The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Thomas Massie ｜ 4⧸9⧸20

00:00:01.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today we go into, well, it's still COVID mania, I suppose, but

00:00:06.240 we have some different things that you might not have heard yet, including talking to a

00:00:09.760 guy who owns a gun store in Massachusetts. It is not an essential business. Your Second

00:00:15.040 Amendment rights, not so essential in Massachusetts. He's decided to keep his place open. He doesn't

00:00:20.220 care. He's going for it anyway. We talked to him. We talked to Thomas Massey about what's

00:00:24.840 going on in Washington and how they're going to try to pass more money to be doled out

00:00:29.640 without a vote. It's a very disturbing development that is going on right now. We also have a

00:00:37.280 story completely unrelated to what's going on in the news of a guy who stops, his car

00:00:42.340 breaks down, and somebody very interesting stops on the side of the road to fix the car.

00:00:47.680 Would be a very strange moment. We'll let him tell his story as well, and all the updates

00:00:53.360 that you need from what's going on all around the world with coronavirus. We also have Glenn

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00:01:35.220 For the first time in the history of Chicago animal shelters, they have run out of adoptable

00:01:47.060 pets. People apparently have been running out to get a pet. And if they're out, if you would

00:01:55.440 like to adopt a teenager or two, my doors are wide open. Wide open. You can come in here

00:02:03.360 with wet lung. And I'm fine. Adopt away. Holy cow. Wow. Things are going well, huh? Man. Wow.

00:02:13.460 Okay. So, you know, I feel so bad for anybody who lives in a very small house or an apartment

00:02:20.900 in New York. I'm surprised they're just not all killing each other at this point. Yeah.

00:02:24.920 Um, it, it is, it is, I have a, you know, I have a nice house with the backyard and everything

00:02:30.720 else, but it is so confining. It is, it just three weeks is enough. You're kind of, you're,

00:02:38.020 you know, it's like, I, I, I, I, I gotta get out of here. Yeah, it is crazy. Here's the

00:02:43.940 good news though. The good news is you only have another 18 months to go according to Ezekiel

00:02:49.560 manual, just another 18 months. And then we're done with this. So don't worry about it. America

00:02:54.240 would never, America, America will not all be dead. We'll all be dead in 18 months.

00:03:00.360 Yeah, we would, we would, we would. And let me tell you something. There's no way that

00:03:05.020 we go back. They're talking now that, you know, probably in November, we're all going

00:03:08.800 to have to go back in for the winter. No way. No, no way. People are just not going to do

00:03:12.560 it. They're going to be like, I don't care. I'll die. I'm not going to do it. Three weeks.

00:03:18.680 My kids are, I mean, it's, it's enough. My kids are out of their mind right now. I have

00:03:26.500 a teenage son, teenage son. And he is, he was homeschooled. He does not like homeschooling.

00:03:36.040 He needs the social stuff. He needs to be very active, needs to be in school or a prison work

00:03:43.900 chain gang or something, but he just, he hates it. And he is, he is up until like three

00:03:51.680 o'clock in the morning. Yesterday, two days ago, Tanya got up at five and he was up at

00:03:57.220 five just watching TV, you know, time before he was on the computer. I mean, we just cannot

00:04:03.940 stop it. And I, I mean, we have all the computer keyboards and everything locked up in the safe

00:04:09.400 at night and he'll find it. He's like MacGyver. He'll find something to do all night. And it's

00:04:16.380 just, it's, it's impossible. And then when you try to do something as a family, oh my gosh,

00:04:22.040 I cannot, I cannot, I have nightmares of the Netflix or the Amazon page with, you know, all

00:04:30.260 of the options. It's a never ending nightmare because you'll sit down and you'll say, okay,

00:04:36.700 you want to watch this? And one of them will say, oh, if you're going to watch this, I'm

00:04:41.380 going to go do this. Yep. No, no, no, no. Okay. All right. Well then let's watch this.

00:04:45.980 Oh, well, if you're the other one, if you're going to watch it, I'm just going to listen

00:04:48.540 to my music and they put their earbuds in. It's like, oh, good God. And, and, and they're

00:04:53.020 not, and they're not even close. It's like, uh, you know, one is doctor who, and the other

00:04:58.820 one is high school musical and there's nothing, nothing that is, is a bridge between those

00:05:06.720 two. It's horrible. Do you just horrible? Must you watch TV together? I mean, like a, can

00:05:13.660 you just, well, I'd like to, I mean, right now, right now in the last two days and Tanya

00:05:19.140 said to me last night and I said, honey, I'm sorry, I can't help it. It was the book thing

00:05:23.760 and I'm working all the time from home and it makes it worse because I'm home and I don't

00:05:28.780 have any time to do anything. And she's like, honey, we, we got to do something. And she

00:05:33.580 said, I, you know what? I think just, I'm just going to just give up. And I'm like, okay,

00:05:37.320 that's not an option, but right now we, I think maybe we have to just relax some of the, I don't

00:05:44.760 know because they're, I don't see my kids. They're in other rooms with ear pods. They're, you

00:05:51.360 know, whatever. And it, oh my gosh. Okay. Take away, take away their music, take away

00:05:57.680 YouTube, take away the, you know, whatever that is that they're doing, take it away.

00:06:02.480 Are you kidding me? They're almost insane as it is. Am I the only one dealing with this?

00:06:10.880 No, I just think that this is the time for those sorts of piece, you know, that, that

00:06:17.440 leniency is, is valuable here, right? I think so too, but I could be very wrong.

00:06:23.840 I feel like, like this, like, look, there are reasons to help with long-term habits, right?

00:06:30.720 To get them off of all the devices and all of that. In this situation, you know, you just

00:06:36.600 have to like, all right, well today they're just on the iPad.

00:06:39.720 Yeah. But 30 days and it's a habit. 30 days and it's a habit. Yeah. I don't think it's

00:06:46.940 unlimited. We're looking at a lot more than 30 days. Take them out to the pool. I mean,

00:06:52.780 this could change. You got a pool. Have them go swimming. Yeah. Go out and go swimming.

00:06:57.220 Little brats. Well, I, I turned on, I told Tanya, I said, let's heat the pool because it's 0.91

00:07:02.100 60 today. I said, let's heat the pool. And she said, heat the pool. Do you know that? Cause

00:07:06.200 I said, we're not spending money anyplace else. We're not going anywhere. We're not

00:07:11.240 going anywhere, you know, but you could lose your job. Yes. But the kids will be out of

00:07:17.380 the house. And there's definitely this thing going on, I think too, with, uh, with just

00:07:22.560 like, obviously like, you know, we're in, you know, outside in the suburbs and Texas, it's

00:07:27.020 a totally different situation. As you point out to the city and people in New York city,

00:07:31.200 even it's totally different situation than people in like, imagine being in a developing

00:07:35.280 country where you have like 15 people in your house anyway. And you have, you either go

00:07:41.460 out and work or die. There's no social distancing going on. 15 people in your house and it's

00:07:46.260 250 square feet. Right. Yeah. Try that. Right. Yeah. And here we are bitching about first

00:07:52.040 world problems. Yeah. I can't get my kids in the pool or up to the movie room.

00:07:56.520 I have to tell you, I have not, I, I, because maybe because I lived in New York, I can relate

00:08:11.120 to the, the, they must be losing their minds. Imagine being in one of those skyscrapers or

00:08:20.360 just do one of those, just ratty rat infested, cockroach infested apartment buildings in New

00:08:26.940 York where you've got 500 square feet and just two children, one child. I mean, it's got

00:08:35.380 to be crazy, crazy bad. Yeah. Where you can't go out into the park or did you hear about,

00:08:42.620 well, who was the, what was it in Denver where, um, a father and daughter went out and they were

00:08:48.200 just throwing a softball, uh, back and forth to each other. The social distancing, they

00:08:52.960 weren't around everybody. They weren't in a team or anything. It was just a father and

00:08:56.100 daughter. They arrested the father. Yeah. Dragged him out in handcuffs. Unreal. In front of his

00:09:02.040 six year old daughter. Uh, that is insane. That's crazy. That's insane. I don't know what's

00:09:07.840 Colorado. What the hell is happening to you? That's got to stop. It's nuts. I guess they're 0.83

00:09:12.700 trying, they're trying to apologize. I wouldn't, I would not take that apology. I would take

00:09:17.860 that to court. I would take that to court. I'm getting a little surly. I got nothing.

00:09:23.480 Yeah. I got nothing but time on my hands. I don't accept your apology. You bastards. No.

00:09:33.840 Some of these, some of these restrictions though, they're just anti-American. They're just

00:09:38.660 unconstitutional. They are. And you know, finally, some people are starting to push back a little

00:09:43.900 bit. In Idaho, we've got a group of people led of course by a Bundy. Uh, Am and Bundy

00:09:50.320 is getting, getting people together in Sandpoint, Idaho and saying, no, we're not going to do

00:09:55.080 this.

00:09:55.360 All right. So we have another stimulus bill that is, uh, coming up and God only knows what

00:10:12.740 they're putting in these things. And there's nobody doing their job in Congress or in the

00:10:17.140 Senate. We have representative Thomas Massey who got massacred. Uh, what was it just last

00:10:22.200 week, uh, for standing up and saying, uh, no, you, you have to have these people come

00:10:28.000 in and actually debate the bill. Uh, right now, Nancy Pelosi is passing all of these things.

00:10:34.400 This is just the leadership in Congress and the leadership in Senate, just doing business

00:10:40.340 and railroading all of this stuff through. And it's absolutely unconstitutional. Thomas

00:10:47.260 Massey, who is being a watchdog of our money and our constitution. Welcome to the program,

00:10:51.520 sir. How are you?

00:10:52.600 Thanks for having me on Glenn. Yeah. The swamp nearly crushed me 10 days ago for insisting

00:10:58.240 that Congress show up for work and, uh, they're going to try and do it again. They're trying

00:11:03.180 to pass bills with nobody there. It's not constitutional and tell me why truck drivers and nurses and 0.74

00:11:08.920 grocery store workers have to go to work, but Congress doesn't. 0.99

00:11:13.300 It is. It's, it's obscene, Thomas. It really is obscene. I mean, I understand if they don't,

00:11:19.720 you know, they're, but most of them are old and, you know, are, are prime candidates for getting

00:11:25.760 this. So I understand that they don't want to go in, but then fine, do it on the phone,

00:11:30.840 do it on the internet. That's what we're all having to do. Do it on zoom. You can do it. Congress,

00:11:36.560 uh, they, they're not even looking for ways to do it. In fact, uh, Nancy Pelosi has said she won't

00:11:43.620 call everybody back because it's just too dangerous. Glenn, we're telling millions of

00:11:48.600 school children to, to go to school online and Congress can't even hold a hearing online. We,

00:11:54.420 it's ridiculous. You know, and this is what I've said this time. So they're going to try and do 0.91

00:11:59.020 something by UC. I don't, I don't want to get crushed again. I know I'm going to get crushed

00:12:03.400 again, but what I've said is vote remotely, enable voting remotely for Congress. If you don't

00:12:09.740 want to show up for work, at least work from home, but they, this is about not having any

00:12:14.460 accountability. And by the way, this loan program, is it appropriate to call it a loan program? If

00:12:19.800 you expect a hundred percent of the loans to default, these are not, the banks are not loan

00:12:25.560 originators. They're grant administrators and it's free money. Is it, when you put up a sign and say

00:12:31.400 free money, is it any surprise that you run out of $300 billion the first day? No, we'll run out of

00:12:38.200 $250 billion. You know, the white house told me when they were trying to get me to vote for this

00:12:43.080 bill 10 days ago, it's so big. We're making it so big. So we won't have to revisit this issue

00:12:48.880 until like July or August. That's what they told me. Oh, don't worry. We got plenty of money there.

00:12:54.220 The fed can leverage it. Uh, you'll, you won't have to vote on anything like this again. And here we are

00:12:59.720 not even two weeks later and they're telling us they need, well, the Senate Republicans are saying a

00:13:05.480 quarter of a trillion. And then Pelosi saying, no, we need another quarter of a trillion. So

00:13:10.380 this would be half a trillion dollars, not even two weeks after the first bill. And they don't want

00:13:15.800 anybody to go on record. So what's in this bill, Thomas, do you have any idea? I know that they're

00:13:23.100 now saying the Democrats are saying they won't vote unless, and this, this kills me unless we change

00:13:29.160 our voting system in November and we allow, um, uh, some sort of remote voting for every American,

00:13:37.460 yet they won't remote vote for the bill. Yeah. They can't enable remote voting for 535 members

00:13:45.780 of Congress. I don't think it's going to go well with the general public, by the way, that's a state

00:13:50.780 issue. There are states that have mail-in ballots and their states that don't, there's no reason to

00:13:56.040 nationalize this. This is something that the states handle. People need to get out their

00:14:00.380 constitutions and look at them. Uh, and I will tell you something, Glenn, I see a very grim future

00:14:06.380 here in a few weeks if the governors don't reverse course. The assembly lines are shutting down.

00:14:12.960 People, when you see these jobless numbers, those are people who aren't going to the factories and

00:14:17.940 aren't working. By the way, you know, we all like to think that the farmers are still working and

00:14:23.060 they are for the most part, but most of that food goes through a factory that has to be approved

00:14:28.260 by the USDA, et cetera, before it gets to your table. Those factories are shutting down, Glenn.

00:14:32.980 There were six slaughterhouses, like giant meat packers that have shut down. Uh, we're going to

00:14:39.280 run out of food. Well, I know that, I know that, I know that, uh, the farmers are now buying up. I mean,

00:14:45.220 I have cattle on my ranch. Um, we're stocking up on food, um, making sure that you have enough

00:14:51.460 to, so you're not selling your cattle because there's no one to take the cattle and, and process

00:14:58.740 the, the meat. I think we'll have meat shortages. I think because of, of lack of workers on the

00:15:05.260 ground, there's lots of, I would talk to a farmer yesterday in North Carolina said, he's ready to pull

00:15:09.840 a crop up. He didn't have anybody to do it and he can't afford to pay anybody to do it because he's

00:15:16.300 not sure he qualifies for the loan because he only hires people two months at a time, three times a

00:15:23.760 year. Right. And the loan still isn't going to make people come to work. You know, you've seen

00:15:29.560 pictures of dairies pouring out milk. You're going to see pictures of, of cattlemen shooting their

00:15:34.780 cattle and burying them, uh, because they can't afford, they're, there's no feed to be had

00:15:39.800 and there's nobody that will process them. And meanwhile, you're going to have shortages in the

00:15:44.680 supermarket. By the way, I've got a bill I introduced like five years ago to fix this called the Prime

00:15:49.320 Act that would let local processors process meat and you could sell it with inside the state and it

00:15:55.800 would, it would allow local processors to fulfill this need so that you don't have farmers killing

00:16:01.200 animals instead of putting them into food. Thomas, this is the, that is the kind of thinking that

00:16:07.840 we need to get on. You know, Donald Trump was made fun of because America first, but that is all that

00:16:14.500 is, is think globally, act locally. Every hippie understands that. Um, and all you're saying is give

00:16:23.800 the local people a chance to do things without having to go through the federal government. Let the

00:16:30.780 states do it the way our constitution was built. So what's the, what's the holdup on this one?

00:16:38.560 Well, you know, ironically, I have the hippies in Congress have co-sponsored my bill. It's a,

00:16:43.740 it's a collection of conservatives and hippies and, uh, the red tape is going to cause people to starve

00:16:50.040 here in a few weeks. I'm telling you, if something doesn't change, it's going to get ugly. And the people

00:16:56.340 who are still going to work, the productive members of society, they're going to re when neighbors start

00:17:01.580 taking stuff from other neighbors and they're going to be able to justify it in their mind,

00:17:05.780 right? They're going to look at a neighbor who's got all this food and say, you know, my kid needs

00:17:09.760 to eat that guy hoarded food. That's not fair. I'm going to take his stuff. When people start taking

00:17:15.840 other people's stuff, then the, then the productive members of society are going to stay home to guard their

00:17:21.220 stuff. And it's going to just grind to a halt so quickly. And we are, we are weak. We are weeks

00:17:28.860 away. You, you, you, this is quite a charge. I've been talking about food shortages now for a while,

00:17:36.140 but I don't predict them coming this quickly. Um, but this is quite a charge because nobody is

00:17:41.840 talking about this. Where, where are you getting this feeling, Thomas, that, that, uh, we are that

00:17:48.200 close to food shortages, significant food shortages talking to Congressman Thomas Massey.

00:17:54.120 There's, there's an article out, uh, yesterday that talks about six of the big giant meat processing

00:18:00.020 plants. I mean, one of these handles like 1900 cattle a day shutting down if, you know, because,

00:18:06.300 uh, the workers have the virus and they don't have the test to know that which workers don't have it,

00:18:13.380 et cetera, et cetera. There's, there are articles out there. Uh, and just myself being a farmer,

00:18:18.980 I've got 65 cattle and, and I can tell you the price of cattle is going down. Meanwhile,

00:18:25.080 the price is going up in the supermarket and it's caused, caused because of the supply chains are

00:18:31.760 brittle and we need to get, we need to change course because by the, by the middle of this summer,

00:18:38.720 if something hasn't changed, it's going to be ugly. So Thomas, what, what should people be doing

00:18:48.420 right now? They should be, they should be telling their governors to turn the economy back on.

00:18:55.560 They should put a mask on. They should quit listening to the people who say that masks don't

00:19:01.100 work. They should put a mask on. The employers should, uh, provide masks. When you, when you get to

00:19:07.320 work, we need the cheap tests quickly. We need to know who's got some immunity conferred to them, 0.61

00:19:12.020 uh, because they've had it and recovered. We need to know who's got the virus and needs to stay home

00:19:17.300 instead of walking down all of the United States. We just need to, we just need to ask the ones who

00:19:22.400 are sick to stay home or, or carrying the virus. So there were some things yesterday I was talking

00:19:30.440 because, you know, I own a couple of companies and I was like, you know, I don't know why we can't

00:19:35.020 open partially yada yada. And the response immediately was lawsuits, Glenn lawsuits. If

00:19:42.240 something happens, someone gets sick, even if they're not getting sick from here, but you've

00:19:47.480 partially reopened things, they can sue you. And that's true. I mean, we, we have to have protection

00:19:55.620 as businesses that we're not going to get sued. You know, when we go back to work,

00:20:00.900 that's maybe that's a place where we could step in with legislation to say, as long as your employer

00:20:06.140 is testing every employee, and as long as they're giving you a mask, a brand new mask, when you come

00:20:11.700 to work, that they can't be held liable or something like that. You know, there could be a place for

00:20:17.420 legislation to get us out of this rut that that's getting deeper. All right, Thomas Massey, um, hang on

00:20:25.060 the phone for just a second. I want to take a one minute break, then I want to come back and I want to ask

00:20:28.360 you about this, this voting nonsense from the Democrats. What else do you know, if anything

00:20:34.580 is in this bill? And, uh, and, and again, um, what should we be doing on the national level? I think

00:20:42.580 you're right. The, the state level is where we need to start because it's where it's really out of

00:20:46.920 control, but what we need to do on the national level as well, back in just one minute, stand by.

00:20:51.800 So we are looking at another 6.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs or are applying for

00:21:00.140 unemployment, uh, this week. We are probably right now, Thomas at another, uh, probably between 12 and

00:21:09.800 15% unemployment when we see the numbers in the first of May. Um, and it doesn't seem like it's

00:21:16.480 going to get any better. And they're still talking about four to eight weeks, uh, you know, under lock

00:21:22.060 and key. The Congress says they want to give more. I've been talking to people that are losing their

00:21:30.380 restaurants or losing everything, have not been able to get in line for a loan because the money

00:21:35.900 is all gone. Should the government be making these loans? We shouldn't be doing it because we are

00:21:42.860 encouraging the governors to keep doing what they're doing, which is to shut down the economy.

00:21:48.100 They're going to end up starving people. The governors are, you're already seeing people

00:21:52.000 committing suicides because they can't get medical help or they're locked down. Uh, the bill that

00:21:57.680 Pelosi wants, she wants a 15% increase in SNAP, a hundred billion to local governments and 150

00:22:03.820 billion to hospitals, I think. So she, she wants to add another quarter of a trillion to this, 0.85

00:22:09.060 but the problem, you know, it sounds like it's humane and it's, and it's the right thing to do

00:22:13.980 is to give all this money away, but it doesn't create, it doesn't make the food grow. It doesn't

00:22:18.860 get the factories running. We're going to run out of things that support life on this planet.

00:22:27.420 So how do you, how do you balance this? Because if I, uh, you know, I understand that kind of,

00:22:34.200 that to me is critical infrastructure, farm, farming, you know, slaughterhouses,

00:22:39.700 food processing, all of that, that's critical infrastructure. Um, but I, I wasn't the one

00:22:46.040 who shut my business down. The government told me to shut it down. Doesn't the government have a

00:22:51.560 responsibility to reimburse me for all that I lost? Three weeks ago, I was having the best year of my

00:22:58.040 life. Now. I don't know if I can even open my business again. Do I, do I get anything back from

00:23:04.800 the government? Don't they have a responsibility constitutionally even? That's a great point,

00:23:10.480 but here's the problem. It's the governors who have shut things down and it's the federal government

00:23:15.160 who's trying to make you whole. There's no feedback loop. The governors are not suffering the

00:23:20.080 male effects of their policy. And so we are, we are sustaining their male effects. And so we've put

00:23:27.560 them in this moral hazard. So governors like Ron DeSantis, he had to fall in line like the day after

00:23:33.800 this stimulus thing passed, he had no other option. Um, and so that's the problem. And, and we're just

00:23:40.960 pushing these governors to keep doing it. If the governors had to make people whole for what they

00:23:46.240 are doing, they would, they would start coming up with sensible policy instead of staying, uh, stuck on 1.00

00:23:53.800 stupid. So aren't there places like New York that should be shut down? That, and that is up to the 1.00

00:24:02.700 governor of New York and they, that, you know, whatever happens there, they have to sustain that

00:24:07.720 in New York. Every state, every governor has got different policies. Kristi Noem has got it as a

00:24:12.880 policy that's suitable for her state. The problem is the feds are proposing one policy. If there's a role 1.00

00:24:19.020 for government, Glenn, I think it's in getting these masks out there. It's in getting the tests

00:24:24.600 out there. It's in publishing the data. It's in tracking this disease. And I'm sorry about my line.

00:24:31.760 I don't, yeah, I don't know if you're, you're at like Chernobyl or where you are, but, uh, uh,

00:24:37.220 let me ask you one, one question. Um, uh, talking to Congressman Thomas Massey, I cannot get an answer

00:24:43.880 on the way down and I can't get an answer now on the way out. What are the tripwires? What has to

00:24:51.120 happen for these states and the government to start recommending that we all go back to work?

00:24:57.740 Uh, you know, the numbers are all trending in the right place. Okay, great. We don't want to come

00:25:02.060 back too soon. I get it. But can you please find out what the tripwires are, Thomas? Cause no one

00:25:07.340 will give it's all, it's all arbitrary. I asked Dr. Fauci that question a few days ago. He said it

00:25:13.780 was hospital admissions when they start to flatten out. But the problem is as soon as they start to

00:25:18.780 flatten out and they ease off of this mitigation phase and something flares up, they're going to

00:25:23.520 shut it all back down again. All right. Thomas Massey, Congressman from, uh, from the great state

00:25:29.700 of Kentucky and, uh, one of the congressmen that actually has some balls, Thomas Massey. Thanks for

00:25:35.140 being on. You're listening to Glenn Beck. The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:49.780 The coronavirus, our update, more than just the numbers, the news that you need to know

00:25:55.280 all in just a couple of minutes. And we begin there in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:26:05.140 All right. So let's look at our coronavirus update. First, the numbers, total confirmed

00:26:09.740 cases. We're now at 1.5 million up from 1.4, almost a hundred thousand added to it. Total

00:26:17.300 confirmed deaths worldwide, almost at 90,000 up 7,000 yesterday. Uh, the U S now has almost

00:26:25.020 half a million that are confirmed cases, 435,160. I can guarantee you there are a lot more than

00:26:34.100 that 14,797 deaths. That is up almost 2000 from yesterday. Nearly 2000 deaths in the U S makes

00:26:46.400 this the highest death rate day so far for the pandemic in any country on earth. U S is now

00:26:53.960 officially tested 2 million people that just over 2 million people, 2.2, making the U S 44th in the rate

00:27:02.100 of testing per 1 million in population. Less than 1% of the population has been tested for COVID-19.

00:27:09.140 What we have found out now is that the virus spreads nearly two times faster than previously

00:27:14.220 estimated. This is coming from Los Alamos, the national laboratory. They published a study

00:27:19.120 estimating the total number of other people infected by each SARS COVID-2 carrier. The research

00:27:25.560 found people infected during the initial outbreak in Wuhan probably passed the virus to an average of

00:27:31.700 5.7 others. That's significant. Uh, that is more than double the two to 2.5 other people estimated by

00:27:40.980 the world health organization, but we can't take them at their word on anything anymore. Patients sick

00:27:47.920 with the seasonal flu by comparison will infect about 1.3 people. If the numbers are accurate,

00:27:54.040 the coronavirus pandemic could only be stopped by a widespread vaccination or built immunity for at

00:28:01.740 least 82% of the population. That's according to researchers who reviewed the Chinese data from the CDC,

00:28:08.000 including the mobile phone data that tracked the movement of patients leaving Wuhan. The WHO is facing

00:28:16.420 significant criticism for downplaying the contagious nature of COVID-19 and China's role in, uh, in,

00:28:24.160 in the coverup to, uh, uh, that, that stopped, that could have stopped the, the, uh, spread of this virus,

00:28:32.600 but of course, uh, didn't more Western governments now agree. The virus likely came from a Chinese

00:28:41.040 laboratory, not from exotic food markets. Um, I don't know if this is good news or bad news.

00:28:48.940 I mean, it's good news that people aren't eating bat soup, 1.00

00:28:52.900 but it's, but it's bad news that it came from a laboratory. We can add now great Britain to the

00:29:05.060 growing list of governments who are confirming that SARS COVID-2 virus likely came from the Chinese

00:29:12.740 Communist Party backed viral research lab, the U S UK, Israel, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Germany have

00:29:20.720 all reached similar conclusions. The virus behind COVID-19 was most likely laboratory grown. That's

00:29:28.840 farther than we went last night on our special. Uh, last night, we did a great special on, uh, the

00:29:35.500 Chinese Communist Party and how it's just killing the world. I want to play a little piece, uh, from 1.00

00:29:43.320 that special where we, we went over the evidence that it was actually, and confirmed by the Chinese

00:29:50.440 Communist Party before the outbreak that they were doing experiments with these particular bats,

00:29:57.600 very close to where they said the bat soup was watch in February, two researchers from the South

00:30:06.360 China university of technology published a paper that was immediately taken down. Gee, I wonder why

00:30:12.460 let's take a look at their credentials. Their resume looks pretty darn impressive. Joint international

00:30:18.600 research research laboratory, South China university of technology has on a university of science and

00:30:25.200 technology, Wuhan university of science and technology. I mean, they're not slouches.

00:30:30.900 They're not exactly a couple of internet bloggers in their mommy's basement. Well, maybe they didn't

00:30:36.540 have a big name supporter. Maybe they just went rogue, but it says here they actually had the support of

00:30:43.300 the national natural science foundation of China. Okay. So why did this get pulled? It's easy.

00:30:50.620 Their scientific data went to counter the propaganda. It was a question. The communist party didn't want

00:30:58.600 to be asked. Their report detailed that not one single horseshoe bat was sold at the Wuhan animal

00:31:06.180 market. Let me quote, according to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors,

00:31:14.340 the bat was never a food source in the city and no bat was traded in the market. In fact,

00:31:22.320 the bats responsible for carrying the Corona virus come from an area over 550 miles away from the animal

00:31:31.020 market. So if the bats aren't from that area and there weren't any of them being sold in the market,

00:31:36.800 where did the outbreak come from? Because the data, which now comes from multiple sources,

00:31:44.180 isn't supporting the Wuhan animal market. The two researchers screened the area and they found two

00:31:50.700 locations near the market where both were known to be studying Corona virus. One of them is only 300

00:31:57.880 yards away from the market. That's the length of three football fields. So that sounds like a good

00:32:04.060 possibility. What's the location? The Wuhan center for disease control and prevention, the same exact

00:32:12.300 place. The researcher was gathering up horseshoe bats in the video. That's where they worked. Now,

00:32:20.200 at this point, it seems pretty obvious, but the researchers sum up their conclusions here. Quote,

00:32:26.960 in summary, someone was entangled with the evolution of the 2019 COVID Corona virus.

00:32:34.060 And in addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer Corona probably

00:32:41.920 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, end quote. What's amazing about this is we showed you the

00:32:50.760 video last night from the Chinese Communist Party, where they have the researchers going out and

00:32:57.020 collecting these bats and saying, hey, we got to be really careful. Don't get it on your skin or anything,

00:33:01.340 because these are this is highly contagious. It's very, very dangerous. They were saying that and it was

00:33:08.260 broadcast on the Chinese television by the official state television in I think it was in November or early

00:33:18.740 December. And those are the people that were in those caves, taking those bats, saying how dangerous it

00:33:25.920 was, they work and brought all of that stuff back to Wuhan. Then there's the breakout. Fascinating. It seems pretty

00:33:39.740 hard to refute. But right now, the Chinese are saying that it was an American military that brought it over to

00:33:49.740 Wuhan and they have proof because the so-called Wuhan virus was over in South Carolina last summer and the

00:34:01.260 United States government brought it over to China. Doesn't sound like we're headed for any place nice, but we

00:34:08.280 could have seen this coming back years ago on this program. We talked about epidemics. What year was this

00:34:15.860 from, Stu? It's 2018. May 2018.

00:34:20.700 Okay. And it's Wilson. His book was Epidemic. We talked to him just and nothing wasn't like a big thing breaking out at the

00:34:28.920 moment. There was a little talk about the we were right just after the Ebola thing that, you know, there wound up being

00:34:35.200 Ebola patients that came in the United States, even here in Dallas, where we're broadcasting. And we brought him on to kind of

00:34:41.740 talk about what what what the next threats could be. Listen to this clip with with today's context.

00:34:50.740 So Ebola, you know, I think we're we're sitting here and there's really kind of two schools or two camps,

00:34:59.960 one that roll their eyes and like, OK, well, everybody always panics and it's always fine.

00:35:05.900 And the other side that is like, we're ripe for a pandemic. We're all going to die.

00:35:12.220 Where where is where are we? Which side is is more accurate?

00:35:18.480 Well, I think the we're ripe for a pandemic is probably correct, although I don't I don't think

00:35:23.720 we're all going to die there. But there are definitely reasons to be concerned about the state

00:35:29.480 of the global public health system. It is not adequately prepared to deal with a pandemic,

00:35:35.260 whether it's something that comes out of, you know, the Congo River basin like Ebola or whether

00:35:40.660 it comes out of a, you know, a bird market in China, like like a new flu or something like that.

00:35:47.900 Or have like a bird market in China?

00:35:50.580 Yeah, it could be anything. A new flu, something like that.

00:35:53.460 Oh, OK. Yeah. All right. Really bizarre to listen back to that. He also went on to talk about

00:36:01.020 one of the things that was that worked really well during the Ebola situation was it, you know,

00:36:08.200 as well as an Ebola situation can break out or it can work out, is that it expanded in areas where

00:36:16.020 we were well received. Americans could go in and help. Right. And try to fight it.

00:36:21.020 Mm hmm. Listen to this clip about that situation.

00:36:24.020 The United States effectively created Liberia back in the 1800s as a refuge for slaves,

00:36:29.800 former slaves who were returned back to Africa. And the the big the big moment when 3000 American 0.67

00:36:38.040 troops arrived, you know, the U.S. favorability rating in Liberia is like 99 percent. It was seen

00:36:43.600 as this blessed moment when the great savior had come and really was going to help turn the tide

00:36:49.740 on this virus. Imagine what happens if this virus pops up in Pakistan or Indonesia or China, even a

00:36:56.740 place, you know, a place where the 101st Airborne would have to fight its way in before it got to

00:37:01.480 fight the virus. I mean, in the context of you talking about this at the lab and how they hid

00:37:06.300 all these results, this is exactly what he was talking about. Right. There was no way for anyone

00:37:11.360 else to penetrate that society to find out what the hell was actually going on.

00:37:15.520 So the rest of the world became completely unprepared and did not deal with it. And honestly,

00:37:22.020 like you notice the countries that did deal with it well, like a South Korea, for example,

00:37:27.760 Taiwan are the countries that trust China the least. Right. They were they doubted them so strongly

00:37:34.520 so early that they knew this is going to be bad. And they prepared and went crazy at the very,

00:37:39.120 very beginning. And they shut everything down and they were tested. They didn't shut everything

00:37:43.620 down. And some of these, they caught it early enough to be able to do the whole test and track

00:37:46.900 thing. Not all that could be done here, of course, but it's interesting to see that because

00:37:51.100 it's exactly what he was talking about when the United States couldn't, you know, be involved

00:37:57.480 like we were in a place like Liberia. We this thing blew out of out of control really fast. 1.00

00:38:03.220 We thought we we thought we were involved because we had the WHO. Yep. And we pay the WHO far more

00:38:10.040 than any other country for its, you know, for its salary. And so we thought that we would be able

00:38:16.620 to trust them. A lot of them are Americans, et cetera, et cetera. We couldn't trust them. They were 1.00

00:38:21.380 deeply embedded with the Chinese government and they were lying to us and lying to the rest of the 0.80

00:38:27.500 world. That's that's the real problem here was we had really dishonest brokers. I don't know if you

00:38:34.560 saw our secretary of state speak yesterday, but he was questioned about how is our relationship with

00:38:42.860 China and, you know, are we getting good information and, you know, how are we dealing with the fact that

00:38:49.940 they appear to not have been telling us the truth? His answer was fascinating. He said, this isn't the

00:38:58.120 time. Look, look, this is not the time to be talking about retribution. This is the time just to get

00:39:06.380 past this and just to get accurate information. And I thought to myself, boy, he didn't ask about

00:39:13.320 retribution. Now, did you mean recriminations or was this a Freudian slip? What what where did you come up

00:39:23.580 with the word retribution? Because I think there is going to be some retribution here. I think China is not

00:39:32.300 going to be allowed to use this for positioning, use this to become even more powerful. I mean, what they're doing

00:39:43.000 to France right now by saying, yeah, sure, we'll help you. But you have to take our 5G network. I think

00:39:49.000 that's going to backfire on China, seeing that this came from China itself.

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