Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 20, 2021


Ep 491 | These COVID Lies Are Killing People


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

167.21965

Word Count

9,307

Sentence Count

4

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In today's episode of Relatable Happy Monday, we're talking about covid and why it's such a big deal. We'll cover why the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has been a big promoter of anti-viral treatments like monoclonal antibodies, which have actually been proven to be effective in fighting the spread of the Epstein-Bavar virus. But is this a good thing or a bad thing?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 hey guys welcome to relatable happy monday hope everyone had a wonderful weekend today we are
00:00:15.280 going to talk covid i wanted to talk about it last week with everything going on uh but we
00:00:22.100 didn't get to we took a break on thursday we did a most misused with philippians 413 if i do say so
00:00:28.300 myself i think it was a very encouraging episode i encourage you to go listen to that episode if
00:00:33.640 you haven't already and we also did a voicemail segment where you guys sent in some of the crazy
00:00:39.360 dreams that you guys have been having like recurring dreams like the one that just made me crack up so
00:00:46.220 much was the one about toby the dog and halloween and a witch so definitely go listen to that if you
00:00:53.740 have not listened to thursday's episode but today i want to talk about covid because we didn't get to
00:00:59.660 talk uh about everything that happened last week with the monoclonal antibodies and the biden
00:01:05.080 administration so we're going to do that and we're going to talk about lots of other data uh amidst
00:01:11.160 this covid insanity that's going on now why are we talking about this why have we relentlessly been
00:01:18.980 talking about this for the past 18 months because the truth matters and if you have found yourself at
00:01:26.600 any point in the last year and a half wondering why what you are seeing and hearing doesn't seem to
00:01:32.420 make sense i want you to know that you're not alone and you're not crazy if you have found yourself
00:01:37.900 questioning the approved narrative on the virus and its origins and the policies put in place to
00:01:43.620 supposedly mitigate the spread of the virus i want you to know that you're not alone you're not crazy
00:01:49.260 and if you have not found yourself asking any questions at all over the past year and a half
00:01:54.300 about this stuff it's time to start it might be a little bit too late uh but better late than never
00:02:00.800 i am going to help you do that so first i want to talk about what happened with the biden administration
00:02:07.320 last week and the distribution of the monoclonal antibodies and why this is such a big deal let's
00:02:14.700 back up first i want to give you a little bit of context so you'll remember the emergency episode
00:02:20.960 that we did last friday we don't typically have episodes come out on friday but we did on i believe
00:02:26.340 it was september uh september 10th so not last friday but the one before i'll link it in the description
00:02:31.900 to this episode where we dissected joe biden's insane authoritarian plain weirdo speech in which
00:02:41.080 he said that he is among other things requiring all companies with 100 or more employees to mandate
00:02:47.580 vaccination or weekly testing for their employees there have been several companies typically more
00:02:54.440 conservative leaning like outwardly conservative leaning companies that have said okay we're not going to
00:02:59.300 comply with that and of course the biden administration is not happy with that kind of
00:03:05.020 non-compliance but in that speech he also mentioned monoclonal antibodies as a treatment that his
00:03:12.740 administration would ensure would be distributed and he even promised an increase in distribution
00:03:18.600 here's what he said quote additionally we're increasing the availability of new medicines recommended by
00:03:25.040 real doctors not conspiracy theorists whatever that means the monoclonal antibody treatments
00:03:31.360 have been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization by up to 70 percent for unvaccinated people at risk of
00:03:38.560 developing severe disease we've already distributed 1.4 million courses of these treatments to save lives
00:03:45.560 and reduce the strain on hospitals tonight i'm announcing we will increase the average pace of shipment across
00:03:51.380 the country a free monoclonal antibody treatment by another 50 percent so that was probably one of the only
00:04:01.420 good things if not the only good thing that he said in this speech now the one part that is not really
00:04:06.820 accurate is that this is a treatment for unvaccinated people that's not necessarily true for example ron
00:04:13.300 de santis said that at least in one county in florida the majority of people receiving these treatments are
00:04:19.240 actually fully vaccinated and so the people who are getting sick who are vaccinated are also accessing
00:04:24.940 these treatments i mean he's right joe biden is right these antibody treatments like uh regenerons
00:04:30.180 have been proven to be effective and that's why ron de santis the governor of florida has been such a big
00:04:36.840 promoter of them for months even to the chagrin of the media who falsely said that he was promoting
00:04:44.620 these treatments instead of vaccines that's just not true charles cook explains all of this in
00:04:51.500 national review he says quote two months ago governor ron de santis of florida was being roundly
00:04:57.140 castigated for promoting the use of regenerons monoclonal antibody treatment as part of his state's
00:05:02.700 efforts to fight covid19 desperate to find something sinister in the push de santis's critics threw out
00:05:08.780 every charge they could dream up at first the line that the line was that regenerons treatment didn't
00:05:15.000 work then it was that regenerons treatment worked fine but represented a dangerous distraction from
00:05:20.680 the vaccine and finally it was that regenerons treatment was part of a corrupt plot to enrich
00:05:26.200 de santis's donors today the article goes on to say we learned from the washington post that actually
00:05:32.660 none of that was the problem instead de santis's sin is that he has been relying upon monoclonal
00:05:39.380 antibody treatment too much and that this is unfair to other states that now need it so the criticism
00:05:46.500 he's saying has evolved drastically coming from the media toward ron de santis as it became obvious this
00:05:51.840 treatment was and is doing a lot to prevent both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated again uh to get
00:06:00.420 better without having to go to the hospital and since the biden administration acknowledged that even prior
00:06:06.780 to biden's speech a couple weeks ago the liberal media class have had to change their tune um while still
00:06:12.780 holding on to this very bizarre allegation that de santis was was touting the treatment too much and not in the
00:06:19.120 right way uh cook goes on to say in his article quote explaining his approach at a press conference two weeks
00:06:25.380 ago de santis made it abundantly clear that he is not hoping to quote lean into monoclonals to the
00:06:31.900 detriment of vaccines or to play defense with no offense but to adopt an all of the above approach
00:06:37.880 if you're at risk the governor said the best thing you can do beforehand obviously is to get vaccinated
00:06:43.160 but even if you are and if you're not if you do become covid positive you have an opportunity to get
00:06:49.340 early treatment using these monoclonal antibodies this is not in lieu of vaccination de santis
00:06:54.520 continued it's in addition to back when the state began to promote regenerance therapy
00:06:59.560 uh florida ranked 21st in the nation and giving people of all ages at least one shot today it is
00:07:06.760 17th from what exactly is the governor supposed to be distracting people he also notes charles cook also
00:07:14.560 notes indeed as the new york times reported back in early august monoclonal antibody treatments have
00:07:20.120 long been a key component of the federal strategy to reduce the toll of the worst outbreaks which is why
00:07:25.640 under president trump the federal government uh bought up the entire supply and distributed it
00:07:32.400 distributed it to the states for free so the truth is and this is a brief aside the media and this
00:07:40.220 administration hate ron de santis because they see him as a threat they know he is very popular on the
00:07:45.000 right and he doesn't come with all of trump's baggage and so they're afraid that they would
00:07:49.980 actually lose to him in 2024 which i i think if the election were tomorrow they absolutely would
00:07:55.640 and de santis has tried very hard and very effectively to balance protecting people's freedom
00:08:01.860 their economic well-being and doing what is within his power to get people vaccinated who want to be
00:08:08.500 vaccinated and to get people treatment who want treatment the vaccination rate in florida is about 55
00:08:14.740 which is the same as in more than some liberal states um constantly you are seeing on twitter how
00:08:22.420 terrible florida is i saw some trending hashtag the other day that was like florida is vietnam or
00:08:28.260 something crazy like this and you know they're saying how reckless ron de santis is and that if you
00:08:33.660 would just force kindergartners to wear masks lives would be saved florida is a very populous state and
00:08:39.560 right now they rank number 10 when it comes to death rate far behind both uh new york and new jersey
00:08:45.700 might i add who have taken extremely draconian measures for the past year and a half and might
00:08:53.640 i add again have two of the highest vaccination rates in the country so just something to note
00:08:59.260 texas another very populous state whose governor gets totally undeserved hate in untrue accusations when it
00:09:06.500 comes to covid policy comes in number 23 for the death rate behind a place like michigan whose
00:09:11.420 governor has been very oppressive when it comes to covid policy okay so back to the monoclonal antibody
00:09:21.620 treatment it's been very effective and the biden administration admitted as much promised up their
00:09:27.360 distribution but then out of nowhere the administration announced that they would be cutting distribution to
00:09:32.880 certain states like uh texas and florida and alabama i believe that south carolina is also
00:09:39.300 included in that again in national review isaac shore writes quote the federal government has only
00:09:45.980 recently decided to take over the distribution of the antibody treatments which florida governor ron
00:09:50.600 de santis was an early proponent of abruptly the federal department of health and human services
00:09:56.060 announced on tuesday that it would be cutting the supply provided to florida the administration did not
00:10:01.160 provide any indication of any upcoming limitation to supply during communications between the state
00:10:07.320 and department and department the day prior according to de santis's press secretary christina pushaw
00:10:15.580 uh when jinsaki the press secretary was asked about this her answer was equity we wanted to be
00:10:23.900 equitable she said quote over the last month given the rising cases due to the delta variant and the lower
00:10:29.780 number of vaccination rates in some of these states like florida like texas just seven states are making
00:10:35.820 up 70 percent of the orders our supply is not unlimited and we believe it should be equitable across states
00:10:43.560 across the country but number one it's not true again that florida is lagging when it comes to vaccinations
00:10:50.920 and texas is somewhere in the middle when it comes to the list of states and yes uh they have a lot of people
00:10:58.100 and so they're going to need a greater supply and the south is getting hit pretty hard right now with
00:11:04.220 covid so or other parts of the country but that is probably why they are taking up a disproportionate
00:11:11.220 uh number of these treatments and it's probably going to change in the coming months come fall come
00:11:19.200 winter there will be other parts of the country that get harder than the south but even if these states
00:11:24.340 did have low vaccination rates texas and florida is that really an admission from this administration
00:11:30.600 that they're rationing this life-saving care based on vaccination rates i mean that's pretty cruel in
00:11:37.080 itself or maybe it's actually worse than that like is this political punishment that's what it that's
00:11:43.500 what it looks like to me that's what it seems like considering there are other states whose antibody supply
00:11:48.280 is not getting cut democratic states that actually have lower vaccination rates than florida and it
00:11:54.340 also looks like a political calculation because a large percentage of the people who get the antibody
00:11:59.480 treatment again are vaccinated people so it seems to be a war against these red states and it doesn't
00:12:06.280 actually have to do anything with vaccination rates which even if it did have to do with vaccination
00:12:10.040 rates i still think that's wrong that is cruel too and that's that's the problem a problem with the
00:12:15.480 government centralizing any process and that's the problem with so-called equity which actually looks
00:12:21.820 more like political favoritism uh than anything else things become really inefficient and really corrupt
00:12:28.980 really fast and that is by the way what democrats tend to want to do with elections policing etc
00:12:34.540 federalize centralize and it's never good there are always unintended or maybe intended consequences
00:12:40.600 that really impact people in a negative way remember in biden's speech on september 9th he said
00:12:47.660 quote if these governors won't help us beat the pandemic he's talking about red state governors that
00:12:53.260 have simply allowed people allowed businesses allowed parents to have the choice of masks and vaccines
00:12:59.940 he says i'll use my power as president to get them out of the way now that was a very vague and veiled
00:13:07.700 threat we also heard from a senior advisor to this administration on cnn said that joe biden is
00:13:14.260 going to run those governors over and so that is some very strong language that didn't come with a lot
00:13:22.260 of specificity but leaves people with a very uneasy feeling and again is much more authoritarian and
00:13:28.840 vindictive than anything that we heard donald trump ever say this seems like joe biden is purposely
00:13:36.160 punishing the republican states that said they're going to stand up to his employer vaccine mandate
00:13:41.560 and have in general been adversarial to him especially when it comes to covid policy i mean think about
00:13:47.460 that and think about that because that does seem like the likeliest explanation right now since the
00:13:54.020 equity one just doesn't make any logical sense the biden administration is very likely cutting supply
00:14:00.160 of a life-saving treatment to red states because he disagrees with their governors because the
00:14:05.440 governors are giving people too much freedom and too much choice and people will die unnecessarily
00:14:11.020 because of this this is again far more cruel and authoritarian than anything that we ever saw from
00:14:17.980 the trump administration in fact democrat governor of california gavin newsom uh said this to jake tapper
00:14:23.900 on cnn in april of 2020 quote i'd be lying to you gavin newsom says to say that he trump hasn't been
00:14:31.720 responsive to our needs he has and so as a question as a sort of an offer of objectivity i have to
00:14:38.200 acknowledge that publicly the fact is every time i've called the president he's quickly gotten on
00:14:44.920 the line that is from the very progressive governor of california that's what he said last year about
00:14:50.400 donald trump also in april of 2020 then governor of new york andrew cuomo also obviously a democrat told
00:14:57.240 the howard stern show quote he trump has delivered for new york he has so we saw brashness from trump
00:15:05.380 we saw clumsiness we saw rudeness uh but we did not see calculating cruelty like this the the one thing
00:15:13.800 that maybe you could could say uh was the you know the separation of families at the border which i also
00:15:20.720 did not like and talked about at the time but even that was more of an unintended consequence
00:15:25.540 of enforcing border law than some kind of cold political calculation so people will suffer from
00:15:33.480 the cruelty of the biden administration here or um if you're wanting to be charitable maybe you could
00:15:39.380 say that it's just a misguided decision again we find ourselves asking over and over are the decisions
00:15:47.200 of this administration just incompetence for example like when it comes to afghanistan or is it malice
00:15:54.580 it's getting harder and harder to to imagine that this just has to do with incompetence and that
00:16:02.420 it's not just deliberate cruelty whatever you want to think whatever you want to think about if you want
00:16:08.900 to be as gracious as possible that's fine the fact of the matter is people are going to suffer
00:16:14.640 unnecessarily um just like people will likely suffer because pharmacies are refusing to fill
00:16:21.380 prescriptions for medications prescribed for patients by their doctors for the medicine that
00:16:27.740 the media have hilariously deemed as just horse stormer ivermectin which you're not even supposed
00:16:33.540 to talk to that's like the voldemort of of medicines right now uh it's it's the medicine that is not to be
00:16:40.360 named and it will get you banned it will get you taken off social media this video on youtube will probably
00:16:47.580 get punished for even uttering the word um ivermectin won a nobel prize a few years ago and has been used
00:16:54.460 by millions of people around the world and is actually being used right now has been used for
00:16:59.880 the past year and a half by hundreds of doctors apparently very effectively to battle covid now i've
00:17:07.160 not taken it i am not recommending that you take it i don't i don't have any experience with it
00:17:12.640 obviously i am not a scientist i am not a doctor i'm not recommending it all i'm saying is that from
00:17:18.560 what we know from the scientific data this is a very safe drug a possibly an effective drug there are
00:17:27.620 doctors who disagree on that and that's fine um but the point is that pharmacists have no business
00:17:34.020 refusing to fill it like it's not like this is some kind of poison and there are lots of drugs that are
00:17:40.880 far less effective for other things and are far more dangerous to people than this one and i have
00:17:45.740 never heard a pharmacist stepping in and doing anything about any of those it's not the pharmacist
00:17:51.600 business that is between a patient and their doctor and it's so funny because we hear people on the left
00:17:56.580 talking about abortion being this private issue um between a patient and their doctor that the state has
00:18:03.980 no business stepping in and doing something about of course it's not anytime you kill an innocent
00:18:10.080 human being that it's not a private issue but that is their justification for saying that you know
00:18:16.120 the law should have nothing to say uh about a woman's quote private health care decisions but apparently
00:18:21.880 now they do believe in third-party actors coming in and interfering between the doctor-patient
00:18:29.520 relationship and the decision making there uh this is happening at walgreens it's also happening at other
00:18:35.540 drugstores and i'm not sure it's a coincidence that according to the washington post the ceo of
00:18:41.220 walgreens met with the biden administration just a few days ago i'm just saying ivermectin is an fda
00:18:48.260 approved anti-parasitic drug that can be used in animals but has also been used in humans millions and
00:18:55.700 millions of humans and some doctors are arguing is also effective against viruses this is actually from
00:19:03.140 our national institute of health quote reports from in vitro studies suggest that ivermectin acts by
00:19:09.680 inhibiting the host important alpha beta 1 nuclear transport proteins which are part of a key
00:19:16.080 intracellular transport process that viruses hijack to enhance infection by suppressing the host
00:19:22.340 antiviral response in addition ivermectin docking may interfere with the attachment of the severe acute
00:19:29.640 respiratory syndrome coronavirus to uh or coronavirus spike protein to the human cell membrane um so they
00:19:38.880 conclude that it it doesn't hurt they do say that there's even though knowing what they know what i just
00:19:45.500 read to you they say that there's not enough evidence to say that it helps but it they say that
00:19:50.580 it doesn't actually hurt and then other scientists and other doctors beg to differ they say that it actually
00:19:56.220 does help a study in the journal of antibiotics found that quote treatment with ivermectin effectively
00:20:01.860 kills almost all viral particles within 48 hours a small study it's a small study but it's a study out
00:20:10.640 of india last year studying the preventative effects of ivermectin and health care workers found quote
00:20:15.740 those on a two-dose regimen had a two-dose regimen of ivermectin had a 73 percent reduction
00:20:22.180 in covid 19 infection the frontline covid 19 critical care alliance of doctors recommends
00:20:28.720 it for their patients i will link their reasoning behind it they have explained the data that they
00:20:34.860 are looking at that makes them believe that ivermectin is actually can actually be in some
00:20:41.180 cases an effective treatment um for covid ivermectin is cheap it's easy to make there's a very very small
00:20:49.980 list of potential side effects and yet it's now becoming impossible to get one uh because uh or
00:20:57.380 one reason for that is because pharmacies are refusing to fill it is it because of political
00:21:02.220 pressure is it because uh insurance companies are trying to step in here maybe it's both but this is
00:21:11.540 what happens when our public health officials try to limit people's access to therapeutics for
00:21:18.960 what seems like malicious reasons what seems like political reasons um people get really
00:21:26.040 uncomfortable they get really hesitant with things they get really distrusting they start to not
00:21:31.120 believe what the so-called experts and the scientists are saying because it actually doesn't
00:21:36.260 believe that their recommendations and their findings are based on objective reality but are
00:21:41.720 based on i don't i don't even really know what the motivation is based on some kind of nefarious
00:21:50.160 subjective maybe political reasoning and so they push treatments um the you know our top health
00:21:57.920 officials our public health bureaucracy even some of our hospital systems are pushing treatments
00:22:02.300 like remdesivir in the hospital that actually seems to be doing more harm than good certainly more
00:22:08.780 harm than something like ivermectin and then they pretend that the only thing a person can do to
00:22:15.360 avoid getting seriously ill and dying is the vaccine when they and they also ignore the fact that natural
00:22:21.120 immunity is even stronger than vaccine immunity and they refuse to conform public policy to that fact
00:22:27.660 and then they just try to intimidate and manipulate and coerce people into doing something that they don't
00:22:32.800 want to do that might not even make sense uh for them and then people as a reaction to all of that
00:22:38.940 insanity just that irrationality people dig their heels in they refuse to listen at all they refuse to
00:22:46.500 trust anyone who calls themselves a scientist or a doctor or an expert because understandably they have
00:22:52.760 lost their trust because they have actually been burned by this kind of stuff a preprint study found
00:22:58.840 that quote natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection symptomatic
00:23:04.420 disease and hospitalization caused by the delta variant of sars cov2 compared to the uh and compared
00:23:12.220 to the pfizer two-dose vaccine induced immunity uh individuals who were both previously infected with
00:23:19.700 sars cov2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the delta variant um this
00:23:26.580 is not the only study saying this having been infected with covid and recovering and recovering
00:23:32.200 provides stronger immunity than not having been infected and getting the vaccine you are more
00:23:36.820 likely to have a breakthrough infection if you've only been vaccinated versus having had been infected
00:23:42.800 plus according to our very own cdc quote delta infection resulted in similarly high sars cov2 viral
00:23:50.320 loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people high viral loads suggest an increased risk
00:23:56.040 of transmission and raised concern that unlike with other variants vaccinated people infected with delta
00:24:01.920 can transmit the virus so people lose trust again in the quote expert bureaucracy in the public health
00:24:14.560 bureaucracy because all of this seems to be ignored when it comes to policy and so the biden
00:24:21.240 administration has chosen intimidation it's chosen cruelty and trying to restrict the supply of life-saving
00:24:27.900 treatments rather than functioning scientifically and rationally i mean does it make any rational
00:24:34.060 sense for a vaccinated person to not want to be around someone with natural immunity who hasn't been
00:24:40.380 vaccinated like does it make sense for the biden administration to say this is a pandemic of the
00:24:45.180 unvaccinated and the vaccinated need to be so frustrated and angry at those who are unvaccinated
00:24:50.860 knowing everything that we just read no it doesn't make any sense whatsoever for a vaccinated person to
00:24:58.260 be angry at an unvaccinated person it just doesn't make any sense uh it doesn't make any sense to block
00:25:04.120 people who have had covid from any kind of public space to kick them out of the military or to fire them
00:25:09.760 from their jobs now i don't think it makes any sense nor do i think it's moral to discriminate
00:25:14.840 against people who haven't gotten the shot regardless of whether or not they've had covid but it definitely
00:25:20.860 doesn't make any sense to discriminate against anyone who has had covid and is not vaccinated
00:25:25.920 unvaccinated does not mean that you're infected vaccinated doesn't mean that you're not infected so a
00:25:33.700 vaccinated person refusing to be around people who are unvaccinated are not being reasonable it's not
00:25:40.720 rational if you are truly concerned uh about getting it say you're an immunocompromised person and you want
00:25:49.120 to see a friend who hasn't been vaccinated you would be far safer having that person get a negative test
00:25:55.120 than you would just having them vaccinated the vaccine is meant to protect you from getting serious
00:26:03.140 illness and dying it doesn't necessarily stop you from getting it and once you get it it does not
00:26:08.520 stop you from spreading it so again all of this cruel language about the unvaccinated really does
00:26:15.260 not make sense the policy doesn't make sense and again i would ask you to take a look at this cdc map
00:26:21.220 that we talked about a couple weeks ago that shows vaccination rates and covid case rates per county
00:26:26.440 in the united states i'll put it up i'll put the picture up on youtube what you will see is that a large
00:26:32.240 number of counties with high vaccination rates also have very high case rates purple that color purple
00:26:38.520 represents the counties with the highest vaccination rates in the country and they also happen to have
00:26:43.300 the highest case rates um and where on the map do we see this purple we see it in the pacific northwest
00:26:49.640 in maine new york new jersey new england coastal california high vaccination rates high case numbers and you
00:26:58.040 also can't tell me that those places don't have enough restrictions um also the new york times
00:27:04.000 reports this quote the centers for disease control and prevention released data on friday indicating that
00:27:09.200 the level of protection against covid hospitalizations uh afforded by the pfizer bio and tech vaccine
00:27:15.380 dropped significantly in the four months after full inoculation the same study showed that the
00:27:21.620 moderna vaccine did not wane in efficacy during that same time frame but time magazine reports quote
00:27:28.720 in the new study published on september 15th to a preprint server the study is not yet uh peer
00:27:34.900 reviewed that's what preprint means uh researchers at moderna which makes one of the two mrna covid19
00:27:42.440 vaccines a report that people vaccinated within the last eight months had 36 percent fewer breakthrough
00:27:49.560 infections than those who were vaccinated a year ago so some people were vaccinated as um as far as a
00:27:58.220 year ago i guess people who were um kind of being tested for the efficacy of the vaccine now i'm sure that
00:28:07.700 these studies are being released in order to make the case for booster shots right now the fda is saying
00:28:13.020 that there is not a whole lot of evidence for booster shots at least for people under the age of 65
00:28:18.880 um but if this is the case if people's vaccines are waning in efficacy over time if people are still
00:28:25.200 getting and spreading the virus who have the vaccine and in some rare cases getting very serious bouts of the
00:28:30.780 virus again it makes no sense to in any way be discriminating against those who have chosen not to be
00:28:38.460 vaccinated and regardless of vaccine efficacy it still doesn't make sense it's not good because a
00:28:45.020 freedom and b this virus still has a 99 plus survival rate for people under the age of 70 and we're going
00:28:53.300 to talk about how some people still just don't don't seem to understand the data on that in just one
00:28:58.280 second okay so just a reminder of this data which i know a lot of us know but apparently some people
00:29:07.420 don't the hospitalization rate is still one percent for covid so it is very very rare it's very rare to go to
00:29:14.840 the hospital if you have covid the new york times conducted a survey a few months ago that was super
00:29:20.400 interesting that found that 41 percent of democrats believe that over 50 percent of people who get covid
00:29:27.720 will have to go to the hospital the real answer is one percent only 10 percent of democrats surveyed by
00:29:34.560 gallup got the answer right versus 26 percent of republicans so republicans were far more likely
00:29:40.320 to know what the real risk of hospitalization uh for covid is than democrats and all it has to do with
00:29:47.220 the media that you consume the left-wing media might not be outright lying to you about the
00:29:52.420 hospitalization rate and the dangers of covid uh but they are reporting on every single death or they have
00:30:01.120 been in every single case and so for example there have been i think a little over 300 people under the age
00:30:08.920 of 18 who have died with covid that's the cdc's words and almost all of them have had some kind of
00:30:15.200 underlying condition it's tragic but there are 74 million people under the age of 18 in the united
00:30:20.280 states and so that is like a 0.000 percent chance of dying from covid if you are under the age of 18
00:30:27.780 say say that number is 365 it's somewhere around uh around there the number of kids that have died
00:30:34.520 with covid if you saw a report on every single one of those kids uh once a day once a day you got a
00:30:42.720 new report of a kid dying from covid even though you've only heard of 365 uh kids that still seems
00:30:50.300 like a lot because you were seeing those stories every day and so people's idea of the dangers of
00:30:56.000 covid obviously we know it's a real disease or a real virus that can really be harmful for people
00:31:01.700 we know that we acknowledge that people absolutely have died from it i know people who uh whose family
00:31:08.740 members have died from covid so we acknowledge that but when we are inundated with these stories on a
00:31:14.500 daily basis it thwarts your uh perception of reality you start to believe things that aren't true and it's
00:31:21.800 not only true about covid like we've talked about the same thing and the same kind of survey that was
00:31:26.280 taken of republicans and democrats when it comes to uh unarmed black men who were shot by the police
00:31:32.940 every day i actually listened to a professor who was i'm talking about a conversation that he had with
00:31:38.300 one of his liberal neighbors um uh about police shootings and he asked his neighbor his liberal
00:31:44.880 neighbor living in portland uh how many unarmed black men do you believe if you were to guess were
00:31:50.180 killed by the police last year this neighbor said 22 500 do you know that the actual number
00:31:56.440 is like 22 that were killed by the police last year um uh maybe actually 2019 is probably the latest
00:32:06.940 accurate data that we have and even that definition of unarmed um by the washington post who has created
00:32:13.900 this database is it's it's debatable whether or not they were truly unarmed and so it thwarts
00:32:21.220 the the kind of news that you read the kind of stories that you consume the kind of narratives that you
00:32:28.160 latch on to actually have the power to distort your view of reality and the problem with that is is that
00:32:35.320 people's distorted view of reality their absolute aversion to the facts when it comes to especially
00:32:41.680 covid it has an impact on policy i saw a fox news poll this weekend that said apparently apparently i
00:32:51.340 really have a hard time believing this but apparently 67 percent of americans polled um support students
00:32:59.540 wearing masks in schools wow like i understand i guess that if you really believe that this is a
00:33:08.280 a dangerous uh a dangerous virus for kids under the age of 18 if you think the death rate is something
00:33:14.760 like 50 percent for kids uh rather than what it is which is far below one percent then maybe that you
00:33:24.480 would be supportive of that kind of policy so people are actually advocating for policies that create
00:33:30.320 more harm than good which i believe masking in schools uh does create more harm than good for those
00:33:35.880 students they're latching on to those policies because of a distorted view of reality because of lies
00:33:40.600 because of propaganda uh that gallup poll that new york times reported on also says that democrats
00:33:46.780 apparently believe that nine percent of covid deaths are people under the age of 24 republicans believe
00:33:53.280 that it's eight percent but the real number is point one percent so you see how the news um
00:33:59.920 can actually make it very hard for people to know what is true and to believe what is true and it's
00:34:07.240 actually very hard to get people to um to see reality when they've latched onto something that's hard for
00:34:15.100 all of us it's not just hard for democrats or liberals it's hard for conservatives it's hard for
00:34:20.080 people on either side of the aisle if you have believed a particular narrative it is very hard
00:34:24.860 to let go of that narrative in favor of facts um so when people say that the unvaccinated are taking
00:34:34.340 up hospital resources and that's why the vaccinated need to be angry at the unvaccinated or that's why
00:34:41.020 the biden administration is right to go after the unvaccinated that's why don lemon is correct to
00:34:47.480 you know say that we need to leave the vaccinated behind and that the that the or the unvaccinated
00:34:53.560 that the unvaccinated are just stupid that's what he said on his show the other night i could do and
00:34:58.980 i will maybe i'll do a whole rant about the different moments on cnn where don lemon has
00:35:04.900 shown that his brain might not be fully functioning like the time that he said about a year ago
00:35:10.500 that he said the word disrespectful and then he stopped and said oh wait disrespectful isn't actually
00:35:15.620 a word so i don't like to make fun of people for making mistakes like that but he is constantly
00:35:22.000 calling those he doesn't agree with stupid and i that's that that's a little hypocritical if you
00:35:29.100 ask me but you know people are saying that people like don lemon are um are okay for calling the
00:35:35.520 unvaccinated stupid because you know they're putting a strain on the hospital system so other people
00:35:41.380 aren't able to get the health care that they need but again it is very unlikely to go to the hospital
00:35:47.460 with covid in the first place and the strain that is on hospitals um can actually be blamed
00:35:54.500 on the hospitals themselves in a lot of cases because hospital systems have drastically cut staff
00:36:00.840 over the past year a lot of staff have quit over the past year and these vaccine mandates certainly
00:36:06.480 aren't going to help that um many hospitals have far more beds icu beds hospital beds than they have
00:36:13.640 nurses to man those beds and so keep that in mind when you hear that um hospitals are overflowing
00:36:19.940 sometimes you'll see the phrase you'll see the phrase you know they're out of staffed beds that
00:36:26.040 means that they're not actually out of beds they're not out of uh room they're not out of space they're
00:36:32.400 out of staffed beds which really means that they have a staff shortage not a bed shortage not a resource
00:36:38.620 shortage and that difference is actually important again when we are trying to figure out what is true
00:36:45.260 all right i want to uh i want to talk about masks for just a little bit um because we've seen a couple
00:36:54.320 videos come out um just terrible videos of two-year-olds being forced to wear masks and as we've talked about
00:37:02.560 so many times on this podcast this is something that i'm very passionate about because it affects people
00:37:07.840 who don't have a voice for themselves they don't have any political capital they don't have any
00:37:12.560 power and they are being forced to put a cloth over their face based on no data based on no science
00:37:18.060 whatsoever and i won't go through all of the science and the data firmly proving that two-year-olds
00:37:23.960 should not be wearing masks because we've done that so many times and we'll link to my post on that
00:37:30.000 we'll link to past episodes on that uh this has been in new york magazine this has been in uh the
00:37:36.420 atlantic so we've got mainstream outlets now saying whoa whoa whoa why are we one of the only countries
00:37:42.720 in the world i think it's only american america and canada that forced two-year-olds to wear masks
00:37:47.700 and what data is this based on the american academy of pediatrics and the cdc have declined to offer any
00:37:54.520 data showing that this is necessary and actually a large cdc study analyzing 90 000 students in the state
00:38:05.140 of georgia showed that mask mandates actually are not proven at all to mitigate the spread
00:38:11.600 of covid in schools and we also know i mean dr fauci said himself in november of 2020
00:38:18.360 that children are not the ones who are driving the virus it's just not happening this is a study in
00:38:25.660 the lancet that says quote according to serological test results the proportion of young children in our
00:38:31.640 sample with sars cov2 infection was low intra-family transmission seemed more plausible than transmission
00:38:37.980 within daycare centers further epidemiological studies are needed to confirm this exploratory
00:38:43.120 hypothesis and so the pre-print study that they did showed um that kids really aren't driving this and
00:38:49.900 actually we have seen lots of data throughout the pandemic that um kids are not the ones transmitting
00:38:56.500 the virus and the who who who again i think is a pretty corrupt organization but even the who says
00:39:04.420 under no circumstances should kids under the age of six be wearing masks and only in certain
00:39:09.160 circumstances should kids ages uh six to twelve be wearing masks that's why uh none of our peer
00:39:16.520 countries except for canada force kids to wear masks some of the cutoff ages vary but in a place like
00:39:23.620 australia which obviously as we know is very draconian a very aggressive when it comes to
00:39:29.060 uh covid restrictions they don't make kids under 12 wear masks a lot of places like in the uk for
00:39:35.640 example they don't make students at all wear masks when they're at school and so why the united states
00:39:41.520 is doing this why the new governor of new york reinforced the policy saying that two-year-olds at daycare have
00:39:49.240 to wear masks based on no data whatsoever like where i want to know where is this pressure coming from
00:39:55.280 is it coming from i don't know the daycare lobby is it coming from the teachers unions i do think it's
00:40:00.400 coming well we know it's coming from the teachers unions actually the report came out a few months ago
00:40:05.000 that the teachers unions were impacting we emails came out we're impacting the cdc's recommendations
00:40:11.020 on schools uh and masks which means that it's the cdc is politicized it's making political
00:40:18.720 recommendations not scientific recommendations because teachers unions are political entities
00:40:23.740 and so like i don't understand the desire to mask children age two when other countries are not doing
00:40:31.360 this countries again far stricter than the united states we don't have any data showing this we don't
00:40:37.660 have any logic showing this we have no science whatsoever showing that two-year-olds need to be
00:40:43.360 wearing masks it just doesn't make any sense and we also know as we talked about that cloth masks at best
00:40:51.160 dry perfectly clean sanitized cloth masks have lower than a 10 percent um effectiveness when it comes
00:41:01.400 to stopping the droplets that come out of people's mouths when they're you know speaking and things
00:41:09.220 like that the droplets that could go on to infect someone else they're only about 9.8 percent effective
00:41:16.340 and so you put that on a two-year-old who is not wearing it correctly who very quickly gets the mask um wet
00:41:23.560 and unsanitized zero percent chance of effectiveness effectiveness again even if they were vectors for
00:41:31.780 the virus like even if they were transmitting the virus the cloth masks aren't going to help at all
00:41:36.980 they wouldn't help at all again i will link my post uh looking at all of these studies that conclusively
00:41:43.380 show that little kids shouldn't be wearing masks i don't understand it so i'm going to show you
00:41:48.220 uh this clip of uh this two-year-old kid his mom posted this video he's at daycare his mom is at
00:41:55.720 work this two-year-old kid is being forced to wear a mask he clearly doesn't want to wear the mask it's
00:42:00.520 very disturbing by the way i mean it just it breaks my heart the uh the daycare workers are trying to
00:42:06.840 force him to wear this mask and he just keeps on pulling it off you can tell he's uncomfortable so i'll
00:42:11.100 show um a few seconds of that clip you you cannot and i know i always get in trouble for saying this
00:42:34.320 i don't care you can't tell me that's not child abuse you can't you cannot tell me that's not child
00:42:40.120 abuse forcing a child to do something that clearly is painful in some way or uncomfortable in some way
00:42:48.420 something that they don't want to do that has and all these qualifications are important that has
00:42:54.340 no benefit in only harm only potential harm is abuse forcing a kid to do something either that they
00:43:03.700 don't want to do or that is uncomfortable uh that has no benefit and only causes harm is abuse what
00:43:12.300 what else is it like how is that not abusive uh and people say oh you know you're minimizing actual
00:43:21.280 child abuse look i'm not saying that it's the same thing as every other kind of abuse but there's a
00:43:28.100 spectrum isn't there like isn't this at least a form of cruelty and then there was another video
00:43:34.620 that was going around i'm sure you guys saw it of this poor child on an american airlines flight
00:43:40.340 um a video was taken apparently he has asthma and you can see the mother in the video giving him his
00:43:46.300 asthma medication and so this was obvious to the flight it was obvious to the flight attendant
00:43:50.780 apparently named carl with american airlines who was um telling this mom apparently very aggressive
00:43:58.180 aggressively telling this mom you've got to put a mask on your two-year-old child and so you can see
00:44:03.420 the mom she's holding uh the child and she's holding the mask on his face and he is just crying
00:44:09.540 saying no no no he doesn't want the mask on and literally they were forced to get off of the plane
00:44:16.160 because of this this is insanity it's insanity like if you are a proponent of this stuff you are enabling
00:44:25.760 abuse of children you are like this allows all of this allows these people to be the monsters that i
00:44:34.480 believe they already were so i don't believe that covid and covid policy has made people these cruel
00:44:42.260 incalloused people i think that they already were that i think a lot of these people already hated
00:44:47.140 children um and they were already hateful people and this has just allowed them to be hateful while
00:44:54.760 pretending that their hatefulness is a virtue i know it's a little bit of a hot take and look i'm not
00:45:00.240 saying that you know if you thought that if if you thought for some reason based on no science or logic
00:45:06.240 whatsoever if you maybe thought for some reason that it was necessary and beneficial to mask two-year-olds
00:45:10.720 and you were a proponent of this policy that you are some evil person look you didn't know you thought
00:45:19.020 that it was good for them i understand you were maybe acting out of a place of love and compassion
00:45:24.720 and probably a place of fear but now that you know like now that you know the data there's ignorance is
00:45:32.140 no longer an excuse you can no longer pretend to be naive like we have got to stop complying with this
00:45:38.540 you've got to speak up to your daycare i mean or don't send your kid to that daycare anymore that
00:45:45.120 might actually be the better option you've got to speak up to your school boards i know a lot of you
00:45:49.480 have done that sometimes it's been ineffective and there are powers that are bigger than the schools
00:45:54.200 and the school boards who are unfortunately forcing this kind of stuff but it's not sane it's not rational
00:46:00.260 it's not compassionate and it's not necessary and it just breaks my heart it breaks my heart
00:46:06.700 uh i i can't i can't believe i can i guess but i can't believe that we've allowed ourselves to get
00:46:13.920 here and then here's this other monstrous story um this is a woman who she did a tiktok video
00:46:21.520 she and then someone posted it to twitter that she claims and you can tell that she's deaf she's speaking
00:46:28.120 she claims that she is an uber driver she went into a dunkin donuts to pick up uh to pick up in
00:46:36.740 order for her customer she didn't have her implant in so she couldn't hear what the uh employees were
00:46:43.880 saying and she asked them to lower their mask so she could read their lips she asked them to write
00:46:49.380 down something uh what they were saying so she could kind of she could understand what they were saying
00:46:54.640 they refused to they yelled at her they kicked her out i'll play a little bit of that video
00:46:58.800 the manager comes over and i could just tell by his body language his face he was going off and
00:47:05.460 kept doing this and i kept saying i can't hear you i can't hear you i need to lip read he refused to
00:47:13.720 write anything down he refused to pull his mask down we're six feet apart through the plexiglass to the
00:47:20.760 side i'm wearing my mask like what more do you want from us people don't believe i'm deaf and i
00:47:28.020 could sense and feel from him that he couldn't believe me he didn't believe me he didn't believe
00:47:33.080 i was deaf so this doesn't this doesn't make any sense it doesn't make any sense like for
00:47:38.560 we're a society that typically says that we need to cater everything we think say and do to the small
00:47:47.860 percentage of people who uh would apparently be benefited by us changing our behavior so for
00:47:55.400 example like putting your pronouns and your profile is supposed to help people who identify as
00:48:01.140 transgender feel better about having pronouns that don't match their sex but when it comes to covid
00:48:07.640 policy when it comes to covid policy enforcement and these uh these i don't know these i'm trying not to
00:48:17.560 use a term that's going to get me in trouble these um of fascists i will say when it comes to mask
00:48:24.060 policy we don't care at all about people with special needs who need to be accommodated i mean i
00:48:29.640 guarantee that the people who threw her out of this dunkin donuts feel very good about themselves like
00:48:35.560 they they think that they're the good guys for sure they for sure think that they are the good guys
00:48:40.940 like how hard would it have been to just write down what they're saying but people
00:48:44.880 the the mask has become a talisman for people it's become a signal of virtue for people it's not
00:48:51.580 actually about safety i i really think that most people that wear masks anyway they actually think
00:48:57.320 erroneously that they're protecting themselves um i don't think that they think that they are actually
00:49:02.920 being good people and loving their neighbor i think that they have a false sense of security which is
00:49:07.500 exactly what dr fauci warned about before this became politicized uh in march of 2020 when he did
00:49:14.300 that interview and he said you know masks actually give a false sense of security to people and it can
00:49:19.280 actually make things worse because you're messing with it and you're touching uh you're touching your
00:49:24.460 face all the time and he said that people don't need to be wearing masks and then of course six months
00:49:30.160 later it was like if you don't wear a mask then you're a terrible person and you probably don't actually
00:49:34.360 love jesus oh my gosh so just to add insult to injury with all of these completely illogical
00:49:45.560 illogical restrictions especially when it comes to masking kids the mayor of san francisco
00:49:53.260 uh decided that she was going to flout her own city it's almost like tiring to even tell the story
00:49:59.960 again like we saw it with governor whitmer we saw it with gavin newsom uh we saw it with cuomo we saw
00:50:08.260 it with uh his brother the other cnn cuomo uh we saw it with mayor lightfoot in chicago we saw it with
00:50:16.460 muriel bowser in dc we saw it at the met gala when you know working class aoc and her working class
00:50:24.180 immigrant designer who is a immigrant from toronto guys and she is literally engaged to a multi-millionaire
00:50:30.560 but we saw it there when they weren't wearing masks but the servant class was wearing masks nancy
00:50:36.100 pelosi at her napa event she wasn't wearing masks and a mask and none of her very rich elite guests at
00:50:43.340 this fundraising event were wearing masks but the servant class were wearing masks so gosh we've seen
00:50:48.460 these democrats do the same thing over and over again and mayor mayor london breed of san francisco
00:50:53.180 she flatted her own rule and she was at some club with some blm activists and she was dancing and
00:51:00.700 she didn't have a mask on and the picture was taken and it started circulating twitter people are talking
00:51:05.340 about what a hypocrite they are but honestly guys obviously democrats don't care like obviously they
00:51:12.020 don't they keep on electing these people like obviously the media don't care that they don't
00:51:17.600 actually care because it's not politically expedient to point out the hypocrisy of uh democratic politicians
00:51:26.640 who don't abide by their own rules instead they just want to punch down they want to punch down
00:51:33.200 at people who are understandably vaccine hesitant in southern states because that's what the media has
00:51:38.920 become that's what the left-wing media has become they don't speak truth to power they actually try
00:51:44.740 to pummel everyday private citizens because it stokes hate it stokes fear it stokes resentment it
00:51:51.800 stokes division and that supposedly is supposed to help their ratings but i don't know i think that
00:51:57.500 there are plenty of shows that stoke that kind of fear on msnbc and cnn that don't actually have
00:52:02.860 great ratings but man they are trying and so i just realized like yes we can point out this hypocrisy and i
00:52:09.360 think we should because you never know whose mind is going to change and it just goes to show that like
00:52:14.200 the people who tell you that you need to be locked inside your home that you need to mask your two
00:52:19.440 year old that your two year old needs to be wearing a mask at at school they aren't scared like they're
00:52:25.540 not wearing masks and remember the recommendation is supposedly that even if you're vaccinated you're
00:52:31.060 supposed to be wearing a mask and that's the kind of rules that they are enforcing on vaccinated and
00:52:35.640 unvaccinated people um uh in these cities in these democrat-run cities and they are not abiding by
00:52:42.460 the rules themselves because they're not scared they want you scared they want you compliant they
00:52:46.920 want you dependent they want you controlled but they absolutely have uh they have no intention of
00:52:54.380 abiding by those rules themselves now she was asked about this and charles cook again of national
00:53:00.600 review said that her response was we don't need the fun police and she was feeling the spirit and i
00:53:09.060 wasn't thinking about a mask okay okay so she was feeling the spirit in this club we don't need the fun
00:53:17.040 police she said okay i'm i i just can't i just cannot because because two-year-olds and three-year-olds
00:53:26.560 like it they like the mask but you don't like the mask mayor of san francisco and so it's okay
00:53:32.800 for you not to abide by it i just cannot with these people holy spirit help me um there was another tweet
00:53:40.680 also that made me ask the holy spirit to help me hold my tongue from david from who is kind of
00:53:47.740 unstable it seems like who said that there should be no tolerance of no patience for parents who do not
00:53:55.300 choose to vaccinate their five to eleven year olds once the vaccine is approved for five to eleven
00:54:00.820 year olds oh i just these people i just can't i just cannot i just cannot um all right there's a
00:54:12.220 there's a lot more that i want to there's a lot more that i want to talk about but i don't really
00:54:15.380 have time i want to talk let me just say really fast that i saw this interesting article on substack
00:54:21.260 asking why does no one talk about sweden anymore because sweden now ranks 40th in the world for
00:54:29.940 um covet death rates and is probably the least restrictive country in the world when it comes
00:54:36.840 to masks when it comes to vaccines when it comes to and always has been by the way they definitely
00:54:42.140 don't mask kids or anything like that um they're the same population size as michigan and michigan has a
00:54:48.740 much higher death rate uh than sweden does and so maybe we should be asking about that like maybe
00:54:54.860 maybe we should be asking questions about that why it's possible for sweden but it's not possible
00:55:00.060 for other countries it's not possible for states that have the same population size as them just doesn't
00:55:05.700 make a whole lot of sense but again that is not politically expedient unfortunately this has become
00:55:11.400 politicized and politics and profit i think have cost more lives over the past year and a half
00:55:18.060 probably than covet itself has hot take all right tomorrow i think that we're probably going to talk
00:55:24.540 about the border crisis if we can get someone to come on about that and i'm going to talk about the
00:55:28.260 theology surrounding immigration again too because people seem to be very confused about it all right i'll
00:55:34.480 see you guys back here tomorrow
00:55:35.540 you