The Glenn Beck Program - November 29, 2021


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Matt Ridley ｜ 11⧸29⧸21


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Glenn and Matt talk about the new Omicron variant of the Ebola virus, and why they don't think it's going to become as deadly as Ebola. Plus, a new book from Matt Ridley about the origins of the new strain and where it may come from.

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00:00:00.000 Stu, I don't know if you know this, but it could be as deadly as Ebola.
00:00:04.440 Oh, no.
00:00:04.980 And spread, I think, just by sharing watches.
00:00:08.480 It's Armatron.
00:00:09.860 They now say it could be as...
00:00:11.860 It's Omicron.
00:00:13.420 Omicron.
00:00:14.100 Oh, is that a Transformer? 0.74
00:00:15.420 It sounds like a Transformer, but apparently we just didn't know anything about the Greek alphabet.
00:00:19.800 These things are revealing themselves like they're like a trailer in a movie.
00:00:22.540 Oh, my gosh, what's the next one?
00:00:24.720 Why are we surprised?
00:00:26.760 So it's, yes, it's the new COVID scare.
00:00:30.420 Some say it could be as bad as Ebola.
00:00:33.520 Highly doubt that, but we give you all the facts on that.
00:00:37.440 And we have a great guest, Matt Ridley, on.
00:00:40.900 Yeah, he has a new book out about the origins of COVID-19.
00:00:43.680 He talks to us about the Omicron variant, should we be worried about it?
00:00:46.920 Also a little bit about Fauci and where this virus may have come from.
00:00:51.440 And he's one of those people, along with a scientist from, I think, MIT,
00:00:56.080 talking about how this very well could be from the lab.
00:00:59.280 No, no.
00:01:01.240 And he goes through all the science behind that and why that looks to be true.
00:01:04.980 He's just questioning science.
00:01:06.660 He's questioning Fauci.
00:01:08.540 That's what I got from it.
00:01:09.980 All this and more on today's podcast.
00:01:11.960 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:22.200 Oh, my goodness.
00:01:27.900 Omicron.
00:01:30.020 I think that should be a transformer.
00:01:33.960 And in a way, it is.
00:01:36.960 This is the transformation now of COVID-19.
00:01:42.660 It is so deadly, so deadly that let me see if I can get this.
00:01:47.340 The Belgian, I think it's the Belgian prime minister says this should be called COVID-21.
00:01:54.920 So we should say that it was discovered in the year that it was discovered?
00:02:03.660 No.
00:02:03.680 He says it's three times more infectious than the original virus.
00:02:08.880 So it should be instead of COVID, I'm quoting, instead of COVID-19, it should be COVID-21.
00:02:14.680 20, 21, that's two.
00:02:19.760 Shouldn't it be 22?
00:02:22.820 That's so weird.
00:02:24.300 I have no idea.
00:02:25.320 So anyway, the panic began just this weekend.
00:02:31.140 The World Medical Association chair demanding now national lockdowns
00:02:37.440 and making sure that everyone is mandated all around the world.
00:02:44.820 He says the new South African variant is a good example of the mutations 0.98
00:02:52.020 and us trying to prevent every possible infection and how it can't be done.
00:02:58.200 We don't know anything about its dangerousness yet, but it seems to be spreading rapidly.
00:03:03.580 Now, there's no fear-mongering in this following sentence.
00:03:08.960 Again, we don't know anything about its dangerousness, but it seems to be spreading rapidly.
00:03:16.600 My great concern is it could lead to a variant that is as infectious as Delta,
00:03:23.680 but as dangerous as Ebola.
00:03:28.980 As dangerous as Ebola?
00:03:31.080 Ebola.
00:03:31.680 Wow.
00:03:31.900 It might have mutated a little faster than, you know, it's weird to go from like you're sick
00:03:41.240 and if you're old, you could die like from pneumonia kind of like thing
00:03:45.880 to blood shooting out of every orifice of your body.
00:03:50.300 That's the danger of Omicron.
00:03:52.160 Omicron.
00:03:52.980 Yeah.
00:03:53.540 Okay.
00:03:54.060 So I don't, yeah, I don't think it's going to become Ebola.
00:03:59.460 Really?
00:04:00.040 Yeah.
00:04:00.280 You're going to come up and say that right now.
00:04:02.200 I'm going to come out and say that.
00:04:03.000 Yeah.
00:04:03.440 Yeah.
00:04:04.020 Now, here's the next.
00:04:05.740 This is from CNN.
00:04:07.060 Their headline.
00:04:08.420 Omicron variant puts world in a race against time.
00:04:13.940 A race against time.
00:04:16.260 Huh.
00:04:17.620 Now, the biostatistician professor, Sheila Bird,
00:04:22.700 said the test results from Amsterdam were concerning, but more data is needed.
00:04:31.660 Adding that the vaccination status and age distribution of those infected will also need
00:04:36.840 to be considered before any conclusions could be made about this variant.
00:04:40.780 The situation should be seen with alert rather than alarm until we know more.
00:04:48.660 Okay.
00:04:48.780 So that doesn't, that doesn't sound like Ebola.
00:04:52.060 Does it?
00:04:53.040 No.
00:04:53.220 Because it wouldn't really need a lot of time.
00:04:56.380 Um, you know, yeah, the patients came in and they were bleeding out of their eyes and boils
00:05:05.280 all over their body.
00:05:07.260 Give it more time.
00:05:08.260 Let's, let's, let's see what happens.
00:05:09.620 Let's see what happens.
00:05:09.940 Yeah.
00:05:10.240 This, I mean, yes, it's a little different than the normal cough and fever, but let's give
00:05:14.660 it a couple of weeks.
00:05:15.360 Okay.
00:05:15.640 So now here is the South African doctor who was the one who kind of found this strain.
00:05:21.260 She was the first one to go, there's something else here.
00:05:24.660 This is different.
00:05:26.540 Uh, we've seen a lot of Delta patients during the third wave and this one didn't fit the
00:05:31.580 clinical picture.
00:05:33.940 Most, uh, most patients we are seeing have very, very mild symptoms and none of them so
00:05:42.560 far have been admitted, uh, to the hospital.
00:05:46.580 We've been able to treat these patients conservatively at home.
00:05:53.940 Hmm.
00:05:55.380 Also, so far patients have not reported a loss of smell or taste, and there has been no major
00:06:00.760 drop in oxygen levels with the new variant.
00:06:04.000 The most prominent clinical complaint is severe fatigue for one or two days and a headache and
00:06:14.140 body aches and pain.
00:06:15.840 I, my general, like normal stance is severe fatigue.
00:06:20.760 Like I just, that's just my normal life.
00:06:22.900 What I wouldn't even notice this.
00:06:24.140 I wouldn't notice it.
00:06:25.020 I just want to go back to bed.
00:06:26.280 Right.
00:06:26.580 That's the way I start my day.
00:06:29.160 Yeah.
00:06:29.680 So again, just based on the woman who discovered the variant, right?
00:06:38.360 Um, that doesn't sound like Ebola.
00:06:40.980 No.
00:06:41.640 And doesn't sound like something we should worry about really.
00:06:45.200 Yeah.
00:06:45.680 You know, my understanding is that most of the patients they've seen with it have been
00:06:49.120 younger, right?
00:06:50.340 So yeah, 40.
00:06:51.280 Yeah.
00:06:51.760 They say it's, it's hitting people under 40 or 40.
00:06:54.680 Yeah.
00:06:55.120 But again, but again, with severe fatigue, definitely not for one or two days.
00:07:00.320 Okay.
00:07:00.720 I mean, uh, I don't think there's any other than one crazy person's right, but the media,
00:07:06.200 the tone of the media coverage feels like it's a race against time.
00:07:10.540 That is what it feels like.
00:07:11.400 Yeah.
00:07:11.560 Okay.
00:07:11.900 All right.
00:07:12.540 Uh, so here's, here's the truth on this.
00:07:15.100 It was detected in Botswana and South Africa while we were having our Turkey.
00:07:20.620 Since then, Canada, Germany, the UK, Hong Kong, Belgium, Singapore, and Holland all have had
00:07:27.000 cases of Omicron, no confirmed cases here in the United States.
00:07:32.000 It has been found now in more than a dozen nations, most contact tracing showing travel
00:07:38.140 from South Africa as the most common source.
00:07:41.980 South Africa's had had more than 200 confirmed cases as of yesterday.
00:07:46.840 Uh, the chairwoman of the South African medical association assured the media that while they're
00:07:53.500 closely monitoring the situation, the good news is that to date, there have been no deaths
00:07:58.480 from the new variant and quoting most people have mild, very, very mild symptoms and quote.
00:08:08.500 Um, so, uh, we, we have the, we have the mutation.
00:08:16.500 The media wants you to panic over this.
00:08:20.220 There is no reason to panic over this.
00:08:24.900 However, New York has declared a state of emergency.
00:08:29.640 New York, New York, New York has declared a state of emergency despite not a single case
00:08:40.320 being identified in the state or the country yet, by the way.
00:08:43.860 Uh, yes, no, I mean, that'll probably happen soon, but we don't have any in the country at
00:08:48.520 this time.
00:08:49.200 We probably don't know about it because the symptoms are very, very mild.
00:08:55.740 Uh, the governor of California, Michigan, and New York have issued health alert warnings
00:09:01.360 to public agencies, including schools about the new variant of concern.
00:09:06.620 Uh, despite the fact there's no evidence, the new variant is more virulent or deadly.
00:09:12.480 Now, Stu, you're into this kind of stuff.
00:09:17.360 You're into stats.
00:09:18.720 Sure.
00:09:19.120 You're into science.
00:09:20.140 This show is known for its scientific breakthroughs.
00:09:26.000 Yes.
00:09:26.400 Mostly our 44 part series, right on science in general, on science in general.
00:09:32.640 Yeah.
00:09:32.780 Yeah.
00:09:33.460 Uh, and I'm a doctor.
00:09:34.700 So let me ask you this and feel free to talk down to me.
00:09:39.820 Okay.
00:09:40.180 Okay.
00:09:41.060 Pretend I don't know.
00:09:42.560 But when you have a virus like COVID, what is the virus's goal?
00:09:51.840 Uh, to find a new host, to replicate, find a new host.
00:09:56.060 Right.
00:09:56.660 What stops a virus from finding a new host?
00:10:03.720 Uh, well, I, not being no pathway to transmit.
00:10:09.260 Okay.
00:10:09.700 All right.
00:10:10.220 Or the host dies.
00:10:13.240 Okay.
00:10:13.880 Okay.
00:10:14.480 The host dies.
00:10:17.140 When the host dies, the virus dies.
00:10:20.660 Unless somebody is like, hey, let's play with grandpa's dead body.
00:10:25.020 Right.
00:10:25.580 Which does happen in the movies often.
00:10:27.320 All the time.
00:10:28.500 All the time.
00:10:29.400 Especially in California and New York and Michigan.
00:10:32.220 So, if the virus acts like, oh, I don't know, every other virus known to man, the virus looks
00:10:44.880 for a way to spread faster, but be less deadly.
00:10:50.560 Mm-hmm.
00:10:50.980 Mm-hmm.
00:10:51.240 Correct?
00:10:51.660 Usually, this is what happens.
00:10:53.220 Yes.
00:10:53.520 Yeah.
00:10:53.700 Yeah.
00:10:53.820 In almost all circumstances with a virus, almost, it, generally speaking, becomes less
00:11:04.700 deadly, more virulent.
00:11:06.840 Because that's in the best interest of the virus.
00:11:09.900 Usually, that's what happens.
00:11:11.180 Yeah.
00:11:11.520 Yeah.
00:11:11.900 Okay.
00:11:12.360 All right.
00:11:12.680 So, let me ask you something.
00:11:14.040 And this is, by the way, why, despite the eye bleeding, Ebola has only killed 11,000
00:11:20.560 people globally since the beginning of time.
00:11:23.380 Yes.
00:11:23.720 And all generally in a little area.
00:11:26.140 Very little area.
00:11:26.900 It's very hard to continue the transmission lines because it tends to kill most of the
00:11:33.340 people.
00:11:33.680 Kills everybody quickly.
00:11:35.300 And then people are like, hey, I haven't heard from Uncle Bob in a while.
00:11:39.680 I haven't heard from Aunt Helen either.
00:11:42.100 Maybe we should get on these space suits and go see what happened to the village.
00:11:47.960 Right.
00:11:48.420 Okay?
00:11:48.920 It doesn't spread because it kills people so quickly.
00:11:52.480 And there's tons of Aunt Helens in these villages. 0.96
00:11:55.120 That's one thing you need to know.
00:11:56.720 Tons.
00:11:57.020 They're almost all named Helens.
00:11:58.080 So, with that understanding, I have a very important question.
00:12:02.980 Yes.
00:12:03.500 Okay?
00:12:04.080 Let me give it to you in 60 seconds.
00:12:06.140 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:12:25.720 Matt Ridley, the author of How Innovation Works and the new book, Viral.
00:12:31.180 We wanted to have him on today.
00:12:35.700 I just did a podcast with him.
00:12:37.400 If you haven't listened to it, grab the podcast.
00:12:39.980 It's really, really good.
00:12:41.760 Matt, welcome back to the program.
00:12:43.100 How are you?
00:12:44.700 Great to be with you again, Glenn.
00:12:46.160 How are you?
00:12:46.740 I'm good.
00:12:47.560 I'm good.
00:12:47.980 So, Matt, I want to talk about the book, but can we lead here with the Omicron variant?
00:12:56.760 We know very little about it, and I want to make sure I understand the way viruses generally work.
00:13:06.600 They don't want to kill the host because then they die.
00:13:10.380 So, they generally become less virulent, more transmissible, correct?
00:13:18.080 Well, correct for respiratory viruses, yes.
00:13:21.980 There are 200 kinds of virus that cause the common cold, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, and none of them kill the host, at least very, very, very rarely.
00:13:33.380 And that's not true of sexually transmitted viruses, insect transmitted viruses, and some waterborne diseases, one or two others.
00:13:42.480 So, the key is anything spread by sneezes, you know, and coughs does not want you even to feel sick because then you'll stay at home and you won't go and meet people and you won't spread it.
00:13:53.380 Now, when I say want to, I'm using a kind of shorthand.
00:13:56.160 Yeah, I know.
00:13:56.800 The mild strains outcompete the tough strains.
00:14:00.560 And this is already happening with Delta.
00:14:02.860 The latest version of Delta is definitely milder than the first version of Delta.
00:14:07.940 And probably Delta was milder than Alpha.
00:14:11.480 We haven't got good enough data to be absolutely sure.
00:14:14.060 So, the fact that they're more transmissible, these new variants, is not the same as saying they're more virulent.
00:14:19.800 In fact, they're usually less virulent.
00:14:21.540 And, you know, this thing is going to evolve into a mild endemic cold, I suspect, over time.
00:14:30.760 It could well be that Omicron is a very good thing, if that's the case.
00:14:34.960 If it's very transmissible, it's going to oust the Delta.
00:14:37.980 It's going to kill off Delta.
00:14:39.120 But it's going to do so in a way that replaces it with a much milder version, if these early reports from South Africa about it being very mild turn out to be true.
00:14:48.660 We can't be absolutely certain yet, because it might just be in young people where COVID is pretty mild anyway.
00:14:56.340 Why is everybody freaking out around the world?
00:15:00.580 Why are we closing everything down?
00:15:04.800 The UN had a national security council meeting about this.
00:15:11.860 Why?
00:15:13.560 Well, the UN had a meeting in a panic, because they realized that they'd got to mu in the Greek alphabet.
00:15:22.040 And the next one was new, which didn't quite make sense, because everybody would think it was just the new variant.
00:15:27.660 The one after that was GXI, which is the same name as the president of China.
00:15:33.340 So they thought, let's leave out new and G, and let's just go straight to Omicron, which is the next letter, because we don't want to offend the Chinese.
00:15:41.380 And that's fair enough.
00:15:42.380 You know, it's kind of provocative otherwise.
00:15:44.940 But the funny thing is, they didn't admit it.
00:15:47.140 You know, they just they gave no reason for this jumping to Omicron.
00:15:51.220 And they eventually admitted it under questioning.
00:15:54.880 But, you know, why not just say so?
00:15:56.240 Why not just say we didn't want to offend the Chinese? 0.99
00:15:57.780 So we didn't want to call it the Xi Jinping virus.
00:16:04.580 Anyway, why is everyone freaking out?
00:16:07.760 Because of what happened with Delta.
00:16:09.360 Delta came out of India in the spring and it or sorry, the end of last year.
00:16:14.220 And it surged throughout the world.
00:16:17.380 It sent countries back into lockdown.
00:16:19.640 It caused a lot more hospitalizations and it broke through the vaccines.
00:16:24.060 You know, it turned out to be transmissible by people who had been vaccinated, although not nearly as dangerous to them.
00:16:30.980 And I think, you know, countries were quite slow to close flights from India.
00:16:35.940 They got a lot of criticism for that.
00:16:37.460 It wouldn't have made any difference.
00:16:38.780 This thing was going to be around the world, whether we whatever we did to flights, I suspect, because you you can't seal countries off these days.
00:16:47.520 But I think they what the politicians wanted to be seen to be doing something fast.
00:16:52.540 But it was tough on the South Africans because they were doing really good work identifying these variants that, you know, they've got good molecular surveillance going on.
00:17:02.600 And they, you know, they put their hand up in a very transparent way and said, look, we found a new one.
00:17:07.760 It's got a lot of mutations in it.
00:17:09.080 It probably is very transmissible.
00:17:11.500 It might even be less less protected by the virus.
00:17:17.200 And it might be less virulent as well.
00:17:20.520 And by the vaccine, I mean, and it and then they get punished by, you know, shutting down travel, cutting off tourism and so on.
00:17:29.340 And it turns out it's already in Britain and a number of other European countries already.
00:17:33.280 So, you know, I think that the chances are we ought to reopen flights to southern Africa.
00:17:40.360 We're not going to stop it that way.
00:17:41.820 I doubt that if it's as infectious as they say, that more mandates on masks will make much difference.
00:17:48.840 Better surveillance, faster booster programs.
00:17:51.660 That's how we're going to defeat it.
00:17:54.340 And it may be, as I say, that it ends up being a good thing if it displaces Delta with a milder version.
00:18:01.020 OK, so in your book, Viral, set this up.
00:18:04.320 You you and another scientist get together.
00:18:10.260 Yeah. Yeah. And you want to find out how did this whole thing start?
00:18:18.220 What is it? Where did it come from?
00:18:20.500 And you want to to just nail down some basic details.
00:18:26.520 What did you find?
00:18:27.860 Yeah. Well, what we found was that the more we looked, the harder it got to explain how it got to the city of Wuhan in particular by natural means.
00:18:39.640 And the easier it got to come up with an explanation of how it got there in the hands of scientists, because if it was like SARS, we'd have a pattern of infection in food handlers.
00:18:51.600 We'd have a pattern of infected animals being sold in markets.
00:18:55.480 None of that came to light.
00:18:57.780 It shouldn't come come to light in the first couple of months.
00:19:00.640 Here we are two years into the pandemic and we haven't got any such pattern that would support it.
00:19:06.640 And recently you've had a paper published with a lot of razzmatos saying we found patient, the first index patient, patient zero.
00:19:15.180 It was infected in the middle of December.
00:19:18.240 She was a shrimp seller in the market who was infected about a month after the thing got started.
00:19:23.640 So, and there's no evidence she picked it up from her shrimps.
00:19:27.640 So, you know, this was a strange exaggeration of a, of an interesting little bit of work they'd done on some of the early.
00:19:35.760 I found it, I found it, I found it odd that Fauci brings this up and says that, no, no, no, it was from the wet market.
00:19:46.280 I mean, everything that I have read shows it's definitely not from the wet market.
00:19:53.100 They tested everything.
00:19:55.440 Well, the Chinese authorities said it's not from the wet market.
00:19:58.700 Now, we know better than to trust the Chinese authorities, so we don't necessarily believe that.
00:20:03.140 But they did test animals in that market and they found no infected animals.
00:20:10.220 Now, they might have missed one, of course, it's true, but they tested the surfaces, the sewage, the doorknobs, the countertops, et cetera, in the market, and they did find the virus.
00:20:20.820 But the one they found was not the ancestral strain because there were two strains in existence by then, and only one of the strains was in the market.
00:20:29.980 So, you know, that market evidence shows very clearly that what happened there was a super spreader event, as far as we can tell.
00:20:38.120 Of course, more data may come to light at any time.
00:20:41.860 And therefore, we've got to look seriously at the other possibility, which is that the bats that are infected with these viruses, and by the way, no bats or pangolins were on sale in that market.
00:20:52.840 We now know that for sure.
00:20:55.300 The bats that were infected with these viruses live a thousand miles away in southern China.
00:21:00.320 Who goes to caves where these particular horseshoe bats live?
00:21:04.020 They don't live in buildings, these bats.
00:21:06.480 They live in caves.
00:21:07.300 Who goes to these remote caves and then goes north to Wuhan?
00:21:13.800 Nobody, as far as we know, except one group, and that is the scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology who've been doing this for 10 years on an intensive scale.
00:21:23.480 And the reason is because they're trying to track down all SARS-like viruses, catalog them, get to know them, do experiments on them, and so on.
00:21:29.640 And where do they take the samples they get from bats?
00:21:32.880 They take them back to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:21:35.100 And that's why when the pandemic began, the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 was found in a freezer at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:21:44.340 It's called RATG-13, since a slightly more close one has been found in Laos.
00:21:49.020 But we also know that the Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists were going to Laos and bringing viruses back from there.
00:21:56.500 So we need to know all the viruses they collected and brought to Wuhan, and they won't tell us. 0.96
00:22:02.920 They won't tell us any of the viruses they've collected since 2016.
00:22:06.160 And that doesn't seem to me good enough, with at least 5 million people dead.
00:22:11.220 What do you take from their shutting down of the vault, the website?
00:22:20.660 The database, yeah.
00:22:21.940 Yeah, their database.
00:22:23.200 What do you take?
00:22:24.340 That happened on September 12th.
00:22:26.780 Then they asked for more security on September 12th.
00:22:29.660 Then they completely revamped their air handling system three days later.
00:22:36.560 And then they get a, what is it, an O2 incinerator a couple of weeks after that.
00:22:44.820 And we also know that there were patients being admitted, three of them were researchers, from the Wuhan lab.
00:22:53.480 And that happened, I think, in November, October or November.
00:22:57.180 What do you make of all that?
00:23:00.000 Well, it's very hard to tell.
00:23:01.740 We're dealing with sketchy information.
00:23:05.480 The U.S. intelligence community says that there were three researchers from the lab who were hospitalized in November.
00:23:13.220 I can't verify that, so I don't know whether that's the case or not.
00:23:17.580 And obviously, the Chinese authorities have not admitted that.
00:23:21.080 But if you look at the genomics of the virus and work out its ancestry, you come to a date somewhere around the middle of November, but it could be as early September.
00:23:33.220 It could be as late as early December.
00:23:35.980 Okay, so you get a range when it's likely to be the first infection of a human being.
00:23:41.000 So we've got, you know, we've got the whole of that autumn.
00:23:42.920 We've got a strange thing that there's the World Military Games in Wuhan in October, and they do an exercise, a security exercise, as to what to do if a coronavirus breaks out, which seems a slightly unusual thing to be suddenly talking about.
00:23:57.380 But then you have to remember SARS was on their mind from 10 years earlier or whatever.
00:24:01.420 And as for those events in September that you mentioned, the taking down of the website, not the website, the database, which with 22,000 samples from bats and rodents in it, very, very useful database that we'd love to see.
00:24:19.300 And it never comes back up again.
00:24:22.020 12th of September seems too early.
00:24:23.940 It seems unlikely that it was necessarily because an accident had happened or because they knew that there would be an outbreak or something like that.
00:24:31.600 It's more likely that it was something to do with the end of one grant and the beginning of another, a review of the samples that they were going to do, transferring the leadership of the program from one group to another, moving the lab from one location to another, which we know was happening around that time.
00:24:48.260 So there's quite a lot of stuff going on, and that could explain some of the new equipment, et cetera.
00:24:52.220 But, of course, all that movement, all that reviewing of samples and things could lead to an accidental exposure.
00:24:59.860 And one of the things we know, because this happened with SARS three times, is that sometimes people get infected without knowing it.
00:25:08.580 You know, there is no accident in the lab.
00:25:10.560 There is no drop test tube.
00:25:12.180 But one of the researchers in the lab ends up infected and doesn't know it.
00:25:17.460 Positive for this virus.
00:25:18.800 Right.
00:25:19.000 Exactly.
00:25:19.440 So sometime after September, because of something that happened then, it's possible that there was enough activity in the lab that led to an incidental infection or something like that.
00:25:33.180 But we can't tell until we get more information.
00:25:36.700 And as I say, the Chinese authorities will not release the names and serial numbers of the viruses that they collected after 2016.
00:25:46.900 More with Matt Ridley.
00:25:48.520 The name of the book is Viral.
00:25:50.760 It is the story of the COVID virus.
00:25:53.760 Matt Ridley continues here in just a second.
00:25:58.900 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:26:16.900 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:26:20.720 We've been talking about Omnicron, the new variant and the wild overreaction to this.
00:26:31.420 At least that's what we think.
00:26:33.080 Seeing that the person who actually discovered it said that no one's been hospitalized for it.
00:26:39.660 It hits people under 40 and the worst aspects of it is you feel fatigue and achy body for two days and everyone's been treated at home.
00:26:54.900 So why are we closing everything?
00:26:56.760 What is happening?
00:26:57.860 What is it that they know that we don't know?
00:26:59.920 Or is this just another grab for power or is this our sainted, wonderful people in Washington that are just like, we want to keep America safe?
00:27:11.320 Yeah.
00:27:13.960 I would like to ask you to watch the and pass on the Blaze TV's crime or cover up.
00:27:25.820 Oh, OK.
00:27:26.420 Special.
00:27:27.120 You know what?
00:27:27.760 It's on YouTube.
00:27:28.780 Yeah.
00:27:28.920 Go to YouTube.
00:27:29.360 I could just share it from YouTube.
00:27:30.720 So I just go to YouTube.
00:27:31.720 Go to YouTube.
00:27:32.320 And I search for Glenn Beck.
00:27:34.320 Glenn Beck.
00:27:35.800 Crimes.
00:27:36.340 Crimes.
00:27:37.600 Or cover up.
00:27:39.720 Correct.
00:27:40.320 It's easy.
00:27:40.720 It's an easy thing to search for.
00:27:42.360 Mm-hmm.
00:27:42.700 OK.
00:27:43.120 And it pops up here.
00:27:44.600 All right.
00:27:44.920 There's a first one is a story from Forbes.
00:27:49.280 Forbes?
00:27:49.960 Yeah.
00:27:50.860 What's the second one?
00:27:52.160 Is it on me?
00:27:52.940 It says the evidence is mounting.
00:27:54.280 There's been a cover up.
00:27:55.260 And I guess it's a clip of our interview with Rand Paul.
00:27:58.220 Oh, OK.
00:27:59.220 OK.
00:27:59.720 OK.
00:28:00.060 OK.
00:28:00.920 All right.
00:28:00.940 Then you've got Glenn Beck walks off interview after Blaze layoffs.
00:28:06.140 Yeah.
00:28:06.440 Isn't that weird?
00:28:07.280 From three years ago.
00:28:08.040 From three years ago.
00:28:09.060 A Brian Stelter interview pops up.
00:28:11.440 That's interesting.
00:28:11.980 That's weird.
00:28:12.960 OK.
00:28:13.560 Glenn Beck joins Operation Underground Railroad.
00:28:16.700 Uh-huh.
00:28:17.240 OK.
00:28:18.160 Do you find anything about...
00:28:20.100 Do you find the special?
00:28:21.120 The Try Not to Laugh Challenge with Glenn Beck.
00:28:25.160 Uh-huh.
00:28:27.040 Glenn Beck opens up to Tucker.
00:28:28.860 So here's the thing.
00:28:30.560 There...
00:28:31.120 Hmm.
00:28:31.320 You can't search YouTube and find our special.
00:28:35.320 It's still up.
00:28:37.500 Yeah.
00:28:37.620 But they've made it impossible to find.
00:28:40.420 I mean, I'm...
00:28:41.020 Literally, I typed in the exact name of the special.
00:28:43.900 Yeah.
00:28:44.280 Glenn Beck.
00:28:45.620 Crimes or cover up.
00:28:46.660 Crimes or cover up.
00:28:47.880 Why wouldn't that come up first?
00:28:50.080 Correct.
00:28:50.880 Why don't you try Glenn Beck Crimes or cover up?
00:28:53.640 The Blaze.
00:28:54.740 See if it comes up there.
00:28:56.200 OK.
00:28:56.540 The Blaze.
00:28:58.480 The Blaze.
00:28:59.500 Now the first one is Glenn Beck walks up off of interview with Brian Stelter.
00:29:04.260 So we've given it the literal title.
00:29:09.300 The guy who did it and the network that it is on.
00:29:13.860 That's really weird.
00:29:15.320 Yeah.
00:29:16.200 Yeah.
00:29:16.540 You don't think there's some stifling of that, do you?
00:29:21.200 I mean, it's pretty clear.
00:29:23.260 Yeah.
00:29:23.500 It'd be tough to make a case the other way.
00:29:26.180 I mean, like, you know, if you go to Blaze TV, if you just go to Blaze TV's page, you could
00:29:31.920 find it there, right?
00:29:33.640 I mean, it's not like they took it down from the internet.
00:29:35.600 No, I couldn't find it.
00:29:37.080 I couldn't find it, what, Saturday night.
00:29:39.960 I couldn't find it.
00:29:42.400 Now I know...
00:29:43.400 Let me see.
00:29:43.740 Let me try.
00:29:44.020 What was it called?
00:29:44.460 It's a Crimes...
00:29:45.780 Crimes or Cover Up.
00:29:47.180 Or Cover Up.
00:29:48.980 It's on the Blaze...
00:29:50.760 YouTube.
00:29:51.180 It's on Blaze TV's YouTube channel.
00:29:53.320 I'm searching just Google and it comes up.
00:29:55.620 And here's the special.
00:29:56.740 So it is up on YouTube.
00:29:58.420 Yeah.
00:29:58.880 It has 645,000 views.
00:30:01.280 Yeah.
00:30:01.600 Should be a lot more than that.
00:30:03.180 Still a lot.
00:30:03.760 I can guarantee you it's never coming up on your recommended list, ever, and you can't
00:30:10.340 even search YouTube and find it.
00:30:12.300 You can go to Google, but if you go to search for it on YouTube, you can't find it.
00:30:19.280 Now, this is directly tied to another subject.
00:30:26.460 This is the...
00:30:28.020 COVID is the emergency that is being utilized to change the world.
00:30:35.380 And you don't have to take that from me.
00:30:37.660 You can hear that from our Vice President, our President, John Kerry.
00:30:43.640 You can hear it from the Prime Minister of Japan, the Prime Minister of India.
00:30:52.380 You can hear it from the Prime Minister of the UK.
00:30:54.860 They all said, this is the way we can change the free market and reshape the world.
00:31:03.700 Okay.
00:31:04.480 All right.
00:31:06.020 What are they reshaping it to?
00:31:07.840 Which brings me to the next really bizarre thing.
00:31:11.880 Go to Amazon.com, Stu.
00:31:14.720 Okay.
00:31:15.420 Amazon.com.
00:31:16.440 Go to books.
00:31:18.400 Okay.
00:31:19.100 My new book, The Great Reset, Joe Biden and the Rise of 21st Century Fascism.
00:31:24.180 So, just write the great...
00:31:26.800 Just search for The Great Reset, Glenn Beck.
00:31:30.300 Okay.
00:31:30.820 Great Reset, Glenn Beck.
00:31:31.920 Now, this has partially been fixed because over the holidays, I looked it up.
00:31:40.280 What do you get?
00:31:42.020 First thing is Sean Spicer's new book.
00:31:44.600 Okay.
00:31:44.740 That's an ad, right?
00:31:45.580 Oh, yeah.
00:31:45.820 It's an ad.
00:31:46.820 Then, Glenn Beck, The Great Reset.
00:31:49.220 So, it's there.
00:31:50.040 All right.
00:31:50.720 Look at it carefully, right?
00:31:52.400 It's mine.
00:31:53.160 It's yours.
00:31:53.420 It's yours, your book, the cover that we have here.
00:31:55.540 Yeah.
00:31:55.880 Well, I'll tell you about that in a second.
00:31:58.280 Go to the next book.
00:32:02.100 COVID-19, The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab.
00:32:04.860 Okay.
00:32:05.040 That's great because that's the actual Klaus Schwab is the guy who's designed it.
00:32:09.600 Yep.
00:32:09.880 So, that's fine.
00:32:10.720 That's the next one.
00:32:13.200 Summary of The Great Reset by Glenn Beck.
00:32:16.760 Joe Biden and the Rise of the 21st Century Fascism by Michael Dantes.
00:32:20.200 You can get it immediately.
00:32:22.560 Get it instantly.
00:32:24.060 Wow.
00:32:24.420 Mm-hmm.
00:32:24.840 That's interesting because the book isn't out yet.
00:32:26.660 Yeah.
00:32:27.040 No.
00:32:27.480 But he's got the summary.
00:32:28.580 So, Michael Dantes.
00:32:30.020 Okay.
00:32:30.680 Now, then is the dying citizen, How Progressive Elites, right?
00:32:34.100 Yep.
00:32:34.600 Then, what's next?
00:32:37.460 Summary of The Great Reset by Glenn Beck.
00:32:39.940 This time, Martina Lewis.
00:32:41.020 Martina Lewis.
00:32:41.880 One of my favorite authors.
00:32:42.980 Oh, yeah.
00:32:43.300 She's great.
00:32:44.220 So, there's only two.
00:32:45.540 I'm sure they're not the same person, by the way.
00:32:47.100 You're right.
00:32:47.540 There's only two that I could find today.
00:32:49.700 There were seven and three of them were using my cover.
00:32:55.040 Really?
00:32:55.780 Yes.
00:32:56.720 So, the book is not your book.
00:32:59.200 It is the summary of your book written by another author.
00:33:02.820 Mm-hmm.
00:33:03.560 And three of them were using my cover.
00:33:07.020 Wow.
00:33:07.920 Okay.
00:33:08.220 Wait, I'm going to read what this book is about.
00:33:09.640 Oh, here.
00:33:11.460 This is.
00:33:13.640 The author has told a story that is intriguing.
00:33:16.900 Dot, dot, dot.
00:33:18.240 Michael Dantes has restlessly worked diligently to give us a comprehensive summary.
00:33:24.040 Dot, dot, dot.
00:33:25.120 This well-known personality and bestseller has finally rendered a crucial and jaw-breaking narration in this new release.
00:33:32.640 This isn't.
00:33:34.100 Amazing.
00:33:34.660 They've copy and pasted this a hundred times.
00:33:36.660 And well-made insight and summary of the main book.
00:33:40.860 This is not the main book.
00:33:42.440 It is a summary written by Michael Dantes.
00:33:45.020 It was not made to serve as a replacement, but as a comprehensive guide and insight of the main book.
00:33:51.480 Which, by the way, isn't out until January.
00:33:53.660 Right.
00:33:53.920 So, there can't possibly be any way that this is summarizing what's in the book.
00:33:57.380 Order it.
00:33:58.280 Order it.
00:33:58.700 See if anything comes up.
00:34:00.160 Ooh, I like that.
00:34:01.260 Hold on.
00:34:01.580 There's a little bit more we need to know about this because there's bullet points about what's in the book.
00:34:04.800 Oh, okay.
00:34:05.820 Really?
00:34:06.260 What's in the book?
00:34:06.960 Number one bullet point.
00:34:08.060 Uh-huh.
00:34:08.820 What is included here?
00:34:10.280 A detailed display of all the mind-blowing information which the author had told.
00:34:16.000 Wow.
00:34:16.960 Wow.
00:34:17.880 Wow.
00:34:18.500 Then, well-made narration of the main points in the book presented in an understandable and pocket-friendly format.
00:34:26.260 Wow.
00:34:26.700 Mm-hmm.
00:34:27.300 But it's only available on Kindle.
00:34:30.140 Right.
00:34:30.780 So, I guess your phone fits in your pocket.
00:34:32.920 My book is also pocket-friendly.
00:34:36.060 Then the next one.
00:34:37.040 An explanation of all the indirect and indirect statements made by the author to ensure a guided comprehension of the book.
00:34:46.340 Mm-hmm.
00:34:47.160 An adequate conclusion of the main book that actualizes a perfect hint.
00:34:53.200 I don't even know what that one means.
00:34:55.220 This is like computer-generated garbage.
00:34:57.900 Yeah.
00:34:58.380 Oh, and, oh! 0.99
00:34:59.120 So, why didn't they leave with this?
00:35:01.540 At the end, it says, in this summary of the book, you will find all other details that you would find helpful.
00:35:08.720 That's great.
00:35:09.460 They're not over-promising, right?
00:35:11.600 Right?
00:35:12.160 All other details that you would find helpful.
00:35:14.760 I think this is computer-generated.
00:35:16.980 I really do.
00:35:17.860 Yeah, it does.
00:35:18.020 I think this is computer-generated.
00:35:19.940 And print length is 10 pages, by the way.
00:35:22.520 I've had, what, 21 bestsellers?
00:35:25.420 Something like that?
00:35:26.080 Um, I've never had this.
00:35:31.140 Okay?
00:35:31.600 Maybe somebody would come out and do one thing.
00:35:34.920 There were seven last week.
00:35:37.080 And, uh, one of them with my cover, but a fake book, was ahead of my real book.
00:35:46.480 Okay?
00:35:47.140 Wow.
00:35:47.640 I'm telling you, there is, we are on it.
00:35:52.420 We are on it.
00:35:53.580 YouTube does not want to take that off line because they don't want it to be banned to make a bigger deal out of it.
00:36:04.420 So, they're just screwing with the algorithm so you can never find it.
00:36:10.120 You never find it.
00:36:11.640 Put it behind, put it into the digital ghetto.
00:36:15.500 Let them talk in the ghetto. 0.93
00:36:17.400 That's the definition of a digital ghetto.
00:36:23.040 With this one, why the confusion on this book?
00:36:27.760 Why?
00:36:28.520 How can three people post my book with my artwork and it be up there?
00:36:37.660 How's that possible?
00:36:39.300 How's that possible?
00:36:40.020 I'm telling you, be very, very careful.
00:36:44.260 Buy the book, The Great Reset, Joe Biden and the Rise of 21st Century Fascism.
00:36:50.180 Make sure it is not a summary.
00:36:53.120 It is, make sure it is by Glenn Beck.
00:36:55.520 Yeah.
00:36:56.620 You know, just be very careful when you buy it.
00:36:59.340 But please buy it now.
00:37:00.860 The reordering for the second printing is sketchy at best.
00:37:07.200 We ordered way too many books for a first printing because we were told the second printing might be as long as five months.
00:37:15.960 So, get this book right now, The Great Reset, Joe Biden and the Rise of 21st Century Fascism.
00:37:22.400 You can find that at Amazon.
00:37:24.760 I will say, I'd like to recommend your book.
00:37:27.780 I would.
00:37:28.060 You know, as a friend, I would like your book to be successful.
00:37:30.280 Sure.
00:37:30.820 Right.
00:37:31.320 Right.
00:37:31.600 However, with this summary available, I don't know that I can honestly recommend to the people to pay the full price for the book.
00:37:38.140 Now, is that the one?
00:37:39.140 Because I've just purchased a summary of The Great Reset by Glenn Beck.
00:37:42.760 Really?
00:37:43.260 Yes.
00:37:43.700 And this is how it begins.
00:37:45.600 First of all, the first line is, the rights of this book continue to be reserved.
00:37:52.400 Wait.
00:37:53.560 So, are they in a process of negotiation with you over the rights?
00:37:58.060 Of course they are.
00:37:58.780 I'm sure.
00:37:59.120 Yeah, sure.
00:37:59.720 This is for the man or woman observing at this book all of the satisfactory.
00:38:08.220 This is computer generated.
00:38:09.580 This is not easy.
00:38:10.320 Somebody has done this with computer generation.
00:38:15.060 Now, would you like to know what you say in the book?
00:38:17.180 Yeah, sure.
00:38:17.760 I'd love to.
00:38:18.400 Glenn Beck contends that the American way of life may not undergo the Great Reset and cautions us to prevent it earlier than it is beyond the factor in which it's miles viable to replace course.
00:38:31.140 What?
00:38:34.480 Wow, do I want to buy this book?
00:38:35.980 This is fantastic.
00:38:37.060 I want to buy this book.
00:38:38.880 I wonder if Martina's version is even better.
00:38:40.860 Well, she, because I have Martina Lewis up here. 1.00
00:38:44.960 You have Martina Lewis's version.
00:38:45.840 In this summary, Martina Lewis captures the climax of Beck's book while making sure that the central message is not derailed from.
00:38:55.560 Oh, wow.
00:38:56.420 Lewis writes in a voice that could be heard by every class of readers.
00:39:00.980 Well, that's not, that's a Marxist dog whistle there.
00:39:06.800 She says, the following key points adequately captured in all encompassing summary, the agenda behind the COVID-19 lockdowns, the true agenda of the meeting held by the World Economic Forum, countries, the Great Reset has started manifesting itself in.
00:39:26.620 And what would happen if the agenda of the Great Reset becomes a reality in this world?
00:39:33.100 That actually sounds like somebody who is thinking, that doesn't sound like a computer.
00:39:36.800 Yeah, this one is better, though.
00:39:38.400 I think my version's better.
00:39:41.220 Let me just give you a little, this is fantastic.
00:39:43.720 An International Intrigue.
00:39:45.680 This is your book.
00:39:46.860 An International Intrigue Among Extremely Good Brokers, Commercial Enterprise Pioneers, and Authorities Authorities.
00:39:55.640 Whoa.
00:39:56.880 Twice in a row.
00:39:58.300 Close entryway gatherings within the Swiss Alps.
00:40:02.620 What?
00:40:04.200 I want to release a summary of the summary of the Great Reset by Glenn Beck.
00:40:09.920 But I want a computer to do it.
00:40:11.940 Yes.
00:40:14.280 Na, na, na, na.