Glenn Beck talks about how our governors are turning into "Little Mussolini's" and why Donald Trump is better than any other presidential candidate in our history. Glenn also talks about the Fed's power grab and why he thinks it's a good thing.
00:01:34.900The last time Tanya and I bought blinds on blinds dot com, just what, about six months ago or so, we were looking at we were looking at window coverings for our our old 1800s cabin.
00:01:50.300And and we want to just see at these specific kind of window covers or go to blinds dot com.
00:01:55.160We had shopped around and done our own homework and then we went to blinds dot com and they were saving us money.
00:02:02.900And Tanya said to me, we were at checkout and Tanya said, look at the difference of this price.
00:02:08.060And I said, I know it's pretty amazing, isn't it?
00:02:10.440And right before she put submit, I said, wait a minute, did you put the promo code back in?
00:02:15.020And she said, no, I'm like, she's for love.
00:09:48.320I mean, I just remember it being like the people who were kind of driving slow and would be in the way and not really trying to get anywhere.
00:09:55.860Do you know why they were called Sunday drivers?
00:10:09.980So you would go driving and you would say, I mean, my grandfather used to say this all the time.
00:10:15.200My dad would say it, Hey, let's go for a Sunday drive.
00:10:18.300And what you do is you'd get the whole family because everything was closed.
00:10:21.980So you get the whole family into the car and you drive around neighborhoods and parts of the city you've never seen before, or you just want to go look at.
00:10:30.760So everybody was distracted and you were looking out the sides of the window.
00:10:35.300So you're driving really slow, you know, and you were distracted.
00:20:05.040How many millions, I'm sorry, billions of dollars has JP Morgan Chase given itself through the fed?
00:20:15.120This week, if you're looking for a new mortgage, you now for JP Morgan Chase have to have a credit score of at least 700 and have a down payment of at least 20% of the home's value.
00:20:30.620So, okay, all right, so did, did you have 20% of the stuff that you just purchased JP Morgan Chase?
00:21:43.240Um, and cars are so expensive now to fix when these computer chips go, they can be a thousand, three thousand, $5,000 for these chips, all the electronics in it.
00:21:56.440Once those things go, it is not a cheap fix.
00:22:00.480That's what you have to worry about now.
00:22:02.500And car shield has you covered right now for as low as $99 a month.
00:24:50.200I know I'm late to the party on that, but look at this London, completely empty.
00:24:56.740Yesterday was Easter, and I don't know about how it was for your family, but it was kind of sad because not everybody was at the table yesterday.
00:25:16.480We usually have family in from out of town, and it's a big thing for the family.
00:25:23.260And so everybody was on Zoom yesterday, but it was, you know, my family goes, I don't know about you guys, but my family goes from almost complete meltdown to almost perfect.
00:25:38.200I mean, like yesterday was an almost perfect day for the family.
00:41:16.180I'd imagine if your house is anywhere near as crazy as mine is right now, you're exhausted to the bone on most days because you're, you're wearing all of the hats.
00:41:26.960And, and if my kids ask me why one more time, why, why do I have to, why do I, well, I don't want to.
00:41:35.340Oh my, I think I'm going to lose my mind.
00:41:38.700Anyway, right now, you cannot also play the cop, the internet cop.
00:41:44.180I've been talking to you about Norton 360 for a while right now.
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00:42:03.740With Norton family, you can monitor your kids' online activities, block sites that they shouldn't see, see what websites they are visiting, and a whole lot more.
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00:43:40.500I went from thinking I only had a sinus infection to maybe a touch of pneumonia to simply wondering if I was going to live.
00:43:49.900And I didn't have a whole lot of time to think about what to do, because when it comes upon you and it's really hitting you and you go from zero to 100 with it, you have trouble breathing.
00:44:13.360You don't have a lot of time to figure out what it is that you're going to do, because the hours are very pressing and the minutes are very pressing.
00:44:20.020So you need to figure out what you're going to do, and you need to do it fast.
00:44:24.780How long did it take you from first signs to I've got to go to the hospital?
00:44:34.060I've been quarantined since March 12th, and first signs were really that weekend.
00:44:42.580And like I said, I thought I had a sinus infection and pneumonia.
00:44:45.140But when it started really hitting me bad, where I didn't know what I was going to do, because the hospitals near me were actually full to capacity.
00:44:54.880I had that was on March 31st, and that was also the day that my husband and I got tested.
00:45:01.140So literally after getting tested, I started declining rapidly downhill that day.
00:45:42.940The kids are doing well, but thank God that they have my doctor.
00:45:47.360But once again, we're back to having to use your name as a state representative, which is completely wrong and sickens me to my son in order for people to get care.
00:46:20.240And that's why today, I'm thankful to say, and I'm happy to announce on your show, that I am going to meet with, hopefully, the president, but I'm definitely meeting with the vice president, and that I can come back to Detroit State of Michigan with some resources for us.
00:46:36.860What are the resources your state needs?
00:46:43.220We need everything from testing kits to PPE.
00:46:48.740We're looking at the fact that our jails, our prisons, are not being tested.
00:46:55.720We're looking at the fact that our sheriffs and the people who work in the prisons are not getting what they need.
00:47:04.400We have people that are walking out of the hospitals, our nurses and our doctors, and our staff that are walking out because they don't have the necessary PPE that they need.
00:47:13.740We have our senior citizen buildings that are just nothing but a hot dead, and these seniors are suffering.
00:47:26.220They are not getting the food that they need because they fall in between the cracks where no one can deliver food to them, and they can't go and pick it up.
00:47:36.420We have people that are in my community that do not have a doctor to get a prescription in order to even get the test.
00:47:44.080My cousin's husband was turned away over four times, and he died at home.
00:47:48.400My cousin herself was turned away over three times.
00:47:53.440Their father-in-law was turned away and died.
00:48:35.900I was familiar with this, though, because I do have Lyme disease.
00:48:40.300But if it wasn't for the president trumping, literally trumping the governor, because she put out an executive order that day, that day I did not have access to the medication.
00:48:56.160So how many other people did have access to that medication and lost their lives that day?
00:53:53.820And I urge every member of the audience to tweet to the president and the vice president, you know, that congratulations on putting politics aside and these guys meeting and and encourage the White House.
00:54:10.680I don't think you're going to need it.
00:54:11.880I think you're I think you're going to get it, Karen.
00:54:13.880He has not turned anybody down that I know of yet when he understands the problem, at least according to Gavin Newsom.
00:54:20.600He is there and you get what you need.
00:54:23.620So I appreciate your phone call, Karen.
00:54:26.320We'll talk to you again later this week.
00:55:16.800And they they, you know, any time somebody can gain personally by doing very little, you're a target, no matter how special mommy told you you were.
00:55:28.460Somebody's identity is stolen every two seconds.
00:56:15.780Stu, if you can get somebody to to reach out to Mercury One, let's see if we can get some PPEs up to some of these Detroit hospitals for Mercury One.
00:56:40.220I know Mercury One has been providing PPEs.
00:56:45.500We got them on an emergency call to, where was it?
00:58:35.520I mean that in Texas, we kind of, you know, you have to judge it wherever you are.
00:58:41.200You know, these places where it's not so bad, they're not going to last very much longer.
00:58:45.260They're going to think this, like, this is crazy and it hurts on the other end because if it does come back with a vengeance next fall, like it did in 1918, 1918, when it returned in that first fall, it was much, much worse.
00:59:02.240Now, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen that way.
00:59:04.160It mutated over the summer with the Spanish flu.
00:59:09.300But if we do have it worse and we have to shut things down, if you've kept everybody too long in the house, they're not just, they're not going to go back.
00:59:23.120One of the things I was thinking about this weekend as we went outside and, you know, around our home was it was just a beautiful day on, I guess, yesterday.
01:00:16.520Because it's it's just it and it will help the economy, actually, because if you can time it with spring, if I'm not saying you you time it on the medical stats, obviously.
01:00:30.340But if it is if it coincides with spring, you'll you will have a rush of people who do have money.
01:00:38.700They'll go out and they'll want to be out.
01:00:40.880I don't know how fast the restaurants come back.
01:00:43.780I mean, sitting in a restaurant is going to be difficult for a while, I think.
01:00:47.480Yeah, I know, like some of the areas like Hong Kong, one of the things they've done is open the restaurants, but minimize the amount of people in there, minimize the maximum amount at a table, do those sorts of things.
01:05:48.160I'm trying to work out of this mess as I deliver for FedEx.
01:05:51.140I'm putting money aside to get your book, both arguing with idiots and arguing with socialists, as well as a subscription to the blaze.
01:05:59.480I'm wondering how long is the 30 percent off special going to happen if you start announcing it in advance when you're about to stop the deal.
01:06:08.100I can I will make sure that I subscribe.
01:06:10.880I tell you what, this came from Chris.
01:06:12.480Chris, Chris, I'm going to send you the books and I'll make you a blaze subscriber and we'll give you like a, I don't know, free year or something.
01:06:21.480And then you get on your feet, get past this mess and then you start subscribing.
01:06:28.620Glenn, I've had something weighing on my mind for a couple of weeks and I can only help that this concern I'm going to lay out will find its way to you to digest.
01:06:36.240I've always agreed with you wholeheartedly when you implored people to know who they are, because times are coming that will try men's souls.
01:06:43.840I would often wonder what those times would look like exactly and what knowing who I am would translate to.
01:06:51.680I suppose that I'll that will remain to be seen.
01:06:55.000I did, however, get to witness what those things would look like to someone else.
01:06:59.480That's someone being specifically Thomas Massey.
01:07:02.380What I saw was a man who stood up in the face of possibly the darkest hour for the stability of our economy and the clear guidelines pertaining to the voting process of passing the stimulus package.
01:07:14.120I must tell you, I was shocked when you didn't support him, but tried desperately to get him to change his mind and preserve himself to be able to fight for other things down the road.
01:07:23.980It was that moment, that moment when a politician stood up in the face of the disgusting state of our political world and said, no, thank you.
01:07:32.380We always find ourselves wondering, almost pleading.
01:07:34.940Is there not one person who will stand up and say no?
01:07:38.420That person who doesn't care about the personal price?
01:07:47.280If it wasn't for an obvious I know who you are moment for someone, I dare not think I ever would.
01:07:52.660Your initial take on this, however, really bothered me because you were promoting that he do nothing just to preserve himself and play the game.
01:08:01.940That's exactly the slippery slope that the majority of our elected leaders sell their souls to a sort of weak need ends justify the means wishful thinking that they'll play the game and be the stand up guy when it really counts.
01:08:15.640And they end up lost in the perverted world of politics time and time again.
01:08:19.560My hopes and prayers are that you will realize the missed know who you are moment when it was in play view, plain view.
01:08:26.840It's important that you realize this so you can continue to guide folks to be ready for theirs, not just to point out that you were wrong.
01:08:34.460You seem it seems now a couple of weeks after the fact that you are more in its corner on hindsight.
01:08:39.600That's great, but I think you do well to take ownership of the moment.
01:08:43.720I feel you missed and maybe share your thoughts with your listeners about it.
01:08:46.660I can tell you it's important to me and I looked forward to your leadership and humility.
01:10:05.760Uh, I'd like to hear your opinion, Stu, but I think I'm at this place to when we have to pick and choose our battles because there are so few soldiers on the field.
01:10:17.220Uh, and I don't, I don't want one of them to pop their head up and, uh, and shoot when the target is too far away and they're never going to hit the, they're never going to hit the mark.
01:10:30.160Um, I want to preserve the players that we do have, um, and do things more strategically.
01:10:41.060Uh, but I supported him then I was, I was texting between him, uh, the two of us off air that whole time.
01:10:48.960Um, and he was explaining to me and I was explaining to him, but we have been friends, uh, then that day beforehand and after I haven't changed my support for him.
01:11:00.440Um, uh, it was just the strategy of doing it.
01:11:05.300That was certainly a long explanation as to why you hate freedom.
01:11:09.120I don't know why you needed that long to say it.
01:11:10.960Uh, you could have just said, I despise being free and everyone would have understood.
01:12:05.220He did get lit up by it, but that's really the issue here, isn't it?
01:12:08.200He shouldn't be getting lit up by asking for a vote for over $2 trillion.
01:12:11.460So, I mean, I, while I, I understand what the, what the guy's saying in an email, I, you know, this is a, this is an issue where we have to look at this and say, I think, um, Massey did the right thing.
01:12:25.320And, um, and if he's going to get thrown out of Congress because of that, I think he's comfortable with that outcome.
01:13:06.140But I, we've always asked congressmen to go there and do what they think is right.
01:13:11.320And, um, I think the end of the day, you have to just respect that and, and, um, you know, realize that choosing your battles is part of this at some level.
01:13:21.580But when you get to a point, this is the, if you're not going to stand up at $2.2 trillion without a vote, I don't know.
01:13:43.000Well, here's where I stood on this, Stu.
01:13:45.320And, and I'd like to hear where you were on this.
01:13:49.240And if it's, if I'm just, if I've turned into this political nightmare on, on this particular occasion, um, I was looking at it politically, strategically, um, because I think we're at the, you know, we are at the end game now.
01:14:04.680And there's only so many soldiers on the field and, um, you know, we don't have a free market anymore.
01:14:13.100The free market has been absorbed and purchased at wholesale by the federal reserve.
01:14:21.540Um, you've got Congress, uh, slipping into madness and there is nothing more important, more important than the $2.2 trillion is the fact that Nancy Pelosi does not want to have any votes.
01:14:36.320And, and, and I felt he made his point, but he was going to get slaughtered by Donald Trump.
01:14:44.860And without Donald Trump, he's not going to make the impact.
01:14:49.040He has foes on the right and he has foes on the left and he was completely alone.
01:14:56.760Um, now as it turns out, and as it was, then it was the right thing to do, but who's going to fight that battle?
01:15:06.320Does he have the credibility to now fight that battle long-term because she's still doing it?
01:15:14.060She's still wanting to pass all of these bills without Congress voting on it at all.
01:15:23.420I've tried to do my part by having him on the air to explain on that day.
01:15:28.560He explained exactly what he was doing and I've had him on afterwards explaining what he did and, you know, what the fight is trying to make sure that we don't leave, lose a very valuable guy, uh, over nonsense.
01:15:43.960Um, another, and I think that's, that's what it was.
01:16:47.360Let me take a quick break and tell you about real estate agents.
01:16:51.240I trust right now, the media would have you believe that everywhere in America, it's just ravaged by the coronavirus as bad as New York City because they don't see beyond New York City.
01:17:28.280It's a company I started, I don't even know, five, six years ago because of all of the hassles and all of the headaches that go along with buying a house.
01:23:31.400Should we cue the fat lady on the, uh, on the free market system?
01:23:37.520The U.S. Federal Reserve is now purchasing approximately $625 billion per week in U.S. treasury bonds, U.S. municipal bonds, and corporate bonds.
01:23:52.740So they're buying stocks, your city, and they're buying, uh, treasury bonds.
01:23:59.680$625 billion per week, $1.2 trillion every two weeks.
01:24:11.380At that rate of spend, the Federal Reserve will own all outstanding U.S. public debt, federal, and local debt by September or October of this year.
01:24:22.860It will own all U.S. private and corporate debt by December.
01:24:47.480The Federal Reserve is already, now, today, the largest single holder of U.S. government bonds of $20 trillion in outstanding U.S. debt.
01:25:01.820The Federal Reserve owns approximately $5.7 trillion and is now adding $1 trillion in new bond purchases every two weeks.
01:25:11.440This comes as the Bank of England skips the bond market entirely and is just printing new currency to fund U.K. expenditures directly.
01:25:33.240As of this week, the Fed's Open Market Committee meeting, the Fed will also be willing to purchase so-called junk bonds from all U.S. companies that are in distress.
01:25:46.160The Fed has also issued a new fund to buy U.S. mortgage assets from banks, pledging $200 billion per month to U.S. banks plus Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy distressed mortgages that become insolvent due to COVID-19.
01:26:04.560The U.S. Federal Reserve is now officially the largest landowner in the world.
01:26:11.560At this point, the only major asset in U.S. equity markets the Fed is not directly buying are U.S. stocks.
01:26:35.500Deutsche Bank said last week, because of what the Fed is doing, they're quoting, is no such thing as a free market anymore, end quote.
01:26:49.500By the way, just a note on this, it is you, the U.S. taxpayer, that is responsible for all of this debt, not the Fed.
01:26:59.680The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each Fed fund and is in the first lost position, making you, the taxpayer, responsible should any of these investments or underlying funds fail.
01:27:19.940As such, the U.S. Treasury, not the Fed, is actually buying all of these securities and backstopping all of these loans.
01:27:29.520The Fed is only acting as a banker and providing that financing.
01:27:37.540You say we don't need to open up the economy?
01:27:44.140The U.S. could face rolling lockdowns and social distancing orders for 18 to 24 months, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
01:27:55.400Without an effective therapy or vaccine for COVID-19, the U.S. economy could face 18 months of rolling shutdowns as the outbreak recedes locally and then flares up again.
01:28:07.080The hunt for a vaccine continues a year, according to scientists, a year would be a miracle.
01:28:21.880They were met with nails in the road and surveillance of license plates because the mayor decided there wasn't going to be any church services anywhere in Kentucky.
01:28:34.760That's the governor, I should say, not the mayor.
01:28:38.000He urged residents to remain indoors for the Easter holiday, and they are enforcing with state troopers and county sheriffs.
01:28:49.480The mayor of the mayor of Louisville also came out and had draconian measures.
01:28:58.700The DOJ to states, first amendment is still the first amendment.
01:29:05.420A federal judge ruled that this weekend, an attorney general, William Barr, indicated the DOJ is monitoring state and local government actions related to limitations on religious services and will potentially prosecute local officials if they violate the civil rights of religious people.
01:29:30.860Maybe, maybe not because of Mexico and is democracy the ultimate covid-19 victim?
01:29:40.860France and Bolivia have postponed elections now.
01:29:43.640Peru has handed its president broad new legislative authority.
01:29:47.940Israel sharply ramped up the reach of its surveillance state.
01:29:52.680The U.S., we're curtailing religious services and searching for out-of-staters door-to-door in some states.
01:30:00.480While leaders around the world are fighting the spread of the coronavirus, they're also amassing sweeping new powers.
01:30:06.820As legislatures limit or suspend activities in the name of social distancing, many of the norms that define our free market and our democracy, elections, deliberation, debate, checks and balances have all been put on indefinite hold.
01:30:23.300The speed and breadth of the transformation is unsettling to political scientists all over the world, government watchdogs and rights groups.
01:30:34.220Many concede emergency declarations and streamlining government decision making are necessary responses to the global threat.
01:30:41.940But they question how readily leaders are going to give these powers up.
01:31:10.000Matt, NASA's budget for the next 207 years, the cost of the four point seven trillion dollar bailout package equates to NASA's twenty two point six billion dollars that they get every year for the next 207 years.
01:31:26.860The cost of the cost of the bailout, put in other words, is equal to fully funding six Mars landers, rovers, missions to the red planet every single day.
01:31:40.820Just the phase two of the deal, two trillion dollars is seven thousand five hundred dollars per American or sixteen hundred five, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars per taxpayer.
01:31:53.640Seeing that only half of our citizens pay taxes, no word yet on why it costs seven thousand five hundred dollars in actual taxpayer cost for each American to receive.
01:32:07.720A one thousand two hundred dollar stimulus check.
01:32:48.440Makes sense for the dog food company, but it doesn't make a lot of sense for your dog, at least because all of the nutrients have been cooked out of it.
01:32:55.640Anything alive that is good for an animal or good for you is all been cooked out of it.
01:33:01.320Rough greens is something that I just started giving my dog, Uno, about a month ago, and it is really, really good.
01:33:08.540It's a supplement that you put on your dog's food, and it contains massive amounts of vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, probiotics, even omega oils and antioxidants.
01:33:47.160So I want to talk to you about something that happened on Friday.
01:34:09.060I talked to the governor of South Dakota, Governor Noem, and just wanted to talk to her and see if there was anything we could do to help state get a lay of the ground and what's going on up there because they have real problems with their meat processing plants up there.
01:34:28.400They have one of the biggest pork meat processing plants in the country, and I'm very concerned about food shortages coming soon.
01:34:38.300We have plenty of beef and plenty of pork at the farm level.
01:34:42.640We're just closing down all of the processing plants.
01:34:46.440So getting it from farm to table may be difficult, and we may have a real protein shortage coming soon.
01:34:55.920So I was talking to the governor, and she, in about 45 minutes, is making an announcement on something that I think she is going to get hammered on that I absolutely love.
01:35:14.380I don't know how popular she is in the state, but, boy, she is becoming very popular around the country.
01:35:21.460She is a woman who, as governor, has come out and said, we are not going to violate our constitution, either our state constitution or, quite frankly, our national constitution.
01:35:33.220People have a right, and they have a right to gather, they have a right to do and live their lives.
01:35:39.480She's like, we're not New York City, we're South Dakota.
01:35:41.960And she said, we can figure this out as citizens.
01:35:45.320You just have to social distance and yada, yada, yada.
01:35:48.580Well, I was talking to her about several things, and one of them is the quick spread inside one of these processing plants.
01:36:01.680And she said, you know, we've got to get this plant cleaned and the workers healthy and back online, because not only for our local economy, but also for the food supply in America.
01:36:18.140And she started talking about how she's, what she's planning on doing and planning on announcing today.
01:36:25.460And we're going to be monitoring it, and I'm going to be live tweeting that announcement here in just about an hour.
01:36:33.860But I think you're going to really like, it's time somebody does something.
01:36:38.860It's time somebody does something, and they are with their health care.
01:37:47.660I thought, you know, it wouldn't be that hard, that hard to add another yellow face to something, you know, or another hand gesture.
01:37:58.140But apparently it's much more complex, Stu, than you and I ever thought.
01:38:03.900Well, I hope they didn't have to lay off the woke department that can inform them when they have not shown enough shades of color or have maybe identified someone by a gender when they're not supposed to in the emoji.
01:38:15.420Well, they may have, because I think the New York Times is using all of those people, because the woke department, of course, so awake on Joe Biden at the at the New York Times that they they they caught them doing something very, very unwoke.
01:38:36.740And and and that is they they tweeted that in their investigation, the Times found no patterns of sexual misconduct by Mr.
01:38:48.480Biden beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.
01:43:53.520And, you know, this is wrong, but he hasn't been he hasn't taken that authority to close it down.
01:44:00.840Why is he taking that authority to open it back up?
01:44:03.740Because he thinks that these governors are going to, you know, some of these governors look at the one in Virginia, not willing to open up until the middle of June.
01:44:12.460Now, maybe that's right, but I doubt it.
01:44:15.580Yeah, no, they and I know they've closed now the schools in New York all the way till I think June 26th or something was the end of their school calendar, which is not a surprise in New York.
01:44:27.700I mean, it's going to go on for a while there.
01:44:29.060But I think Cuomo said something to the effect of, look, if we're closing the schools down, that means we're closing everything down.
01:44:47.680Yeah, it's going to be it's going to be different.
01:44:50.420You know, I hope hopefully this is just a it seems he's been holding on to this power for a while in this idea that it's kind of like a threat almost.
01:45:57.520If the governor says, hey, we're in a national emergency and the governor has the right or state emergency, the governor has a right to declare a state emergency.
01:46:08.480Now, that could screw with their federal funding.
01:46:10.640You know, but I don't think the president would do that unless it was really obvious.
01:46:15.640Like he's not going to screw with the federal funding of New York.
01:46:18.840Why would you screw with the federal funding of New York unless it was like, you know, we're keeping it closed for the next 18 months?
01:46:24.820Well, OK, really, you're going to keep the entire state of New York closed for the next 18 months.
01:46:32.780And there are those people that are talking that way.
01:46:35.640I don't think Cuomo is and I don't know any governors that are.
01:46:39.320But I've heard people say, you know, we should be closed for the next 18 months.
01:46:43.680You know, we are talking about rolling blackouts for the next 18 to 24.
01:46:47.760And that might be wise, you know, it might be if there's if Dallas all of a sudden starts to have really bad cases to close Dallas down for a little while.
01:46:58.060Everybody in this area stay in place, you know, that that's there's I don't think there's anything wrong with rolling blackouts as long as we know what the metrics are.
01:47:08.600Yeah. Yeah. Look, there are certain situations that get too bad and you and you you have to do things, though.
01:47:16.320I just it's it's going to be interesting to see how long people can take that.
01:47:19.960And we keep using this 18 months. I mean, you did the coronavirus update.
01:47:23.280There's no there's no definitive end to this, right?
01:47:26.980Like, no, the idea that we're going to have a vaccine in 12 to 18 months.
01:47:31.900Doctors are calling it a miracle. They've never done it that fast ever.
01:47:35.880They also told us very clearly that we were going to have an HIV vaccine when that all started up.
01:47:41.400We never got one. You know what another coronavirus is?
01:47:44.340The common cold. Do we have a vaccine to that?
01:47:47.100No, we don't. These are not sure things that will ever get a vaccine.
01:47:52.560I mean, probably the better possibility which could provide a shorter term solution to this and is is realistic that we can hopefully depend on would be a treatment.
01:48:07.240Right. If one of these things like hydro hydroxychloroquine has obviously been the one talked about the most, but there's lots of them.
01:48:13.960There's been some positives about another one that Trump has mentioned that I won't want one of the antiviral things that they initially designed for HIV wound up having some promise in one of these clinical studies as well.
01:48:26.240All we need is to find something that will back it off from, you know, if you're in the hospital with a 10 out of 10, it can bring it back to an 8 out of 10.
01:48:38.140And that sort of thing, I think, with the with the full power of not only the United States and, you know, capitalism and innovation, everybody trying to find the same thing.
01:48:49.560It's really happening around the world as well.
01:48:52.100I'm optimistic we'll get there eventually.
01:48:55.680But it is, you know, until we have that, people are we can talk all we want about opening up the economy.
01:49:02.120We we've looked at these numbers like crazy.
01:49:05.040All the numbers are coming out before any government bans were instituted and you saw 50, 60, 70 percent drop offs in traffic to restaurants because people didn't want to die.
01:49:16.900Right. And until you can convince them they're not going to die.
01:49:21.060It doesn't matter if you, quote unquote, open up the economy.
01:49:24.100People don't want to go outside right now.
01:49:27.000This is like, you know, it's not just government restrictions doing this.
01:49:30.420Right. You're you're it's going to take a massive.
01:49:35.040And the best ad campaign of probably American history to get us to go back quickly to normal life, going to restaurants, going into crowds, having parties, everything else.
01:49:53.660But I think there's going to be a lot of people that will stay out of the restaurants for a very, very long time unless they they, you know, cut the, you know, cut the number of people in there by half or whatever.
01:50:11.780You know, I don't know all the people in there and I don't know who is sick and who who's not sick, et cetera, et cetera.
01:50:18.320I mean, it until you can come up with a vaccine, we won't be comfortable if you don't come up with a vaccine, at least have some sort of way of understanding you've been tested and you don't currently have it or you have the antibodies.
01:50:33.600When that happens, then we'll start to normalize again.
01:50:37.200But without those things, it's not going to be normal.
01:50:41.180But we can open the economy back up more than it already is.
01:53:02.540We should be working on that right now.
01:53:06.200Suicide will kill almost as many people as covid this year.
01:53:10.500In 2018, there were 48000 recorded suicides, but economic ruin results in a wide range of health problems, suicide, mental health issues, loss of health insurance,
01:53:22.280reluctance to visit doctors in light of the financial hardship, increases in in substance abuse, blah, blah, blah.
01:53:29.340That is on top of the delay in not non covid care.
01:53:33.520So 48000 deaths in 2018, how many suicides will it be this year?
01:53:43.600The PPE limited, but now becoming more available.
01:54:06.380What the parameters are, what are you what are you looking for?
01:54:11.060What are you looking at to make these decisions right now?
01:54:15.240We know that the states have been looking at covid now, this this website that was started by a group of progressive activists who were leading a charge against Donald Trump.
01:54:27.120Most of the states were using that it's unbelievably flawed.
01:54:33.760The numbers on covid now are are way, way off.
01:55:34.680And hopefully we're at least a little bit past the top of this.
01:55:38.300Right. I mean, the deaths dropped yesterday pretty significantly.
01:55:41.380There's part of that is just record, you know, recording in that for whatever reason, you know, Sundays, especially Easter Sunday.
01:55:48.640There's people aren't working and don't necessarily report every single death.
01:55:53.040If we can get past this week without two thousand over two thousand again, because we've been over two thousand a couple of times once or twice.
01:56:00.500If we can get through this week without two thousand, it may show that we are past the peak of this, which would be really encouraging.
01:56:06.820But really encouraging, you know, like Detroit was a great example.
01:56:10.560We talked to someone earlier from Detroit about how bad this was.
01:56:13.500I mean, Detroit is really in the middle of it.
01:56:17.320There's several cities that are breaking out.
01:56:18.820They're not going to be as bad as New York, obviously population wise.
01:56:21.980But they are, you know, on the wrong side of this and it's increasing or getting worse in some cases.
01:56:28.940So hopefully we can at least get past this peak.
01:56:31.300And then once we get past the like panic of this first moment, there's going to be a period here coming, I think, to the end of the month where this sort of like organized, hopefully rollout of people being able to go back and feeling that they're not going to, you know, get sick just by going out and doing the basic things they want to do with life.
01:56:51.580Hopefully that's right around the corner.
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01:59:01.400Tomorrow, I want to go over the numbers with Stu on, you know, the estimates of two million dead.
01:59:08.520Why we're at sixty six thousand is a little misleading, but they were also, I think, way out of whack on the middle numbers, not the top numbers.
01:59:17.700The middle numbers will explain that on tomorrow's program.
01:59:21.380Also, make sure you're following me on Twitter today as I'm going to be tweeting out something that's coming from Governor Noem in South Dakota.