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Nick DiPaolo on today's show gives us a wrap up of everything political that you need to know and the possible canceling of the rest of the primary. All that and more on today s podcast. And tonight on Blaze TV at 8pm et, we re going to be looking into why Bernie failed, because that s basically what he did. And after that is the big show, The Big Show with Glenn Beck tonight at 9pm ET with the latest on Coronavirus.
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Hey, podcasters, welcome to today's program. There's a lot. We talk about politics and we
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start really in Italy with a doctor and actually I think it is a doctor or an emergency room
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specialist to different people telling people what it is like in Italy if you're working in
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the health care system. And if you understand what they were saying, you will see why everybody's
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saying stay home. It's about overwhelming the system. It's not about everybody dying. We have
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lots on that. We have Nick DiPaolo on today. Stu gives us a wrap up of everything political that
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you need to know. And the possible canceling of the rest of the primary. What? All that and more
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on today's podcast. And tonight on Blaze TV at 8 p.m. Eastern is of course Stu Does America. We're
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going to be looking into why Bernie failed because that's basically what he did. And
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after that is the big show. 9 p.m. The big special. Coronavirus. Some of all fears. All
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the latest you need to know. That is on Blaze TV tonight at 9 p.m. with Glenn Beck. He's
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a host that we employ for some reason. BlazeTV.com slash Glenn. Promo code is Glenn for saving
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10 bucks. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right. Our coronavirus
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update. Coronavirus update today as of 530 a.m. Central Time. All these stats are from Johns
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Hopkins. The total confirmed cases worldwide now 126, 611. That is up from 114,000 yesterday.
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Total confirmed deaths worldwide up about 200. Patients that have recovered from COVID-19
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worldwide. 66,894. 120 countries now have confirmed cases. That's up from 115 yesterday. And yet
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six new ones have come online with suspected cases. The good news is the number of people
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that have this that are requiring hospitalization and 4% of them requiring ICU continues its steady
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drop. It had hovered at about 19 percent. So about 20 percent of people who got this needed to be
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hospitalized. That number today stands at 12 percent. That's really good news. But this is the key to
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understanding what the conflict that you're hearing in messages. Some people say it's nothing to worry
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about. Some people say it's just like the flu. Here's what you need to understand.
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12 percent of the population that gets this will need to be hospitalized. We don't have room in our
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hospitals for 12 percent of the population, especially if we're all tongue kissing each other at a
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Grateful Dead concert. That's why they're saying stay home. It's not that you're going to die. It's that
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we're killing the resources and in some cases, quite literally the doctors who are going to be able to
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treat in in Italy. I started the program. If you missed it, make sure you listen to the podcast
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today. You can find it wherever podcasts are found. But listen to the podcast. I read two stories from
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doctors that rolled the dice and took the chance of speaking out that are absolutely terrifying of what
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the conditions are like now in Italy. Italy has the highest population of elderly in all of Europe.
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That's why Italy is being hit so hard. And anybody who says, well, it's just old people. Really? You're
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going to be old one day. Just old people. When you read what the doctors were talking about, how the
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doctors and nurses are doing everything they can to save people, but they can't. They're turning
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people away who have had strokes. Patients who are on kidney dialysis are losing their lives because
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of this. They can't do anything else but care for those who are now in ICU. And ICU is now pretty
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much the whole hospital. This is what's happening in Italy. And this is why we're shutting everything
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down. And they say, don't spread it. Stay at home. Even though the numbers are looking better every
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day, we are about to get hit with a tidal wave of new cases. You're going to know people that have
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this. You're most likely going to have to stay at home. There's going to come a time where your kids
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are not going to school and they may not go to school for the rest of the year. Why aren't we
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just closing down that human Petri dish for virus, which is every school in America? Why don't we just
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shut them down? Because about 44% of our population, they don't have the insurance or the system at their
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work that they can go home and work from home or go home and get paid. When you have that issue,
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it becomes a massive burden on those families to have the kids at home. We'll hire a babysitter. Who?
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The U.S. now has 1,015 confirmed cases and 31 deaths. We are going to see that number of the confirmed cases
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skyrocket soon. As I said earlier in the program, we are about 50 days from where China was. We're 50
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days behind them. I gave you the headlines 50 days ago in China and it sounds like the headlines today
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in America. This is going to calm down, but we are in, I think, a 50, 60 day period before we really
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start to see this thing turn the other direction. New news that I have heard today. I'm waiting for
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I'll give it to you tomorrow after we get confirmation on it. It's good news, by the way.
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I just want to make sure that we are confirmed on this. All right. New Rochelle, New York
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has now just put a one mile containment zone by the National Guard in place. New Rochelle is the
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largest cluster of confirmed cases in the U.S. with over 190 suspected cases and 61 confirmed
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cases. This is right on the edge of New York. All public gatherings have been ordered to be
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canceled, including school and church gatherings. Governor Cuomo has said this is not a quarantine.
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Individuals are not prohibited from entering or leaving the area. National Guard troops will be
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used to help deliver food to residents, provide traffic control and medical personnel and emergencies
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and to assist in cleaning and disaffecting public places. The New Rochelle superintendent of schools
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announced that for the next two weeks, students may miss and summer school classes will be utilized to
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make up any missed instruction. Meanwhile, colleges and universities all over the country are starting
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to say as in Cambridge yesterday. You've got five hours. Get your stuff. Get out. All classes now are
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starting to be moved online. American lives are going to change. We this is according to doctor. How do you
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say his name? Fat Fat Foschi F-A-U-C-I Foschi. He's the he is the director of the National Institute of
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Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He's one of the guys on the Mike Pence team. He said we'd like the
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country to realize that as a nation, we can't be doing the kinds of things we were doing just a few
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months ago. It doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no cases or just one case. This is the big
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thing that I am trying to get a handle on what the tripwires are. I'm looking for tripwires in my own
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life. No one is telling us, but you know, the governments have some sort of tripwire because
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they're all closing things. I just don't know what the milestones are that you have to hit before they
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start closing things. It may be I can't find the official tripwires because there are no official
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tripwires. It's just somebody going, you know what, let's close them now. I'd like to know what those
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are. We can't find them yet. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the biggest
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intervention should be reserved for areas with clusters of cases such as Santa Clara, California.
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He echoed federal health officials advice for people at higher risk. He said, I encourage any
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individual who is elderly or who is medically fragile to think long and hard about going into
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any large gathering that would involve close quarters and potential spread. I personally think
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this is why Bernie Sanders is canceled last night. I don't think it has anything to do with how the
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election turned out last night. I think it has everything to do with Bernie Sanders being a prime
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case or a prime target for something like the coronavirus. The same could be said for Joe Biden.
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I think it would be very prudent if all of these all of these things stopped dead in their tracks. I feel for the
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president because the president is the only safe space I think he feels he has. It's the only place in watching
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him speak at CPAC. To me, I understood him so much more and watching the way he observed the audience and the
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watching the way he was interacting with the audience. I think this is the only place that he
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feels like he's in a safe space. He knows that the media is going to attack him, but he feels like
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those large crowds are his friends. And I think those people in those crowds feel like they're his
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friends. I think it's quite clearly his favorite part of the job. I think so, too. Right. I think
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about, you know, a rock star like they got to sit in the studio all this time. They've got to sign
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records. They got to go into meetings about promotion and then they get to play live.
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And that's what they love. Right. And that's what Trump loves. And I don't but I don't think I think
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it's deeper than that. It's not that he just loves to do that because I think he does. He loves that.
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But I think it's the only place. Imagine playing in clubs where everybody was like, oh, geez,
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they're coming back up on stage. These guys suck. And then you go to your hometown and you're playing
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where everybody loves you. I think that's a big difference with Donald Trump. Yeah. But
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these guys, we have to protect the president. And I think Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden should
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seriously consider how they're doing their rallies. It's going to hurt the election. But speaking of
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hurting the election, could you please write down, Stu, as we go through the election, what the
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Republicans and the Democrats, what Republicans have already done and the Democrats are thinking
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about doing on the upcoming primaries? Coronavirus conference in New York.
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Let me say this again. The coronavirus conference in New York.
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Was just canceled. Doctors spec because of the coronavirus. Doctors speculate that
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the reason why the case for the case fatality rate in Italy is so high is because of age. Italy has
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the highest confirmed case count outside of China. The fatality rate is over 5% of total cases compared
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to just 3% in China. It's because Italy has the oldest population in Europe with 23% of the
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population over the age of 60 compared to 18% in the U.S. 23 versus 18. Italy's median age is 43.5 compared to
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38.3 in the U.S. They have tested more than 40,000 residents for COVID-19. And the fatality rate may
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actually be closer and more accurate than it is in the U.S., at least for Italy, because we are not
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testing enough people yet. If we assume that there's a 1% case fatality rate for COVID-19
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and a full year of spread as we would get with the flu season, 60% of the U.S. population will get sick.
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60% of the population will get sick. Now you compare that to the worst years of World War II and the
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Vietnam War in terms of U.S. deaths that year. In 1944, the U.S. population was 130 million. Combat deaths,
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126,000. 1968, the population was 205 million. Combat deaths, 16,000. 2020, 331 million Americans
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today. U.S. combat deaths, 120. Now if you compare those, the flu deaths, flu deaths, the
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World War II combat, 126,000. Flu deaths, 13,000. If it was COVID-19 today, 780,000. There were only in
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Vietnam, there were only 16,000 deaths in 1968 from Vietnam. There were 20,000 flu deaths. We're
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talking 1.3 million deaths in 1968 comparison. Today, 2020, 331 million. The combat deaths, 120. Flu
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deaths, 33,100. This could take 1,986,000 Americans. We don't know yet. But if this plays out at 1%
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and it doesn't have the seasonal flu break, that's what we possibly could be facing. That overwhelms
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every system we have. And I know this audience knows what overwhelming the system means.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I want to, I want to read a couple of things, um, that were Twitter threads and they are sweeping
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the world. And it gives you an idea of what it feels like and what we are facing. You know,
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I've been saying for the last few days, we're about 50 days behind China. And it's, it's not that it's
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getting worse around the world. China is now recovering and all going back to work. We are
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behind China. So now what are we going to face? I'm going to give you one of my, uh, one of my, uh,
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researchers and writers went back, was listening to the show and went, well, let me look at that.
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Went back and put everything in a calendar from 50 days ago. And when you start looking at the
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headlines out of China from 50 days ago, we are exactly there. So we are about to go through this
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giant ramp up. Do not panic, but, but please do the things that you're supposed to do. We are
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supposed to wash our hands all the time. We're supposed to not touch our faces all the time.
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Um, uh, we are to, uh, stay out of big crowds, isolate yourself if possible, do those things,
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please do those things. Because when I read what these doctors and nurses are talking about in Italy,
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you will understand why the government is now saying, do these things. You'll understand why for
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the first time we are isolating ourself. And it's not because we're all going to die. It's because
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no matter what system you have, nothing is prepared for this. Let me give you the first thread
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from a well-respected friend and in intensive care nurse, uh, who is currently in Northern Italy.
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Here's the thread. I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what's happening
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in Italy and give you some direct advice about what you should do. First, I'm in the most developed
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region in Italy and it has extraordinarily good healthcare. I've worked in Italy, the UK and
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Australia and don't make a mistake to think what's happening is in a third world country. It's not
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the current situation. Again, from Italy, the current situation is difficult to imagine.
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And the numbers don't explain things at all. Our hospitals are overwhelmed by COVID-19 and they
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are running at 200% capacity. We've stopped all routine. All ORs have been converted to ITUs. What's
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an ITU? You know, still look that up real quick. I think that is, you know, kind of an elected thing.
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They are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma, like strokes. There are
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hundreds of PTs with severe respiratory failure and many of them don't have access to anything above
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a reservoir mask. Yeah. Intensive treatment unit. Okay. So what they're doing now is they're not
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able to treat. You come into the hospital with a stroke. You might as well have stayed home and
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taken some aspirin because they can't treat you because everything is overwhelmed. Hospitals at 200%
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capacity. Patients above 65 or or younger with comorbidities are now even assessed by or are not
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even assessed by ITU. I'm not I'm not saying not tubed. I'm saying not assessed with no ITU staff to
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attend when they go into cardiac arrest. Staff working as hard as they can, but they are starting to get
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sick and emotionally overwhelmed. My friends call me in tears because they see people dying in front
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of them and they can only offer them some oxygen. Ortho and pathologist are being given a leaflet
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and sent to see patients on NIV. Please stop. Read this again and think. What's NIV, Stu? We also see
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the same pattern in different areas a week apart and there is no reason that in a few weeks it won't be
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the same everywhere. This is the pattern. One, a few positive cases. First few mild measures. People are
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told to avoid the emergency department but still hang out in groups. Everyone says not to panic. Two, some
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moderate respiratory failures and a few severe ones that need to be intubated and tubed. But regular access to
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the emergency department is significantly reduced so everything looks great. Three, tons of patients
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with moderate respiratory failure that over time deteriorate to saturate ICUs first, then NIVs,
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then CPAP hoods, then even just oxygen. Four, staff gets so sick that it gets difficult to cover for
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shifts. Mortality rates spikes from all other causes that can't be treated properly. Ten, everything
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about how to treat people is online but the only thing that will make a difference are these. Don't
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be afraid of the massively restrictive measures to keep people safe. If governments won't do this,
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at least keep your family safe. Your loved ones with a history of cancer or diabetes or any transplant
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will not be tubed even if they're young. By safe, I mean do not attend them and you decide who does
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and how to help them. Another typical attitude is to read and listen to people saying things like this
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and that. That's a bad dude. Then they go out to dinner because you think you'll be safe. We've seen
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it. You won't be. Take it seriously. It won't be as bad, hopefully, as it is here, but you must
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prepare. All right. NIV, a non-invasive ventilation. Okay. So, um, this, I just got this morning, this,
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this, uh, thread from this nurse. This one is from a doctor and I, I really want you to listen
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to what he's saying here. Um, because I want you to put yourself in the situation
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as it is in Italy. Italy is second only to China, but they think Italy is second only to China
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because of the age of the people that are there. One, I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight
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this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters as if nothing was going to happen
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here. The media in Europe are reassuring. Politicians are reassuring, but there is little to be reassured
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of. Now, this is a doctor who actually attached his name to this. The other guy did not attach his
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name to it. This guy has, this is the English trans, uh, uh, translation of an ICU physician
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in Italy. After much thought about whether I should or what to write about what's happening to us,
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I felt silence was not responsible. I will therefore try to convey to people far from our reality,
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what we are living in, in Bergamo in these days of COVID-19 pandemic. I understand I need not to
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create panic, but when the message of the dangerousness of what is happening is not reaching
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people, I shudder. I watched myself with some amazement, the reorganization of the entire hospital
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in the last seven days. When our current enemy was still in the shadow, the wards slowly emptied.
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Elective activities elsewhere were interrupted. Intensive care freed up to create as many beds
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possible. All of this rapid transformation brought an atmosphere of silence and surreal emptiness to the
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corridors of my hospital that we did not yet understand. We just waited for a war that had
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yet to begin. And many, including me, were not so sure it would ever come with such ferocity.
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I still remember my night on call a week ago when I was waiting for the results of a swab.
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When I think about it, my anxiety over one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified.
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Now that I've seen what's happening. Well, the situation is now dramatic to say the least.
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Now remember, that was his attitude seven days ago. The war has literally exploded and battles are
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uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all of its drama.
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One of the one after the other, the departments that have been emptied fill up at an impressive pace.
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The boards with the names of the patients or different colors, depending on the operating
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unit are now all red. And instead of surgery, you see diagnosis, which is always the damn same
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bilateral interstitial pneumonia. Now explain to me which flu virus causes such a rapid drama.
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And while there are still people who boast about not being afraid by ignoring directions protesting
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because their normal routine is temporarily put in crisis, the epidemiology disaster is taking place
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and there are no surgeons, urologists, orthopedists. We are all only doctors who suddenly have become
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part of a single team to face this tsunami that has now overwhelmed us. Cases are multiplying.
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We arrive at the rate of 15 to 20 admissions per day, all for the same reason. The results of the
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swab now come one after another, positive, positive, positive. And suddenly our emergency rooms are
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collapsing. Reasons for the access, always the same. Fever and breathing difficulties, fever and cough,
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respiratory failure. Radiology reports, always the same. Bilateral pneumonia, bilateral pneumonia,
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bilateral pneumonia. All need to be hospitalized. Someone already waiting to be intubated
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and go to intensive care. For others, it's too late. Every ventilator has become like gold.
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Those in operating theaters have now suspended their non-urgent activity just to become intensive care
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doctors in places where they did not exist before. The staff is exhausted. I see the tiredness on the
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faces that I didn't know what it was, despite the fact that we were all working exhausting workloads.
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But I saw the solidarity of all of us who never failed to go to our internist colleagues and asks,
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what can I do for you right now? Doctors who move beds and transfer patients. The administrator that it gives
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therapies instead of nurses. Nurses with tears in their eyes because they can't save everyone.
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And the vital parameters of the several patients at the same time that all reveal
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an already marked destiny. There are no more shifts. There are no more hours. Social life is suspended
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for all of us. We no longer see our families for fear of infecting them. Some of us have already
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become infected despite all of the safety protocols. That's from one of the leading doctors in one of
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the best areas of Italy. What's coming here may be the same. What's coming here, you must not panic.
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You must do what the CDC is telling us to do. Self-isolate if you can. Work from home if you can. Don't go out
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if you can. We're struggling with schools right now. People are thinking that schools are a trip line,
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that when the school is canceled, well, then that'll be different.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Well, our election coverage continues now as we kick it into high gear. We have all of the stats
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and analysis from Mr. Steve Bregeer coming up in just a minute, otherwise known as Stu,
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our executive producer who loves to crunch the numbers. But we also have Nick DiPaolo who is
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joining us now. And Nick, I know you just couldn't get enough of what was happening last night with the
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with the election. I'm sure I love, you know, Biden's everything that the Trump hate is accused
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Trump of being. He's not fit to be president mentally. He he told the woman to shush after he
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told that guy's full of s. He told the woman to shut. I know he's a he's a misogynist. He's a
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plagiarizer. He's an angry old white guy. And he's everything that they remember what he said about
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Obama being eloquent and clean. And he made jokes about Indians at gas stations. He's everything
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that they say Trump is. May I just say, if you're watching the blaze TV, you might have noticed that
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you seem to have Nick a Kim Jong Un's head on a pike next to you is. Oh, I put this up when we do
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Corona news. I know it's the wrong country, but close enough for my fans.
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Oh, my gosh. He's coughing. Oh, my gosh. He's coughing. Yeah. Coronavirus panic. Last time you
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have me on, I'm like, oh, they're just blowing this out of proportion. Now I'm a little bit of
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a bully. Everybody's panicking about Italy. I mean, the average age is 78 in Italy. All they do is kiss
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and hug when they meet. Right. That's no surprise. Right. The Chinese invented pasta. I don't know how
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that fits him, but come on. I will tell you that what's happening in Italy, people don't understand
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why it's necessarily taking Italy by storm by storm. Italy is the oldest population in all of Europe.
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And that's right. This is hitting the older populations really, really, really hard.
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But what you're seeing today, we went over some of the the doctors that have come out and said,
00:31:26.160
let me describe the situation here. It is truly frightening, Nick. I mean, there are,
00:31:30.920
they're saying, if you have a stroke, don't come to the hospital. You have a heart attack,
00:31:34.460
we can't help you. Well, they're just preparing us if Bernie gets in. That's how health care is.
00:31:40.780
It's the same thing, although he's not going to get in. But I'm getting mixed signals, Glenn. I'm not
00:31:45.840
that nervous. I can't get nervous over a pandemic that can be cured with Purell and washing your hands.
00:31:52.220
You know what I mean? I'm not that nervous. If you're in your late 80s, you know, stay where you are.
00:31:58.260
It's not like they're out there partying anyways. But how is this worse?
00:32:02.040
I know exponentially it's going to grow and stuff, but how is this worse than a regular flu that kills
00:32:07.380
millions of people? Okay, so here's the problem. It's not the fact that it's killing so many people,
00:32:13.560
although it has the potential of doing that. What the problem is, is our health care systems
00:32:21.000
all around the world, not ours, just alone, all around the world are not prepared for 40% of the
00:32:28.820
population to be sick at the same time. And so we don't have the medicine, we don't have the supplies,
00:32:35.040
and certainly with the number of elderly people, we just don't have the beds in the hospital and the,
00:32:43.000
you know, and the breathing machines and everything else that are going to be required
00:32:47.720
to handle so many people. And so that's what they're doing. They're trying to say stay home
00:32:52.300
because the health care system will come under such strain. We will lose people not just from
00:32:59.900
coronavirus, but from heart attacks, from strokes, from diabetes, from people who have have kidney
00:33:05.940
failure. All of those things are going to compound and we won't have the staff nor the medicine to be
00:33:13.380
able to deal with it all at once. Okay. So the old people go a few years early. I'm just looking
00:33:17.860
out for myself. This is how I am. I don't know if you've checked in the mirror, but you're right
00:33:23.700
in the median age of being seriously ill. Thanks for pointing that out. Guy with white hair and a
00:33:28.800
white beard. You should be in a bubble right now. No, I know. It's funny. I keep in my head,
00:33:37.900
I'm 28 years old. You're exactly right. I know. And I start looking at the math and they're saying
00:33:42.380
60 and up and I have the attitude of a 78 year old. But you know what's funny, Glenn? I was in
00:33:47.880
Chicago two weekends ago, sold out both shows, by the way. I shook 150 hands. I get done doing that.
00:33:55.620
I walk in the green room and I go, whose slice of pizza is that? And they go, you can have it.
00:33:59.520
I pick it up and eat it. I wolf it down. I don't wash my hands. And I say, oh, this is baloney. But
00:34:07.520
then I get home on Monday. I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and my teeth is
00:34:12.740
chattering and my body's, I have a wicked, like a wicked chills. And then I wake up two hours later,
00:34:19.900
my head is soaked. And that went on for about three days. If that would have happened today,
00:34:24.980
you would have absolutely been convinced you had coronavirus. Yeah, I was. And I was all cocky going,
00:34:29.720
this is all blown out of proportion. So I go to urgent care and they test me. Yeah. Testing is
00:34:35.880
taking your temperature and sticking a swab up my nose. The guy goes, that's where the that's where
00:34:40.260
the flu lives. And I'm like, oh, it lives in Wuhan. What are you talking about? And it comes back
00:34:45.080
negative for the regular flu. And I said, OK, so I, you know, I must have a common cold or something.
00:34:50.960
But I've been and I got to be honest, I've been under the weather since I got back from
00:34:55.720
Chicago a little bit. But they said I didn't even have the regular flu. So I'm confused because
00:35:00.720
now I'm reading stuff like, well, five days later, it can get worse and all this. But
00:35:05.420
I got to get on a plane this week. You know what I do for a living? I have to get on a plane.
00:35:09.700
That might be the best place. I was wondering with you where your tripwire was, where what what is
00:35:15.700
what has to happen before you like, I'm not going to go out into crowds and shake hands and
00:35:20.920
because your money is made there. We keep going back and forth on we have to be here at the studios
00:35:27.720
or it will dramatically change our product. But we also know if we're all sick, it will also stop
00:35:35.080
the product from being made. And so we're we're debating whether or not, you know, what's the next
00:35:40.380
tripwire? What's the thing that says, OK, you know what? We all have to stay and work from home.
00:35:44.100
Well, for me personally, if I start bleeding from the eyes and ears on stage,
00:35:49.600
then I'll tell the 12 people there to get out. But
00:35:53.160
right. Or just come on in. You're already infected. Come on in.
00:35:59.040
Yeah, I'm selling DiPaolo surgical masks after the show. And right. Yeah. But but I get I'm going
00:36:04.260
to get on a plane this weekend. And, you know, I'm going to Baltimore. So now not now my longevity
00:36:09.740
numbers are going down between coronavirus and gunplay. I don't know if I'm going to see
00:36:13.520
Monday. Baltimore is just riddled. Baltimore is one of the cities in America. I think the only
00:36:17.740
city in America that has a bigger population of rats than people. That's true. That's it. That's
00:36:24.160
exactly true. Yeah, it is. It's a it's a it's just a petri dish of something bad to kill you.
00:36:29.720
But that's it's so germ infested that the coronavirus can't even penetrate Baltimore.
00:36:35.260
You know what I mean? They're immune. Right. The coronavirus comes in. The rats eat it.
00:36:40.800
I'm I'm look, I come from longevity. My grandfather was 94, my grandmother. And so I didn't wear a
00:36:45.780
condom in the 80s at the height of the AIDS epidemic. I had a blast. And here I am. So
00:36:52.260
You are just a nightmare. And I looked good back in the 80s. You know, I mean, I was
00:36:56.460
I don't think so. I don't think so. A young way. Oh, dude, I got so many women. I look
00:37:01.400
like a young way. That doesn't necessarily mean you were good looking. It might mean you had
00:37:07.340
bad eyesight. Well, that's true. Yeah. A couple shots of Jack. Right. And everybody's like
00:37:15.960
those 10s turn it. Those fours turn into 10s. You're a beautiful woman. Dude, back off.
00:37:23.440
I swear I thought you were a woman. You still are pretty beautiful.
00:37:29.080
I did very well. I didn't look like Butterfucko's dad my whole life. And I look, what am I going
00:37:35.820
to do, Glenn? I'm lucky I got this show because this does bring in a little bit of money. Thanks
00:37:39.940
to people like you and people who contribute at NPR. I'll get your tote bag later. But
00:37:47.580
the planes, I'm getting on a plane. And that looks like the best place to be isolated right
00:37:51.300
now because all the airports seem to be empty. It's going to be me and like three other people
00:37:55.320
on a plane to Baltimore this weekend. So I'm not worried. But I see what you're saying as
00:38:03.220
far as overcrowding at the hospitals and stuff. But it's a good time to go to the mall.
00:38:07.440
Nobody's there. I went into Dunkin Donuts. Nobody in front of me. I have to tell you,
00:38:11.440
I have a friend. I have a couple who said, we're traveling the world right now.
00:38:18.300
But that's Connie Chung and her husband. No, no, no. That's Connie Chung. No, no. A friend
00:38:24.260
of mine actually said they were just in Paris and they said, no one is anywhere. You can do anything,
00:38:31.640
you know, well, except for shop or go to a restaurant or anything. It's over. If you want to see
00:38:37.200
everything. I know you want to see everything outdoors, you can do it right now. And there's
00:38:42.200
not a soul around anywhere. Once again, the French showing their courage. Right.
00:38:48.920
They really are the best, aren't they? We're going to have to save them from this too.
00:38:52.600
All right. Nick DiPaolo from NickDip.com. Where are you going to be this weekend?
00:38:57.720
Magoobies in Timonium, Maryland, Friday and Saturday night. Don't let the name fool you. It's
00:39:02.020
a beautiful club. Magoobies? Magoobies. I know. Every time I'm on with you, it can't be the Ritz
00:39:08.180
Theater. It has to be Skid Marks and Buffalo, you know, the Rubber Room. No, no, no. It's a great
00:39:14.320
club. Magoobies sounds great. All right. Thank you so much. Bring your own mask. Thank you very
00:39:21.440
much, Nick. I appreciate it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:39:30.440
Hey, here's really exciting news. Dow is down 1,000 points today. It was up over 1,000 points
00:39:48.640
yesterday. We've lost it all. We'll probably gain it all tomorrow. I love this. I love this.
00:39:54.400
It's why you don't freak out. You just keep watching things. It looks like China is back
00:40:02.420
online. They're expecting now their second hit. Why do you look at me like that? I'm torn on the
00:40:08.560
China's back online narrative right now. President Xi did go to Wuhan, which by the way, has nothing to
00:40:18.400
do with this virus. And if you say it's the Wuhan virus, you're a racist. Is that what you are?
00:40:22.540
He just picked a random city. Yeah. He's just visiting, just visiting one of his towns in a
00:40:27.680
mask. That's all. Yeah. You notice you're not hearing that now. Well, I also noticed he was
00:40:31.960
wearing a mask. Wasn't the whole thing. The masks aren't effective in this. Why was President Xi
00:40:36.380
wearing one then when he visited Wuhan? Because anyone who says the masks aren't effective is
00:40:41.740
lying to you. Although I do know somebody that wore what I think is just a feminine hygiene
00:40:48.960
product on their face because they couldn't get a mask. I don't know how that works. I
00:40:54.420
don't think it does. I don't think it does. So I don't know. To me, the idea that they are
00:41:01.320
kind of like, ah, we're back to normal. Everything's fine. It doesn't ring true to me yet. I mean,
00:41:06.940
we don't have obviously a vaccine. We don't like this stuff could still get spread around.
00:41:11.460
The fact that their new cases per day number has decreased. The curve of the spread of the virus
00:41:21.200
has flattened out, which is great. But that does not mean it's going away.
00:41:25.400
I say they're back online. I mean, most of their businesses are back online.
00:41:30.160
Most of their businesses are open and they're starting to do business. They are just concerned
00:41:34.940
now that the rest of the world is getting hit. And so there's nothing to sell to the rest of the
00:41:39.080
world because all they want to seemingly is toilet paper. By the way, talk to somebody early this
00:41:44.080
morning in Rome. You know, the one thing they don't have shortages of toilet paper. Just want to point
00:41:49.400
that out. They still have toilet paper over in Italy where things have gone really, really horribly
00:41:55.500
wrong in in the political news. I just want to stop here for just a second. The Democrats are now
00:42:03.080
saying that they are thinking about canceling the rest of the primaries.
00:42:09.460
OK, there's nothing that screams authoritarian like canceling a primary. Now, I say that knowing
00:42:19.920
that the GOP canceled their primaries. There is a slight difference. There's nobody that was running
00:42:28.340
that was even going to have a chance to beat Donald Trump. With that said, I wish they wouldn't
00:42:33.800
have canceled the primary. You know, they said, well, it costs a lot of money. Yeah. Well, you know
00:42:38.580
what? There's things we do that cost a lot of money. I political party. It came out of frigging
00:42:42.880
primary. Right. I, I, I spend a lot of money on lawyers and everything else to keep up with all of
00:42:49.860
the laws. Yeah. You know, I'd like to be able to say, yeah, you know what? We're just going to
00:42:54.080
suspend those. There are things you have to do. And in a, in a Republic, I don't know, having a
00:43:01.380
finishing an election is one of them. Seems like when most of the name of your party is Republic,
00:43:06.200
you might want to know that. Right. And also point out that, you know, obviously Trump is
00:43:10.200
running on a pose largely. He does have opponents, however, that we're all going to get blown out
00:43:15.200
94 to six. The problem here, though, is think about this next time. Think about the next time when
00:43:20.780
some establishment figure you don't like is president of the United States. They're just
00:43:24.640
going to start canceling these things because they want the president to hold it, whether
00:43:27.520
they have a legitimate candidate or not. Forget about the next time. How about right now with
00:43:31.640
the Democrats? The Democrats now are talking about canceling the rest of their primaries
00:43:35.560
because Joe Biden's got it. Well, you know what? Joe Biden didn't have it three weeks ago.
00:43:41.140
It looked like Joe Biden was going to drop out in humiliation three weeks ago.
00:43:45.340
I think the one thing we can all agree on is, is the one thing that Joe Biden does not
00:43:48.960
have is it like whatever it is. Joe Biden doesn't have it. He doesn't cognitive decision
00:43:55.980
making ability, whatever it is. Joe is lacking it in some massive way. Imagine if you're a Bernie
00:44:01.580
Sanders supporter and and all of a sudden they start talking about canceling the rest. Now,
00:44:07.040
Bernie Sanders is going to do poorly in many of the remaining states. However, imagine you're a
00:44:14.520
supporter and they just cancel the rest of them, even though the race isn't done. He doesn't have
00:44:20.540
everything locked up. You already feel like, wait a minute, our guy was ahead. And then
00:44:26.200
your party just your party just orchestrated this massive comeback and put everybody together to beat
00:44:33.880
our guy. So this is the establishment rigging an election. That's how you would feel if you were
00:44:40.480
Bernie Sanders supporter. The last thing you would want to do if you're the Democratic Party and you
00:44:45.260
want to not piss people off that like to burn things down is to give them more ammunition and
00:44:52.120
more gasoline. Really stupid, foolish and and hurts the republic in the long run. You should be able to
00:45:01.000
vote for who you want to vote for. You don't just hand nominations out of convenience. They cancel the
00:45:06.980
primaries. I know. I think that's really bad. Now, that's just been suggested. It's not actually
00:45:11.040
happened. And also, I will note they're not their advertised reason for this is, yes, of course,
00:45:19.420
you know, we do see that Joe Biden looks like he's going to win this, but coronavirus is serious,
00:45:23.900
blah, blah, blah. So it is important to at least note what the reason is, whether you believe it or
00:45:28.700
not. I mean, a lot of it did come from people who wanted Bernie Sanders to drop out. And that makes it a
00:45:35.680
lot easier, by the way. Uh-huh. If Bernie drops out, then what? Then the Bernie bros, what are they
00:45:40.660
going to say? They're still going to say it was, you know, they were scammed. I mean, I've been
00:45:44.880
watching, you know, Twitter trending topics here over the past 24 hours. Almost the entire time there's
00:45:52.300
been one about how Bernie was scammed, how they stole it from him, how, you know, drop out right in
00:45:59.720
Bernie, drop out of the parties, you know, Dem exit, all these things from these people. Now,
00:46:06.640
look, Twitter is not real life, as we're seeing in the actual voting booth. I mean, Twitter,
00:46:12.120
you can tweet from home while you're eating a Hot Pocket and watching Netflix. You can't do,
00:46:17.420
you can't vote yet. I have a feeling some of these people are too lazy to put the Hot Pocket even into
00:46:21.820
the microwave. Oh, yeah. You just wait for it to thaw out a little bit, maybe, and then just eat it.
00:46:25.540
Do you wait? Do you wait for it to thaw out? If you suck on the Hot Pocket long enough, it starts
00:46:29.600
to melt. It starts to get softer. It's like Dizzy Man, long lasting, very cold
00:46:38.200
That's the problem, though. I mean, I think you can't build your
00:46:41.520
revolution around people who don't get off their couch. Yeah.
00:46:45.840
And that is a big problem that Bernie was never able to solve. He won
00:46:49.540
young voters with incredibly high percentages, but none of them,
00:46:53.600
I mean, they were smaller percentage than last time of the voting populace because they didn't
00:46:57.680
bother to show up for him. Do you think that or do you think that this whole thing
00:47:02.380
was more of a vote against Hillary Clinton and against this establishment last time,
00:47:09.900
but they're not serious. Nobody is serious except a very small handful of core supporters.
00:47:17.340
America is people who went out Michigan and said, I'm going to vote for Bernie Sanders. That was
00:47:21.840
you knew that Hillary Clinton was going to win. Yeah.
00:47:25.980
You know what I mean? It wasn't real. Right. This
00:47:27.960
is real. Wait a minute. We vote for him. He could
00:47:49.860
we do something about this? Because we never thought
00:47:55.840
that was the time, too, where he's out there talking about Cuba.
00:48:13.980
We're going to go through this tonight on Stu Does America,
00:48:33.640
look, the party's moving this way. Everyone wants
00:48:35.680
to be a socialist. And there's plenty of people
00:48:39.560
side of that, there were just a lot of people who just couldn't
00:48:41.720
stand Hillary Clinton and didn't want to hand her the nomination.
00:48:43.860
If she's going to get it, she's going to have to work for it.
00:49:08.300
they're caught between a rock and a hard place now.
00:49:15.660
if you're who do you want to win the Democratic
00:49:19.800
want to win? I don't know. You go back and forth.
00:49:29.600
route. You'd rather go for Sanders because he's
00:49:37.100
You should be scared of him. Bernie's got so much
00:50:10.740
for him. I think this is what it sounds like in