The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 443 - Sifting Through The Myths And Facts About The Coronavirus

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, we're going to talk about the coronavirus. And I'm probably like you. I don't

00:00:05.660 know what exactly to think about all of this. It's overwhelming. It's confusing. It is pretty

00:00:12.580 scary. And so we're going to try to talk it out, sift through the facts and the fictions and the

00:00:18.920 myths and everything surrounding this. I'll tell you what some of the experts are saying.

00:00:23.800 I'm not an expert, so I can't speak with any expertise, but I can tell you at least what

00:00:28.560 some of them are saying. And we'll try to figure out what our approach should be and our response

00:00:32.940 should be to all this. So that's coming up. Also, five headlines, including Canada trying to ban

00:00:39.240 so-called conversion therapy. Is that a good idea? I think it is definitely not, and I'll explain why.

00:00:45.480 And in your daily cancellation, remember the woman who made the hilarious math mistake on MSNBC

00:00:51.560 a few days ago? Well, she got a lot of grief for that. People making fun of her.

00:00:57.780 Which is going to happen in the internet age. But she's not happy about it, and she's come back,

00:01:04.620 and you'll never guess. You'll never guess what direction she decided to take it. She says

00:01:10.000 that you're racist if you made fun of her for it. And so we're going to talk about that as well.

00:01:15.060 All of that and more on the way. But first, as I said, I want to talk about the coronavirus

00:01:21.920 and try to sift through this. There's been a lot of focus on the panic, the mass hysteria. And I've

00:01:31.020 talked about that too. But I'm beginning to think that we're worried about panic. Are we getting to

00:01:38.580 the point where actually mass denial is more the problem? Have we been so focused on stopping people

00:01:46.100 from panicking that we have been maybe unintentionally encouraging denial? And is that becoming the

00:01:53.040 bigger issue? My thinking on this has shifted. I will fully admit that. And it's hard for me to say

00:01:59.440 that my thinking has changed completely because, or to say that I've changed my mind completely,

00:02:04.980 because I'm in the same boat as a lot of you. I don't know exactly what to think. There's a lot

00:02:11.780 of information. A lot of people screaming from every side of this thing. A lot of people trying

00:02:18.340 to exploit it for political reasons or for ratings or for whatever else. There are many pundits and

00:02:23.800 commentators like myself who are very desperate to have the best take on the issue. So I just want

00:02:32.300 to, as I said, talk through some of this. And I do that with the disclaimer, again, repeated,

00:02:37.320 that I am no expert at all on this. Not that you'd be tempted to take me as one, hopefully,

00:02:42.740 but just to be clear, what I'm doing right now, this is like the conversation that you're having

00:02:48.440 in your living room with your family and friends about this, the conversations I've had

00:02:52.860 with people about this. I'm not sitting here teaching you about the virus. Let me teach you

00:02:57.940 about how pandemics work. No. What the hell do I know? We're just, as I said, talking through it and

00:03:04.120 seeing if we can't find a little bit of clarity, just a bit amid the confusion.

00:03:10.180 Now, to begin with, let's get some updates on this thing, starting with President Trump giving

00:03:15.400 an address from the Oval Office last night, announcing some rather dramatic steps,

00:03:21.540 justified steps, I think, including a travel ban from Europe.

00:03:25.120 After consulting with our top government health professionals, I have decided to take several

00:03:30.860 strong but necessary actions to protect the health and well-being of all Americans.

00:03:37.160 To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe 1.00

00:03:43.280 to the United States for the next 30 days. The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.

00:03:50.660 These restrictions will be adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.

00:03:54.680 There will be exemptions for Americans who have undergone appropriate screenings and these

00:04:00.660 prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things

00:04:07.760 as we get approval. Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing.

00:04:14.840 These restrictions will also not apply to the United Kingdom. At the same time, we are monitoring

00:04:21.500 the situation in China and the South Korea. And as their situation improves, we will re-evaluate

00:04:28.820 the restrictions and warnings that are currently in place for a possible early opening.

00:04:34.860 Of course, Trump is being attacked by the Democrats for this, yada yada. I'm not really interested

00:04:40.160 in getting into the politics of it. Yeah, the Democrats are trying to make this in. They were complaining

00:04:46.120 Trump's not doing enough, and now they're complaining that he's doing too much. It's too draconian

00:04:49.900 and strict to restrict travel from Europe. They're obviously wrong about that, but I don't want to

00:04:54.960 make that the focus. I think that's a mistake to make that the focus, to try to use the coronavirus.

00:05:00.400 Let's talk about how the Democrats are wrong about the coronavirus. I mean, they are wrong,

00:05:04.600 but a lot of other people are wrong too. And that's not really the point. That's not what's going to

00:05:08.420 keep us safe. And that's not the most important thing to us and our families, I don't think, in this.

00:05:13.060 So that's not what we're going to discuss. I think the measure makes sense. It's good. This is what

00:05:21.920 we need to do. But there are two things in response to it or reaction to it that I want to say. One is

00:05:27.360 that it's too late, of course, to keep the virus out of our country completely. It's good to prevent

00:05:34.360 more sources of it from entering. So that's why I think this is a good thing to do. But it's here

00:05:39.520 already, obviously. So our primary focus would seem, it would seem that it needs to be on measures

00:05:45.800 that we can take within our country to fight it. Trump did not address or focus on that very much

00:05:53.400 in his speech. He focused on it a little bit, but not nearly enough. I was hoping to hear a lot more

00:05:59.000 about it, including testing. Because right now, one of the biggest problems we have is that not very

00:06:04.960 many people have been tested for it. And it's difficult to get a test if you think you need one.

00:06:10.140 We should be testing everyone who might even remotely have come in contact with it. That's

00:06:14.640 what South Korea did. And we'll get back to South Korea in a moment. Meanwhile, the NBA has chosen to

00:06:21.000 suspend its season. Another drastic step that will result in massive losses of income, not just for

00:06:27.340 the wealthy basketball players and the officials and the owners, but think about the working class

00:06:33.060 people that work at the stadiums, the concession stand, they work at the gift shop, even the

00:06:38.680 restaurants around the arenas in these cities. Many of them rely on that foot traffic on game day

00:06:47.540 to stay afloat. How many of them are going to go under because of things like this?

00:06:52.660 Lots of lost money, lots of lost jobs. And this is just the start of it. Also, it was reported

00:06:57.420 yesterday that Tom Hanks and his wife have coronavirus. They were shooting a movie in

00:07:03.080 Australia, I believe. And now they have it. They're reportedly doing well, though. And Dr. Fauci,

00:07:08.780 director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. This is all stuff that

00:07:12.220 happened yesterday with coronavirus. That's why I'm going through all of it now.

00:07:14.360 Dr. Fauci, by all accounts, very reliable, non-political person, was talking to a congressional

00:07:23.400 committee yesterday about the disease. And this is how he tried to explain the lethality of it,

00:07:29.980 especially relative to something like the flu.

00:07:32.460 Dr. Fauci, can you, by way of comparison, briefly explain how does COVID-19 compare to other previous

00:07:41.100 health situations, SARS, H1N1, things like that?

00:07:47.460 Sure, sir. Thank you for the question. Well, SARS was also a coronavirus in 2002.

00:07:54.020 It infected 8,000 people, and it killed about 775. It had a mortality of about 9 to 10 percent.

00:08:01.780 So that's only 8,000 people in about a year. In the two and a half months that we've had this

00:08:08.140 coronavirus, as you know, we now have multiple, multiples of that. So it clearly is not as lethal,

00:08:16.740 and I'll get to the lethality in a moment, but it certainly spreads better. Probably for the

00:08:21.900 practical understanding of the American people, the seasonal flu that we deal with every year

00:08:28.240 has a mortality of 0.1 percent. The stated mortality overall of this, when you look at all the data,

00:08:37.160 including China, is about 3 percent. It first started off as 2 and now 3. I think if you count

00:08:43.860 all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings

00:08:50.280 the mortality rate down to somewhere around 1 percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the

00:08:58.660 seasonal flu. So the good news is that the mortality rate isn't as high as has been reported,

00:09:03.960 the 2 or 3 percent, probably not that high. The bad news is, according to him and most other medical

00:09:09.560 experts that I've read, it's at least still 10 times deadlier than the flu. And the flu is,

00:09:16.760 all these comparisons to the flu and people saying, and I've said this too, that at least early on,

00:09:22.440 I was using this comparison, which I've come to see is not exactly legitimate, or at least not very

00:09:29.820 helpful. But this comparison to the flu, you know, it's just the flu. The flu is already a serious

00:09:35.120 illness. I just had the flu. It's not a walk in the park by any means. And if you've actually

00:09:41.980 gotten the flu, you know, when you have it, you could kind of tell how people die from this.

00:09:47.740 I'm not saying that I was on my deathbed. I wasn't. But you get very sick, high fever. You could have

00:09:52.900 some difficulty breathing. You're up coughing. You feel like you can't breathe, things like that.

00:09:57.520 And you can see how, if somebody's elderly or if they're young, they got an underlying medical

00:10:01.780 condition, you could see how this might result in some very serious issues for them. So the flu is

00:10:07.560 a serious illness to begin with. Now, if you're saying that it's 10 times deadlier than the flu,

00:10:14.920 which is what Dr. Fauci just said, that should really make our ears perk up. I'm not saying it

00:10:20.600 should make us panic, but that's something we need to pay attention to. When you got a man like Dr.

00:10:25.200 Fauci telling you that about a disease that's just entered this country and is spreading exponentially

00:10:31.800 as we speak, that's something I, you can't just waltz past that. I don't think.

00:10:40.600 And we hear 1%, well, one, maybe the death rate is 1%. And we think that's not so bad. But first of all, 0.88

00:10:49.240 the 1% translated to, you know, if we're talking about potentially many thousands or even millions

00:10:56.700 of cases, 1% of that is quite a lot. And it's growing exponentially. We're at 1,300 cases right

00:11:04.200 now, reported cases. That's without much testing. But it was only two weeks ago that Donald Trump did

00:11:09.260 a press conference, you might recall, and said, said it was, I think it was exactly two weeks ago

00:11:14.260 or two Wednesdays ago. He said 15 cases and we're expecting soon there'll be no cases.

00:11:22.440 Fast forward 14, 15 days, we have 1,500 reported cases. But on this issue of the mortality rate,

00:11:29.840 just because you survive an illness doesn't mean that it was a mild case necessarily and that you

00:11:35.000 came out unscathed. So let me read a little bit of an article by James Hamblin, who's a doctor and

00:11:40.120 lecturer at Yale School of Public Health. I think you need to hear what he has to say. And the whole

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00:13:14.560 COVID-19 is not the flu. We have a vaccine for the flu. We have antiviral medications designed to

00:13:20.140 treat the flu. We have a sense of what to expect when we catch the flu and when it's necessary to seek

00:13:24.760 medical attention. Doctors have experience treating the flu and tests to help diagnose the flu right

00:13:30.260 there in the office while you wait. Against the new disease, we have none of this. This coronavirus

00:13:35.840 is unknown to our species. Once it breaks into one of our cells, the extent of its spread through the

00:13:40.420 body seems to vary significantly. The experience can slowly progress from the familiar cough-congestion

00:13:45.600 fever to a life-threatening inflammatory response as the virus spreads down into the lungs, filling the

00:13:50.700 airways with fluid. Survivors can have permanent scarring in the lungs. The virus can also spread

00:13:56.020 into other organs, causing liver damage or gastrointestinal disease. These effects can play

00:14:01.100 out over longer periods than in the flu, sometimes waxing and waning. Some patients have begun to feel

00:14:06.020 better than falling critically ill. The disease can be fatal despite receiving optimal medical care.

00:14:11.960 Okay, I think that's an important reference point, important context for this.

00:14:16.700 Is it scary? Yeah, but I don't think we can just ignore it on that basis or on the basis that it's

00:14:25.500 going to make people panic. Another article in The Atlantic by a Johns Hopkins professor provides

00:14:31.300 more details. He says, the first fact is that, at least in the initial stages, documented cases of

00:14:36.560 COVID-19 seem to increase in exponential fashion. On the 23rd of January, China's Hubei province,

00:14:43.060 which contains the city of Wuhan, had 444 confirmed COVID-19 cases a week later. It had 4,903. Another

00:14:51.880 week later, by the 6th, it had 22,112. The same story is now playing out in other countries around

00:14:58.380 the world. Italy had 62 cases on the 22nd of February. It had 888 cases by the 29th, 4,636 by the

00:15:07.060 6th of February. Because the United States has been extremely sluggish in testing patients for the

00:15:11.820 coronavirus, the official tally of 604 likely represents a fraction of the real caseload.

00:15:17.180 But even if we take this number at face value, it suggests that we should prepare to have it up to

00:15:20.940 10 times as many cases a week from today, and up to 100 times as many cases two weeks from today.

00:15:26.680 The second fact is this disease is deadlier than the flu, to which the honestly ill-informed and the

00:15:32.080 irresponsible insist on comparing it. Early guesstimate made before data were widely available

00:15:37.700 suggests that the fatality rate for the coronavirus might wind up being about 1%. If that proves true,

00:15:43.060 it's 10 times as deadly as the flu. But there is reason to fear that the fatality rate could be

00:15:48.120 much higher. According to the World Health Organization, the current case fatality rate,

00:15:52.060 a common measure of what portion of confirmed patients die from a particular disease, stands

00:15:56.240 at 3.4%. That figure could be an overstatement because mild cases of the disease are less likely to

00:16:01.540 be diagnosed, or it could be an understatement because many patients have already been diagnosed with the

00:16:05.720 virus, but have not yet recovered and may still die. So more facts and context there. Michael

00:16:14.080 Osterholm, who's an epidemiologist, was interviewed on Joe Rogan's show the other day. It's about an

00:16:20.180 hour and a half interview. I'd recommend watching the whole thing I did. And I would also recommend

00:16:24.940 reading the entirety of both of the articles I just read pieces of. You can find both of them in

00:16:29.940 the Atlantic. But let me play just about a minute of Ulsterholm. Again, an epidemiologist. He's an

00:16:36.460 expert and this is what he does for a living. This is him talking about the coronavirus and what kind

00:16:43.500 of threat it does or does not pose to us. How serious is this? Is this something that we need

00:16:48.060 to be terrified of or is this overblown or how do you stand on this? Well, first of all, you have to

00:16:54.580 understand the timing of it in the sense that it's just beginning. And so in terms of what hurt, pain,

00:17:00.760 suffering, death has happened so far is really just beginning. This is going to unfold for months to

00:17:07.140 come yet. And that's, I think, what people don't quite yet understand. What we saw in China, I'm convinced

00:17:13.660 as are many of my colleagues, as soon as they release all of these social distances, these mandated stay in

00:17:19.300 homes, haven't left your home in weeks and weeks kind of thing, when they go back to work, they're on

00:17:23.120 planes, trains, subways, buses, crowded spaces, manufacturing plants, even China is going to come

00:17:29.300 back again. And so this really is acting like an influenza virus, something that transmits very,

00:17:34.660 very easily through the air. We now have data to show that you're infectious before you even get

00:17:38.800 sick. And in some cases, quite highly infectious, just breathing is all that you need to do.

00:17:44.000 So from this perspective, I can understand why people would say, well, wait a minute, flu kills a lot

00:17:48.300 more itself every year than this does. And I remind people this just was beginning.

00:17:52.580 Probably the best guesstimate we have right now on what limited data we have would say,

00:17:56.640 this is going to be at least 10 to 15 times worse than the worst seasonal flu year we see.

00:18:01.580 And there have been many articles and interviews and so on with doctors, epidemiologists,

00:18:06.260 people who do this for a living, people who know the science, not pundits, not talk radio hosts,

00:18:11.720 not podcast hosts like myself, but people who actually know how this works. And most of them,

00:18:17.680 from what I have seen, with a few exceptions, are saying things like this. They're not screaming it.

00:18:25.780 They're not saying, oh my God, we're all going to die. But they're saying, this is serious. This is a

00:18:32.320 big problem. And this is a serious illness. And it is worse than the flu. And it just is. I'm sorry,

00:18:38.520 but it is. So I look at this and I listen to it. And I look at the fact that governments have been

00:18:46.140 quarantining whole populations, shutting down events, taking drastic steps, costly steps,

00:18:52.060 absorbing massive hits to their economy in order to stop this. I look at companies like the NBA,

00:18:57.120 willingly losing millions, if not billions of dollars. I look at the numbers, the numbers as

00:19:01.640 they stand right now, exponential growth in the United States, Italy in such bad shape that they're

00:19:06.260 having to decide which patients to treat and which to let die. And if you think that could never

00:19:13.180 happen here, we'll also keep in mind that we're being warned by healthcare professionals

00:19:19.320 that if there's a massive influx of people who need medical treatment because of this,

00:19:28.000 and I think the hospitalization rate right now is about 10%, which is high. If there's a massive

00:19:33.060 influx, we don't have the capacity to treat all those people right now. We don't have enough

00:19:36.600 ventilators. We don't have enough hospital beds. We don't have it. And we already know we don't have

00:19:42.740 enough tests. So you look at all that. And then South Korea. There are people who point to South Korea

00:19:50.320 for encouragement. I was doing that myself. I was looking at South Korea while they're containing this.

00:19:55.100 That's encouraging. Maybe, you know, maybe Italy's an outlier. Who knows? But South Korea took very 0.61

00:20:04.180 dramatic steps. We have to keep that in mind, decisive and quick steps, including they opened

00:20:10.080 up drive-throughs where you could drive through and get a test. Easy as that. Don't even get out of

00:20:15.260 your car. They were testing everybody. They're doing about 15,000 tests a day. We're doing,

00:20:23.060 we have done total less than 7,000. So they do more. We do half. We've done half total of what

00:20:31.280 they do in a day, just to put that in perspective. They shut down big events. They practice very

00:20:38.140 disciplined social distancing. They even, according to a Washington Post article I just read,

00:20:42.460 they put GPS trackers on the infected people anonymously so that other people, and then that

00:20:49.980 information was available online. You could go and find out where the infected people are and then

00:20:53.720 avoid them. Now, I'm not saying that we should do that. I think there's serious privacy concerns

00:21:00.960 there. Very serious. I am saying that before you feel too good about South Korea, realize they did 0.97

00:21:07.540 things to stop this that we are not doing, some of which we should do, like mass testing.

00:21:12.460 I have a friend who came here just this week, flew here from Israel, and he has cold symptoms.

00:21:23.320 No fever. He's probably fine. Probably just a cold. And he has, you know, he's got a runny nose

00:21:28.480 and things like that. And that's, as far as I understand, is not really a symptom that is typical

00:21:32.940 of COVID-19. But even so, he's an international traveler with, you know, flu-like symptoms. He

00:21:45.100 should be able to get tested. He called up, though. They told him, you know, you don't need to get

00:21:49.340 tested. Call us back if you have a fever. Maybe we'll help you out then. That's not the way it should

00:21:55.460 be. In South Korea, he's getting tested. Here, doesn't get tested. So I look at all this, and I

00:22:02.700 begin to suspect that my initial take was wrong, as much as I hate being wrong. Initially, I thought

00:22:08.720 that this was media hype. Going back a month ago, when we first started hearing all these reports,

00:22:12.960 there was warnings of global pandemics. And I said, my reaction was, yeah, well, here we go again. The

00:22:18.900 media is always hyping up some doomsday scenario, some new apocalypse, some vehicle of doom and

00:22:24.740 destruction they're always talking about. And then it always fizzles out. Whether it's a pandemic or

00:22:31.820 a hurricane, I mean, how many times have we seen this? The Boy Who Cried Wolf, right? But the point

00:22:38.980 of the Boy Who Cried Wolf story is that the wolf actually shows up one day. Is this our wolf? Has the

00:22:46.300 wolf come? I don't know. Should we panic? Obviously not. But I don't think the, I'm not sure if the

00:22:54.800 don't panic takes are really helpful at this point. And I have shared those takes as well. I even wrote

00:23:04.100 an article about, oh, we shouldn't panic. Well, yeah, of course we shouldn't panic. Everybody already

00:23:09.680 knows that. Everybody knows in theory that you shouldn't panic. It's not like anybody is suggesting

00:23:15.560 actual panic as a strategy, or it's not like anyone ever panics. No one ever makes the decision. You

00:23:22.140 know what? I think I should panic right now. Yeah, that seems like the right approach. And then they

00:23:25.820 start panicking. That's not the way it works. So saying don't panic already is, is pretty useless.

00:23:33.400 Everybody knows that. It's like saying to someone, don't have road rage. Nope. Don't have it.

00:23:41.240 You shouldn't have road rage. Well, yeah, of course. Nobody thinks road rage is a good strategy. No one

00:23:47.380 thinks, no one is pro road rage. It happens because their emotions get the best of them.

00:23:52.800 And it's, and I doubt that someone in the midst of, they're about to explode in a road rage event.

00:24:00.000 I don't think they're going to stop and say, you know what? Why did I hear someone tell me once about

00:24:03.340 how I shouldn't have road rage? Oh yeah, they did tell us. Okay. So I think I won't.

00:24:06.660 Yeah, you shouldn't panic. Fine. But you also shouldn't panic. Even if you're in a really dire

00:24:13.900 situation, if you're, if you're drowning in shark infested waters, you shouldn't panic then either.

00:24:19.780 Panic's not going to be helpful, but that doesn't mean that you're not in a dire situation. And if

00:24:23.660 somebody's shouting from the shore, don't panic, that's not going to be a lot of help. It's a fat 0.65

00:24:29.600 lot of good that's going to do for you. And in any case, it doesn't negate or minimize the fact

00:24:36.480 that you really are in a, in a, in a, in a tough spot. Zombie apocalypse, don't panic.

00:24:43.960 Yeah, sure. But it's still a zombie apocalypse. Now I'm not saying that this is tantamount to us

00:24:49.440 all drowning in shark infested waters. I'm not saying it's a zombie apocalypse. But I don't know

00:24:55.860 if the, if the, if, if we really need to keep telling people not to panic. And besides, are people

00:25:00.380 actually panicking over this? Some people are panicking that they might run out of toilet paper.

00:25:05.480 We've seen a few videos of people fighting over toilet paper. I think that's not really

00:25:09.040 panic over the disease. That's more panic that they're going to need toilet paper and not have

00:25:12.960 it. I understand that panic. Well, in fact, I've, we, we have all in our lives had panicky moments

00:25:18.660 where you need some toilet paper and can't find it. So that I can almost understand. Other than that,

00:25:23.980 I don't see people running through the streets with their hair on fire.

00:25:26.900 I don't see it. I think some people are concerned, very concerned. I I'm in that camp now. I'm

00:25:33.100 officially there. The facts on the ground as they stand right now, I think justify serious concern.

00:25:39.100 And, um, now what I'm starting to worry is that the issue is less panic and more denial

00:25:45.700 from what, this is all anecdotal, but the people talking about panic, it's anecdotal for them too.

00:25:51.900 So anecdotally, what I have seen denial is at this point, far more common than panic.

00:26:01.680 I haven't actually seen or talked to anyone who's legitimately panicking. So I haven't met that

00:26:07.000 person. I have met people and talked to people who are in straight up denial about this.

00:26:12.340 And then you have to also think what if, if we are in a pandemic situation, which the World Health

00:26:19.380 Organization officially declared a pandemic, we, what is, what is more dangerous? Do you think

00:26:24.660 what's more dangerous to panic or to be in complete denial, to take too many precautions or to take none?

00:26:32.160 Um, what I've, what I've seen online, especially a lot of people saying, this is all a media hoax.

00:26:45.400 That's a real point of view that a not insignificant portion of people seem to have that. This is either

00:26:52.300 completely invented by the media or they are hyping it up to kingdom come. And it's really not a big,

00:26:58.360 big deal. It's just a cold and they're trying to take down Trump with it. It may be true that

00:27:03.440 they're hyping it up and they want to take down Trump, but it's also true. This is a serious issue.

00:27:08.400 And that's why you don't need to listen to Don Lemon or Anderson Cooper about this or Chris Cuomo.

00:27:15.000 Okay. Um, listen to the epidemiologists and the doctors, unless they're going to say that all of

00:27:21.760 them are also engaged in a conspiracy to take down Trump.

00:27:25.360 And I think we see that there is cause for concern. And I've, I've, I have seen someone just yesterday,

00:27:33.700 I was talking to someone online on Twitter and they said, uh, they said, you know, I'm not worried

00:27:38.980 about it because for everybody 40 and under it's harmless. That was the word they use harmless,

00:27:44.600 harmless for people 40 and under. That is not true. It's true that it hasn't killed any children.

00:27:51.880 Thank God. There are certain diseases that for whatever reason don't really affect kids. Although

00:27:57.080 kids are still carriers of the disease and they're going to bring it to people who it will affect,

00:28:01.540 but it gets, it gets worse and worse. It seems as you get older. So if you're in your thirties and

00:28:09.080 you get this, you're probably not going to die, but you could. And, and there is a, and, and, uh,

00:28:15.940 it's, it's, you, you could have, even if you don't die, a very serious response to it.

00:28:22.040 Harmless. But it seems like there are those who are inventing comforting facts about this

00:28:28.760 to make themselves feel better. This is someone who just is telling themselves,

00:28:33.020 Oh, it's harmless. If you're under 40, it just made that up. No doctor has said that. 0.94

00:28:37.440 No epidemiologist, no expert, no health organization has said that it's harmless for

00:28:40.880 people under 40. That's just someone who's made it up. And I ask you, what is, what is a greater

00:28:46.080 danger and threat to your health to be someone who thinks it's harmless or to be someone who's

00:28:51.020 too freaked out about it? Um, I think we'd all do well to heed the warning of trying to pull up this

00:29:01.040 article. Uh, there was an article in Newsweek written by a doctor in Western Europe

00:29:07.840 and, uh, a little bit of what he says. He says, I'm a doctor in a major hospital in Western Europe

00:29:13.820 watching you Americans and you Brits in these still early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

00:29:18.740 It's like watching a familiar horror movie where the protagonists yet again split into pairs or

00:29:24.220 decide to take a tour of a dark basement. The real life version of this behavior is pretending this is

00:29:29.240 just a flu, keeping schools open, following through with your holiday travel plans, going into the

00:29:34.140 office daily. This is what we did in Italy. We were so complacent that even when people with

00:29:38.320 coronavirus symptoms started turning up, we wrote each off as a nasty case of the flu.

00:29:42.540 We kept the economy going, pointed fingers at China, urged tourists to keep traveling.

00:29:46.620 And the majority of us told it, told ourselves and each other, this isn't so bad. We're young,

00:29:51.360 we're fit. We'll be fine. Even if we catch it fast forward two months and we are drowning.

00:29:55.880 Statistically speaking, judging by the curve in China, we are not even at the peak yet,

00:29:59.520 but our fatality rate is at over 6%, double the known global average. Put aside statistics,

00:30:05.860 here's how it looks in practice. Most of my childhood friends are now doctors working in

00:30:09.400 North Italy. In Milan, they are having to choose between intubating a 40-year-old with two kids,

00:30:15.860 a 40-year-old who is fit and healthy with no comorbidities, and a 60-year-old with high blood

00:30:20.380 pressure because they don't have enough beds. In the hallway, meanwhile, there are another 15 people

00:30:25.020 waiting who are hardly breathing and need oxygen. And he continues from there.

00:30:30.860 The problem, I think, and so you listen to people in Italy and they look at the denial that we're in

00:30:37.240 right now, some of us, and they're saying, snap out of it right now because this is coming for you.

00:30:44.740 Yeah, it's a different kind of healthcare system. Yes, Italy is an older country,

00:30:47.940 but we're not immortal, right? We're not superheroes. We are humans. We're mortal just like them. We're

00:30:55.460 not impervious to disease. And viruses don't discriminate. They don't care that it's America

00:31:03.560 and we're different. I don't think a virus recognizes that. The problem, I think, and I know

00:31:07.760 this is my issue even now, part of my issue, well, part of my hesitation in taking this as seriously

00:31:15.520 as I probably should, is not knowing who to trust. And I think that's a big issue. It's a crisis of

00:31:22.780 trust. There's so much information out there. We know there are a lot of people lying, a lot of

00:31:28.140 people with agendas, and there's just so much of it. There's such an influx of information for us now

00:31:32.680 from so many different sources. What do you trust? Well, I feel fairly safe trusting epidemiologists

00:31:38.220 and doctors and health organizations on the topic of infectious diseases and pandemics,

00:31:42.140 even the CDC and the World Health Organization. Now, I'm not going to trust these organizations or

00:31:47.440 these people implicitly on every topic, but on the issue of infectious diseases, pandemics, how viruses

00:31:55.840 work, well, if I don't trust them, then who do I put above them? Who am I going to trust instead of

00:32:02.300 them? I'm not an expert on it. I'm not going out there into the field to do research. I'm not getting

00:32:08.120 my microscope out and studying this thing myself. I'm sure you're not either. So you got to trust

00:32:12.220 somebody. You have to get your information from somewhere. If you're not going to get it from these

00:32:15.860 people, who are you getting it from? Cable news hosts? Talk radio hosts? But the other issue is that

00:32:23.900 it just doesn't feel real, does it, for us right now? Right now, for me, I mean, I hear what they're

00:32:30.080 saying in Italy. I saw China on the news. I hear about the measures they took in South Korea. I read the

00:32:35.780 stories of quarantine, people getting sick and dying, even in this country, even young, healthy

00:32:40.040 people. I read it. I hear it. I understand it. But it doesn't feel real because in my life, things

00:32:47.560 look normal. And there's still this thought in the back of my head that, no, no, this kind of stuff

00:32:54.960 doesn't happen anymore. Not here. Not in the middle of my comfortable life. Pandemics? What is this? The 1.00

00:33:00.980 Middle Ages? That's not going to happen. It's 2020. Don't be ridiculous. Now, I don't think that to

00:33:07.960 myself explicitly. I don't literally think that it couldn't happen here because for some reason,

00:33:14.560 we've grown past it in modern society. But that's the attitude in the back of my mind.

00:33:20.060 Maybe you can relate. In fact, I know that a lot of people can relate based on the demeanor of so many

00:33:24.680 people and based on the people who are still, in spite of all the facts on the ground and everything

00:33:28.720 we're hearing from experts on the subject, still they insist that this is nothing to worry about.

00:33:33.740 Based on what? On what basis do they wave all this stuff off? I think it's on the basis of arrogance,

00:33:39.880 denial, and a misplaced belief and confidence that the normalcy and comfort of our modern life

00:33:44.520 will continue indefinitely. I know that because I feel it too, and it's hard to resist.

00:33:52.960 So have I changed my tune on this? Yes, absolutely. Do I think the world is coming to an end? No,

00:33:56.780 I do not. Do I think we should panic? No, nobody does. Do I think that the more dire predictions

00:34:02.280 of millions of people being infected and many, many dying, do I think that will come true? I don't

00:34:07.200 know. I really don't. I'm not sure. But I will go out on not much of a limb and say that there is

00:34:15.360 reason for serious concern for us and reason to make some adjustments to our lives and the way that

00:34:21.360 we conduct ourselves to protect ourselves and our loved ones. That's where I am right now.

00:34:27.440 If it all sounds kind of confused and contradictory and unhelpful, well, then I guess good, because I

00:34:32.160 don't want you coming to me for help on this. I'm not the guy for that. No show host is. You

00:34:38.320 shouldn't be going to anybody. None of us should be going to someone who gives opinions for a living

00:34:43.620 for advice on something like this. All we can do is listen to what the doctors and epidemiologists

00:34:50.960 are saying, not just your local pediatrician who isn't necessarily an expert on viral pandemics,

00:34:55.380 though he certainly knows more than I do and you do, but the men and women who do this work for a

00:35:00.080 living, we listen to them, look at how governments and powerful institutions across the world are

00:35:06.160 handling this at great cost. And then we make up our minds about how we should treat it. And that's

00:35:13.640 the best I think that we can do at this point. Let's move on to some news headlines. Number one,

00:35:22.440 Bernie Sanders called a press conference yesterday and most people thought he was going to drop out.

00:35:27.340 But those people forgot that Bernie Sanders is an old man obsessed with power and the sound of his

00:35:31.700 own voice. So they forgot about that and thought he would drop out. He didn't. Instead,

00:35:35.840 he did this. We are winning the generational debate. While Joe Biden continues to do very well

00:35:44.640 with older Americans, especially those people over 65, our campaign continues to win the vast majority

00:35:55.980 of the votes of younger people. And I am talking about people not just in their 20s, but in their 30s,

00:36:05.620 and their 40s, the younger generations of this country continue in very strong numbers to support

00:36:14.180 our campaign.

00:36:15.180 So Bernie's staying in this thing. He's not going anywhere. He's not going to win. He really can't

00:36:20.420 win. And his continued presence is only going to hurt the eventual nominee, Joe Biden, who, by the way,

00:36:25.720 is a guy who could really use a break at this point. He could really use some time off his feet,

00:36:30.180 as it were. But instead of giving that to him, Bernie is going to keep harassing him and forcing him to

00:36:36.700 stay in it and keep arguing, which as a conservative, I'm a big fan of. I love the approach. If I were a

00:36:43.220 Democrat, I'd be pretty, pretty upset. But remember, as I always say, it requires an immense amount of

00:36:49.100 ego and self-delusion to run for president in the first place. I mean, just thinking to yourself,

00:36:56.680 imagine thinking to yourself, seriously, I should be president, and I can actually win.

00:37:02.800 I should be in charge of the whole country. I am the guy. And I can, and I could really win too.

00:37:09.900 Imagine thinking, imagine the narcissism required to have that thought in your head.

00:37:16.940 And, and the near psychotic level of delusion you have to have to think that you could actually win.

00:37:22.680 Now, of course, it does end up being true. One of those deluded narcissists will really win. And so

00:37:28.500 maybe in the end, they weren't so deluded, though they're still narcissistic.

00:37:32.800 But that's why this, when we understand that, it becomes less mysterious why a guy like Bernie

00:37:38.280 Sanders stays in the race, acting like a deluded narcissist to the very end. Well, because that's

00:37:43.340 what he is. And that's why he got in. And that's what's been, that's been the animating force behind

00:37:47.800 his run this entire time. Number two, Harvey Weinstein, as you probably heard, is going to jail

00:37:54.400 for 23 years, convicted of rape. He's also going to be, I imagine, in solitary confinement,

00:38:00.600 essentially, his, for his whole time in prison. I would think that, although I did, I did recently

00:38:05.660 read that they moved Bill Cosby out of protective custody and put him in the general population,

00:38:09.840 which is kind of surprising. It seems unlikely they would do that with Weinstein. I don't know.

00:38:15.740 Either way, an astounding turn of events for Harvey Weinstein. Not astounding at this point.

00:38:20.760 The fact that he's going to jail, if you, if you're looking at the last three years,

00:38:23.380 the fact that he's going to jail for rape is not very astounding. But if you go back five years,

00:38:26.440 10 years, he was one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, wined and dined by the world's elites. 0.98

00:38:33.600 Now he's going to prison as a rapist, and he'll die there in a cell. Of course, this should have 0.82

00:38:38.860 happened much sooner. And those elites who are wining and dining him, a lot of them should be

00:38:42.940 in jail with him. But the point is, evil doesn't look so glamorous anymore when it's hobbling into a

00:38:51.120 jail cell as an old, fat, broken man to sit there for the rest of his life and then eventually die. 0.62

00:38:58.120 Forgotten and scorned. That's what evil gets you. Number three, a bill in Canada, speaking of evil, 0.99

00:39:03.920 would criminalize so-called conversion therapy. Here's the language of the bill.

00:39:09.040 Any practice, treatment, or service designed to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender

00:39:13.980 identity or to eliminate or reduce sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of

00:39:18.260 the same sex. For greater certainty, this definition does not include a surgical sex change or any

00:39:24.480 related service. So that's how they describe conversion therapy, and the bill would ban that.

00:39:35.220 Now, in a pretty powerful testimony against this bill, a woman who used to live as a man

00:39:39.560 recorded a video that was going to be presented to the lawmakers in Canada urging them to vote against

00:39:45.920 the bill, because she's someone who relied upon so-called conversion therapy to come to a point 1.00

00:39:52.540 where she's happy and satisfied in her own body as the person that God made her. Here's some of what

00:39:56.880 she had to say. Senators of Canada, I would encourage you to vote no on S202. Without the help of

00:40:03.840 discipleship ministries and counseling, I could not be living in my biological sex healthy and whole.

00:40:10.560 Giving those who struggle with gender confusion hormone is only treating the symptom and not treating the

00:40:15.900 real underlying issues. In voting no, you would allow hope to continue for those like me who are

00:40:22.920 seeking help from counseling or from a ministry or help through their church. These places are offering

00:40:28.820 healing and restoration to those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction, homosexuality,

00:40:34.660 or gender confusion, not conversion therapy. Now let's think about this. Think about a bill

00:40:39.600 that criminalizes so-called conversion therapy. First of all, what happened to being pro-choice?

00:40:46.120 If someone wants to seek this counseling, why shouldn't they have the choice to do it? What

00:40:50.560 you're really saying with a bill like this is that a person in the LGBT community should not be able to

00:40:55.980 find and receive and choose to receive this sort of counseling, even if they want it. How is that not

00:41:02.560 infantilizing, patronizing, controlling? Also, let's focus on the transgender piece of this because 1.00

00:41:10.880 this is where it's really, really evil, in my opinion. What the bill seems to be saying is that if

00:41:17.100 somebody, if a man, let's say, thinks he's a woman, it should be against the law to help him accept his 0.98

00:41:24.180 natural biological sex, to try to relieve him of this delusion that is destroying his life

00:41:32.520 and causing him despair, and which he is seeking. He has gone to a counselor, seeking to be rid of it.

00:41:40.020 What Canada is saying is, no, it should be illegal. You can't treat that. You can't give him what he

00:41:44.600 wants. You can't help him. If he thinks he's a woman and he's unhappy with that delusion and wants 0.61

00:41:50.840 to be free of it, you, sorry, you can't help him. But it's not illegal. It's explicitly not illegal

00:41:57.620 to castrate him. So that's what you're allowed to do. He comes to you, thinks he's a woman, he's 0.99

00:42:02.720 in despair. You can castrate him. You can't give him psychological treatment. Castration is going to 0.99

00:42:09.320 be the only acceptable treatment option, one of the only acceptable treatment options for someone with

00:42:13.400 gender dysphoria. Canada has completely lost its mind in conclusion. But actually, wait a second here, 0.96

00:42:18.380 because let's think about this. If a gay man wants to be a woman, becomes a woman, quote unquote, 0.87

00:42:26.300 and is still attracted to men, then if his new gender is legitimate, and if we're told he's a

00:42:33.920 woman now, that's what he is, well, hasn't he just gone from gay to straight, according to you?

00:42:39.920 Now he's a woman attracted to men. He's a straight woman. Went from gay man to straight woman. He went 0.85

00:42:44.000 from gay to straight, right? So isn't that conversion therapy then? Haven't you effectively 0.87

00:42:49.620 changed his sexual orientation, which you've told us is impossible to do? Well, you just did it. 0.99

00:42:57.760 So you're telling me it's illegal to change someone's sexual orientation unless you do it 0.90

00:43:01.980 by castration, in which case, you're good to go.

00:43:05.780 Four, Sarah Palin was on the show The Masked Singer. That's the one where celebrities or former 0.51

00:43:14.440 celebrities come out in masks and sing, as the name would suggest. This show is somehow very popular.

00:43:21.280 Sarah Palin showed up, and I'll show you the clip. I'm not really sure the context because I don't

00:43:24.760 watch the show because I have an IQ over 82. So I don't know the context. She's singing, but she

00:43:30.960 doesn't have a mask on. So I don't know what, I thought she's supposed to have a mask on. 0.96

00:43:33.420 So here she is singing, or rapping, actually. And, well, here it is. Watch.

00:43:39.780 The artist formerly known as The Bear. Y'all make some noise for Governor Sarah Palin.

00:43:46.080 Can I be your hype man?

00:43:47.900 Yeah, yeah.

00:43:48.920 Go, Sarah. 0.66

00:43:50.040 I like this.

00:43:50.860 I cannot lie.

00:43:52.500 You are the most can't deny.

00:43:54.320 When a girl walks in and is a ditty-ditty racing around, speaking in your face. 1.00

00:43:57.560 You get sprung.

00:43:58.960 Oh my God, what is our show?

00:44:00.620 Oh my God.

00:44:02.000 Teeth of the jeans he's wearing.

00:44:03.640 I'm hooked and I cannot dare at all.

00:44:05.320 Oh baby.

00:44:06.660 Wanted to whip y'all and take your picture. 0.75

00:44:09.280 My homegirl tried to warn me, but I thought you got me so. 0.95

00:44:13.220 Ooh, rubble smooth skin.

00:44:14.980 Same old in my pants.

00:44:16.820 Use me, use me.

00:44:18.500 Cause ain't that average groupie.

00:44:20.480 God's wrath has really come upon this nation.

00:44:25.400 And for good reason.

00:44:27.140 Very, very good reason.

00:44:30.080 Five, a bit of a disturbing tweet, I thought, from the Chicago Transit Authority.

00:44:34.800 Here it is.

00:44:36.300 It says,

00:44:37.060 Our crews continue to work all hours of the day to ensure trains, buses, and stations are cleaned and disinfected daily.

00:44:43.000 And there's footage of CTA crews cleaning and scrubbing down the trains very diligently, which is good.

00:44:48.740 That's not the disturbing part.

00:44:49.740 That part is not disturbing.

00:44:51.260 The disturbing part is the apparent insinuation that they don't do this every day anyway, regardless of a virus.

00:44:58.180 In fact, I've become sort of uncomfortable with that.

00:45:00.460 But all of the wash your hands stuff, even tutorials you find, the media, newspapers publishing these how-tos on how to wash your hands.

00:45:11.840 I think, don't people do that anyway?

00:45:14.440 Is anyone learning anything from this?

00:45:19.080 Who's the person who saw a tutorial on washing your hands in the newspaper and said,

00:45:23.320 Oh, that's how you do it?

00:45:24.380 And I see people on social media saying, Man, I'm washing my hands so much now.

00:45:30.380 It's crazy.

00:45:31.800 Okay, but what were you doing before is my question.

00:45:35.820 Because you should be washing your hands frequently throughout the day anyway.

00:45:39.380 Not just when you go to the bathroom, but like throughout the day you should wash your hands.

00:45:43.320 It's just something you should do.

00:45:44.760 Good hygiene.

00:45:46.260 So I'm glad everybody has discovered hygiene.

00:45:48.200 My point is I hope that this becomes a habit that outlasts the virus,

00:45:51.780 which may help us prevent another one.

00:45:55.320 Number six, here's a bonus story.

00:45:56.780 Usually I do five, but here's a sixth one.

00:45:58.360 I just want to play this for you.

00:45:59.460 This is from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:46:02.400 One of the, I know it sounds banal,

00:46:05.700 but one of the key parts to preventing transmission is washing your hands and not touching your face.

00:46:11.880 Okay, wait a second.

00:46:12.840 What was that?

00:46:14.680 Banal?

00:46:16.600 Banal.

00:46:18.960 It's banal.

00:46:20.720 It's not banal.

00:46:22.400 Banal rhymes with canal. 0.99

00:46:24.340 It's not banal, rhymes with anal. 0.97

00:46:27.420 Now, I want to be a little sympathetic because we've, I think many of us have been in a spot before 0.71

00:46:33.400 where we use a certain word and then somebody corrects us and tells us that we mispronounced it.

00:46:38.640 And then we think back and we think, oh, oh my goodness.

00:46:41.280 I, I had been saying this word wrong my entire life.

00:46:44.640 This is a word I use a lot and I, no one has ever told me I'm pronouncing it.

00:46:48.060 How many people have I said this to? 0.99

00:46:50.320 And they thought to themselves, what an idiot and never told me anything. 0.99

00:46:53.080 It's kind of like if you're, you know, it's like 6 p.m. 0.99

00:46:58.380 And you went to the bathroom six hours ago and somebody says, hey, your fly's unzipped.

00:47:02.460 And you think, you're the first person to tell me that.

00:47:04.320 So it's a similar kind of thing.

00:47:05.560 I had that experience recently when I went to go to a food truck to order a gyro.

00:47:10.820 And I noticed, for the first time, I noticed that the guy behind the counter referred to

00:47:17.040 it as a gyro.

00:47:18.000 I think that's how you pronounce it.

00:47:19.380 Gyro? 0.99

00:47:20.180 Like with a Y? 0.95

00:47:22.000 And I thought, is that?

00:47:23.220 And then I looked it up and I went, no, that, okay, that's actually what I'm supposed to

00:47:26.020 be saying.

00:47:26.440 Gyro, not gyro. 0.94

00:47:27.500 I've been saying gyro this all the time. 0.99

00:47:28.900 And that's a problem because I love gyros and I eat them all the time.

00:47:32.500 So how many times have I gone up and said, can I have one gyro, please? 0.97

00:47:36.920 And the person thought, what a dumb American and never bothered to tell me. 0.97

00:47:44.560 Although I'm sticking with gyro because I think you were just sounds weird. 1.00

00:47:48.800 All right.

00:47:49.420 That was a long story, a little bit banal.

00:47:51.120 I'm sorry.

00:47:51.500 Sorry for that banal story.

00:47:53.100 Now, finally, we'll go to our daily cancellation.

00:47:55.540 We're not going to have time for the emails today, but we had a couple of good why I'm

00:47:58.740 wrong emails.

00:47:59.360 We'll do those tomorrow.

00:48:00.580 Remember, you can become a member, Daily Wire member and send emails to the mailbag.

00:48:05.880 Today, we have a rare double cancellation to end with.

00:48:09.340 Not a person being canceled twice.

00:48:11.300 We've done that already.

00:48:12.040 But in this case, it's a person being canceled twice for basically the same infraction or

00:48:17.000 a related infraction.

00:48:19.380 And here we have Mara Gay, who earns this distinct honor of the rare double cancellation. 0.99

00:48:26.780 She was the woman, well, I'll just play it for you to remind you.

00:48:29.480 She was the woman involved in this famous, rather infamous exchange.

00:48:34.360 You see it as a possibility.

00:48:36.060 If he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it.

00:48:40.840 Absolutely.

00:48:42.160 Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every

00:48:46.380 American a million dollars.

00:48:48.180 I've got it.

00:48:48.380 Let's put it up on the screen.

00:48:50.000 When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.

00:48:55.580 Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads.

00:48:57.600 U.S. population, 327 million.

00:49:00.380 Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.

00:49:02.380 He could have given each American one million dollars and have had lunch money left over.

00:49:08.380 It's an incredible way of putting it.

00:49:10.580 It's an incredible way of putting it.

00:49:12.640 It's true.

00:49:13.400 It's disturbing.

00:49:14.460 It does.

00:49:15.020 It does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money

00:49:19.280 in politics.

00:49:19.840 So that obviously was incorrect.

00:49:22.000 They were both off by a factor of about a million.

00:49:25.280 500 million divided by 327 million gives each person a buck and a half, not a million dollars.

00:49:30.800 And that woman, Mara Gay, as well as Brian Williams, both came in for some criticism, a

00:49:37.440 lot of criticism, because this is the internet age and this is what happens. 1.00

00:49:40.340 When you say something stupid, you're going to have 10 million people calling you stupid. 1.00

00:49:44.320 It's going to last for about three or four days, probably, maybe a little bit longer 1.00

00:49:48.100 in the case of something like this.

00:49:49.860 I've been through it.

00:49:51.120 A lot of us have been through it.

00:49:52.220 It's not fun.

00:49:53.140 You just got to ride with it.

00:49:54.880 Ride it out.

00:49:55.860 People will move on, especially these days.

00:49:58.640 We're in the middle of a pandemic.

00:49:59.780 People have other things to talk about.

00:50:01.220 So you could just go into hiding.

00:50:03.000 Go into a bunker.

00:50:03.700 It's good anyway.

00:50:04.460 You avoid the pandemic that way.

00:50:06.280 Come out in three days.

00:50:07.240 Everyone's moved on.

00:50:09.080 Well, Mara Gay, she didn't want to do that. 0.91

00:50:10.600 She didn't want to take this in stride or play along or be self-deprecating about it.

00:50:15.460 So instead, how do you think she handled it?

00:50:18.380 What angle do you think she took? 1.00

00:50:20.580 What narrative did she try to construct to explain the criticism?

00:50:25.160 Well, of course, we already know.

00:50:26.340 She said that it was racist.

00:50:28.100 She wrote a piece in the New York Times with the title,

00:50:31.520 My people have been through worse than a Twitter mob.

00:50:34.400 When you're a black woman in America with a public voice, a trivial math error can lead to 0.99

00:50:38.740 a deluge of hate.

00:50:40.600 A deluge of hate, I should say.

00:50:43.480 A deluge.

00:50:45.340 I'm making fun of people.

00:50:46.240 I mispronounce words all the time.

00:50:47.560 I'm aware of that.

00:50:49.600 And here I am making fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Curtiz.

00:50:54.520 And she goes on from there to talk about the racist attacks that she's suffered,

00:50:57.880 all the horrible racism, the racist mob that came after.

00:51:01.240 She doesn't, never mind the fact that Brian Williams, again, is a white man,

00:51:04.880 and he came in for the same criticism, same exact amount, probably more.

00:51:08.820 That doesn't count.

00:51:10.760 That doesn't matter. 0.83

00:51:11.760 People were criticizing a black woman, so obviously it has to be racist and sexist, too. 0.91

00:51:16.020 Of course, she threw that in there. 1.00

00:51:19.040 And the moral of the story, according to her, is that she's a hero.

00:51:21.880 She's Rosa Parks. 0.96

00:51:22.860 She's a civil rights martyr, actually. 0.94

00:51:25.020 She's a warrior, withstanding courageously. 1.00

00:51:29.240 All the people on the internet calling her stupid for making a math error. 0.99

00:51:32.560 First of all, it was not a trivial error. 0.99

00:51:34.380 You were off by a factor of a million.

00:51:36.300 That's not trivial.

00:51:39.200 Second, no. 0.99

00:51:40.360 You see, Mara, that's not how this works. 1.00

00:51:42.320 You said something dumb. 0.99

00:51:44.360 People reacted. 1.00

00:51:45.300 They would have reacted the same if you were a white man saying it, and we know that because

00:51:50.200 a white man said it, too, and he got the exact same reaction, and that's it.

00:51:57.200 You might be able to sift through the thousands of tweets that came at you, laughing at you,

00:52:03.020 and find a couple that had a racist tinge to them, and that's bad.

00:52:08.560 They shouldn't have done that.

00:52:09.300 But that doesn't make the entire mob racist.

00:52:13.080 If there are 10 million people making fun of you, and three of them make it into a racial

00:52:18.400 thing, you can't say that the entire 10 million are racist. 1.00

00:52:21.440 If you want to call them a bunch of jerks, a bunch of petty jerks who are laughing at you, 1.00

00:52:26.180 fine, I would agree with that. 1.00

00:52:27.420 And I'm one of the petty jerks who laughed at you. 0.99

00:52:30.440 Not racist, though. 0.99

00:52:31.560 Not everything is racist, it turns out.

00:52:33.560 All right.

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Ep. 443 - Sifting Through The Myths And Facts About The Coronavirus

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