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00:00:00.000As the entire American economy freezes, the feds open up the spigot, we examine what comes next, and the media won't stop labeling Trump a racist over his use of the term Chinese virus.
00:00:25.000Well, today, I really want to examine in depth what exactly we are going to do from here on out, because that is eminently unclear.
00:00:33.000And let me just make clear at the outset that I'm very much in favor of measures that are designed to flatten the curve.
00:00:37.000I'm very much in favor of the attempt to lower the Threshold of death.
00:00:43.000The goal here is to prevent, as we've said before, the giant curve that exceeds the capacity of the medical system from taking place and to flatten that thing out.
00:00:52.000But let's just be realistic about what is going to work for the American public and what is not going to work for the American public.
00:00:58.000I was talking to my wife this morning about this entire situation.
00:01:01.000And I was suggesting that if you look to the world of dieting, what you know about dieting, what everybody knows about dieting is that dieting doesn't work.
00:01:08.000The reason that dieting generally does not work is because there is no end date.
00:01:12.000It is interminable and it is unrealistic.
00:01:15.000If you actually want to succeed in cutting weight, you either have to have rounds of cutting weight where you say, like, for three weeks, we're just going to cut weight.
00:01:21.000For three weeks, there's going to be no sugar, there's going to be no fat, there's going to be no carbs.
00:01:24.000It's going to be brutal, but you can do it for three weeks.
00:01:26.000And then you'll go back to eating some of the stuff and you'll adjust your lifestyle a little bit.
00:01:31.000essentially, you'll go back to kind of quasi normal.
00:01:33.000If you say that to people, then people can handle it for like three weeks.
00:01:36.000And if you say to people, listen, we're gonna have to adjust your entire diet and it's gonna be permanent, but it's not gonna be like enormous changes.
00:01:42.000It's just gonna be enough changes that it changes the trajectory of your nutritional health.
00:01:47.000If you say to people, okay, we're not gonna cut carbohydrates completely out, but we're gonna cut them down fairly significantly.
00:01:53.000We're not going to cut out your morning cup of coffee, but we're going to take down the size of that cup of coffee.
00:01:57.000That is something people can deal with too.
00:01:58.000If you tell them on a permanent basis, let's be realistic about what we can do, and then we'll implement that on a permanent basis.
00:02:17.000And the reason it's going to last five minutes is because if you believe that there is an indefinite wait time here, at a certain point, you're just going to say, OK, screw it.
00:02:37.000Because the goal here, as I was saying yesterday on the program, theoretically, should be to shift from sort of the Chinese model, or the Italian model, or the French model, to the South Korean model, and to do that as fast as possible.
00:02:48.000The goal here would be to move away from the model where everybody is in complete lockdown, where you're isolated in your home, where there is tremendous amounts of social distancing.
00:02:56.000And to move toward the South Korean model where there's heavy testing and basically we're segregating off the population that is exposed to the virus from a population that is not exposed to the virus so that over time you develop a herd immunity and also so that you don't shut down the economy.
00:03:08.000That can only happen when you have the resources at your disposal.
00:03:12.000The problem is if the government doesn't actually lay out a timeline for when that's going to happen, it's going to be unrealistic.
00:03:17.000And when you're talking about millions of Americans losing their job, and that's what's going to happen over the next few weeks, the government can backstop this stuff as much as they want.
00:03:24.000Everyone knows that if this lasts for six months, the government is not going to have the ability to simply keep paying people.
00:03:53.000And right now, small businesses that were operating with slim margins, this great lie that was being told by so many folks on the left that small business owners or even major business owners are operating on massive profit margins.
00:04:03.000They just got pools of cash stacked up somewhere and they can pay people.
00:04:07.000Well, right now they're laying off tens of thousands of workers.
00:04:10.000And over the next few weeks, you're going to see them lay off hundreds of thousands of workers.
00:04:13.000And all of the Democrat attempts to create legislation that will force small companies to pay for paid sick leave.
00:04:18.000How many companies do you think are just going to say, okay, not only are we not going to pay for paid sick leave, we are not going to employ you.
00:04:26.000As people have to choose between the risks of coronavirus and the rewards of having a job, as that calculation becomes more and more immediate, which it's going to be over time, The government is going to have to lay out a timeline for how long this thing lasts.
00:04:41.000We're going to have to lay out a plan for what comes next, because it is just not going to be sufficient to tell people, hunker down in your home until further notice.
00:04:49.000Not unless the statistics really start to show such a major uptick that we're not just talking about the curve exceeding the medical community's capacity to deal with coronavirus, but we start talking about mass death and the kinds of numbers that sort of the worst case scenarios have posited.
00:05:03.000And right now, people are looking at the COVID-19 maps, and they're saying to themselves, okay, like really, and this is not, I think, unrealistic.
00:05:11.000Again, none of this is an argument not to stay home right now if you can, not to wash, not to not wash your hands.
00:05:16.000Obviously, you should be doing the social, you should do all of these things.
00:05:18.000The point I'm making is there has to be a midterm or long-term plan, or even the short-term plan is going to fail.
00:05:24.000Again, to go back to the diet analogy, if you want this diet to work, you're gonna have to tell people when they can relax the diet.
00:05:29.000You're gonna have to tell people when we come out of this and what life is gonna look like when you come out the other side of this.
00:05:34.000If instead it's like, okay, we're in an emergency situation until further notice, at a certain point people are gonna be like, no, that's not going to work.
00:05:41.000Sort of like the episode of 30 Rock where Liz Lemon is on a plane, she's dating Matt Damon's character who's a pilot at the time.
00:05:46.000She's on a plane and the plane isn't taking off for hours at a time.
00:05:48.000Matt Damon keeps getting on the Horn every 45 minutes and saying 45 minutes to take off and eventually Liz Lemon goes to the cockpit and she says, wait a second, it's been three hours.
00:05:56.000Yeah, we just keep telling people 45 minutes and she ends up leading an uprising on the plane against Matt Damon.
00:06:11.000And that's not completely unrealistic.
00:06:13.000Right now, people are looking at the global pandemic and they're saying there have been, according to Johns Hopkins, 223,000 cases confirmed and about 9,100 deaths confirmed on a planet of 7 billion people.
00:06:27.000And in the United States, we are currently looking at somewhere around 10,000 cases and south of 200 deaths.
00:06:33.000And if those numbers do not spike dramatically, forget about whether this is right or wrong or the incapacity of people to understand exponential thinking and the fact that this thing could multiply pretty quickly, which of course it obviously could.
00:06:45.000If people look at this, and we are at the end of March, and there have been less than 500 deaths in the United States, or less than 1,000 deaths in the United States, and we have started to level off in terms of the number of cases that we are seeing diagnosed each and every day, then there's going to be a real push for people to get back to work.
00:07:00.000Because this is not, and if the government does not set out exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it, and when we can expect this thing to relax, people are going to take matters into their own hands.
00:07:09.000Because these measures are extraordinarily restrictive.
00:07:14.000And you can be extraordinarily restrictive for a short period of time.
00:07:16.000You cannot do it in a free country for a long period of time.
00:07:19.000Not again when you're talking about destroying the economy to the tune of, according to J.P.
00:07:23.000Morgan, a negative 14% growth rate in Q2, which is unprecedented in American history, including during wartime.
00:07:30.000We're going to get to more of this in a second.
00:07:32.000We're going to bring you some of the news surrounding coronavirus and where the spikes are happening and all the rest.
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00:09:02.000Okay, so it's particularly true the government needs to come up with a timeline considering the fact that China is now reporting zero community infections.
00:09:10.000Right, so what that suggests is that we are now looking at the possibility of seriously tamping this thing down.
00:09:15.000Now, it is worthwhile noting here that there are a bunch of other countries that are seeing secondary spikes.
00:09:20.000So Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, all of which looked to have had this thing under control.
00:09:24.000When people are coming back into their country with coronavirus, the thing is spiking again.
00:09:28.000But so far, at least if China's not lying, which who the hell knows, honestly, China's reporting zero local infections, which is a major turning point according to the New York Times.
00:09:36.000For the first time since the coronavirus, Crisis began.
00:09:39.000China on Thursday reported no new local infections for the previous day, a milestone in its costly battle with the outbreak that has since become a pandemic upending daily life economic activity around the world.
00:09:49.000Apple has reopened all of its stores in China.
00:09:52.000Officials said 34 new coronavirus cases had been confirmed, all involving people who had come to China from elsewhere.
00:09:58.000In signaling that an end to China's epidemic might be in sight, the announcement could pave the way for officials to focus more on reviving the country's economy, which nearly ground to a halt after the government imposed travel restrictions and quarantine measures.
00:10:08.000In recent days, economic life has been resuming in fits and starts.
00:10:12.000According to the New York Times, experts say it will need to see at least 14 consecutive days without new infections for the outbreak to be considered truly over.
00:10:19.000It still remains to be seen whether the virus will re-emerge once daily life restarts and travel restrictions are lifted around the country.
00:10:26.000And that's going to be the big question, right?
00:10:27.000I mean, if this thing just re-crops up, if it keeps cropping up continuously, at a certain point people are going to have to go back to work, and we're going to have to live with the results of people going back to work.
00:10:37.000So hopefully what we're doing right now is buying time in the United States to build more ICU beds, to make sure that everybody has their medical masks, We are ensuring that the resources that are necessary to raise the bar on medical care are available.
00:10:51.000We are not actually preventing the spread of the disease beyond a certain point, because when everybody goes back to work, presumably, people are going to start spreading coronavirus again.
00:10:59.000Ben Cowling, professor and head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Hong Kong University School of Public Health.
00:11:04.000He says, it's very clear the actions taken in China have almost brought to an end their first wave of infections.
00:11:09.000The question is, what will happen if there's a second wave?
00:11:11.000Because the kind of measures China has implemented are not necessarily sustainable in the long term.
00:11:16.000Which, of course, is sort of the point that I'm making here.
00:11:18.000The measures we're taking here are not sustainable in the long term, which does raise the question as to what everything looks like on the other side of this.
00:11:27.000And meanwhile, in the United States, obviously, we are seeing spikes in the number of diagnosed cases.
00:11:33.000That makes sense, because we are seeing spikes in the number of tests that are available.
00:11:35.000New York City did something like 7,000 tests yesterday, so it's not a big surprise that you saw a spike in the number of cases identified in New York.
00:11:42.000There's apparently a huge spike in the Brooklyn Hasidic community.
00:11:45.000More than 100 people testing positive in two neighborhoods, all at two urgent care centers, crammed with worried families, according to the New York Times.
00:11:52.000Health officials expressed growing alarm on Wednesday that the coronavirus is spreading quickly in tightly-knit Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn, saying they're investigating a spike in confirmed cases in recent days, which is one of the reasons... Guys, listen.
00:12:11.000Okay, now is the time when you actually want to allow the government to increase the number of beds available, allow the private sector to increase the number of masks available, right?
00:12:19.000All we are doing is buying time, so let the time be bought.
00:12:23.000Don't ignore the warnings and go out and party it up at a wedding in somebody's backyard.
00:12:26.000I saw tape of that yesterday floating around.
00:12:30.000Okay, it is one thing to go overboard, like some people are doing, saying, don't go to a park, even if you're doing social, like, go out to a park, socially distance, all that's good.
00:12:37.000Do not interact in exactly all the normal ways of a park.
00:12:58.000More than 100 people have recently tested positive for coronavirus in Borough Park and Williamsburg, two Brooklyn neighborhoods with sizable Hasidic Jewish populations.
00:13:05.000All of them tested at two urgent care centers that have been crowded with anxious patients, according to an urgent care center employee.
00:13:11.000On Tuesday, Bill de Blasio said that the city would begin to increase its testing capacity from the current level of several hundred tests a day.
00:13:17.000The increase would start on Thursday, with the expectation of reaching the goal of 5,000 tests a day after several days.
00:13:23.000De Blasio said that there were no known clusters of coronavirus in the city, but there are certainly clusters in certain areas of Brooklyn, apparently.
00:13:30.000Meanwhile, there's also breaking news.
00:13:33.000That a number of people who have come up with coronavirus and are now being hospitalized are under the age of 54.
00:13:41.000They're saying that 40% of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were aged 20 to 54.
00:13:45.000But for all of the talk about the serious consequences to young people, and there are some serious consequences.
00:13:49.000You've seen decreased lung capacity in some young people, for example.
00:13:52.000The fact is this remains still a disease that is basically killing off older people.
00:13:56.000The proof coming, not courtesy of the United States, but coming courtesy Instead of Italy, where there are studies demonstrating that literally 99% of people dying from the virus had other illnesses, according to the Italian government.
00:14:11.000More than 99% of Italy's coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country's national health authority.
00:14:18.000After deaths from the virus reached more than 2,500, with a 150% increase in the past week, health authorities have been combing through data to provide clues to help combat the spread of the disease.
00:14:27.000Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government is evaluating whether to extend a nationwide lockdown beginning the beginning of April.
00:14:55.000So this is still a disease that is almost entirely killing old people and people with pre-existing conditions.
00:15:02.000That does not mean we shouldn't take it seriously if we're young.
00:15:04.000I mean, you can be a carrier of this thing, of course.
00:15:07.000But the fact remains that if we have done all we can do in terms of increasing our medical capacity, Then, and that has not happened yet, as we're about to discuss.
00:15:19.000If we get to the point where we have maxed out our medical capacity, at that point, people are gonna start going to work and sort of the chips are gonna fall where they may.
00:15:26.000That's just the realistic nature of this thing.
00:15:29.000Now with that said, we are still running way behind with regard to testing.
00:15:33.000We are still running way behind with regard to beds.
00:15:35.000We're still running way behind with regard to face masks.
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00:17:02.000Alrighty, well, as I say, the medical shortages are continuing.
00:17:05.000The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Are now attempting to give people information about what they can do to replace face masks if they are short on face masks.
00:17:17.000They have contingency and crisis strategies.
00:17:21.000Their contingency capacity strategies include extended use of face masks, so wearing the same face mask for repeated close contact encounters with several different parties without removing the face mask between patient encounters.
00:17:34.000The face mask should be removed and discarded if soiled, damaged, or hard to breathe through, according to the CDC.
00:17:39.000Also, restrict face masks to use by health care professionals rather than patients for source control.
00:17:45.000And finally, they are suggesting that not only should you possibly implement limited reuse of face masks, which apparently is being done at hospitals, they're suggesting other different options, including using a face shield that covers the entire front that extends to the chin or below and the sides of the face with no face mask, considering the use of ventilated headboards, or using homemade masks.
00:18:08.000They say in settings where face masks are not available, healthcare professionals might use homemade masks like bandanas or scarves For care of patients with COVID-19 is a last resort.
00:18:16.000Homemade masks are not considered patient safe since their capability to protect is unknown.
00:18:21.000Caution should be exercised when considering this option.
00:18:23.000Homemade masks should ideally be used in combination with a face shield that covers the entire front and sides of the face.
00:18:29.000Obviously, the fact that the CDC is issuing such guidance tells you something about exactly how far behind we are on all of this.
00:18:36.000Meanwhile, there are serious questions to be asked about why the tests were not available.
00:18:42.000As I say, South Korea, on a per capita basis, the United States is testing far less than nearly any industrialized country.
00:18:49.000And that is due to failures by the CDC and the federal government.
00:18:52.000The CDC turned down testing kits from the WHO.
00:18:55.000They said they'd develop their own, and then it turns out that they were giving all sorts of false positives and maybe even some false negatives.
00:19:01.000According to the Wall Street Journal, when cases of the new coronavirus began emerging several weeks ago in California, Washington, and other pockets of the country, U.S.
00:19:08.000public health officials worried this might be the big one, according to emails and interviews.
00:19:11.000The testing program they rolled out to combat it, though, was a small one.
00:19:15.000Limited testing has blinded Americans to the scale of the outbreak so far, impeding the nation's ability to fight the virus through isolating the sick and their contacts, according to public health officials.
00:19:23.000As of early on Wednesday, about 6,500 people in the United States had tested positive.
00:19:28.000By the way, it is now Thursday, obviously, and we're talking about north of 10,000.
00:19:31.000The CDC and prevention had reported only about 32,000 tests conducted at its facilities and other public health labs.
00:19:39.000Limited testing was keeping patients in the dark despite recent improvements.
00:19:43.000People are coming in with the symptoms of coronavirus and they are being told that they actually should not be tested unless they know they were in contact with someone with coronavirus.
00:19:50.000But the problem is that nobody's been tested for coronavirus, so how the hell do you know if you're in contact with somebody who has coronavirus?
00:19:57.000While the virus was quietly spreading within the United States, the CDC had told state and local officials its testing capacity is more than adequate to meet current testing demands, according to a February 26th agency email viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
00:20:09.000The agency's data show it tested fewer than 100 patients that day.
00:20:13.000Some people are going to be fired for this, and should be fired for this.
00:20:15.000When the CDC first dispersed test kits in early February, it shipped them to a network of state and local government labs and restricted testing to people with virus symptoms who had recently traveled to China, but it was already weeks too late for that.
00:20:27.000Federal officials hope the virus could be contained, even as they disputed alarms from those on the front lines that CDC's guidelines weren't keeping up with the outbreak's spread, according to emails between the U.S.
00:20:37.000And there are people who are going to blame the Trump administration for this, but it just demonstrates that when you have a very thick bureaucracy, that people tend to cover their own asses, which is something that, obviously, we already knew.
00:20:49.000The narrow effort is a failing, said Anthony Fauci.
00:20:51.000Government doctors become the de facto face of the Trump administration coronavirus response.
00:20:55.000While problems clearly still persist, more labs are beginning to do tests.
00:20:59.000Manufacturers are ramping up production.
00:21:01.000CDC officials botched an initial test kit developed in an agency lab, retracting many tests.
00:21:06.000They resisted calls from state officials and medical providers to broaden testing.
00:21:09.000Health officials failed to coordinate with outside companies to ensure needed test kit supplies, like nasal swabs and chemical reagents, would be available, according to suppliers and health officials.
00:21:18.000When the FDA finally opened testing to more outside labs, a run on limited stocks of some supplies needed for the CDC-developed tests quickly depleted stores, according to lab operators and suppliers.
00:21:29.000Hospital and commercial lab operators said the government didn't reach out to enlist their help until it was too late.
00:21:35.000So, obviously, this continues to be a giant failing.
00:21:38.000Now, we are ramping up the testing, and that is a good thing.
00:21:40.000If we do wish to move, as I've said at the outset, from the sort of Chinese model of lock everything down to the South Korean model of we've got to test as many people as humanly possible, and then lock down the people who have this thing, then the testing regimen is going to have to be a lot larger.
00:21:54.000And we're late on this, but we are getting the tests out.
00:21:59.000Now, with that said, there are serious questions to be asked about whether even the South Korean response is going to be sufficient, considering the fact that South Korea may be experiencing a secondary spike.
00:22:09.000As soon as people are entering South Korea again, it's possible that South Korea sees a secondary spike.
00:22:15.000As I mentioned earlier, we are seeing second waves of the virus that are breaking out All across Asia.
00:22:22.000Experts are warning of second waves all across Asia.
00:22:26.000So if that happens, the question is going to be whether testing is going to be sufficient.
00:22:30.000Which really means that in the end, what we're gonna have to deal with is the sad reality that maybe the best we can do is just mitigate the effects of this thing, meaning we develop better treatments.
00:22:39.000There's some people who've been saying that anti-malarial treatments might work.
00:22:41.000There was some hope that anti-HIV treatments would work.
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00:24:22.000Okay, so as I say, one of the reasons that mitigation Might in the end be the only thing that is available to us is because even an additional testing regimen has its downsides.
00:24:33.000There's a good piece by my friend Sean Trend over at RealClearPolitics all about the perils of mass coronavirus testing.
00:24:39.000He says, test kit availability aside, there are crucial issues to consider.
00:24:41.000For example, so long as the background level of infection is low, there are real downsides to mass testing and good reasons to limit testing to individuals who show symptoms or have been in contact with people who have shown symptoms.
00:24:51.000The problem is that when the overall level of infection is low, the overwhelming majority of your positive test results from mass testing will be false positives.
00:24:58.000So maybe the regimen that was put in place in the United States actually would be preferable once we have the beds in place rather than the mass testing and then the mass quarantine of people who show up positive.
00:25:59.000If you test 10 million people, a huge number of people, like you test everybody, the number of false positives actually is going to vastly outweigh the number of true positives.
00:26:09.000Because again, most of the people who have the virus are going to get a positive reading, but the people who don't have illness, 10% of those people are going to get a positive reading too.
00:26:18.000Since there are far more people that don't have the virus than do have it, a 10% error group for that rate overwhelms the 90% accuracy rate for the group that does have it.
00:26:25.000So you end up with a scenario where literally 93% of the people who test positive for a disease do not in fact have the disease.
00:26:32.000So this can certainly skew your data because you could see the relatively low mortality rate and assume that that's real.
00:26:39.000Because the problem with widespread testing, a lot of people who test positive won't actually have had the disease in the first place.
00:26:43.000Second, it gives people a false sense of confidence because that low death rate means, okay, fine, maybe I'll just go out and play.
00:26:49.000And finally, you're gonna end up with a situation in which a lot of people are kept home who are actually healthy.
00:26:55.000So maybe mass testing is not in fact a panacea, depending on whether or not these tests are supremely accurate.
00:27:04.000And if there's a second wave, then even the South Korean sort of solution may not work, which means in the end, the lockdown policies are bound to do not, they cannot be long term.
00:27:13.000There is no lockdown policy that is long term, and it's possible that even a mass testing regimen Statistically speaking, cannot be a long-term solution.
00:27:20.000And this is certainly the case when you're talking about locking down the economy to the extent that we have.
00:27:25.000So let's talk about the federal government's response to all of this.
00:27:27.000Let's talk about the federal government, which is now intervening on an unprecedented scale in the financial community, in the economy.
00:27:36.000Now, there are a lot of people who have been saying, I've been getting a lot of emails, you're a libertarian, why aren't you protesting at the government getting this solved in the economy?
00:27:42.000Because what we have here is essentially a regulatory taking.
00:27:45.000So under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, you cannot seize private property for public use without just compensation when you effectively shut down every business in the country by executive fiat.
00:27:56.000Through mayors, or through states, or through the federal government.
00:27:59.000You are preventing people from using their property.
00:28:01.000You're effectively taking their property from them and the ability to use their property from them without any sort of just compensation.
00:28:07.000This is not the situation when there's sort of just a normal economic downturn, or when the market just collapses for no externality-driven reason.
00:28:16.000In this particular case, it's not even the disease that's shutting down the economy, per se.
00:28:19.000The disease would have an impact on the economy.
00:28:21.000But if we were all going to work right now, the stock market wouldn't have dropped 33%.
00:28:25.000The stock market wouldn't have dropped from $30,000 down below $20,000.
00:28:30.000One of the reasons all this is happening is specifically because governments around the world have forcibly stepped in and shut down businesses from operating.
00:28:37.000So, the government's shoring things up, or at least freezing things in place, until such time as people can get back to work makes some sense.
00:28:43.000Again, they can't seize your property without just compensation.
00:28:46.000Just compensation, presumably, would include ensuring the economy continues to work and your business doesn't fail while the government forces you to close.
00:28:52.000So, President Trump put out a message yesterday.
00:29:37.000Because the bottom line is this, if you are at all concerned about government power, which I'm a conservative, I am, This stuff better be temporary.
00:29:44.000There's a long history in the United States of crises being used to massively grow government, then the government never goes back to its original boundaries, which is why we have to be pretty careful about the sort of measures we implement, and we have to be pretty clear that these measures are designed to sunset as soon as the lockdown is over.
00:29:58.000Here's President Trump talking about the extent of the federal government's response.
00:30:02.000We're using the full power of government in response to the Chinese virus.
00:30:08.000I declare the state of national emergency that we'll make up to $50 billion in disaster relief funds available, which we can use to assist hospitals, which, as you know, we need.
00:30:21.000So what exactly is in the relief bills that have been signed so far?
00:30:24.000So yesterday, President Trump signed a bill providing paid sick leave, free testing, and other benefits.
00:30:28.000According to the New York Times, a relief package to provide sick leave, unemployment benefits, free coronavirus testing, and food and medical aid to people affected by the pandemic was signed into law by President Trump on Wednesday evening after the Senate passed it by a wide margin.
00:30:39.000It was approved in the House last week.
00:30:41.000The Senate vote was 90-8 after the Majority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, urged conservatives who disliked the bill to gag and vote for it anyway.
00:30:50.000This is one of the dangers of politics is that the urgent often defeats the good, meaning that those who are calling for immediate action, they're not wrong.
00:30:59.000We do need immediate action right now to shore up the economy, make sure that people aren't going to go hungry, make sure that people continue to be able to live in their homes.
00:31:06.000The problem is that when you have an emergency situation, that is also a fantastic time.
00:31:10.000As Rahm Emanuel once put it, never let a good crisis go to waste.
00:31:13.000It's also a great time to load up bills with enormous levels of pork and then hope that everybody just goes along with it because the political cost of not going along with it is a lot higher than just signing the check for the moment.
00:31:24.000Lawmakers are already drafting another economic stabilization package that would send direct payments to taxpayers and provide loans to businesses.
00:31:31.000McConnell said we're moving rapidly because the situation demands it.
00:31:34.000There's an outline of the new package.
00:31:35.000It calls for a total of $1 trillion in spending.
00:31:38.000That would include $50 billion for secured loans for the airline industry, not grants, right?
00:31:42.000Loans to the airline industry, which presumably they will have to pay back.
00:31:44.000another $150 billion for secured loans or loan guarantees for other parts of the economy.
00:31:49.000It would allow the Exchange Stabilization Fund, an emergency reserve account, usually used for currency market interventions, to be tapped to cover the costs.
00:31:56.000It would also temporarily guarantee money market mutual funds.
00:31:59.000The Treasury Department proposal calls for two rounds of checks sent directly to American taxpayers April 6th and May 18th.
00:32:06.000Payments would depend on the recipient's income and family size.
00:32:08.000According to the summary, each round would disperse $250 billion.
00:32:13.000Now, again, these big bailouts are basically designed to keep everybody afloat for the moment.
00:32:18.000But the temptation is going to be from the government, keep these things permanent.
00:32:23.000This is why you're seeing so many people suggest that a $2,000 one-time payout is equivalent to Andrew Yang's $1,000 a month payment to everybody forever.
00:32:31.000These two things are different and everybody should make very clear in their minds that these two things are different.
00:32:38.000You cannot claim that a permanent program is the same as a temporary program, nor should conservatives be sucked into thinking that a permanent program is the same as a temporary program.
00:32:47.000That was not a permanent feature of American life.
00:32:49.000FDR violated nearly every rule of American civil liberties during World War II.
00:32:53.000That was not a permanent feature of American life.
00:32:55.000None of this should become a permanent feature of American life in times of good economic health because it does provide disincentive to work.
00:33:01.000Now, the problem right now is that there is no work to be had because the federal government has shut everything down, and so have the state and local governments.
00:33:07.000It is one thing for the state and local governments to rectify their breach by preventing the entire economy from collapsing when they're the ones who are causing this in the first place.
00:33:15.000It is another thing for the federal governments and the state governments to simply create a whole new set of incentives during a non-time of crisis, which is, I think, what people want.
00:33:25.000It's why Republicans, I think correctly, are bucking against the Democratic attempts to force small businesses forever to pay for paid sick leave.
00:33:34.000The reason being, who's not going to take the paid sick leave if you can take the paid sick leave every year?
00:33:39.000Of course, you just raise the cost on businesses.
00:33:41.000Now, in a time like this, I still think it's not great policy.
00:33:45.000I think that if the government wants to pay for that, the government can pay for that, and they can borrow on that basis, and we'll pay for it later.
00:33:50.000Forcing small businesses to pay paid sick leave when they barely, I mean, they can't even cover their employees.
00:33:55.000I mean, people are getting furloughed right now.
00:33:56.000You're actually causing people to get fired.
00:33:58.000But even if you were to be in favor of it right now, that doesn't mean that you should be in favor of it permanently.
00:34:03.000Again, the sort of libertarian conservative case here is when the federal government shuts down businesses, they need to compensate businesses for shutting them down.
00:34:10.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, what these policies look like.
00:34:15.000And then we will ask, again, how long is this gonna last?
00:34:19.000What do the policies look like in the future?
00:34:20.000And we'll get to the media's laser-like focus on the real issue here, which is why are we calling it the Chinese virus?
00:34:26.000Oh my God, because we have to focus on the dumbest possible stuff.
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00:36:36.000I remember, I will take credit for this, it was sort of my idea in the sense that I remember being back in law school and being stuck in a dorm during the winter and being like, God, this is annoying and lonely.
00:36:46.000And I wish that I had somebody to hang out with.
00:36:50.000Right now, since everybody's locked down, it's a great time to hang out with us.
00:36:53.000These shows are less focused on bringing you news and information, more about just hanging out with you at the end of a long day.
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00:37:27.000So according to the New York Times, entire sectors of the American economy are shutting down, threatening to crush businesses, put millions of people out of work, forcing lawmakers to consider a vast financial bailout that would dwarf the federal government's response to the 2008 crisis again. forcing lawmakers to consider a vast financial bailout that would One of the reasons this is appropriate is because it's the government that is causing this.
00:37:48.000Now, I'm not saying that it's unjustified what the government is doing.
00:37:52.000As I've suggested, it's justified so long as there is a plan after the next two weeks, next three weeks.
00:37:56.000If there's no plan, then it is unjustified.
00:37:58.000If the government has no plan, if we have not upped our resources, if all we've done is destroy the world economy to buy us no time and to not fix anything and to not increase our capacity, then this was a complete waste.
00:38:08.000But if we've actually bought some time, if we have flattened the curve in some way, if we have increased our medical capacity, well then maybe this all will have been worth it, at least to a large extent.
00:38:19.000But that doesn't mean that the government gets to shut down your business and then not compensate you for shutting down your business when you haven't violated the law in any way.
00:38:27.000Economists fear that by the time the coronavirus pandemic subsides and economic activity resumes, entire industries could be wiped out.
00:38:32.000Proprietors across the country could lose their businesses.
00:38:34.000Millions of workers could find themselves jobless.
00:38:37.000And it's one of the reasons why we should carefully consider exactly the measures that we're taking with an eye toward what's going to happen in a month.
00:38:44.000If we're doing this by the seat of our pants, day by day, that is not going to cut it.
00:38:50.000If you're talking about wrecking the world economy, there'd better be a plan.
00:38:53.000It's funny, there are people out there, particularly in Twitter world, who say, if you even mention the economy at this time, you're not taking human lives seriously enough.
00:39:00.000Would you care more about dollars and GDP or human life?
00:39:04.000People losing their jobs, that actually affects human life.
00:39:08.000People losing the businesses they've invested their life savings in, that kind of affects human life.
00:39:12.000Millions and millions of people losing their jobs all at once in a massive shock to the economy?
00:39:16.000That's going to have some real-life ramifications for all the people who lose their jobs, and their children, and their spouses, and the people they care about.
00:39:23.000So let's not pretend there are no costs on the other side.
00:39:26.000And let's not pretend that there are no cost calculations when it comes to calibrating strategy properly.
00:39:30.000One of the things that is always bad policy is when you say, if only it would save one life.
00:39:33.000Yeah, if it would only save one life, then we'd cut out all cars.
00:39:55.000And it better involve people getting back to work as soon as possible.
00:39:58.000Because this cannot, this cannot maintain.
00:40:01.000And there's been some talk from doctors about what's going to happen over the next 12 to 18 months.
00:40:05.000Are we going to go through periodic rounds of sort of area shutdowns if there's an outbreak?
00:40:09.000Maybe that has to happen, but the question is the broad overarching consequences of all of this.
00:40:15.000And so, Washington can take on debt, but it can't take on debt forever, and it does demonstrate, by the way, that we are idiots to take on $22 trillion of debt for no reason over the past 40 years.
00:40:25.000Now we actually need to max out the credit card, and we've been busy maxing it out on garbage that we bought on eBay.
00:40:32.000To blunt the fallout, Washington is weighing proposals that could easily top $2 trillion, a staggering jump from the initial $8.3 billion virus responsibility lawmakers approved this month.
00:40:42.000That does include that $1 trillion request that President Trump was making.
00:40:46.000The Republicans are also weighing a separate proposal that would extend a trillion dollars in assistance to small businesses to keep them afloat during the outbreak and keep workers on their payrolls.
00:40:54.000I don't truly like the idea of the federal government giving direct loans to small businesses, honestly, because the federal government has an interest then in making sure that nobody pays all that back.
00:41:03.000Who's going to be the person who enforces that?
00:41:05.000Instead, the federal government should be giving loans to the banks that underwrite all these small businesses and floating them loans at basically 0% interest and telling them they only get those loans if they don't call in the loans right now.
00:41:15.000And that would be the best way to calibrate all of this.
00:41:17.000So, that is sort of the situation where we stand.
00:41:28.000I'm not the only person asking this question.
00:41:29.000I think everybody is asking this question at this point.
00:41:32.000The Associated Press has a piece today called, How Long Will Americans Be Fighting the Coronavirus?
00:41:36.000Scientists say there isn't a simple answer.
00:41:38.000Stephen Morse, disease researcher at Columbia says, In many ways, the situation is unprecedented.
00:41:42.000We're trying to take some actions to curb the spread and timing of the pandemic.
00:41:46.000He says there have been past disease outbreaks scientists can draw lessons from, but in those cases the disease was largely allowed to run its course so the models don't precisely apply.
00:41:56.000I mean, the fact is that if we didn't care about human life, which of course we do, then we would allow the disease to run its course, it would wipe out whoever it wipes out, and people would just continue to operate as normal.
00:42:05.000The whole point of this is presumably that we are going to prevent the loss of life.
00:42:09.000But the question is how you best minimize loss of life without also destroying an economy that sustains life.
00:42:16.000What do you think happens in impoverished countries that are reliant on the world economy in order to feed people?
00:42:22.000People in the United States will still get fed for a 12 to 18 month period of time.
00:42:25.000That is not true in countries that are in the developing world or in the undeveloped world.
00:42:30.000On Monday, President Trump said the U.S.
00:42:31.000may be managing the outbreak through July or August.
00:42:34.000New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state's number of coronavirus cases may peak, not end, in 45 days.
00:42:40.000Each model of how the disease could spread relies on data and assumptions about population dynamics, demographics, healthcare capacity, and other factors, according to Rebecca Katz, public health expert at Georgetown.
00:42:50.000The challenge for designing models of what will happen next is that limited testing for COVID-19 means researchers don't even know what the starting point is, how many people are already infected.
00:42:59.000So how long is this thing actually going to last?
00:43:02.000Well, Mark Jitt, disease researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says the point of the restrictions we have is actually to stretch this out even longer.
00:43:11.000We don't want a big peak to come very quickly.
00:43:15.000Most scientists believe that the fight against COVID-19 won't be over until there's an effective vaccine, but that could take more than a year.
00:43:21.000The best case scenario, according to JIT, is that we have a vaccine in 12 or 18 months, our lives go back to normal.
00:43:26.000The worst case scenario is it takes a long time for a vaccine to be developed.
00:43:34.000Michael Levy, University of Pennsylvania disease researcher, he says, I don't think we can maintain social distancing as it is right now for the duration of the epidemic.
00:43:52.000They're not gonna last another five minutes.
00:43:54.000Well, maybe more feasible is intermittent restrictions and enhanced monitoring to control the disease.
00:43:59.000Once the number of new cases falls below a certain threshold, schools, offices, restaurants could reopen.
00:44:03.000If the number of infections spikes again, restrictions would be reinstated.
00:44:05.000It's going to be very difficult to reinstate restrictions after the restrictions come off, is part of the problem here.
00:44:12.000Bouncing around between restricted and non-restrictive is going to be very difficult.
00:44:16.000And this is particularly true when you look at the data.
00:44:19.000Holman Jenkins over at the Wall Street Journal has a piece today talking specifically about the statistics on coronavirus and what exactly are the costs that we are willing to undergo as an economy in order to minimize an unspecified number of deaths.
00:44:32.000We actually don't know the answers to how many deaths are actually being prevented right now.
00:44:36.000Holman Jenkins says some number of respiratory deaths will be avoided, really delayed, but we'll be spending a lot more than we've ever been willing to spend before to avoid flu deaths.
00:44:44.00083% of our economy will be suppressed to relieve pressure on the 17% represented by healthcare.
00:44:48.000This will have to last months, not weeks, to modulate the rate at which a critical mass of 330 million get infected and acquire natural immunity.
00:44:55.000Will people put up with it once they realize they're still expected to get the virus?
00:44:59.000Right again, this is why it really is about increasing ICU capacity.
00:45:02.000Because if we don't increase ICU capacity and people are like, I can either get it now or I can wait and not have a job and get it later.
00:45:09.000Seriously, I can't tell you how many people who are in their 20s and 30s I've talked to over the past few days who have been like, if I could just get this thing right now and then be done with it, I would do it.
00:45:19.000If I knew I wasn't going to carry it to grandma.
00:45:21.000And that's going to be an increasing attitude as people lose their jobs.
00:45:25.000So the questions become, if we can't actually increase capacity, if things are what they are, at that point you just have to let this thing go.
00:45:33.000That is sort of the logic that is happening right now.
00:45:37.000Understandably, says Holman Jenkins, politicians believe faith in government requires avoiding Italy-like scenes, but turned on its head here is the 50-year-old QALY revolution, the idea of measuring the burden of disease and benefit of healthcare based on quality-adjusted life year, typically valued at $50,000 to $150,000.
00:45:51.000In the present instance, the cost isn't just medical intervention, like ventilator use, but the cost of an economy-wide shutdown to limit the number of candidates for ventilation at any one time.
00:46:01.000He says, I don't know what the figure is, but the QALY value we're placing on avoiding Italy-like deaths is surely a high multiple of any figure previously considered realistic.
00:46:09.000America's shutdown strategy is interesting because it was not a choice that any one person or authority made.
00:46:14.000Everybody sort of jumped on board overnight.
00:46:17.000But this can't last indefinitely is the point that Holman Jenkins is making.
00:46:21.000And that's right, we are operating in the absence of data.
00:46:54.000Okay, meanwhile, the media continue to carry water.
00:46:58.000Many in the media continue to carry water for China, which is unbelievable because China is indeed responsible for the growth of this virus, for the release of this virus, not by the military or anything.
00:47:08.000But as I mentioned yesterday, to apparently some ballyhoo online, China's refusal to shut down wet markets, which by the way are animal rights abuses.
00:47:15.000It's amazing how many people on the left are very much against animal rights abuse.
00:47:28.000The wet markets in China are a disaster area.
00:47:30.000They've been responsible for several outbreaks of different types, ranging from the so-called Asian flu of the 1950s to what we are watching right now.
00:47:39.000The fact that China, to SARS, I mean, the fact that China has allowed this stuff to militate And then has allowed it to spread among the populations of the world is entirely China's fault.
00:47:51.000Axios compiled an actual timeline of what the Chinese government did.
00:47:54.000They say that if Chinese authorities had acted three weeks earlier than they did, the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95%.
00:48:01.000They put together this entire timeline.
00:48:05.000And it demonstrates that the Chinese government knew, they silenced it, they refused to allow the information to spread, They lied to the WHO and said that it did not have human-to-human transmission.
00:48:16.000They allowed tens of thousands of people to gather for events.
00:48:19.000They allowed some 5 million people apparently to travel out of Wuhan.
00:48:26.000This hasn't stopped the media from, in their desperate hatred of Trump, trying to pretend that Trump is a racist for pointing out that China is responsible for all of this.
00:48:32.000Here's yesterday, President Trump going at it with a reporter.
00:48:35.000He was asked this question like four separate times.
00:48:38.000Seriously, in all of this, your biggest concern is that we are labeling China the bad actor when, you know, China is the bad actor?
00:48:44.000Why do you keep calling this the Chinese virus?
00:48:47.000There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country.
00:48:53.000Your own aide, Secretary Azar, says he does not use this term.
00:48:56.000He says ethnicity does not cause the virus.
00:49:14.000I have great love for all of the people from our country, but as you know, China tried to say at one point, maybe they stopped now, that it was caused by American soldiers.
00:49:59.000The reality is that China's refusal to shut down these wet markets, which are an animal rights violation, beyond which they're now a human rights violation considering how many people are going to die from this thing.
00:50:08.000$10 trillion is going to be lost from the world economy over this whole thing.
00:50:24.000There was lots and lots of scapegoating against an ethnic group or a religious group whenever there were pandemics that affected the society and frightened a lot of people.
00:50:35.000And China certainly feels that is what is happening now with people calling it the Wuhan flu or the Wuhan virus or the China virus.
00:50:44.000This is a virus that came from the territory of China, but came from bats.
00:50:49.000This is a bat virus, not a China virus.
00:51:03.000You're doing propaganda work on behalf of a Chinese government that is actively attempting to blame the West for the spread of a virus that started under its communist garbage government.
00:52:01.000Mother Nature did this to us, not China.
00:52:03.000Weird, because it seems like the Chinese government knew about this for like a month.
00:52:07.000Actively censored and threatened people who ended up dying from coronavirus, released 5 million people from the Wuhan province all over the world, and knew about this the whole time.
00:52:15.000It seems like that might have something to do with the Chinese government.
00:52:17.000According to Whoopi Goldberg, it's just Mother Nature.
00:52:19.000Weird how they're willing to blame Mother Nature when it comes to malaction by the Chinese government, malfeasance by the Chinese government, corruption and evil by the Chinese government.
00:52:27.000But when it comes to climate change, that's Trump's fault.
00:52:29.000It's the fault of human beings when it comes to climate change and lack of action, which may or may not be true.
00:52:35.000OK, but when it comes to something that is obviously the result of Chinese governmental failures and evil, then all of a sudden, well, I guess it's just nature.
00:53:22.000OK, first of all, anybody who's going like, you know, an ignorant, stupid ass, you have to be to go around punching Asian people because you think that this is the because this thing originated in China.
00:53:51.000China has imposed a temporary ban on these markets, but I think that China has to be held accountable.
00:54:01.000I think that the World Health Organization, the entire world, has to just say to China, what China did in keeping this a secret, even though they knew it was happening, is a disgrace.
00:54:14.000It's causing panic around the world, and that is just absolutely something that the Chinese must be called to account.
00:54:27.000How is it that so many people on the left are blaming this on the right when Ed Markey, who is the right-winger, is saying it's obviously true?
00:54:34.000Okay, time for some things I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:54:38.000As I've been mentioning all show long, When a crisis hits, sometimes you have to take crisis measures.
00:54:43.000But those crisis measures should not become permanent.
00:54:45.000There's a great book about this by a guy named Robert Higgs.
00:54:47.000It's called Crisis and Leviathan, Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government.
00:54:51.000He makes the point that there have been a series of crises over the course of American history.
00:54:55.000They've constantly been used to maximize the size and scope of American government.
00:54:58.000That doesn't mean the temporary measures aren't necessary.
00:55:00.000It does mean that the temporary measures very often are not temporary.
00:55:03.000And we should keep that in mind when it comes to the crafting of bills, when it comes to the crafting of legislation.
00:55:08.000Do not There's no reason that we should have to sign into law at the behest of people who want to make permanent a complete relational break between the government and its citizens.
00:55:20.000There's no reason we have to cave to that.
00:55:22.000How about we work on what we have to do for the next two, three months, and then we figure out what to do the two, three months after that?
00:55:28.000Because I'll tell you what the Democrats are going to push for right now.
00:55:30.000They're going to push for making permanent all of these changes to the American economy that are fantastic in scope and fantastical in impact.
00:55:38.000And it's going to be a disaster area, unless we keep in mind that it is only government crackdowns that have caused what is going on right now in the economy.
00:55:46.000Again, not unjustified, but that is the reason we are doing all this, not because we require a permanent change to the most powerful economy in the history of the world.
00:55:53.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:56:00.000Okay, so, as y'all know, the song Imagine is the worst song ever written.
00:56:04.000It is a horrible, horrible, evil song.
00:56:07.000And it's not just evil because it's pretentious and ridiculous and the piano chords and all of that.
00:56:10.000It's an evil song because the actual ethos that is promulgated by Imagine is completely idiotic.
00:56:18.000Imagine, there's no countries, it's easy if you try, right?
00:56:21.000Okay, so let's just be a little frank about this.
00:56:23.000Right now, it's pretty obvious there are countries because every single country on planet Earth is closing its borders to all of the other countries.
00:56:30.000And they talk about, the lyrics include, imagine there's no heaven, imagine there's no hell, right?
00:56:37.000All we care about is what happens here on earth, which of course would lead pretty quickly to a moral breakdown of society.
00:56:42.000The song is just tremendously horrible.
00:56:44.000It's a horrible song with a horrible, immoral communist message.
00:56:47.000I've talked about it on the show extensively before.
00:56:49.000So naturally, because celebrities are idiots, they decide that what would be a great idea is to, in the middle of this pandemic, cut a self-glorifying video in which they each sing a line From Imagine.
00:57:01.000Because nothing says solidarity quite like singing a no-borders, idiotic, communist song in the middle of a pandemic in order to show that you care.
00:57:12.000Also, can anyone in Hollywood, like, please, come up with a different idea for a video than everybody singing a line from a song?
00:57:18.000I'm not sure which is more irritating, this or the version of Fight Song they did in 2016 for Hillary.
00:58:49.000At least We Are The World had like a solidarity message that didn't include the destruction of things that actually prevent people from dying.
00:58:58.000These are the people, our moral betters.
00:59:00.000We should listen to Will Ferrell on this stuff.
00:59:03.000If this is the height of your ethos, Mark Ruffalo singing Imagine, if the height of your ethos is the song Imagine, it's because you're doing morality wrong.
00:59:11.000Also policy, only dumb celebrities could come up with the dumbest song ever and then sing the dumbest song ever in order to promote the dumbest agenda ever in the face of a global pandemic that requires concerted individual government action.
00:59:24.000And again, significant restrictions on our way of life.
00:59:39.000And again, as I say every day, we'll get through this together.
00:59:42.000There is an expiration date to the lockdown, and there's an expiration date to the effect of the virus.
00:59:47.000It may be sooner, it may be later, but we can all hope and pray that the government is taking the measures necessary to at least get in place treatments and resources necessary to deal with the pandemic so that when the restrictions come off, we can get back to work.
01:00:33.000The market continues to plummet as the Chinese coronavirus locks people idle in their homes for weeks at a time and the global economy grinds to a halt.
01:00:42.000We will compare the pandemic to the left-wing policy agenda and see if we can tell the difference.
01:00:46.000Then a new study suggests the spread of the virus could have been reduced by as much as 95% if the Chinese government had acted to stop it rather than to cover it up.
01:00:55.000But of course, instead of reporting on that study, the U.S.
01:00:58.000mainstream media is simply parroting the communist regime's propaganda.