Many of us are worried that our current lockdown strategy is leading us quickly into an economic collapse, unlike anything this country has ever seen before. But the left-wing media says that if you re worried about the economy in a time like this, then you re a heartless scrooge putting money above people. Which is nonsense.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, many of us are worried that our current lockdown strategy
00:00:04.340is leading us quickly into an economic collapse, unlike anything this country has ever seen before.
00:00:09.480But the left-wing media says that if you're worried about the economy in a time like this,
00:00:14.260then you are a heartless Scrooge putting money above people, which of course is nonsense.
00:00:19.240And we're going to talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including for a change of pace.
00:00:23.360You know, we're used to seeing the confrontations in the grocery store over toilet paper.
00:00:29.240Well, we have one over Mountain Dew. So I figure that's a nice change of pace.
00:00:33.180I'll play that video for you. And a listener writes to explain why I'm wrong in advocating
00:00:38.380that we open up the economy to avoid a depression. All of that on the way.
00:00:42.940But let's start with this. And I have to tell you, I am I'm pretty mad, pretty ticked off,
00:00:47.740which I which I know. Speaking of change of pace, that's that's quite a change of pace for me.
00:00:52.240But listen, I think a person can take any number of positions on this crisis and what the path
00:00:58.700what the best path forward is. And any idea, any path we choose has the potential to result in
00:01:08.040suffering and death. In fact, that's going to be part of the package no matter what we do. That's
00:01:13.280the situation that we're in. That's the reality of it. We have to face that. We can't we can't hide
00:01:18.560from it. So I'm not going to get angry at anyone who has really grappled with this and come to a
00:01:25.460conclusion, however tentative it might be, even if that conclusion is different from mine, because
00:01:30.300we can all as honest and compassionate people. There are there are many different ways of looking
00:01:36.080at this thing. But what I'm seeing, especially from people in the media, is a is a bad faith,
00:01:44.360dishonest, disgusting effort to shut down, shout down those of us who suggest that perhaps it's not
00:01:52.180a good idea to deliberately crash the economy, to deliberately cause a Great Depression in order
00:01:56.840to stop a virus. What I'm seeing from from these people, again, many in the media is an attempt to
00:02:03.400make a caricature of our position, which is a reasonable position and a serious position.
00:02:10.280But they have painted it as putting money over people or even as eugenics. I've seen that quite a
00:02:17.940bit, which is pretty rich coming from the pro-abortion fanatics that they are.
00:02:23.880What they want to do is portray us as greedy, uncaring, unfeeling scrooges who would rather
00:02:29.180have millions die than see our portfolios damaged. Now, this is, as I said, nonsense. It's worse than
00:02:36.160nonsense, actually. And it makes me strongly suspect that those employing this strategy in the media
00:02:41.880actually want the economy to collapse. That's actually what they want to see happen.
00:02:47.940And I don't say that lightly, but I can't figure out why else they would be doing this.
00:02:55.440Why else they would be so flippant about the potential collapse of our economy?
00:03:01.220Why else they would pretend that to worry about the collapse of the economy is somehow to worry
00:03:07.520only about money, as if you could actually separate the economy from the people who comprise it?
00:03:14.500Now, we'll circle back to this in a second. But first, let's just review again where we are,
00:03:21.780because I think it's very important. We're now being warned, as I reported yesterday,
00:03:25.740that 30% unemployment is on the horizon, very, very close on the horizon. The collapse of the
00:03:31.780commercial mortgage market could be close behind after that. And these are just the relatively
00:03:37.700immediate consequences of closing thousands of businesses for an indefinite period of time.
00:03:43.620Keep in mind that the worst employment rate, as I said yesterday, the worst employment rate
00:03:47.400ever in American history was 25% during the Great Depression. The worst my generation has ever seen,
00:03:55.20010%. And we had that about 10 years ago, I think back in 2009. This would be then three times worse
00:04:02.240than anyone in my generation has ever seen. And if you remember the 10% unemployment,
00:04:08.000people were freaking out over that. This is three times worse than that.
00:04:12.120To emphasize this point, this process is already underway. 140,000 unemployment claims were filed in
00:04:19.640Ohio, just in Ohio, just last week. In the first week of the shutdown, 140,000 unemployment claims.
00:04:27.420So many unemployment claims were filed that it shut down and crashed the website,
00:04:31.460the unemployment website in Ohio. In Arizona, their unemployment website also crashed when they
00:04:36.700received 30,000 people filing in a single week. In New York, last Thursday, in one day,
00:04:42.540they received over half a million visits to the unemployment site, also crashed the site.
00:04:47.440The next day, they got a half a million calls inquiring about unemployment. So you've got
00:04:52.640unemployment websites across the country crashing from the amount of traffic they're getting from
00:04:59.540people who are suddenly out of a job. Millions and millions of people out of work, no income,
00:05:06.780no way to provide for themselves. After one week, one week, okay? And it wasn't even a full week for a
00:05:16.440lot of people. It was just a few days of a company being shut down and already they're laying people off
00:05:20.560and they're firing people. And not because they're greedy, not because these companies are run by
00:05:25.140greedy fat cats who don't care about the little man. No, most companies in America are small
00:05:32.420businesses. And the reason why they're getting rid of people firing, laying off, they have no choice.
00:05:39.360They can't operate with zero revenue. They have to, they have no choice.
00:05:43.720Now, the hope, I suppose, is that the jobs will be there to return to once the government lets people
00:05:50.480go back to work. And this is what I've heard. This is the argument I've heard. I've heard things like,
00:05:55.800well, the economy can be resurrected. In fact, that's what somebody, some media person, some journalist
00:06:00.540said to me on Twitter yesterday. You can resurrect the economy. Just resurrect it. Like Jesus on Easter
00:06:06.960morning. Just a miracle. Resurrected. Look at that. No, that hope is, as CNN might say, unsubstantiated.
00:06:17.780Most small businesses cannot survive on zero revenue for very long, let alone months. When they go down,
00:06:24.560they're done. They're not going to be resurrected. They don't magically come back to life. That's not
00:06:29.620what happens with a business. Even the significantly larger companies are going to have to downsize. And
00:06:38.260when the government says, okay, you can go back to work, it's not like the past however many weeks
00:06:46.420and months disappear like they never happened. And what will happen in the meantime to people? A large
00:06:53.140majority of Americans are already living paycheck to paycheck. A large majority. Now, paycheck to
00:07:01.040paycheck means if you miss one paycheck, you're in trouble, especially if you have kids. What happens
00:07:06.800when you miss two paychecks? Three, four, five? What happens to you? How do you feed yourself? How do you
00:07:12.400feed your kids? How will you pay the rent or the mortgage? Government stimulus checks only go so far. Yes,
00:07:18.960send the checks. And we'll talk about those checks during the headlines, but that can't be a new way
00:07:24.880of life. We can't sustain the entire country that way, no matter what the socialists might say.
00:07:29.380People need to work to care for themselves and their families. What happens when millions of people
00:07:33.780are prevented from doing so for a long stretch of time? Well, nobody knows the answer to that
00:07:37.720question, really, because nothing like this has ever happened before. No government, as far as I'm
00:07:42.440aware, has ever, ever, ever willfully plunged itself into a depression, obliterating its own economy on
00:07:49.920purpose in order to prevent some other potential calamity. If we go that route, we will be the
00:07:58.000first to ever try it, along with the other countries that are, some other countries in the world right
00:08:04.000now that are currently trying it too. That's a whole other aspect of this thing that we're not even
00:08:09.600talking about. We're just talking about America crashing its economy. What happens when a bunch
00:08:14.440of other economies crash also at the same time across the globe? Well, we don't know exactly,
00:08:21.820but I think there are many very good reasons to predict rather horrifying results from such an
00:08:30.020experiment. Destitution, poverty on a massive scale, looting, rioting, millions homeless, that's just the
00:08:37.860beginning. We have seen looting and rioting in major American cities in recent history for almost
00:08:46.620no reason. In Baltimore, they said it was about Freddie Gray, the guy that was allegedly a victim
00:08:55.660of police brutality. Well, of course, most of the looters didn't really care about Freddie Gray or even
00:09:02.860know about that situation or know much about it. They were just looking for an excuse.
00:09:08.760What happens when you give them a legitimate excuse? What happens when you make people desperate?
00:09:13.680What happens when you make even decent people who could never have even imagined themselves looting?
00:09:19.620What happens when you make them considerate?
00:09:21.860Because they need a loaf of bread for their kids and they have no way of buying it.
00:09:30.220Now, this 15-day period is one thing, but if it goes exponentially longer than that, it's just
00:09:37.760that is an option that cannot be on the table. We cannot open our arms and embrace exactly the kind
00:09:45.420of catastrophe that the shutdowns are supposed to be preventing. Many lives will be ruined. Lives,
00:09:51.240human lives. Now, I'm not sure that it will be entirely safe to go back to work after 15 days. I
00:09:58.920think the 15-day period probably, I suspect, was sort of arbitrary, but we have no other choice if
00:10:03.900we want to preserve our civilization. Does that mean that we fling open our doors and run outside and
00:10:08.680start infecting each other with abandon? No, of course not. Here's the plan that I outlined yesterday.
00:10:14.260I'll say it again and expand it a little bit. Tell me where I'm wrong here. Let's go over this one
00:10:19.240more time. Step one, open the economy. Let young and healthy people feed their families. Step two,
00:10:25.260encourage masks. Produce lots of masks. Get them out there and encourage them. Maybe even require
00:10:33.400them for certain industries and certain situations where transmission might be especially likely
00:10:38.320in areas where there might be large gatherings of people in a confined space. Maybe you say,
00:10:44.020for a time, you have to wear a mask. Okay? Step three, keep nursing homes quarantined. Step four,
00:10:51.060tell other at-risk people to remain in their homes from now. Step five, test aggressively. Quarantine
00:10:56.540the infected. Step six, provide financial relief to at-risk people who cannot work.
00:11:02.140We do all of those things. Now, I'm not saying that's going to solve the problem. I don't think
00:11:08.240this is a problem that can be solved so much as managed at this point. But why wouldn't that manage
00:11:14.160the problem? Okay? That's not doing nothing. I'm not saying that we do nothing. I certainly don't
00:11:19.460think we should do nothing. I'm not someone saying that this is no big deal. We shouldn't even have to
00:11:23.900worry about it. It's nothing but the flu, yada, yada. That's not my position. I think it is serious.
00:11:29.920But crashing the economy and destroying millions of lives just cannot be a solution.
00:11:36.980It's a form of collective suicide. It's killing the patient to stop the disease. You can't do that.
00:11:44.680It can't be a solution. So what's another solution? What about this? This is not choosing
00:11:50.000the economy or people. The economy is people. So if you hear that the economy is destroyed,
00:11:56.600that means millions of people's lives are destroyed. That's what it means on the ground.
00:12:02.300The economy is not some kind of separate entity that hovers above us, detached, uninvolved,
00:12:07.800just up there. You say, hey, look at the economy. Hi, economy. The economy is not doing so well today.
00:12:12.480Well, that's all right. We all comprise the economy. We're part of the economy.
00:12:20.000So when I say I don't want the economy to crash, I mean that I don't want people's lives to crash.
00:12:27.960Now, I've already said I would love it if in the long term, and by that I mean generations,
00:12:33.640like probably many generations, but in the long term, I think we should work towards a society
00:12:39.620and an economy that could actually withstand something like this, where people could
00:12:44.800go a few weeks or several weeks or even a few months without buying a lot of stuff and we could
00:12:50.240survive it. I think that that's, we should be working towards an economy like that over the long
00:12:56.660term, an economy that is not so consumer based, an economy where people are more self-sufficient,
00:13:02.440where there's a, where it's more focused on the home life and supporting the nuclear family than it is
00:13:07.940on supporting retail shops and everything else. But that's, that's the long term. That's we,
00:13:13.260you can't do that overnight, which is what we're trying to do now. You do it overnight
00:13:18.140and you're going to have massive, massive suffering and death. But what we're hearing from the media,
00:13:24.800especially left-wing media, is that anybody who expresses these concerns hates people, hates the
00:13:32.140elderly, is cruel, is heartless. This is the rhetoric all over MSNBC, all over CNN. But let me give you
00:13:40.420a, just a little taste of, of, of things that some people in the media and, and other blue checks
00:13:46.600on Twitter, journalists and so on, have been saying to me, as I've been making these arguments on social
00:13:52.740media, these are the kinds of responses I've been getting from, from these people. Just, just a few
00:13:58.940examples. Says, uh, Matt can work from home, but all you expendable peasants get back to the front
00:14:04.860line so the stock market doesn't crash anymore. F me, our society is terrible. Uh, another one,
00:14:11.340another capitalist, well, I can't even read that. Uh, the, the, the implication is I'm a, I'm a capitalist
00:14:17.260and, uh, I have a, a fetish for mass murder. That's what it's, it's said. This is, this is mass murder
00:14:22.540that I'm advocating. Another one, we're going to hear this slimeball take a lot soon, but there's
00:14:28.920too much money at stake to not let people get infected and die. Someone else. So throw the
00:14:34.420bodies of service and industrial workers at the virus while people like Matt Walsh continue to
00:14:38.500work from home because they can. Sorry, expendable young people, but capitalism would like to carry
00:14:44.560on. So shut the F up and go back to work. Um, I care about people not dying. You're a fool.
00:14:53.400So on and so on. You get the idea. If you, if you say that we don't want to, we have to take steps to
00:15:01.140make sure there's not a depression. Uh, you don't, you, you don't care about people dying. You in fact
00:15:05.640are in favor of mass murder. Uh, you're throwing young people and the elderly off a cliff, essentially
00:15:12.840sacrificing them for your own bottom line, your 401k, your portfolio, your stock options and everything
00:15:19.100else. Um, now I, I, I am saying not just me, lots of people are saying if the economy crashes,
00:15:27.980if we become the first country ever in history that chooses to crash its own economy, the result
00:15:32.920will be catastrophic for people, for working families, for parents who won't be able to feed
00:15:39.080and clothe their children, not just for the stock market, not for portfolios, for people, actual people,
00:15:45.460not just 401ks. Although by the way, uh, you know, 401ks are pretty important.
00:15:54.540If all of our 401ks plummet, that's, that's, that's going to cause a lot of suffering to people,
00:15:59.820not rich people, people who are relying on that. So that's, that's not a small thing.
00:16:05.260This is what I'm talking about. People are dismissive. Ah, just, just a 401k. What are you
00:16:09.700talking about? That's somebody's savings. They're relying on that to live on.
00:16:15.460These are people. And, and whether you agree or not with the plan to end the shutdowns,
00:16:21.960I don't believe that any rational person, any sane person could actually interpret this argument as an
00:16:28.680argument for letting people die just for the sake of money. I don't believe that any person who claims
00:16:33.840to hear it that way really does because you would have to be a lunatic to interpret it that way.
00:16:41.240I think they're pretending. I think these people in media that are saying, oh, it's money over
00:16:48.300people. I think they're pretending to see it that way. Why? Well, keep in mind, every person,
00:16:54.260every, everyone who left one of those comments I just read, all of them and the pundits on,
00:16:59.380on cable news, uh, they were, they're fine. They still have jobs. Either they work from home or they
00:17:07.540can still go to their, uh, TV studio and do their job. They have an income stream. It's not shut off.
00:17:14.000Like mine is not shut off. They're doing okay. Like me will be okay. Media is a booming business right
00:17:20.400now. Now, sure. Eventually, if there's a great depression, it will probably destroy my life too.
00:17:26.680So it's not like I have no skin in this game. Uh, you know, media depends on advertiser,
00:17:33.360advertisers. And if you can't afford to advertise, if a bunch of companies all go down, can't advertise
00:17:37.500anymore, then, uh, then that, then we're finished also. Now we have subscribers also, but if subscribers
00:17:44.200have to choose between paying their subscriptions and paying for the rent, we know which one they're
00:17:49.620going to choose and should choose. So I'm not immune. If this whole ship goes down, I'm in the water
00:17:54.880with everybody else or nearly everybody else, but for now I'm okay. And so are all these people
00:18:02.320pretending to care so much about people and yet completely ignoring the people, the millions of
00:18:08.220people whose lives are being ruined right now. As we speak, not just ruined people will die. If the
00:18:16.100economy collapses, people won't be able to afford to live and there will be suicide. A lot of it
00:18:25.260studies show not surprisingly that suicide rates increase, uh, along with, uh, recessions as, as the
00:18:33.880economy recedes, suicide rates increase. What will happen during a, a historic crash? Unlike anything
00:18:41.460we've ever seen before, 40,000 people, according to an article I was just reading in the Atlantic,
00:18:46.54040,000 people killed themselves in America in the years, 1937 and 1938, a few years after the
00:18:51.780depression. Uh, and you would expect actually to see the suicide rate, maybe lagging behind a little
00:18:57.240bit because people are hanging on for a while and then their whole lives go to hell. And that's when
00:19:02.840you really see the suicide rate kick up. So the rate per a hundred thousand citizens back in 1937 and
00:19:07.9601938, how that works out on that basis is the highest ever recorded suicide, homelessness, civil
00:19:15.520unrest, looting. That's what we're looking at. And all of that equates to human beings suffering and
00:19:26.120dying. The point here is so obvious. I don't mean that it's obvious that you should agree with me,
00:19:33.920but just that the economic collapse obviously means suffering and death. And therefore people who
00:19:41.100are saying we need to do everything we can to avoid that are trying to avoid suffering and death.
00:19:46.120That is so obvious that those who are mischaracterizing this as money over people. Well,
00:19:51.860as I said, I have no choice, but to assume they have some other motive and I can't figure out what
00:19:56.980their motive would be. Either they're lunatics and they really just don't understand the really
00:20:02.560simple concepts that are being put before, before them. You know, they're, they're, they're lunatics
00:20:07.780or, or they have the IQ, they have, you know, room temperature IQs. And so they hear about another
00:20:14.400great depression and they think, ah, that's nothing. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. You could,
00:20:19.300we could shake that one off and keep going, rub some dirt on it. We'll be all right.
00:20:23.660So either it's that they're extremely, extremely stupid or crazy,
00:20:27.460or there's something else going on here.
00:20:34.100And you begin to suspect that some of these people actually want the economy to collapse.
00:20:41.900Not just because of how we'll hurt Trump. I mean, that's, that's certainly part of it.
00:20:47.680But you even read, you heard some of those comments I read about capitalism.
00:20:51.580There's a disturbing amount of that of, well, you'll see, this is what capitalism does. This
00:21:00.040is capitalism's problem. I think there are some far left radicals who are thinking, okay,
00:21:06.200let's crash the economy. Let's destroy capitalism. And then we can rebuild it, rebuild it into our
00:21:12.460socialist utopia. I think there's some of that going on too.
00:21:16.500Let's, let's move on to headlines. Five headlines. Number one, Nancy Pelosi last night introduced her
00:21:29.560own stimulus package and people on the right are very upset because she put a lot of left-wing
00:21:34.580pork into the bill, tried to use this crisis as a, as an opportunity to ram her ideological agenda
00:21:41.580through. And people are upset. Yeah, it's bad. Honestly, though, it's so utterly expected and
00:21:48.660predictable that I can't even muster the energy to be upset about it. I, I assume that's what
00:21:53.340they're going to do. It's like getting upset at a fly for buzzing around your garbage. It's what a
00:21:58.660fly does. How can you even, yeah, it's annoying, but to get angry, it's, it's hard to even get angry
00:22:04.020about it. Here's the part that for me is, is most upsetting. Forget about the pork, her actual ideas for
00:22:10.380stimulus itself. That's the bad part. So here's what she wants to do. Quick rundown. $1,500 checks
00:22:18.620for individuals, $3,000 for joint filers, $1,500 per kid, up to three kids, max of $7,500 per family.
00:22:31.360Every taxpayer gets a check. Okay. So far, so good. That part I think is actually better than what the
00:22:35.840Republicans came up with. Here's, here's where we go off the rails. Individuals making 75k in 2020
00:22:42.500will pay some or all of it back. Now, wait a second, pay it back. First of all, pay it back
00:22:50.180at 75,000. 75,000 is not wealthy, especially depending on where you live. Like we talked
00:22:57.080about with the Republican package. This is one of the problems with trying to do this kind of means
00:23:02.220testing thing. It really depends on where you live. $75,000 around New York is not wealthy.
00:23:08.180Okay. You're, you're, you're, you're, you're not living a luxurious life. And if you have kids and
00:23:13.260you have a family, forget about it. So first of all, you set the limit at 75,000, but even the idea
00:23:19.500that you got to pay it back. So this is not stimulus. This is not relief. This is debt.
00:23:26.280You're, you're giving debt to American families. So to American family, you're giving them $7,000
00:23:32.680of debt saying here's, here it is. We're going to need that back from you. And that becomes even
00:23:38.300more absurd when you consider this is our own money. We're getting back. That's the way we
00:23:42.860should think of this. It's the government preventing people from working. We're the ones who fund the
00:23:48.000government. And so the government is saying, or should be saying, this is the way it is. It should
00:23:52.000be framed. This is the reality. We're going to give you some of your own money back.
00:23:57.340But now what they're saying is we're going to loan you back your own money that you gave us,
00:24:02.200but you're going to have to repay your own money back to us that we gave you.
00:24:06.300So you have to repay the repayment. I find that ridiculous. Number two, well, you've heard about
00:24:17.580people panic buying toilet paper. What about panic buying Mountain Dew? I don't know if this video
00:24:23.380will spark a run on the soda aisle. We'll see. But video has surfaced of a man in Kentucky yelling at
00:24:29.020cashiers at a Kroger because they won't let him buy 500 and well, over 500 cans. I think it's 552 cans
00:24:36.240of Mountain Dew that he wants to buy. They won't let him buy it. Apparently when the video picks up,
00:24:40.500he'd already bought a whole bunch of boxes of Mountain Dew, put them in his car, had come back for
00:24:45.600another round. And that's when he was told, okay, we're cutting you off. And now before I play this
00:24:52.760clip, so we've got a guy trying to buy 552 cans of Mountain Dew. I want you to imagine in your head
00:25:00.680what you think this guy will look like. This is always a fun game. A guy who tries to buy 552 cans
00:25:07.980of Mountain Dew during a pandemic. That's what he's hoarding is Mountain Dew. Imagine that, just put his
00:25:14.000image all in your mind. Sketch, sketch, sketch the, you know, do the little kind of police sketch in
00:25:20.860your, in your mind of what this person looks like. Hold that image in your head. And here's the clip.
00:25:25.340Straight up lie. What a liar. He's supposed to lose his mind over some. You're such a liar.
00:25:31.600I was a Mountain Dew. I can't even have a time. I will. I'm telling you, you're such a liar. You just told me just now that I could go outside and come back in and get the drink. That's what you just said. But that's what you just told me.
00:25:45.200You nailed it, didn't you? You had that guy pegged, especially the hairstyle. That is the hairstyle of a Mountain Dew drinker. And I, no disrespect. Okay. This is not any, because listen,
00:26:09.640if you heard about a guy breaking down in tears at the liquor store because he wasn't allowed to buy 500 bottles of Goose Island IPA, you would expect him to look like this. This is what you would, in fact, you would expect him to be me. That's what you would expect.
00:26:23.180So we all, we all look like what we drink, I suppose. And, uh, and so that's, that's, that's what that is. Um, all I can say though, is that this, the cashier saved that man's life because that much Mountain Dew would kill a whole herd of elephants, let alone a human being.
00:26:39.640And I'm not even kidding. This one can of Mountain Dew has 46 grams of sugar and half the caffeine, uh, content of a, of a can of Red Bull. So you throw four or five of those back in a day.
00:26:53.720Think about the amount of sugar and caffeine you have just put into your body. Also, there's the problem that Mountain Dew tastes like somebody mixed club soda and goat urine with half a pound of Splenda.
00:27:06.880And that's the other problem. It's just, it's not my, not my favorite thing in the world. Number three, and the latest cancellation due to the China virus or, uh, postponement at any rate is the Olympics.
00:27:17.080Reading from Fox News says the global spread of the coronavirus has forced the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until next summer at the latest.
00:27:24.540Uh, Japan's prime minister announced, he said that he and the international Olympic committee, president Thomas Bach came to an agreement to postpone the games.
00:27:32.840The latest, the event can take place is the summer of 2021. Um, number four, people on social media are beginning to panic over another virus in China, the Hanta virus.
00:27:45.160There was reports of a man dying on a bus. Now I mentioned this here and it was what I saw on social media. It was the number one trending thing, Hanta virus.
00:27:55.000So I mentioned here only to tell you that if you did hear about it, there's no reason to freak out or worry. It is not spread from person to person says the CDC. It is not a pandemic kind of disease in that way.
00:28:05.360So here's how you get it. You get it from interacting with the, the feces or urine of rats interacting with.
00:28:15.120So don't do that. And that's a good, even without the Hanta virus, good general principle.
00:28:21.800If you see the feces or urine of a rat, don't interact with it. I really wouldn't do anything with respect to it.
00:28:29.460I don't interact. Don't have a conversation. Just, just keep on moving and you have to ask how, how did this guy get it?
00:28:38.400Well, in fairness, you could get it from inhaling. So if you had a rat feces, if you had a feet, rat feces all over your floor, you were sweeping it up.
00:28:45.560You could inhale it, get it that way, but they do also eat mice and rats over in that part of the world.
00:28:50.500So who knows? And that's why China is sort of becoming a bit of a pandemic factory.
00:28:58.080Number five, finally, this perhaps is less of a global news story and more, more of a, perhaps more sort of a, of a regional news story.
00:29:06.180But I do have to report because I know you want to hear that the score is now two to zero against my wife in our quarantine board game duel.
00:29:15.480A report suggests that we played Scrabble two nights ago, a game in which I surged back in a heroic come from behind victory.
00:29:23.520Thanks in part to playing the word jeet on a triple word score.
00:29:28.160The word jeet is a legitimate Scrabble word, G-I-T-E.
00:29:32.960And as you know, it is a small furnished home in France. That's what everybody knows. That's what that means.
00:29:38.060And I put that on a triple word. That's kind of how I sealed the deal at the end of the day.
00:29:41.460I had to really dig deep into the Scrabble dictionary like that. And I did win the game.
00:29:46.600And then last night we played Stratego, a game which I dominated from the very first, from the whistle, assassinating my wife's general, killing her spy, decimating all of her high ranking officers before dramatically capturing her flag in a show of strategic brilliance that I think will be studied by military schools for centuries to come.
00:30:06.900Now, I know a lot of people are playing board games during quarantine and just be glad that you are not quarantined with me because I am widely regarded as the greatest board game champion, certainly in the country.
00:30:20.680And when I say widely regarded that way, I mean that I regard myself that way. And I tell people this all the time.
00:30:26.220And when they hear me say that, the first thing they probably think is, what a sad life this pitiful man must lead.
00:30:35.600And that's probably true. But in any case, that's the headline. The news you were waiting to hear.
00:30:40.520Now let's go on to our daily cancellation. Today we're canceling all of the media outlets that tried to blame President Trump for the fact that a couple in Arizona decided to drink parasite treatment for fish in order to prevent the coronavirus.
00:30:52.120Now, the man unfortunately died. The woman, last I heard, is in critical care in the hospital. So it's very sad.
00:30:58.440But they drank parasitic treatment for fish. And that's what happens.
00:31:04.460Now, and this is very sad. As I said, it's not really newsworthy.
00:31:09.020And it certainly has nothing to do with Trump.
00:31:11.620But the media reported this story breathlessly last night because they thought they could pin it on Trump.
00:31:16.000And here's the NBC report on it. And I'll show you this. You'll understand how they're trying to connect it to Trump.
00:31:22.060I want you to also pay attention. How long does it take the reporter to mention that they didn't take the medicinal form of this drug they were looking for,
00:31:33.560but they took it in the form of something that you would buy at PetSmart?
00:31:37.420How long does it take him to actually mention that? Here's the clip.
00:31:39.980One other development this morning. An Arizona man has died after he took chloroquine phosphate
00:31:45.980because he believed that it would protect him from the coronavirus.
00:31:49.520You may recall the president has been talking about chloroquine in a tablet form, which is a malaria drug,
00:31:55.560which he believes could, in fact, help people who are struggling with the coronavirus.
00:32:00.800We talked to this man's wife, who is now also in the ICU, about how and why he took this particular chloroquine phosphate.
00:32:08.260Did you see the president's press conference? Where did you hear about?
00:32:13.800Yeah. Yeah. We saw his press conference. It was on a lot, actually.
00:32:21.140And then what? And then what? Did you seek out chloroquine?
00:32:27.080I had it in my house because I used to have koi fish.
00:32:30.440So this particular form of it that he took was used to kill parasites and fish, apparently.
00:32:37.920As you know, the FDA is looking at whether chloroquine could be used.
00:32:42.200It's a malaria drug, could be used to help people with coronavirus, but not in a raw form,
00:32:46.920certainly not in the form that you would use to kill fish parasites.
00:32:50.080Okay. Trump mentioned chloroquine. They were looking for that and they took some.
00:32:58.540And then when we're well into the news report, we're about a minute in.
00:33:02.900That's when the reporter says, oh, yeah, by the way, it was a fish treatment.
00:33:06.820It was parasite treatment fish. That's that's what they took.
00:34:33.520We're going to take these people, use them as pawns, use their suffering as pawns, put them out in front of the world to be laughed at and mocked.
00:34:41.080All for the sake of landing a blow on Trump.
00:35:29.320I can only throw myself at the feet of the beardsman council and beg for your indulgence, which is a thing, by the way, as we all know, for your indulgence and forgiveness.
00:35:37.480All I can say is it was a moment of quarantine-induced mania, or QIM, as it's called now in the psychiatric community.