Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 26, 2022


Ep 553 | My Family’s COVID Experience & Why I Lost Faith in the 'Experts'


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

171.48505

Word Count

9,542

Sentence Count

538

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In this episode, Allie talks about how she and her family caught COVID and how they managed to avoid it for the past two years. She also talks about what it's like going back to church after two weeks off.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I am coming to you from my home. Why am I recording from
00:00:17.080 home instead of in my lovely studio with all of my fancy equipment that makes this sound
00:00:22.980 and look the best that it possibly can? Because my family and I are recovering from being
00:00:28.300 sick. If you follow me on Instagram, you know this. That's why I didn't have a new show Monday,
00:00:35.820 Tuesday. You should still go listen to those replay episodes. I tried to pick popular episodes
00:00:40.500 and replay them on Monday, Tuesday. But we are recovering from being sick. And because I care
00:00:45.240 about my team and I don't want to infect them, I am still recording from home, although we are
00:00:52.340 feeling better, I'm going to get into our experience with our sickness, which maybe you
00:00:58.480 have guessed was COVID-19. It finally caught us. And I'm going to use that as a jumping
00:01:05.040 off point to talk about a lot of different things that have been pinned up over the past couple
00:01:09.320 of weeks about COVID and COVID policy and all of that and all the developments. And we're
00:01:13.460 going to answer the question and analyze the question, is the tide turning? This episode
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00:01:32.920 good deal. So guys, after two years, my family finally caught the vid. Now let me pause for just
00:01:43.500 one second, because if you're watching this on YouTube, you know, I already said this looks
00:01:47.100 different because I'm not in my studio, but I'm also going to be looking down something that I
00:01:51.160 don't do very much when I'm recording from my studio, because I can have the notes in front of
00:01:56.860 me right where the camera is. But now I just have them on my computer. And I really like writing out
00:02:03.360 my entire episode and making sure that I get the things that I want to say right verbatim. That's just
00:02:12.440 how I prepare. That's how I do things. I sometimes do it extemporaneously. But I really like to make
00:02:17.980 sure that I say what I plan on saying. So that is why you will see me if you're watching on YouTube
00:02:23.860 looking down, I'm referencing my notes and making sure that I am saying what I wanted to say. So
00:02:30.820 after two years, my family finally caught COVID. Like I said, I'm better now, but still recording from
00:02:41.140 home, because I don't want to, I don't want to spread it to anyone, even though I don't even I
00:02:47.040 don't think I'm contagious anymore. I actually think today is like day five or six. And I've been
00:02:52.740 a few days now without any symptoms. And so I think it would be fine. But you know, better safe than
00:02:57.420 sorry, when it comes when it comes to that. So over the past couple years, we have lived our lives
00:03:04.660 pretty normally, except for when we have gone to places that have restrictions, you know, we've
00:03:12.460 made the choice to go into a store, knowing that we didn't have to make the choice to go into a store.
00:03:16.900 But if we were choosing to go into a store, and they were requiring us to, you know, do something,
00:03:21.100 wear a mask, of course, when we traveled, we wore a mask, we followed those rules. Of course, we avoided
00:03:26.760 having to go anywhere to have those restrictions when possible. But we also didn't want to not live
00:03:33.640 our lives, we wanted to maintain a sense of normalcy for us and for our kids. And so we've
00:03:38.100 gone to church, we've gone out to eat, we've hung out with friends and family, we've flown places,
00:03:43.820 we've traveled, I've spoken at lots of conferences, talked to lots of people, I have taken pictures with
00:03:51.060 shaking hands with and hugged and met a ton of you over the past couple of years, when the conferences
00:03:58.200 finally did pick back up, like at the beginning of 2021, I got to meet a lot of you. I've gotten to
00:04:06.120 do that over the past year. And somehow we avoided COVID. So this is since like April of 2020. So we
00:04:13.080 took pretty seriously when President Trump was like two weeks slow the spread. After two weeks, we kind
00:04:18.960 of were like, Okay, well, we've got to go back to living our lives. So we resumed the family dinners
00:04:24.040 with my parents and with my brothers and nephews and all of that. And we started going back to church.
00:04:32.120 And we really, like I said, have tried to maintain as much as we can, a sense of normalcy and routine
00:04:38.420 and fellowship and community in our lives, realizing that there is more to life than avoiding a virus.
00:04:48.100 And when this whole thing started, we had an eight month old, now I have two kids, now I have a two
00:04:53.120 year old and a nine month old. And so a lot has changed over the past couple years. But when this
00:04:57.080 whole thing started, I had an eight month old. And even though I was really, like, I was really worried
00:05:01.940 about this virus spreading to her, of course, we didn't know everything. Then I also didn't want
00:05:08.540 the first year. And then now, of course, it turned out to be two years, two years of her life
00:05:13.200 to be isolated, to be stuck inside and to be characterized by fear. People are more than
00:05:23.020 just bodies. We are more than just vectors for a virus. We have emotional and relational and spiritual
00:05:33.940 needs. And we just wanted to make sure that those things were being met without being totally
00:05:40.940 reckless. And there were times over the past couple of years, because like I said, we're
00:05:45.800 not being reckless, we weren't being thoughtless. I was actually kind of calculating the risks
00:05:50.240 every time we did something, whether we traveled, you know, went to the beach, or I spoke at a
00:05:54.720 conference. And there were many times when I thought, okay, this is the time, this is the
00:05:58.320 time that we're going to get COVID for sure I'm going to get it. And it just didn't happen. I was
00:06:02.720 surprised over the last couple of years, especially when we would go through a surge of the media
00:06:06.560 talking about everyone getting it, everyone dying from it. And I would take a risk and I would go
00:06:12.020 somewhere I'd get on a plane and I still wouldn't get it. And I was just surprised by that. Finally,
00:06:16.920 though, my husband got it first, and then he passed it to our kids. And then I got it and I was just
00:06:25.100 praying to this was all this was last week, this was the end of last week, I was praying that either a I
00:06:31.000 wouldn't get it or be that I would get it last and not because I was scared to get it or I didn't want
00:06:36.440 to get it. And I would rather you know, my kids and my husband get it and not me. It wasn't about
00:06:40.120 that. It was because I knew that I was needed to take care of everyone. And I knew that would be a
00:06:44.600 lot more difficult for me to do that if I was sick. So graciously, seriously, by the grace of God, I was
00:06:50.100 the last one in our family to get sick. And so I really was able to take care of everyone as they
00:06:55.840 got better. So let me tell you, and probably by now, you have either had COVID or you know, lots of
00:07:02.260 people who have had COVID. And so me telling you, like our experience with it is not going,
00:07:07.260 it's not gonna be news for a lot of you. But maybe some of you, you've been like us, and you've been
00:07:11.760 able to outrun it for the past couple of years. And you're worried because you're hearing about
00:07:15.880 Omicron being so transmissible. And you're thinking kind of like me, okay, this is the time that you're
00:07:20.720 going to get it. Maybe I'll be helpful to some of you to just hear, hear my experience. And as someone
00:07:26.140 who is a hypochondriac, if you are someone who is riddled with anxiety still about this,
00:07:30.700 I do understand I can relate to that. And maybe hearing our experience with it will make you
00:07:36.700 feel better. So I started feeling bad on Saturday. I had the same symptoms that my husband started
00:07:42.740 feeling on Thursday. So achy, headache, fever for a few hours, a little congested. Really,
00:07:50.380 it was the tiredness that lingered through Monday and Tuesday. That was why I didn't record an episode.
00:07:56.560 Um, but by Tuesday, afternoon, I really I felt like a new woman, I felt like I was totally recovered.
00:08:04.400 And today, like I feel 100%. We didn't take any medications. Obviously, I'm not against medications.
00:08:10.620 We just didn't take any, we did have some treatment at our disposal, disposal, disposal. We just decided
00:08:17.720 to take some immune supplements that had been recommended to us by a friend instead of,
00:08:22.920 instead of taking any medication. I'm, like I said, not anti medication, I would rather not like
00:08:31.060 if I can knock something naturally, that's going to be my go to first. And so I just wanted to kind
00:08:37.020 of see how it would be if it ran its course, and it did run its course, and it wasn't bad. So for my
00:08:42.520 husband and I, that's what it was, it was a couple of days of just not feeling great. But it was way
00:08:49.740 better than most colds that I've had certainly better than the flu. I mean, I've had, I've kind
00:08:54.900 of had some bad sicknesses. Like I had shingles. When I was in college, I would say that's the worst
00:09:01.700 sickness that I that I've had. Shingles was terrible. I mean, I had to go home and stay home
00:09:08.280 for like three weeks. It was absolutely awful. I remember I had mono in high school. Mono was
00:09:12.740 terrible. I don't remember the last time I had the flu. I don't know, probably a few years,
00:09:17.880 maybe 10 years, maybe since college. I used to get strep throat, you know, in high school and
00:09:22.340 college, you're just around germy people all the time. And so you get sick. And this just in our
00:09:28.000 experience, it was way better than any of those things. And for the kids, it was even better than
00:09:33.200 that. So toddler, baby, almost completely unnoticeable. Honestly, if I didn't know that
00:09:39.760 my husband had had COVID, I don't know that we would have even noticed that our kids were sick,
00:09:45.960 the toddler just kind of didn't feel well, maybe a slight fever took a three hour nap really was
00:09:51.220 like as good as new after that. The baby had fever and fussiness on and off for about a day.
00:09:56.800 That was worse, I would say, actually, than the toddler, but neither had coughs or congestion or
00:10:05.360 anything like that. They both had RSV over the summer. And that was literally not exaggerating,
00:10:11.620 100 times worse. RSV was bad. Thankfully, our baby was eight weeks old at the time.
00:10:19.060 And we didn't have to go to the hospital, thank the Lord. But a lot of babies have to end up in
00:10:24.400 the hospital because of RSV, because really, it's just a lot worse for babies and for kids than COVID.
00:10:30.140 I mean, that was, that was a seven day sickness, where they were coughing, they were restless,
00:10:36.840 they had fevers, it was just awful, truly awful. This COVID did not even come within close range of
00:10:44.520 that. So if you are someone who your kid has had a bad cold, your kid has had the flu, your kid has
00:10:49.240 had RSV, probably, probably, and statistically, I think this is true. You really don't need to worry
00:10:57.660 about the severity of COVID for your kids. And that's not me saying that from a medically professional,
00:11:04.400 medical professional standpoint, I'm saying that from the data that we have, and the millions,
00:11:11.940 it seems like, or at least hundreds of thousands of anecdotes that we have from parents who had the
00:11:15.960 same experience. I'm guessing that this means that we had Omicron. Of course, we don't know.
00:11:22.540 That's apparently more transmissible, but a less severe variant than the original variant or the Delta
00:11:29.540 variant. Although most people I know, no matter what variant they had, below the age of 70,
00:11:37.180 I've had a similar experience with COVID and the one as the one that we had vaccinated or not. I also
00:11:43.420 know people mostly older people who have had a tough go with it. So a tough go of it. So I'm not saying
00:11:49.760 that that doesn't happen. Obviously, we know it does. I have friends whose parents went to the
00:11:54.980 hospital. So I'm not downplaying that. But I think our experience was characteristic of most
00:12:00.480 people's experience with COVID, especially in our age range, without underlying conditions. My
00:12:06.080 husband is 31. I'm almost 30. I'll be 30 next month. And so for our age cohort, like we knew the
00:12:12.280 statistics, we knew that we had a 99.99% chance of not even going to the hospital, not even talking about
00:12:19.540 our death chances. I mean, we take bigger chances every day getting into our car. And so we weren't
00:12:25.580 worried about that. But I do, I mean, over the past few weeks, I have seen lots of vaccinated and
00:12:33.200 unvaccinated people in my life have COVID. And this has been true since the vaccine came out. You know,
00:12:41.500 it's been true for the past year. I've seen people fully vaccinated who have gotten COVID. But
00:12:47.240 especially recently, the symptoms, and this is just in my circle. But again, I think that the data
00:12:55.460 shows pretty well that this is characteristic of everything that's going on in general, the symptoms
00:13:01.280 of the people in my life who are vaccinated, versus the people in my life who are unvaccinated,
00:13:08.280 the exact same. Like I, I have not one, I haven't had anyone in my life who has had Omicron and has had
00:13:15.440 like a really tough go of it, had severe symptoms, but they had the same types of symptoms as the
00:13:22.760 people in my life who are vaccinated. And as I said, there are a lot of people who are vaccinated in my
00:13:30.460 life who got symptoms with Omicron. And I think the data shows us that possibly, for some age cohorts,
00:13:43.000 it may reduce hospitalizations and death. Although I'm going to ask a question about that in just a
00:13:48.720 second that I think is interesting that I truly want to know the answer to. So I think that's true
00:13:54.040 for certain groups, that it could lessen the severity could lessen the severity. But I just want
00:14:00.960 to remind us, in general, what the hospitalization rates are for each age group, regardless of
00:14:10.020 vaccination. Okay, because we keep hearing, you know, you're selfish for not getting the vaccine,
00:14:15.460 even if it doesn't stop infection or transmission, which we know by now that it doesn't, you're selfish
00:14:20.940 because you're going to burden the healthcare system, because you're going to go to the hospital,
00:14:25.080 you're going to have to get out on put on a ventilator and die. Like, I think that we just
00:14:29.640 need to remember how low the chances of that happening are.
00:14:35.320 Okay, so according to the CDC, and this is just a good reminder, again, if you're someone who is
00:14:42.240 riddled with anxiety about this, and I'm not saying that you don't have any valid reason to
00:14:47.420 feel that way, especially if you have people in your life who really struggled through COVID.
00:14:51.760 And maybe you had a parent or a grandparent go to the ICU, or you had a friend that somehow took
00:14:57.320 a turn for the worst and thought that they were young and healthy. I understand that happens.
00:15:02.300 But it's important for us to put this into perspective. It's important for us to know the
00:15:08.080 statistics and know the actual probability. There's this interesting study, and it just came to mind.
00:15:12.520 So I don't have it in front of me. I've cited it before, I think a few months ago, it might have even
00:15:17.060 been like almost a year ago now. But it asks people who identify as liberals and people who identify as
00:15:24.860 conservatives, what they estimate the chances of going to the hospital are if you have COVID for
00:15:32.020 liberals, they thought that it was about a 50% chance, a 50% chance that if you get COVID,
00:15:38.880 then you are going to the hospital. And even people who identified as conservatives who answered this
00:15:43.580 poll, they way overestimated, I think they thought it was like 10 to 20%. Here's the reality. So for
00:15:50.740 ages 0 to 17, 0.003 to 0.006% of this age cohort is going to end up in the hospital with COVID. So at
00:16:07.220 its lowest, this is according to the CDC, we'll link it in the description of this episode, at its
00:16:11.800 lowest, 0.0003% of kids were going to the hospital with COVID. At the highest, 0.006%. And that has
00:16:19.640 been true throughout. That is effectively close to a 0% as it gets. I just think it's interesting to
00:16:27.700 just a side note, the RSV is so much more severe for this age group, especially babies. And why aren't
00:16:35.180 we seeing a push? Now, I'm not saying that we should see a push. But why aren't we seeing a push for a
00:16:39.800 vaccine for that? But for something that 0.0003% of kids are going to go to the hospital for, you're
00:16:51.640 seeing people say, Oh, I just can't wait to see this vaccine approved for this age group. I just
00:16:56.600 don't really totally understand that. Ages 18 to 49, 0.002% to 0.02%. That's the percentage of people
00:17:08.160 in that age group that are going to end up in the hospital because of COVID. Ages 50 to 63, 0.002% to 0.03%.
00:17:16.880 Ages 64 plus 0.003% to 0.07%. That's crazy. Like that's according to the CDC. That's not me, you know,
00:17:29.300 cobbling together different numbers based on what I want the hospitalization rates to be. I mean, you would
00:17:35.300 never think that according to the reporting that we're seeing what this administration is saying,
00:17:40.980 some of the restrictions that have been put in place in this country and around the world for
00:17:46.240 ages 64 plus 0.003% to 0.07% of that age group will end up in the hospital. And get this, this is crazy.
00:17:56.440 I really didn't know this. I mean, a lot of you, maybe you did because you're following the CDC tracker
00:18:01.860 every day. And I understand the CDC is not necessarily the most reliable institution in
00:18:06.880 this country right now. And that is, uh, that is, um, understating it. But I was also looking at the,
00:18:15.820 uh, the death rate numbers over time, or actually, no, this is the hospitalization numbers over time
00:18:21.620 for all age groups put together. Did you know that we are actually at the beginning of January,
00:18:27.520 2022, that was the highest hospitalization rate that we've ever had throughout. So that includes
00:18:34.880 last January when very few people had the vaccine. So it is higher, the debt or the hospitalization
00:18:43.520 rate with COVID was higher at the beginning of January of 2022 than it's been throughout the
00:18:52.600 entire pandemic, including last January, when we had that big surge. Um, when we had no vaccine,
00:19:00.240 according to our world and data on January 26th of 2021, we only had 1.6% of the country vaccinated
00:19:08.320 with two doses. Now we have 63% fully vaccinated 76% with at least one dose and our hospitalization
00:19:16.780 rate this month while still extremely low overall, as I just explained is higher than it's been the
00:19:22.440 entire pandemic. And if you are still pushing this myth that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,
00:19:28.080 which is so silly since the vaccinated still carry and spread the virus and maybe even more so since
00:19:33.480 they're not subjected to the same testing standards in many places. So maybe they don't know that they
00:19:37.540 have it if they have, you know, mild symptoms, uh, and they also are allowed into more public spaces
00:19:45.220 than the unvaccinated are in some cities. Uh, so we know that they are getting and spreading it.
00:19:51.780 So if you're still spreading that myth that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, knowing those
00:19:57.180 things, if you're still pushing that myth, you would still think that the hospitalization rate
00:20:02.840 would be lower today than it was a year ago, since so many people have these life-saving vaccines.
00:20:09.360 I truly don't know the answer to that because at the same time, the CDC's website shows that the
00:20:13.740 unvaccinated are more likely to go to the hospital and die than the vaccinated. So why would overall
00:20:19.300 hospitalizations be at their highest ever this month? And why wouldn't overall deaths be lower
00:20:25.240 than they are? If these vaccines are as effective as we keep hearing, I don't understand that.
00:20:31.940 And even if they are that effective, they obviously aren't stopping infection and transmission.
00:20:37.740 We're seeing that openly admitted now more and more. So what is the point of the draconian
00:20:43.920 requirements? If we know that for a fact, you hear that, okay, so they don't stop infection
00:20:49.680 or transmission, but they stopped you from going to the hospital, probably dying. So you will be
00:20:55.580 overburdening our healthcare system, like we mentioned before. And this is of course the same
00:20:59.800 healthcare system that just fired thousands of nurses and doctors because they wouldn't get this
00:21:04.940 vaccine. So you're told you're selfish for not getting it because you're going to burden the
00:21:08.960 hospital. If you don't get the shot, except again, there's a 99.99% chance that you won't
00:21:14.420 depending on your age and health status. If you're below the age of 70 without underlying conditions,
00:21:18.760 the chances of you going to the hospital for COVID are almost zero. So all of these people
00:21:23.820 who have COVID after the vaccine always say, wow, I'm so glad that I got the vaccine because it would
00:21:29.340 be so much worse if I didn't get the vaccine. Like, no, probably not. Probably not. Statistically,
00:21:35.420 that's not true. Like you probably would have been totally fine and maybe even had just the exact
00:21:39.520 same symptoms. So there's absolutely no selfishness in someone in a certain age group in health
00:21:45.820 category. Really, I think it should be a personal decision no matter what. But if you're trying to
00:21:50.360 make the argument that someone is going to burden the hospital system by not giving the shot
00:21:54.040 and they're selfish, there's just no selfishness in someone in a certain age and health category
00:22:01.720 denying a vaccine that is really more therapeutic in nature than a deterrent to transmission,
00:22:06.980 because they're not going to burden the hospital. Statistically, it is just so incredibly unlikely.
00:22:14.200 So you have to break this down for me. You have to kind of riddle me this question, which I
00:22:20.540 posed on Twitter and I didn't get any good answers from the other side about this.
00:22:25.680 How is it selfish for a person who, as soon as they feel themselves getting sick, stay home until
00:22:33.040 they stay home until they get better? So they're not going out. They're not infecting anyone. They
00:22:37.540 don't go to the hospital. And now they have immunity, far better immunity than any vaccinated
00:22:42.660 person. By the way, there was a recently published study by the CDC confirming that actual immunity is
00:22:48.380 much more effective against the Delta variant than the vaccine, which we've known. And Israel preprint
00:22:54.080 studies said the same thing several months ago. So a person who stays home while sick until all their
00:22:58.920 symptoms are gone, doesn't put a strain on any hospital, has natural immunity, and then goes about
00:23:03.900 their life. Can you explain to me how exactly that person is selfish? Like how did that person's decision
00:23:09.980 negatively impact anyone? How is that person failing to love your neighbor? I challenge you to
00:23:15.780 logically, that's the stipulation that tends to trip people up when they're trying to answer this.
00:23:20.360 Logically, how does their decision and their experience negatively impact anyone? That person
00:23:29.500 looked at the data and said, wow, my chances of having a manageable case here are almost 100%.
00:23:36.140 And I don't know quite enough about the vaccine yet. And so maybe they're saying that they want to see
00:23:41.480 what happens. And so they do see what happens. They get sick, they recover, they refuse the vaccine that
00:23:47.980 wouldn't have stopped their infection in the first place. How is that selfish in any way?
00:23:53.280 Now, unfortunately, we don't get an answer to these questions from our media, it would be a very
00:23:57.240 interesting question for the media to try to grapple with, or from our president, who just revoked the
00:24:03.240 emergency use authorization, by the way, for monoclonal antibodies for no other reason that I can see,
00:24:09.620 except that he just wants to push a vaccine only strategy, which is so stupid. Like if you actually want to
00:24:15.300 save people's lives, even if you are the biggest believer in the vaccine, your biggest vaccine
00:24:19.200 advocate ever, like wouldn't you still want to give people another chance, another opportunity,
00:24:26.840 another measure, even vaccinated people are taking monoclonal antibodies, because you know,
00:24:32.000 an unvaccinated person under the age of 40, is actually less likely to die from the virus than a
00:24:41.060 vaccinated elderly person. I mean, that's just the truth. And so these monoclonal antibodies are
00:24:47.540 also helping people who are vaccinated, who need them to get better. And yet he revoked the emergency
00:24:54.200 use authorization. And the excuse that we're hearing is that it's ineffective, the monoclonal antibodies
00:24:59.860 are ineffective against Omicron. But A, Delta is still circulating, which is more deadly, apparently,
00:25:05.600 than Omicron. And B, masks and vaccines are also proving to be ineffective against infection and
00:25:12.560 transmission when it comes to Omicron. Yet his administration is still pushing them. So what
00:25:17.260 purpose is this? What purpose does it serve to revoke the emergency use authorization for monoclonal
00:25:25.720 antibodies besides cruelty? I mean, it gets so tiresome to say, but if Trump, like if Trump did something
00:25:33.200 like that, I mean, you would just, you would be hearing people say over, you would be hearing
00:25:37.880 evangelicals stand up and say, Oh, this is not pro-life. This is so cruel. This is so terrible.
00:25:44.080 And I just haven't seen the same people stand up and say anything about this decision by the president.
00:25:49.900 Everything has just gotten so incredibly off rails, so incredibly insane. This is not about the science.
00:25:58.100 I don't know that it ever has been, but certainly over the last few months, certainly I would say over the
00:26:02.620 past year since Joe Biden has taken office, it's just, it defies explanation. Any logical explanation,
00:26:12.880 I should say. As Brett Weinstein said on my show, that incompetence does not explain how the government,
00:26:23.180 how governments around the world and how public health agencies have responded to this. Because
00:26:29.780 incompetence could explain someone fumbling the ball or making a few mistakes, but doing the exact
00:26:36.560 opposite of what should be done, that seems to be a little bit more malicious. And what I mean by that
00:26:44.140 is that if you really wanted people to not get COVID or to be able to recover from COVID, you would not pursue
00:26:52.300 a vaccine only strategy. Maybe a primary vaccine strategy if that floats your boat, but not a vaccine
00:26:59.080 only strategy. That would not be the only thing that you're pushing. You would not demonize very safe and
00:27:05.080 effective both prophylactics and therapeutics against COVID, which they have. They've demonized
00:27:12.820 these treatments. They've also demonized the doctors that have pushed them as some kind of conspiracy
00:27:18.560 theorists. You would not be shutting down debate. You would not be calling people who simply have
00:27:24.320 questions about the vaccine, a conspiracy theorists or fear mongers or telling them to just shut up and
00:27:30.660 comply. You wouldn't have to force it on people by threatening to take away their livelihood. If it was
00:27:37.100 something that you were able to convince the public that they really needed, you would be talking about
00:27:42.400 the importance of overall health, you'd be talking about the importance of vitamin D of getting
00:27:47.080 outside. But the government and its agencies have decided to take the opposite approach. And it's
00:27:53.260 really hard to see how there isn't some malice behind it. So I want to back up a little bit and
00:28:00.220 talk about how at least for me, I saw this get off rails. And when I started losing so much trust and
00:28:08.440 gaining so much frustration and resentment and cynicism about the response to all of this. And so
00:28:15.140 I'm going to give you a little bit of a timeline. So let me tell you my journey in all of this a little
00:28:24.520 bit, especially for those of you who haven't necessarily, maybe you haven't been following
00:28:29.040 for the past couple of years. Now that I've had COVID, I've paused to reflect on how my feelings and
00:28:37.120 perspectives have changed since the very beginning. And the very beginning of all this,
00:28:41.740 I was one of those people who, and it's just cringe to think about now. But I was one of those
00:28:48.160 people who was urging people to stay home and to stay inside and to consider the health of the most
00:28:52.560 vulnerable, and to consider the plight of your neighbor before going to work, etc. And to be fair,
00:29:00.020 that's because at the start, we just didn't know I thought that this could have a 20% death rate.
00:29:04.080 That's kind of what we were hearing. We didn't know how it spread, how contagious it was,
00:29:07.400 how long it was going to last, and what the proper measures were to stop it from killing people.
00:29:14.780 And thanks to the corruption of the Chinese Communist Party and cahoots with the corrupt WHO,
00:29:19.820 there was very little reliable information about this virus that had been, we found out only later in
00:29:28.460 2020 circulating in China for months in 2019, before it was uncovered and before China admitted
00:29:33.740 that it was actually being transmitted from human to human. So it was shrouded in a lot of mystery,
00:29:38.780 we just didn't know. So because of so much cover up, and manipulation and secrecy, and because of
00:29:45.020 propaganda videos being published by the Chinese Communist Party, where we saw people in China dropping
00:29:51.140 dead in the street, or at least it looked that way from COVID. We just really didn't know what was
00:29:56.320 going on. And as someone who was already a bit of a germaphobe, this was like my worst nightmare.
00:30:00.860 As I said, in the beginning, we had an eight month old at the time, I was so worried that this was going
00:30:05.940 to hurt her. And I was just incensed that there were still people going to the beach and going to
00:30:14.020 pools for spring break and living life as usual. And you'll remember that Democrats at the time in
00:30:20.680 February of 2020. They were really also like downplaying this. President Trump tried to shut
00:30:29.020 down travel from China in February of 2020. He was called a xenophobe. Nancy Pelosi got on TV
00:30:34.780 in San Francisco and said, come on down to Chinatown. You know, it's great. Everything is fine.
00:30:40.340 The New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio said the same thing on television, telling everyone to live
00:30:44.480 their lives as usual. Trump, of course, was called a fear monger. And I was worried. There were so many
00:30:50.320 mixed messages, so much unknown. And while I think my concern was understandable, I was also looking
00:30:57.960 back. The reason why I say it's cringe is because I was so annoying in my insistence that people,
00:31:03.240 you know, pause their lives and try to work from home without considering just briefly, but I did
00:31:10.540 suspend my consideration of this, that the vast majority of people don't have the ability to work
00:31:17.220 from home, totally ignoring the fact that most people just can't pause their lives because of
00:31:23.740 this potential threat and that people still needed to live their lives. So I apologize for at the very
00:31:29.220 beginning, again, like I would say March, beginning of March, 2020, apologize for being so ignorant of
00:31:36.700 all of this from the start. But it only took me a couple weeks to wise up, which I will say is better
00:31:44.960 than the couple years that it's taken a lot of people on, I would say the moderate left to now
00:31:50.680 are being like hailed as heroes because they're saying, wow, lockdowns for kids are bad. Kids need
00:31:55.640 to go back in school. Welcome to the party, pal. Yeah, we've been saying that for a long time.
00:32:00.720 It only took me a couple weeks to realize kind of what was going on, at least in the sense that this
00:32:07.800 was more political than it was about science. So we figured out that the death rate was much lower than
00:32:13.020 we originally thought. We heard that it was maybe 5%. And then it was obvious that the death rate for
00:32:17.740 people below 70 was well below 1%. And yet, even with that information, we saw states shutting down,
00:32:24.520 schools closing, small businesses going under, people effectively ordered in their homes indefinitely.
00:32:30.320 I saw the changing messages without any scientific explanation as to why. So first, we were told
00:32:37.380 that we're selfish for wearing masks. And actually, we were condescended and patronized
00:32:43.300 if we wanted to wear a mask. And Dr. Fauci in March of 2020 did that interview where he just
00:32:49.280 said it was so ridiculous to think that a mask could possibly stop infection. And we were told,
00:32:55.600 okay, you can wear a mask or you should wear a mask if you're sick, if you have symptoms.
00:32:59.700 Or if you're around someone for a long period of time, who is sick, then maybe a mask can be beneficial.
00:33:08.760 And that actually made some kind of logical sense. And then we got into this whole realm of asymptomatic
00:33:17.840 spread, which we now know, is not really spreading the transmission of the virus. And we were told that
00:33:25.300 everyone, no matter what, healthy people that you have to wear a mask, and that a cloth mask is this
00:33:29.780 life-saving device, that if you don't wear it, you're a grandma killer. I mean, it escalated so
00:33:34.940 quickly. It was the summer of 2020, that all of a sudden, it just changed on a dime. But we were never
00:33:40.980 told why. But the thing that really did it for me, I mean, there were lots of little things in between
00:33:47.060 that started chipping away at my trust, and therefore my concern, in a lot of ways. And
00:33:56.740 it was so the moment that I stopped listening completely to Dr. Fauci, or anyone in the public
00:34:06.760 health establishment about the dangers of COVID and the need to stay inside and skip vacation and to
00:34:11.860 forgo family gatherings for the holidays, was the reaction to George Floyd. When we saw those same
00:34:20.740 people praise everyone who was gathering in the street in the name of racial justice, and then claim
00:34:27.240 stunningly that these protests won't drive an outbreak, or that it's okay, because racism is also an
00:34:32.920 epidemic. While because of virtual learning, your kindergartner can no longer read, your artistic son is
00:34:39.300 regressing developmentally, your 80 year old mother with Alzheimer's is decaying alone in her
00:34:44.260 nursing home, your husband died alone in the hospital, your daughter missed her high school
00:34:47.920 graduation, your depressed nephew is spiraling into suicidal despair because of loneliness, while kids
00:34:53.960 who rely on schools for meals and welfare checks, or forced to spend all day in the homes of adults who
00:35:01.200 abuse and neglect them, while you have to close your doors, the doors of your restaurant that you've
00:35:06.340 been running for 30 years, while your small business is being shut down in the name of the
00:35:11.520 common good, and you're brought to financial ruin, people were setting buildings on fire and stealing
00:35:18.560 flat screens from Best Buy. And they were either ignored or they were patted on the back because of
00:35:24.560 social justice or some nonsense. And we were told that this is not going to negatively impact COVID at
00:35:32.500 all. That was when it was over for me. Not that I stopped believing in COVID. I never have denied its
00:35:38.240 existence or its potential severity. But that's when I realized that the response to this virus,
00:35:43.540 mostly from the left is political. And it's not about health. It's not about science. It has nothing
00:35:49.100 to do with that or evidence. And I guess I shouldn't be surprised that that anti science stance is coming
00:35:55.920 from the same people who think that a man can become a woman or that a baby inside the womb is just a
00:35:59.720 hump of cells unless you want it. I guess it shouldn't be that surprising to me. And as the
00:36:04.820 months have gone on, that realization has only been reaffirmed. When I saw nurses making TikTok
00:36:10.480 dancing videos as hospitals were supposedly overrun with dying patients, like that was a clue for me.
00:36:17.140 When I saw every single Democratic politician who has been pushing draconian restrictions,
00:36:21.900 Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, Muriel Bowser, Lori Lightfoot, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom,
00:36:26.600 Chuck Schumer, just to name a few, refused to abide by their own rules, going maskless,
00:36:32.100 gathering in crowds, doing what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it because they can,
00:36:37.400 and feeling no remorse for the lives, their fear mongering rhetoric and their policies have ruined.
00:36:42.560 When I saw Pfizer refuse to announce the development of their vaccine until after Biden won the election
00:36:47.640 for fear that it might help Donald Trump, even though Trump's Operation Warp Speed,
00:36:52.360 whatever you think about the vaccine, it is responsible for the development of it.
00:36:55.900 When Amazon only set up to help distribute the vaccine after Biden took office, when I saw
00:37:01.240 Kamala Harris, Joy Reid, and so many other Democratic commentators and politicians go from saying that
00:37:09.960 they would never trust the Trump vaccine to painting everyone who refuses the vaccine as a danger to
00:37:18.260 society. Like that was a clue for me that this is more about politics than about health.
00:37:24.340 When I noticed that somehow Biden was somehow being credited with the development of the vaccine that
00:37:31.000 he didn't have any part of. When I saw that Trump was blamed for every single solitary death of a
00:37:35.620 person who died with COVID while he was in office. But Biden, even though more people have died with it
00:37:40.480 under his watch, has been blamed for zero of them. When I've seen people's livelihoods taken away
00:37:47.240 because they won't take a vaccine that doesn't stop infection nor transmission. And for a disease
00:37:53.100 that has always had less than a one percent death rate and that millions of people have natural
00:37:57.720 immunity for, which has proved to be several times stronger than vaccine immunity. Yeah.
00:38:04.980 It's helped me realize that this is more about politics than health. People who were once called
00:38:10.740 frontline heroes have been fired for refusing to take this vaccine that they vaccine that they do not
00:38:17.520 want and in a lot of cases do not need. Meanwhile, now in hospitals across the country, they are so
00:38:25.220 understaffed that vaccinated health care workers who test positive are being told that they have to
00:38:31.260 come to work so long as their symptoms are mild, even though they can still pass the virus. So if you're
00:38:35.680 vaccinated while you're sick, you have to work. If you're unvaccinated while you're healthy, you're
00:38:42.320 fired. That doesn't seem to be scientifically or logically consistent. When I've seen parts of Canada and
00:38:50.340 Australia and European countries and states in the US become almost police states, beating peaceful
00:38:56.960 protesters, forcing people into quarantine facilities, unable to go outside without permission in
00:39:02.300 countries like in places like Australia, demanding patrons, including children show vaccine papers in
00:39:09.180 order to eat or look at art in a museum. That's true in New York City here. When I watched governments
00:39:15.500 around the world double down on the vaccine passports and the mask mandates and the lockdowns and the
00:39:21.080 closures, despite their case and death numbers showing absolutely no correlation whatsoever to these
00:39:26.540 measures, I realized that, yeah, this is a lot more about politics than it is about health. What I've seen
00:39:38.040 our own governments say in the midst of a food shortage and a supply chain crisis and inflation
00:39:43.260 that unvaccinated truckers who are alone in their trucks cannot cross over our borders to deliver supplies,
00:39:50.220 while at the same time taking illegal migrants from the southern border and flying them to who knows where in the
00:39:55.760 interior of the United States without a vaccine requirement for them, or in most cases, even a
00:40:00.600 testing requirement. Secretary Mayorkas, you probably saw this, it was a few months ago. He has repeatedly
00:40:06.600 said that a person being here illegally isn't grounds for deportation, but a trucker carrying necessary
00:40:11.500 goods from Canada to the United States who is not vaccinated against a virus with an over 99% survival rate
00:40:19.120 is. Like that's enough to keep them out. When I've seen the CDC kowtow to the demands of the teachers
00:40:28.160 unions, rather than following the science and recommending school closures and masks for children
00:40:33.560 as young as two years old, no other country in the world has been as strict about masking children as the
00:40:38.120 United States has. And based on no data, not Australia, not New Zealand, no European countries,
00:40:43.120 the WHO, even the WHO recommends against children wearing masks. And yet our agencies have doubled
00:40:49.840 down on it without providing any evidence that this is necessary or helpful. When it took a journalist,
00:40:56.680 David Zwick, to uncover the two big studies that the CDC published last year, the CDC said,
00:41:03.800 proved mask mandates in schools worked. He presented, or when they presented a summary of
00:41:09.860 their findings, they purposely excluded facts that they found within the study that undermined the
00:41:15.960 conclusions that they said that they came to about masks. We'll include his two articles in the
00:41:23.160 description of this episode to show you what I'm talking about. There's no data that the CDC has been
00:41:28.900 able to provide to show that mask mandates in schools are helpful at all. So young kids across
00:41:33.700 the country are still forced to wear masks. They're still forced to sit in classrooms watching
00:41:37.420 teachers whose smiles they can't see, whose expressions they can't discern, whose words
00:41:42.000 they can't make out. There are kids who are hard of hearing and kids who are forced to sit through
00:41:46.440 speech therapy lessons, who are unable to read the lips of their instructors. And for what? Not for
00:41:51.860 health, for politics. It's for politics. The Democrats that run the schools and the school districts in
00:41:58.880 Republican states like Florida, Texas, and Virginia are doubling down on mask mandates to play
00:42:04.480 politics. Meanwhile, accusing Republicans of playing politics with people's lives. It's the
00:42:11.280 exact opposite. It's always projection from the Democrats. Watch or listen to, depending on what
00:42:17.360 medium you're using right now, this British commentator who appeared on Great Britain News.
00:42:23.040 She was reacting to the news that the UK is rolling back COVID measures. So good for them. So no more
00:42:28.780 vaccine passports or mandates or mask mandates, which is incredible. She was a student when those
00:42:33.660 restrictions were being put in place, when some schools were requiring the masks for certain age
00:42:40.180 groups and were canceling the exams. Here's what she says to all of that.
00:42:45.940 It literally ruined our lives. And nobody spoke about it at all. And the commentators, they had union
00:42:55.060 reps come on and say, this is what the school should have put in place. And they didn't care about what
00:42:59.180 this did to us. And this is the first time I've ever spoken about it on TV because I knew that I'd cry
00:43:03.360 about it. But I literally watched and felt like my entire life was falling apart because of what this
00:43:09.040 government did to young people. And nobody cares. Not one person has cared about children in this
00:43:14.020 pandemic. They think, oh, let's throw. Why are we putting masks on them where people can go to
00:43:18.160 football stadiums and they can go to theatres and play Nadim Zahawi sitting there at the teaching
00:43:22.900 awards with no mask and yet we're disrespecting kids? This pandemic will finish. The damage this
00:43:28.560 has done for us is forever. I posted the full clip, which I think it's worth watching on my Instagram.
00:43:35.480 Totally unforgivable. It's totally unforgivable. Totally irreparable harm. Like these kids are not
00:43:41.780 going to get their childhoods back. And it's up to us as adults to do everything we can to give them
00:43:50.020 normalcy, to make sure they can go hang out with friends, to go to school without a mask on.
00:43:55.760 Unfortunately, there are too many parents who just aren't willing to do that. It's a shame. That's
00:44:00.020 advocating your responsibility to your kids. According to a Wall Street Journal article analyzing
00:44:05.420 recently released CDC data, quote, the proportion of children seeking emergency mental health services
00:44:11.160 who required immediate hospitalization, including for eating disorders, rose 75% in 2020 compared to
00:44:19.180 2019. Suicide attempts increased by 51% for girls. Wow. Versus 3.7% for boys. I would say that
00:44:27.140 disparity is probably due to social media. In California, 134 people under the age of 18 died
00:44:33.580 by suicide in 2020 versus only 23 people in the same age group that died with COVID.
00:44:39.500 And from the teachers unions and Democratic politicians, we keep hearing, the kids are
00:44:45.940 resilient. The kids are resilient. It's fine. No, they're not. They just don't have the ability
00:44:50.760 to articulate what's wrong. And they're trusting the adults in their lives to do what's best for
00:44:54.820 them because that's what they've been told that they should do. And they really don't have any other
00:44:58.260 choice because they have no power. And so many of them have been taught that questioning masks or
00:45:03.160 mandates is akin to being a bigot or a conspiracy theorist. You're not loving your neighbor. And who wants
00:45:09.040 to stand out when your biggest concern as an adolescent is to fit in? It's absolutely
00:45:13.840 unforgivable what adults, mainly in the Democratic Party, but not completely, what adults have done
00:45:21.680 to children over the past couple of years. As we say so often in this podcast, in so many different
00:45:26.460 ways, it's obvious that our society hates children. Whether it's abortion, whether it's radical gender
00:45:34.040 theory and hormone experimentation, whether it's these draconian restrictions that have done nothing
00:45:40.380 to protect their health and have only harmed them over the past couple of years, kids are always laid
00:45:45.560 on the altar of adults' whims. And it's typically progressive adults' whims. I do not forgive the
00:45:54.780 people that did this to children, that are still doing this to children. You know, school districts in
00:46:01.960 Flint, Michigan, that I think it's 90% minority kids, most of them are very vulnerable, impoverished.
00:46:12.440 They are switching to virtual learning indefinitely. Kids can't learn virtually. And what are parents
00:46:19.780 supposed to do if the parents work? I mean, who is this protecting? And this is why, by the way,
00:46:28.000 people prioritize teachers getting vaccinated first. I mean, what was the point of that?
00:46:34.100 If kids are still going to be sacrificed, and they're going to be pushed to the side because
00:46:38.760 of some paranoid teachers and some cruel teachers unions. I mean, who is this helping? I don't forgive
00:46:45.760 that. I'm sorry. I can forgive you for any loss I may have incurred, but I'm not going to forgive.
00:46:51.840 Right now, I'll say, I cannot forgive the people who have done this to kids, especially after knowing
00:47:00.380 everything we know about how virtually harmless this virus is to their physical health. I cannot
00:47:08.480 forgive them right now for what they've done to our country's most vulnerable people, namely children.
00:47:14.220 If there was any justice, these people would all be held accountable. I'm talking about the
00:47:18.840 politicians. I'm talking about the people in the media. I'm talking about the public health
00:47:22.060 bureaucrats that have advocated for lockdowns and have advocated for virtual learning that have
00:47:26.920 advocated for masks for very young children. That I'm talking about all of the teachers,
00:47:33.600 all of the teachers unions who have punished and segregated kids who are not vaccinated or who
00:47:39.380 are not wearing masks, all of the teachers and the principals and the administrators that,
00:47:44.020 as we talked about a couple of weeks ago, have forced kids to eat outside and 38 degree
00:47:48.160 weather and not talk to each other for fear of spreading the virus. I don't forgive those
00:47:52.120 people. Not right now. I just don't. And if there were any justice, like I said, all of those people
00:47:58.720 would be held accountable as well as every single person in power who has tried to cover up early
00:48:03.480 treatment protocols being used effectively by doctors around the world, demonizing extremely safe
00:48:09.800 options. Again, for politics, people's lives are being taken by politics, maybe even more so
00:48:17.540 than by COVID. And people wonder why there's hesitancy. People wonder why there's a mistrust
00:48:25.760 in the media and of the CDC and of our politicians. People wonder why millions of more people listen
00:48:31.440 to Joe Rogan and the conversations that he is having than CNN. Because people know that something
00:48:37.600 is not right. People's trust has been chipped away at over the past couple of years, maybe not as
00:48:43.540 significantly as mine has, maybe not as early as mine was, but people are waking up. Yes, it might
00:48:51.000 have taken them a while. And I don't know what took them so long. But I do think the tide could be
00:48:57.480 shifting. I do want to know that there are thousands and thousands and thousands of peaceful protesters
00:49:04.440 in Canada that are trying to push back in a civil way and a hopefully effective way against these
00:49:14.100 mandates and against vaccine passports. There is a convoy that is traveling, I believe it's from
00:49:21.200 Vancouver to Ottawa. I think that's the direction that it's going. And in protest of the mandate for
00:49:31.600 truckers. And so I'm glad that people are pushing back. People have been pushing back for a long
00:49:36.940 time. There have been mass peaceful protests throughout Europe, in Australia, obviously in
00:49:42.620 the United States, in Canada. I would say keep pushing because we've seen in the UK they're rolling
00:49:48.360 back those restrictions. Praise God. I pray that it stays that way. And in some states that needs to
00:49:53.580 happen here. I mean, we'll see with the midterms coming up. Democrats know that their COVID policy,
00:49:59.000 it's just not popular across the board in general. People are over it, especially for their kids. And
00:50:07.240 that doesn't mean that they don't care about people dying. But they realize that there again,
00:50:11.360 there's more to life than being protected from a virus, that you're going to have to learn to live
00:50:16.380 with it at some point. And hopefully the fact that Omicron is less severe, it hopefully it means
00:50:23.280 that it's going to continue to wane in severity. And it's just something that we deal with.
00:50:29.000 Every season that people learn how to, you know, how to how to cope with. That's not ideal. But
00:50:37.080 again, there are more to people's lives, there are more to human beings than just their physical
00:50:41.980 health. We are whole people. As we have said, that is something I have been at the refrain that I have
00:50:47.820 said, since March of 2020, we are whole people. So we don't just have physical needs, we also have
00:50:53.380 mental needs, we have emotional needs, we have spiritual needs, all those things have to be met in
00:50:58.760 order to be healthy. Okay. And so if you are just now waking up, welcome. No hard feelings.
00:51:08.440 I will, I will say. But for those of you who haven't, who because of your fear mongering,
00:51:15.620 and maybe your policymaking, you continue to sacrifice the well being of children. There are
00:51:21.640 very hard feelings. I'll just be honest there. There are very hard feelings. Okay, a little bit
00:51:28.180 more, maybe this will just wake you up. And I just want to talk about a little bit of data. And then
00:51:32.780 we'll close this out. So just some data that has been perpetually ignored, which, again, goes back to
00:51:41.460 why people are so hesitant to trust the people in charge who say that they care about our health.
00:51:46.020 So I've told you guys about Ian MSC, who I follow on Twitter, he just compiles the data from the
00:51:53.620 publicly available databases. And so from the CDC, from the New York Times, from our world in data,
00:52:01.300 and he just compares and contrasts the states and the countries, and their policies and their case
00:52:08.140 rates. And so he has one graph, and I'll pull it up. And you can see it if you're watching on YouTube,
00:52:13.140 and you'll just have to trust me, I guess, if you're listening. But this is from the CDC. And so he's
00:52:22.000 tracking this from October to January, states that have a mask mandate and states that have no mask
00:52:29.740 mandate, the daily case rate. And what you'll see is that it follows the exact same trajectory. So if you're
00:52:38.600 looking at all of the states that have a mask mandate, all of the states that don't have a mask
00:52:43.960 mandate, actually, right now, the cases are higher in states that do have a mask mandate than those
00:52:50.680 that don't have a mask mandate. But throughout over the past few months, it's been the exact same.
00:52:57.300 It's been the exact same. There has been no significant difference in case numbers between
00:53:03.540 the states that have mask mandates and between the states that don't. And he just tweets this stuff
00:53:08.600 like, multiple times a day, the data is abundantly clear, the mask mandate, the vaccine passports,
00:53:15.600 the vaccine mandates throughout the world are not corresponding with a reduction in cases,
00:53:23.000 or even a reduction in hospitalizations. Like I said, this January, highest hospitalization rate of the
00:53:30.100 entire pandemic, after the vaccine mandates in certain sectors of our society, and having the majority
00:53:38.060 of our country vaccinated highest hospitalization rate throughout the two years, tell me how that
00:53:44.940 makes sense. I really don't understand it. So you want to know why people have hesitancy, you want to
00:53:50.000 know why people don't trust the media, why people don't trust our public health bureaucracy. I mean,
00:53:54.560 this really does, it spells trouble. If there is another pandemic, please, God, no. But if there is one
00:54:02.420 day, no one's gonna, no one's gonna trust it and say that does have a death rate of 25%. No one's gonna
00:54:09.300 believe it. And that is the media's fault. That is the CDC's fault. That's Dr. Fauci's fault. They lied and
00:54:16.080 they ignored and they politicized for so long. Of course, no one trusts anything anymore. That's a
00:54:22.740 problem. Not that I think that I want us to have, you know, all of our hope and all of our faith in our
00:54:27.440 institutions, but it would help if we were able to trust the sources of information and science that
00:54:32.640 we have. But unfortunately, unfortunately, we're not. Maybe there's some positivity in that, though.
00:54:39.680 People are researching, people are reading, people are starting to think critically, people are starting
00:54:45.280 to question, people are kind of starting to mistrust both political parties. There's some new data out
00:54:53.280 from Pew that's showing that I'm fine with that. I would like people to realize that our politicians
00:54:59.620 are not our saviors and that we shouldn't be looking to them for moral guidance. So maybe that's
00:55:05.780 a silver lining in all of this. But it's time to wake up. Time to turn the lights on. No more of this.
00:55:13.020 You have to continue to double down on what is true, especially for the sake of your kids. So let this
00:55:18.620 renew your strength in standing up for your kids when it comes to these mask mandates in schools and
00:55:22.720 these restrictions and virtual learning and all of that. It is your responsibility is our
00:55:27.120 responsibility as adults to keep on pushing the truth for their sake and the sake of the most
00:55:31.840 vulnerable. All right. We'll be back here tomorrow with more good stuff and I'll see you guys then.