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00:02:47.000Theoretically, but we are now well over a month out from the South African variant becoming public knowledge.
00:02:53.000And there was no uptick in death in South Africa.
00:02:56.000So according to the CDC, the Omicron variant has caused more than 70% of recent COVID-19 cases in the United States, highlighting a substantial increase in infectiousness compared with earlier versions of the virus.
00:03:06.000In many parts of the U.S., Omicron now makes up more than 90% of cases, according to the CDC.
00:03:11.000The CDC's updated data showed Omicron had caused some 13% of recent infections in the week through December 11th.
00:03:17.000The variant has spread rapidly in the United States.
00:03:19.000It has reached at least 89 nations around the world since being identified in Southern Africa last month.
00:03:24.000New York State, which again, has a lot of vaccine mandates.
00:03:28.000I mean, New York City has a vaccine mandate.
00:03:37.000Why are we seeing people freak out about a disease that has an extremely low death rate, That is so transmissible, you are not going to be able to stop it in any serious way without taking my aforementioned first path, hiding yourself in a closet, saran wrapping your body, and then duct taping your orifices.
00:03:56.000If you have no other options, then why are we doing this stuff?
00:04:01.000And more than that, why are we trying to freak everybody out?
00:04:05.000Like, what is the evidence that we should all be freaking out at this point?
00:04:09.000They're taking measures that are not proved to work against COVID.
00:06:39.000It's an element of faith because they've demonstrated no capacity to do this.
00:06:42.000The one thing the government did well is they subsidized the big pharma industry in order to create the vaccines, and then they tranched those out.
00:07:03.000So there's an author named Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
00:07:06.000He has a book called Skin in the Game.
00:07:08.000His basic thesis is that the reason that religious people perform ritual is to demonstrate fealty to the group and to the religion.
00:07:16.000So the reason that people like me wear yarmulkes is because that is an actual sacrifice.
00:07:20.000Identifying myself as different from others and I wear the yarmulke because I am demonstrating skin in the game.
00:07:27.000That I am willing to make a sacrifice in terms of my personal life In order to demonstrate fealty to a particular group or ideology, right?
00:07:35.000That is the idea of religious practice, any religious ritual.
00:07:39.000And here's the thing, if it's something that you would do normally, that does not count as skin in the game.
00:07:43.000So keeping kosher is a sign of religious fealty.
00:07:46.000Me eating more vegetables is not a sign of religious fealty because that is a rational thing to do if I wish to preserve my health.
00:07:52.000So anything that could be come to through simple reasoning and rational processes, that doesn't demonstrate fealty.
00:07:59.000That's just you being a rational human being.
00:08:01.000So for example, it doesn't demonstrate fealty to the COVID lockdown authoritarian mindset to get vaccinated.
00:08:14.000You have to demonstrate fealty to the idea.
00:08:16.000This is why the dictionary, Webster's Dictionary, literally changed the definition of anti-vax from does not like vaccines to opposes vaccine mandates, which is a very different thing.
00:08:30.000One of those things demonstrates fealty to the cause and one of those things doesn't.
00:08:33.000Getting the vax does not demonstrate fealty to the cause because that's, in many cases, a reasonable thing to do.
00:08:40.000Supporting a bunch of nonsense demonstrates fealty to the cause.
00:08:43.000So when you wonder, I think those of us on the right, maybe a lot of us in the center, we've been wondering, I don't understand, you guys are pursuing policies right now that are completely disconnected from the available data on the ground.
00:08:52.000In fact, we know they're not going to work.
00:08:54.000Now we think they're not going to work.
00:08:55.000We know they're not going to work because they've not worked anywhere.
00:08:57.000Your mask mandates have not worked anywhere in terms of suppressing the virus.
00:09:02.000They're certainly not going to work against Omicron.
00:09:04.000Your attempts to force five-year-olds to vaccinate in order to stop the spread, it's not going to work.
00:09:08.000We know it's not going to work because you've tried it and it hasn't worked.
00:09:11.000And yet you continue to maintain that these are the policies you wish to push.
00:09:15.000The only reason to do that is as a signal of in-group membership.
00:09:22.000It is the yarmulke, to take the Jewish example, it is the yarmulke of COVID cultness.
00:09:29.000I'm taking the Jewish example just because that's the world that I know best.
00:09:33.000You are creating stricter and stricter rules, and the more strictly you perform these rules, the more you are demonstrating fealty to, quote-unquote, the science.
00:09:42.000Ironically, in order for you to demonstrate fealty to, quote, the science, you have to do stuff that is wildly anti-scientific and has nothing to do with the data.
00:09:50.000Because when you believe that science is an institution as opposed to a neutral process for discovering truth, then you have to demonstrate fealty to the institution.
00:09:59.000And that means doing stuff on the basis of faith alone.
00:10:06.000In fact, it's supposed to be unreasonable.
00:10:08.000Because if you're willing to do the unreasonable thing, if you're willing to mask up your three-year-old, if you're willing to never go to dinner again with anybody that you love, You have truly demonstrated your fealty to the cult and this makes you a morally superior person.
00:10:21.000And by the way, when you talk to people who do all these things and then they get COVID, they're bewildered.
00:10:26.000I mean, they act as though they act like sort of people who don't understand religion very well act after they do all of the commandments and then somebody they know gets cancer.
00:10:36.000It's like, I did all the right things.
00:10:45.000Maybe if your faith is reliant on the idea that if you perform the requisite rituals and perform the human sacrifices necessary in order to appease the gods of Tusayan, that COVID will leave you alone.
00:11:05.000I think that we have converted so many Americans, particularly in blue states, to this cultish behavior with regard to COVID.
00:11:14.000And you have the high priesthood, right?
00:11:15.000The high priesthood is the Anthony Fauci's, and in New York, the governor, or in New York City, the mayor, Joe Biden.
00:11:22.000And they speak like religious figures.
00:11:24.000I mean, they literally predict death upon people who refuse to abide by their diktats.
00:11:30.000Joe Biden came out yesterday, and Joe Biden literally said, millions of un-vaxxed face a winter of illness and death.
00:11:37.000Okay, now, as a descriptive matter, anybody who's un-vaxxed faces an additional risk.
00:11:42.000Okay, that does not mean that if you're un-vaxxed, you're definitely going to die.
00:11:46.000It also does not mean that if you have prior natural immunity, you're going to get struck with this in the same way that you would if you don't have prior natural immunity.
00:11:54.000Making no distinction between the un-vaxxed who have prior natural immunity and those who do not is anti-scientific.
00:12:00.000But Joe Biden here is speaking like a religious figure, not like a scientific figure.
00:12:30.000For the unvaccinated, Omicron is less of a threat than Delta.
00:12:34.000So, I think that most of the unvaccinated should get vaxxed.
00:12:36.000I think that a huge number of them are in positions where they require the vaccinations in order to provide them top-notch protection.
00:12:42.000However, the way that people are talking about all of this is designed to elicit not a rational risk assessment that might result in a vaccination.
00:12:51.000It is designed to elicit a hatred for the heretics.
00:12:54.000It's designed to create two classes of human beings in the United States, the vaxxed and the unvaxxed.
00:14:12.000You're going to stop the spread of Omicron?
00:14:14.000Let's talk about some of the measures that are now being undertaken by the panicked.
00:14:18.000And the measures that are being undertaken by the panicked are completely unrelated to reality.
00:14:23.000So here, for example, is the mayor, the brand new mayor of Boston, the radical progressive Michelle Wu, who for a brief moment in time was not beloved by progressives because she's not minority enough.
00:14:59.000Today we're announcing that Boston will be implementing a requirement for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for certain indoor spaces, which we're calling our Be Together initiative.
00:15:10.000Be Together will require proof of vaccination to enter indoor dining.
00:15:15.000Well, three categories, just so you can keep the count.
00:15:18.000First, indoor dining, including bars and restaurants.
00:15:22.000Secondly, indoor fitness venues, such as gyms.
00:15:26.000And third, indoor entertainment, recreational and event venues, such as theater shows or sports games.
00:15:33.000Starting January 15th, customers or patrons ages 12 and up and employees at these locations will be required to show proof that they've received at least one dose of the vaccine.
00:15:46.000And this will phase in to requiring two doses on February 15th.
00:15:50.000We're also setting dates for children to be vaccinated to enter these spaces beginning in March.
00:15:58.000So, she's going to stretch that all the way down, presumably, to five-year-olds in Boston.
00:16:02.000Now, they've already tried this in New York.
00:16:04.000I mean, when you have a policy, the first thing you should ask is, do we have precedent for this policy working anywhere?
00:16:36.000Right now, a two-dose Pfizer vaccine, if you've gotten vaccinated twice and you haven't had a booster in the recent past, according to the studies, 33% reduction in transmissibility.
00:16:47.000That's not going to stop community spread.
00:16:49.000We have community spread nearly everywhere.
00:16:51.000In the course of a couple of weeks, Omicron took over the country.
00:16:55.000But you're pushing the same measures anyway that you know won't work.
00:17:00.000According to NBC Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is expected to make a major announcement on Tuesday regarding the city's fight against COVID.
00:17:07.000It's pretty obvious that they're going to start pushing vaccination proof for places of leisure, restaurants, gyms, and other places.
00:17:13.000This is what Lori Lightfoot suggested.
00:17:16.000So now is the time to act, and we will.
00:17:20.000And this is happening all over the place.
00:17:22.000In Washington, D.C., the mayor reinstated an indoor mask mandate on Monday.
00:17:26.000So you got Boston, you got Chicago, you got New York State.
00:17:33.000But, as we'll see, it's amazing because the cult still is going to, at some point there's one problem for the cult, and the cult is going to have to allow people to live or they're just going to destroy their cities, and they know it.
00:17:43.000So at the same exact time that they are pushing the cult, they understand that the measures that they are demanding from people are not going to be particularly effective.
00:17:50.000Well, that mixed message is not going to help you.
00:17:53.000Because either you have to have full believership or no believership.
00:18:17.000I mean, by the way, that's been working so poorly that as we will see, if you're President Trump and you announced your triple vax, people will boo you.
00:18:27.000For those who choose to remain unvaccinated, he'll issue a stark warning and make clear unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths.
00:18:36.000That is not trying to scare people or maybe it is trying to make clear to people in the country what the risks are here of not being vaccinated.
00:18:44.000This is not a speech about locking the country down.
00:18:46.000This is a speech outlining and being direct and clear with the American people about the benefits of being vaccinated, the steps we're going to take to increase access and to increase testing, and the risks posed to unvaccinated individuals.
00:19:20.000I disagree with many of the people who are unvaccinated, but you're not going to convince them by yelling at them.
00:19:25.000I've had many unvaccinated people in my life that I have talked to about this virus, and what I've said to them with regard to vaccination is, let's look up your risk factors, let's look up your chances of death with the virus, and now let's look up your chances of death with the vaccine.
00:20:18.000And if getting tougher, I mean, tougher on the unvaccinated in particular, and if you think he needs to get tougher, what would that look like?
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00:22:29.000Okay, so, as you might expect, the blowback is not just domestic in scope, right?
00:22:37.000Because there are crackdowns all over the world, and the blowback is international in scope.
00:22:42.000According to the UK Daily Mail, scuffles broke out at an anti-lockdown protest in Parliament Square in Britain as thousands of protesters opposed to the vaccine passports and Plan B rules clashed with police while the ministers were considering more restrictions.
00:22:56.000It looks like a giant crowd and that is no shock.
00:23:03.000We've seen COVID protests in Germany, in Belgium.
00:23:07.000None of this is a giant shock because people are sick of this and they don't feel like their public health authorities actually have a plan to get out of it.
00:23:12.000And maybe the reason they don't feel like that is because their public health authorities don't actually have a plan.
00:23:15.000They just have a bunch of things that they're going to yell at you.
00:23:17.000They're just yelling slogans at you at this point.
00:23:20.000So on the one hand, just take Dr. Fauci, for example, because he is great and Saint-Denis, and we all have votive candles to him, and we have to offer bird sacrifices and then read the entrails after we burn them on the altar of COVID for Dr. Fauci.
00:23:32.000I mean, I'm so annoyed with this guy at this point.
00:23:35.000At the very beginning, I was a defender of Fauci, at least in the sense that I thought he was doing his best.
00:23:40.000Now I just think that he's a political hack who has no idea what he's doing, but cannot stay away from that little red light that flashes at him while he's on the TV.
00:24:16.000We all know you can't control Omicron.
00:24:18.000By the way, I'm hearing so many, like, right now, so this is actually really funny.
00:24:23.000The NFL was going to attempt what they called test to stay.
00:24:27.000So test to stay was the idea of somebody in your room gets Omicron, Then we have to test everybody else in the room to see if they also got Omicron.
00:24:34.000And if you test clear, you get to stay.
00:24:36.000And then the NFL realized, wait a second.
00:24:37.000Everybody is going to test positive for Omicron and will be completely asymptomatic.
00:24:41.000So if we just don't test them, then they won't have to go home.
00:24:46.000So if they're vaxxed and they're asymptomatic, the NFL is not going to test them anymore.
00:25:30.000Because then you wouldn't be showing fealty to the cult.
00:25:33.000So instead you have Dr. Anthony Fauci putting together this bizarre regimen of intricate laws and regulations that don't fit together in any logical way.
00:27:16.000You have to mask on airplanes literally for all time, despite the fact that he cannot present one shred of data that airplanes have been a chief vector of transmission.
00:27:24.000Then yesterday he said the vaccine and the boosted should feel comfortable getting together.
00:27:27.000He doesn't explain why. He doesn't present any data to suggest why this is the case, even though the vaccine and the boosted have been passing this to one another.
00:27:34.000Here we go. Vaccinated and boosted people, when the family members are vaccinated, should feel very comfortable in getting together and enjoying a holiday meal or a holiday get-together.
00:28:09.000What's going to stop all of this is reality.
00:28:11.000What's going to stop all of this is the actual reality.
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00:28:36.000What's going to stop all of this is that eventually Democrats are going to have to come to grips with the fact that the cult is very unpopular.
00:28:43.000It's popular with its members and it's very unpopular with everyone else because there are real world consequences to the kind of garbage you are preaching.
00:28:49.000We'll get to those real world consequences in just one moment.
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00:29:58.000Alrighty, in just a second, we're going to talk about what actually stops.
00:30:01.000The left from from continuing this forever.
00:30:04.000And that is reality, because the reality is starting to set in.
00:30:06.000You can start to see little hints of it just around the edges of left-wing policy.
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00:32:14.000Okay, so just to recap briefly, here is what your democratic mayors, governors and president want.
00:32:25.000Joe Biden announced today he wants 500 million more tests of asymptomatic people, which just means that you're going to get a lot of positives.
00:32:43.000Because what you're going to do is you're going to mandate that everybody who comes back positive now quarantine.
00:32:47.000If you mandate that everybody who's positive quarantine, based on asymptomatic disease possession, you're going to shut down the entire society.
00:35:25.000Because right now, central banks are talking about how this new Omicron variant, basically the government response to it, is going to destroy markets.
00:35:32.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Omicron variant is circling the globe, closing borders, sparking new restrictions on economic activity.
00:35:37.000Yet central banks, instead of loosening monetary policy to prop up their economies, are moving to unwind stimulus and raise interest rates.
00:35:43.000The moves reflect a new thinking among policymakers about the pandemic's economic effects.
00:35:47.000Central bank officials worry that rather than simply threatening to curtail economic growth, a surge in COVID-19 cases could also prolong high inflation.
00:35:56.000In the past week, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank all moved to tighten monetary policy in response to inflation concerns.
00:36:03.000When the pandemic first became widespread, governments locked down their economies and blew money into them.
00:36:07.000Now they're afraid that they're going to create supply chain shortages, again, because of Omicron, because of their shutdowns.
00:36:13.000And that will create additional inflation.
00:36:16.000It turns out that once you enter into the control loop, there's a control loop.
00:37:20.000As the American Academy of Pediatrics stated in a report released this month, quote, the available data indicate COVID-19 associated hospitalization and death is uncommon in children.
00:37:29.000There's also promising news regarding long COVID in kids.
00:37:32.000A large meta-analysis published last month shows kids who tested positive for COVID have rates of persistent symptoms that are similar to those who tested negative.
00:37:40.000And when there are differences, they were small.
00:37:43.000The early evidence from outside the U.S.
00:37:44.000suggests kids will remain low risk during Omicron as well.
00:37:48.000The latest data from South Africa shows school-aged kids, 5 to 19, have the lowest hospitalization of any age group, even with the Omicron uptick.
00:37:55.000The hospitalization rate is 4 to 6 per 100,000!
00:38:02.000So, maybe we shouldn't close the schools.
00:38:04.000Because that has some really bad ramifications.
00:38:08.000Well, weird that the New York Times is now willing to print this opinion after spending, you know, two years basically going along to get along.
00:38:14.000And meanwhile, Same day, same paper, Dr. Jay Varma, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, epidemiologist.
00:38:22.000He's suggesting that we have to take some measures that are not quite as restrictive as maybe some of the vaccine lockdown folks would have you suggest.
00:38:33.000They say, he says, that we'll need to redefine people as up-to-date or fully vaccinated if they have their initial shots plus a booster, which is pretty controversial considering that you still have B-cell and T-cell immunity if you're a young person.
00:38:43.000The purpose of a booster is to increase the antibodies in your bloodstream.
00:38:46.000That is particularly relevant for people who are immunocompromised, for whom your immune system's response based on T-cell and B-cell memory is going to be a little bit longer.
00:38:53.000It means it takes longer for your immune system to kick in and send out the fighters to go kill the virus.
00:38:58.000Or if you're old, boosters for 30-year-olds, the data on that is really skimpy.
00:39:03.000But here is the part that's pretty amazing.
00:39:06.000Even this guy, who's a real lockdown fanatic, he says isolation periods for vaccinated people who test positive and no longer have symptoms need to be shortened from the currently recommended 10 days to around 5 days.
00:39:19.000Since levels of coronavirus decline rapidly in vaccinated people who are infected, people with breakthrough infections will be able to return to their daily lives faster, even though a small percentage may still be infectious.
00:39:28.000So he's admitting you're going to go back and you're going to infect people.
00:39:32.000We still have to we still have to do what we have to do.
00:39:35.000He says, unlike in 2020, all jurisdictions need to recognize that in-person school is as essential to society as hospitals They're not going to go all the way and just recognize that the public policy needs to be geared toward living with the virus and just dealing with it.
00:39:54.000They're never going to recognize that because it would undercut their entire perspective.
00:39:56.000But they're going to start to recognize we can't shut down businesses and we can't shut down schools.
00:40:00.000Well, if you don't want to shut down schools, here's what that means.
00:40:15.000When it came to surgical and cloth mask data from that Malaysian study, which is still the biggest study, real-world study with regard to masks, it showed that for people under the age of 50, there was no differential for cloth and surgical masks.
00:40:25.000The only differential was for KN95s and N95s.
00:40:27.000You're not going to make small children wear N95s or KN95s, nor should you, because again, their risk factors are unbelievably low.
00:40:33.000Even for Omicron, that means 4 to 6 kids, your child's chances of being hospitalized for Omicron, if you look at that South African data, 1 in 25,000.
00:40:59.000I'm not talking, by the way, here about not getting the vaccine.
00:41:02.000Again, I think that you should make a personal decision based on your health factors.
00:41:04.000I think for the vast majority of people, that means you should get the vaccine.
00:41:07.000But, it does mean that you should be resisting VAX mandates, If you are a business owner, you should not be going along to get along with regard to the government.
00:41:16.000You should be resisting mask mandates.
00:41:22.000Okay, meanwhile, the Democratic Party is in a spiral of hatred and recriminations because Joe Manchin said the same thing he's been saying all along, which is I'm not going to sign on to a $5 trillion bill.
00:41:37.000So yesterday, the White House was ripping on Manchin.
00:41:40.000And then Jen Psaki was asked about ripping on Manchin.
00:41:44.000Got a big tattoo across her neck that said, no regerts.
00:41:47.000Here was Jen Psaki, White House press secretary.
00:41:49.000Is there any regret within the White House or within discussions with Democratic leadership just about how this negotiation went, given that statement from him that he feels that he's been badgered and beaten?
00:42:02.000Well, that certainly is not our objective.
00:42:06.000But our objective is getting this legislation passed and reminding the American people and all people who could vote for it what the stakes are.
00:42:15.000So no, we don't have regrets about aggressively communicating about it and making sure people understand that if we don't pass this legislation, costs for the American people will go up and economic growth projections will not go in the right direction.
00:43:22.000Okay, so there's Joe Manchin. This is over. The Biden White House, they're trying, now they're trying to claw back. Today they've been like, well, you know, Joe Biden personally didn't insult Joe Manchin. You think Manchin cares? Like Joe Biden has this great, wonderful relationship with Joe Biden? Yeah, good luck with that. Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, he's like, you know, the reason why I rejected their bill is because they kept giving me the same bill over and over and over and they just kept lying about it. The same bill I have in front of me right now that they kept putting in front of me was the same $6 trillion bill from the beginning. The only thing
00:43:50.000to change was the time element which they would pay for things.
00:44:24.000It was a complete stunner, a complete shocker, because the president told me that Senator Manchin had committed to that framework that the president unveiled to us right before he went to COP26, and that that was the framework that the Progressive Caucus then endorsed.
00:44:44.000All of which prompted Wolf Blitzer to ask Jayapal, do you think that Manchin even belongs in your party?
00:44:48.000Manchin apparently is considering going independent.
00:44:50.000Which in West Virginia is a smart move.
00:44:52.000Didn't hurt Bernie Sanders to be an independent socialist in Vermont.
00:44:55.000So if Manchin goes independent, he will still win elections in West Virginia, then he gets to be the swing vote.
00:45:00.000By the way, if Joe Manchin becomes a Republican, he loses all power, right?
00:45:03.000Then he's just another Republican from a red state, and probably not the most right-wing Republican in West Virginia.
00:45:09.000Like, not even close, because he's kind of a Democrat, right?
00:45:12.000So, him going independent is still a real possibility, and then he gets to decide every single election who he caucuses with, the Republicans or the Democrats.
00:45:18.000But here's Wolf Blitzer suggesting that the Democrats expel him.
00:45:39.000She can always be counted on for the stupidest possible analysis of any given situation because she, of course, has the brain wadage of a frying pan.
00:45:47.000She says that the big problem here is that the Senate is an old boys club.
00:45:51.000Someone should tell that to Kyrsten Sinema, who's the other vote, to not do this.
00:45:57.000What we really need to do is crack down on the Senate, which operates like an old boys club that has a couple of gals in it that have managed to break through.
00:46:07.000And we need to actually institute some institution—we actually need to implement some institutional discipline.
00:46:13.000If people want to threaten to block ambassadorships, if they want to threaten dysfunction, they actually need to show up and do it.
00:46:24.000So, the party's platform come 2022 is COVID shutdowns, mass testing, mass panic, high inflation, ripping on the independents who won't vote for your massive stupid bills, and then jabbering to MSNBC.
00:46:41.0002022's gonna be real bad for Democrats.
00:46:43.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:46:45.000In the meantime, as I've suggested, please head on over to dailywire.com slash do not comply.
00:46:49.000We are very close to one million signatures.
00:46:52.000The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a stay on the VAX mandate.
00:46:55.000We are making a direct appeal to the Supreme Court right now.
00:46:58.000We are the chief plaintiff in this particular case.