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00:00:00.000The new monthly economic report is out, and it's absolutely terrible.
00:00:03.000Joe Biden tries to deflect blame by focusing on COVID mandates, and Google says it will bar ads on videos that contradict the climate change consensus.
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00:02:32.000But Joe Biden has not allowed things to get back to normal because of his unbelievably crappy economic policy, taxation, and regulation, and inflation, right?
00:02:39.000Those have driven the economy to new lows, plus his crappy COVID policy, which has been to yell at you about how dangerous COVID is, and to pay you to stay home.
00:02:48.000All of this has resulted in Jimmy Carter-like stagflation, inflation at the supermarket.
00:02:52.000Whatever wage increases you've seen have been eaten up by actual price inflation in the United States.
00:02:57.000Meanwhile, businesses are not investing So you've got the government lowering the interest rates to try and force businesses to take money out in loans to go invest in their own company, and no one's taking the loans because there's so much uncertainty, economically speaking, because of Joe Biden's build-back-better bullcrap, that no one's taking the loans.
00:03:14.000So you're ending up with systemic stagnation at this point because of Joe Biden.
00:03:19.000That's the story of this economic report.
00:03:22.000Joe Biden and the media, they're going to try and play this as Delta killed the economy.
00:03:31.000employers added 194,000 jobs in September, the Labor Department said Friday.
00:03:34.000That was down, down from 366,000 in August.
00:03:38.000You'll remember, that was a massive disappointment in August.
00:03:40.000They expected 750,000 jobs in August, far below the more than 1 million jobs added in July, before the more contagious Delta variant led to a spike in COVID cases.
00:04:02.000There's a reason that the best states for unemployment in the United States right now are almost universally red.
00:04:08.000Because everybody in those states is like, either I'm vaxxed and I don't care and I'm going to work, or I'm unvaxxed and I don't care and I'm going to work.
00:04:14.000No one's listening to Joe Biden, so they're all going back to work.
00:04:18.000The unemployment rate fell to 4.8%, but that is not because there are more people employed on a relative basis.
00:04:22.000It's because more people are dropping out of the workforce entirely, as Joe Biden promises to pay them to stay out of the workforce.
00:04:30.000The data released on Friday was collected in mid-September, when the Delta wave was near its peak.
00:04:33.000Here's the New York Times trying to make excuses for Biden.
00:04:35.000Since then, cases and hospitalizations have fallen in much of the country.
00:04:39.000More timely data from private sector sources suggests economic activity has begun to rebound.
00:04:43.000If those trends continue, job growth could approach its pre-Delta pace later this fall.
00:04:48.000Oh, so we're not supposed to pay attention to these crappy economic numbers caused entirely by the Democratic Party and Joe Biden.
00:04:55.000We're supposed to hope for the future when things get better.
00:05:11.000Now, a normal country would say to itself, okay, so there's more cases and not that many people are being hospitalized, not that many people are dying.
00:05:18.000But everybody is now aiming, because of Joe Biden, at zero COVID.
00:05:31.000It is a medical problem, which has been consistent since the beginning of the pandemic, and it's a psychological problem.
00:05:36.000This is a psychological problem at this point.
00:05:39.000Earlier this year, many economists and policymakers hoped September would be the month when the logjam began to abate as schools and offices reopened and expanded, unemployment benefits ended.
00:05:49.000The resurgence of the pandemic delayed office reopenings and disrupted the start of the school year and made some people reluctant to accept jobs requiring face-to-face interaction.
00:05:56.000Again, the media are just going to continue to blame exogenous factors.
00:05:59.000It doesn't explain why those exogenous factors have not led to massive job decreases in red states.
00:06:07.000The left likes to say this is a pandemic of the red states because it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
00:06:10.000Okay, well, this is an unemployment of the blue states.
00:06:14.000It's an unemployment of the blue states.
00:06:17.000If you look at the unemployment numbers by state, From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, what you will see is here are the best states for unemployment in the United States.
00:06:40.000And then you get to Minnesota, outlier, Wisconsin red, Missouri red, Virginia purple, Indiana red, Iowa red, Arkansas red, South Carolina red, Kentucky red, North Carolina red, Tennessee red.
00:06:52.000Hey then, you go and you look at the worst states?
00:07:35.000So maybe we're not going to use that free money to invest.
00:07:38.000According to the New York Times, a stingier Fed is not the market's only concern.
00:07:42.000Inflation, dismissed until recently by the Fed as a transitory artifact of the pandemic, is coming to be seen as more persistent as the prices of goods and services and labor increase.
00:07:51.000What is being acknowledged as transitory, though, is the jolt to economic growth and corporate profits provided by several trillion bucks of added spending by Congress.
00:08:44.000And he's unwilling to take blame for the fact that whatever remnants there are of lockdowns, shutdowns, and overwrought worry are directly the result of his administration.
00:08:56.000And what we have right now in America with regard to COVID is a medical problem in the sense that some unvaccinated people are dying from COVID.
00:09:03.000And that problem has been the same since the beginning of the pandemic.
00:09:05.000That if you're unvaccinated, There is a good likelihood that you're gonna end up with one of the variants.
00:09:11.000And then, depending on your age, there is some likelihood that you will be hospitalized and that you might die.
00:09:15.000It really depends on your age, a lot, as we'll get to when we talk about kids in a moment.
00:10:26.000We are talking about, like, lightning strike low.
00:10:29.000The number of kids in the United States who have died from COVID, according to the Centers for Disease Control, remains under 600 over the course of the entire pandemic, as compared with something like 900 kids over the course of the same period who have died of pneumonia.
00:10:41.000Thank God this is not a childhood disease.
00:10:43.000This is a disease that is heavily age-striated.
00:10:45.000Children are safer from COVID, unvaccinated, than adults are from COVID after being vaccinated.
00:10:52.000That's how age-striated this particular disease is.
00:10:55.000And yet if you talk to people who are making school policies very often, they will say things that make no internal sense at all.
00:11:02.000They will say things that are not rooted in science.
00:11:05.000First, they will make the claim that kids need to be masked in school even though there's It's very little evidence.
00:11:12.000Very little evidence that cloth masks in particular among children do anything to stop the spread of the virus.
00:11:17.000The viral load of COVID is about 100, somewhere between 1 and 300 times the viral load of the original variant.
00:11:24.000Which means that cloth masks are really doing very little to stop the spread of COVID if spread of COVID is happening in schools.
00:11:31.000And second, the risk to children, even if they get COVID, is extremely, extremely low.
00:11:36.000And yet you'll see school administrators say things like, well, we have to mask the kids.
00:11:39.000And you'll say, why do you have to mask the kids?
00:11:41.000And they'll say, well, because what if one of the kids in the class gets COVID and then somebody else is nearby?
00:11:46.000And the answer is, well, then that kid either has COVID or does not have COVID.
00:11:50.000Are they symptomatic or are they not symptomatic?
00:11:52.000The mask isn't the deciding factor because Dr. Michael Osterholm of the Biden administration and multiple other doctors ranging from Robert Redfield to even Ezekiel Emanuel have talked about whether or not cloth masks are particularly effective against COVID.
00:12:06.000Hey, so the masks are not the deciding factor, and yet you'll hear people, almost as sort of a talismanic saying, suggest that if we don't mask kids, kids have to go home.
00:12:13.000And then you'll say, okay, but why do the kids have to go home?
00:12:15.000And they'll say, well, the kids have to go home because they might spread COVID.
00:12:17.000And you say, well, but the stats on spreading of COVID are really kind of the same, right?
00:12:23.000I mean, they haven't really changed dramatically over the course of the last month, particularly.
00:12:27.000And not only that, if kids are asymptomatic, why should they be going home? We don't do this with literally any other disease. Diseases that are more deadly for kids, we don't do this for.
00:12:36.000If you're asymptomatic, we don't send you home. Right? None of the policy makes any internal sense. But what is it driven by? It's driven by a back of the mind suggestion that zero COVID is either a possibility or something that we should be pursuing.
00:12:51.000It is not something that we should be pursuing.
00:12:53.000But it is something that Joe Biden has to pursue.
00:12:56.000So Joe Biden and the Democrats and the media are all heavily invested in the idea that COVID is not going to become endemic and sort of just become a background part of life that we all live with and we take off our masks and we go back to work and sometimes we get COVID and nearly all of us live and you know just like every other disease that is in circulation and has been since the dawn of mankind.
00:13:15.000There is this assumption that is being made by the Democrats and by the media that COVID needs to be wiped out.
00:13:22.000And the reason that they are making that anti-scientific assumption is because the authoritarianism is the point.
00:13:36.000If you think that Joe Biden's fiscal policy is what is causing the economy to be slow, If you think that Joe Biden's COVID policies have been pretty ineffective, considering more people this year have died of COVID than died last year of COVID in the United States.
00:13:49.000I know they're not going to run that scrolling ticker on CNN because Joe Biden's president now.
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00:16:11.000All righty, so the Joe Biden push here, right, which has a bleed down effect, is that everything is failing, not because of him.
00:16:19.000Everything is failing because you haven't given him enough control.
00:16:21.000And this is why he's pushing vaccine mandates.
00:16:23.000Again, the reality in most parts of the United States is that unless hospitals are being overwhelmed, and this is happening in some rural areas where you could talk about whether you need mask mandates to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed.
00:16:36.000That's what we did at the beginning of the pandemic.
00:16:38.000And if you're in a place with an actual shortage of medical care, it makes some sense.
00:16:42.000But other than that, Vaccine mandates are unnecessary at this point.
00:16:47.000The reason they are unnecessary is because they are liberty violating and because if you are vaccinated, you really don't have to fear the unvaccinated.
00:16:54.000Joe Biden's claim that the vaxxed should be living in fear of the unvaxxed is causing the economic downturn.
00:17:00.000It is affecting how the economy works.
00:17:03.000So he has to talk up the vaccine mandates.
00:17:04.000Now, here's the thing that's truly amazing.
00:17:06.000Joe Biden is trying to get the best of both worlds.
00:17:10.000So there are a lot of corporations that want the vaccine mandates.
00:17:12.000The reason a lot of corporations want the vaccine mandates is because they would prefer to not have their workers out sick from COVID.
00:17:19.000They want people to come back into the office.
00:17:21.000The best way to get people back into the office, presumably, is to not have anybody get sick.
00:17:24.000So if we can force our workers to have a vaccine, then we will.
00:17:28.000But they also don't want the political and interior blowback of doing a vaccine mandate.
00:17:32.000So Joe Biden made it easier for these giant corporations to push vaccine mandates by saying he was going to do so via OSHA.
00:17:39.000Now, remember, he said a month ago, I think it's more than a month now, that he was going to be pushing vaccine mandates through the OSHA administrative body.
00:17:50.000He was going to mandate that every business above 100 people had to either vax or weekly test all of their employees.
00:19:56.000Okay, so he's pushing these vaccine mandates hard, and then he says that the most powerful economic stimulus in history, the vaccine, mandates.
00:20:02.000If that's the case, then why is your economy slow, sir?
00:20:31.000One economist called vaccine requirements, and I quote, the single most powerful, he didn't say single, the most powerful economic stimulus ever enacted, end of quote.
00:20:46.000The most powerful economic stimulus ever enacted would be the government getting the hell out of your business and allowing you to live your life.
00:20:50.000That would be the most powerful stimulus ever.
00:20:52.000I speak as somebody who runs a company that employs over 200 people.
00:20:58.000But no, he has to be in our way because he has to justify his entire program.
00:21:02.000And if his program fails, the answer is always and forever more control.
00:21:05.000By the way, when he says that companies are going from 65% vaccinated to 99% vaccinated, Okay, that may very well be true.
00:21:13.000One of the reasons that's true is because a bunch of people probably quit the company.
00:21:16.000American Airlines is having a problem right now.
00:21:18.000They vaccine mandated and 30% of their pilots were like, nope.
00:21:22.000You're seeing this, you're seeing healthcare worker shortages in hospitals because the healthcare workers are like, I am concerned about this vaccine and I don't want to get it.
00:21:29.000It turns out that when you throw all the people who are unvaccinated off the company, your percentage of vaccinated goes up.
00:21:40.000Again, I am pro-vaccination and anti-mandate.
00:21:43.000I'm pro-vaccination because I think they're effective and I think that they are safe for the vast majority of people.
00:21:47.000And I'm anti-mandate because I still believe in fundamental First Amendment American liberty.
00:21:52.000And because I believe in that sort... By the way, that's the same liberty that undergirds actual economic growth.
00:21:56.000It is not a coincidence that the people who are for vaccine mandates are also generally in favor of government control of the economy.
00:22:05.000It is also not a coincidence the other way around.
00:22:08.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, because there's something deeper going on here.
00:22:13.000And now they're trying to extend this to kids, which is really where this cold war with regard to vaccine mandates is going to heat up pretty dramatically.
00:22:18.000We're gonna get to that in just one moment.
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00:23:26.000Okay, so as we say, the White House is now pushing vaccine mandates very, very hard, even though they have not issued a vaccine mandate.
00:23:33.000The reason they're doing this is because they want all the credit for a vaccine mandate without any of the legal blame for having to put up a vaccine mandate likely to get shot down by the court.
00:23:41.000The reason they're not actually pushing the actual in-the-law vaccine mandate is because there is a very good shot that if they did, they would dramatically undermine some of the key pillars of their own legal architecture.
00:23:53.000One of those key pillars is the idea that administrative agencies get to adjudicate their own cases, and that the courts basically have to allow administrative agencies to interpret statutes any way they want because they have the expertise.
00:24:04.000I think that if OSHA passed this regulation, and if The Daily Wire sued OSHA, Over that?
00:24:09.000I think that goes to the Supreme Court.
00:24:11.000I think there's every possibility that the Chevron doctrine, which is deference to administrative agencies, gets completely overturned.
00:24:17.000I think there are votes on the Supreme Court to do that.
00:24:18.000I think Biden knows that, which is why he's saying vaccine mandates are great.
00:24:57.000A lot of people are not actually getting vaccinated.
00:25:00.000The overall percentage of people who are getting vaccinated is indeed going up because their employers are forcing them to do so, so that's not a shock.
00:25:06.000But there's still a hard core of people who are not going to get vaccinated.
00:25:08.000Democrats are struggling to explain why.
00:25:11.000And it's led to some sort of interesting takes.
00:25:14.000For example, this from New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who says that people are not getting vaccinated because they're afraid they're going to get murdered on the subway, which is a hell of a pitch for your state right here.
00:25:23.000You're so afraid of getting murdered on the subway, you won't get vaccinated.
00:25:34.000Or an elderly person in Chinatown afraid to take the subway.
00:25:38.000I heard so many people say they're afraid to go get vaccines because they'd have to get on a subway and they're afraid of being assaulted in this very city.
00:25:47.000That is not the city of New York or the state of New York that we cherish.
00:25:53.000Yeah, things are going so well in New York that not only are you not getting vaccinated, the reason, according to the governor, you're not getting vaccinated is because you're afraid a homeless person might push you in front of a train.
00:26:22.000And the thesis of the book is basically that the reason that you see so much populist disdain for the elites is because there was a promise that was made over the course of the 20th century that was a complete lie.
00:26:32.000And now the elites have a stake in perpetuating that lie.
00:26:34.000So here is Scott Alexander writing about that and writing about the thesis of this book.
00:26:38.000He says, our story begins in the early 20th century when governments, drunk on the power of industrialization, sought to remake society in their own image.
00:26:45.000This was the age of high modernism with all of its planned cities and collective farms and so on.
00:26:49.000Philosopher-bureaucrat-scientist-dictator-manager kings would lead the way to a new era of gleaming steel towers where society was managed with the same ease as a gardener pruning a hedgerow.
00:27:00.000Government management of the economy under the wise, infallible leadership of Alan Greenspan-style boffins who could prevent recessions and resist animal spirits.
00:27:07.000Government sponsorship of science under the wise, infallible leadership of Einstein-style geniuses who could journey to the platonic realm and bring back new insights for the rest of us to gawk at.
00:27:16.000Government management of society, in the form of wars on poverty and wars on drugs, and an exciting new centralized form of public education that would make every child an above average student.
00:27:24.000Homelessness getting cleared away by a wave of the city planner's pen, replaced by scientifically designed, heavily optimized, efficient public housing like Cabrini-Green.
00:27:32.000Realistically, says Scott Alexander, this was all a sham.
00:27:35.000Alan Greenspan had no idea how to prevent recessions.
00:27:46.000And failures got swept under the rug by a genteel agreement among friendly elites, while the occasional successes were trumpeted from the rooftops.
00:27:53.000However, is the thesis of this book by Gurry.
00:27:57.000With the beginning of the internet at the turn of the 21st century, bloggers and social media influencers short-circuited the established hierarchy.
00:28:04.000America's crimes and failures in Vietnam had percolated slowly and inconsistently through word of mouth, with most people content to believe whatever sanitized version the nightly news told them.
00:28:11.000But when America had crimes and failures in Iraq, leaked photos of torture and Abu Ghraib spread instantly across the internet.
00:28:17.000There was no opportunity for elites in government or media to come to an agreement on how much of it they were going to share or what the narrative should be.
00:28:24.000The scientific equivalent, Gray argues, was Climategate, where hackers leaked out the emails of top climate scientists and everyone got to see exactly how the sausage got made and decide for themselves whether they trusted it or not.
00:28:34.000Then there was the 2008 market crash, for the first time people were able to go on Facebook and the comment sections of their favorite blogs and talk about how everyone involved in financing government was a crook who needed to be hung from a lamppost.
00:28:44.000The discussion had a momentum of its own.
00:28:45.000People who wouldn't have dared think a heretical thought if they'd been listening to Walter Cronkite found themselves adding to the avalanche.
00:28:51.000In Gurry's telling, high modernism had always been a failure, but the government-media-academy-elite axis had been strong enough to conceal it from the public.
00:28:58.000Starting in the early 2000s, that axis broke down.
00:29:01.000People could have lowered their expectations, but in the real world, that wasn't how things went.
00:29:04.000Instead of losing faith in the power of government to work miracles, people believed government could and should be working miracles, and that the specific people in power at the time were too corrupt and stupid to press the cause miracle button.
00:29:15.000Which they definitely had, and which definitely would have worked.
00:29:17.000And so the outrage, protests, kicked those losers out of power, replaced them with anybody who had the common decency to press the miracle button.
00:29:25.000And it is also extraordinarily explanatory of what is going on right now.
00:29:30.000Joe Biden says, I would press the Cause Miracle button, except that those damned unvaxxed Republicans refuse to allow me to press the Cause Miracle button.
00:29:40.000If you just gave me more power on the economy, I would hit the Cause Miracle button.
00:29:43.000But Mitch McConnell and those damned Republicans won't get out of my way and allow me to hit the Cause Miracle button.
00:29:50.000No matter who is in power, they always have the excuse for their own failures of saying the other guys are preventing me from doing X. This is Scott Alexander's thesis now, and he's correct.
00:30:01.000In order to uphold the main thesis of high modernism, which is that the government can fix all your problems, you have to blame somebody for why it's not getting fixed once you have the power.
00:30:10.000And the answer there is, we need more control of those bad guys.
00:30:14.000Those bad guys stand between you and Utopia.
00:30:17.000And this is leading to some pretty grave results.
00:30:22.000This sort of arrogance leads to serious problems because it is not in keeping with reality.
00:30:28.000Even some journalists who tend to be pretty strict on COVID are noticing this.
00:30:32.000So David Leonhardt has a good piece of the New York Times today.
00:30:37.000When we treat COVID as a simple morality play, we can end up making bad predictions.
00:30:41.000He says in the final weeks of the summer, with COVID-19 cases soaring and the rituals of autumn about to resume, many people assumed the pandemic was on the verge of getting even worse.
00:30:49.000Children were returning to classrooms five days a week.
00:30:51.000Broadway's reopening, movie fans were heading to theaters again.
00:30:54.000Given all this and the Delta variant, public discussion had a decidedly grim tone as the summer wound down.
00:30:58.000It may only get worse, read a Politico headline.
00:31:01.000The new school year is already a disaster, Business Insider reported.
00:31:04.000The Washington Post cited an estimate that daily caseloads in the U.S.
00:31:07.000could reach 300,000 in August, higher than ever before.
00:31:10.000In the New York Times, an epidemiologist predicted that cases would rise in September because kids were going back to school.
00:31:36.000What happened here is that people, says David Leonhardt, are attracted to morality tales in which there are good people and bad people and politicians take advantage of this.
00:31:43.000In the case of COVID, says Leonhardt, the fable we tell ourselves is that our day-to-day behavior dictates the course of the pandemic.
00:31:49.000When we are good, by staying socially distant and wearing masks, cases are supposed to fall.
00:31:53.000When we are bad, by eating in restaurants, hanging out with friends, going to a theater or a football game, cases are supposed to rise.
00:31:59.000The idea is especially alluring to anybody making an effort to be careful and feeling frustrated that so many Americans seem blasé.
00:32:05.000After all, the COVID fable does have some truth to it.
00:32:07.000Social distancing and masking do reduce the spread of the virus.
00:32:10.000They just are not as powerful as people often imagine.
00:32:15.000In the coming weeks and months, says Leonhardt, it's possible the virus will surge again, maybe because of a new variant or because vaccine immunity will wane.
00:32:21.000It's also possible the population has built up enough immunity from both vaccines and prior infection that Delta will have been the last major wave.
00:32:48.000Because if you gave me more control, I would solve all of your problems.
00:32:51.000Okay, when the rubber is really going to hit the road is when it comes to kids.
00:32:54.000Because it is one thing for Joe Biden to say, I want vaccine mandates for all of the employed in the United States.
00:32:59.000The reason that that is not particularly risky for Joe Biden is because a huge percentage of Americans have already gotten the vaccine.
00:33:05.000If you're above the age of 20, you're much more likely than not to have gotten the vaccine in the United States.
00:33:09.000If you're above the age of 40 in the United States, you're way, way more likely to have gotten the vaccine than not in the United States.
00:33:15.000So what that means is that there's not a lot of political blowback to things like vaccine mandates in practical terms, because if you've already got the vaccine, most people who've already gotten the vaccine, maybe they don't like mandates, but they don't care enough about it to make a big fuss about it, because they've already been vaccinated, so it doesn't affect them.
00:33:35.000And when you have people who are mandating that 14-year-olds take COVID vaccines, and now when you have a new push to get 7-year-olds vaccinated, there are going to be a lot of parents and a lot of people in the United States who say, no, you do not get to make that decision for me.
00:33:48.000That is not something I'm going to allow you to do.
00:33:50.000Because frankly, the evidence is not good enough that the vaccines are significantly less dangerous than COVID for a kid who is 7.
00:33:59.000We'll get to that in just a moment because If Joe Biden makes a hard push, if the left makes a hard push on kids must be vaccinated before we can all get back to normal, if this is their final sort of the intransigent, the intransigents are not just those terrible unvaxxed Trump supporters, the intransigent are children?
00:34:16.000The blowback is going to be severe and they're walking right into it because they have to.
00:34:20.000They have to blame everybody else because that's the only way they can maintain the veneer and the illusion that their power is insufficient rather than far too sufficient.
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00:36:15.000Alrighty, so where the rubber really is going to meet the road when it comes to the authoritarian push by this administration is when it comes to kids.
00:36:26.000So Pfizer is now asking for FDA clearance to give its vaccines to 5 to 11-year-olds.
00:36:32.000Now, listen, that's their prerogative.
00:36:35.000They can ask the United States to allow COVID vaccines for 5 to 11-year-olds, but whenever the FDA does this sort of stuff, the next push from the left is, let's mandate it.
00:36:46.000That's because of the federal government.
00:36:48.000Now, I'm sure Pfizer would love it, right?
00:36:49.000I mean, their stocks go up if somebody gets mandated to take the vaccine in order to go to school, and Pfizer is the only FDA-cleared product at that point.
00:36:57.000According to the Huffington Post, Pfizer asked the U.S.
00:36:59.000government Thursday to allow its use of COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 if regulators agree shots could begin within a matter of weeks.
00:37:06.000Many parents and pediatricians are clamoring for protection for children younger than 12.
00:37:11.000Today's age cutoff for the vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech.
00:37:15.000Not only can youngsters sometimes get seriously ill, but keeping them in school can be a challenge with the COVID still raging in poorly vaccinated communities.
00:38:04.000Instead, we're taking entire classrooms of kids who are completely asymptomatic out of school to prevent them from transmitting a virus that is largely safe for children to other children.
00:38:14.000And then the excuse that's used ranges from, well, they might go home and they might give it to an adult.
00:38:58.000Is it because Moderna is causing mass casualties?
00:39:02.000No, it's because if Moderna causes any serious adverse events to people under 30, that now raises the risk of a serious adverse event from the vaccine over the risk of COVID because the risk of COVID for people under 30 is not particularly grave in relative terms.
00:39:17.000All three countries based their decision on an unpublished study with Sweden's public health agency, saying it signals an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium.
00:39:27.000It may still be larger than the risk of getting seriously ill from COVID if you're young.
00:39:45.000Anders Tegnell, Sweden's chief epidemiologist, said, quote, In July, the European Medicines Agency recommended authorizing Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 12 to 17.
00:39:51.000against COVID-19 are always as safe as possible, and at the same time, provide effective protection against the disease.
00:39:57.000In July, the European Medicines Agency recommended authorizing Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 12 to 17.
00:40:04.000Canada also recently approved its use for those as young as 12.
00:40:07.000Hundreds of millions of Moderna doses have already been administered to adults.
00:40:11.000In a study of more than 3,700 children aged 12 to 17, the vaccine triggered the same signs of immune protection.
00:40:17.000No COVID-19 diagnoses arose in the vaccinated group compared with four cases among those given dummy shots.
00:40:49.000Okay, this is—if you are going to attempt to cram down vaccines on children, If that's the next step here, the blowback is going to be extreme and extraordinary, and it should be.
00:41:01.000I have kids who are seven, five, and a year and a half.
00:41:03.000I am not vaccinating those kids for COVID, not based on the current risk assessment.
00:42:11.000The CEO of Pfizer, the company you started on the board of, affirmed today that that data on vaccinations for 5 to 11-year-olds will be going to the FDA within a matter of days.
00:42:24.000Is that confirming your schedule of vaccines by Halloween?
00:42:29.000FDA has said that the review is going to be a matter of weeks, not months.
00:42:33.000I interpret that to mean potentially a four-week review, maybe a six-week review.
00:42:37.000So I think on the low end, it could take four weeks, and that could give you a vaccine by Halloween.
00:42:43.000If it slips a little, it could be mid-November.
00:42:47.000Okay, so if this turns into, let's mandate this stuff for kids to go to school.
00:42:51.000They've already done this in California with kids above the age of 12, which is really dicey, especially because there are a lot of medical experts, including Mario Makary at Johns Hopkins, who say, what does it mean to get vaccinated?
00:43:00.000I mean, one of the things they've been considering is maybe we should give kids a single shot because it turns out it's the second shot that is very often causing the sort of heart inflammation that you're seeing in these side effect cases.
00:43:12.000Are those kids still barred from school?
00:43:13.000Let's say they extend this all the way down to five-year-olds.
00:43:16.000How many people do you think are going to do this?
00:43:17.000And how many shots is it going to take?
00:43:18.000Even the tests that we are using to determine whether kids are going to need another shot are completely flawed.
00:43:24.000So, for example, Pfizer The data show that the Pfizer vaccine, after a couple of months, this is according to CNN, the Pfizer vaccine, the antibody levels from Pfizer drop off dramatically.
00:43:36.000What that means is that you can still get a breakthrough case.
00:43:38.000I know tons of people at this point who have gotten breakthrough cases after having Pfizer, Moderna, or any of the others.
00:43:42.000Okay, but these vaccines are still very effective against hospitalization and death, right?
00:43:49.000Which is what you actually care about.
00:43:51.000Now, the way that you are measuring whether somebody can re-enter society and be left alone, according to the left, is antibody levels.
00:43:58.000But antibody levels are not determinant as to whether your body fights off an infection.
00:44:02.000Antibodies appear after the infection sets in, generally speaking.
00:44:06.000That is why your body produces antibodies in response to both the vaccine as well as to the actual disease, but then the antibodies tend to wane, but you still have T-cell and B-cell memory, which is how you actually fight off infection.
00:44:17.000Your body still remembers how to fight off the infection, but we don't have great tests for that, which is why you still have all these idiots out there saying that natural immunity, unless you have antibodies in your system, natural immunity is useless.
00:44:56.000Instead, they're focusing in on measures that allow the panic to be prolonged.
00:45:00.000The panic must be prolonged, because the longer the panic lasts, the more your government cotties can tell you that they ought to have more control over you.
00:45:09.000That they have to control the science.
00:45:12.000Even though they are not actually following the science.
00:45:15.000Their current medical guidance does not make any internal sense.
00:45:21.000You still have the CDC making the case that everybody, including the vaccinated, should mask up in close indoor spaces, but also saying that if you are wearing a cloth mask within five feet of somebody who has COVID and that person tests positive, you don't have to go home from school.
00:45:45.000The faith is in your administrative government leadership to fix all of your problems.
00:45:49.000And if there is a continued problem, that's obviously because you did not perform the self-flagellating rituals expected by you, of you, by the experts.
00:46:00.000If only, if only you had flagellated yourself harder, if only you'd worn four masks, if only you'd been in, if you'd voted for Joe Biden, if only you'd done all these things, everything would have been fine.
00:46:09.000By the way, there were indicators that this was the paganistic way we were going to approach COVID last year, when we were told that you were not protected from COVID if you protested lockdown, but you were most certainly protected from COVID if you were spitting all over each other for George Floyd.
00:46:23.000It has nothing to do with the actual science.
00:46:25.000It has to do with maintaining the veneer that the elites actually have the capacity, the great priest-like capacity, to control the great gods of COVID, so long as you make the sacrifice, and your kids make the sacrifice, and it's nonsense.
00:46:37.000And the lockdown is getting worse, okay?
00:46:41.000When I say the lockdown, I mean the informational lockdown.
00:46:42.000They must maintain control at all costs, because once the myth implodes that these people actually are capable of fixing the problem, you have no reason to give them power anymore, and they know it.
00:46:51.000So, this is why you see the unbelievable specter over the last couple of days of Google now announcing that they are going to ban ads on all YouTube videos that quote-unquote deny climate change.
00:47:06.000That they are going to literally ban the monetization of all videos that cut against the quote-unquote scientific consensus on climate change.
00:47:16.000The new prohibition applies to commercials Google places online, as well as the websites and YouTube videos that run Google ads.
00:47:21.000It includes any content that denies human contributions to global warming or treats climate change as a hoax or a scam, Google said in a blog post on Thursday.
00:47:30.000Earlier this week, Google released several eco-friendly features for Search, Maps, and other services.
00:47:35.000In recent years, YouTube has tried to stop recommending climate deniers to viewers.
00:47:54.000The left has a really nasty habit of conflating anything they don't like on climate change with climate denial.
00:47:59.000So if you're Bjorn Lomberg and you point out that the world isn't going to end because of climate change, and in fact, fewer people year on year have been dying thanks to climate change over the course of the last century, like dramatically fewer, like down from 500,000 at the beginning of the century in 1900 to probably less than 10,000 today.
00:48:13.000If you point that sort of stuff out, Then people on the left will say you're a climate denier.
00:48:17.000Even if you say climate change is happening.
00:48:19.000Even if you say the majority of climate change is likely human-caused.
00:48:22.000If you do not embrace the Green New Deal.
00:48:24.000Or if you say, listen, the climate is warming and that's not a reason for panic.
00:48:28.000Humans are very good at being adaptable.
00:48:30.000The economic growth that we are likely to experience over the course of the century is one of the great mitigators against the damage done by climate change.
00:48:37.000Perhaps we should stop worrying so much about cutting our emissions and start worrying a little bit more about mitigation and adaptation strategies like building seawalls or geoengineering, if you say that sort of stuff.
00:48:47.000Folks on the left will still call you a climate denier.
00:48:51.000But the basic principle is the one that's really troublesome.
00:48:54.000The basic principle is that if you deny the scientific consensus on climate change, you must be banned.
00:49:03.000It's a pretty ugly effect throughout the pandemic.
00:49:05.000We saw people saying that if you, at the beginning of the pandemic, said that people should wear masks, you were denying the science, you were anti-who.
00:49:13.000Then it was, if you mentioned the fact that this looks a lot like a lab leak from China, that was shadow banned, or openly banned from advertising.
00:49:21.000And then if you talk about hydroxychloroquine, that was anti-science.
00:49:25.000Over and over again, it was the scientific consensus says X. And then it was five minutes later, the scientific consensus has changed.
00:50:59.000And if you disagree with me, it's because you hate science.
00:51:03.000Or maybe that's not how science works, you jackass.
00:51:06.000Maybe the way science works is through questioning.
00:51:08.000If we were to follow the scientific consensus during Einstein's era, there would be no non-Newtonian physics.
00:51:17.000A scientific progress is a result of people asking very serious and very often sometimes very basic questions about the established consensus.
00:51:25.000The consensus is the consensus until it isn't.
00:51:27.000There used to be a scientific consensus that you should ice pick people in the brain if they had some sort of seizure.
00:51:32.000It turns out that was a super crappy idea.
00:51:35.000Right now, the left will tell you there's a scientific consensus that if you have gender dysphoria, the solution to that is to cut off your genitals.
00:51:40.000How long do you think that's going to be the scientific consensus?
00:51:43.000My guess is that's not going to be the scientific consensus for very long, and that is being astroturfed.
00:51:50.000All of this is rooted in the idea that if you just control top-down the flow of information, then the elites will solve all of your problems.
00:51:57.000This is why you get AOC out there saying things like, you know, our climate change provisions, what we're pushing on in terms of climate change, that's simply the science.
00:52:05.000You think this lady knows the science from a hole in the ground?
00:52:12.000Here is AOC giving a disquisition on the science via her degree from Boston University in International Economics, which apparently couldn't even teach her enough to understand how basic markets work.
00:52:26.000Some of the climate provisions that we have, we cannot afford to increase carbon or just fossil fuel emissions at this time.
00:52:38.000That is not something we can kick down the line.
00:52:40.000Right now, both the IPCC report saying that this is code red for humanity, as well as recent reporting saying that if you're under 40, like myself, like millions of Americans, you'll be seeing No, he's not, because what you're saying is not scientific.
00:53:10.000Yes, we can afford to continue fossil fuel increases.
00:53:13.000It depends on what the countervailing cost is.
00:53:15.000The real question is, can we afford your garbage Green New Deal, which subsumes economic growth, which is the greatest protector against climate change vicissitude in human history?
00:53:25.000It turns out people are really subject to the whims of the climate when they are super poor.
00:53:30.000When you live in a corrugated iron shack and there's a hurricane, you got a big problem.
00:53:34.000When you live in a nice house in South Florida with hurricane glass, you're not nearly as scared of the hurricanes.
00:53:40.000So, economic growth is a rather major indicator as to whether you are going to die from climate change, which she doesn't care about any of that.
00:53:47.000But, again, the notion is that if you just silence the other side, if you just say that we won't monetize any videos on climate change, we won't monetize any videos that deny the scientific consensus about lab leaks, if you, like, you are not in control of the process.
00:53:59.000But they have to maintain control of the process.
00:54:01.000The authoritarianism is critical to them.
00:54:03.000They need the authoritarian control of informational disseminations, why they're targeting Facebook right now.
00:54:08.000They need to make sure that no other data can slip through the cracks.
00:54:13.000Because once that facade of total ability to control is broken, it can never be restored.
00:54:19.000Once people have seen through the veil and they realize that it is not a matter of just getting the right elite in power to hit that magic button, that instead what it really is a matter of is recognizing there is no magic button.
00:54:31.000In life, there's no magic button where there's some magical king who's going to fix all of your problems if you give him ultimate power over your life.
00:54:38.000Once people realize that, maybe we'll actually be able to live with each other.
00:54:41.000Maybe we'll stop caring so much about what the federal government does because the federal government can't fix all your damn problems.
00:54:47.000Maybe we'll start to recognize that most problem-solving happens at the local level, not by delegating power to idiots like AOC, or delegating power to self-righteous twerps like Anthony Fauci, or delegating power to befuddled old morons like Joe Biden, who can't even string a sentence together, but is telling you how he's going to fix the entire American economy if you give him entire power and fix COVID while he's at it, after spending a year doing neither.
00:55:11.000Maybe if we realize that it's not a matter of just switching those people out for more competent and better people.
00:55:15.000It is a matter of not giving them power in the first place because no human being is capable of fixing the kind of problems these people claim to be able to fix.
00:55:39.000This is why you say Senator Ed Markey, who's a top-down command-and-control socialist, saying that no climate, no reconciliation.
00:55:48.000This is why they're pushing climate change in the reconciliation deal, right?
00:55:52.000And while we still have a long way to go to meet our goal of net zero emissions globally by 2050, failure to act now will make this goal nearly impossible to achieve.
00:57:00.000So New York City is now going to phase out its Gifted and Talented program.
00:57:05.000And this is all part and parcel of this desire for top-down control and a belief that a magical man, a six-foot-nine, groundhog-murdering communist, can fix all the problems so long as you just give him total and utter control over your life to make things worse.
00:57:19.000So New York is phasing out its Gifted and Talented program.
00:57:22.000According to the New York Times, Mayor Bill de Blasio will overhaul New York City's highly selective, racially segregated Gifted and Talented education classes.
00:57:28.000And now notice how the New York Times covers that.
00:57:30.000These classes are not racially segregated.
00:57:32.000There is not a single law anywhere in America that allows you to racially segregate classes.
00:57:38.000Normally, when we speak about racial segregation, we talk about a government policy or even a local policy or a private policy that says black people here, white people here.
00:57:46.000No such policy exists in New York City.
00:58:02.000Hey, they say, Mayor Bill de Blasio will overhaul New York City's highly selective, racially segregated, gifted and talented education classes, a sea change for the nation's largest public school system that may amount to the mayor's most significant act in the waning months of his tenure.
00:58:15.000The elementary school gifted and talented program that New York has known for the last several decades will no longer exist for incoming kindergarten students next fall.
00:58:22.000Within a few years, it will be eliminated completely, city officials told the New York Times.
00:58:26.000Students currently enrolled in gifted classes will become the final cohort in the existing system, which will be replaced by a program that offers accelerated learning to all students in the later years of elementary school.
00:58:37.000The gradual elimination of the existing program will remove a major component of what many consider to be the city's two-tiered education system, in which one relatively small, largely white, and Asian-American group of students gain access to the highest performing schools, while many Black and Latino children remain in schools that are struggling.
00:58:55.000The reason these highly gifted magnets are quote-unquote racially segregated, which they are not, is because there are tests given to determine whether you get to go to a gifted school or a magnet school.
00:59:04.000And it turns out white and Asian kids are doing too well, particularly Asian kids.
00:59:07.000First of all, pretty weird that we now have racial segregation that includes Asians.
00:59:13.000Kind of kills the whole it's white versus black when Asian Americans are making up a vast disproportionate share of people in the gifted programs.
00:59:22.000What this is really about is black and Latino students in New York City are scoring lower on the test than white and Asian American students.
00:59:29.000Force those kids who are doing better on the test to go back to schools that are designed to teach people who are performing less well on tests.
00:59:37.000Mediocrity, equality through mediocrity is preferable to flourishing through meritocracy.
00:59:45.000Equality through mediocrity is preferable to these command and control asshats To actual flourishing through meritocracy.
00:59:54.000New York, home to one of the most racially segregated school systems in the country.
00:59:58.000The New York Times thinks that if they just keep repeating that New York is forcibly racially segregated, it becomes true.
01:00:13.000They're just going to repeat it over and over.
01:00:14.000Though it also puts New York more in line with how other cities are approaching their own segregated gifted classes.
01:00:19.000About 75% of the roughly 16,000 students in gifted elementary school classes in New York are white or Asian American.
01:00:26.000Those groups make up about 25% of the overall school system.
01:00:29.000Though the mayor has long promised to tackle inequality in city schools, he has been criticized by some for not taking more forceful action on desegregation until the end of his mayoralty.
01:00:38.000The change presents an unwelcome challenge for Mr. de Blasio's almost certain successor, Eric Adams, a Democratic nominee for mayor, who would have to implement an entirely new gifted education system during his first year in office.
01:00:48.000Adams, who is black, by the way, has expressed skepticism about overhauling the gifted system.
01:00:53.000Instead, he said he wanted to offer more gifted programs in low-income neighborhoods.
01:00:57.000But New York will no longer admit rising kindergarten students into separate gifted classes or schools starting next fall.
01:01:02.000Instead, the city will train all its kindergarten teachers, roughly 4,000 educators, to accommodate students who need accelerated learning within their general education classrooms.
01:01:11.000Let me just tell you, this is not going to work.
01:01:13.000The reason it's not going to work is because every educational study ever done shows that the cohort of students you hang out with makes a difference in your academic development.
01:01:19.000If you take a gifted kid and you put the gifted kid in with the non-gifted kids, the gifted kid does not make the other non-gifted kids smarter.
01:02:12.000All, all because they want to avoid the basic reality that some kids score better on tests and some kids are smarter and some kids are not as smart.
01:02:29.000And if there are fewer individuals in a given race who are doing poorly, like among Asian Americans, fewer individuals are doing poorly on the tests, so be it.
01:02:38.000Using group data to fix individual data is of course ridiculous and silly.
01:02:44.000But the idea is that these guys are so good, they can hit a button, and not only will we get all the gifted students to remain gifted, all the non-gifted students will become gifted!
01:02:53.000All you have to do is give them the power.
01:02:54.000Just give them the power to wreck the system, and they will fix the system for you.
01:02:58.000Now, none of them have ever fixed the system.
01:03:02.000He got into office in 2008, and instead of, like prior presidents, saying, here's what I can do and here's what I can't do, he said, I could do anything except that these buffoons keep getting in the way and bothering me.
01:03:26.000And what this is going to cause in the end is a continuation of the big sort that we're seeing.
01:03:31.000There's a reason that Tesla is now moving to Texas.
01:03:33.000The reason that Tesla is moving to Texas is because Texas does not believe that there ought to be some god-king who is appointed to fix all problems, who ought to be the super CEO over Tesla.
01:03:46.000In Texas, they say Elon Musk ought to run his company.
01:03:49.000And we ought to mind our own business, which is why Elon Musk is moving the entire company over to Texas.
01:03:55.000According to BizJournals, the CEO said October 7th that Tesla would now base itself in central Texas.
01:04:00.000It has a $1.1 billion gigafactory rising in eastern Travis County.
01:04:04.000He said, I'm excited that we are moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas.
01:04:08.000He said they still are going to have plants in California.
01:04:11.000He says we're just going to increase our output from other places.