Ben Shapiro says it's time to panic about the growing number of cases of Cooviridemic Viral Epstein-Barr Virus (Covir19) in the United States, and calls for a "self-quarantine" of the entire population above the age of 65. He also points out that there's not much reason to panic, and there's a lot of reason not to panic. Ben also points to the fact that 90% of Americans are now vaccinated against COVID, and 70% are vaccinated against it, and that's not even including all the people who didn't get vaccinated, who already had some level of immunity to the virus, and who have natural antibodies or T-cells or T cell memory which means that in all likelihood, 80% of the adult population in the U.S. is now at risk of getting infected with COVID-19. And yet, Democrats and the media are growing increasingly rabid about new anti-COVID measures even though Americans are adults, even though they are adults. Ben explains why this is a good thing, and why we should panic about it. The Ben Shapiro Show is brought to you by ExpressVPN.Make sure you protect your internet use, and protect your privacy. ExpressVPN is a VPN service that encrypts your internet traffic so you don't have to upload, download, or upload it on the dark web. You'll get twice the privacy protections you usually get from the internet, and you get twice as much access to the internet as you typically get from your favorite streaming service, like Netflix, Spotify, and other major search engines, by becoming a member of the Tor, and the ability to access all sorts of free, up-to-date news and information, like the latest in the latest social meds and social media platforms, like Wikipedia, and so much more. You get 10% off your favourite streaming services, and gets you access to all the latest and the most up to date updates on what's going on in the world, including your favorite shows and apps, on your favorite places on the web, anywhere you get the most of the world's most of your favorite place on the most powerful and coolest places, including Netflix, Apple, Spotify and Vimeo, and Spotify, wherever you go, and more. That's right, you get it all for free, no credit card, no ad-free version of the internet is $5, no frills, no spam, no f-ing thing like that.
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00:01:38.000There's not really a great reason to panic.
00:01:39.000So the headline over at Drudge Report, which has basically just become the Huffington Post at this point, This is one of the things that has driven me nuts for the past several months.
00:02:00.000Even if hospitalizations get disconnected from deaths, hospitalizations don't matter as much as deaths do.
00:02:05.000Okay, so it used to be that case counts were really, really closely tied to death rate.
00:02:10.000Now, thanks to the vaccine, that has been wildly disconnected.
00:02:14.000To the point where 90% of all Americans above the age of 65 are now vaccinated against COVID-19.
00:02:19.000And 70% of all Americans above the age of 18 are vaccinated against COVID-19.
00:02:24.000And that is not including all of the people who didn't get vaccinated, who already had COVID-19, who probably have natural antibodies or T cell memory.
00:02:32.000Which means that in all likelihood, you are looking at an adult population in the United States above the age of 18, in excess of at least 75, maybe 80% of all of those people who Already, you have some level of immunity to COVID-19.
00:02:45.000A very shrinking, diminishing percentage of the population is still highly vulnerable to COVID-19, which is why you have seen this wild disconnect between the case rates and the death rates.
00:02:54.000We are also seeing an increasing disconnect between hospitalization rates and death rates.
00:02:59.000Well, because at the very beginning of the pandemic, everybody who went to the hospital was 80 years old and had three preexisting conditions.
00:03:04.000Now, a lot of the people who are going to the hospital are 25 and have one preexisting condition and are staying in the hospital for say five or six days and then getting out as opposed to staying for two weeks and then dying.
00:03:14.000And you can see this in the death rates because who cares about getting diagnosed with COVID if you end up with a mild cold?
00:03:21.000I'm seeing sheer panic out there today because, wow, Lindsey Graham announced that he had a breakthrough case of COVID and now he's going to self-quarantine for 10 days.
00:03:29.000So, first of all, I'm not even sure that it's worth quarantining if you have COVID at this point.
00:03:37.000Like, it's so widespread that I'm not even sure, like on a public health level, whether quarantining is actually going to slow the spread in any significant...
00:03:48.000I understand why they're telling you to do this, because there are so many unvaccinated people out there.
00:03:52.000But if Lindsey Graham is dealing with a lot of vaccinated people every day, then really, this should not be, like, of massive concern.
00:03:58.000In the same way that many people go to the office when they have a cold, many people go to the office when they are feeling mildly ill, If COVID is now degraded to the level of a mild illness, I don't understand why everybody on earth is supposed to be freaking out that Lindsey Graham got a breakthrough case of COVID that has resulted in the sniffles.
00:04:14.000According to the Daily Wire, Lindsey Graham announced on Monday afternoon he tested positive for COVID-19 and started experiencing symptoms on Saturday.
00:04:20.000He said he started having flu-like symptoms Saturday night.
00:04:57.000Okay, the seven-day rolling average, according to the New York Times, remains at 362, which is basically where it was about a month ago.
00:05:05.000If you want to look at the height of the pandemic, or even if you want to look last summer at the height of the pandemic last summer, you were looking at seven day rolling averages that were at least twice what you are seeing right now in terms of death rates.
00:05:16.000Okay, so the sort of insane panic that is being trotted out there, it really is wild.
00:05:21.000And by the way, there is some countervailing data to suggest that perhaps the daily average in COVID cases might be going down, actually.
00:05:30.000COVID cases based on a seven-day moving average reached 72,790 on Friday, according to data compiled by the CDC.
00:05:37.000That's higher than the peak in average daily cases seen last summer, when the country was reporting about 68,700 new cases per day.
00:05:43.000The daily average in COVID cases, however, has since dropped, falling to 68,326 new cases per day on Saturday and 63,250 new cases per day on Sunday, according to the agency.
00:05:54.000Now, there are some data from Johns Hopkins that suggest the opposite.
00:05:58.000They show a continued increase in the seven-day average to nearly 80,000 new cases per day as of Sunday.
00:06:07.000The Biden administration called up CNN and they said, why are you reporting the case numbers as opposed to the hospitalization and death numbers?
00:06:57.000So Leanna Nguyen, who just is on TV every day because she gets to promote panic, she said to Yahoo News, quote, the single biggest mistake the Biden administration made during this entire pandemic response, and I would argue in the entire Biden presidency, was back in May when the CDC said that vaccinated people can take off their mask but did not have proof of vaccination attached to it.
00:07:16.000As a result, people understood the pandemic to be over them.
00:07:19.000The unvaccinated began behaving like they were vaccinated.
00:07:22.000Um, first of all, this is so utterly and wildly not related to reality.
00:07:27.000The unvaccinated largely were always acting as though the pandemic was over.
00:08:44.000And Biden himself has now drunk from this.
00:08:46.000Well, the only rationale, politically, this is unbelievably stupid.
00:08:50.000Politically, what Joe Biden and Biden administration are doing right now is incredibly dumb because all they have to do is wait about three weeks and then Delta will drop.
00:09:08.000Looking at the UK, which had a wave that looked very much like this one, and the Netherlands, which had a wave that looked very much like this one, there will be a drop in terms of the daily case rates in the United States.
00:09:18.000All Joe Biden has to do is say, go get vaccinated.
00:09:22.000If you're vaccinated, you're pretty much safe from the virus.
00:09:25.000If you're unvaccinated, Most, by all available data, the best chance is that you will get somewhere between mildly and moderately ill.
00:09:32.000A small percentage of you will get severely ill and an even smaller percentage of you will die, but it's a larger percentage than if you got vaccinated.
00:09:38.000So you probably should get vaccinated, right?
00:09:40.000That is the case for getting vaccinated.
00:09:41.000Now, you're an adult, go live your life.
00:09:44.000And if you get COVID because you didn't get vaccinated, And if you get a serious case of COVID, it's your decision.
00:09:50.000We're relying on you to make your own decisions now.
00:09:53.000This would be very easy for Joe Biden to do, and then it's off his plate.
00:09:55.000I mean, just politically speaking, first of all, that would be a better public health message, but put aside the public health messaging of it.
00:10:02.000It would get it off his plate politically because then it would be on individual Americans to decide whether or not they wanted to protect themselves.
00:10:09.000Okay, but Joe Biden can't do that because the unspoken goal of the entire Democratic Party and the entire media for a year has been zero COVID.
00:10:19.000And the reason that Democrats and the media bought into zero COVID is because it gave them ultimate control over your life.
00:10:24.000If they set the goal at zero COVID, and zero COVID is never going to happen, but in order to achieve the utopia of zero COVID, they get to maintain control.
00:10:36.000The CDC today, by the way, issued guidance that allowed Joe Biden the excuse of continuing to expel migrants who are crossing the southern border illegally.
00:10:45.000There is a rule that was put in place by the Trump administration that allowed for quick expulsion of illegal immigrants who tested positive for COVID.
00:10:51.000The CDC came in, the Biden administration planned to throw that out.
00:10:56.000The CDC is a bureaucratic organization.
00:10:58.000They don't have plenary power over immigration, but Now they do, because the magic of public health emergencies, like any other emergency, is it gives inordinate power to small groups of unelected bureaucrats.
00:11:08.000Democrats are very, very happy about this.
00:11:11.000So the emergency mentality will continue until morale improves.
00:11:41.000And so I'm hopeful that people are beginning to realize how essential it is.
00:11:46.000Okay, but I also really enjoy how the public health officials who have completely botched the public messaging with regard to vaccination are now taking credit for more people vaccinating.
00:11:55.000You know why more people are vaccinating?
00:11:56.000Because more people are scared of COVID.
00:12:00.000Which demonstrates, once again, adults do risk allocation all the time.
00:12:04.000They do risk-reward allocation all the damn time.
00:12:08.000They don't require doddering old fools like Joe Biden to force them to do it.
00:12:12.000And Jen Psaki, she said, well, you know, we're probably not going to do more shutdowns, but I'm not going to say that anything is off the table at this point.
00:12:18.000Here's Jen Psaki from the White House yesterday.
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00:12:24.000We are not going back to the economy shutting down.
00:12:31.000There's been too much progress on the economic front.
00:12:34.000But again, he has said from the beginning that we are going to be guided by the science, guided by our public health experts, and we're not going to take options off the table of what they may recommend.
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00:14:15.000Alrighty, so all of this is just not only bad policy, it is terrible politics.
00:14:19.000There is a reason that opinion polls are showing that Americans are really pessimistic right now, and it's because if you set a goal like zero COVID and it is unreachable, and then you don't reach it, and then the media freak out every time everybody gets a cold, people are going to get very pessimistic very quickly.
00:14:34.000Right now, Kamala Harris's numbers Are really, really bad.
00:15:03.000Only 26% say they strongly approve of Joe Biden's presidency.
00:15:08.000And even if you see polls that are more positive for Biden, they're way worse than they were just a few weeks ago when it comes to optimism and pessimism about the country.
00:15:15.000People are way more pessimistic than they were just a few months ago.
00:15:18.000One of the reasons is because of the alarmist idiocy being pushed by the media.
00:15:22.000I mean, it is an amazing thing that now you are seeing officials from the White House who are chiding the media for their coverage of COVID.
00:15:28.000Because the media and the Democratic Party, they are the same.
00:15:42.000This demonstrates how far the media have gone in pursuit of the panic.
00:15:47.000Because of this panic, which again is rooted in a misunderstanding of the difference in cases and deaths, it's rooted in a misunderstanding of the trajectory of the Delta variant, which again we have already seen in the UK, we have already seen in the Netherlands, because it is rooted in a basic misunderstanding of the possibility of how people actually spread this thing from vaccinated to unvaccinated.
00:16:09.000The media have been covering it like, if you're vaccinated, you are just as likely to pass this thing as if you are unvaccinated.
00:16:14.000Like all of this, these are bad headlines and bad data being pushed forward by the media.
00:16:18.000And many of the people responsible for this bad data, frankly, are members of the public health establishment, the Fauci's and Walensky's of the world.
00:16:25.000This has resulted in some incredibly dumb public health recommendations.
00:16:30.000So, for example, you've heard a lot about masking up.
00:16:32.000So, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared yesterday that everybody in San Francisco, vaccinated and unvaccinated, needs to mask up.
00:17:18.000Now, Bill de Blasio didn't go quite as far.
00:17:20.000He said he was going to reject an indoor mask mandate for the vaccinated, but he then came out and said he wanted to recommend that everybody wear masks in indoor settings, even if you're vaccinated, which of course does not make a lot of sense.
00:17:31.000The whole point here is that if you're telling the vaccinated to mask up, you're actually telling people that the vaccines are not Effective.
00:17:37.000Unfortunately, that is the message that people are taking away and that is the wrong message.
00:17:41.000Vaccines are extremely effective because what vaccines are designed to do is prevent you from the dead.
00:17:46.000You are not supposed to die if you get the vaccine.
00:17:49.000They're not as good at preventing you from giving a mild cold to somebody else vaccinated or transmitting to somebody who's unvaccinated, then they get really sick.
00:18:02.000Really, you can't run down the street now without running past some place that is offering a vaccine.
00:18:07.000If you want the vaccine, go get the vaccine.
00:18:09.000If you don't, then bear the consequences.
00:18:10.000But here's Bill de Blasio telling the vaccinated maybe they should consider masking up.
00:18:14.000We want to strongly recommend that people wear masks in indoor settings, even if you're vaccinated.
00:18:21.000Now, this is particularly true, of course, if you might be around anyone unvaccinated.
00:18:26.000If you don't know the people you're around, if you're not sure if they're vaccinated or not, or if you know some are unvaccinated, absolutely crucial to wear a mask, even if you are vaccinated.
00:18:36.000Okay, now you notice that he's holding a cloth face mask, correct?
00:18:39.000And this is the go-to is the cloth face mask.
00:18:41.000Now, there's been a lot of debate in public health circles about just how effective the cloth face masks are.
00:18:46.000There are some studies that suggest that these are these are lab studies.
00:18:49.000These are not real world studies that suggest that there may be some mild effectiveness to cloth face masks.
00:18:54.000N95 seem to be significantly more effective, but you're supposed to actually get a new N95 every day with pretty much no one does.
00:19:01.000The real world studies on masking are somewhat conflicting.
00:19:05.000To just be straight with you, there are some studies that suggest a level of efficacy.
00:19:09.000Those tend to be lab studies where it says that a barrier is better than nothing.
00:19:13.000And then there's some real world studies which suggest that masking is not quite as effective as people think it is because people tend to mess around with it because there are air pockets, people will move their mask, they'll take a dirty mask, put it in their pocket, put it back on their face, and all the rest of that sort of thing.
00:19:37.000Okay, right now, according to RT.com, mask-free Sweden nears zero daily COVID deaths, as chief epidemiologist warns against far-reaching conclusions against the Delta strain.
00:19:48.000Remember, Sweden was ripped up and down for its approach to COVID, which was basically protect the people who are most vulnerable, let everybody else go live their life.
00:19:56.000There hasn't been since like July, since last July.
00:20:00.000Or rather, Sweden dropped its last remaining... They had very mild mask recommendations for public transport, but they dropped that on July 1st.
00:20:09.000They supported some social distancing measures, but Sweden was very wide open from the beginning of the pandemic.
00:20:15.000And right now, Sweden is experiencing pretty much zero COVID deaths on a day-to-day basis, and that is despite the Delta variant still being the chief variant in Sweden, just like it is everywhere else.
00:20:31.000Masks were never going to be the solution.
00:20:33.000And that's why it was so absurd when you saw people in the federal government telling you that you should rely more on your mask than on vaccinations, that masks were... Literally, Robert Redfield said this in Senate testimony.
00:20:43.000He said, masks protect you better than the vaccine, which is just crazy.
00:20:48.000Also, when it comes to mask mandates, these have not been successful nearly anywhere.
00:20:52.000There is no evidence that mask mandates, I'm not saying masks, mask mandates, government top-down directives that you must wear a mask, that these have done anything to dramatically decrease either transmission rates or hospitalization rates or death rates.
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00:22:16.000Alrighty, so you've seen members of the media who are in full-scale panic mode say that the solution to this is new mask mandates.
00:22:21.000Force all the vaccinated to masks that they don't breathe or cough, even asymptomatically, on people who are unvaccinated.
00:22:28.000Which again, is really stupid for a variety of reasons, including the fact it makes unvaccinated people feel more protected than they actually are when the actual solution for them is to go get vaccinated.
00:22:37.000But for example, Mika Brzezinski is uber mad at Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida because DeSantis has said he is not in favor of mask mandates and he's not in favor of masking children in schools.
00:22:47.000Here's Mika Brzezinski going nuts on DeSantis.
00:22:52.000I know Governor Ron DeSantis supports the vaccine, but this masking non-mandate, or whatever you want to call it, seems very counter to the science.
00:23:03.000And also we've had a governor who's been flouting Fauci, making fun of the top doctor in the United States.
00:23:11.000I feel like he's sending a very mixed message to his constituents.
00:23:17.000At what point is the Florida government liable for what is happening in Florida?
00:23:21.000Okay, no, he's not sending a mixed message.
00:23:23.000The message he has been sending consistently and openly is that there's a high likelihood you're going to get COVID.
00:23:28.000And either you're going to get it or you're going to get vaccinated.
00:23:30.000That is the message that Ron DeSantis has been sending, which is why the vaccination rates in Florida have been rising continuously.
00:23:35.000Florida ranks somewhere in the middle of the pack in terms of vaccinations, but Florida has already vaccinated all of the olds in Florida, which is a lot of people in Florida.
00:23:44.000By the way, Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is an advisor, he's a COVID advisor to Joe Biden.
00:23:50.000He came out yesterday, he said cloth face masks aren't effective at Delta variant.
00:23:53.000I wonder if he's going to get banned from YouTube for pointing this out.
00:23:56.000We know today that many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out, either you're breathing out or you're breathing in.
00:24:05.000And in fact, if you're in the Upper Midwest right now, anybody who's wearing their face cloth covering can tell you they can smell all the smoke that we're still getting.
00:24:15.000We need to talk about N95 respirators, which would do a lot For both people who are not yet vaccinated or not previously infected, protecting them as well as keeping others who might become infected, having been vaccinated, from breathing out the virus.
00:24:35.000Then what we really should be talking about right now is everybody go back to normal except people who are particularly vulnerable and can't get the vaccine.
00:25:30.000I mean, over and over, it's the same exact pattern.
00:25:33.000Spain, Britain, Belgium, wherever there was a mask requirement, it was usually done after there was already the major spike, and then afterward, there was another major spike.
00:25:42.000So the notion that you can just have government tell people to mask up, and this is going to prevent COVID, the record on that is really, really poor.
00:25:48.000Again, that is not saying that masks are completely ineffective, although, again, there is a wide variation between cloth masks on small children, which is what most little kids are wearing, which, Again, I fail to see how any studies that suggest that that is wildly effective for small children and N95s on adults.
00:26:05.000My wife, as a doctor, was trained in the use of PPE, personal protective equipment.
00:26:22.000But people have started treating the masks as sort of a totem of religious iconography, which is At least it was sort of somewhat understandable on an emotional level when there were no solutions.
00:26:41.000The public health establishment needs another reason why we need to have these shutdowns and centralization of power in the bureaucracy.
00:26:48.000Because if what I'm saying is true, Namely, adults are adults, and adults get to make adult decisions, and there's a solution right here.
00:26:54.000And if you don't want to use the solution, that one's on you, which means public health experts are now basically back to what they were before, which is they go back to their laboratories, and they go back to their organizations, and they leave the rest of us the hell alone.
00:27:06.000They have to have some way of forestalling their return to anonymity.
00:27:10.000The way that they've forestalled the return to anonymity is they do what they've been doing sporadically throughout the pandemic.
00:27:49.000Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who again is a doctor inside the Biden administration.
00:27:54.000She says kids are not being harmed by Delta in large numbers.
00:27:58.000Thankfully, for children, the risk of severe COVID remains still very small.
00:28:06.000The risk of hospitalization remains very minimal.
00:28:09.000Death, even for the complication people might know as MIS-C.
00:28:12.000But again, you know, you're a parent and so am I. Every sort of case that can be prevented, we want to prevent.
00:28:19.000Okay, so she is herself admitting that there's no data to suggest this thing is highly deadly for small children.
00:28:25.000And yet the kids, as always, are being used as the excuse For more top-down public health controls.
00:28:31.000So, for example, you have a doctor on MSNBC, a guy named Red Leonard, the Irwin Red Leonard, who's saying, we haven't done enough to protect kids in schools.
00:28:41.000We need to do more to protect kids in schools.
00:28:42.000Kids in schools were never the main vector of transmission, particularly kids under the age of 12.
00:28:47.000By the way, in the United States, emergency use authorization has been extended for every single person above the age of 12 in the United States.
00:29:22.000But that's not stopping people from freaking out because again, politicians, the incentive structure in our society is so loaded against people allowing you freedom.
00:29:31.000If you're a politician and you are active and intervening in somebody's life, even if the intervention is stupid and counterproductive and makes your life worse, then we give the politicians credit for trying.
00:29:42.000Hey, that is precisely the opposite of what we should be doing with our politicians.
00:29:45.000Politicians should be given credit for leaving us the hell alone and only intervening when necessity calls for it.
00:29:52.000But people are so reliant on the government playing Big Brother and playing God.
00:29:57.000I have to say, there's an almost religious quality to what people want from their government actors at this point.
00:30:03.000There's a religious quality to how people treat Anthony Fauci, and there's a religious quality to how people treat the government in general.
00:30:26.000The government is designed to protect you from externalities that are created by other people acting in dangerous and irresponsible fashion.
00:30:33.000That is not the same thing as you have the ability to protect yourself now.
00:30:37.000The game fundamentally changed when vaccines became available.
00:31:08.000It's called respiratory syncytial virus.
00:31:10.000We're seeing a rise in that along with a rise in COVID cases among children.
00:31:15.000This does not portend very well for what's going to happen when we start opening schools and have, of course, children all over the country going back into the classroom without necessarily even mandating that teachers and other adult workers in schools get vaccinated.
00:31:30.000Okay, by the way, RSV is a different virus than COVID.
00:32:20.000We leave it up to them, but we have a strong recommendation that because the population in school, kids in school, most of them are unvaccinated.
00:32:31.000Obviously, we can't get anybody 11 and under vaccinated yet.
00:32:33.000So most of these kids are unvaccinated.
00:32:35.000And we had great success last winter, last school year.
00:32:39.000We saw virtually no spread in the classroom when all the kids were wearing masks.
00:32:42.000So we recommend, strong recommendation to our schools, That they do that now some will do that some will not but it's clear the evidence shows that that's a way to really slow down spread In the school.
00:32:58.000Okay, is that what the evidence shows?
00:32:59.000Because we've been operating on the basis of almost no evidence with regard to public health measures since the beginning of this pandemic.
00:33:04.000To take the most obvious example, we still have governors and senators and public health officials saying that we need a social distance at six feet apart.
00:33:11.000Do you know where six feet apart came from?
00:33:45.000So we've been operating on the basis of just bad data throughout this entire pandemic, and it just feels like immature people grasping at straws to try and control things that they frankly cannot control very well.
00:33:59.000In the middle of the thing, you get it.
00:34:00.000Again, in the middle of the thing, when you are grasping at straws, you get it.
00:34:02.000But I'll tell you when I don't get it, I don't get it when the solution is there, and when everybody's had the opportunity to avail themselves of the solution, and people are still insisting on this crap.
00:34:11.000Now, there are people who are taking advantage, right?
00:34:13.000Randi Weingarten over at the American Federation of Teachers, who's one of the more malevolent forces in American public life.
00:34:19.000She's already signaling that the schools might shut down again.
00:34:22.000Because the chief goal of so many of these teachers' unions is to make sure their teachers never have to do a jot or tittle of work.
00:34:27.000Here's Randi Weingarten, one of the worst people in the United States.
00:34:33.000We need to make sure that they are safe and healthy.
00:34:36.000The next question about will they stay open, that's where we worry.
00:34:42.000Because when you have lots of kids, particularly every child under 12 has not been vaccinated, we see the Delta variant being very transmissible.
00:35:04.000Okay, I have two kids who are between the ages of five and eight and I have a one-and-a-half-year-old.
00:35:08.000The one-and-a-half-year-old has basically never been sick because she's never seen human society because of COVID.
00:35:12.000The other two, and that's not by choice, now she's out there and she's circulating and all this and she gets a cold every so often because kids are just petri dishes.
00:35:20.000I don't care if my five-year-old gets a cold.
00:35:23.000I don't care if my seven-year-old gets a cold.
00:35:28.000This is this bizarre, idiotic notion that kids are never going to get sick again.
00:35:31.000And that Randy Weingarten is deeply worried for your child unless they're vaccinated against a disease that to date has killed 340 people under the age of 18.
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00:38:02.000So, this is not, none of this, none of the realities are stopping people on the left from engaging in a sort of full scale hypocrisy.
00:38:15.000So, You have Andrew Cuomo in New York who killed all the old people in New York, which is, you know, pretty amazing that he's still the governor and apparently no one cares.
00:38:23.000Remember that time when he was embroiled in all these sexual harassment scandals and then those just kind of went away because he's a Democrat?
00:38:29.000Anyway, Andrew Cuomo, he said yesterday that private businesses should ban the unvaccinated, which is unbelievably stupid.
00:38:34.000Again, these are all public health measures that are likely to achieve the opposite of what people who are pushing them supposedly want to achieve.
00:38:40.000If you push all of the unvaccinated into one area, And you push all the vaccinated into the other area, which is what Andrew Cuomo is now proposing.
00:38:48.000What do you suppose happens inside the unvaccinated area?
00:38:52.000You think things spread slower or faster?
00:41:00.000It is incredible how all of the right-wing fears about people taking advantage of the pandemic to grab control have now been basically justified.
00:41:08.000And this is coming from somebody who, again, was perfectly willing to suspend judgments on that particular question when we didn't know anything about the virus.
00:41:17.000I didn't say that people shouldn't wear masks.
00:41:25.000But the point here is that now they're still grabbing power.
00:41:28.000This is an amazing, it really is a low-key amazing story that people are just ignoring.
00:41:33.000So according to USA Today, the CDC has now extended a policy that allows migrants to be expelled over COVID concerns.
00:41:38.000So the Biden administration wants to reject all of Donald Trump's immigration policies.
00:41:42.000They've done that on the southern border, and we've gotten an unprecedented flood of people washing across the border and citing Joe Biden's policy as a rationale.
00:41:51.000They don't really want to openly walk back their own border policies, so instead, they've now empowered the CDC to do it for them.
00:41:59.000We have giant bureaucracies who are simply empowered to do the thing that the president kind of wants to be done, but he doesn't have to do it in a way that he's answerable for.
00:42:06.000So, the Biden administration extended a Trump-era policy on Monday that allows migrants to be expelled to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in holding facilities.
00:42:15.000I'm sure that part of this, by the way, was a bunch of pictures that were coming out of those holding facilities in which thousands of COVID-positive people We're waiting in lines.
00:42:22.000And then reports that a lot of those people were just being released into the interior of the United States.
00:42:26.000The CDC said in a statement that Title 42 quote, shall remain in effect until the CDC director determines that the danger of further introduction of COVID-19 into the United States from covered non-citizens has ceased to be a serious danger to public health and the order is no longer necessary to protect the public health.
00:42:43.000Title 42 allows CBP, that's Customs and Border Protection, to expel undocumented migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in holding facilities.
00:42:50.000Some children and families are exempt from the policy.
00:42:54.000DHS said in a statement, So, let's just get this straight.
00:42:57.000but a public health authority and its continued use is dictated by CDC and governed by the CDC's analysis of public health factors.
00:43:04.000Okay, so let's just get this straight.
00:43:06.000Over the course of the pandemic, the CDC, which again stands for Centers for Disease Control, has now been put in charge for purposes of centralizing power of federal eviction moratoriums, right?
00:43:18.000Which again, they have no constitutional or statutory power to do.
00:43:22.000They do not have the power to simply reject the ability of homeowners to collect rent and apartment owners to collect rent.
00:43:51.000One, a bad thing to happen, and two, for that thing to be relatively unpreventable.
00:43:55.000What is happening right now is not only not unpreventable, it has largely been prevented by the vast vaccination of the American population.
00:44:03.000And yet we're still doing this routine.
00:44:05.000And so, like, I really wonder if Ameri- There's so many Americans who apparently are just willing to give up their freedom on the basis of pretty much nothing.
00:44:13.000The entire population of San Francisco, apparently, is going to go along with masking up despite a seven-day running death average of zero.
00:44:30.000And so, this does lead me to wonder, in a very serious way, what is the future of this country?
00:44:34.000Seriously, what is the future of this country?
00:44:36.000Because so long as you can sufficiently scare people, you can get them to give any amount of power to the government, apparently.
00:44:42.000Endless amounts of power to the government.
00:44:44.000You can imagine a situation in which, a few years from now, The weather continues to get wonky out there because we are experiencing, yes, a warming of the globe that is going to take place over the course of the next century.
00:44:56.000And human beings have an extraordinary capacity to adapt.
00:44:59.000But you can see our political boss is saying, disaster will strike and you and your family will die unless we lock you in your house for three months a year without air conditioning, right?
00:45:09.000What sort of inconvenience will they be willing to go along with in order to prevent the slightest chance of a bad thing happening?
00:45:18.000We used to be a rather hardy people, liberty-seeking people, and I wonder whether we are now two peoples.
00:45:23.000One group of people who are willing to undertake risk, rational risk, and one group of people who are utterly unwilling to countenance any risk and are willing to give unending power to a centralized authority to prevent themselves from even having to make the decision.
00:45:35.000That's the question on my mind these days.
00:45:37.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show coming up soon.