The Candice Malcolm Show - March 11, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Trudeau's Coronavirus Spending Spree


Episode Stats

Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

188.4797

Word Count

5,531

Sentence Count

340

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Candice Malan talks about the devastating impact of global oil prices and the coronavirus outbreak on Alberta's economy and the devastating effects on the stock market. She also talks about what's going on in the rest of the world and why we should be worried about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Global oil prices plummet, kicking Alberta while it's down.
00:00:03.080 Everyone's worried about coronavirus, so the Trudeau government throws a billion dollars
00:00:06.980 at the problem. Italy struggles to deal with the pandemic, and the woke left uses coronavirus as
00:00:12.400 an excuse to lecture us with their annoying ideology. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is
00:00:16.800 The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:26.400 We're going to spend a lot of time today talking about coronavirus and what's going on
00:00:30.200 all over the world. But before we get to that, I want to talk about Alberta, because this is
00:00:34.560 something that's kind of getting overshadowed. Everyone's talking about corona. Everyone's
00:00:37.960 worried about the economy, the response, what's going to happen. And not a lot of people are
00:00:41.820 really paying attention to what is happening in Western Canada. And let me tell you, it is
00:00:45.740 devastating. I talked about this previously on the podcast about how the tech resource mining
00:00:50.700 project getting pulled was devastating for the province. Obviously, all of the pipeline delays
00:00:54.680 are really, really hard. Alberta has just been struggling, nonstop bad news, one news after
00:00:59.640 another. And what's happening this week, sort of from a geopolitical perspective, is really,
00:01:04.660 really damaging the province, mainly with the price of oil. So I'm going to read. This is from
00:01:09.380 the Globe and Mail from their Western Canada update. It's pretty good, talking about the price of oil
00:01:14.620 plummeting and how that is impacting Alberta. So it says, Albertans woke up on Monday morning.
00:01:19.820 They were confronted with shocking news about the province's energy industry and its economy.
00:01:24.580 Oil prices had collapsed to their lowest levels in four years, with the single largest day drop
00:01:28.840 in decades in the face of escalating price wars between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Alberta's budget
00:01:34.540 released less than two weeks ago was in tatters and the future of Alberta's economy, which is still
00:01:38.920 hurting from a downturn that began in 2014, is now in serious jeopardy. The price crash came as the
00:01:45.140 province was already staring down the problems related to the novel coronavirus outbreak, which
00:01:49.700 had weakened demand for oil and push prices down. And now this. So this is the key part right here.
00:01:54.420 We're talking about the stock valuation of a lot of these big oil companies and oil producers in
00:01:59.040 Alberta. It says this, oil producers saw billions in stock value evaporate in a matter of hours.
00:02:05.820 Ovintiv Inc., which is the successor to Encana, that is now based in the United States, lost more than
00:02:10.640 70 percent of its share price by the end of the day. Calgary-based Cernovus Energy Inc. lost half.
00:02:16.480 Other energy companies saw their stock prices fall by 30 percent or more. The TSX Composite Index
00:02:22.000 plunged by 10 percent. So Cernovus later announced significant cuts to its capital spending plan
00:02:28.200 and suspended its oil-by-rail program. This is just absolutely terrifying for Alberta, again,
00:02:35.920 at a time when there's just so much uncertainty in that province and really just a lot of unemployment
00:02:41.600 and all the problems that come from unemployment, talking about people losing their homes,
00:02:46.080 obviously losing their jobs, losing their homes. We have all kinds of problems. The suicide rate,
00:02:50.880 for instance, in Alberta is 50 percent higher than it is in Ontario. So this isn't just an economic
00:02:56.240 issue. It really is a people issue. This is more from that Global Mail report. It says,
00:03:01.520 Premier Jason Kenney, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, attempted to reassure Albertans telling them the
00:03:05.840 province was ready to weather the storm while calling on the federal government for urgent
00:03:09.520 action. Mr. Kenney acknowledged that his provincial budget, which just came out two weeks ago,
00:03:14.160 projected a deficit of nearly seven billion dollars in the coming year with the assumption that oil
00:03:19.360 prices would be double what they are now. So Alberta was already going to be running a deficit
00:03:24.800 and now we learned that the price of oil has just basically fallen in half. So that will need to be
00:03:29.920 adjusted. Again, just a really unfortunate timing for all of this really tough, tough time in Alberta.
00:03:36.400 So our thoughts go out to all of those who are affected. And really, I mean, I don't really know
00:03:40.960 what else the province and the premier can do in this situation. This is geopolitics, but it's just
00:03:45.520 really, really bad timing. And so that is really important news for us. Now let's talk about what
00:03:51.040 everyone is talking about, which is the coronavirus. I'll give you some updated numbers here. So
00:03:56.320 as of March 10th, 2020, there are 36 cases in Ontario, 39 cases in British Columbia, four in
00:04:04.160 Quebec, and 14 in Alberta. So a total of just 93 cases, which is really low globally. It's pretty
00:04:11.200 impressive. There are large outbreaks happening. I think the worst cities hit in the United States
00:04:15.520 right now are Seattle and the Seattle area. There was a nursing home that was hit there that really
00:04:20.720 has been devastating. And then obviously there's just the runoff that happens with the kinds of
00:04:26.800 infections. And the way that this disease is spread is really alarming, just sort of how easily and how
00:04:32.480 quickly it's spread. Globally, there have been 122,000 cases now, and the death toll has gone up to 4,386,
00:04:42.080 while an additional 66,993 people have recovered from the disease. Now, of course, the problem is
00:04:49.920 that the death rate is so high. So right now, the World Health Organization says that the death rate
00:04:55.120 for this disease is about 3.4%. So people who watch the podcast, listen to the podcast know, in the past,
00:05:02.240 at the very beginning, when the coronavirus news first came out, I was sort of saying, you know,
00:05:06.480 I think the media is overblowing it. Really, if you look at the seasonal flu or influenza, how many
00:05:11.760 people get affected by that? It's not a top news story, because it happens every single year.
00:05:16.640 Your physician will encourage you to get a flu shot, and most people do, responsible people do.
00:05:22.640 But it's not top news, it's not a top news story every year, despite the fact that thousands of
00:05:27.440 people, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide die from influenza every year. And even in Canada,
00:05:33.760 the death rate, about between 500 and 1500 people die every year from the flu. And again,
00:05:38.720 the news media doesn't really cover it. So it's not a big sort of fearful thing in your face.
00:05:44.560 But the comparison, you know, the influenza death rate is less than 1%. So fewer than 1% of people who
00:05:50.560 get the flu every year die from it, whereas coronavirus at this point, best estimates is that
00:05:56.480 somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5% of people who get this disease, who catch coronavirus,
00:06:03.840 will die, which is really, really scary. So, you know, the scary things about it is how
00:06:08.000 fast it spreads, and that high death rate. And of course, the fact that we don't have
00:06:12.320 any kind of vaccination, there's no known, you know, medication that you can take,
00:06:16.160 there's nothing you can take to prevent it, there's no vaccination for it. So at this point,
00:06:20.800 there's just so many unknown things. And that's part of the reason why the stock market has just
00:06:24.160 been going wild. I talked about how the price of oil dropped, and that really hurt the Canadian
00:06:28.960 stock market. But global markets have just been up and down and up and down and up and down.
00:06:32.880 And so much of it is just because there's so many unknown factors that we just don't know.
00:06:36.640 We don't really know exactly how it's being spread. We don't really know how to stop it
00:06:41.280 at this point. And that's why, you know, it really is important to take precautions, you know,
00:06:45.760 just kind of basic stuff, washing your hands frequently with soap. People at True North will
00:06:51.120 know that I've been enforcing the hand sanitizer rule. We've got them all over the office here,
00:06:55.840 making sure everyone's constantly washing your hands. If you're going to cough or sneeze, do it
00:06:59.840 into your shoulder or elbow. Avoid, you know, handshakes and touching. Social distancing
00:07:07.200 is what they're calling it, which is a good idea. I know a lot of people aren't going into work.
00:07:11.120 A lot of schools have been canceled. I flew over the weekend and actually there was nothing out of
00:07:16.640 the ordinary. The plane was still full. It was a busy airport. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
00:07:22.000 I was talking to a student on the plane who goes to Stanford, but he lives here in Toronto. And he said
00:07:26.960 that Stanford University has just canceled the rest of the semester. I know a lot of American
00:07:31.440 schools have. Some Canadian schools are also starting to do that. And of course,
00:07:34.640 a big concern is that it is spring break. Spring break is this week and next week. March break,
00:07:39.760 as they call it here in Ontario. And a lot of people have travel plans. A lot of people are
00:07:43.840 going to be out and about. And so that will definitely be a big test. For Canada right now,
00:07:48.560 it seems that we're doing a fairly good job just in that there's only 93 cases. And you can compare
00:07:53.680 that to much, much higher case numbers in other parts of the world. Now, of course, the Trudeau
00:08:00.240 government is finally starting to do something. They've kind of taken a blasé, hands-off approach
00:08:05.120 to the coronavirus and dealing with it. At this point, except for now, they have announced
00:08:09.120 $1 billion in government spending trying to combat the impacts of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada.
00:08:17.840 So we'll break down that $1 billion. Here it is. Support for provinces and territories,
00:08:23.280 $500 million. Not really sure what that exactly means, but money going presumably to health care
00:08:30.000 facilities, which are run by provincial budgets. Investing in research, that's going to be another
00:08:34.480 $275 million. Immediate and additional public health response, including funding for Indigenous
00:08:40.400 Services Canada, $150 million. Sustained communication and public education, $50 million.
00:08:47.760 That's one of the ones that I'm sort of concerned about. I don't really know what that means.
00:08:50.960 Communication and public education. So is that just, again, encouraging people to
00:08:56.160 wash their hands and not sneeze on each other? Or is that going to be some kind of a propaganda effort
00:09:02.560 by the Canadian government? We'll have to wait and see on that one. Personal protective equipment,
00:09:07.200 $50 million. Repatriating Canadians abroad, $7 million. Employment insurance sickness benefits,
00:09:14.080 another $5 million. And then because it's Justin Trudeau, of course, we're sending $50 million in
00:09:20.080 international assistance, and an additional $2 million to support the World Health Organization.
00:09:27.440 I think that the World Health Organization is an important source. That's someone that you should
00:09:32.080 be looking to to get most up-to-date research and figures about the coronavirus. Don't necessarily rely
00:09:39.600 on news sources or radio hosts or podcast hosts to find out the latest about coronavirus. Go right to
00:09:46.960 the source, which is the World Health Organization. They do good work. However, there are also plenty
00:09:52.480 of examples of money being misspent by that organization. So I think the biggest example
00:09:58.480 is what's going on in Iran. I touched on this briefly in the last podcast, but there's now a lot more
00:10:03.920 evidence talking about how the Iranian government is just such a bad actor, just such a ridiculously evil
00:10:10.320 government. So this is from the People's Mohajideen Organization of Iran, which is sort of an opposition
00:10:17.200 party that's fighting against the tyrannical Iranian regime. It says, shortage of med supplies during
00:10:24.400 coronavirus outbreak, IRGC profiting on black market. Iran is suffering from a drastic shortage of
00:10:31.520 medical supplies like masks and disinfectants because the regime's Revolutionary Guard Corps,
00:10:36.320 the IRGC, is stockpiling them and selling them to the public at a major markup. State-run media reports
00:10:43.120 that health masks priced at 2,000 rials are being sold for 30 times that in many places across Iran.
00:10:50.160 Some places they now cost more than 150,000 rials, yet still people wait in long lines and pay big
00:10:56.720 money for these essentials that are in short supply. We're still on social media reports that
00:11:01.360 show the IRGC has been labeling air fresheners as disinfectant sprays and flogging them to desperate
00:11:07.120 people. I talked about that in the last podcast. And this is even worse. The regime is selling supplies
00:11:13.360 that the European countries gave to them as humanitarian aid. And one man on social media
00:11:18.640 showing that he bought a German alcohol-based disinfectant on the black market. So people are
00:11:23.920 out of the goodness of their hearts donating and trying to help Iran, which is one of the worst hit
00:11:28.240 countries by coronavirus. And that is because there's so much business that gets done between Iran
00:11:34.240 and China. They're both evil communist regimes. And a lot of people in the world don't want to do any
00:11:39.520 business with Iran. And one of the only countries that will is China. So there's a lot of direct
00:11:43.200 flights between the two countries. When a lot of countries were blocking flights and stopping people
00:11:47.840 from coming from China, the very, very beginning of this outbreak, Iran didn't have any precautions.
00:11:52.320 So a lot of people in Iran are suffering and have been infected with the coronavirus. And so because
00:12:00.400 of that, again, the government is just evil. And that's why that's part of the problem. When you give
00:12:05.680 money to international aid and international assistance, it's completely unaccountable for.
00:12:11.040 A lot of times the people who are most in need are the ones with the most tyrannical and backwards
00:12:16.000 types of governments who are exactly the type of people who are going to misuse funds and use it
00:12:21.280 for their own personal gain, not to help the actual individuals in need. So that is sort of a sad
00:12:27.040 situation. Now, this is sort of a big story. The first case of community infection in Canada has
00:12:33.920 been reported. So community infection is when someone gets the coronavirus and they have no
00:12:38.800 idea why. It just spread throughout the community. So it's not that they didn't personally go to China
00:12:45.520 or they didn't have someone in their immediate family or someone they work closely that went to one of
00:12:49.680 the sort of origins of the disease. But it's just, you know, someone gets it and someone else gets it
00:12:54.880 and it gets passed along through the community. So that's sort of terrifying happened here in Toronto.
00:13:00.640 And interestingly enough, it happened at an event that Justin Trudeau was in attendance. So this is
00:13:07.680 from the Financial Post. It says, anyone who attended the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
00:13:13.760 2020 Convention in Toronto being asked to monitor themselves for symptoms of the coronavirus
00:13:19.680 after a man who attended was tested positive in the Sudbury area. Justin Trudeau, as well as Minister
00:13:26.320 of Natural Resources Seamus O'Regan and Ontario Premier Doug Ford were all in attendance at the
00:13:33.040 conference. So that's pretty terrifying stuff, especially given how fast we know that this moves.
00:13:38.320 I know a lot of people who are very worried about this are just worried about how quickly it grows
00:13:42.640 and how fast you can go from saying like, hey, Canada's doing a pretty good job. We only have
00:13:47.040 90 some cases, 93 cases, to all of a sudden you have a situation like Italy where the number of cases
00:13:54.160 was just doubling every single day for a while. A new research report coming out of the University of
00:13:59.280 Toronto's Dallas School of Public Policy indicates that anywhere between 30 and 70 percent of Canadians
00:14:06.640 could become infected by the virus if it continues to spread. I mean, this is kind of like worst case
00:14:12.960 scenario. I know that there's definitely a couple different ways to approach and look at this. You
00:14:17.200 know, we should just go about our daily life and make sure that we're using, you know, cleanliness
00:14:22.080 routines and making sure that we're not exposing ourselves. And then other people who are like on full
00:14:26.800 lockdown and aren't going to leave the house and are completely paranoid. I think when you hear
00:14:31.200 statistics like 70 percent of Canadians could be infected, you know, just to play out that math,
00:14:36.880 and I'm definitely not saying that this is a possibility, but this is just according to the
00:14:40.480 research, 70 percent of Canada's population, so Canada has 20, Canada's 35 million people, 70 percent
00:14:46.480 of that would be about 25 million people if the death rate of this disease is as it's currently pegged
00:14:52.480 right now, 3.4 percent. That equates to 850,000 people that could potentially die from this disease
00:14:59.600 in Canada alone. Now, of course, the death rate keeps shifting because it really just depends. Like,
00:15:04.560 you could say that the only reason that the death rate is so high is because so many people who,
00:15:10.960 so many people who have coronavirus that don't die from it don't even know that they have it. So
00:15:14.560 if there's 122,000 known cases, but there could be an additional 100,000 or more people who also
00:15:20.800 have it but don't know because they don't show symptoms and then they recover before they even
00:15:25.120 know the death rate would go down a lot. And again, that's just part of the idea that there's just so
00:15:29.920 many unknowns with this. I'm not sure if, you know, a billion dollars is well spent right now because
00:15:36.720 the problem with the Trudeau government is that they have no sense of fiscal responsibility. They have
00:15:42.240 no concept of money and how bad things are. You would think when times are good, which they have been,
00:15:47.760 frankly, for the last decade or so, that's the time when you sort of save up, when you make sure you
00:15:53.360 pay off your debts, you build up a reserve, you build up a rainy day fund just in case, so that
00:15:58.160 if something like this happens, like the world price of oil drops, like the coronavirus outbreak in
00:16:02.880 Canada, you have a reserve funding. And that's sort of the basic economic idea. You know, Trudeau
00:16:10.560 government has done the exact opposite. They have been spending like there's no tomorrow, racking up
00:16:14.800 really unnecessary deficits and piling Canadians deeper and deeper in debt. They're so over leveraged
00:16:20.960 that now when you hit a point like this, it becomes like a perfect storm. You have all of these investors
00:16:26.080 fleeing Canada. Warren Buffett just announced $4 billion he's pulling out of the country, not to mention
00:16:31.920 the Tech Frontier pipeline news that they're pulling out, the fact that we can't get any pipelines built.
00:16:37.200 I mean, we're just having a major, major problem of confidence in Canada's ability to get the market
00:16:43.680 running. And then add to that the global price of oil, add to that coronavirus, and we have no rainy
00:16:49.040 day fund. So where is this billion dollars even coming from? I'll tell you, it's coming from
00:16:54.160 debt. We're borrowing more and more money. Canada has a budget coming up. And I know that there's a lot
00:16:59.520 of sort of liberal centrists and left-wing voices calling on the Trudeau government to do a stimulus package,
00:17:05.040 to dig in even deeper, to borrow more and more, leverage Canadians even further. That is a terrible idea
00:17:11.760 just from an economic perspective. Now is not a good time to borrow more money and to bury Canadians
00:17:17.280 deeper and deeper into debt. But that's probably the approach that we're taking. And this comes after
00:17:22.400 last week when the federal government announced that it would be spending $27 million on research for
00:17:29.360 COVID-19, which included $2.6 million on research about how to get this, combat discrimination,
00:17:37.200 racism, and social media misinformation. Again, the concern of the Trudeau government is not on
00:17:44.320 stopping the disease, on containing it, on making sure that there's screening at airports. Like I said,
00:17:48.480 I was at the airport on the weekend and there was absolutely nothing. There was absolutely no screening.
00:17:52.960 There were no people taking temperatures. There's not even someone monitoring to see if someone was
00:17:56.640 like coughing or sneezing when they were getting off the plane. They're not doing any kind of
00:18:00.000 monitoring at the airport. And that's Pearson Airport, which is the biggest, obviously,
00:18:04.000 international hub in Canada. But they do want to spend $2.6 million of board money to focus on racism
00:18:11.120 and how Canadians are just racist. And we're, you know, coronavirus is just an excuse for us to
00:18:16.800 show our true colors and how racist we are. That's what the left truly believes. And same with the $50
00:18:22.080 million for the sustained communication public education campaign. Who knows what that means
00:18:26.800 and why we need to be borrowing money in order to do that. And if we look at Italy, what's going on
00:18:34.000 there, they're really struggling. Italy is an example of a country where the outbreak just sort of
00:18:39.040 happened, you know, overnight. They had a huge, huge crisis on their hands. More than 10,000 people
00:18:44.880 have contracted the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus, with tens of thousands of people being tested at
00:18:50.800 hospitals. A medic in Northern Italy said that hospitals were running at, quote,
00:18:54.800 200% capacity with doctors forced into life or death decisions over who should receive intensive
00:19:01.280 care. This is also part of the problem is just a total lack of resources, even in developed societies
00:19:06.720 and developed countries like Italy. And again, this is a concern in North America and Canada,
00:19:10.960 the United States, that we just don't have the capacity to have 35 to 70% of our population
00:19:17.440 in a hospital room getting care if that's what it comes to. So this is from a story translated
00:19:26.240 by the Metro UK. It says, the current situation is difficult to imagine and numbers do not explain
00:19:31.680 things at all. Said an unnamed medic, we've stopped all of routine. All operating rooms have been converted
00:19:37.920 into intensive care units and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like traumas and
00:19:44.240 strokes. There are hundreds of patients with severe respiratory failure and many of them do not have
00:19:50.000 access to anything above a reservoir mask. Yeah. So, I mean, that's just the concern right now is we
00:19:55.600 just don't have the capacity if things get as bad as some people are predicting. And I think what's
00:20:00.560 happening in Italy is a bit of a preview of what could happen if this disease comes to North America,
00:20:06.960 like some are predicting it. It's kind of eerie to see pictures of Italy right now. The country's on
00:20:12.240 complete lockdown. So some of the most beautiful historic places on the continent, places that
00:20:18.800 attract a lot of tourists that they go to are just kind of empty right now because people are on
00:20:23.840 lockdown. People aren't traveling. Like I mentioned on a show, you know, we have spring break coming up.
00:20:29.520 I know a lot of people who have trips planned and they just don't really know what to do about it.
00:20:35.520 I was at my church group, mom group earlier this morning and some of the moms, well, first of all,
00:20:40.720 there's usually like 30 people there. Today, there was like four people there. And the ladies
00:20:46.480 that I did speak to, you know, they say, you know, we have a trip planned to the Dominican Republic.
00:20:52.160 I don't really know if we're going to go through with it. My own sister is supposed to fly in and
00:20:56.320 visit us next weekend with her one year old. And her concern isn't necessarily anything about catching
00:21:02.480 coronavirus, but it's about quarantine and what will happen if she can't get back on her flight.
00:21:07.840 She lives in the US. So if she gets stuck at the border for whatever reason, something happens
00:21:12.880 where the border gets blocked or people get into quarantine, that's sort of the fear. No one wants
00:21:17.280 to be stuck in quarantine for two weeks staying, you know, who knows where in a gym or at a motel
00:21:23.440 or wherever they put you. And I think that's part of the problem. I myself, I went to Costco yesterday
00:21:29.280 to just kind of stock up, get the house stocked just in case there's any kind of a shutdown where
00:21:34.480 they decide to close stores or something like that. I've never seen Costco like that before.
00:21:39.200 It was packed on a Tuesday morning. It was packed. You couldn't, you couldn't get a parking spot.
00:21:43.360 There's a line to get in because they're wiping down all of the buggies for people. They were
00:21:48.320 completely sold out of toilet paper. They had maximum two, two item limits on a lot of products. So
00:21:56.560 again, it was, it was just really, really, a lot of people are panicking and worried about what is
00:22:02.000 going to happen. And not surprisingly, the left is using coronavirus as an excuse to lecture us. So
00:22:10.240 this, this story popped up on my newsfeed and I thought it was a serious story. So I read it, but
00:22:16.720 this is going to be this week in fake news because it is just sort of ridiculous. So this is a Vox news
00:22:22.960 story. It says, want some, want to do something about coronavirus? Here are five ideas. It's easy to feel
00:22:29.440 powerless. Instead, let's help the most vulnerable. Okay, here we go. So the, the, the, the piece
00:22:37.440 starts off not too bad. It says, let's take basic precautions, talking about how, you know, if you're
00:22:42.560 sick, stay home, make sure you're washing your hands, uh, make sure you just, you know, avoid interact,
00:22:49.440 too much interaction with people, um, kind of basic stuff. So you read it and you're like, okay, this is a
00:22:55.280 pretty useful, uh, report here. Uh, but then all of a sudden you start reading and you realize that
00:23:01.440 they're just trying to lecture you about social justice nonsense. So one of the things they talk
00:23:06.880 about is if everyone's staying home, they don't want to go to the grocery store, they might have to
00:23:11.120 rely too heavily on delivery. But the problem is that delivery people could also get sick. So it goes,
00:23:16.960 this is especially important since many delivery workers lack paid sick time. So they start lecturing
00:23:23.280 us about how delivery people should have better benefits. They should be paid more and they should
00:23:28.320 get more sick time, which really, um, sure that might be your pet issue, but you know, we're focusing
00:23:34.400 on coronavirus in this article, but they just can't help talking about how, you know, delivery people
00:23:39.360 supposedly are mistreated. And yet, you know, there's still so many people who want to be delivery
00:23:44.160 people. So I don't quite buy that. The next tip from Vox is don't join in on racism and xenophobia.
00:23:50.800 So it says people have been using the coronavirus, which first sickened people in Wuhan, China,
00:23:57.440 as an example to revive racist stereotypes for months. The outbreak has had a decidedly
00:24:03.760 dehumanizing effect, raining old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as
00:24:09.440 uncivilized, uncivilized, barbaric others who bring with them dangerous, contagious diseases,
00:24:16.080 and an appetite for dogs, cats, and other animals outside the norms. Well, I mean, this is just sort
00:24:23.440 of unproven. I'm sure that there are some racist jerks out there who have been using this as an
00:24:28.080 example to make, you know, uh, unpolitically correct, politically incorrect jokes on social
00:24:33.520 media. Uh, but the fact of the matter is that this disease did originate in China. That is the origin.
00:24:39.360 And from best information that we have right now, it has something to do with the sale of bats and
00:24:45.200 the fact that bats carry so many diseases. So whether they were handling bats or eating bats,
00:24:49.920 that, that is the origin of the coronavirus. It is a fact. So pointing that out or talking about how,
00:24:56.160 you know, we really shouldn't, human beings really shouldn't interact with bats in that kind of way.
00:25:00.000 That's not necessarily racist or xenophobic to say. It's just sort of a fact that applies to
00:25:04.800 everyone in the world. And to sort of sit here and lecture us about how we shouldn't talk about
00:25:09.520 how this disease originated in China is just annoying. Like, like, why can't we just talk
00:25:14.640 about the facts? Why can't we just be honest about the origin of this virus without having the left,
00:25:19.440 you know, trying to lecture us? It talks about how Chinatowns across the country have lost businesses
00:25:24.960 and people have avoided eating out at Chinese restaurants. I think that's true about everything.
00:25:30.080 I would guess that, that, that, you know, shops and malls and all kinds of public places have lost
00:25:35.920 businesses. It's not unique to Chinatown. I'm sure all restaurants, uh, have seen less people wanting
00:25:41.200 to go out and eat just because people are concerned. People are worried about going and interacting with
00:25:46.320 other people, having food prepared, uh, that where they can't see it and brought to them just because
00:25:50.800 you don't know what it is. So I think that this is really just a little bit of over exaggeration.
00:25:56.240 Um, I think that there is some concern of people. I'll give you an example. Charlie Kirk,
00:26:02.480 who is a conservative activist and sort of a high profile, young conservative,
00:26:06.960 big supporter of Donald Trump on social media. He's a pretty, very smart guy. I watched some of
00:26:11.440 his videos and I think he's very intelligent. Unfortunately, he decided to start calling this
00:26:16.160 disease the China disease, just like that China disease, which isn't really that accurate. It
00:26:21.840 isn't really helpful. Sure. It originated in China, but it's not the China disease. It's a respiratory
00:26:26.800 disease and it is now global. The problem, you know, nobody cares that Charlie Kirk tweeted that.
00:26:31.760 He could, he can tweet stupid idiotic things if he wants to. The problem is that President Donald
00:26:36.800 Trump then retweeted him, which I think is wrong. I don't think that the president should be
00:26:41.520 kind of weighing in and using those kinds of slang to talk about the disease. And you don't want
00:26:46.080 to give, you know, you don't want to give fodder to the left because they're going to, you know,
00:26:50.560 complain and say that the whole reaction is racist no matter what we do. And so when conservatives sort
00:26:55.360 of walk on that line and do these kinds of things, it really just doesn't help. So I wasn't happy to
00:27:00.560 see that. I thought that was unfortunate. And that is also true that the left is over exaggerating. So
00:27:06.560 back to this Vox article, the next tip for how to react in this coronavirus situation is don't write
00:27:14.960 off the people most vulnerable to the virus, reach out to them. So according to Vox, we shouldn't
00:27:21.440 dismiss people as unimportant and say, oh, it only kills the old and sick. I don't know how reaching
00:27:28.000 out to these groups physically should help. I actually think we should probably avoid those
00:27:31.840 groups because on the off chance that you've been infected and you don't know because you're healthy
00:27:36.400 and so you don't have any symptoms. And then you go and start reaching out to elderly members of your
00:27:42.320 family or your neighbors. There's a possibility that you could actually spread the disease to them.
00:27:47.600 So Vox is just, again, giving bad advice, of course. And then their last tip about coronavirus is be
00:27:55.200 informed and mindful of those most impacted. So they talk about misinformation about coronavirus
00:28:01.200 and then they use it as an example to bash President Trump and talk about how he feeds xenophobia
00:28:07.360 and makes people less safe. So I think both Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have handled the situation
00:28:13.520 rather poorly. I think that the U.S. has taken much more precautions. They were very quick to close the
00:28:18.400 border with China and stop flights, which was good. The problem is that Donald Trump has been
00:28:23.200 contradicting officials and members of the CDC, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which is
00:28:29.840 really unhelpful. It's times like this that the president should just keep his mouth shut and let the experts
00:28:34.960 do the talking. But again, thanks a lot, Vox. Really, you provided nothing in this article of
00:28:41.920 substance, only sort of whiny, annoying lecturing from the woke left, which, you know, most times you
00:28:49.280 just want to ignore advice from the left. And at times when there's actually potentially a big crisis
00:28:53.680 and pandemic, the last thing that normal people want to hear is lecturing and SJW nonsense and someone
00:29:01.280 pushing their ideology. So to the woke left, just stop, just stop. All right, I'm going to leave
00:29:06.560 it at that. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.