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00:01:34.000Alrighty, so we have a serious case of institutional mistrust that has broken out in this country with regard to the CDC, with regard to the NIH, and that mistrust is well-founded.
00:02:19.000The reason this is happening is because the same people who are telling you to get a vaccine are simultaneously telling you the vaccines don't work.
00:02:25.000The same people who are telling you that you need to mask up after having a vaccine are simultaneously telling you that you're an idiot for not getting the vaccine in the first place.
00:02:50.000I'm more than happy to take whatever precautions you recommend so long as the precautions are steeped in data and backed by data.
00:02:57.000I'm not going to listen to Dr. Rochelle Walensky because she's the head of the CDC.
00:03:00.000I'm going to listen to her if she makes a convincing argument.
00:03:02.000But she is saying things right now that are just not factually true.
00:03:05.000And the same thing is true of the vaunted and sainted Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:03:10.000And yet the media's take, of course, is that it is solely mistrust bred by the right that is causing the vaccine hesitancy in the United States.
00:03:17.000Here's Chuck Todd of MSNBC making that case yesterday, for example.
00:03:24.000The campaign of mistrust that was waged against those of us in mainstream journalism by what's happened in the right wing for the last decade.
00:03:34.000Unfortunately, our reckoning is in an ICU way too close to many of our lives.
00:03:41.000Okay, so first of all, let's just talk once again about the death from COVID stats, okay?
00:03:45.000Because I think it's important for you to know where we currently stand.
00:03:48.000Right now, the seven-day rolling average of death in the United States remains at 316, according to the New York Times.
00:03:53.000Okay, that is up from about a month ago, but it is not up from two months ago, when it was about that.
00:04:00.000Okay, so we've essentially been pretty flat.
00:04:02.000In terms of the number of diagnosed cases in the United States, the diagnosed cases in the United States are up pretty wildly.
00:04:07.000The seven-day rolling average is about 51,000 cases.
00:04:10.000But are we in crisis mode if we're having 300 deaths today from COVID?
00:04:14.000First of all, there are plenty of good epidemiologists, including Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who's been former head of the FDA.
00:04:20.000He's been out there saying that he thinks a couple more weeks and the Delta variant is basically blown through the system and we're kind of done.
00:04:26.000Hey, but panic has set in in the Biden administration and they're seizing control of the means of production, essentially.
00:04:33.000So and they're doing so by purveying bad data.
00:04:35.000So they've now said that you need to mask up your kids, that if you're vaccinated, you still need to mask up, which is which is wild and anti data.
00:04:41.000And they're doing this on the basis of bad or no data.
00:04:45.000Okay, the data I'm about to present to you are from the CDC.
00:04:48.000The data that I'm about to present to you are from actual studies in places like the New England Journal of Medicine.
00:04:53.000The things that Dr. Walensky is saying right now, and Dr. Fauci is saying right now, are not evidenced.
00:04:59.000So for example, Rochelle Walensky, she says, you know what?
00:05:02.000Maybe we, you know, the real reason that we need to mask up the vaccinated, the real reason that we're recommending that vaccinated people mask up, is because vaccinated people could get breakthrough.
00:05:14.000The rate you're about to hear Rochelle Walensky trot out for vaccinated people getting breakthrough cases is off by a magnitude of about, let's see, 500, I believe, is the number.
00:05:26.000Here she is, just giving a stat that is completely wrong.
00:05:30.000If you're a vaccinated person, and you're in one of those areas, as you said, a sea of red, a sea of COVID, you have a reasonable high chance, if nobody's wearing a mask, to interact with people who may be infectious.
00:05:45.000And so for every 20 people, one or two of them could get a breakthrough infection.
00:05:50.000For every 20 vaccinated people, one or two of them could get a breakthrough infection.
00:05:55.000They may only get mild disease, but We wanted them to know that they could bring that mild disease home.
00:06:25.000Quote, with more than 156 million Americans fully vaccinated nationwide, approximately 153,000 symptomatic breakthrough cases are estimated to have occurred as of last week.
00:06:35.000That represents 0.098% of those fully vaccinated.
00:06:40.000Okay, so there's a rather large difference between 10 in 100, 1 in 10 vaccinated people getting COVID symptomatically, and 1 in 10,000.
00:06:52.000Okay, that is what the stat is right now.
00:06:55.000Right now, one in a hundred, not one in a thousand, one in 10,000 people in the United States who have been fully vaccinated have gotten some sort of breakthrough infection, symptomatic breakthrough infection.
00:07:05.000By the way, how many of those people have actually been hospitalized?
00:07:09.000About 6,000 people out of 160 million vaccinated.
00:07:13.000So one in every 25,000 people or so is gonna get a symptomatic breakthrough infection so bad they have to be hospitalized and much lower than that in cases of death.
00:07:21.000But she's using this in order to argue that you need to mask up.
00:07:41.000They think that you're a fool and you can't do risk assessment.
00:07:43.000And so, for some reason, they think that it is a good idea to tell you lies about the efficacy of the vaccine in order to get you to take the vaccine, which doesn't even make sense as a tactic.
00:07:52.000If you want people to get vaccinated, what you tell them is the truth.
00:07:55.000The vaccines are unbelievably effective.
00:08:00.000And if you get it, you're largely protected and you can go back to life.
00:08:02.000That's how you get people to get vaccinated.
00:08:04.000You know how you don't get people to get vaccinated?
00:08:07.000You know, if you get vaccinated, you're going to have to wear a mask the rest of your life.
00:08:09.000And by the way, your danger factor is still pretty high.
00:08:12.000Like, what in the world are they doing?
00:08:14.000Maybe they just feel like if they control your life at every turn because you can't control your own life or do your own risk assessment, they're better off.
00:08:21.000But it's dictatorial, totalitarian crap based not in any sense.
00:08:25.000I mean, that's just that is anti-evidence, anti-evidence.
00:08:28.000On that basis, where Shovelensky says, let's mask the children.
00:08:31.000Again, children, the evidence that children ought to be masked is really, really skimpy.
00:08:37.000Hey, children are bad at wearing masks.
00:08:40.000Children should not be wearing masks in 95 degree weather outside.
00:08:43.000You know, he used to know this Dr. Fauci like as of last year.
00:08:46.000Under 350 kids under the age of 18 have died from COVID this entire time in a subpopulation of 75 million people.
00:08:54.000And here she is saying you need to mask your kids, presumably to protect the adult who won't get the vaccine while dealing with infectious people.
00:09:07.000I'm not going to mask up any of those kids in order to protect you if you don't want to get the vaccine.
00:09:11.000And by the way, here's the amazing thing.
00:09:12.000I have not met a single unvaccinated person who is trying to request that I mask my child to protect them.
00:09:20.000It is only controlling totalitarians like Rochelle Walensky who say that I need to mask up my child so that a 45-year-old who doesn't want to get vaccinated can feel safe.
00:09:31.000Which, as we'll see, is really just the talk of the teachers unions.
00:09:34.000Here's Rochelle Walensky saying mask your children.
00:09:36.000What we're now seeing with this transmissible Delta variant is, you know, 12 to 17 year olds now, we still have about 30% of those vaccinated.
00:09:46.000So we haven't seen the vaccination rates in those people.
00:10:08.000In fact, Randy Weingarten, I mean, the CDC wrote its school standards at the behest of the American Federation of Teachers run by Randy Weingarten.
00:10:15.000Here's Randy Weingarten yesterday, who won't commit to reopening the schools.
00:10:19.000Remember, 40% of all school teachers in New York City, the epicenter of the epidemic, are still not vaccinated.
00:10:35.000I am more than happy to keep my kids in private school and we should be setting up school voucher programs where all the money that we were going to spend at the public school to follow the school should be spent on the kid.
00:10:46.000Just give the money back to the parents so the parents can send their kids to a parochial school.
00:10:50.000Here's Randy Weingarten refusing to say whether they're opening this.
00:10:54.000It's so political and so non-data driven.
00:10:59.000Kids not being able to get vaccines 12 and under has really thrown this curveball that says that while vaccination is the number one gold standard, that we need to bring back our masks for schools.
00:11:18.000So the bottom line is, We're going to keep kids safe.
00:11:32.000Your political battlefield is, how do I get my teachers paid without them ever having to go to work again?
00:11:37.000The teachers are directly opposed in these unions to the interests of the students.
00:11:41.000Meanwhile, I got Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors outside of Dr. Joe Biden, saying that you should wear a mask even though you're vaccinated.
00:11:47.000Remember, two weeks ago, he was saying that if you're vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask.
00:11:50.000And two weeks before that, he was saying you should wear a mask if you're vaccinated.
00:11:53.000As we will see, he denies that he has ever flip-flopped because he's a liar.
00:11:57.000The recommendations and the guidelines have been changed to say that if you are vaccinated, even though you are vaccinated, you are in an indoor public setting in an area of the country with a high degree of viral dynamics, namely the red and orange sections on the CDC chart, then you need to wear a mask even though you are vaccinated.
00:12:21.000Okay, and then he says we're not flip-flopping on this.
00:13:17.000When you go back 60 days of the two months ago, when you look at the level of virus in the nasopharynx of a person who's vaccinated and gets a breakthrough infection, it was considerably less than the level of virus in the nasopharynx of an unvaccinated person.
00:13:37.000Now that we have a Delta variant, that has changed the entire landscape.
00:13:42.000Because when you look at the level of virus in the nasopharynx of a vaccinated person who gets a breakthrough infection with Delta, it is exactly the same as the level of virus in an unvaccinated person who's infected.
00:13:58.000Okay, but the problem is, he does not make it clear whether the viral load being carried by the vaccinated person is as infectious Okay, it is not merely a question of viral load.
00:14:07.000It's whether this is infectious viral load.
00:14:10.000So, people dug into the actual CDC stats here, and here is what they found.
00:14:14.000They found that the CDC had cited an Indian study to support this idea that the viral load was really high in breakthrough infections from the Delta variant.
00:14:44.000According to STAT, which is a news source, quote, an administration official speaking on the condition of anonymity told STAT, health experts do not have studies proving that fully vaccinated people are transmitting the virus.
00:14:56.000Rather, the official said, the updated guidance is based on studies showing that vaccinated people who contract the Delta variant have similarly high levels of virus in their airways, which suggested they may be infectious to others.
00:15:06.000With other variants, vaccinated people had substantially lower levels of virus in their noses and throats compared to unvaccinated people.
00:15:12.000Okay, so they know that there's a higher viral load, but they don't know whether that's infectious viral load.
00:15:17.000All of which is prompting the Washington Post to ask, where is the data?
00:15:21.000The Washington Post is asking, where's the data?
00:16:30.000Here is what the Washington Post writes.
00:16:31.000Even the Washington Post is like, guys, this is coming from nowhere.
00:16:35.000New recommendations from federal health officials this week on when vaccinated Americans should don face masks came with a startling bolt of news.
00:16:42.000People who have had their shots and become infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus can harbor large amounts of virus just like unvaccinated people.
00:16:48.000That means they could become spreaders of the disease and should return to wearing masks indoors in certain situations, including when vulnerable people are present.
00:16:54.000Okay, so first of all, even if vaccinated people are infectious, That still does not mean that vaccinated people should be wearing the masks at this point.
00:17:03.000The reason I say this is because it is now your responsibility as an unvaccinated person to take into account the risks in life.
00:17:12.000When people have the flu, many people stay home.
00:17:49.000I mean, serious question, is that how we're going to operate in the United States?
00:17:51.000But put that aside, is there even evidence to support this notion that the vaccinated are main vectors of transmission, that they get breakthrough infections at a 1 in 10 rate, as Rochelle Walensky falsely says, and that even if they have those breakthrough infections, they're now transmitting the virus at the same rate as the unvaccinated?
00:18:26.000Greg Gonsalves, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health, who is not a conservative, says, they are making a claim that people with Delta who are vaccinated and unvaccinated have similar levels of viral load.
00:18:37.000It's meaningless unless we see the data.
00:18:40.000According to a federal official knowledgeable about the research but who is not authorized to be a spokesperson for the government, quote, the data will be published imminently.
00:18:47.000The data were alarming and recently presented, the official said, we saw the data and thought it was urgent enough to act in the context of a steeply rising preventable surge of COVID-19.
00:18:55.000Because tests showed similar levels of virus in the vaccinated and unvaccinated, the CDC inferred the Delta variant can be transmitted by people with breakthrough infections.
00:19:05.000Fauci said, I think the implications are that people who are vaccinated, even when they're asymptomatic, can still transmit the virus.
00:19:18.000Fauci noted there is not yet clinical data on what the high viral loads mean in terms of disease transmission.
00:19:29.000Let me read that again, slowly, for those of you who are Listening to Positive America.
00:19:34.000Fauci noted, there is not yet clinical data on what the high viral loads mean in terms of disease transmission.
00:19:42.000That means, even if you have a high viral load, we don't have any data on whether that high viral load is being detected and whether that high viral load is actually transmissible.
00:19:54.000You could still be carrying a high viral load, but it's not particularly transmissible because your body did a good job of killing off the virus.
00:20:01.000Fauci said you can make a reasonable assumption that vaccinated people can transmit the virus just like unvaccinated people can.
00:20:08.000He says, I have a reasonable assumption.
00:20:10.000That reasonable assumption is that, for example, if you've had COVID-19 and then you get over COVID-19, your body has developed a level of immunity.
00:20:17.000Fauci won't make that assumption, but he'll make the assumption that if a vaccinated person has a high viral load, it's exactly the same as an unvaccinated person having a high viral load.
00:20:28.000It's a reasonable quote-unquote assumption.
00:20:31.000Three senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the new research convinced health officials it was time to update the agency's guidance.
00:20:39.000OK, well, what happened here is that you were seeing an uptick in communities and you have health actors who don't trust the American people.
00:20:45.000And so they say everybody needs to mask up again.
00:20:49.000This was driven by the pure panic button controlling top down mentality of people in the public health establishment.
00:20:56.000When scientists compared viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals infected with an early variant of the virus, the alpha variant, there were considerable differences in the amount of virus each carried.
00:21:05.000The CDC did not answer questions Wednesday about whether it relied on outside sources of data or the number of patients examined in its outbreak investigations.
00:21:13.000Okay, this is one of the questions, because as I mentioned, the CDC seemed to rely on an Indian study that was retracted in their internal paperwork.
00:21:21.000The medical and scientific community has generally endorsed the change in CDC mask guidance, The questions about viral loads is among many unknowns surrounding SARS-CoV-2, including the frequency of breakthrough infections and whether they play a significant role in the recent rise in cases.
00:21:35.000Robert Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, Berkeley, he said, if we're seeing more breakthroughs, is it just because the virus is better and the vaccines don't hold up quite as well?
00:21:43.000Or is the efficacy of the vaccines beginning to wane independent of Delta?
00:21:47.000And then Walensky says, the big concern is that the next variant that might emerge just a few mutations away could eventually evade our vaccine.
00:22:02.000They don't have to tell you why they're doing what they're doing.
00:22:04.000They don't have to present evidence that even if there are higher viral loads, that those viral loads are as transmissible as for the unvaccinated.
00:22:15.000And then they will label you an idiot.
00:22:16.000Label you an idiot if they don't present you with an actual argument on the back of all of this jibber jabber about how everyone is going to die of the Delta variant.
00:22:24.000And again, let me remind you, these vaccines, it's amazing.
00:22:28.000I'm like the opposite of a quote-unquote vaccine denier.
00:22:30.000I think these vaccines are incredibly effective.
00:22:32.000In fact, according to researchsquare.com, they put together a really cool chart showing how much a risk is lowered from COVID-19 after taking the vaccine.
00:22:43.000Basically, number one, if you are below the age of 30, you are less likely to die of COVID unvaccinated than every other age group in the United States vaccinated.
00:23:15.000Okay, but how effective are these vaccines?
00:23:18.000If you are at the age of 30, then your risk from death of COVID-19 goes from 0.001%, which is one in about Let's see, 1 in 100, 1 in 1,000, 1 in 10,000, 1 in 100,000.
00:23:29.000About 1 in 100,000, if you are at the age of 30, below the age of 35, it goes from that to 0.0001%.
00:23:31.000If you're 35, it goes from 0.005% all the way down to close to zero.
00:23:33.000If you are at the age of 30, like below the age of 35, it goes from that to 0.0001%.
00:23:42.000If you're 35, it goes from like 0.005% all the way down to close to zero.
00:23:48.000And now if you go at the higher you go, the more the risk is higher at the baseline and then the more the risk is reduced on a percentage basis.
00:23:56.000If you're 55, you had a nearly 0.1% chance of death from COVID-19 before vaccination.
00:24:01.000And now you're down to like a 0.005% chance of death from the vaccine, post vaccine.
00:24:08.000So that means that your risk factors have dropped by a factor of about 20.
00:24:12.000The vaccines are incredibly, incredibly effective.
00:24:15.000But we are now supposed to, we're now told that vaccines are less effective, which is a terrible pitch for people to get the vaccine.
00:24:23.000Hey, so this has led to a sort of box canyon for a lot of the members of the left.
00:24:28.000On the one hand, they keep downplaying the efficacy of the vaccine.
00:24:31.000On the other hand, they want to force you to get the vaccine.
00:24:34.000Hey, you wouldn't have to force people to get the vaccine if you just made clear how effective the vaccine is.
00:26:00.000I believe every Democrat in the House has had the vaccine at this point.
00:26:04.000So I'm not sure exactly what she's worried about.
00:26:06.000But this is about control at this point.
00:26:09.000When people don't give you the rationale for why they are doing what they are doing, when they won't give you the rationale for why you must follow their rules, that means that they are authoritarian.
00:26:39.000But here's Nancy Pelosi saying that she's going to mandate masks on the House floor again.
00:26:44.000Consistent with the newly updated guidance from the Office of the Attending Physician related to the increased threat from the Delta variant of the virus, the Chair wishes to inform all members and staff that masks will once again be required in the Hall of the House.
00:27:01.000Members are reminded that under House Resolution 38, the Sergeant-at-Arms is authorized and directed to impose a fine against any member acting in violation of this policy.
00:27:22.000So Nancy Pelosi called him a moron because this is, so much of this right now is about not convincing people.
00:27:29.000So much of this is not about getting people vaccinated.
00:27:32.000It is not about restoring people's freedoms.
00:27:34.000It is not about giving people freedom of choice and respecting them as individual human beings.
00:27:37.000It is about control and othering and treating everybody who thinks differently than you as a bad person.
00:27:42.000The masks have become a sign that you are a grade-A student.
00:27:46.000You're the kid who gets the gold star in class, as my friend Jon Podhoretz said on the Commentary Magazine podcast.
00:27:52.000For people who are wearing the mask at this point, vaccinated particularly, this is just another sign that you adhere to the regime that knows best for you.
00:28:01.000You listen to the quote-unquote experts.
00:28:03.000Here's the thing, if the experts don't present you data, they're not much kind of expert.
00:28:07.000And if they've shifted their position a thousand times based on the same data, they're not super expert, are they?
00:28:13.000But here's Nancy Pelosi saying that anyone who won't mask up, including the vaccinated, is some sort of moron.
00:28:19.000Mask mandate, Speaker Pelosi, any response to the backlash?
00:28:41.000McCarthy responded by saying, weird, because you weren't wearing a mask like in the middle of the pandemic when you're getting your hair cut.
00:28:57.000The mask is just a tool that you are supposed to use in certain circumstances in order to prevent transmission when there's no vaccine available.
00:29:05.000You want to encourage people to get the vaccination?
00:29:07.000Tell people that they are on their own and they get to make free decisions and then they can do risk assessments.
00:29:12.000You know how many people have come up to me who are unvaccinated in the past couple of weeks thanks to the uptick in Delta and said they are now thinking about getting vaccinated?
00:29:55.000It is one of the biggest bestsellers in the country.
00:29:57.000I couldn't have written this book at a more important time in our country's history.
00:30:00.000As the left increases their iron grip on our institutions, entertainment, education, even the way we interact with one another, our country is becoming more and more divided, more susceptible to authoritarian control.
00:30:10.000Our chief example today, of course, the CDC continuing to put mandates on masks without even presenting you the evidence.
00:30:16.000creating an us versus them mentality based on an ever-changing narrative that's spreading like a disease throughout the citizen body politic.
00:30:23.000It's just another stepping stone toward authoritarianism.
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00:32:10.000Okay, so final note on the supposed Delta spike that's going to kill us all so much so that the vaccinated have to remask.
00:32:22.000So Britain is a few weeks ahead of us on this.
00:32:24.000Britain had this major COVID spike, right?
00:32:26.000So if you look at the case rate in Great Britain with regard to COVID, about two weeks ago, they were up at, even a week ago, they were up at like 50,000 cases a day, which was up near the height of where they had been during the worst of the pandemic for them last January.
00:32:39.000They were up like 60,000 cases a day, their seven-day rolling average about that time.
00:32:43.000Again, just as of last week, there are up to about 50,000 cases a day.
00:32:46.000There's only one problem with the narrative that this continues forever and that we're going to have to mask up in all of this.
00:32:50.000And that is the Delta variant stopped in Britain.
00:32:54.000According to the Washington Post, quote, this is a puzzler.
00:32:57.000Coronavirus cases are plummeting in Britain.
00:33:05.000And that is why you have to listen to them.
00:33:07.000The daily number of new infections recorded in the country fell for seven days in a row before a slight uptick on Wednesday when the country reported 27,734 cases.
00:33:15.000That's still almost half of where the caseload was a week ago.
00:33:18.000The trajectory of the virus in Britain is something the world is watching closely and anxiously as a test of how the Delta variant behaves in a society with relatively high vaccination rates.
00:33:27.000And now people are asking if this could be the first real-world evidence that the pandemic in Britain is sputtering out after three national lockdowns and almost 130,000 deaths.
00:33:36.000Public health experts alongside the government predicted that cases would be rising in Britain at this point, perhaps even exponentially.
00:33:44.000The highly contagious Delta variant of the virus first detected in India accounts for almost all new cases there.
00:33:49.000On July 17th, cases reached 54,600, the highest since January.
00:33:53.000Two days later, dubbed Freedom Day by the press, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government ended all government mandates in England for mask wearing and social distancing.
00:34:00.000And everybody on the left lost their bleep.
00:34:03.000They said he was going to kill everybody.
00:34:04.000The Delta variant was going to murder everyone in Britain, all because of that evil Boris Johnson and his crazy hair.
00:34:10.000Some of the best infectious disease modelers on the planet, who weren't totally wrong last year when they said that 2.2 million people would die in the United States like Neil Ferguson, the always wrong epidemiologist from the UK.
00:34:21.000Some of the best infectious disease modelers on the planet warned 100,000 new cases a day this summer could be expected.
00:34:28.000However, the trend since then has been on a sharp decline.
00:34:50.000It's also possible people have stopped getting tested, because if they test positive, even if they are fully vaccinated, they are asked to quarantine for 10 days, even if they are about to travel abroad for their holidays.
00:35:00.000Or maybe Britain has reached an immunity threshold.
00:35:02.000More than 70% of adults here are fully vaccinated.
00:35:04.00088% have had a first dose, one of the best vaccine uptakes in the world.
00:35:08.000Among those who remain unvaccinated, many have had COVID or asymptomatic infection.
00:35:12.000Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, says Britain could be approaching population immunity with people immune either from vaccinations or natural infection.
00:35:20.000By the way, we should check those stats in the United States.
00:35:23.000Vaccination plus natural infection in the United States?
00:35:26.000We have got to be closing in on herd immunity at this point.
00:35:29.000If you look at how many COVID vaccinations we have done in the United States, We have done, at this point, I'm looking up the population stats.
00:35:38.000Right now, in the United States, approximately 58% of the population has had at least one dose, and 49.8% of the population, 164 million people, have been fully vaccinated in the United States.
00:35:51.000You take that 50% of the population, and then you gotta add on top millions and millions of COVID infections that have already happened, many of whom didn't get vaccinated afterward because they believed they had natural immunity.
00:36:02.000We've got to be approaching herd immunity in the same way that the UK does.
00:36:06.000Martin McKee, professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he doubted Britain was reaching population or herd immunity, in part because that wouldn't explain regional differences.
00:37:16.000And this pisses me off. It really does.
00:37:18.000Because for those of us who were data-driven this entire time, who were willing to do what it took to keep ourselves and our families safe, all we asked was some sort of rationale for why you are doing what you are doing.
00:37:28.000You know, if you're going to ask me to restrict my liberty, I want an explanation of why my liberty ought to be restricted.
00:37:34.000If you don't give me that explanation, and you demand that I continue to restrict my liberty, No.
00:39:33.000The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated food prices increased significantly in the month of June alone, including the cost of beef, which is up 4.5%, eggs, 3.1%, milk, 0.05%.
00:39:42.000Home prices have also increased, setting a record year-over-year growth of 17% in May.
00:39:47.000In fact, Jerome Powell, who is the head of the Federal Reserve, he said, yeah, by the way, you know, we were saying that inflation is transitory and all of that.
00:39:54.000What we meant was it's not transitory.
00:39:57.000The process of reopening the economy is unprecedented, as was the shutdown at the onset of the pandemic.
00:40:04.000As the reopening continues, bottlenecks, hiring difficulties, and other constraints could continue to limit how quickly supply can adjust, raising the possibility that inflation could turn out to be higher and more persistent than we expect.
00:40:21.000In fact, the New York Times has an entire piece today about how isn't it magical that when we just give people money that we alleviate poverty?
00:40:28.000They have a big, big piece in the New York Times by Jason DeParle today, quote, pandemic aid programs spur a record drop in poverty.
00:40:34.000The most comprehensive study yet of the federal response to the pandemic shows huge but temporary benefits for the poor and helps frame a larger debate over the role of government.
00:40:42.000According to the left, the way you solve poverty is you just drop bags of cash on people.
00:40:46.000According to the right, the way that you solve poverty is you incentivize people to make better decisions for their family that allow them to climb the rungs of success.
00:41:54.000It is due to the government botching COVID, and it is due to the public health messaging, and it is due to the fact that you are paying people to stay home, and it is suppressing economic growth.
00:42:04.000You're inflating the currency, you're inflating prices, demand is starting to decline because you have inflated the prices, and because productivity is not ramping up to meet demand.
00:42:26.000You didn't even build back to regular.
00:42:29.000When they say build back better, what they mean is, what if we use this pandemic as an excuse to dismantle all of the institutions of success that had created a historically prosperous economy in March of last year?
00:42:40.000What if we just dismantled all of that and then built it back better?
00:42:45.000You get my seven-year-old building a beautiful structure with her blocks, and then my one-and-a-half-year-old coming in, wrecking it, and then stacking two blocks and being like, I built back better.
00:42:55.000This is what you have done if you are the Democratic Party at this point.
00:43:29.000And the New York Times is there cheering it on like good little idiots they are.
00:43:31.000quote, A huge increase in government aid prompted by the covid pandemic will cut poverty nearly in half this year from pre pandemic levels and push the share of Americans in poverty to the lowest level on record, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of a vast but temporary expansion of the safety net.
00:43:47.000The number of poor Americans is expected to fall by nearly 20 million from 2018 levels, a decline of almost 45%.
00:43:54.000The country has never cut poverty so much in such a short period of time.
00:43:57.000And the development is especially notable since it defies economic headwinds.
00:44:01.000The economy has nearly 7 million fewer jobs than it did before the pandemic.
00:44:05.000Yes, because the way that you solve poverty, according to the left, is you just shovel meaningless dollars at people, which is not a medium or long-term solution to poverty.
00:44:13.000It has never been a medium or long-term solution to poverty, to just shovel money at people.
00:45:48.000John Vickley here, editor-in-chief of Daily Wire.
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