Thunberg a few years ago has, for whatever reason, been the lone control group to point out the
00:32:16.320
fallacy of all of this, from lockdowns last year to masks and vaccinations, which I'll get into here
00:32:21.980
in a minute, this year. And the only thing I can, because I do think for us as Christians,
00:32:26.740
we do now start to really need to analyze the motivations of the things that are being foisted
00:32:31.620
upon us. Because, you know, we need to know, is somebody a sheep or a wolf, right? Are these people
00:32:36.560
just this bad at this, just this ignorant at it? If that's the case, then you know what? Mercy triumphs
00:32:40.900
over judgment. The scripture is pretty clear about that. If they're wolves, though, if this is an
00:32:45.160
attempt to deceive even the elect, well, that requires a different level of response from us
00:32:52.360
and far more confrontational and provoking and kind. And so I think we need to know the answer
00:32:57.380
of motivations to your question. When you look at Sweden, I think what happened in Sweden, Ali,
00:33:02.320
is just when we heard a lot of lefties and stuff growing up and all these years talk about science
00:33:08.040
and socialism, that a lot of them really didn't mean it. That a lot of it was really,
00:33:13.620
these were deconstructing mechanisms to use postmodernism as a way to divorce Western
00:33:19.000
civilization away from its Judeo-Christian foundation and introduce it into what they
00:33:23.760
want it to be governed by, what they want it to be its plumb line instead. I think Sweden was just
00:33:28.300
like, yeah, that stuff's great. Let's go all the way with it. And so like, they have just been
00:33:31.820
like brutally honest and they just like actually follow science. They're the most secular country in
00:33:36.100
Europe. And they're like, you know, our people are love this secular life. They love having any
00:33:41.000
morality they want. Why should we ruin our country over a lie? And so they have been actually,
00:33:46.660
Martin Koldorf, who I quoted earlier, he's a socialist, by the way, Ali. All right. And so
00:33:51.620
I think what we're learning in the last year and a half is we're finding out that even on the left,
00:33:56.560
there's people who actually believe in like leftist dogma and tropes. But then a lot of these people
00:34:01.460
just want to use that as a means of acquiring power. They don't really believe in it. And so
00:34:05.840
Sweden has just followed science the entire time. And now we sit here today. Yesterday, they broke
00:34:11.140
their 12-day string of zero deaths, zero daily deaths in a nation of 10.2 million. That's the
00:34:17.280
population of Michigan, by the way. They went 12 consecutive days with no deaths. Yesterday,
00:34:22.280
they broke their string. They went back and retroactively attributed a single death on two
00:34:27.120
different days. But they have not reached double figures in deaths in Sweden, Ali, in 42 days.
00:34:33.680
This, by the way, is a country with only 39% of the population is vaccinated. It has the lowest
00:34:38.760
mask compliance in the EU. Less than 9% of Swedes identify as mask wearers. There was a case that was
00:34:46.480
a high-profile case in the country a few months ago where they sent a student home from school
00:34:50.580
because he insisted on wearing a mask. They sent him home because he was scaring the rest of his
00:34:55.020
classmates. I kid you not. So Sweden is your control group here to show us in real time.
00:35:02.820
And now you cannot take Sweden's data and extrapolate it to the United States. Totally
00:35:07.340
different population base and everything else. That wouldn't be intellectually honest. So what I
00:35:11.040
have been doing actually is applying Sweden's data to Michigan's because the population is similar.
00:35:16.760
And also just like a large chunk of population density in Sweden surrounds Stockholm, the same thing
00:35:23.320
exists in Michigan, surrounding Detroit. And so when you look at by any reasonable measure except
00:35:28.480
cases, they're pretty close in cases. But by any other reasonable measure, freedoms lost, loss of life,
00:35:35.280
hospitalizations, Sweden over the last year and a half has way outperformed Michigan, which had a mask
00:35:41.500
mandate for about eight months, which had one of the worst lockdowns in the country.
00:35:44.940
Do we have any data that supports mask mandates and lockdowns working, reducing cases anywhere?
00:35:56.240
No. In fact, Governor Ron DeSantis looked at this, commissioned in his office this study
00:36:02.020
right before, right in the middle, before they started pulling masks out of the schools last fall.
00:36:06.620
And what they found is in Florida's counties that the average performance based on mask mandates,
00:36:12.320
and in fact, in several cases, counties that had mask mandates actually underperformed the rest of
00:36:18.960
the state. If you look at, I just go back to the state of Michigan. I mean, you look at what their
00:36:24.840
mask mandates did, all their data shows they do no good. They don't do anything whatsoever.
00:36:29.960
And the reason why is because the virus is airborne. The original rationale we were given for masks
00:36:34.660
is it will contain, the mask won't save you from getting the virus, but it'll stop somebody else from
00:36:39.720
getting it because you'll catch these large droplets. The reality is that once this thing,
00:36:45.220
this thing has gone airborne now, that's why your masks don't work. That's why, by the way,
00:36:48.500
you've never worn masks every flu season of your life. It's an airborne virus. Okay. So it just doesn't
00:36:54.320
work. Eventually we have to breathe. The idea that a loose cloth fitting mask, there's no data anywhere
00:37:00.700
on planet earth. There's been one random control study that was done last year by Denmark that found
00:37:05.980
at worst it didn't do any good. Uh, that was, that was the best it could do is it would do Norway did
00:37:11.260
a study last year and found that they were going to have to forcibly mask 200,000 people in order to
00:37:16.640
stop a single infection, forcibly mask, meaning like measure the mask, make sure they're tight fitting and
00:37:22.300
everything for 200,000 people to stop one infection. It's a, it's a psyop. It's a, it's, it's a virtue
00:37:27.920
signal. It's, it's, it's, it's a pan, um, you know, uh, idol. Uh, it's a bail idol. It's just
00:37:35.000
something that, uh, I get to say I'm better than you. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm nicer than you. Um,
00:37:40.740
and they don't work. There's no data anywhere, anywhere in the world they work. It's a complete
00:37:44.980
and total scam. And we actually see a lot of Christian, you know, we saw Christians in the
00:37:48.720
beginning saying, shutting down your church is loving your neighbor, wearing a mask and goggles
00:37:52.820
and gloves when you're by yourself in your car is loving your neighbor. Um, now, of course,
00:37:57.220
we're seeing people say, uh, getting the vaccine is loving your neighbor. We're going to soon hear
00:38:02.120
having your infant vaccinated is loving your neighbor. What's your take on that? A lot of
00:38:07.220
people have asked me, okay, what's the theology behind that? Do I have to get the vaccine to
00:38:11.300
love my neighbor? Well, we have a commandment, um, and it says not to bear false witness, correct?
00:38:18.900
So now we may find out, like I just said a little while ago, we're going to find out these next few
00:38:25.840
weeks, whether the last remaining bromide of the COVID vaccination protocols that they save lives
00:38:32.540
holds firm. If the death data stays reasonably low with this surge of cases in the United States,
00:38:39.400
then they'll be able to make that claim in real time. And then you could maybe make the case
00:38:43.500
that getting the vaccine does indeed, is indeed you loving your neighbor as you love yourself.
00:38:48.160
Here's the thing though. We've already vaccinated 90% plus of our seniors with at least one shot over
00:38:54.300
80% of our seniors have, have both of them, but we, that, that may still hold. I don't know. We'll
00:39:00.320
see what the data looks like here in a few weeks. Um, but in terms of masks and lockdowns and the rest
00:39:05.520
of it, the reality is all of it's a lie. It doesn't do anything. In fact, you're, you're actually
00:39:10.120
participating in a pagan ritual. We call them virtue signals today, but they didn't have that term
00:39:15.900
when you were standing in line waiting to sacrifice your babies, babies to, to cheat to
00:39:19.800
Molech in Israel. Uh, they didn't call it a virtue signal. They just called it, you know, um, just
00:39:24.720
part of being, uh, you know, a member of polite society. Uh, it's, it's really a pagan talisman.
00:39:30.200
That's what the mask is. The lockdowns don't work. And now we're on a mental health cliff. All the,
00:39:34.700
I could point so much data on mental health. It's crazy. My wife is just about to finish her
00:39:39.360
masters from Liberty as a therapist. She already has a full-time job lined up. Uh, she works with
00:39:44.600
one of the largest Christian counseling firms here in the state of Iowa. They're turning people
00:39:48.460
away. They don't have enough room. They're, they're, they're desperate to hire people. So that's a lie
00:39:53.160
on the vaccine with the, with the infants and everything else. That's one of the key questions
00:39:57.000
we need answers to. So, so here's some data. I think your audience, particularly I'm guessing
00:40:01.340
there's going to be a lot of moms in this audience. Here's some data. I think they absolutely
00:40:05.540
need to know. Okay. According to CDC 331 of the 626,000 deaths that we have had with COVID
00:40:13.720
are minors, children under the age 17 or younger. All right. That is 0.005 or 0.05% of our total
00:40:24.480
COVID deaths in this country have been minors 0.05%. Now we're keeping in mind deaths are with
00:40:31.360
COVID. So we don't really know how many people COVID was the main cause of their death or was
00:40:38.600
something that instigated or kicked into high gear, the comorbidities they already had. And that's what
00:40:43.720
a flu does. And every other kind of an outbreak does, right? You may have, you may have lung disease
00:40:48.060
or heart disease. The flu didn't kill you, but it caused those things to take you maybe earlier than
00:40:53.980
it otherwise would have. Now, so, so the same thing with, with, with, uh, with the vaccines,
00:40:59.480
the CDC does not tell us who actually has died from taking the vaccine. They define it as deaths
00:41:05.920
after vaccination. Okay. So according to CDC, we've had just over 6,000 deaths after vaccination
00:41:12.500
of those deaths, 42 of them have been 17 and younger. That would actually be 0.5. Okay. I'm sorry,
00:41:21.960
0.7, 0.7% of them. That's like a 1300% difference between 0.05 and 0.07. Right.
00:41:30.700
There's a 1300% difference between those who have died with COVID that are minors compared to,
00:41:36.760
compared to, or 1300% less that have died with COVID as minors compared to those who have died
00:41:42.420
after vaccination as minors. That's, I have got, you know, two minors now. One of them is an adult.
00:41:49.180
She's moved out. I'm not taking that risk with that math on my kids. Well, Steve,
00:41:54.020
they could spread it to others. Every study we have done of this. That's why schools everywhere
00:41:58.160
in the world were open way before ours were. All right. The UK has had one of the worst lockdowns
00:42:03.020
in the country. They're not for masking the kids in school. Like we're still fighting about here in
00:42:07.100
the U S every study that has been shown of this has shown that children are not either,
00:42:12.000
not either primary victims of, or vectors for the virus. Now with increasing variants, could that,
00:42:19.660
which are mutations, could that change? Of course it could, but the data shows now that there is no
00:42:25.960
science whatsoever behind masking children. In fact, you're harming their immune systems,
00:42:30.260
probably long-term. You're not saving anybody. Again, that's a total teacher union virtue signal.
00:42:35.060
And there's really no issue, no reason whatsoever to mandate vaccinations for children either looking
00:42:41.140
at the data, because here's the thing we don't know here. Here's, here's the great gambit we have
00:42:45.740
Ali. Here's the reality of the situation. And I think when your country has become detached from God
00:42:51.780
and, and, and believes human nature is basically good, it really thinks perfect operate, perfect
00:42:58.320
solutions and outcomes are achievable. And they're just not in a fallen world. Here's the gamble.
00:43:03.280
We're all taking this gamble. All right. We don't know really what the 20 to 30 year impact is of
00:43:09.540
an asymptomatic infection of COVID. We don't know the answer to that. We don't know because we've
00:43:15.300
been aware of this right now. We can trace this virus back to the fall of 2019 in several countries.
00:43:20.060
Okay. So we don't know what this will do to mortality, to development, you know, to reproductive
00:43:27.300
health. We don't know. Here's the other thing we don't know. We don't know what the 20 to 30 year
00:43:32.940
impact is of taking this experimental technology into your body either. We don't know that either.
00:43:39.380
Everybody, whether they get these vaccines or not, everybody's taking a risk. Everybody is.
00:43:45.440
Either way. That should increase mercy, grace, and empathy in our culture.
00:43:50.520
Unfortunately, it's driving the wedge deeper because it's being seen as why won't, why are you
00:43:56.020
the guy getting out of line to give your baby into the fire to Molech? If you do that, we'll lose our
00:44:00.860
crops this fall. Don't do that. Stay. Why are you the one, why do you get to defy the state and I
00:44:05.320
don't? See, we've just eradicated matters of conscience in our culture whatsoever. Well, Steve,
00:44:10.500
we mandated smallpox. Smallpox was 15,000% worse killer than COVID. 15,000%. One of the worst killers
00:44:19.500
in human history. We've got smallpox records going back to the Sumerians longer than we had written
00:44:25.140
language on this planet. All right. It's not the same thing. It's not the same risk level
00:44:29.600
at all whatsoever because we don't know what the long-term impact of either the vaccines or even
00:44:35.900
an asymptomatic infection are. We should be using that to draw on empathy more in our country.
00:44:43.160
Unfortunately, it's working the other way around.
00:44:45.740
Yeah. Well, that's what we've seen for the past year or so is that COVID deaths are the only deaths
00:44:51.040
that matter to those people. The fact that more kids have died by suicide over the past couple of
00:44:57.200
years than COVID doesn't matter to them. The deaths by suicide induced by isolation because of so-called
00:45:03.400
virtual learning, that doesn't matter. Other kinds of deaths don't actually matter. Other kinds of
00:45:10.100
anxieties and risks that come with anything other than COVID, they just don't matter. Because of what
00:45:16.220
you said, all of the COVID so-called protections are seen as forms of virtue and the only forms
00:45:26.400
Right. Okay. One more thing that I wanted to ask you about. I saw that you tweet about this.
00:45:32.700
Something about the tests. Now the CDC is saying, okay, we want you to start testing with these tests
00:45:39.400
that can differentiate between the flu and COVID. Wait, so what? So you're telling me the tests so far
00:45:45.860
haven't been able to differentiate between the flu and COVID? What's that about?
00:45:50.680
So we've had this great mystery in the last year, what happened to the flu? And they'll tell you what
00:45:54.220
we've been masking up. Well, masks didn't stop the transmission of COVID. So why would they stop the
00:45:58.700
transmission of flu? Okay. So what happened to the flu? More than likely what happened here is what is
00:46:03.480
called viral interference or the idea that a superior strain showed up and essentially took over
00:46:09.900
what timber, fresh timber was available to be infected within a herd. And that has canceled out
00:46:16.320
the inferior strain. CDC is suspected. However, CDC has not said that, Ali. They've not, they don't want
00:46:23.180
to acknowledge viral interference. They don't want, see what's going on with the rise in cases, by the
00:46:27.060
way, is almost the exact same epidemiological curve we saw at this time last summer in the exact same
00:46:31.120
places, seasonality. They don't want to acknowledge viral interference and they don't want to acknowledge
00:46:35.300
seasonality because then we'd start have to, we'd have to start acknowledging natural laws of
00:46:40.020
immunology, biology, virology, and that takes all their power away. Okay. And so they, they don't
00:46:45.960
have an explanation for why flu disappeared last year. Just, just completely gone. Uh, and by the way,
00:46:52.920
this went on in Sweden too, where they don't mask, they didn't do lockdowns. The flu disappeared in
00:46:57.960
Sweden too, which is further evidence of viral interference. And so now they've quietly asked the PCR,
00:47:04.060
the molecular labs that, that translate your PCR test for you. They've quietly asked them to make
00:47:08.880
sure that they have what are called multi-array, uh, analysis or procedures, meaning they can, they
00:47:15.140
can screen for both flu and COVID at the same time, because they're tacitly admitting that with COVID
00:47:21.160
weakening and the death rate in the country indicates that COVID and the mutations indicate that
00:47:25.760
COVID is actually weakening, that they suspect that with COVID weakening, we'll see more flu. And therefore we
00:47:31.920
need a better job of knowing what is flu and what is COVID. This of course begs a lot of questions.
00:47:37.820
What, well, what does that say about the testing we did last year? If they have no answers, should we
00:47:42.860
just automatically assume then that they, they couldn't do this or, or they couldn't do this in
00:47:47.220
some places and maybe in others they could. And here's why this matters. If we all just agreed by
00:47:53.000
the metric that the original metric of shutdowns, that we have to make sure we don't overrun the
00:47:58.300
hospitals, right? That was the, that was the original metric. If we just went by that, this
00:48:02.920
would not be really that big of a deal. But the problem is we haven't just gone by that. Whatever
00:48:08.060
metric just pushes the narrative further. So cases, cases, cases, cases, cases, cases. Well, what if the
00:48:14.180
cases are predominantly healthy people? What if the cases are predominantly, uh, asymptomatic,
00:48:18.240
right? So if, if, if, if the metric is cases of, of whether, you know, how much of our lives we're
00:48:23.860
allowed to have, then this is a very big story that needs further investigation. If the metric
00:48:28.260
is deaths and hospitalizations, which is what it was originally, then it's really not that big of
00:48:32.940
a story. And you probably give them mercy and say, Hey, COVID was on the horizon. We had to prioritize
00:48:37.540
that right away. So it's not, you know, we know what to do against a flu. We didn't know what to do
00:48:41.560
against this. This again, goes back to the loss of empathy in our culture because of a loss of trust.
00:48:48.900
There is no trust any longer really in any singular institution in America whatsoever.
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And, and I don't see that improving anytime soon. Well, there are many other things that I would love
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to ask you. I'll have to have you back on to talk about these, um, these issues, but thank you so much.
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Thank you so much for adding so much clarity and insight for us into all of this. Anytime. Appreciate
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All right, guys. So I know that that can be a little bit anxiety inducing, but what we're seeing
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around the world is that people are rising up about this stuff. Like we don't want anyone to
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die from COVID. Like we do want to take precautions. Of course we want to protect the most vulnerable,
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but we've also done that in a lot of ways over the past year and a half. And we've been very
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successful. I mean, with a lot of different failures in doing that. And now is the time where
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people get to make their choices. Like we cannot ruin people's lives and livelihoods again. That
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matters. Like if we have compassion, if we have empathy, which seems to be like the cardinal value
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and virtue that we're supposed to be holding onto, then we don't only care about one threat to people's
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lives. Like there are a lot of threats that people face every day that, um, we have to care about and
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that we also have to focus on. And we also have to realize like that our goal, our main responsibility
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as Christians is to love the Lord, our God, with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength to love
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our neighbor as ourselves. That looks like a lot of different things on a daily basis. And you are
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not selfish for wanting to protect you and your family and to be able to continue to provide for
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you and your family, to want to continue to live in community and fellowship with other people.
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All of these things are absolutely necessary for, um, for a healthy life, for a thriving life.
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And so do not feel guilty for caring about those things. Don't feel guilty for questioning. Um,
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a lot of the things that we're hearing from our so-called scientific institutions, that is,
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that is why God gave you the mental, uh, the mental faculties that you have, the mental capacity to be
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able to pick things apart. That's what science actually is, is asking questions. Now, I'm not telling
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you to be a conspiracy theorist and to go down rabbit holes and to believe things that random
00:51:07.560
Joe Schmo on the internet is telling you about the vaccine. I've already said that the vaccine
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is not the mark of the beast. That is bad theology. Um, and I also don't think that it's a lot of these
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terrible things that some, you know, conspiracy theorists are saying that it is. I just think
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it's your choice. I think it's your choice when it comes to the risk that we have and the cost-benefit
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analysis that a lot of people have to do on their own. Um, yeah, I just think that at this point,
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you have the freedom to make those choices and that the government absolutely needs to, um,
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respect that. And unfortunately it's just being used as another way to divide the country and to
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hate people who don't think like you and make the same choices that you do. And that's really
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unfortunate. And as Christians, we absolutely have to resist that kind of, um, that kind of fear
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mongering and, uh, that kind of division. And so we continue to allow our goal in everything that we
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do to be, to glorify God as much as we possibly can. And that's where our peace comes from as well,
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that at the end of our lives, like we are going to be looking for that good and faithful servant
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commendation. It's not going to be based on whether or not we, uh, very closely followed the guidance of,
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uh, Dr. Anthony Fauci, thank goodness, or you would be changing your mind and your behavior every day
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based on his back and forth. Um, all right, that's all I've got time for today. We will see you back