Ep. 475 - Criticize The Lockdown, Get Censored
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Two emergency room doctors take aim at the coronavirus lockdown in response to criticism of it. Plus, the Washington Post tries to censor anyone who doesn t toe the party line on the Biden sex assault scandal. And a word from Books: Happy Mother s Day!
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, two ER doctors committed the sin of criticizing the lockdowns
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and pointing out that they're counterproductive and, in fact, do not help with public health,
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but actually make the situation worse. Their video that went viral explaining all this was
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removed from YouTube because of it. And so we'll talk about the effort to censor anyone who doesn't
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tow the party line on the coronavirus. This is not the only example of that. Also, five headlines,
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including newly released footage of alien spacecraft. Could be maybe something else,
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but we're going to go with alien spacecraft. And The Washington Post is twisting itself into knots
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to avoid just honestly and directly reporting on the Biden sex assault allegations. The story is
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getting big enough in spite of the mainstream media that they have to at least acknowledge it.
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But the way they're going about doing that is outrageous, also hilarious. And in our daily
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cancellation, I must once again cancel someone very close to me. I hate to do it, but it must be done.
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at books.com slash Walsh. Okay, so when they're censoring you, you know that you're probably on
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to something. Emergency room doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Masahi in California, they did a press
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briefing a few days ago discussing COVID-19 and making the case that the lockdowns are unnecessary,
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counterproductive, actually worse for public health. So it's not just about, and this is a point that's
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probably not emphasized enough. You know, most of us who have criticized the lockdowns, we've been
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focusing on the economic damage, and for good reason. But I think sometimes we're sort of
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implicitly seeding the case on the health aspect of it. And it's like we're saying that, yeah, well,
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the lockdowns are, they may keep you healthier, but then you've got to compare that to the economic
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devastation. Well, but they're actually, that's not a point that we should surrender. It is by no
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means obvious that this was the best thing to do for public health. And that's part of the point
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that these doctors are making. The video of that briefing went viral on YouTube. And then they were
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on Fox News last night. They were on with Laura Ingraham last night. And almost immediately after
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that, we discovered that YouTube has removed the video, took it down for violating guidelines.
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Now, first, let me read a little bit about this video since I can't play it. Reading from
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the dailywire.com says, during a press conference on Wednesday, California emergency room doctors,
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Dan Erickson and Artin Masahee of Accelerated Urgent Care told reporters that nationwide lockdown
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policies are not an appropriate reaction to what current data shows about the China-originated novel
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coronavirus, but are instead causing measurable public health issues like spikes in domestic violence,
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sexual abuse, depression, spreading fear to non-COVID-19 related would-be patients that are
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skipping out on vital health care. Dr. Erickson said, quote, we understand microbiology,
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we understand immunology, and we want strong immune systems. I don't want to stay in my home
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and develop a weak immune system and then come out and get a disease. Erickson noted that quarantining
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the healthy is like nothing he's seen before. We decided to keep people at home and isolate them,
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even though everything we've studied about quarantine, typically you quarantine the sick.
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When someone has measles, you quarantine them. We've never seen the healthy where you take those
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without disease and without symptoms and lock them in your home. Some of these things come from
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what we've studied from immunology and microbiology, aren't really meshing with what we know as people
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of scientific minds who read this stuff. He goes on and says, when I talk to ER physicians around the
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country, what's happening? Well, because COVID has become the focus, people with heart disease,
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people with cancer, hypertension, various things that are critical are choosing not to come in based
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on fear. So what that's doing is forcing the health care system to focus on COVID and not focus on a
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myriad of other things that are critical because we don't have the staff there and the major complaint
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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
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now, this is what you're going to see instead. The video violates community guidelines. And
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YouTube is not the only website doing this kind of censoring. Facebook has been deleting Facebook
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event pages for lockdown protests. If you try to organize a protest on Facebook, they might delete
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it. And a spokesman for Facebook said, when he was asked about this, said, quote, events that defy
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government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on Facebook. So protests that defy the
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government aren't allowed. Now, call me crazy, but I'd say that defying the government is sort of the
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point of a protest, isn't it? It's sort of the whole idea.
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As I've been saying for a while, we have to be prepared for this kind of thing. There's going to
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be a lot more of it. As more and more data comes out, especially these antibody tests showing that
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this disease is far wider spread than what we were told, which means that it's far less deadly than we
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were told. And it also means that, you know, the cat was out of the bag a long time ago, and this
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thing had already spread through many communities. And then we locked down after the fact, which makes
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it, and that's the point that Dr. Erickson was making, that makes it worse than unnecessary. I
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mean, unnecessary in and of itself is catastrophic, considering you're doing something unnecessary and
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the price is destroying the economy and millions of lives along with it. But it's worse than that,
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it's counterproductive. So as this, as this all becomes clear, that's going to mean that the
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government officials responsible for this, it will be revealed, it will be made clear that those
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officials responsible for the lockdown are therefore responsible for, as I've been saying, and I think
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this is not hyperbole, possibly the worst governmental blunder in American history. I can't think of
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anything else quite like this. A policy like this that just embraces a Great Depression, destroying
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your own economy on purpose in such a direct way. Now, there have been huge mistakes made in the past
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that had devastating effects. Of course, the government's done that many times. But there's never
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been anything quite like this. To go from, what was it, 3% unemployment or something along those lines
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before the lockdowns, and in the span of a month or a month and a half, we're at, you know, 16, 17, 18%.
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When the unemployment numbers come out on Thursday, it's going to be over 30 million unemployed.
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So the government putting 30 million people out of a job in like a month. I can't think of any other
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time when something like that's happened. And it hasn't happened, as Dr. Erickson pointed out.
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It didn't happen back when we had other, this is not the first disease we've ever dealt with. It is
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not the first pandemic we've ever dealt with. It is the first time, though, that we decided to lock
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tens of millions, hundreds of millions of healthy people in their homes for weeks at a time.
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quarantine. And that's why using the word quarantine, that's not the right word. It's
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not a quarantine. It's a house arrest. Quarantine is what you do. In fact, isolation is for a sick
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person. Quarantine is for someone who you know has been exposed to a disease. It is not something
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that you impose on entire populations of people. If you do that, it's not a quarantine. It's house
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arrest. So what are these government officials going to do? Are they going to have moral courage
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to come out and admit, hey, we really botched this one? We got it wrong? Our bad? Sorry about that? No.
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I mean, they're going to go down swinging. The entire time, they're going to claim that this was
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the right thing. And they're probably going to get even more aggressive in censoring and shutting down
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people who point out the opposite. One thing we have to understand here about the lockdowns.
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You know, there's a lot of conspiracy theories and everything. So it's not a conspiracy.
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What this was, but it also wasn't about saving lives, I don't think.
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But it also wasn't, you know, it's clear to me that these government officials,
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their primary concern was not saving lives. I also don't think that they were all conspiring and
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getting together and saying, let's destroy the economy to stop Trump from being reelected.
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That theory doesn't work either. And I'll tell you one of the reasons that theory doesn't work
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is because Trump has been on board with this himself. So unless he was trying to destroy the
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economy to ruin his own election chances, to sabotage himself, then I don't see that. No.
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It was something more simple than that. This is just one elaborate, wide-ranging CYA operation.
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You know, CYA, cover your ass. And that's what these, all these governors and politicians and
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people in the federal government, healthcare experts and so on, they just were covering their
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own asses. They were trying to do what was safest for them. Not for you, but for them. They were
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thinking it was a political, this was a political calculation made by a bunch of self-interested
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moral cowards. It's as simple as that. And this is where it leads.
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the biggest story of the century. The United States government has announced officially
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that aliens do exist, and they have visited us. Maybe not exactly. I'm paraphrasing.
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They didn't announce that officially, but they did release some footage of UFOs.
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These are previously top secret videos taken by Navy pilots. And I don't know,
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They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots far west. Don't look at that thing,
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dude. That's not our LNS though, is it? It's not. It is LNS, dude. Well, if there's like
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this thing, it's rotated. Oh my gosh, dude. Wow. There it is. Confirmation.
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Okay. There is literally nothing else that could be except aliens. No other explanation is possible.
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At least no other explanation is as interesting and exciting as aliens. And so I just go,
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yeah, that's the thing. If you're a rational person, you always choose. And if you're someone
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who believes in philosophical rigor, you're always going to go with the more fascinating and
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interesting explanation. All right. No, of course, actually, I've, as I've said many times,
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I think unfortunately aliens do exist, but they're never going to be here. I was talking to somebody
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recently and they were saying, they were saying, Hey, you know, the universe is so big. There could
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be a hundred billion other intelligent civilizations out there. Yeah, there could be, but you know what?
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If there was a hundred billion intelligent civilizations, guess what? That's one per galaxy.
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Do you know how long it would take to get from one galaxy to another? Even if you're going at the
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speed of light, you're talking millions of years. So it's just, they're never going to be here,
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although they're out there. You can go out at night and wave to them. Maybe they can see you
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with their really fancy telescopes, but I don't think they're ever going to come here, unfortunately.
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So those are probably just drones. Hate to say. Speaking of alien creatures, here's a Joe Biden
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on CBS yesterday. I would get much more engaged in the world. We can't step back. If in fact,
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for example, we solve the problem in the United States of America and you don't solve it other parts
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of the world, you know, it's going to happen. We're going to have, you're going to have travel
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bans. You're going to not be able to do have economic intercourse around the world. There's
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a lot. Look, when America goes alone, when America is first, it's America alone.
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Economic intercourse, he calls it. Economic intercourse. The thing that Joe Biden does,
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and you can tell when he's speaking and giving an answer at an interview or at a debate,
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you can tell he's putting a lot of effort. He's trying really hard to come across like he knows
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what he's talking about and he's lucid. He's making a scene. He does this with his hands and
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that's how you know that he's really trying to zone in and focus, but it all comes apart.
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I mean, he can't speak for more than 15 seconds without devolving into incoherence.
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And, you know, I play that because it's kind of funny, but I'm getting at the point where I can
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hardly even laugh at it anymore because it really is just sad and pitiful. And you have to think the
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people closest to him, the people in his life, his wife, his family, his closest advisors,
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what are they doing dragging this guy out on stage? I mean, they need to sit him down and say,
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and we got to pull the plug on this. They have to step up because the person they're supposed to
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care about is falling apart in front of the entire world. And, you know, many people, if you live long
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enough, you're going to start to lose your mental faculties. Everybody does. And lots of people,
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when they get to Joe Biden's age, get dementia. You know, it's a really common thing. In fact,
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once you get, this is my whole reason why I've said we shouldn't be, there needs to be an upper
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age limit on the presidency. It's crazy to me that there isn't. If there's a lower age limit,
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there ought to be an upper age limit. I say 75, you know, 35 is the lower limit, 75 is the upper
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limit. That gives you a solid 40 years. If you want to become president, you got 40 years to do it.
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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
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on the rocking chair on your porch and talk to your grandkids? So, because once you get to 80,
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your chance at 80, you know, your chance of developing dementia, I think is like something
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like 20%. It's significant. And of course, as you get older, it becomes even more significant.
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So this is something that many people have gone through. It's very sad. It's just that most people
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don't go through it in front of the entire world on national television.
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Let's see. Number three, here's an incredible headline from the Washington Post. Take a look.
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It says, developments in allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior.
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At first blush, that just seems like a bunch of words were thrown in a blender and then poured out
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onto the page. It doesn't even seem to make sense. But you look again, developments in
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allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior. Now, I remind you, this is
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a headline in the Washington Post. This is not something from a press release written by Biden's
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lawyers. You would think that Biden's lawyers wrote this headline. And maybe, in fact, they did.
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And then they changed the headline on the actual article and made it even worse. So here's the
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new headline on the article itself. It says, Trump allies highlight new claims regarding allegations
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against Biden. I'll tell you what makes that even worse is that it's Trump allies. So everybody
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who is pointing out that Joe Biden was accused of rape, credibly, is a Trump ally now.
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Even though Tara Reid herself is a Democrat, she is not a Trump ally. And she's the one making the
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accusation, which is yet another thing. In fact, I was listing all the differences between Tara
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Reid and Christine Ford yesterday and talking about how much more credible these allegations are.
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Whether you think these allegations are credible or not, they're certainly much more credible
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than Christine Ford's allegation. One factor I forgot to point out is that on top of the fact that
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Tara Reid actually has some circumstantial evidence she can produce, whereas Christine Ford had none,
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also the politics of it. Christine Ford was an open left-wing liberal, you know, very much against
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Kavanaugh's politics or what are perceived to be his politics. So you could see how there'd be an
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extra incentive there to embellish or exaggerate or lie, fabricate. But with Tara Reid, she's a Democrat.
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So there's not any immediately obvious political motivation here. And in any case, so that's the
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way that Washington Post is framing it. There's just, obviously, I don't think I have to explain
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what's wrong with this and how much different this headline would be if Biden was a Republican.
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But just to focus on one aspect of this, efforts to question his behavior.
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What a very odd way of talking about a rape allegation.
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So if you allege that someone committed rape, you're questioning their behavior.
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Yeah, that's true. That's quite a soft pedal, though.
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You know, I guess my point is, I'm not sure that I would call rape or allege rape. I'm not sure I
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would call it questionable behavior. I think it's something quite a bit more serious than that.
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Let's stay on the theme of the Washington Post being horrible. Here's another of their headlines.
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The headline is, a Virginia preacher believed God can heal anything. Then he caught coronavirus.
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Yeah, and you're seeing headlines like this all over the media, where you've got,
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you know, so-and-so believed in God, and then they got coronavirus. Or so-and-so protested the
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lockdowns and then got coronavirus. So what? First of all, to be spiking the football like this
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is obviously grotesque and evil. But it's also got nothing to do with anything. Yeah, the Virginia
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preacher believed that God can heal anything. Then he caught coronavirus. I'm pretty sure if you
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talk to the Virginia preacher, he still thinks that God can heal anything. This is one of the
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problems the media has when they try to slander and defame Christians. They don't understand
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Christianity, so they're not very good at doing it.
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Christians who believe, as any Christian does, that God can heal anything, that's not the same
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thing as thinking that God will heal everything, or that we're all going to be immortal. We don't
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think that. So this is not, if you think that God can heal anything and then you get sick, it's not a
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reason for a crisis of faith. Number five, let me read a little bit from a Daily Wire report, and then
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we'll play the video for you. But just this gives it context. It says, on Sunday, a 93-year-old couple
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sitting on folding chairs they had brought to a beach in Oxnard, California, got a rude awakening to
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the draconian policies implemented by the state when a policeman approached them and asked them to get off
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the chairs and sit on the ground. These are 93-year-old people. Sit on the ground if they wanted to remain
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where they were, despite the fact that they were far from any other people. The reasoning of the
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policeman was that the folding chairs indicated the couple were creating a permanent place as opposed
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to the temporary nature of sitting on the sand itself. So they were told, and I'll play the video
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for you now, but this is the police officer telling these elderly, this elderly couple, they have to get off
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their chairs and sit on the ground. So watch this.
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That's why they're allowed chairs. That's why they're allowed chairs. I know. They're old
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people. So basically, they were supposed to be just an officer swimming or resting from their
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walk or swimming, but they don't want chairs. They don't want tents. But they're old people,
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Yes, because it's much healthier and safer for 93-year-olds to not be sitting on a chair, but be
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sitting on the ground. I mean, the whole thing is, first of all, how are folding chairs, I mean, you don't even
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know where to begin with this kind of stuff. How are folding chairs a sign of permanence? A folding
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chair is permanence? I think a folding chair is a pretty good sign that it's not permanent.
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You pick up the folding chair, you sit down in it, you get up and you move.
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But why does it matter how long they're on the beach?
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It's a very safe place for them to be, in fact. They're in the sun. They're in the open air.
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Who cares if they're on the beach for 15 hours? That's fine. I mean, it might not be good for the
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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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I really hate to do this, but I have to for the third time, I think third time total and second time
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in a week, I have to cancel my wife. And she keeps getting canceled and it hurts me. It hurts me more
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than it hurts her, but I have to, I have to keep doing it. So my wife is, I think I mentioned on the,
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on this show, she recently developed an ambition to become a chicken farmer. And so she bought a bunch
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of chickens a few weeks ago. And then she went out to the store yesterday and came back with
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more chickens. So she just keeps buying chickens. It's the weirdest compulsion I've ever seen in a,
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in a person. Every time she comes home now, I have to check her purse to see if she's smuggling more
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chickens in because you never know. Uh, but yesterday crossed the line because she came in with these new
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chickens and she brought them up to my office right here in this, in this sacred space, right after I'd
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finished doing the show actually. And she put one of them on my desk that she had just bought.
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And I want you to take a look at this. Here's the picture. Um, candid shot there. Okay. So you
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notice a few things happening here in this picture with that chicken. First of all, that is the ugliest
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damn chicken you will ever see in your life. It's, it, it looks like it's been all up all night smoking
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crack. It is a crack addicted chicken. It looks like some sort of sea urchin mated with a camel.
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And then their baby mated with a chicken. And this is the chicken that came out. Then you also
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notice my expression. And, uh, and it looks in this picture, it looks kind of like I just had a
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fight with the chicken and now the chicken isn't talking to me. It's giving me the cold shoulder
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and I'm just sitting there feeling very guilty. Or maybe someone said, it looks like the chicken
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just gave me back bad news and I'm processing it. Like maybe the chicken is my doctor and told me I
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I have six months to live. Frankly, I would get a second opinion on that because you know,
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he's a chicken and that would be very awkward going to the second doctor and having to say,
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yeah, I need a second opinion on this diagnosis. Oh, why is that? Well, because my first doctor
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was a crack smoking chicken. So, um, anyway, and then to make matters worse, uh, I'm talking to my
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wife last night and she told me that I should be excited about these new ugly chickens because,
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and these were her exact words, they can do a dance and bring you sticks. I'm sorry, what?
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We're taking care of and feeding these chickens so they can dance and bring us sticks. Okay. Yeah.
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Why don't we go out next and buy a cow that can whistle the happy birthday song or like a horse that
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can moonwalk. I mean, let's just fill our whole yard with useless animals that can do party tricks.
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What kind of farm are we running here? We're going to be laughingstocks of the chicken farming
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community. Everyone else is eating omelets made from the eggs from their chicken. And we're over
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here watching our chicken tap dance every morning. So, um, because of all these chickens that are
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getting progressively uglier and more useless, my wife is canceled. Again, I hate to do it, but three times.
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Maybe she'll, maybe she'll catch the hint. Um, let's go to emails. And if you become a daily wire
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member, you can of course, uh, always email the show using the mailbag. So, uh, this is from Matt
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says Matt fellow Matt here who also wears glasses. Did you ever figure out how to use a face mask and
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not have your glasses completely fog up? If you get those ones that you have the material, you can pinch
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at the nose, you can kind of avoid the fogging. Um, but even still it's hard to avoid. Let me know
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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
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mentioned that this, this is one of the things as a, as a member of the glasses wearing as a, as a
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member of the visually impaired community, this is something that I deal with. Um, just more
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persecution really and oppression added on to all the other things that I cope with on a daily basis.
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So my, you know, when you wear the glass, the mask to the store or something, it causes your
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glasses to fog up, which I, which made me very concerned because now I'm thinking about, I never
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realized this was an issue. And now I'm thinking about all the surgeons and doctors out there who
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wear glasses and have, and have to wear the face mask. And I'm thinking they can't see a damn thing
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apparently during their surgeries. Uh, so I've gotten a lot of emails about this and the consensus
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seems to be, uh, to use some tape on the inside of the mask. And apparently it's as simple as that.
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Okay. This is from another Matt. So we've got two Matt's, uh, says, dear Matt, Georgia resident here.
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I don't really have much of a question so much as to inform you, your, your listeners and watchers
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about opening day. I know there's been a lot of hate thrown at governor Kemp after his announcement
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that Georgia was opening certain aspects of the economy. My wife and I more out of genuine
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curiosity decided to go out and see how this was working for restaurants. As much as people want
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to believe that all the restaurants were just given the green lights open completely. That's just
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plain misinformation. We had to go to three separate restaurants. They were still serving curbside
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and delivery, but they weren't conducting dine-in service. I asked them why they weren't open for dine-in
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and their answer made perfect sense to us. The employee explained that they were planning to
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open the following Monday, but they're still going through procedural changes in training.
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Um, my wife and I did manage to find a place that was serving dine-in to set the scene. The host,
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when we walked in, uh, asked in a respectful way for us to please keep our distance from the host
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station. I told him how many people were in my party. We had five and he told us that it was going
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to be a 10 minute wait. Um, and, uh, okay. A lot of, a lot of detail here, a lot of tangential detail.
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Um, so what are the actual, when we finally sat, our waitress was dressed in protective wear,
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masks and gloves. She maintained her distance from our table while she got our orders.
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The layout of the restaurant was in such a way that it made sense. There was ample room
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and you could tell that it was well thought out. We were given paper menus. Um, the tables were bare,
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no salt and pepper shakers, no mustard or ketchup bottles. If you needed salt or pepper, they bring
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you individually wrapped salt or pepper for your table. If you want ketchup or mustard, they would
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get you a glass cup and the ketchup or mustard and fill the cup at your table. Uh, I believe this is
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to ensure that people see that it wasn't just sitting in a refrigerator. And, uh, okay. So I was
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curious what the, what the restaurants look like now post Corona. And, uh, at least in this one case,
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that's what they're doing now. You know, yeah, I'm glad they opened up in, in Georgia. Uh, and many
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states now are supposedly starting the process of reopening. Uh, I was just reading about Texas and
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they're going to start opening stuff up, but in Texas, and it's like this in other states too,
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in Texas, in, in phase one of the reopening, uh, restaurants have to operate at 25% capacity
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for dine-in. And I'm just thinking something like that, you know, yes, I suppose we could say it's
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better than nothing, but is it really? Because if you don't have 25% capacity for dine-in, I think a
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lot of restaurants are going to say it's not financially worth it to do that because that
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means we got to bring in more staff and pay them to wait the tables. And we can only have 25% of the,
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of, of our normal amount of customers. And I just, I think what we have to watch out for is there's
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going to be States that supposedly are reopening. And I'm not saying this is the case with Texas, but
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there are going to be States that are reopening quote unquote, but in reality are not, they're
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just saying it, but, but the, the guidelines and rules put in place are so onerous that it makes
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it impossible for a lot of businesses to actually open. And I think that they're going to make this
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way more complicated than it needs to be. Okay. Yeah. I'm not saying we go back to life completely as
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normal, but we don't need to have, you don't need to have a Bible length book of rules telling
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businesses what to do. I think most of it is pretty obvious. Yeah. Okay. Wear gloves. If you're in the
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food industry, maybe wear a mask that makes sense. If you, especially if you're in the food industry,
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you don't want to put people right on top of each other. It doesn't need to be 25% capacity.
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I think just really basic common sense precautions are what's necessary. People for the most part are
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reasonable. You know, I've, I've been out plenty during this whole thing. Not that I can go that
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many places, but at least to the store over the weekend, we went, uh, as a family, we went for a
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hike, you know, just at a local park and it was very busy. You know, there's tons of people there
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because everyone's itching to get out of the house like we were. And, uh, some of the trails
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we were walking on were pretty, pretty narrow. And, but we didn't need a set of rules to tell us
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what to do. It was just, okay, you're walking on a narrow path. There's another group of people
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coming the opposite direction. One of you just moves over and lets the other group pass.
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That's the amazing thing. We didn't need any guidelines or rules. We didn't need the federal
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government to tell us what to do. If we encounter people on the trail, we already know just, okay,
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you move over, you give them some space. So we don't need to make it more complicated than it
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needs to be. Okay. This is from, uh, Mark says, Matt, I'm wondering when you will admit you were
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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.
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Uh, well, Mark, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't really care if you respect me or not.
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That's of no concern to me. I find it interesting that you assume 60,000
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dead proves our mitigation strategy was successful. That's kind of an odd assumption,
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isn't it? You're saying, look at all these people who died. Obviously what we did to stop people from
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dying worked. See, this is what you've done, um, over on the pro lockdown side. You've set up a
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heads, I win, tails, you lose situation where no matter what, no matter what the data shows,
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no matter how many people die or don't die, it proves that the lockdowns were needed,
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but I'd say the data proves the opposite. These antibody tests indicate that the virus is,
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as I said at the beginning of the show, way more widely spread than we were told,
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which means that by the time the lockdown started, it had already made its way through
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many communities, which means that you were locking people who had the virus or had already
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been exposed to it into their homes with family members, often older family members,
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providers who didn't have it creating exactly the right kind of scenario for transmission of the
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virus. Not the right scenario to avoid getting it, but the right scenario for transmitting it,
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prolonged indoor closed quarters contact with family members. That's how this, this thing
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primarily spreads. And these lockdowns created the perfect situation for that. And aside from all
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that, 30 million unemployed, 150 million globally at risk of starvation, says the UN, food supply chain
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catastrophically disrupted, civil liberties abolished. You look at all of this and your conclusion is
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that the government did the right thing? Really? That's your conclusion? You think all of this somehow
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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
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appreciate the email and thanks everybody for watching. We will leave it there. God bless. Godspeed.
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