The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 475 - Criticize The Lockdown, Get Censored

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, two ER doctors committed the sin of criticizing the lockdowns

00:00:05.160 and pointing out that they're counterproductive and, in fact, do not help with public health,

00:00:09.660 but actually make the situation worse. Their video that went viral explaining all this was

00:00:14.340 removed from YouTube because of it. And so we'll talk about the effort to censor anyone who doesn't

00:00:19.480 tow the party line on the coronavirus. This is not the only example of that. Also, five headlines,

00:00:24.020 including newly released footage of alien spacecraft. Could be maybe something else,

00:00:29.500 but we're going to go with alien spacecraft. And The Washington Post is twisting itself into knots

00:00:34.600 to avoid just honestly and directly reporting on the Biden sex assault allegations. The story is

00:00:40.940 getting big enough in spite of the mainstream media that they have to at least acknowledge it.

00:00:44.620 But the way they're going about doing that is outrageous, also hilarious. And in our daily

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00:02:34.840 to something. Emergency room doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Masahi in California, they did a press

00:02:42.100 briefing a few days ago discussing COVID-19 and making the case that the lockdowns are unnecessary,

00:02:48.140 counterproductive, actually worse for public health. So it's not just about, and this is a point that's

00:02:54.740 probably not emphasized enough. You know, most of us who have criticized the lockdowns, we've been

00:03:00.700 focusing on the economic damage, and for good reason. But I think sometimes we're sort of

00:03:06.620 implicitly seeding the case on the health aspect of it. And it's like we're saying that, yeah, well,

00:03:14.580 the lockdowns are, they may keep you healthier, but then you've got to compare that to the economic

00:03:20.240 devastation. Well, but they're actually, that's not a point that we should surrender. It is by no

00:03:28.380 means obvious that this was the best thing to do for public health. And that's part of the point

00:03:33.780 that these doctors are making. The video of that briefing went viral on YouTube. And then they were

00:03:41.120 on Fox News last night. They were on with Laura Ingraham last night. And almost immediately after

00:03:45.600 that, we discovered that YouTube has removed the video, took it down for violating guidelines.

00:03:52.580 Now, first, let me read a little bit about this video since I can't play it. Reading from

00:03:56.040 the dailywire.com says, during a press conference on Wednesday, California emergency room doctors,

00:04:01.100 Dan Erickson and Artin Masahee of Accelerated Urgent Care told reporters that nationwide lockdown

00:04:07.000 policies are not an appropriate reaction to what current data shows about the China-originated novel

00:04:12.640 coronavirus, but are instead causing measurable public health issues like spikes in domestic violence,

00:04:18.440 sexual abuse, depression, spreading fear to non-COVID-19 related would-be patients that are

00:04:23.440 skipping out on vital health care. Dr. Erickson said, quote, we understand microbiology,

00:04:30.360 we understand immunology, and we want strong immune systems. I don't want to stay in my home

00:04:35.120 and develop a weak immune system and then come out and get a disease. Erickson noted that quarantining

00:04:40.360 the healthy is like nothing he's seen before. We decided to keep people at home and isolate them,

00:04:45.320 even though everything we've studied about quarantine, typically you quarantine the sick.

00:04:48.680 When someone has measles, you quarantine them. We've never seen the healthy where you take those

00:04:53.880 without disease and without symptoms and lock them in your home. Some of these things come from

00:04:58.680 what we've studied from immunology and microbiology, aren't really meshing with what we know as people

00:05:03.880 of scientific minds who read this stuff. He goes on and says, when I talk to ER physicians around the

00:05:11.380 country, what's happening? Well, because COVID has become the focus, people with heart disease,

00:05:16.560 people with cancer, hypertension, various things that are critical are choosing not to come in based

00:05:21.260 on fear. So what that's doing is forcing the health care system to focus on COVID and not focus on a

00:05:26.660 myriad of other things that are critical because we don't have the staff there and the major complaint

00:05:32.620 is fear. And there's a lot, okay, there's a lot more to it. But if you go to YouTube to find this video

00:05:39.280 now, this is what you're going to see instead. The video violates community guidelines. And

00:05:46.600 YouTube is not the only website doing this kind of censoring. Facebook has been deleting Facebook

00:05:54.260 event pages for lockdown protests. If you try to organize a protest on Facebook, they might delete

00:06:00.580 it. And a spokesman for Facebook said, when he was asked about this, said, quote, events that defy

00:06:09.080 government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on Facebook. So protests that defy the

00:06:16.960 government aren't allowed. Now, call me crazy, but I'd say that defying the government is sort of the

00:06:25.780 point of a protest, isn't it? It's sort of the whole idea.

00:06:32.860 As I've been saying for a while, we have to be prepared for this kind of thing. There's going to

00:06:35.880 be a lot more of it. As more and more data comes out, especially these antibody tests showing that

00:06:45.060 this disease is far wider spread than what we were told, which means that it's far less deadly than we

00:06:52.280 were told. And it also means that, you know, the cat was out of the bag a long time ago, and this

00:06:57.800 thing had already spread through many communities. And then we locked down after the fact, which makes

00:07:04.020 it, and that's the point that Dr. Erickson was making, that makes it worse than unnecessary. I

00:07:11.120 mean, unnecessary in and of itself is catastrophic, considering you're doing something unnecessary and

00:07:16.060 the price is destroying the economy and millions of lives along with it. But it's worse than that,

00:07:21.020 it's counterproductive. So as this, as this all becomes clear, that's going to mean that the

00:07:30.520 government officials responsible for this, it will be revealed, it will be made clear that those

00:07:39.320 officials responsible for the lockdown are therefore responsible for, as I've been saying, and I think

00:07:45.020 this is not hyperbole, possibly the worst governmental blunder in American history. I can't think of

00:07:53.760 anything else quite like this. A policy like this that just embraces a Great Depression, destroying

00:08:00.520 your own economy on purpose in such a direct way. Now, there have been huge mistakes made in the past

00:08:06.940 that had devastating effects. Of course, the government's done that many times. But there's never

00:08:13.020 been anything quite like this. To go from, what was it, 3% unemployment or something along those lines

00:08:20.140 before the lockdowns, and in the span of a month or a month and a half, we're at, you know, 16, 17, 18%.

00:08:25.540 When the unemployment numbers come out on Thursday, it's going to be over 30 million unemployed.

00:08:35.080 So the government putting 30 million people out of a job in like a month. I can't think of any other

00:08:40.560 time when something like that's happened. And it hasn't happened, as Dr. Erickson pointed out.

00:08:46.400 It didn't happen back when we had other, this is not the first disease we've ever dealt with. It is

00:08:53.460 not the first pandemic we've ever dealt with. It is the first time, though, that we decided to lock

00:09:00.180 tens of millions, hundreds of millions of healthy people in their homes for weeks at a time.

00:09:06.600 quarantine. And that's why using the word quarantine, that's not the right word. It's

00:09:13.180 not a quarantine. It's a house arrest. Quarantine is what you do. In fact, isolation is for a sick

00:09:18.220 person. Quarantine is for someone who you know has been exposed to a disease. It is not something

00:09:23.240 that you impose on entire populations of people. If you do that, it's not a quarantine. It's house

00:09:29.520 arrest. So what are these government officials going to do? Are they going to have moral courage

00:09:38.020 to come out and admit, hey, we really botched this one? We got it wrong? Our bad? Sorry about that? No.

00:09:46.660 I mean, they're going to go down swinging. The entire time, they're going to claim that this was

00:09:52.540 the right thing. And they're probably going to get even more aggressive in censoring and shutting down

00:09:57.940 people who point out the opposite. One thing we have to understand here about the lockdowns.

00:10:04.240 You know, there's a lot of conspiracy theories and everything. So it's not a conspiracy.

00:10:09.200 What this was, but it also wasn't about saving lives, I don't think.

00:10:17.160 But it also wasn't, you know, it's clear to me that these government officials,

00:10:22.440 their primary concern was not saving lives. I also don't think that they were all conspiring and

00:10:29.040 getting together and saying, let's destroy the economy to stop Trump from being reelected.

00:10:34.460 That theory doesn't work either. And I'll tell you one of the reasons that theory doesn't work

00:10:37.500 is because Trump has been on board with this himself. So unless he was trying to destroy the

00:10:42.480 economy to ruin his own election chances, to sabotage himself, then I don't see that. No.

00:10:47.260 It was something more simple than that. This is just one elaborate, wide-ranging CYA operation.

00:10:58.420 You know, CYA, cover your ass. And that's what these, all these governors and politicians and

00:11:04.840 people in the federal government, healthcare experts and so on, they just were covering their

00:11:10.440 own asses. They were trying to do what was safest for them. Not for you, but for them. They were

00:11:18.840 thinking it was a political, this was a political calculation made by a bunch of self-interested

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00:13:18.760 the biggest story of the century. The United States government has announced officially

00:13:23.420 that aliens do exist, and they have visited us. Maybe not exactly. I'm paraphrasing.

00:13:31.320 They didn't announce that officially, but they did release some footage of UFOs.

00:13:35.700 These are previously top secret videos taken by Navy pilots. And I don't know,

00:13:41.260 you judge for yourself. Look at this.

00:13:42.500 They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots far west. Don't look at that thing,

00:13:59.440 dude. That's not our LNS though, is it? It's not. It is LNS, dude. Well, if there's like

00:14:05.540 this thing, it's rotated. Oh my gosh, dude. Wow. There it is. Confirmation.

00:14:35.520 Okay. There is literally nothing else that could be except aliens. No other explanation is possible.

00:14:42.500 At least no other explanation is as interesting and exciting as aliens. And so I just go,

00:14:48.560 yeah, that's the thing. If you're a rational person, you always choose. And if you're someone

00:14:53.100 who believes in philosophical rigor, you're always going to go with the more fascinating and

00:14:57.900 interesting explanation. All right. No, of course, actually, I've, as I've said many times,

00:15:05.420 I think unfortunately aliens do exist, but they're never going to be here. I was talking to somebody

00:15:09.180 recently and they were saying, they were saying, Hey, you know, the universe is so big. There could

00:15:15.440 be a hundred billion other intelligent civilizations out there. Yeah, there could be, but you know what?

00:15:21.620 If there was a hundred billion intelligent civilizations, guess what? That's one per galaxy.

00:15:26.400 Do you know how long it would take to get from one galaxy to another? Even if you're going at the

00:15:29.560 speed of light, you're talking millions of years. So it's just, they're never going to be here,

00:15:33.800 although they're out there. You can go out at night and wave to them. Maybe they can see you

00:15:38.780 with their really fancy telescopes, but I don't think they're ever going to come here, unfortunately.

00:15:43.120 So those are probably just drones. Hate to say. Speaking of alien creatures, here's a Joe Biden

00:15:48.640 on CBS yesterday. I would get much more engaged in the world. We can't step back. If in fact,

00:15:55.280 for example, we solve the problem in the United States of America and you don't solve it other parts

00:16:00.060 of the world, you know, it's going to happen. We're going to have, you're going to have travel

00:16:03.300 bans. You're going to not be able to do have economic intercourse around the world. There's

00:16:07.840 a lot. Look, when America goes alone, when America is first, it's America alone.

00:16:13.480 Economic intercourse, he calls it. Economic intercourse. The thing that Joe Biden does,

00:16:21.040 and you can tell when he's speaking and giving an answer at an interview or at a debate,

00:16:26.160 you can tell he's putting a lot of effort. He's trying really hard to come across like he knows

00:16:33.760 what he's talking about and he's lucid. He's making a scene. He does this with his hands and

00:16:39.060 that's how you know that he's really trying to zone in and focus, but it all comes apart.

00:16:43.880 I mean, he can't speak for more than 15 seconds without devolving into incoherence.

00:16:51.500 And, you know, I play that because it's kind of funny, but I'm getting at the point where I can

00:16:56.740 hardly even laugh at it anymore because it really is just sad and pitiful. And you have to think the

00:17:04.360 people closest to him, the people in his life, his wife, his family, his closest advisors,

00:17:12.220 what are they doing dragging this guy out on stage? I mean, they need to sit him down and say,

00:17:18.920 and we got to pull the plug on this. They have to step up because the person they're supposed to

00:17:25.740 care about is falling apart in front of the entire world. And, you know, many people, if you live long

00:17:34.740 enough, you're going to start to lose your mental faculties. Everybody does. And lots of people,

00:17:39.760 when they get to Joe Biden's age, get dementia. You know, it's a really common thing. In fact,

00:17:44.380 once you get, this is my whole reason why I've said we shouldn't be, there needs to be an upper

00:17:50.180 age limit on the presidency. It's crazy to me that there isn't. If there's a lower age limit,

00:17:54.720 there ought to be an upper age limit. I say 75, you know, 35 is the lower limit, 75 is the upper

00:17:59.480 limit. That gives you a solid 40 years. If you want to become president, you got 40 years to do it.

00:18:04.380 If you can't do it in 40 years, then I would say you had your shot. And why don't you just go and sit

00:18:09.100 on the rocking chair on your porch and talk to your grandkids? So, because once you get to 80,

00:18:16.320 your chance at 80, you know, your chance of developing dementia, I think is like something

00:18:21.100 like 20%. It's significant. And of course, as you get older, it becomes even more significant.

00:18:26.780 So this is something that many people have gone through. It's very sad. It's just that most people

00:18:32.220 don't go through it in front of the entire world on national television.

00:18:40.860 Let's see. Number three, here's an incredible headline from the Washington Post. Take a look.

00:18:48.100 It says, developments in allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior.

00:18:55.280 At first blush, that just seems like a bunch of words were thrown in a blender and then poured out

00:19:01.060 onto the page. It doesn't even seem to make sense. But you look again, developments in

00:19:05.800 allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior. Now, I remind you, this is

00:19:14.240 a headline in the Washington Post. This is not something from a press release written by Biden's

00:19:21.880 lawyers. You would think that Biden's lawyers wrote this headline. And maybe, in fact, they did.

00:19:26.600 And then they changed the headline on the actual article and made it even worse. So here's the

00:19:33.600 new headline on the article itself. It says, Trump allies highlight new claims regarding allegations

00:19:39.440 against Biden. I'll tell you what makes that even worse is that it's Trump allies. So everybody

00:19:47.200 who is pointing out that Joe Biden was accused of rape, credibly, is a Trump ally now.

00:19:56.600 Even though Tara Reid herself is a Democrat, she is not a Trump ally. And she's the one making the

00:20:01.560 accusation, which is yet another thing. In fact, I was listing all the differences between Tara

00:20:07.000 Reid and Christine Ford yesterday and talking about how much more credible these allegations are.

00:20:12.000 Whether you think these allegations are credible or not, they're certainly much more credible

00:20:15.080 than Christine Ford's allegation. One factor I forgot to point out is that on top of the fact that

00:20:20.420 Tara Reid actually has some circumstantial evidence she can produce, whereas Christine Ford had none,

00:20:25.420 also the politics of it. Christine Ford was an open left-wing liberal, you know, very much against

00:20:33.260 Kavanaugh's politics or what are perceived to be his politics. So you could see how there'd be an

00:20:40.260 extra incentive there to embellish or exaggerate or lie, fabricate. But with Tara Reid, she's a Democrat. 0.97

00:20:46.860 So there's not any immediately obvious political motivation here. And in any case, so that's the

00:20:55.580 way that Washington Post is framing it. There's just, obviously, I don't think I have to explain

00:21:01.740 what's wrong with this and how much different this headline would be if Biden was a Republican.

00:21:08.420 But just to focus on one aspect of this, efforts to question his behavior.

00:21:17.060 What a very odd way of talking about a rape allegation.

00:21:24.000 So if you allege that someone committed rape, you're questioning their behavior.

00:21:27.940 Yeah, that's true. That's quite a soft pedal, though.

00:21:38.280 You know, I guess my point is, I'm not sure that I would call rape or allege rape. I'm not sure I

00:21:43.780 would call it questionable behavior. I think it's something quite a bit more serious than that.

00:21:51.320 Let's stay on the theme of the Washington Post being horrible. Here's another of their headlines.

00:21:55.060 The headline is, a Virginia preacher believed God can heal anything. Then he caught coronavirus.

00:22:05.020 Yeah, and you're seeing headlines like this all over the media, where you've got,

00:22:08.480 you know, so-and-so believed in God, and then they got coronavirus. Or so-and-so protested the

00:22:17.380 lockdowns and then got coronavirus. So what? First of all, to be spiking the football like this

00:22:24.660 is obviously grotesque and evil. But it's also got nothing to do with anything. Yeah, the Virginia

00:22:31.780 preacher believed that God can heal anything. Then he caught coronavirus. I'm pretty sure if you

00:22:35.460 talk to the Virginia preacher, he still thinks that God can heal anything. This is one of the

00:22:41.200 problems the media has when they try to slander and defame Christians. They don't understand

00:22:45.000 Christianity, so they're not very good at doing it.

00:22:46.940 Christians who believe, as any Christian does, that God can heal anything, that's not the same 1.00

00:22:53.280 thing as thinking that God will heal everything, or that we're all going to be immortal. We don't

00:23:00.360 think that. So this is not, if you think that God can heal anything and then you get sick, it's not a

00:23:06.180 reason for a crisis of faith. Number five, let me read a little bit from a Daily Wire report, and then

00:23:12.700 we'll play the video for you. But just this gives it context. It says, on Sunday, a 93-year-old couple

00:23:17.960 sitting on folding chairs they had brought to a beach in Oxnard, California, got a rude awakening to

00:23:25.340 the draconian policies implemented by the state when a policeman approached them and asked them to get off

00:23:29.700 the chairs and sit on the ground. These are 93-year-old people. Sit on the ground if they wanted to remain

00:23:36.720 where they were, despite the fact that they were far from any other people. The reasoning of the

00:23:40.000 policeman was that the folding chairs indicated the couple were creating a permanent place as opposed

00:23:45.380 to the temporary nature of sitting on the sand itself. So they were told, and I'll play the video

00:23:52.640 for you now, but this is the police officer telling these elderly, this elderly couple, they have to get off

00:23:58.820 their chairs and sit on the ground. So watch this.

00:24:01.420 That's why they're allowed chairs. That's why they're allowed chairs. I know. They're old

00:24:09.220 people. So basically, they were supposed to be just an officer swimming or resting from their

00:24:21.580 walk or swimming, but they don't want chairs. They don't want tents. But they're old people, 1.00

00:24:27.080 officer. They're old people. 1.00

00:24:37.880 Yes, because it's much healthier and safer for 93-year-olds to not be sitting on a chair, but be

00:24:47.220 sitting on the ground. I mean, the whole thing is, first of all, how are folding chairs, I mean, you don't even

00:24:52.140 know where to begin with this kind of stuff. How are folding chairs a sign of permanence? A folding

00:24:58.800 chair is permanence? I think a folding chair is a pretty good sign that it's not permanent.

00:25:03.140 You pick up the folding chair, you sit down in it, you get up and you move.

00:25:07.640 But why does it matter how long they're on the beach?

00:25:11.140 It's a very safe place for them to be, in fact. They're in the sun. They're in the open air.

00:25:19.500 Who cares if they're on the beach for 15 hours? That's fine. I mean, it might not be good for the

00:25:24.320 heat and everything and the sun exposure, but in terms of the virus, it's a very safe place to be.

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00:27:01.200 than it hurts her, but I have to, I have to keep doing it. So my wife is, I think I mentioned on the,

00:27:06.900 on this show, she recently developed an ambition to become a chicken farmer. And so she bought a bunch

00:27:14.820 of chickens a few weeks ago. And then she went out to the store yesterday and came back with

00:27:23.420 more chickens. So she just keeps buying chickens. It's the weirdest compulsion I've ever seen in a, 0.95

00:27:28.700 in a person. Every time she comes home now, I have to check her purse to see if she's smuggling more

00:27:33.100 chickens in because you never know. Uh, but yesterday crossed the line because she came in with these new

00:27:38.780 chickens and she brought them up to my office right here in this, in this sacred space, right after I'd

00:27:42.860 finished doing the show actually. And she put one of them on my desk that she had just bought.

00:27:47.440 And I want you to take a look at this. Here's the picture. Um, candid shot there. Okay. So you

00:27:53.420 notice a few things happening here in this picture with that chicken. First of all, that is the ugliest

00:27:58.720 damn chicken you will ever see in your life. It's, it, it looks like it's been all up all night smoking

00:28:03.520 crack. It is a crack addicted chicken. It looks like some sort of sea urchin mated with a camel.

00:28:10.640 And then their baby mated with a chicken. And this is the chicken that came out. Then you also

00:28:16.640 notice my expression. And, uh, and it looks in this picture, it looks kind of like I just had a

00:28:21.660 fight with the chicken and now the chicken isn't talking to me. It's giving me the cold shoulder

00:28:25.880 and I'm just sitting there feeling very guilty. Or maybe someone said, it looks like the chicken

00:28:30.320 just gave me back bad news and I'm processing it. Like maybe the chicken is my doctor and told me I

00:28:36.040 I have six months to live. Frankly, I would get a second opinion on that because you know,

00:28:40.620 he's a chicken and that would be very awkward going to the second doctor and having to say,

00:28:44.980 yeah, I need a second opinion on this diagnosis. Oh, why is that? Well, because my first doctor

00:28:48.480 was a crack smoking chicken. So, um, anyway, and then to make matters worse, uh, I'm talking to my

00:28:54.460 wife last night and she told me that I should be excited about these new ugly chickens because, 0.99

00:28:59.880 and these were her exact words, they can do a dance and bring you sticks. I'm sorry, what?

00:29:10.020 We're taking care of and feeding these chickens so they can dance and bring us sticks. Okay. Yeah.

00:29:19.640 Why don't we go out next and buy a cow that can whistle the happy birthday song or like a horse that 0.69

00:29:26.200 can moonwalk. I mean, let's just fill our whole yard with useless animals that can do party tricks. 1.00

00:29:32.000 What kind of farm are we running here? We're going to be laughingstocks of the chicken farming 0.98

00:29:36.140 community. Everyone else is eating omelets made from the eggs from their chicken. And we're over

00:29:40.760 here watching our chicken tap dance every morning. So, um, because of all these chickens that are

00:29:47.960 getting progressively uglier and more useless, my wife is canceled. Again, I hate to do it, but three times.

00:29:56.200 Maybe she'll, maybe she'll catch the hint. Um, let's go to emails. And if you become a daily wire

00:30:04.280 member, you can of course, uh, always email the show using the mailbag. So, uh, this is from Matt

00:30:10.080 says Matt fellow Matt here who also wears glasses. Did you ever figure out how to use a face mask and

00:30:16.200 not have your glasses completely fog up? If you get those ones that you have the material, you can pinch

00:30:20.760 at the nose, you can kind of avoid the fogging. Um, but even still it's hard to avoid. Let me know

00:30:29.400 what you found out. Yeah. I, in fact, I've gotten a lot of, I've got a lot of emails on this because I

00:30:36.460 mentioned that this, this is one of the things as a, as a member of the glasses wearing as a, as a

00:30:41.140 member of the visually impaired community, this is something that I deal with. Um, just more 1.00

00:30:46.580 persecution really and oppression added on to all the other things that I cope with on a daily basis.

00:30:52.240 So my, you know, when you wear the glass, the mask to the store or something, it causes your

00:30:57.220 glasses to fog up, which I, which made me very concerned because now I'm thinking about, I never

00:31:01.800 realized this was an issue. And now I'm thinking about all the surgeons and doctors out there who

00:31:05.500 wear glasses and have, and have to wear the face mask. And I'm thinking they can't see a damn thing

00:31:10.040 apparently during their surgeries. Uh, so I've gotten a lot of emails about this and the consensus

00:31:18.220 seems to be, uh, to use some tape on the inside of the mask. And apparently it's as simple as that.

00:31:24.760 Okay. This is from another Matt. So we've got two Matt's, uh, says, dear Matt, Georgia resident here.

00:31:32.320 I don't really have much of a question so much as to inform you, your, your listeners and watchers

00:31:36.700 about opening day. I know there's been a lot of hate thrown at governor Kemp after his announcement

00:31:42.020 that Georgia was opening certain aspects of the economy. My wife and I more out of genuine

00:31:46.260 curiosity decided to go out and see how this was working for restaurants. As much as people want

00:31:50.760 to believe that all the restaurants were just given the green lights open completely. That's just

00:31:54.540 plain misinformation. We had to go to three separate restaurants. They were still serving curbside

00:31:59.100 and delivery, but they weren't conducting dine-in service. I asked them why they weren't open for dine-in

00:32:03.580 and their answer made perfect sense to us. The employee explained that they were planning to

00:32:07.080 open the following Monday, but they're still going through procedural changes in training.

00:32:11.440 Um, my wife and I did manage to find a place that was serving dine-in to set the scene. The host,

00:32:17.980 when we walked in, uh, asked in a respectful way for us to please keep our distance from the host

00:32:22.960 station. I told him how many people were in my party. We had five and he told us that it was going

00:32:27.720 to be a 10 minute wait. Um, and, uh, okay. A lot of, a lot of detail here, a lot of tangential detail.

00:32:36.660 Um, so what are the actual, when we finally sat, our waitress was dressed in protective wear, 0.96

00:32:42.360 masks and gloves. She maintained her distance from our table while she got our orders.

00:32:46.520 The layout of the restaurant was in such a way that it made sense. There was ample room

00:32:49.920 and you could tell that it was well thought out. We were given paper menus. Um, the tables were bare,

00:32:56.000 no salt and pepper shakers, no mustard or ketchup bottles. If you needed salt or pepper, they bring

00:32:59.460 you individually wrapped salt or pepper for your table. If you want ketchup or mustard, they would

00:33:02.820 get you a glass cup and the ketchup or mustard and fill the cup at your table. Uh, I believe this is

00:33:07.680 to ensure that people see that it wasn't just sitting in a refrigerator. And, uh, okay. So I was

00:33:13.080 curious what the, what the restaurants look like now post Corona. And, uh, at least in this one case,

00:33:17.280 that's what they're doing now. You know, yeah, I'm glad they opened up in, in Georgia. Uh, and many

00:33:24.140 states now are supposedly starting the process of reopening. Uh, I was just reading about Texas and

00:33:29.780 they're going to start opening stuff up, but in Texas, and it's like this in other states too,

00:33:35.080 in Texas, in, in phase one of the reopening, uh, restaurants have to operate at 25% capacity

00:33:43.600 for dine-in. And I'm just thinking something like that, you know, yes, I suppose we could say it's

00:33:50.240 better than nothing, but is it really? Because if you don't have 25% capacity for dine-in, I think a

00:33:56.500 lot of restaurants are going to say it's not financially worth it to do that because that

00:34:00.760 means we got to bring in more staff and pay them to wait the tables. And we can only have 25% of the,

00:34:05.360 of, of our normal amount of customers. And I just, I think what we have to watch out for is there's

00:34:12.840 going to be States that supposedly are reopening. And I'm not saying this is the case with Texas, but

00:34:18.320 there are going to be States that are reopening quote unquote, but in reality are not, they're

00:34:23.120 just saying it, but, but the, the guidelines and rules put in place are so onerous that it makes

00:34:30.280 it impossible for a lot of businesses to actually open. And I think that they're going to make this

00:34:36.220 way more complicated than it needs to be. Okay. Yeah. I'm not saying we go back to life completely as

00:34:42.940 normal, but we don't need to have, you don't need to have a Bible length book of rules telling

00:34:51.240 businesses what to do. I think most of it is pretty obvious. Yeah. Okay. Wear gloves. If you're in the

00:34:56.140 food industry, maybe wear a mask that makes sense. If you, especially if you're in the food industry,

00:35:00.280 you don't want to put people right on top of each other. It doesn't need to be 25% capacity.

00:35:04.180 I think just really basic common sense precautions are what's necessary. People for the most part are

00:35:16.140 reasonable. You know, I've, I've been out plenty during this whole thing. Not that I can go that

00:35:22.520 many places, but at least to the store over the weekend, we went, uh, as a family, we went for a

00:35:27.860 hike, you know, just at a local park and it was very busy. You know, there's tons of people there

00:35:32.320 because everyone's itching to get out of the house like we were. And, uh, some of the trails

00:35:36.380 we were walking on were pretty, pretty narrow. And, but we didn't need a set of rules to tell us

00:35:42.080 what to do. It was just, okay, you're walking on a narrow path. There's another group of people

00:35:46.540 coming the opposite direction. One of you just moves over and lets the other group pass.

00:35:51.600 That's the amazing thing. We didn't need any guidelines or rules. We didn't need the federal

00:35:55.960 government to tell us what to do. If we encounter people on the trail, we already know just, okay,

00:35:59.820 you move over, you give them some space. So we don't need to make it more complicated than it

00:36:04.720 needs to be. Okay. This is from, uh, Mark says, Matt, I'm wondering when you will admit you were

00:36:10.960 wrong about the lockdowns, almost 60,000 dead. Obviously the lockdowns were and are necessary.

00:36:15.860 It's embarrassing that you still continue to downplay it. I've lost so much respect for you.

00:36:21.560 Uh, well, Mark, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't really care if you respect me or not.

00:36:25.400 That's of no concern to me. I find it interesting that you assume 60,000

00:36:29.740 dead proves our mitigation strategy was successful. That's kind of an odd assumption,

00:36:35.360 isn't it? You're saying, look at all these people who died. Obviously what we did to stop people from

00:36:39.720 dying worked. See, this is what you've done, um, over on the pro lockdown side. You've set up a

00:36:46.180 heads, I win, tails, you lose situation where no matter what, no matter what the data shows,

00:36:50.880 no matter how many people die or don't die, it proves that the lockdowns were needed,

00:36:54.580 but I'd say the data proves the opposite. These antibody tests indicate that the virus is,

00:36:59.580 as I said at the beginning of the show, way more widely spread than we were told,

00:37:03.280 which means that by the time the lockdown started, it had already made its way through

00:37:06.900 many communities, which means that you were locking people who had the virus or had already

00:37:11.540 been exposed to it into their homes with family members, often older family members,

00:37:16.880 providers who didn't have it creating exactly the right kind of scenario for transmission of the

00:37:23.480 virus. Not the right scenario to avoid getting it, but the right scenario for transmitting it,

00:37:27.600 prolonged indoor closed quarters contact with family members. That's how this, this thing

00:37:32.960 primarily spreads. And these lockdowns created the perfect situation for that. And aside from all

00:37:39.440 that, 30 million unemployed, 150 million globally at risk of starvation, says the UN, food supply chain

00:37:46.960 catastrophically disrupted, civil liberties abolished. You look at all of this and your conclusion is

00:37:54.160 that the government did the right thing? Really? That's your conclusion? You think all of this somehow

00:37:59.620 proves me wrong? No, I don't, I don't think that's, I don't think that's the case at all. But I

00:38:10.880 appreciate the email and thanks everybody for watching. We will leave it there. God bless. Godspeed.

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00:38:55.840 As more and more people around the country get arrested for leaving their homes, as we approach

00:39:01.360 the 45th day since President Trump told us to hunker down for 15 days to slow the spread,

00:39:06.820 some people are beginning to wonder if these lockdowns are destroying our liberty.

00:39:10.920 Unfortunately, our liberty problems run a lot deeper than being locked in your house for a few

00:39:14.780 weeks, and both sides of the aisle are to blame. Then, more evidence emerges that Joe Biden got

00:39:20.240 handsy with a staffer in the 90s, as the mainstream media steadfastly and courageously

00:39:24.460 refuse to ask him about it. The government confirms the existence of UFOs, okay, and Nancy Pelosi

00:39:31.140 wants to bribe you with your own money. All that and more, check it out on The Michael Knowles Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 28, 2020

Ep. 475 - Criticize The Lockdown, Get Censored

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