The Candice Malcolm Show - The Candice Malcolm Show： Trudeau's Coronavirus Spending Spree

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 0.69

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 1.00

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 0.73

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 0.84

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 0.97

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.90

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 0.99

00:24:28.080 example to make, you know, uh, unpolitically correct, politically incorrect jokes on social 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.95

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 1.00

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.

The Candice Malcolm Show - March 11, 2020

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