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00:00:00.000Restrictions ease across the globe as the world holds its breath, the media remain as frivolous as ever, and so do our politicians, and we examine what it's like to have a baby in a time of coronavirus.
00:00:24.000Well, I hope that you had a wonderful weekend.
00:00:25.000We're going to get to all of the news, including people actually having a wonderful weekend in certain areas of the country in just one second.
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00:01:53.000Okay, so the world is beginning to unlock.
00:01:56.000The lockdowns are starting to end, not just in the United States, but everywhere.
00:02:00.000And one of the things that's always been very weird about how the media have treated the situation in the United States is that they are treating the situation in the United States as though the United States exists in a vacuum.
00:02:09.000Other places in the world saw deaths arising about the same time as the United States, and many of them are starting to relieve lockdowns at the same time as the United States.
00:02:17.000Countries that were much harder hit than the United States.
00:02:19.000Here's the reality of the situation, by the way.
00:02:21.000The United States was really hard hit in one place.
00:02:24.000Every other place in the United States, we had some places that were sort of moderately hit.
00:02:28.000But in terms of broad-span United States, if you took New York out of the calculations, meaning its population as well as the number of deaths from coronavirus, the United States has the same about number of deaths per 100,000 residents from coronavirus.
00:02:48.000New York is an oddity because New York is so crowded, because the rates of transmission are higher in New York simply because people are right on top of each other taking the subway.
00:02:57.000That doesn't really exist anywhere else in the United States in the same way that it does in New York, which is why New York City has seen 12,000 or so deaths.
00:03:05.000And those are just the ones that have been counted.
00:03:06.000The truth is it's probably a little bit higher.
00:03:09.000Other places in the world that have been harder hit, places like Spain, places like Italy.
00:03:12.000These are places that are starting to relieve their lockdowns right now.
00:03:15.000According to the AP, Spain let children go outside and play Sunday for the first time in six weeks, as European countries methodically worked to ease their lockdowns and reopen their economies, while governors in the United States moved at differing speeds, some more aggressive, others more cautious.
00:03:27.000Around the world, China's state-run media said that hospitals in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the disaster, no longer have any COVID-19 patients after a crisis in which the city recorded nearly 4,000 deaths.
00:03:38.000They've actually locked down movie theaters again in Beijing.
00:03:40.000So that suggests that this thing is not in fact dead.
00:03:42.000So anything that comes out of Beijing cannot be trusted.
00:03:45.000But Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Britain is planning to be back at his desk Monday at 10 Downing Street after he had coronavirus.
00:03:52.000Governors in states like New York and Michigan are keeping stay at home restrictions in place Until at least mid-May, but even those governors are starting to figure out exactly how they transition back to regular life, especially for people who are not in major urban areas, major cities with heavy population densities.
00:04:06.000Their counterparts in places like Georgia, Oklahoma, Alaska are starting to allow certain businesses to reopen.
00:04:11.000Churches in Montana began holding in-person services again on Sunday, and that does make some sense, because again, a lot of these states have not been heavily damaged.
00:04:19.000A lot of these states never went into lockdown in the first place, and we're still not heavily damaged.
00:04:24.000And it is important to recognize that it was failures in specifically high population places that led to certain things getting out of control.
00:04:31.000New York City did not lock down until very late.
00:04:33.000Bill de Blasio did not lock down New York City until nearly the end of March, like a full week after the entire state of California locked down.
00:04:40.000Andrew Cuomo still had a rule in place for weeks that if you were infected with coronavirus and you were elderly, they had to accept you back at your nursing home.
00:04:49.000They did the same thing in California, by the way.
00:04:52.000In Italy, one of the big reasons that things raged out of control in Italy is specifically because it was high population density and also because of the demographics and healthcare deficiencies.
00:05:02.000According to the Associated Press, virologists and epidemiologists say that what went wrong in Lombardy will be studied for years, given how the outbreak overwhelmed the medical system, long considered to be one of Europe's best, while in the neighboring Veneto region, the impact was significantly more controlled.
00:05:15.000Lombardi's frontline doctors and nurses are being hailed as heroes for risking their lives to treat the sick under extraordinary levels of stress, exhaustion, isolation, and fear.
00:05:24.000Well, Italy was the first European country to halt all air traffic with China on January 31st, even put scanners in airports to check arrivals for fever.
00:05:31.000By January 31st, it was already too late.
00:05:33.000Epidemiologists now say the virus had been circulating widely in Lombardy since early January, if not before.
00:05:39.000And that is at least partly the fault of China, which was still lying to the World Health Organization and saying there was no human-to-human transmission.
00:05:44.000Doctors treating pneumonia in January and February didn't know it was the coronavirus because the symptoms were so similar, and the virus was still believed to be largely confined to China.
00:05:52.000Even after Italy registered a February 21st case, which was its first death, doctors didn't understand the unusual way COVID-19 could present itself with patients experiencing a rapid decline in their ability to breathe.
00:06:02.000One of the weird things about COVID-19 is that people will arrive in the hospital and seem to be breathing fine, but their oxygen saturation levels are like 50%.
00:06:09.000So it's very odd because normally when you have that sort of oxygen saturation, you're struggling and gasping for breath.
00:06:15.000People are desaturating really, really quickly.
00:06:18.000Because Lombardi's ICUs were already filling up within days of Italy's first cases, many primary care physicians tried to treat and monitor patients at home, some putting them on supplemental oxygen, commonly used for home cases in Italy.
00:06:29.000That strategy proved deadly, because people waited too long to call ambulances.
00:06:33.000Italy was forced to use home care in part because of its low ICU capacity.
00:06:37.000After years of budget cuts, Italy entered the crisis with 8.6 ICU beds per 100,000 people.
00:06:42.000The OECD average, OECD is the basically industrialized West, they have an average of 15.9 ICU beds per 100,000 people.
00:06:51.000Germany has 33.9 ICU beds per 100,000 people.
00:06:53.000So Italy was not like the United States, which is one of the reasons why even in New York, the healthcare system was not in fact overwhelmed.
00:07:01.000And so the United States is starting to reopen things.
00:07:04.000We're starting to see different states treating this thing differently, which, by the way, is the way that this should work.
00:07:09.000We should see different states treating this thing differently.
00:07:12.000Pretending that all states are equivalent in their approach to this is full-scale idiocy.
00:07:17.000New York City is not like Tennessee, for example.
00:07:20.000Even New York is starting to consider how they can reopen at this point.
00:07:25.000According to the New York Times, with promising indications that the coronavirus contagion has passed its peak, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York laid out a broad outline on Sunday for a gradual restart of the state that would allow some low-risk businesses upstate to open as soon as mid-May.
00:07:36.000Honestly, he should be opening those up right now.
00:07:39.000There's not a lot of travel inside the state of New York right now.
00:07:42.000There's no reason why upstate New York, like why Rochester.
00:07:44.000Should be treated exactly like New York City.
00:07:46.000They never had the outbreak levels of New York City.
00:07:48.000The governor's announcement, coming as the state recorded its lowest death daily toll in nearly a month, was filled with caveats, but nonetheless offered a clearest outline yet for recovery in New York, the national center of the outbreak with nearly 17,000 people dead.
00:08:00.000That human devastation has largely been confined thus far to New York City and its sprawling suburbs.
00:08:04.000Under Cuomo's plan, upstate regions would move forward with reopening long before downstate, with an emphasis on manufacturing and construction industries in which telecommuting and working from home are impossible.
00:08:15.000Cuomo said such changes could occur shortly after May 15th.
00:08:18.000That's when the statewide stay-at-home order is scheduled to lapse.
00:08:21.000He says that many of the restrictions on business and residence activity could be continued for weeks, if not months.
00:08:26.000He said no restrictions will be loosened in New York City in the near future, which does raise the question as to how exactly he plans to reopen New York.
00:08:32.000I mean, this is one of the big problems in New York City, because everybody is so closely packed together and because it is very difficult.
00:08:38.000I cannot even imagine how you actually perform contact tracing in some place like New York City.
00:08:42.000I really don't know the answer to that.
00:08:54.000Those people get out and get on other subways.
00:08:56.000There's a reason why New York City was, according to the antibody test, at least 21% infected.
00:09:02.000That is a very, very high infection rate, considering they went into full-scale lockdown in late March.
00:09:07.000So I don't know what he thinks is going to be the necessary level of contact tracing in order for them to reopen in New York City, or whether New York City is basically just going to have to operate at low level until a vaccine is developed if they don't want another outbreak, or whether they're just going to have to live with the new normal and recognize that if you are young and you are healthy, then you're going to have to go back to work, you're going to wear a mask, you're going to socially distance, and if you are older or vulnerable, then you're going to have to shelter in place as you can.
00:09:32.000But there are no good solutions for New York City and it is unclear whether the worst solution is a total lockdown or Basically, social distancing.
00:09:41.000It seems to me that these lockdowns are not really achieving anything beyond what they originally set to achieve, which is preventing the overwhelm of the healthcare system.
00:09:49.000And Cuomo, by the way, has already acknowledged that the system was not overwhelmed in New York City.
00:10:02.000The Samaritan's Park Hospital in Central Park, they were not overwhelmed.
00:10:08.000So you're starting to see other cities beside New York reopen.
00:10:11.000In Georgia, close contact retail businesses like barbers and tattoo parlors were allowed to open on Friday.
00:10:15.000Areas where large numbers of people congregate like movie theaters were expected to accept customers on Monday, but mayors of large cities like Atlanta and Augusta have resisted Governor Brian Kemp's call for reopening.
00:10:25.000Mr. Cuomo says that he was closely monitoring hospitalization, infection and recovery rates in the city and regionally with an eye toward the federal guidelines released by the White House 10 days ago.
00:10:34.000Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey also says he's going to begin to lay out a vision for reopening his state, which has also lost thousands of lives due to coronavirus.
00:10:41.000Now, one of the things that's irritating is when you hear people like Murphy say things like this.
00:10:44.000The road back will be driven by data, science, and common sense.
00:10:47.000Okay, yes, all of these solutions are going to be driven by data, science, and common sense.
00:10:50.000The suggestion that if people disagree with you, they are anti-science is just absurd.
00:10:53.000The science does not dictate what the political priorities are or what the balance is going to be.
00:10:58.000And to be accurate, you should acknowledge that there's going to be a lot of vagary, there's going to be a lot of trial and error, and there's going to be a lot of just having to catch as catch can.
00:11:06.000Because that is the reality of the situation.
00:11:09.000Cuomo is pleading with local officials to consider how to provide for summer activities for residents, including children.
00:11:14.000Mayor Bill de Blasio has already said the city's public swimming pools will not open in the summer.
00:11:18.000The playgrounds are still shut for the time being.
00:11:20.000Cuomo said, you can't tell people in a dense urban environment all through the summer months we don't have anything for you to do.
00:11:36.000I mean, I said last week that Cuomo was lying about that, and he was.
00:11:39.000The fact is that you're going to have to balance all of these competing priorities and come up with the best available solution.
00:11:44.000Now he's saying we can't keep the playgrounds and the pools closed all summer long because people are going to go insane.
00:11:48.000What do you think happens when people lose their jobs en masse, Andrew Cuomo?
00:11:52.000Also, Mayor de Blasio says we're going to come back stronger and fairer, which is always the key word for Democrats.
00:11:57.000Stronger and fairer means they're going to try to radically restructure the economy.
00:12:00.000We're going to get to that in a little bit.
00:12:03.000But Cuomo says the data will be evaluated in two-week increments and that companies wanting to restart work would be individually evaluated to determine how essential a service does that businesses provide and how risky is that business.
00:12:13.000Now, how essential a service is, is really not the business of the government.
00:12:17.000And that sort of language needs to die.
00:12:19.000It is not the job of Andrew Cuomo to determine how essential a service is.
00:12:23.000You know how essential the service is?
00:12:24.000Exactly how many people are willing to patronize the service under conditions like these.
00:12:30.000People get to decide that, not Andrew Cuomo.
00:12:32.000That is full-on government control language and it needs to stop.
00:12:35.000When we said essential workers originally, what we really meant were people who were just keeping you alive, right?
00:12:39.000Like healthcare workers or food supply workers.
00:12:42.000But if we're talking about how reporters are essential workers, but people who are working in manufacturing are not, that's just a bunch of crap coming from the government.
00:12:51.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to more of this.
00:12:53.000We're going to talk about one of the problems here, which is the lack of standards.
00:12:58.000And the failure of local authorities to set up reasonable standards.
00:13:01.000We can get to that in just one second.
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00:14:31.000Truisms are truisms because they are true.
00:14:34.000If nothing radically changes, if a vaccine is not developed, if no great therapeutics are come up with, the math is going to be the same no matter what you do.
00:14:40.000And so the question now becomes, can you trust people to take responsible action In their daily lives, to prevent other people from getting the disease, can you lock down the most vulnerable areas?
00:14:50.000And if you are calling for heavy levels of testing and contact tracing, you're going to have to explain how that really works in places like New York City.
00:15:17.000They've had about 200,000 cases in New York City.
00:15:19.00020% of the population in New York City is somewhere around 1.7 million people.
00:15:24.000So to pretend that you're going to contact trace millions and millions of people pretty much every day is going to be very, very difficult.
00:15:32.000And this is especially true when we're not ramping up testing like this.
00:15:34.000When people say that we're going to ramp up testing to 20 million a day, they're insane.
00:15:38.000Fewer than 2% of the United States has actually been tested at this point.
00:15:41.0005 million people have been tested at this point.
00:15:43.000The problem with the test is, if you test negative, that doesn't mean you're going to test negative next week for COVID-19.
00:15:48.000So you could test all 300 million people today, and that does not guarantee that you've gotten rid of coronavirus.
00:15:53.000Coronavirus is not going to be got rid of.
00:15:55.000So what this relies on is people being responsible.
00:15:57.000I think the American people are responsible.
00:16:03.000If I have to determine whom to trust, members of our political class, Members of the chattering class who are lucky, people like me who can sit in places like their house and broadcast to you and still have their jobs, or the normal Americans who can be trusted to go out and take responsible measures.
00:16:46.000County shut down all of its parks and all of its beaches, which is full-scale idiocy.
00:16:50.000What they really should be doing is they should have police officers at parks and on beaches telling people that they need to at least socially distance.
00:16:57.000If that's how you want to implement it, implement it that way.
00:16:59.000But my family and I, like literally every family I know yesterday went to a park.
00:17:03.000And by the way, if you couldn't go to a park in L.A., we went outside of L.A.
00:17:06.000Or you went to Burbank or you went to Pasadena or you went to Oxnard or you went to Newport Beach.
00:17:11.000So yesterday, my family, me, my wife, my three kids, we all went to a park in Burbank slash Pasadena.
00:17:51.000County is stupid, and they shut down all of their parks and beaches, all that ended up doing was shuffling all the people who wanted to go to the beach to one beach.
00:17:57.000Everybody went to Newport Beach or Huntington Beach.
00:18:01.000And the way the media cover this is disaster area.
00:18:04.000There's gonna be widespread disease in Newport Beach.
00:18:07.000When you actually watch the video that was put together by local news, you have to ask yourself, how many of these people actually are like less than six feet away from each other and are not in the immediate social distancing group, right?
00:18:18.000Like me and my family, I don't have to distance from my wife and my kids.
00:18:20.000The question is how far are we away from the next group of people who are isolating at home?
00:18:59.000So those people are far away from each other.
00:19:01.000They look as though it's a lot of people.
00:19:03.000That is a lot of people standing very, very far away from one another.
00:19:07.000I'm not spotting a ton of people who are sitting two feet away from one another.
00:19:11.000These people are at least six feet away from one another in open air.
00:19:15.000Sunlight does kill this thing, by the way.
00:19:17.000According to the Washington Post, half the virus could be killed in as little as two minutes if it's on a surface exposed to sunlight and high humidity at room temperature.
00:19:27.000According to the Washington Post Health 202 blog, which by the way is really good.
00:19:47.000And he says many are from LA and San Diego.
00:19:50.000We're seeing a huge increase with crowds that we would normally see out here in the middle of the summer.
00:19:57.000So they've beefed up lifeguard patrol and asked people to please social distance.
00:20:02.000We really want people to be safe, so sometimes we're torn when we get these huge crowds.
00:20:06.000If you come and you act like this, like there's nothing wrong and everyone's here throwing a football and having a beer with their buddy, you know, that's how you ruin it for the rest of us who are safe social distancing.
00:21:53.000County, it's Oxnard County, Ventura County.
00:21:56.000And people were staying away from each other, far away from each other.
00:21:59.000And in a second, I'm going to show you what happened when the police decided to show up and basically harass a 93-year-old couple because everything is stupid.
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00:24:40.000So do you trust the American people or do you not trust the American people?
00:24:43.000And it is stunning, honestly, the sort of soft bigotry of low expectations applied to the American people here.
00:24:49.000There's an article in the New York Times about how some black leaders in Georgia are upset with the state allowing stores to reopen.
00:24:55.000According to the New York Times, several African-American leaders in Georgia, including the mayors of Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta, criticized the decision by Governor Brian Kemp to allow gyms, barbershops, tattoo parlors, and spas in the state to reopen last Friday, houses of worship to resume in-person services, and restaurants and theaters to reopen on Monday.
00:25:09.000That stance seems to put them in agreement with President Trump, who said the move was, quote unquote, too soon.
00:25:13.000But Stacey Abrams distanced herself from the president.
00:25:15.000She said, I give the president no credit.
00:25:17.000He actually caused this challenge by tweeting for weeks that we should liberate our economies.
00:25:20.000First of all, who cares what Stacey Abrams has to say?
00:25:22.000I mean, at this point, she's basically John Cusack holding up a boombox outside Joe Biden's house, begging to be picked for vice president.
00:25:28.000Critics of the early reopening include influential clergy members like Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist, an Atlanta-area megachurch, and the Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock, who's running for the U.S.
00:25:38.000Senate in a special election against Senator Kelly Loeffler, a Republican appointed to a seat by Governor Kemp.
00:25:44.000Mr. Bryant, in a Facebook Live video, said the reopening was derelict of responsibility and absent moral integrity, and specifically aimed at places African Americans like to gather, like salons and barbershops, right after many people had received their stimulus checks.
00:25:59.000So if you say that you want to reopen barbershops and salons, somehow this is racist because according to this particular pastor, Jamal Bryant, who's running for the Senate, black folks like to hang out at salons and barbershops.
00:26:13.000So if you reopen them, then apparently what is he saying?
00:26:15.000Is he saying that black people are not capable of being responsible at barbershops and salons?
00:26:19.000Because that seems kind of racist to me.
00:26:21.000It seems to me that black people, like all other Americans, are perfectly capable of being responsible going to barbershops and salons.
00:26:28.000So the idea here is going to be that if people are irresponsible and that if that irresponsibility causes a spike in cases that is located in a particular community, that's the fault of the state-level government as opposed to individuals making bad decisions?
00:26:40.000If you don't want to be infected, don't go out.
00:26:42.000And if you don't want to be infected, socially distance.
00:26:49.000I understand that we've now created a cradle-to-grave society in which nobody's expected to take responsibility, but personal responsibility at this point would be a very, very useful thing, it seems.
00:26:59.000By the way, when we speak about these lockdowns, there are serious questions as to whether these lockdowns have even worked.
00:27:08.000Rogers, writing for the Wall Street Journal today, The quick shutdowns may not actually be all that effective.
00:27:15.000According to this columnist named T.J.
00:27:18.000Rogers for the Wall Street Journal, he says, to do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of COVID-19, Joe Malchow, Yunon Weiss, and I wanted to find out.
00:27:25.000We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis.
00:27:29.000To normalize for an unambiguous comparison of deaths between states at the midpoint of an epidemic, we counted deaths per million population for a fixed 21-day period, measured from when the death rate first hit one per million, e.g.
00:27:39.000three deaths in Iowa or 19 in New York State.
00:27:42.000A state's days-to-shutdown was the time after a state crossed the one-per-million threshold until it ordered businesses shut down.
00:27:48.000We ran a simple one-variable correlation of deaths per million in days-to-shutdown, which ranged from minus 10 days, some states shut down before any sign of COVID-19, to 35 days for South Dakota, one of seven states with limited or no shutdown.
00:27:59.000The correlation coefficient was 5.5%, so low that engineers I used to employ would have summarized it as no correlation and moved on to find the real cause of the problem.
00:28:08.000No conclusions can be drawn about the states that sheltered quickly because their death rates ran the full gamut, from 20 per million in Oregon to 360 per million in New York.
00:28:16.000This wide variation means that other variables, like population density or subway use, were much more important than lockdowns.
00:28:21.000Our correlation coefficient for per capita death rates versus population density was 44%, which suggests New York City might have benefited from its shutdown, but blindly copying New York's policies in places with a low COVID-19 death rate, such as Wisconsin, doesn't make any sense.
00:28:35.000Meanwhile, Sweden, which has been beaten up by the left-wing press in the United States, continues to approach herd immunity.
00:28:43.000Since people over 65 account for about 80% of COVID-19 deaths, Sweden asked only seniors to shelter in place rather than shutting down the rest of the country.
00:28:50.000Since Sweden had no pediatric deaths, it didn't shut down elementary and middle schools.
00:28:53.000Sweden's containment measures are less onerous than America's, so it can keep them in place longer to prevent COVID-19 from recurring.
00:28:59.000Also, they probably won't get a second wave.
00:29:01.000They suffered 80 deaths per million, 21 days after crossing the one per million threshold level.
00:29:06.000With 10 million people, Sweden's death rate is lower than that of the seven hardest hit U.S.
00:29:10.000Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York All of which, except Louisiana, shut down in three days or less.
00:29:17.000Sweden is in the middle of the pack in Europe, comparable to France, better than Italy, Spain, and the UK, and worse than Finland, Denmark, and Norway.
00:29:23.000And also, Sweden is not vulnerable to a second wave because, again, there's not gonna be a wave.
00:29:28.000Everybody has been there all the time, right?
00:29:32.000There's not a wave, and then a break, and then another wave.
00:29:34.000Instead, they basically said, okay, we're gonna let the water level rise to what the water level is, and then that's just gonna be the water level.
00:29:40.000The Swedish ambassador, by the way, says that They will reach herd immunity in May.
00:29:46.000Karen Ulrika Olofstadter told NPR, about 30% of people in Stockholm have reached a level of immunity.
00:29:52.000We could reach herd immunity in the capital as early as next month.
00:29:56.000So a lot of people seem like they are rooting for Sweden to fail.
00:29:59.000It seems like we should really be rooting for Sweden to succeed because if Sweden succeeds, that is going to mean a life that is much closer to normal than anything that we are talking about right now.
00:30:07.000Also, when we are deciding public policy, it is very important to determine exactly which people are dying specifically because that means we tranche populations and have to say, I mean, I've been saying this for literally a month now.
00:30:18.000You have to tranche populations and determine who is most vulnerable.
00:30:20.000And then how do we protect the people who are most vulnerable?
00:30:24.000Treating every individual person as though they are equally vulnerable is idiotic.
00:30:28.000People who are older are significantly more vulnerable to this.
00:30:31.000And also, if you lose a job and lose your business at 30, and you're balancing that against an increased risk of somebody who's 80, that is a balance that has to be taken into account.
00:30:41.000Because the person who's 30 is going to live another 50 years.
00:30:43.000The person who is 80, not to be too blunt about it, is going to live another 1.
00:30:47.000I mean, so that does make a bit of a difference when you're talking about the number of days lived.
00:30:51.000All these calculations sound cold-hearted and cruel.
00:31:05.000For every Democrat who says that all it's about is saving lives, somebody needs to ask them a simple question, which is, okay, so why don't we just shut down forever?
00:31:13.000Presumably, you want to reopen at some point, and there will be additional risks to the American public.
00:31:17.000Doing statistical analysis of those risks is called being a responsible policymaker, especially in light of the fact that there are countervailing concerns about having lockdowns of this sort.
00:31:27.000One of those countervailing concerns, the New York Times reports on, vaccine rates are actually dropping dangerously for small children.
00:31:33.000Because parents aren't going in to the pediatrician.
00:31:36.000So that means that you're going to see other childhood diseases spike this year because parents did not go and get the measles, mumps, rubella shot for their kids.
00:31:42.000According to the New York Times, as parents around the country cancel well-child checkups to avoid coronavirus exposure, public health experts fear they are inadvertently sowing the seeds of another health crisis.
00:31:51.000Immunizations are dropping at a dangerous rate, putting millions of children at risk for measles, whooping cough, and other life-threatening illnesses.
00:31:59.000We've also seen people who are undertreated for cancer, people who are undertreated for heart disease, and as we'll see, the economic impacts of this thing are extraordinary.
00:32:07.000We'll get to that in just one second, then we'll get to the deep unseriousness of our media and politicians, because everything we've discussed up to this point is pretty serious policymaking.
00:32:46.000We're going to get to more of this in just one second.
00:32:48.000First, let's talk about a simple fact.
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00:34:21.000Okay, we're gonna get to more on all of this in a second, including the economic meltdown that is about to occur and the apparent desire for a new New Deal, even though the old New Deal probably lengthened the Great Depression by almost a decade.
00:34:33.000There are people who are like, yeah, more government is a great idea.
00:34:35.000Let's inflate the currency so everybody's savings are worth nothing.
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00:36:08.000So, I mean, that's a pretty solid deal.
00:37:05.000Prop up people who aren't going to be able to afford their mortgages, which actually damages people who can pay their mortgages and also prevents a quick recovery.
00:37:13.000Prevents labor from moving from industries that are dying into industries that are growing.
00:37:17.000Government intervening in the markets creates friction, and that friction doesn't allow the fluidity that is necessary in order to grow the areas of the economy where people are actually going to have long-lasting jobs.
00:37:26.000If you own a restaurant, and let's say that that restaurant actually is destined to go under because people have changed their eating habits, right?
00:37:31.000You own a small bodega, and the small bodega only had 10 seats in it in the first place, and now you're talking about social distancing, which means you have one seat in the small bodega.
00:37:40.000The government propping up your bodega, while it's good for you, is very bad for the economy long run because all the government is doing at that point is pouring money into a pit that is never going to be filled.
00:37:51.000What the government needs to be doing at this point is merely propping up the businesses that are likely to survive and paying the unemployment for people who lost their jobs until businesses can grow again and people can move from one into the other, right?
00:38:11.000I will say there was a feel over the weekend as people went out to parks and were socially distancing that people are ready to get out of their houses.
00:38:17.000People do not want to be stuck in their houses any longer.
00:38:19.000They're willing to undergo the travails of going outside with the mask and socially distancing if it means they get to participate in life again.
00:38:26.000So I think there will be A recovery in July and August.
00:38:29.000I just don't know that recovery with this many lost jobs is going to be sufficient in order to grow the economy anywhere near what we had before.
00:38:38.000I think as we begin to reopen the economy in May and June, you're going to see the economy really bounce back in July, August, September.
00:38:46.000And we are putting in an unprecedented amount of fiscal relief into the economy.
00:38:51.000You're seeing trillions of dollars that's making its way into the economy.
00:38:55.000And I think this is going to have a significant impact.
00:38:58.000Okay, this, you know, it may have an impact in terms of just tidying people over, but the reality is that according to the CBO, the unemployment rate will be above 10% next year.
00:39:50.000This is not going to help the economy recover because, again, people need to know what they are going to spend on before we can determine where all the jobs are going to go.
00:39:58.000Now, this is driving people on the left to suggest that the time for big government is back.
00:40:04.000Ayanna Pressley is a good example of this.
00:40:06.000The Ringo Starr of the squad, Lina Presley representative from Massachusetts, basically she called yesterday for free everything.
00:40:12.000She wants to completely restructure the American economy.
00:40:14.000This is what scares the hell out of me.
00:40:15.000One of the reasons that we need people to go back to work, one of the reasons that if you are healthy and can go back to work, then we need to trench back into the economy is because there are too many people on the left who are rooting for the government to fill the gap here, rooting for the government to completely remake all of American society off the back of a pandemic since they had a really rooting for the government to completely remake all of American society off the back of a pandemic since they had a really tough time arguing two months ago that the economy
00:40:38.000Now that the economy has been basically neutron bombed by the government, they're saying the government needs to come in and rebuild, like Marshall Plan for America.
00:40:49.000Here is Ayanna Pressley basically suggesting the complete regulation and government overthrow of private areas of American life.
00:40:54.000The things that I'll be fighting for, student debt cancellation.
00:41:01.000And might I add, not just residential, but commercial as well.
00:41:06.000More money for our community health centers because they serve our most vulnerable, for our undocumented and our immigrant family friends and neighbors.
00:42:12.000By the way, that's the next step here.
00:42:13.000We are pouring six to seven trillion dollars of money into the economy.
00:42:17.000We're gonna have to inflate the currency at some point to pay back all the money that we have borrowed.
00:42:22.000Over the next year, you are going to start to see some actual inflation.
00:42:24.000There was talk about there wouldn't be inflation in 2007, 2008.
00:42:28.000Yes, because it was a financial crisis, meaning money came out of the actual economy.
00:42:33.000There was lack of actual ability of banks to fund loans.
00:42:36.000At this point, there's a lack of demand.
00:42:37.000Pumping money into the economy just means extra money in the economy, which means that your savings are worth less.
00:42:42.000Prices are going to start rising with inflation.
00:42:44.000That will happen over the next couple of years.
00:42:46.000Your savings are going to be degraded.
00:42:48.000According to Gerald Seif, and John McCormick writing for The Wall Street Journal.
00:42:53.000The Great Depression produced both a bigger social safety net and a host of new government programs.
00:42:57.000World War II led to the creation of a unified defense department.
00:43:00.000The Cold War spawned an interstate highway system.
00:43:02.000In just the past two decades, the 9-11 terrorist attacks produced new consolidated agencies to handle homeland security and national intelligence.
00:43:08.000The 2008 financial meltdown led to a broad range of new actions by the Federal Reserve that are being replicated and expanded now.
00:43:14.000Today, both parties and a vast majority of voters have come together behind a broad and aggressive response at both the federal and state level and have accepted a sea of new red ink at a time the federal budget deficit was already heading toward a trillion dollars annually.
00:43:26.000Yes, there is a difference between a vast emergency caused by government forced shutdowns and systemic changes to the American economy that outlast those shutdowns.
00:43:34.000And the fact that crisis always breeds growth in government and that the retrenchment of government afterward, that it goes down from 10 to 7.
00:43:43.000It doesn't mean it goes down from 10 to 0.
00:43:47.000In a recent Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, voters of both political parties said by a 2 to 1 margin they approved of the expansion of government's role in the economy to meet the crisis.
00:43:54.000That, of course, has to happen to meet the crisis.
00:43:56.000But the point is, what happens after this is no longer a crisis is just a bad situation.
00:44:01.000And this grand notion that government can save everybody from this stuff has been loudly disproved by the actual past.
00:44:09.000The Republicans, thank God, are already starting to push back against this.
00:44:14.000But the fact is, there is a ratchet effect that every time there is a crisis, you start to see government spending rise, and then, once it goes back down to quote-unquote normal, it never goes back down to where it was before.
00:44:24.000People who are already calling for bigger government, people like Orrin Cass.
00:44:27.000He's already calling for bigger government, and he says, okay, well, we need more bigger government anyway.
00:44:32.000You're starting to see people who are already calling for the government to outpace everything else, calling for more of that.
00:44:42.000The Great Depression was prolonged by seven years by the New Deal.
00:44:45.000The New Deal was a ridiculous government set of policies that were unconstitutional in the extreme, that not only seized private property, but also wasted a bucket load of taxpayer dollars, drove GDP spending levels up to catastrophic proportions, and kept unemployment rates 10 to 20% in real terms all the way up to the beginning of World War II.
00:46:23.000It means preventing people from actually being able to do business.
00:46:26.000That's the direction Democrats want to move.
00:46:28.000I've said before, there are several reasons why I'm grateful that Trump is president.
00:46:31.000During this pandemic, It's one of the times I've actually been most grateful that Trump is president, not for some of the silly things he says, but for the fact that he is not attempting to use a crisis to completely rewrite the bargain of the American people and the government about the economy.
00:46:44.000You can see Democrats are desperate to do this stuff.
00:46:47.000Democrats would like to see the government expand.
00:46:50.000Kirsten Gillibrand has an entire piece at the New York Times today talking about how we need to subsidize the U.S.
00:46:55.000And then she's calling for vote-by-mail, universal vote-by-mail, despite the fact that voter fraud is the easiest thing in the world with universal vote-by-mail, and vote gathering is one of the more corrupt issues in America right now when it comes to voting.
00:47:08.000The idea that you, as a Democrat, you target all the Democratic homes, you stop by their houses and you pick up their ballots for them, and then you drop those off.
00:47:14.000Ballot harvesting, which is what we have here in California, super-duper corrupt.
00:47:18.000Because that's not equal access to the ballot box.
00:47:21.000That's equal access to the person who's going to pick up your ballot, which is not equal because it turns out that now you basically have funded party apparatuses picking up votes from people.
00:47:31.000So whoever, that's really where campaign finance starts to make a difference.
00:47:34.000If you've got an apparatus that is funded with hundreds of millions of dollars for the Democratic Party and hundreds of millions of dollars for the Republican Party and one dude for the Libertarian Party, who do you think is picking up the votes?
00:47:44.000All of this is stupidity, but This is gonna be the great battle.
00:47:47.000The great battle is gonna be between people who thought America was a pretty damned amazing place before this, and think that America is still a damned amazing place.
00:47:54.000And once we come out of this, and as we start to recover in a different world, that the fundamental principles underlying America still are eternal and good and true, and free economies still work, and laissez-faire is still going to be the best solution, fluidity in business, creative destruction is still a thing, and people who believe that this is an opportunity to completely recast and remold America.
00:48:13.000The people who always believed America was a bad place that required grand governmental intervention in order to shore up institutions that they particularly like.
00:48:38.000The question is going to be under what circumstances and, more importantly, for the country, what the future of America is going to look like.
00:48:44.000Is it going to look like massive, continuing government intervention in the economy from both parties because you can always buy voters?
00:48:50.000Or is it going to look like a principled return to basic principles that made us the most prosperous country in world history?
00:48:57.000And using a crisis as an opportunity to break that bargain is a mistake.
00:49:00.000Okay, time for some stuff I like, and then a good deal of stuff that I hate.
00:49:23.000The new movie, The Call of the Wild, with Harrison Ford, which, I will admit, my kids are six and three, and so I will not say that they understood the end particularly well.
00:49:32.000I sort of glossed over what exactly happens at the end of this movie, but the movie is moving and charming, and the kids love dogs, so it is perfect for them.
00:51:14.000With the help of God, she's likely to lead an incredible life.
00:51:16.000She's likely to live in, still, the wealthiest society in human history.
00:51:20.000She's likely to live a healthy, happy, peaceful life because the modern world is a phenomenal place filled with amazing technologies and tremendous abilities and prosperity.
00:51:29.000She's likely to live in a time of increasing environmental quality, not decreasing environmental quality.
00:51:34.000Because the fact is that people care about the environment.
00:51:36.000People are going to adjust to the needs of the environment.
00:51:39.000My daughter is likely to live a happy, fulfilled life.
00:51:42.000But how would you like to burden your brand newborn with your life is just going to be a bleephole of pain and rage?
00:52:23.000I'm sorry we broke your sea and your sky and shortened the wings of the nightingale.
00:52:27.000I'm sorry that the Great Barrier Reef is no longer great, that we value Amazon, trademark, more than THE Amazon, and that the waterfront neighborhood where you burble in my arms could be condemned by rising seas before you're old enough for a mortgage.
00:53:04.000Instead, the milk in your bottle was warmed by dirty ancient fuels, and as a result, you will learn to walk on a planet that has never been this hot for humans.
00:53:14.000Okay, so I guess we're not doing the breastfeeding then.
00:53:16.000We are just now wrestling with the implications of this, but as your pop, the most poignant evidence was seeing your mother give you your first kiss through a P100 mask that smelled faintly of smoke.
00:53:25.000I'm sorry, my boy, but we were warned.
00:53:28.000See, for decades, scientists told us if we weren't careful, humans would unleash an invisible enemy out of the jungle and into our lungs.
00:53:33.000But that was a story few wanted to believe.
00:53:35.000So we kept cutting down jungles and prairies and mangroves and the last few places where the wild things are to pave and plow, develop and devour everything inside.
00:53:42.000OK, so now I'm just going to point something out.
00:54:42.000Which has been around for 3,000 years and we didn't have air pollution for most of that.
00:54:45.000As you get older, this will be hard to understand, but we were under the spell of Genesis 128 to take dominion over every living thing.
00:54:51.000We had the strange urge to carve straight lines out of nature's curves, and we're under the spell of uniquely human force called profit motive.
00:55:40.000Also, that faceless, soulless internet profiteer.
00:55:44.000You couldn't get the N95 anywhere else, could you?
00:55:47.000Profit motive's very bad, except how it produces the N95 that you wanted to buy.
00:55:50.000It might have saved your mom from the virus, so I keep it next to my hurricane waiters, malaria pills, and the bulletproof vest with the patch that reads, press.
00:55:59.000If I have to pack them and kiss you goodbye more often than you'd like, I'm sorry, but we were warned.
00:56:04.000For generations, scientists told us if we weren't careful, a different kind of invisible enemy would come out of our farms, factories, homes, and cars, get into the sky, and the sea, and end life as we know it, but that was a story too few wanted to believe, including me.
00:56:47.000He says, he says, every Christmas and summer vacation, I'd go visit your grandpa Bill in the mountains of Colorado as we hiked, paddled, and explored.
00:56:55.000I'd hear very different stories with heroes like John Muir, Edward Abbey, Rachel Carson.
00:56:59.000Rachel Carson, by the way, is responsible in large part for the rise in malarial deaths in Africa because she got rid of DDT, which was one of the keys to keeping the mosquito population down.
00:57:10.000He says, even as plenty of men... He talks about the evils of Hiroshima.
00:57:16.000I mean, this whole thing is just insane.
00:57:27.000This kid is gonna be, like, on the internet digging into the evils of Reddit and 4chan within five minutes of being born.
00:57:34.000Kid's already on the internet right now.
00:57:36.000In the year before you were born, says Bill Weir, I took a road trip across America.
00:57:39.000With science as my map, I set out from the Florida Keys to Alaska, from the heartland to burnt paradise, all to imagine how unnatural disasters will change our future.
00:57:47.000I met farmers, firefighters, fishermen, politicians, protesters, paleoclimatologists.
00:57:51.000I came home completely rattled, because the American way of life I grew up with is already gone.
00:57:56.000The Goldilocks climate that allowed humanity to thrive is in the past, and nobody seems to know it yet.
00:58:01.000If we do nothing, it will mean the end of predictable growing seasons, flight schedules, supply chains, resource wars, tens of millions of climate refugees, changing everything we know about borders, neighbors, and strangers.
00:58:12.000If we give up on our most primal job that we have as humans, haven't we already lost?
00:58:20.000Go right ahead, and then at the very end he's like, your grandpa would chalk you up to a glorious twist of biological fate because we thought we were too old to become new parents.
00:58:28.000We were the last thing we imagined on a vacation to Croatia, where your great-grandpa Frank was born, until we found, and we found a Dubrovnik lighthouse on Airbnb.
00:58:35.000Until you know what it's like to fall in love, the story will make you blush and scorn, but I can think of no better omen for the kind of boy we hope to raise than the fact that We made sweet, sweet love at the top of a house in Croatia.
00:58:49.000The lighthouse keeper is vigilant, independable, with a reverence for nature's power, commitment to saving lives.
00:58:54.000This is your destiny, my beautiful river.
00:58:56.000The great thing about stories is they are always under revision.
01:00:16.000Are people going to start going and injecting Clorox?
01:00:18.000If you do, frankly, Darwin can have you.
01:00:20.000Because if you are injecting Clorox because the president was like, maybe it could bring disinfectant inside the human body, then you're, then you're, you're stupid.
01:00:40.000But, because we have a fundamentally unserious media and a fundamentally unserious Democratic Party, they take everything Trump says at face value, and instead of just dismissing this stuff as dumb, which it is, instead of just dismissing it, we get a full news cycle about how people are going to inject themselves with Drano or some such nonsense.
01:00:55.000So, Nancy Pelosi, over the weekend, decided to make the most of this situation, and she started talking about injecting yourself with Clorox.
01:01:02.000Like, why this is still a conversation is beyond me.
01:02:28.000According to Reason.com, on Thursday, the president suggested that perhaps an injection of disinfectant could help cure people of COVID-19.
01:02:35.000Critics of Donald Trump went to town, rightfully so.
01:02:37.000Supporters scrambled to settle on a defense.
01:02:39.000Both he didn't really say that and he did it, but it was sarcasm had been in play.
01:02:49.000But by Saturday morning, social media was abuzz with articles about people calling poison control centers, each crafted to illustrate how Americans had apparently taken Trump's ramblings to heart and consumed household disinfectants like Lysol and bleach.
01:03:00.000The problem was, the articles didn't actually say that.
01:03:03.000There's one article making the rounds from the New York Daily News, and it was headlined, a spike in New Yorkers ingesting household cleaners following Trump's controversial coronavirus comments.
01:03:33.000But as Reason points out, they tried to circumvent this inconvenient fact at the New York Daily News by noting that over the same time period in 2019, the Poison Control Center only handled 13 similar cases.
01:03:43.000This time, nine calls were about Lysol and 10 about bleach.
01:03:46.000Last year's calls contained no cases reported about Lysol.
01:03:51.000Okay, but maybe the reason why people are worried about this is because lots of people are exposed to household disinfectants they were not exposed to this time last year because they weren't in lockdown, cleaning every available surface.
01:04:03.000As Reason points out, this is just nonsense.
01:04:21.000It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle because I think we're missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing as an American people to continue to protect one another and we should be having that dialogue about asymptomatics, we should be having that dialogue about this unique clotting that we're seeing and You know, we're the first country that really had young people to this degree.
01:04:43.000Italy and Europe is about eight years older than us as a median age.
01:04:46.000So this is the first experience of this virus in an open society where we really can understand what's happening to every different age group.
01:04:56.000These are the things that we should be talking about and focusing on.
01:05:00.000Well, yes, but apparently this is very bad.
01:05:02.000Emily Nussbaum, who's an idiot columnist for the New Yorker, she tweeted out, Dr. Birx is going to leave a horrible legacy.
01:05:09.000It's one thing to be a cynical paid fixer.
01:05:11.000It's worse in my eyes to be the expert who props up the mad king.
01:05:15.000I understand the theoretical strategy she may think she's pursuing, but it's a moral horror.
01:05:20.000So her pointing out that you spending all of your time fulminating over Trump saying a dumb thing is a waste of time.
01:05:27.000It's a moral horror for her to say that.
01:05:29.000Yeah, probably would be better if she quit and left Trump completely free of good scientific advisors and left the American people to basically fend for themselves so you could feel good about yourself, Emily Nussbaum.
01:05:39.000The media, by the way, again, having a field day because this is all they care about.
01:05:41.000Jim Acosta, and ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.
01:05:45.000He says, there's not enough disinfectant to wipe away the White House's lies, which, does he pre-write these things and then think they sound good?
01:05:51.000Does he, like, say them dramatically in the mirror to Jim Acosta?
01:05:53.000And he's like, Jim Acosta, that's a great line.
01:05:58.000I think we found out today that the president's words have meaning, but they're also at times hazardous to your health.
01:06:05.000And I think that was part of what we learned today.
01:06:08.000And going to your point, Anderson, there just isn't enough disinfectant at the White House to wash away what the president did and the lies that were told to try to cover it up.
01:06:18.000I will tell you, Anderson, one of the reasons why he cut short that briefing earlier this evening, my sources tell me, is because the president was upset about the flak he was taking over his comments.
01:06:57.000The president tweeted out, what is the purpose of having White House news conferences when the lamestream media asks nothing but hostile questions and then refuses to report the facts or truth accurately?
01:07:45.000His first tweets, he tweeted out and then deleted them hours later.
01:07:50.000He said, he said, when will all of the reporters who have received noble prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong.
01:07:58.000And in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes, be turning back their cherished nobles so that they can be given to the real reporters and journalists who got it right.
01:08:06.000He said he could give the Noble Committee a very comprehensive list of those he deemed real reporters.
01:08:10.000And then he said lawsuits should be brought against all, including fake news organizations, to rectify this terrible injustice.
01:08:24.000Two, Noble is spelled N-O-B-E-L, not N-O-B-L-E.
01:08:28.000And this all prompted the president eventually to delete all of these tweets and then put up another tweet in which he explained he was just engaged in a bit of oscar wilde witty wordplay because that's what the president is known for the the witty wordplay he tweeted out does anybody get the meaning of what a so-called noble not nobel prize is especially as it pertains to reporters and journalists noble is defined as quote having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals does sarcasm ever work
01:08:56.000we were all living in a world of donald trump's irony and illusions and alliteration and onomatopoeia i'm i'm I'm glad that we've had this literary lesson from the president.
01:09:08.000He also ripped into Fox News, by the way, as well as the Wall Street Journal.
01:09:12.000None of this is what we need at this point.
01:09:14.000So I'm glad that the president has canceled the press conferences.
01:09:31.000Just spending all day on Twitter fulminating about Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
01:09:34.000Who do you think is out there defending you?
01:09:37.000You ain't gonna find, like OANN ain't gonna cut it.
01:09:39.000Okay, I like a lot of the people at OANN.
01:09:41.000Let me just tell you, OANN ain't gonna be able to lift the singular burden of being able to defend defensible and good policies from the Trump administration.
01:09:50.000Alienating Fox News and the Wall Street Journal is just brilliant political tactics.
01:10:32.000CNN reported it for the first time over the weekend.
01:10:34.000That's only because the Center for Media Research, the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell's organization, uncovered a tape of Tara Reade's mother in 1993 calling into Larry King and talking about this thing.
01:10:47.000I'm wondering what A staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington.
01:10:55.000My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all.
01:11:01.000And the only thing she could have done was go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.
01:11:07.000Okay, so that was Tara Reade's mom, right?
01:11:13.000So we now have more contemporaneous evidence of action by Joe Biden than we have contemporaneous evidence of anything with regard to Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.
01:11:40.000We have fundamentally unserious politicians on all sides.
01:11:43.000We have fundamentally unserious people in the media.
01:11:45.000And that lack of seriousness in a time when we all need to be kind of serious.
01:11:48.000This is why, again, I trust the American people far more than the media, far more than the politicians.
01:11:52.000The American people can take care of themselves better than the media and better than the politicians because the American people are more serious about their own lives than they are about the politicians.
01:11:58.000So before you hand more power to the media and politicians, recognize that the people leading our country are morons, and that's all of them.
01:12:07.000The only ones who are smart are the ones who recognize that they don't know as much as you do about how to lead your own life.
01:12:14.000And aside from taking basic protective measures to protect the vulnerable, and aside from making sure that the resources that should have been available originally are now available to hospitals, because this is all government exists to do, do, they need to get out of your way and they need to let you get back to business and then they need to let you lead your life because you're going to be more responsible than the politicians who spend all of their time doing the wrong things and focused on idiocies for political gain and the members of the media who are busily focused in on self-aggrandizement at the cost of actual they need to get out of your way and they need to let you get back to business and then they need to let you lead
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