The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 602 - Follow The 'Science' Into The Abyss

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00:00:33.640 Today on the Matt Wall Show, it's well known that the people who shout,

00:00:37.080 follow the science, are often the most hostile to it. The latest example is the left's campaign to

00:00:41.600 censor a book about the, quote, transgender craze among children. So we'll talk about that today.

00:00:46.600 Also in our five headlines, Chicago becomes the latest city to cancel Thanksgiving.

00:00:51.380 No Thanksgiving is allowed. The mayor says it's necessary to do this in order to save lives,

00:00:56.340 but she seems very selective in the lives she wants to save in her city. Plus,

00:01:01.220 Cracker Barrel apologizes for a rope that offended people in its store,

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00:02:42.120 we're constantly told these days to follow the science, believe in science. The science will

00:02:47.040 guide us. The science will save us. All hail science, our redeemer. This is a message we have

00:02:52.680 heard, especially during the COVID lockdowns, which have been justified on the basis of science. And by

00:02:58.260 on the basis of science, I mean on the basis of the word itself. This is usually how science is

00:03:03.900 wielded in arguments these days. In order to prove that science is on one side, one need only shout the

00:03:09.820 words science and research and evidence while providing actual examples of none of them. You know,

00:03:17.020 like, do your research. Haven't you ever heard of science, you dummy? Look at the evidence. And that's 0.99

00:03:22.180 all. That's the whole argument. Loud and confident assertion in the place of persuasion, which pretty

00:03:26.860 much sums up all debate on the internet these days and much of what you get from the left in this

00:03:30.780 country. The left is especially fond of talking about science, though not necessarily as fond of the

00:03:36.300 thing itself. Yesterday on the show, just as an example, I played a strange little skit from the

00:03:42.260 demented mayor of Chicago, celebrating science, ostensibly. And it's really not necessary that I play

00:03:48.540 it again. But I'm going to anyway, just to torture you. And so here it is.

00:03:51.500 Thank God. Science is back, baby.

00:04:09.100 And the earth is round, not flat. Washing your hands does work. Social distancing does matter. And wearing a

00:04:24.640 face covering does help protect all of us. I do love science.

00:04:31.640 Yes, you're welcome for that. Don't tick me off or I might keep playing that.

00:04:41.140 That will be my punishment for the audience anytime it misbehaves.

00:04:44.680 The Lori Lightfoot videos will continue until morale improves. But in any case,

00:04:49.260 you see there's science. Science is back. And of course, Governor Cuomo in New York is a big fan of

00:04:53.920 talking about science. He said that following science is the reason why he's decided to,

00:04:58.560 as we discussed yesterday, take the absurdly unconstitutional step of telling people how

00:05:03.160 many family members they're allowed to have in their own homes. What this has to do with science

00:05:07.140 and how science at all vindicates this move is not explained. It's never explained. And it's

00:05:12.880 interesting that from the follow science and believe in science crowd, you also get this.

00:05:18.760 Abigail Schreier wrote a book called Irreversible Damage, the Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. 0.95

00:05:24.280 And it's about, as the title suggests, left-wing gender ideology and how it's being imposed on our

00:05:30.140 children. Here's a description of the book on Amazon. I think it's important to understand what

00:05:34.420 the book is about so that the madness of what we're going to discuss next is perfectly clear.

00:05:39.600 So the description says,

00:05:41.120 until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria, severe discomfort in one's biological sex was

00:05:45.180 vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than 0.01% of the population, emerged in early

00:05:50.120 childhood and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today, whole groups of female friends in

00:05:54.760 colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as transgender.

00:05:59.360 These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex

00:06:02.620 until they heard a coming out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet

00:06:06.560 community of trans influencers. Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters

00:06:11.060 enthralled to hip trans YouTube stars and gender-affirming educators and therapists who push 0.81

00:06:16.620 life-changing interventions on young girls, including medically unnecessary double mastectomies

00:06:21.380 and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Schreier, a writer for the

00:06:25.600 Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized

00:06:31.320 parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to

00:06:35.580 de-transitioners, young women who bitterly regret what they've done to themselves.

00:06:40.200 Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls' social status, Schreier finds.

00:06:43.880 But once they take the first steps of transition, it's not easy to walk back. She offers urgently

00:06:48.760 needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. Okay, sounds like a great book,

00:06:53.180 an important book. I'd heard of the book before, hadn't read it. I've now ordered a copy of it

00:06:57.780 myself. But the more important point is that it's a book talking about a very real phenomenon

00:07:02.940 and calling attention to a problem that many people would prefer to ignore. It's also a book,

00:07:08.800 it would seem, grounded in science. That is, grounded in the recognition of the reality of

00:07:14.560 biological sex and child psychology. It is through the recognition of these two realities

00:07:20.500 and through understanding them that a person can see that the transgender craze among children is

00:07:25.500 a problem. It's a crisis, in fact. But the pro-science people don't like this kind of science.

00:07:32.340 So the woke squad has been hounding Schreier and trying to get her shut down and censored 0.97

00:07:36.120 and going after anyone who sells the books. Yesterday, a couple of trans activists,

00:07:41.060 and it was just a couple from what I can tell, tweeted at Target complaining that the forbidden text

00:07:47.160 was on sale in their stores. Target, within hours, very quickly responded and pulled the book from

00:07:53.080 their shelves. All it took was a few trans activists just shouting the word transphobia

00:07:58.400 and Target, a multi-billion dollar company caved in like a quaking sinkhole and apologized and said

00:08:07.780 they'd remove it. Just like that. It must be nice to wield that kind of cultural power.

00:08:14.180 I mean, trans people say they're oppressed by our society and yet just one or two of them can go to

00:08:19.120 Target and say, I don't much care for this product you're selling. And the whole company will fall to

00:08:24.160 its knees, beg for forgiveness, remove whatever item was distressing them. Do you think I could get

00:08:29.480 that response? Do you think I, as the dreaded, privileged, cisgender white man, could go to Target

00:08:35.140 and say, hey Target, get rid of this book here. I don't like it. And they would actually say, yes sir,

00:08:40.600 as you wish. I doubt it. Now, once I'm fascist dictator of the hemisphere, you could be damn sure

00:08:46.380 they'll listen. But for now, not so much. Because I'm not so lucky as to be oppressed in that way.

00:08:51.740 In the way that so many groups in America are quote unquote oppressed. By the way, as mentioned,

00:08:58.180 there's been a lot of censorship around this book. And of course, this issue more broadly. This week

00:09:03.020 also, GoFundMe shut down a fundraiser by a group of parents who are trying to raise money to put up

00:09:08.260 billboards that were supposed to combat the manipulation and corruption of children by the

00:09:12.520 radical LGBT left. The billboard said, puberty is not a medical condition. And then there was a

00:09:18.500 picture of Schreier's book and a message urging people to read it. GoFundMe stopped the fundraiser

00:09:24.040 citing their rules against hate speech. And this is what you get if you follow the science in the way

00:09:31.340 that the left wants you to. Namely, they want you to follow not the science, but doctrine. And they

00:09:38.080 want you to follow it all the way over a cliff and into the abyss. See, the thing is, following science,

00:09:44.740 I mean, actually following science, if the phrase means anything at all, must mean simply weighing

00:09:50.660 all the information available, analyzing it coolly and rationally, and making informed judgments.

00:09:57.720 Science, after all, is not some sort of creature. It's not some entity. It's not some mysterious

00:10:02.420 being that commands our allegiance. Science is the study of the physical and natural world.

00:10:08.500 And following science means, it means not blindly accepting whatever someone tells you in the

00:10:13.640 supposed name of science, but rather approaching issues as objectively as possible, and drawing

00:10:19.000 conclusions based on an honest analysis of the available information. It'd probably be better to

00:10:24.200 say, instead of follow the science, as if the science is some homogenous, never-changing thing,

00:10:30.740 which issues decrees, like the Wizard and the Wizard of Oz. Instead, maybe we should say, think

00:10:36.640 scientifically. Or maybe even better, putting the word science to the side, we might just tell people

00:10:40.920 to be honest, to be rational, be thoughtful. That's really what's needed in our society.

00:10:46.920 But whether we're endeavoring to follow the science, think scientifically, or simply be honest

00:10:51.400 and rational, none of that is possible if entire categories of thought are forbidden. If volumes of

00:10:58.060 research and evidence on a given subject are thrown in the incinerator because they might offend the wrong

00:11:02.620 people. If perfectly valid and intelligent points of view are not allowed to be expressed,

00:11:06.880 or are shouted down rather than listened to and engaged with, I mean, if you really want to follow

00:11:13.400 the science and you don't agree with Schreier or people like her, then present your arguments against

00:11:19.140 her. Make your case. Say, I disagree. Here's why. You'll have quite a hard row in front of you if you want 0.94

00:11:26.360 to make an argument against Schreier's view that we shouldn't push gender confusion on our children.

00:11:30.980 But if that's your view, defend it. The problem is that most of the people with that view, the opposing

00:11:36.760 view to Schreier's, know they can't defend it. They can't begin to make a coherent case. So they scream

00:11:42.880 and shout and pout and punish and censor. Of course, all the while still extolling the virtues of quote

00:11:50.080 unquote science. All right, let's get to our five headlines. All right, getting into our headlines.

00:12:03.940 By the way, I mentioned before I have all these stage props on my desk now, my fancy new studio,

00:12:09.120 like I have my Nashville, my fake Nashville family and my, who I draw a lot of inspiration from.

00:12:14.280 I also have, I just noticed I have these fake books. I have a book that was put here

00:12:19.460 on the title. It says band names. That's the name. That's the title of the book, band names.

00:12:25.780 And then it's, it's empty inside. So I don't know if it's a book. If I come up with ideas for band names,

00:12:32.740 I guess I'm supposed to just keep track of those here, which is good because I have a lot of ideas

00:12:37.720 for band names. I have no musical ability, but in fact, I just had one. What did I say? I made a mental

00:12:42.440 note. Oh, the quaking sinkholes might be a good name for a band. Someone could take that. I'll

00:12:49.140 have to write that in the book. All right. Number one, speaking of Mayor Lightfoot, let's play that

00:12:55.040 video again. No, I'm not going to do that. But here's the latest from Chicago. Democratic Chicago

00:12:59.640 Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued another lockdown advisory on Thursday as COVID-19 cases spike in her city,

00:13:05.120 urging Chicagoans to cancel their Thanksgiving plans. Starting Monday, Lightfoot will impose a 10-person

00:13:10.500 ceiling on gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and other events. She said a stay-at-home advisory

00:13:16.800 for Chicago will go into effect on Monday, November 16th at 6 a.m. This advisory calls on all Chicagoans

00:13:22.680 to do the following. Stay home, unless for essential reasons. Stop having guests over, including family

00:13:28.540 members you don't live with. Avoid non-essential travel. Cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans.

00:13:34.920 Regarding whether the advisory is mandatory or voluntary, Lightfoot said, this is a progressive

00:13:40.160 step. I hope we don't have to go any further than this. You know, we've been so focused on the war

00:13:46.820 on Christmas. We've been manning the forts on the war on Christmas. And instead, they just, they

00:13:53.220 sneaked in the side entrance and canceled Thanksgiving instead. But she also says, I want to read this. She

00:14:00.240 says, if the possibility of a thousand more people dying in the city in the next seven weeks doesn't

00:14:05.220 grab you by the throat as it did me, when I started seeing that modeling, then there's little we're

00:14:09.920 going to do to move you. If we see you violating these rules in any way, we're not going to hesitate

00:14:15.220 to take action. Yeah, well, of course, you read something like that from the mayor of Chicago. And the

00:14:21.140 first thing that comes to mind is, yeah, you know, you got hundreds of people dying in your city

00:14:25.420 all every year. Nothing to do with COVID-19. I mean, murdering each other in the streets. You don't

00:14:34.100 seem very concerned about that. I would think that should, quote, grab you by the throat. Shouldn't it, 0.93

00:14:39.660 mayor? Not a lot of concern there. No, instead, we're going to we're going to make sure stop having

00:14:45.840 guests over. I mean, I don't have been complaining about this all week, but I will never get used to

00:14:52.620 that. You've got the mayor of a city or the governor of a state telling you, you can't stop

00:14:59.620 having guests over to your house. It is absolute madness. All right. Number two, we'll play this.

00:15:10.080 Here's yet another segment from CNN comparing Trump to Hitler. Listen.

00:15:15.560 This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened. It was the Nazis warning shot across the bow of our 0.60

00:15:23.160 human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity. And in that tower of burning books,

00:15:29.960 it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth. After four years of a modern day assault

00:15:36.380 on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms.

00:15:41.880 Yeah, that's one of the more direct comparisons we've heard from an outlet like CNN. Of course,

00:15:47.960 it's not the first time we've gotten this comparison. They've been doing this for four

00:15:50.220 years. But one of the more direct comparisons, of course, completely ridiculous and also offensive 0.96

00:15:55.760 considering the Holocaust is a thing that actually happened and millions of people died. So it's not

00:16:02.460 just some political cudgel that you can use or you shouldn't be using it that way. It's not some pawn

00:16:07.480 to be played with in your political games. And also, as I've said, the attempt, I mean,

00:16:15.900 there are plenty of legitimate criticisms you can make of Donald Trump, which is why it's so

00:16:22.980 impressive that with all of these legitimate, and there are plenty of legitimate criticisms you can

00:16:26.940 make of any president or any politician. Donald Trump, though, has his own share, many of which are

00:16:33.840 pretty obvious. But with all these legitimate criticisms you can make of Donald Trump,

00:16:39.480 somehow the left and the media has spent the last four years focusing on everything but those.

00:16:46.260 They've been focusing on all the illegitimate criticisms, completely bypassing the huge elephant

00:16:54.280 in the room, which are the real criticisms they could be making, trying to paint Trump as some sort of

00:16:59.820 dictator-like figure, which is just the absolute opposite of the truth.

00:17:07.400 I think one of his weaknesses has been that he's, you know, especially when it comes to the,

00:17:16.160 with the rioting and everything that happened, he was very reluctant, actually, to step in

00:17:21.280 and put a stop to it. I don't think a dictator would have that reluctance. Donald Trump was.

00:17:30.640 All right, number three, this is from Yahoo. Listen to this story. This again, this is Yahoo. It's not

00:17:38.740 Babylon Bee. This is real. A cracker barrel location in Connecticut has recently come under fire after

00:17:45.140 the discovery of a decoration that closely resembled a noose. Cracker barrels are often decorated

00:17:51.140 with antique and vintage items, but according to Fox News, patron Alfonso Robinson noticed noose-like

00:17:57.640 decorations. Notice noose-like. It's not a noose. It's just noose-like. In other words, if it's a rope

00:18:05.400 with a knot at the end, now that's noose-like. According to Fox News, patron Alfonso Robinson

00:18:12.300 noticed noose-like decorations while dining at the restaurant on November 9th and posted pictures of

00:18:17.220 them to Twitter. He said, someone at Cracker Barrel in East Windsor needs to explain why there are nooses

00:18:22.960 on the ceiling. The chain responded to the tweet the same day, apologizing, saying, we work hard to

00:18:29.580 create a culture of hospitality that's welcoming, respectful, and inclusive to everyone who walks

00:18:34.000 through our doors. Some of the historic decor in our stores may be reminiscent of earlier times,

00:18:38.820 but our inclusive culture is firmly grounded in today. How is a rope reminiscent of earlier times?

00:18:46.320 It's just a rope. Cracker Barrel also clarified the decoration was an antique soldering iron with an

00:18:52.380 original wrapped cord that should have been noticed and corrected before ever being displayed,

00:18:57.400 and it's now gone from the store. You were offended by the rope, so we took it down.

00:19:03.660 After the incident, local activists have met with the manager of the store in order to do a walkthrough

00:19:07.960 of the store and point out any other decorations that may have a racist connotation.

00:19:14.400 Any other decorations. But this one didn't have a racist connotation. It was a soldering iron.

00:19:21.340 What's racist about that? It's still unclear if the chain will check its other locations for other

00:19:28.540 decorations that could be viewed as racist. Well, anything can be viewed as racist. I think we've

00:19:33.700 learned that much by now. Literally anything can be viewed as racist. This is the one talent that

00:19:41.400 the left has and the race hustlers have. Their creativity and finding ways to see everything as 0.54

00:19:49.460 racist. So anything could be as racist. You might as well just take everything down.

00:19:51.880 Every building has to be utterly bare, just white walls, like in the Matrix or something. You know,

00:20:02.800 when Neo steps into the Matrix right before he does the karate lesson, it's all just white. But I guess

00:20:07.160 actually, never mind. White walls would also be offensive. Karen Prescott, founder of a local

00:20:13.680 organization to fight racism, told the publication, that is the Journal Inquirer publication, says,

00:20:19.580 I'm hopeful that the interaction I had with the manager here today is what it's going to be like

00:20:24.740 going forward with any businesses, individuals, organizations, or people on social media.

00:20:29.200 Basically, what I'm saying is if I can say to you, hey, this is racist, this is offensive, then I hope you

00:20:34.200 would move to action. And in this case, take it down and be understanding and be open to learning.

00:20:39.120 Be, first of all, open to learning. No, you need to be open to learning. Because they told you what

00:20:48.140 the rope was there for. So you were just wrong. You're the one who needs to learn here. What you

00:20:53.380 need to learn is not every rope is racist. In fact, I would say this, no rope is racist. There's never

00:20:58.480 been a racist rope. It's a rope. And also, since even if it was not a noose, it was just a rope.

00:21:07.040 But since when is a noose a universal racist symbol? When did that happen?

00:21:18.280 The left has just done this. Over the last few months, they've made this into a racist symbol,

00:21:24.580 just like they did with the OK sign. They just decided that, OK, that's going to be racist now.

00:21:29.120 That's a calling card for white nationalists. It never actually was. They've simply decided that

00:21:33.860 it's going to be now. But Karen Prescott says, get a load of that. I just listened to this quote

00:21:39.800 again. Get a load of this. I'm hopeful that the interaction I had with the manager here today

00:21:44.960 is what it's going to be like going forward with any businesses, individuals, organizations, or people.

00:21:51.400 So what she, I don't know if this is a he or she. Karen, spelled with an E. Of course, it's a Karen,

00:21:58.020 though. So what this person is saying is that, yes, I hope that this interaction with Cracker Barrel

00:22:04.780 extends to all people in the world now. I hope this is the beginning of a trend where if I tell you that

00:22:12.420 something offends me, you will immediately stop doing it. This is what they're saying. This is what I

00:22:17.560 expect of the entire world now. And they get their way. You know, for so long, those of us on the right

00:22:28.020 comforted ourselves when we looked at all these snowflake safe space college students. And what

00:22:37.820 did we always say? We always said, oh, they're going to get out into the real world and they're

00:22:42.580 going to discover that people don't care about their feelings. And, you know, they're going to have a rude

00:22:46.820 wake up, wake up call when they get into the real world. But we forgot that they're inheriting,

00:22:53.220 they're inheriting the new world, the world. They're, you know, they get to shape it. They're

00:22:58.840 the new generation. So they just went out into the world and no, actually, they haven't really had a

00:23:03.780 wake up call. Now everyone is just bending to their whim, entire corporations.

00:23:10.760 All right. Um, five, finally a report from USA Today. An Amazon driver found he was a few strokes

00:23:19.720 high at a Michigan golf course over the weekend. Bill Offer spotted something unusual blocking his

00:23:25.240 way through a cart tunnel about 2.30 PM. You can see the picture here at a golf club. It was an

00:23:30.100 Amazon delivery truck wedged about six feet into the tunnel between the Dunes course, ninth green,

00:23:36.100 and the clubhouse. Um, and yeah, that's a, so he was, he was now here's, he said he was using GPS

00:23:42.820 and that's the punchline here. So the Amazon delivery guy ended up on a golf course off the

00:23:49.460 road wedged into a golf course tunnel, a tunnel that really does not look like it would fit that

00:23:55.040 truck at all. And it didn't, but he was just following the GPS. And we see this is, this is a real

00:24:01.240 problem where the GPS, you know, is our reliance on GPS is destroying our sense of direction entirely.

00:24:07.120 Uh, and it's good. I admit it's, it's a problem for me too, because I I'm at a point now where

00:24:12.280 I will use the GPS, even if I know where I'm going, because now the GPS will, it will, it will alert

00:24:18.540 you to traffic and it might reroute you. So I'll, I'll keep it on even if I know exactly where I'm

00:24:22.340 going and I am becoming dumber and dumber because of it by the minute. Uh, and I don't have a lot of IQ 0.98

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00:27:58.620 All right. Time for our daily cancellation today. We're going to cancel, and this really shouldn't be

00:28:02.980 a thing I have to cancel, but I do. We're going to cancel hugging stations or hugging curtains or

00:28:08.340 hugging tarps, whatever increasingly creepy name you want to give it. I've seen many videos of

00:28:13.340 these things going viral recently. And here's, here's a taste of it. Here's what they look like.

00:28:18.220 Our news cameras were rolling to capture her hugging her four-year-old grandson for the first

00:28:23.060 time in what felt like forever.

00:28:25.200 Oh, proving at a time of such uncertainty, we all feel better after getting a hug.

00:28:34.060 It was so genuine. Didn't even know there was a plastic between us. Really, we all needed it so badly.

00:28:41.820 Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.

00:28:44.000 If you miss hugging your grandma during the coronavirus pandemic, you're not alone.

00:28:48.840 This is what love is all about. This is precious.

00:28:52.560 Great-grandma Rose is used to hugging her granddaughter, Carly, and her great-grandchildren

00:28:57.100 all the time.

00:28:58.340 I see them every day normally, so this was kind of a challenge not to be able to see them,

00:29:03.340 not to be able to hug them.

00:29:04.500 So Carly came up with an ingenious invention that looks like something straight out of the

00:29:08.280 boy in the plastic bubble.

00:29:09.760 I was getting sort of to the point of, oh my gosh, I just can't handle this. I just need to hug her.

00:29:15.840 The kids need to hug her. 1.00

00:29:17.340 Sheets of plastic protect 85-year-old Rose and let everyone have a hug without potentially spreading

00:29:22.120 the virus.

00:29:23.040 My arms go through the top one.

00:29:29.900 How amazing is this?

00:29:36.700 Yeah, I'll tell you right now, I would rather die of COVID than take any part in anything

00:29:54.540 like that. And it's not like these things are meant to protect the children. Children

00:29:58.380 are not at much risk from COVID. This is about protecting the adults, even though children

00:30:02.980 also are not much risk to spread COVID either. But this is really just an extreme manifestation

00:30:07.820 of the paranoia and suspicion that has gripped hold of our society thanks to the COVID fear-mongering

00:30:13.580 from the media. People are treating each other like they're radioactive, even their own family

00:30:18.240 members, even their own children and grandchildren. And you know it's gotten bad when I'm complaining

00:30:22.860 about it because I already treated people like they were radioactive before COVID hit. Yet as

00:30:28.220 anti-social as I am, even I'm looking around at this and saying, okay, it's too much, guys. This

00:30:33.400 is too much. The other day I went to get on an elevator. And elevators are very contentious now.

00:30:39.200 As I walked towards it, the person on the elevator started pushing the close button furiously so that

00:30:44.120 it would shut me out before I could get on it. It was like something out of a horror movie. And I was

00:30:48.240 the monster they were trying to escape. Now granted, this may have been because it was just me

00:30:53.340 specifically they were trying to avoid. Or it could have been someone who hates elevator small talk

00:30:57.000 like I do. But when I'm trying to shut somebody out of the elevator, I do it discreetly.

00:31:02.260 You know, they shout, hey, can you hold that? And I pretend I'm hitting the open door button,

00:31:06.660 but I'm really hitting the closed door button. So it's like, sorry, it's closing. I don't know what

00:31:10.280 I'm, I don't know why. I'm sorry. I was looking forward to spending this time with you. I'm sorry.

00:31:13.560 This is so unfortunate. You'll have to catch the next one. All right, see you later. But these days,

00:31:18.420 people are much less discreet in treating everyone else like they're diseased and dangerous.

00:31:23.020 We've all been in the situation where you're, you know, you walk a little too close to somebody in

00:31:27.220 the supermarket and they practically dive out of the way to avoid you, sending the Tostitos end cap

00:31:33.420 display tumbling down. This is how we've been conditioned to treat each other. When does it end?

00:31:40.300 Okay. That's the question that the apologists for this kind of behavior never seem able to answer.

00:31:45.200 When do we go back to being normal human beings who can walk down the street without wearing

00:31:51.740 bandanas around our faces, like train robbers from the 1870s? When are we going to stop treating our

00:31:57.440 fellow humans like they just escaped from a leper colony? Some of us never started treating our 0.98

00:32:03.020 fellow humans that way. Some of us have always acted this way and don't appreciate our anti-social

00:32:07.960 culture being appropriated like this. But if you're in the, if you're in the category where you don't want

00:32:13.600 to walk down the street without a mask and you can't be within arm's reach of another person,

00:32:17.520 unless there's a plexiglass barrier between you, like you're interviewing Hannibal Lecter or

00:32:21.860 something, then I ask, when will you have had enough? When will you go back to normal? If you're hugging

00:32:29.800 your grandkids through a plastic tarp, when will you feel comfortable dropping the tarp? I know you

00:32:36.140 might think the obvious answer is when there's a COVID vaccine. Well, okay, but just because we get rid of

00:32:42.440 COVID, if we ever do get rid of it, or mostly get rid of it, that doesn't mean we're home free. That

00:32:49.000 doesn't mean we're free of any disease risk. There are still lots of other potentially deadly diseases

00:32:54.240 out there. The person boarding the elevator, even if he doesn't have COVID, could have a million other

00:33:01.620 illnesses. Your grandkids could be infected with God knows what little germ buckets that they are. 0.69

00:33:07.680 If you're practically wearing a hazmat suit now because of the risk, are you going to go back to

00:33:13.140 zero precautions when the risk is gone? Because the risk will never be zero. The risk will never,

00:33:18.920 ever be zero. There will always be a risk of a million different things killing you. And then

00:33:23.060 guess what? I hate to spoil the ending, but eventually one of those things actually will kill

00:33:27.720 you. So again, if you can't handle any risk now, even to hug your own grandkids, will you ever be

00:33:34.680 able to handle risk again? What's the limiting principle? It's the same thing with masks. If masks

00:33:40.460 are, as the mask advocates say, essential to stopping the spread of disease, and they work,

00:33:46.640 and it's also no big deal to wear them, not too onerous, then why should we ever stop wearing them?

00:33:53.680 COVID or no COVID, why should we ever stop? By their logic, we will be wearing masks forever.

00:34:01.540 It will never end. And I think that's probably exactly what's intended. And that's why everyone

00:34:08.080 involved in perpetuating and participating in this hysteria, especially if you're using a hugging tarp,

00:34:15.080 and by the way, pressing your face up against plastic, I don't know if that sounds like the

00:34:19.560 safest alternative. But everyone involved in that is cancer. That's going to do it for today and this

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 13, 2020

Ep. 602 - Follow The 'Science' Into The Abyss

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