The Ben Shapiro Show - The Omicron Panic Tsunami Hits | Ep. 1398

00:00:00.000 Heavily vaxxed areas are overwhelmed by Omicron.

00:00:03.000 But few people are dying.

00:00:05.000 And yet everyone is panicking.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:01:27.000 Alrighty.

00:01:28.000 We're all supposed to panic.

00:01:29.000 Panic, panic, everybody panic.

00:01:31.000 This is the tenor in the media today.

00:01:33.000 The entire media are now under the impression that we are all going to die of COVID.

00:01:38.000 Now, this is not a change from the entire history of the pandemic.

00:01:41.000 At the beginning, we were all going to die of COVID, but we didn't know anything.

00:01:44.000 Then we knew that if you were young and healthy, the chances were very, very low that you were going to die of COVID.

00:01:49.000 It didn't matter.

00:01:50.000 The media continued to proclaim that you were going to die of COVID because COVID was super-duper-duper scary, no matter the fact that if you were young, you had about 1,000 times less a chance of dying than if you were elderly in the United States, or that if you were obese, you had a far higher chance of dying than if you were healthy.

00:02:05.000 There are very obvious striations in terms of risk when it came to COVID from the very start.

00:02:10.000 And the media just fibbed about it.

00:02:11.000 They would have on doctors, they'd have on Fauci, or they'd have on Robert Redfield.

00:02:15.000 They'd have on people who would just say things like, well, you know, you could die.

00:02:18.000 And it's like, well, that doesn't help me at all.

00:02:19.000 I need an actual risk assessment.

00:02:21.000 It's true.

00:02:22.000 Any possible day, I could die.

00:02:23.000 Any moment, I could die, right? 1.00

00:02:25.000 Lightning bolt comes down from the sky, hits you, and you're dead. 0.99

00:02:27.000 That could happen.

00:02:28.000 But nobody lives their life in fear of lightning bolt.

00:02:31.000 So the question is whether we are talking about a lightning bolt coming down from the sky, or whether we are talking about the chances they're gonna get hit by a car, Or whether we're talking about the chances that you're going to die of cancer over the course of your lifetime.

00:02:42.000 So what exactly are the chances here?

00:02:44.000 And the media continually refuse to assess the risk.

00:02:47.000 Well, now they're doing the exact same thing with Omicron.

00:02:51.000 Omicron is supposed to be the scariest thing ever.

00:02:53.000 And the reason that Omicron is super scary is because it is evading vaccines when it comes to preventing infection.

00:03:00.000 And because it is really, really transmissible, and so everybody's going to get it.

00:03:03.000 Now, your first question should be, when somebody says, you are about to get hit with a virus, your first question should be, okay, how bad is it going to be?

00:03:10.000 That would be the normal first question, right?

00:03:12.000 You're going to get hit with a virus.

00:03:13.000 I want to know whether the virus is Ebola or whether the virus is the common cold.

00:03:18.000 Which one is it?

00:03:19.000 And if somebody told you, you are going to get the common cold this year, live in fear, you'd be like, uh, no.

00:03:26.000 No, I'm going to be fine.

00:03:27.000 I probably won't even stay home from the office.

00:03:29.000 I'm just going to take a little day quill and go into the office because it turns out that even if I give it to everybody else in the office and they all get the common cold, then whatever, man, because that's life.

00:03:37.000 You know, we can't all live in a society together without some people getting mild illness sometimes, right?

00:03:43.000 That's just a normal fact of everyday life.

00:03:45.000 We've forgotten about all that.

00:03:47.000 The media have decided that any time there is a mild illness that everybody is going to get, we are supposed to freak, we're supposed to freak out.

00:03:54.000 So, you see headlines like this.

00:03:59.000 We've never seen this before.

00:04:01.000 New York City's COVID-19 positivity rate doubled in just three days as the city battles a virus surge ahead of the holidays.

00:04:11.000 Dr. Jay Varma, a top health advisor to Mayor Bill de Blasio, tweeted Thursday, um, we've never seen this before in New York City.

00:04:17.000 From December 9th to December 12th, the percentage of positive tests in the city spiked from 3.9% to 7.8%.

00:04:21.000 Varma said this is SARS-CoV-2 evading both vaccine and virus-induced immunity against infection, unlike any variant before.

00:04:29.000 Now notice, he's not saying that it is evading vaccine or virus-induced immunity against hospitalization and death, which is the thing you actually care about.

00:04:38.000 Again, if I were going to tell you, That you already had COVID.

00:04:43.000 That means that if you get COVID again, you're not gonna die, you're not gonna be hospitalized, you're gonna be sick for like a day.

00:04:46.000 You're like, oh, okay, well, you know, that's life.

00:04:49.000 But the way that they constantly conflate in the media, immunity against infection versus immunity against hospitalization and death.

00:04:58.000 I don't care about being infected with the virus if it means that I have the sniffles.

00:05:04.000 I don't care.

00:05:05.000 And no one else should care because that is just called life.

00:05:08.000 But we're supposed to care now because we have been trained by the media and by our government that the government can stop this thing.

00:05:14.000 Again, I keep saying it because it's true.

00:05:16.000 There's a fundamental lie we were told from day one, and that's if you listen to the government enough, the virus will just go away.

00:05:21.000 It will just stop.

00:05:22.000 That is not correct.

00:05:23.000 It is not true.

00:05:24.000 It has never been true.

00:05:24.000 It is certainly not true now.

00:05:26.000 Which means that we're going to have to live with the virus.

00:05:29.000 Good news!

00:05:30.000 The virus you have to live with now is so much milder than the original variant that it is in most cases asymptomatic or common cold-like.

00:05:37.000 According to the latest data.

00:05:39.000 And yet we're supposed to treat it as though it's going to kill everybody for purposes of telling you to mask up and lock down.

00:05:45.000 And even if you're vaxxed, you're supposed to stay away from people.

00:05:47.000 Like, all of this is nonsense.

00:05:49.000 I'm just telling you, it's nonsense.

00:05:51.000 The measures that are being recommended right now by your public health establishment are completely disconnected from the conditions on the ground.

00:05:57.000 They're completely disconnected from the data on Omicron.

00:06:00.000 They're completely disconnected.

00:06:01.000 They've been disconnected for a while.

00:06:03.000 They were disconnected once the vaccines came out.

00:06:05.000 And then they were disconnected with regard to Delta.

00:06:08.000 We still, okay, still, there are zero studies, zero, showing that any mask short of a KN95 stops Delta.

00:06:15.000 Forget about Omicron.

00:06:16.000 Omicron, by the way, is 70 times more infectious than Delta.

00:06:21.000 We still don't have a study.

00:06:22.000 That study from Malaysia, the one that they're constantly citing about how effective masks are, and there are serious questions about that study in the first place.

00:06:28.000 I looked at that study.

00:06:30.000 It is not a particularly well-constructed study.

00:06:32.000 Even if you take the bottom line results at face value, that was a test that was done before the rise of Delta.

00:06:38.000 I asked the study authors myself.

00:06:40.000 I mean, we are seeing this thing spread like nobody's business.

00:06:44.000 And guess what?

00:06:46.000 People are generally not dying.

00:06:48.000 That's what the data are showing.

00:06:50.000 But again, the media have to push this thing like it's the end of the world.

00:06:53.000 Positivity rates are rising, says CNBC, as the Omicron variant spreads.

00:06:57.000 According to data released Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York and New Jersey are the two states with the most rapid spread of the newly identified variant.

00:07:04.000 OK, by the way, this should show you that all of the government's talk about how lockdown measures are going to save us all.

00:07:09.000 You notice two of the most locked down states still are New Jersey and New York in the country.

00:07:14.000 They're also two of the states with the highest vaccination rates.

00:07:16.000 So what happened?

00:07:18.000 What happened?

00:07:18.000 We were told that if we did all of the things, you would protect us.

00:07:22.000 Weird, because they did all the things in New York.

00:07:23.000 They did all the things in New Jersey.

00:07:25.000 And guess what?

00:07:26.000 It's real cold outside.

00:07:27.000 So everybody's going inside, and they're all getting infected with the virus.

00:07:30.000 Just as I said they would, because that's what the data show.

00:07:34.000 See, all along the line here, I have just been following the data, the actual underlying data.

00:07:38.000 That's what I care about.

00:07:40.000 I don't care about the politics of masking.

00:07:42.000 I don't care about the politics of lockdowns.

00:07:43.000 I don't care about any of the politics of it, because it's irrelevant.

00:07:46.000 The question is going to be, how do you balance the everyday needs of Americans with the risk factors from the virus?

00:07:53.000 And all balances were deemed verboten from day one by the media and by the government.

00:07:56.000 If you said, we have to balance these two factors, how you live your life and the risks of the virus, they would say, no, no, no.

00:08:01.000 You have to treat the risks of the virus, not only as completely outsized, like wildly out of proportion with what the actual risks of the virus are, you have to completely disregard any other associated costs.

00:08:13.000 And if you don't do that, you're a bad person.

00:08:14.000 If you don't do that, you want to kill grandma. 0.99

00:08:16.000 This was the line. 0.98

00:08:17.000 And they're still using that same line. 1.00

00:08:19.000 And somehow idiots are falling for it. 1.00

00:08:20.000 It's amazing to me. 1.00

00:08:21.000 Somehow people are still falling for this thing.

00:08:24.000 Listen, if you are elderly, you should be scared of pretty much anything that is disease related.

00:08:31.000 It's funny, I was at dinner last night with an ophthalmologist friend, and it's a really large practice, and he was talking, he gave me a statistic I found fascinating.

00:08:42.000 The dirty little secret about medicine in the United States is that the people in the United States who die are old.

00:08:47.000 Now, I know, that's a shock to you, but that is the reality.

00:08:49.000 Whenever you hear that something kills a lot of Americans, understand that virtually everything we are talking about is a thing that kills a lot of old Americans. 0.92

00:08:56.000 Because it turns out, as you get old, you get closer to death.

00:09:00.000 I know statistical, it's shocking.

00:09:02.000 It's shocking.

00:09:03.000 How dare we mention the fact that as you get older, you are probably going to die at a higher rate than if you are 30.

00:09:09.000 I know this is devastating news to all of us who know this from the time that we are small children.

00:09:16.000 That if you die, your chances of dying at 91 are not the same as your chance of dying at 11, right?

00:09:20.000 Like, we all know this, but when we mention it, it's kind of awkward.

00:09:23.000 Okay, so here's a stat.

00:09:24.000 You ready for this?

00:09:25.000 What is the surgery with the highest associated rate of death?

00:09:28.000 The surgery in the United States after which people tend to die most often.

00:09:33.000 What do you think it is?

00:09:34.000 The answer?

00:09:35.000 Cataract surgery.

00:09:36.000 Now, cataract surgery is like an outpatient procedure where very often you don't even have to be anesthetized.

00:09:42.000 Cataract surgery is not a major procedure.

00:09:45.000 So why is everybody dying after a cataract surgery?

00:09:49.000 Why do so many people die after it?

00:09:50.000 Because they're all 90.

00:09:51.000 That's why you have cataracts in the first place.

00:09:54.000 You have cataracts in the first place because you're 90, and then you die because you're 90.

00:09:57.000 Not because of the cataract.

00:09:59.000 This is true with virtually everything in American life.

00:10:02.000 We talked about this a few days ago.

00:10:03.000 There's a big headline in the New York Times.

00:10:05.000 One out of 100 people who are above the age of 65 in the United States died of COVID last year.

00:10:09.000 They're like, right, but how many people above the age of 65 Die every year in the United States.

00:10:15.000 And the answer is four.

00:10:17.000 One out of 25 people above the age of 65 will die in the United States.

00:10:20.000 Why?

00:10:20.000 Because there are a lot of people above the age of 65 who are 80.

00:10:24.000 There are a lot of people above the age of 65 who are 90.

00:10:27.000 So, yeah, that is not a shocking statistic, particularly.

00:10:30.000 The reason this makes a difference, folks, is because when you are constructing systems for the entirety of humanity, when you're constructing systems that don't just affect 80-year-olds in nursing homes, but affect 30-year-olds at work or 5-year-olds at school, and you don't treat them differently, it's because you are doing bad public policy. 0.63

00:10:46.000 It's because you're an ignoramus or you're badly motivated.

00:10:48.000 Those are the only two possibilities here. 0.98

00:10:50.000 It is certainly not driven by public health.

00:10:53.000 But they're going to panic you.

00:10:54.000 This is the only way that they can control you.

00:10:57.000 According to Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, Commissioner of the New York City Health Department, Omicron is here in New York City.

00:11:04.000 It is spreading quickly.

00:11:05.000 De Blasio and his health advisors at the briefing expressed concern ahead of the holiday season.

00:11:09.000 Demand for testing has increased following a few major events, including last weekend's annual SantaCon pub crawl event.

00:11:15.000 He said, we're seeing a surge ahead of the holidays.

00:11:16.000 I do expect cases will continue to increase in the coming days.

00:11:20.000 De Blasio announced that they're going to increase their testing capacity.

00:11:22.000 Good luck.

00:11:23.000 I mean, I'm sorry, but the testing, you can't test and trace.

00:11:25.000 It ain't going to make a difference.

00:11:26.000 This thing spreads too fast.

00:11:28.000 Right now, in South Korea, they can't slow down COVID-19.

00:11:30.000 More than 80% of South Korea is dosed already.

00:11:33.000 Two doses.

00:11:35.000 But they're now reinstituting restrictions based on Omicron.

00:11:38.000 See, here is the thing.

00:11:39.000 It's an amazing logical flip that they've made.

00:11:42.000 The idea is, in order to prevent forever lockdown, we must lock you down indefinitely.

00:11:47.000 You see the trick?

00:11:48.000 The trick is, we have to lock you down now, without an end date, so that you won't have to lock down forever.

00:11:56.000 I feel like that's kind of the same thing, guys.

00:11:59.000 Because you have offered no pathway out.

00:12:01.000 At what point do you say we're done?

00:12:04.000 The answer is at no point do you say we're done.

00:12:06.000 Ever, ever, ever, ever.

00:12:08.000 I'm looking at the stats right now.

00:12:09.000 Okay, here is the way usually COVID works.

00:12:11.000 The way COVID works is usually you have a spike in cases.

00:12:13.000 Then about two weeks later, or a week later, you have a spike in hospitalization.

00:12:17.000 And then about three weeks later, or to a month later, you have a spike in death.

00:12:22.000 So I'm looking at the South African stats right now.

00:12:24.000 Okay, South Africa, started to spike in terms of cases, basically mid-November.

00:12:30.000 So they went from their seven-day running average of cases being essentially 245, 275, somewhere in that neighborhood, in the beginning of November.

00:12:40.000 And then in mid to late November, about a month ago, it spiked.

00:12:44.000 It started to spike.

00:12:45.000 It went up to 687 new cases per day, and then you had 8,000 new cases per day by the end of November.

00:12:51.000 And today, you have about 25,000 new cases per day in South Africa, right?

00:12:56.000 So it started to spike at the end of November.

00:12:59.000 At the end of November, mid-November, about a month ago, this is when we started to see the spike in cases.

00:13:05.000 So you would expect to see a spike in death as well, correct?

00:13:09.000 Uh, there is only one problem.

00:13:11.000 I'm also looking at the South African death statistics, and I'm seeing no spike in death.

00:13:16.000 As in zero.

00:13:17.000 None.

00:13:17.000 Zip.

00:13:18.000 Nada.

00:13:18.000 No.

00:13:18.000 Okay, the average rolling death rate in November, mid-November, was about 15.

00:13:24.000 The average rolling death rate, 7-day rolling death rate right now, is about 27.

00:13:28.000 So, no.

00:13:30.000 The answer is no.

00:13:31.000 Right, the 7-day average November 10th was 31.

00:13:34.000 The average rolling death rate today? 29.

00:13:37.000 Which means Omicron, and by the way, this is not a secret.

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00:13:41.000 It's not a secret.

00:13:42.000 The South African scientists said this at the time.

00:13:45.000 The people who discovered the variant, we played clips of them on the show talking about how this thing was basically manifesting as a cold or asymptomatically.

00:13:54.000 And yet we're going to go crazy anyway.

00:13:57.000 And we're going to design public policy that is not rooted in anything remotely resembling reality.

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00:15:14.000 Alrighty, so.

00:15:16.000 It's spreading really, really fast.

00:15:19.000 Here's what we know.

00:15:20.000 It's spreading super fast.

00:15:21.000 According to The Hill, a new study says that while the COVID-19 Omicron variant infects the human body 70 times faster than previous coronavirus strains, the infections appear to be less severe.

00:15:30.000 Researchers from the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine found that after 24 hours of infection, the Omicron variant multiplied in the human bronchus 70 times faster than the Delta variant and the original coronavirus strain.

00:15:42.000 That means basically in your throat.

00:15:44.000 They also discovered that the Omicron infection in the lungs was significantly lower than the initial COVID-19 strain.

00:15:50.000 Okay, well that would be the thing, right?

00:15:52.000 If you look at, my wife was showing me x-rays of this the other day, what a typical Delta or original variant COVID patient with severe COVID ends up looking like.

00:16:01.000 And the lungs are pretty heavily damaged, right?

00:16:03.000 You can see the cloudiness of the lungs because this is a respiratory ailment.

00:16:09.000 When people die of COVID, it's because they're having respiratory problems.

00:16:11.000 Okay, well, if it's not affecting the lungs, who cares?

00:16:13.000 You have like a mild cough, you have like a cold.

00:16:17.000 The strain replicated in human lung tissue at a rate that was more than 10 times lower than the original COVID-19 strain, which suggests it may cause less severe illness.

00:16:26.000 Okay, so here's what we know.

00:16:28.000 Super infectious, gonna be almost impossible to stop people from getting it because it is resistant to the vaccines in terms of infection.

00:16:37.000 According to a study authored by more than 20 scientists at Columbia and University of Hong Kong, a striking feature of the variants is the large number of spike mutations that pose a threat to the efficacy of current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies.

00:16:48.000 Because the way that the vaccines were constructed is they were constructed to target spike proteins to resist infection, right?

00:16:55.000 This particular mutation has evolved to become less deadly, but more infectious, which is very often how these viruses work, right?

00:17:02.000 If you're a virus, and I understand viruses don't have brains, but if you are thinking in sort of the Richard Dawkins selfish gene notion, if these viruses are attempting to replicate, then the goal would not be to kill the host, it would be to get the host to infect as many human beings as possible.

00:17:16.000 So that means that viruses tend to become more infectious and less deadly over time.

00:17:20.000 So this would not be a giant shock.

00:17:22.000 Okay, so what it did is it mutated to target a bunch of spike proteins, and the ones that were resistant are now being avoided.

00:17:31.000 And so it could greatly compromise the vaccine in terms of the infection.

00:17:35.000 But remember, that's not all the vaccines do.

00:17:37.000 The vaccines don't just target the spike protein to prevent infection.

00:17:40.000 They also generated an immune response.

00:17:42.000 This is what vaccines are meant to do.

00:17:43.000 They generate an immune response that is then understood by the body.

00:17:47.000 You get T cell immunity and B cell immunity.

00:17:49.000 You get memory cell immunity.

00:17:51.000 So the body knows how to fight it now.

00:17:53.000 Basically, vaccines do a couple of things.

00:17:55.000 To prevent infection, they target the spike proteins that can prevent the infection, but they also train the body so that the body remembers how to fight the infection once the infection occurs.

00:18:05.000 It's basically like a dojo for your body's immune system.

00:18:09.000 So, this is what we've seen.

00:18:10.000 We've seen that Pfizer, for example, the resistance rate to infection for two doses has dropped to like 33% for people with Omicron.

00:18:17.000 So, you're probably going to get infected even if you have two doses.

00:18:21.000 It also means that the resilience against hospitalization and death remains incredibly high.

00:18:27.000 There is an article over at Medpage Today talking about the early data with regard to Omicron and how exactly the vaccines are responding to it.

00:18:38.000 Two-dose series performs well in real-world analysis from South Africa's largest health insurer.

00:18:43.000 An analysis by Insurer Discovery Health from the first three weeks of the Omicron wave showed 70% protection against hospitalization for those who received the two-dose series compared with the unvaccinated.

00:18:53.000 Though that's a decline from the 93% protection seen during Delta, it's still regarded as very good protection, according to the report, which was published in a press release on the company's website.

00:19:02.000 Protection against hospitalization was maintained across all people aged 18 to 79.

00:19:07.000 There was slightly lower level of protection for those aged 60 to 69, about 67%, and 70 to 79, 59%, according to data shared during the briefing.

00:19:16.000 Overall protection against infection fell to 33%.

00:19:19.000 So, what does that mean?

00:19:19.000 It means that there's a good shot that even if you're double-dosed, even if you're triple-dosed, that you will get infected, but the chances that you're gonna die are really low.

00:19:26.000 And the reason they're low is because, number one, the disease itself is now less deadly.

00:19:29.000 And number two, because you have retained prior immunity against actual hospitalization and death, which is the thing we used to care about.

00:19:37.000 By the way, some monoclonal antibodies are still working.

00:19:41.000 Regeneron, not so much.

00:19:42.000 But it turns out, Regeneron said that it might not be as effective against the new variant, but data confirms it has diminished potency, but that's not true for AstraZeneca.

00:19:51.000 So AstraZeneca said that their coronavirus antibody cocktail was retaining neutralizing activity against Omicron.

00:19:57.000 And we'll get new data, I'm sure very soon, as to whether the Pfizer pill will still apply against Omicron.

00:20:02.000 But again, Omicron is likely not going to kill you because most cases are like a severe cold.

00:20:07.000 I'm gonna bring you that data in just one second again.

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00:21:23.000 Okay, so how mild is the virus?

00:21:26.000 According to Professor Tim Spector, most cases now appear like a severe cold.

00:21:30.000 Omicron appears to produce fairly mild illness.

00:21:34.000 He's the chief scientist on the ZOE app, which is a major study that tracks COVID symptoms.

00:21:39.000 He says the majority of infected people no longer have the classical triad of persistent cough, fever, and loss of smell and taste.

00:21:44.000 He says his team has yet to gather complete data on Omicron symptoms, but initial findings suggest they are not much different from Delta, which already showed milder and more cold-like symptoms than previous variants as well.

00:21:55.000 So what should you look for?

00:21:56.000 Sneezing, headache, runny nose, sore throat, etc.

00:22:01.000 But the media, again, they continue to cover this as though it's the end of the world.

00:22:05.000 And they're using the uncertainty as the lever for power here.

00:22:09.000 Yeah, sure, it looks like the data are that Omicron isn't going to kill a lot of people in terms of infection fatality rate.

00:22:17.000 But we don't know.

00:22:18.000 But we don't know.

00:22:19.000 So, out of an abundance of caution, never live life again.

00:22:23.000 Just shut everything down.

00:22:24.000 Take measures that clearly are not going to stop Omicron so that you have made your sacrifice to the pagan gods. 0.87

00:22:29.000 Just do it.

00:22:30.000 And then you'll feel better about yourself.

00:22:31.000 You'll feel like you've done everything you could do.

00:22:33.000 Okay, now, this is craziness.

00:22:36.000 It really, really is.

00:22:39.000 So here's the deal.

00:22:40.000 The CDC is suggesting that 18,500 people could be dying per week.

00:22:46.000 The reason that they are suggesting this is because the thing is so infectious.

00:22:51.000 So according to the Daily Mail, grim new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have predicted that U.S.

00:22:55.000 COVID-19 deaths will soar by 73% to 15,600 a week by January 8th.

00:23:01.000 Cases will rocket to 1.3 million a week by Christmas Day.

00:23:04.000 The agency revealed its projections on Wednesday afternoon that show America will suffer up to 15,600 new COVID deaths a week as of January 8th, or 2,200 deaths per day, a 58% increase from 8,900 deaths currently being recorded each week, which is equivalent to about 1,285 deaths per day.

00:23:21.000 Okay, so why?

00:23:22.000 The answer is because every single human will get Omicron.

00:23:25.000 Okay, so here's the question.

00:23:27.000 What are you going to do?

00:23:29.000 Really, what are you going to do?

00:23:31.000 Because what we were talking about, there's, people don't understand Base rates, they really don't.

00:23:36.000 So, infection fatality rate means your chances of dying if you are infected.

00:23:40.000 The infection fatality rate on Omicron appears to be significantly lower than Delta.

00:23:46.000 We had already lowered the infection fatality rate on Delta for the vaccinated dramatically.

00:23:50.000 But, Omicron appears to be way lower than that.

00:23:53.000 Which means that your chances if you get Omicron of dying or being hospitalized are extraordinarily low.

00:23:57.000 But, if every human being on planet Earth gets Omicron, an absolute number of people who die will be higher.

00:24:03.000 Those people will generally be immunocompromised or old.

00:24:06.000 Okay, that's just the reality of the situation.

00:24:09.000 Now, what are you going to do about it?

00:24:11.000 So, what they have decided is that they are going to tell you to mask up and never see another human being again.

00:24:17.000 There's only one problem with that, which is that the data don't back that.

00:24:21.000 You can mask everybody.

00:24:23.000 Really, you can mask everybody on Earth.

00:24:25.000 And unless they're wearing N95s, You know, very, very strong particle filters.

00:24:30.000 The chances that it's going to stop Omicron, which again is 70 times as infectious as Delta, and Delta was not even tested with regard to surgical masks.

00:24:39.000 I'm not seeing the data to back this.

00:24:41.000 I'm not.

00:24:42.000 And I'm frankly kind of puzzled by the strategy here.

00:24:47.000 By the way, in order to, before Omicron, because there's a study out by Aaron Prosser, Bartosz Helfer, and David Schreiner in MedRx, Okay, which is the preprint server for health sciences.

00:24:59.000 They tried to analyze the number of unvaccinated people who would need to be excluded to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmissions, right, for vaccine passports.

00:25:06.000 This is before Omicron, which is way more infectious.

00:25:09.000 Like so much more infectious that huge parties of people who are already vaccinated are getting it.

00:25:14.000 Okay, and triple vax are getting it.

00:25:17.000 So, this study suggests, this is before, remember, before Omicron, which is way more infectious, in order to prevent one infection, you would need to exclude 1,000 unvaccinated people.

00:25:27.000 Quote, our study suggests that at least 1,000 unvaccinated people likely need to be excluded to prevent one SARS-CoV-2 transmission event in most types of setting for most jurisdictions, notably Australia, California, Canada, China, France, Israel, and others.

00:25:42.000 So you'd have to exclude 1,000 humans who are unvaccinated to prevent one transmission.

00:25:46.000 Now, what do you do with a variant that is way more infectious than Delta?

00:25:52.000 Like really, are lockdowns likely to work?

00:25:55.000 And once again, let me point out that if you are young, your chances of dying from Omicron if you're young are minute.

00:26:02.000 By the way, even during the pandemic, during the pandemic itself, like the worst of the pandemic, if you were 18 to 49, you were now more likely to die of fentanyl overdose than you were to die of COVID.

00:26:12.000 This is according to Fox 10 Phoenix.

00:26:15.000 Families against fentanyl released some stats.

00:26:17.000 They showed that between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses.

00:26:25.000 The number of people who died of COVID-19 between those ages, between the dates January 1, 2020 and December 15, 2021 was 53,000.

00:26:30.000 So not only did more people die of fentanyl overdose between 18 and 45 during that date, it was like 50% more people died of fentanyl overdose.

00:26:37.000 Between 18 and 45, during that date, it was like 50% more people died of fentanyl overdose.

00:26:42.000 Out of the 800,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19, this means of the 800,000 people, the grand total number of people under the age of 46 who have died of COVID is about 54,000, right?

00:26:59.000 Which again, it is heavily striated toward the elderly because death is heavily striated toward the elderly.

00:27:06.000 But instead of figuring out, okay, what do we need to do to theoretically protect the elderly more?

00:27:11.000 Instead, they're still trying to push lockdowns.

00:27:13.000 Here's Joe Biden's spokeswoman yesterday.

00:27:17.000 Karine Jean-Pierre, saying we can't rule out more lockdowns.

00:27:21.000 Of course you can't, because you kind of want them.

00:27:23.000 You've made a box and now you can't get out of it.

00:27:25.000 You suggested you were going to end COVID.

00:27:27.000 You certainly cannot end Omicron.

00:27:29.000 And yet you have to maintain the myth.

00:27:32.000 As it relates to shutdowns, which is what I was trying to convey to Jeff as he asked me this question, look, you know, we've been very clear.

00:27:41.000 Dr. Fauci has been very clear.

00:27:42.000 Our public health experts have been very clear.

00:27:46.000 We know what works and we're going to continue to do what works, which is making sure that, you know, we do everything we can to get folks vaccinated.

00:27:54.000 We're at 71% of people being fully vaccinated.

00:27:57.000 That's a huge difference to where we were a year ago, as I just stated.

00:28:01.000 A year ago, we were at less than 1%.

00:28:02.000 Okay, but I've noticed that it's spiking in places where people are vaccinated.

00:28:08.000 So what exactly is your goal?

00:28:10.000 If your goal is to prevent hospitalization and death, I agree.

00:28:13.000 People should vaccinate.

00:28:14.000 I've been saying this all the way throughout the pandemic.

00:28:17.000 As soon as the vaccines were available, I thought that people should get the vaccines.

00:28:21.000 However, now you're talking about taking measures that are not likely to prevent transmission.

00:28:26.000 You're not going to end all of this.

00:28:27.000 So what are you going to do?

00:28:29.000 What are you going to do?

00:28:30.000 According to the New York Times, breakthrough infections are common.

00:28:33.000 This week, Denmark reported that three quarters, three quarters of Omicron cases occurred in people who had received two vaccine doses.

00:28:40.000 A recent outbreak at Cornell may have been driven by Omicron.

00:28:44.000 Ninety seven percent of the population of Cornell is vaccinated.

00:28:48.000 So, um, what exactly is your plan?

00:28:52.000 Seriously, what's your plan?

00:28:53.000 Because I've been saying for a long time that when it comes to COVID, everyone now has had the opportunity to get the vaccine.

00:29:00.000 That's all you can do.

00:29:02.000 End of story.

00:29:03.000 The fact that more people are going to get Omicron does not change that.

00:29:06.000 In fact, theoretically, Omicron is a better thing to get than Delta.

00:29:10.000 I mean, as an individual, not on like a broad nationwide plane because more cases lead to more absolute deaths, but on an individual level, your personal chances of dying from Omicron are apparently significantly lower than your personal chances of dying of Delta.

00:29:22.000 So if you're going to get one of these diseases anyway, you may as well get Omicron.

00:29:25.000 You're going to have to You're going to get one of them.

00:29:28.000 Pick Omicron.

00:29:29.000 So that's not a bad thing.

00:29:30.000 That's a good thing.

00:29:31.000 Omicron replacing Delta on a broad statistical level is a good thing if everybody's going to end up with Delta anyway.

00:29:39.000 Nonetheless, Joe Biden continues to push the idea that it's boosters and boosters and the unvaccinated are the true risk.

00:29:44.000 Again, the unvaccinated were at risk from COVID.

00:29:48.000 Depending on your age, it was either a high risk if you were elderly or a fairly low risk if you were 20.

00:29:54.000 The unvaccinated were and they are currently at the exact same risk, maybe a lower risk now if you're unvaccinated.

00:29:59.000 Because again, if you're unvaccinated and you get Omicron, it's way milder.

00:30:02.000 So maybe you are at like a way lower risk than you were with Delta.

00:30:05.000 So in other words, Omicron replacing Delta, if you were if you were like driven to get a vaccine, like driven, driven, driven, not.

00:30:12.000 Sorry, if you were driven not to get a vaccine, like you really didn't want to get a vaccine.

00:30:16.000 And the reason that you didn't want to get a vaccine is not because you were afraid of infection, but you felt like the infection was going to be less problematic for you than the vaccine, and this is why you didn't get the vaccine.

00:30:26.000 Or you felt that you already had COVID, and that means that you have T cell and B cell immunity.

00:30:31.000 If that was your logic, Omicron not only does not change your logic, it exacerbates your logic.

00:30:37.000 Because if you're one of the people who didn't get the vaccine because you were afraid that the vaccine was more severe than Delta, and Omicron is less severe than Delta, by the transit of property, you should now be less afraid of not getting the vaccine than you were before.

00:30:52.000 The only reason that you were interested in getting the vaccine was to evade the consequences of the disease.

00:30:58.000 If Omicron is less deadly than Delta, then the math on why you should get a vaccine is actually worse, not better.

00:31:10.000 The logic has not changed for the people who are unvaccinated, which is part of the problem.

00:31:12.000 Again, if you want to get vaccinated, you should get vaccinated.

00:31:14.000 If you don't want to get vaccinated, I may think you're wrong, but you have that right in the United States.

00:31:19.000 But Joe Biden is going to continue to push this.

00:31:20.000 He says the unvaccinated are looking at a winter of severe disease and death.

00:31:24.000 I have a question.

00:31:25.000 Weren't they looking at that winter anyway with Delta?

00:31:28.000 He's pushing vax mandates.

00:31:33.000 I don't know how you push a vaccine mandate on the back of Omicron.

00:31:36.000 That isn't going to work with regard to Delta.

00:31:38.000 This is why, by the way, you know, you should go sign our petition at dailywire.com slash do not comply.

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00:31:58.000 Anyway, here's Joe Biden blaming the unvaccinated for everything, even though the vaccinated are passing this as well.

00:32:03.000 For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winner of severe illness and death for unvaccinated.

00:32:10.000 For themselves, their families, and the hospital where they'll soon overwhelm.

00:32:15.000 But, there's good news.

00:32:17.000 If you're vaccinated, you have your booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death.

00:32:25.000 Okay, um, so he's gonna focus on Vax mandates at this point?

00:32:30.000 Based on Omicron?

00:32:32.000 If it didn't work with Delta, it ain't gonna work with Omicron.

00:32:34.000 Omicron is more infectious and way less deadly, apparently.

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00:35:49.000 Okay, so everybody is talking about lockdowns and vaccine boosters and universal masking.

00:36:00.000 Okay, I have a stat from South Africa.

00:36:01.000 Okay, this one is just breaking.

00:36:02.000 You ready?

00:36:04.000 The South African hospitalization rate, which is what you care about, is at 1.7%.

00:36:10.000 By comparison, during their last wave of Delta, the hospitalization rate was 19%.

00:36:17.000 That's how much less deadly Omicron is than Delta.

00:36:20.000 It is literally, by the statistics, about 10 times less deadly than Delta.

00:36:29.000 And yet, what are you talking about?

00:36:34.000 None of this makes any sense.

00:36:35.000 And yet, you have the NFL has announced a return to universal masking and other protocols amid COVID-19 outbreak.

00:36:41.000 The NFL said, throughout the pandemic, we have continuously evolved our protocols to meet our goal of advancing the safety of the players, coaches, and staff.

00:36:48.000 The changes we are making today aim to address the increasing cases and the advent of the Omicron variant.

00:36:54.000 They say effective immediately, all clubs will implement preventative measures that have proven effective.

00:36:59.000 Really?

00:37:00.000 Have they proven effective?

00:37:01.000 Have they, though?

00:37:02.000 Masking regardless of vaccination status.

00:37:04.000 Has that been, like, super-duper-duper-pooper-scooper effective against Omicron?

00:37:08.000 Because I missed the data.

00:37:09.000 They say it's been proven effective.

00:37:10.000 I'd like some proof.

00:37:11.000 Some proof would be excellent.

00:37:13.000 Remote or outdoor meetings.

00:37:14.000 Eliminating in-person meals.

00:37:16.000 No outside visitors while on team travel.

00:37:18.000 We will continue to strongly encourage boosters as the most effective protection.

00:37:21.000 For young, adult, healthy males.

00:37:24.000 Like the most healthy human beings in our society.

00:37:27.000 Finally, based on expert advice, we will adjust to the return to participation requirements for those who have recovered from COVID-19.

00:37:35.000 This is all insanity.

00:37:36.000 And again, they're just going to keep pushing it.

00:37:38.000 So you got ESPN's Jeff Van Gundy saying the NBA is going to have to pause or bubble.

00:37:42.000 These are the healthiest human beings on planet Earth, and they're going to have to bubble or pause because people are getting mild colds in South Africa.

00:37:50.000 Mike, it's all sports.

00:37:51.000 I really feel that at some point there's going to be a pause to our season, a bubble to our season.

00:37:59.000 The way they're predicting these cases to continue to go as Davis with the dunk, I don't see any way around it.

00:38:06.000 Clearly we hope that you're wrong, but it's impossible to predict.

00:38:12.000 No, it isn't tough to predict if you're not invested in the narrative.

00:38:17.000 What is the end goal here?

00:38:18.000 Well, for the far left, the end goal, as always, is transformational change.

00:38:21.000 There's an article by Anna North in Vox.com today talking about work.

00:38:26.000 Here is the title of the piece.

00:38:27.000 The world as we know it is ending.

00:38:29.000 Why are we still at work?

00:38:31.000 From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens.

00:38:35.000 The entire contention of the article is that because of COVID, no one should ever go to work again because work is bad.

00:38:42.000 Instead, we need to make sure that people never have to work again.

00:38:46.000 We have to restructure the entire American economy around the idea that people should do less work because work is bad.

00:38:53.000 Work is bad.

00:38:55.000 So question, who's going to support all the people who are sitting in their homes because they're afraid of COVID, which is not going to kill them if it's Omicron and if they are not?

00:39:04.000 Ridden with cancer, for example.

00:39:06.000 What is the data?

00:39:07.000 There is no data.

00:39:08.000 But transformational change always requires a hook for the left.

00:39:11.000 COVID was the best hook they've ever seen, and they will not let it go.

00:39:14.000 Ever.

00:39:15.000 Ever.

00:39:15.000 For the rest of time, ever.

00:39:16.000 It's up to you to push them.

00:39:19.000 It's up to you to push back.

00:39:20.000 It's up to you to say, I'm not going to comply with your nonsense because you're not even presenting me with the data.

00:39:25.000 This is why, again, I'll urge people, head on over to dailywire.com slash do not comply, sign our petition.

00:39:30.000 We're at 900,000 signatures.

00:39:31.000 We're trying to get to a million.

00:39:34.000 But, as a basic way of living, they are offering you no life in return for no real additional shot that you're going to avoid COVID.

00:39:46.000 If that sounds like a great bargain to you, keep voting for him.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 17, 2021

The Omicron Panic Tsunami Hits | Ep. 1398

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