The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 766 - I Cannot Trust The Experts Because They've All Gone Insane

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we are told that we must trust the medical and scientific experts,

00:00:05.120 but what if the medical and scientific experts have gone completely insane and abandoned the

00:00:09.760 most basic medical and scientific truths for ideological reasons? What then? Well,

00:00:14.020 we'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including some good news from the Olympics as

00:00:17.140 the women's USA soccer team continues to lose, which is great, and the trans weightlifter Laurel

00:00:22.280 Hubbard completely flops in embarrassing fashion. Plus, Democrats panic as the eviction moratorium

00:00:27.520 comes to an end, but should there have ever been an eviction moratorium in the first place?

00:00:31.460 And we're also told that Florida is in the middle of a COVID crisis. Is that true? We'll talk about

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00:00:40.100 Fauci, Don Lemon, Ted Lieu, and others all say that you have the right to be free from sickness.

00:00:46.100 They're horribly wrong, of course, and I'll explain why. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:08.660 online at charitymobile.com. We are condemned these days for failing to show the appropriate levels

00:02:15.520 of deference and obedience to supposed medical and scientific experts. These condemnations could

00:02:21.460 be heard loudly and frequently enough even before COVID. It was quite common during a discussion

00:02:25.640 about, say, climate change that the skeptic would be shouted down or simply dismissed outright on

00:02:31.660 the basis that he isn't a scientist and therefore his opinion has no merit. Of course, very often the

00:02:37.080 people doing the shouting and dismissing were not scientists either, and yet they felt qualified to

00:02:41.600 tell you that you're not qualified even as they continue to espouse their own views with abandon.

00:02:46.380 The standard cliched refrains of, you know, trust the science and listen to the scientists and

00:02:53.020 you're not a doctor, what do you know, have been utilized by intellectually lazy people as a means

00:02:58.040 of stifling discussion and silence and criticism for a long time. But in the age of COVID, they're

00:03:03.500 now chanted like religious incantations. It's now not only a sign of intelligence if you shut up and

00:03:10.000 nod your head in agreement with whatever statements a doctor or scientist makes, it's also a sign of

00:03:15.200 virtue. Skepticism is now a character defect, a form of heresy. The scientific experts speak

00:03:22.860 infallibly from their pulpits and anyone who dares to contradict them or even to ask for clarification

00:03:28.300 or even to say something like, oh, wait a minute, you said this before and now you're saying this.

00:03:32.940 But if you do that, you're a blasphemer, an apostate. Burn them at the stake, figuratively for now, 1.00

00:03:39.400 but perhaps literally soon enough. This is a problem because most obviously the alleged medical 0.99

00:03:45.040 scientific experts have been proven wrong so many times when it comes to COVID. And besides,

00:03:51.920 if you agree with what they're saying now, whatever that happens to be, that means you're disagreeing

00:03:57.500 with what they said a week ago. And if you disagree with what they're saying now, that only means that

00:04:02.300 you still agree with what they said a week ago. It's not actually possible to fully reject the

00:04:08.340 scientific and medical authorities on the subject of COVID because whatever opinion you hold has at one

00:04:14.860 point been their opinion. And it may become their opinion again in the near future. The question is

00:04:20.700 not whether you agree with the experts. It's which version of the experts do you agree with?

00:04:28.860 Do you like their recent work or do you prefer their older stuff? Maybe you're more of an oldies guy.

00:04:34.480 And so you really love a Fauci classic hit like, there's no reason to be walking around with a mask on,

00:04:39.600 which he said way back in March of 2020. But you can't do that, we're told. The other thing about

00:04:46.360 trusting the experts and listening to the science is that you have to pretend yesterday never happened.

00:04:53.200 Each day is the first day of your life. You are born anew with the sunrise. And all you are meant to do

00:04:59.120 is reach out your hand and clasp onto the coattails of the experts and go wherever they lead you.

00:05:04.420 Now, some of us aren't willing to live that way. We're not able to pretend that we're the guy from

00:05:10.140 Memento with a memory that dates back no further than 47 minutes into the past. We look at the whole

00:05:16.020 picture and we see the experts contradicting themselves, going back on their own pronouncements,

00:05:21.940 making determinations that are clearly driven by politics. Like when they all declared in unison

00:05:27.160 that it's not safe to eat at a restaurant, but it is safe for BLM mobs to gather by the thousands in 0.97

00:05:32.480 the streets. You can't eat at the restaurant, but you can loot it. That you can do. Now, that alone,

00:05:39.700 the fact that public health authorities all made an exception for BLM riots during the height of the

00:05:44.960 pandemic was enough for reasonable and intelligent people to permanently lose whatever faith they

00:05:51.660 might have had in public health authorities. But it gets worse. The real problem is what they're

00:05:58.180 doing now and saying apart from COVID. See, it's one thing to be cowardly partisan hacks as nearly all

00:06:06.660 of these people have proven themselves to be. In theory, though, even cowardly partisan hacks can

00:06:11.660 still be reliable sources of medical or scientific information some of the time at least. But the

00:06:17.620 sickness in the expert community runs much deeper than mere partisanship. The fact is that these

00:06:25.420 people, many of them anyway, have abandoned scientific truth completely on the most fundamental

00:06:32.480 level. After all, what good is a medical expert who doesn't understand or pretends not to understand

00:06:38.940 basic human biology? Now, I shared on the show a few days ago, I think it was Friday or maybe

00:06:45.000 Thursday, a disturbing report by Katie Herzog published on Barry Weiss's Substack about the intrusion

00:06:51.560 of gender theory into medical school. We already knew that gender theory had infected grade school 1.00

00:06:56.840 and four-year universities. But now we know that it's made its way into medical school,

00:07:04.460 which is no surprise. But this is where, of course, the next generation of doctors are being taught.

00:07:12.120 And now they're being taught that biological sex does not exist. So let me read a portion of that

00:07:18.800 report again because it's important. So it said, quote, during a recent endocrinology course at a

00:07:26.160 top medical school at the University of California system, a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize

00:07:32.840 for something he'd said at the beginning of the class. Quote, I don't want you to think that I am

00:07:36.700 in any way trying to imply anything. And if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really

00:07:41.700 appreciate it. The physician says in a recording provided by a student in the class whom we'll call

00:07:46.420 Lauren. Quote, again, I'm very sorry for that. It was certainly not my intention to offend anyone.

00:07:51.340 The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive. His offense using the term pregnant

00:07:56.680 women. Quote, I said, I said when a woman is pregnant, which implies that only women can get 1.00

00:08:02.980 pregnant. And I most sincerely apologize to all of you for that. It wasn't the first time that Lauren 0.83

00:08:08.100 had heard an instructor apologize for using language that to most Americans would seem utterly

00:08:12.200 inoffensive. Words like male and female. Why would medical school professors apologize for referring

00:08:18.240 to a patient's biological sex? Because, Lauren explains, in the context of her medical school,

00:08:22.680 acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic. When sex is acknowledged by her

00:08:27.440 instructors, it's sometimes portrayed as a social construct, not a biological reality, she says.

00:08:32.900 In a lecture on transgender health, an instructor declared, quote, biological sex, sexual orientation,

00:08:37.400 gender are all constructs. These are all constructs that we have created. In other words, some of the 1.00

00:08:42.940 country's top medical students are being taught that humans are not, like other mammals, a species

00:08:47.660 comprising two sexes. The notion of sex they are learning is just a man-made creation. Now, we should 1.00

00:08:53.920 really stop and contemplate the sheer depth of the cowardice here on display. This is a professor

00:09:03.740 at a top medical school. Someone who certainly understands biology, understands that only women 1.00

00:09:10.580 can get pregnant, understands that there is an innate biological difference between males and females,

00:09:14.620 and that this difference is by no means in any way a social construct. Now, he understands that,

00:09:21.700 and yet he is too afraid to speak this truth to his own students when it is his job to speak that

00:09:29.200 truth for fear of being called transphobic. This is exactly like a math professor who's too afraid to say

00:09:35.100 that five plus five equals ten for fear that it might upset those who prefer to live in a world where

00:09:40.140 five plus five equals five thousand. It is exactly the same as that in terms of the general insanity and the

00:09:48.340 cowardice involved. And it doesn't end with medical school, obviously. Here's the latest headline on this

00:09:54.940 front. This is from WebMD. Article just published yesterday. It says, remove sex from public birth

00:10:01.480 certificates, AMA says. The article explains, quote, sex should be removed as a legal designation

00:10:07.760 on the public part of birth certificates, according to the American Medical Association.

00:10:13.600 Requiring it can lead to discrimination, an unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity

00:10:18.280 does not align with their designation at birth, namely when they register for schools or sports, adopt,

00:10:22.760 get married or request personal records. Sarah May Smith, MD, delegate from California,

00:10:29.700 speaking on behalf of the women physician section, said removing the sex designation is important for

00:10:35.060 moving towards gender equity. She said, quote, we need to recognize gender is not a binary, but a spectrum

00:10:42.040 obligating our patients to jump through numerous administrative hoops to identify as who they are based on a sex

00:10:48.440 assigned at birth, primarily on genitalia, is not only unnecessary, but actively deleterious to their

00:10:54.600 health. Okay, notice the language that this doctor and a delegate for the American Medical Association

00:11:02.880 uses. She says that sex is assigned at birth. That is her medical language. Assigned as if it's given to 0.97

00:11:11.600 the child by the doctor on an entirely arbitrary basis. Which is like saying when you go in for a physical

00:11:17.540 medical school and they do your height and your weight. It's like saying that that's been assigned to you.

00:11:24.000 Your height and weight measurements are assigned by whoever does the measurement.

00:11:28.720 Well, I've been assigned six foot one. Too bad. I was hoping they'd give me seven feet. There goes my NBA dream.

00:11:36.260 This makes no sense, obviously, and neither does the claim that sex is on a spectrum.

00:11:40.660 The people making these claims know that it doesn't make sense.

00:11:46.900 They are destroying the medical profession from the inside and doing it on purpose.

00:11:52.180 And eventually, the really scary thing is they're going to give rise to a generation of scientists and

00:11:57.560 doctors who repeat the same madness and yet do not know that it is madness. And I say eventually,

00:12:03.280 that that is happening right now as we speak. And we're supposed to sit back and simply trust

00:12:11.200 these people. It is accurate to say now that my eight-year-old kids

00:12:20.280 understand more about human biology than that medical school professor.

00:12:29.520 And many of the doctors who will come out of that system.

00:12:36.500 My children know more than they do, are greater experts on biology than they are.

00:12:44.120 And that's why we don't trust the experts, because we can't, because they've all gone insane.

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00:14:08.160 Well, as big news, I do want to start with biggest news of all.

00:14:12.200 My wife and I, prior to this weekend, we had never been to Costco at all.

00:14:18.040 You know, not together, not individually.

00:14:21.240 And I know that that means we hardly qualified as American citizens, I think even legally.

00:14:25.220 You know, I don't even know if we qualified, but that's how it was.

00:14:28.140 And we'd never been.

00:14:29.200 And then we decided on Saturday that we're going to go to Costco for the first time.

00:14:32.060 And that was going to be, that was like our family event on Saturday.

00:14:36.240 That's what we did.

00:14:36.980 It's a big, big, big deal.

00:14:40.080 You know, when you're parents and you're married, this is what you do on a Saturday.

00:14:43.600 You go to Costco.

00:14:44.120 And so we did.

00:14:45.960 And now that I've been, and I've heard so much about this place, all I can say is that

00:14:52.520 that place is dangerous.

00:14:53.860 It is, it should probably be illegal.

00:14:55.660 They should probably all be shut down forcibly by the government.

00:14:59.680 And I admit we made some rookie mistakes.

00:15:02.120 Like we went on the weekend.

00:15:04.500 Too many people.

00:15:05.500 It's like an amusement park.

00:15:06.980 There's a line to get in the door, like an amusement park.

00:15:10.200 And then we brought our kids, which is a bad idea.

00:15:12.460 And then also I was hungry.

00:15:14.740 And, you know, you know, you never go grocery shopping while you're hungry, especially at

00:15:17.200 a place like Costco.

00:15:18.960 I can see how you would save a lot of money at Costco in theory, but in practice, everything

00:15:25.520 is more expensive.

00:15:26.700 It's just that you get a whole lot more of it.

00:15:29.340 But then the problem is, do you really need like a 50 gallon whiskey barrel filled with

00:15:34.760 Cheez-Its?

00:15:35.240 Do you really need enough baked beans to fill a swimming pool?

00:15:37.740 Do you need, you know, a can of tuna the size of a hubcap?

00:15:41.460 Do you actually need that?

00:15:43.700 Do you need so much Dijon mustard that you'll have enough left over to bequeath it to your

00:15:47.640 children when you pass away?

00:15:50.160 I, you know, pound for pound, gallon for gallon, the deals are great.

00:15:53.880 But then again, if I offered to sell you a tuba for $200, that would be a great deal.

00:16:00.120 But you're still out to $200 and you didn't need the tuba.

00:16:02.740 So it's, it's, it's like the, the Black Friday thing where, oh, you know, there's all these

00:16:07.200 great deals.

00:16:07.880 I can get this toaster that doubles as a remote control car and it's only $35.

00:16:12.700 Yeah, that's true.

00:16:13.540 But you're out to 35 and did you actually need that?

00:16:15.860 That's the question.

00:16:17.180 So anyway, long story short or long story long, long.

00:16:21.080 Um, we ended up spending, I think $46,000 and, um, we've already eaten most of the snacks

00:16:26.880 or at least the kids have the whole, the whole tub of Jesus is already gone.

00:16:30.340 So it can work, but you got to go in there with a blueprint and a strategy and you got

00:16:35.440 to be serious about it.

00:16:36.200 I think that's what we learned.

00:16:38.520 All right.

00:16:39.060 So good news from the Olympics.

00:16:41.060 Oh, I love to start Monday on a good, some, some, with some good news.

00:16:44.680 Rarely, rarely can we do that, but we can here.

00:16:47.180 Um, first of all, the U S women's soccer team lost to Canada.

00:16:53.240 So indignity on top of indignity, uh, not only do they lose, but they lost to Canada of all 0.89

00:16:58.220 things.

00:16:58.920 And that means they're no longer in contention for the gold.

00:17:01.240 And that's, that's great news.

00:17:02.920 Um, also this from the daily wire, it says New Zealand transgender weightlifter, Laurel

00:17:08.400 Hubbard competed and failed Monday in women's, um, 87 kilogram weightlifting at the Tokyo 1.00

00:17:14.580 Olympics. 0.92

00:17:15.040 So I wish these measurements were an American dammit or a kilogram. 0.88

00:17:20.140 I think it was, what is that? 0.94

00:17:20.740 Uh, the two pounds is a kilogram.

00:17:23.460 I could be totally wrong about that.

00:17:24.760 And pretend I didn't say it if I'm wrong in Hubbard's first attempt, the weightlifter

00:17:27.700 tried to lift 120 kilograms and failed in the 43 year old second attempt.

00:17:32.440 Hubbard lifted a very shaky 125 kilogram as noted by one of the female commentators.

00:17:37.580 It was very surprising that the questionable 125 kilogram lift wasn't challenged with an appeal

00:17:41.540 on the third attempt, Hubbard could not lift the 125 kilogram, bouncing the weightlifter

00:17:46.760 from the competition.

00:17:48.640 The announcer said, quote, uh, that's the end of Laurel Hubbard as Hubbard waved to the cameras

00:17:54.060 and to those at the competition.

00:17:55.140 Uh, and so now, now, uh, this, this man is gone and that's good because he deserves to be humiliated

00:18:06.480 in this fashion fashion because this is cheating.

00:18:09.740 I don't, I don't care what, what the insane official rules say.

00:18:17.840 You're a male competing against females. 0.97

00:18:21.220 You haven't, you have undue inherent biological advantages.

00:18:25.520 You know, you have those advantages and you're using those advantages to your benefit.

00:18:31.120 And I would say that's cheating.

00:18:32.560 Um, and so, so he, so he lost, but of course, what's happening now predictably is that the

00:18:40.540 left is saying that this actually proves that men don't have an advantage.

00:18:45.060 They're celebrating this too.

00:18:47.320 They say, yeah, see, you'd say there's no advantage.

00:18:48.960 Everybody's worried about Laurel Hubbard, a man competing against women and, uh, and she

00:18:53.960 loses.

00:18:54.440 And so you see, there's no, you guys are freaking out over nothing.

00:18:58.720 There's no advantage at all.

00:18:59.760 Um, yeah, except that this was a 43 year old pudgy out of shape dude.

00:19:06.980 Have you seen pictures of this guy?

00:19:09.300 Does not look like a weightlifter at all.

00:19:11.740 Looks like I could, I could probably beat him in arm wrestling.

00:19:14.180 Okay.

00:19:15.020 And, um, out of shape, mediocre athlete who couldn't come anywhere close to qualifying against

00:19:22.040 the men.

00:19:23.320 Then of course, but it's just, it's a coincidence though.

00:19:26.440 Couldn't qualify.

00:19:27.420 Couldn't hack it against the men.

00:19:28.580 And then discovers late in life that, oh, actually I'm a woman.

00:19:32.380 Well, what do you know?

00:19:33.600 That's a coincidence though.

00:19:34.680 I mean, we, we couldn't, we could never accuse Laurel Hubbard of having this, um, revelation

00:19:40.060 for self-serving reasons, even if it was extremely self-serving.

00:19:43.260 It's a coincidence that it's so self-serving.

00:19:45.080 You understand.

00:19:45.580 But out of, completely out of shape, mediocre athlete, um, of course he loses, but the fact

00:19:57.580 that he qualified as an Olympic weightlifter in the first place against women tells you 0.99

00:20:03.380 everything you need to know.

00:20:04.080 I ask you, how many, how many pudgy out of shape 43 year old females are qualifying as 1.00

00:20:12.180 Olympic weightlifters?

00:20:13.560 Can you give me an example of one?

00:20:14.940 Well, this dude is competing against like 21 year old women, um, who have, who are, you 1.00

00:20:23.840 know, talented athletes against their own competition.

00:20:28.780 And he waltzes in there and it makes it onto the stage at least.

00:20:35.000 Oh, but yeah, the fact that this guy, this 43 year old guy couldn't win the gold medal

00:20:40.720 proves that men don't have an advantage. 1.00

00:20:42.980 Yeah.

00:20:43.160 You know what?

00:20:43.460 If I, if I just, uh, stumbled into the Olympics myself and, uh, you know, and was accepted

00:20:49.220 as a female and I got onto the track against, um, the women in the 100 meter dash, I would 1.00

00:20:57.380 lose badly.

00:20:59.120 Well, that was, I guess that proves that men don't have an advantage or it proves that 0.90

00:21:03.780 I'm just slow and I have no business being there.

00:21:08.280 And of course I would get beat.

00:21:11.780 If you really want to know about the advantages, there's a website, um, called boys versus women.com

00:21:19.700 boys vs women.com.

00:21:22.120 And the whole website is dedicated to comparing the world record times.

00:21:27.720 Women's world record, um, times and track and field events against high school boys.

00:21:36.100 And if you go down the list, so basically you have the best high school boy, um, a child

00:21:43.020 against the best female athlete in the world.

00:21:47.280 And if you go down the list for all the track and field world records, the boy wins, the

00:21:54.240 boys win every single one, except for the marathon, all of the others, well over a dozen, close

00:22:01.780 to two dozen, um, the boys win handily.

00:22:05.640 So, so for example, 200 meters, just pulling one example at random, 200 meters, the woman,

00:22:13.520 the women's world record is 21.34 world record.

00:22:18.160 Um, best woman, best woman, female athlete in the world, adult that was beat by a 14 year

00:22:24.280 old boy with a 20.89.

00:22:27.000 Okay.

00:22:29.280 Um, and that's a pretty significant difference by the way, in a 200 meter dash, 1500 meters,

00:22:35.720 uh, best female time women's world record is, um, is, uh, three minutes, 50 sec, 50.07.

00:22:45.100 And, um, that was beat by about two seconds by a 14 year old boy.

00:22:50.100 And you go down the list and you've got 14 year old boys, 15, 16, 17 year old boys beating

00:22:56.160 the women's world record times in every single contest, except one.

00:23:00.740 Um, oh, but there's, there's, there's, there's no advantage, no advantage at all.

00:23:08.800 All right.

00:23:09.640 Um, moving on now, the COVID panic pushers have zeroed in on Florida again.

00:23:15.800 Uh, they, I suppose they were never not zeroed in on Florida, but they tell us that Florida

00:23:19.980 is the new epicenter of COVID.

00:23:23.420 Uh, there, there's a, there's a crisis, an emergency in Florida.

00:23:26.540 Here's a report from the CBS Miami affiliate.

00:23:30.440 Um, this report was published yesterday.

00:23:32.100 It says Florida is becoming the epicenter.

00:23:34.400 And as I read this, pay attention to what you're not told.

00:23:39.720 Okay.

00:23:40.840 Florida is becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

00:23:43.640 And just this week, cases jumped 50% with more than 110,000 new cases reported.

00:23:49.100 Case numbers are now back to where they were in January before the vaccine became available.

00:23:53.120 Dr. Eileen Marty said there is no higher risk area in the United States than we're seeing here.

00:23:59.420 The numbers that we're seeing are unbelievable, just unbelievably frightening.

00:24:04.340 According to the Florida health department, the new positivity rate for all of Florida is

00:24:08.460 at 18% in Broward.

00:24:10.220 It's 14% Miami data.

00:24:11.300 It's 12% Monroe County is at 16%.

00:24:14.120 Um, and, uh, going on, I'm just skimming through to see if we get this information I'm looking

00:24:19.800 for other hospitals like Memorial healthcare system say they're overwhelmed.

00:24:25.800 Uh, this morning we had over 420 patients with COVID and 55 are in ICU and the ICU.

00:24:31.200 55 people are fighting for their lives.

00:24:33.120 And only one of them is vaccinated.

00:24:35.360 Um, said a COVID ICU nurse manager named Joanna Maja.

00:24:40.900 And skimming through, no, you notice what's missing here.

00:24:46.420 What we're not being told, um, how many people are dying?

00:24:52.480 That's what they're not telling us.

00:24:54.980 And this is the shift that I've been talking about over the last few days.

00:24:58.340 Now you go back to the winter, um, and for the year prior to that.

00:25:02.880 And that's what, that was the number one thing we were told is how many people are dying?

00:25:10.640 The death rate, which, which in a way is fair because that is the, that you would think 0.58

00:25:17.700 that's the most important figure.

00:25:21.040 How many people are dying?

00:25:23.760 Because we know that a great majority of people get the virus, they recover.

00:25:28.220 Okay.

00:25:28.380 And they're fine.

00:25:29.680 And we're not too worried about that.

00:25:31.060 So that's, that's not the really troubling when we hear, um, unbelievably frightening.

00:25:38.020 When I, when I, when someone tells me they have unbelievably frightening statistics about a

00:25:42.220 disease, well, then I want to hear about the deaths because that's the unbelievably frightening

00:25:47.140 thing.

00:25:48.700 If people are dying left and right, but if millions of people are getting a virus and

00:25:54.340 they barely even notice they have it and, uh, they have a headache in the sniffles for a few

00:25:59.640 days and then they're fine.

00:26:02.040 I don't consider that unbelievably frightening, frightening, even if a lot of people haven't.

00:26:07.760 Now, if a great portion of those people are dying, that is unbelievably frightening.

00:26:12.000 Except in this article, and this is the case in so many of the articles that you're going

00:26:15.840 to read about the COVID outbreak in Florida, Florida is the new epicenter.

00:26:19.200 Florida is doing horrible.

00:26:20.240 So they're not going to say much about the deaths.

00:26:22.940 And, um, why is that?

00:26:25.000 Well, it's because not a lot of people are dying in Florida.

00:26:29.520 So as it stands right now, I'm looking at the latest statistics.

00:26:31.780 This is the New York times far from a far right rag.

00:26:35.260 Okay.

00:26:36.140 Um, and they're also not trying to do any favors to Florida, but this is what they say.

00:26:41.380 Seven day average for deaths as of August 1st, 2021 is 58.

00:26:46.680 Okay.

00:26:47.140 That's the, um, seven day daily average of 58 people.

00:26:50.860 And just out of curiosity, I don't have to look it up right now because I don't know it

00:26:53.500 off the top of my head.

00:26:55.960 What is the population of Florida?

00:26:57.880 It is 21 million.

00:27:01.220 So in a, in a state with 21 million people on average, 58 in the entire state are dying.

00:27:10.540 It's sad when anybody dies, but 58 out of 21 million.

00:27:16.020 And, you know, last week we, we kind of broke this down.

00:27:20.320 We went through the, the major cities, the most populated cities in the country to look

00:27:24.460 at, you know, what their daily death rate is.

00:27:27.800 And in a lot of these cities, like in Chicago and other cities, Philadelphia, it's like one

00:27:32.140 or two or zero.

00:27:34.540 Washington DC has not had a death from COVID in at least a week.

00:27:38.940 They've had one or two in two weeks.

00:27:40.900 What about in Florida?

00:27:44.460 We break it down a little bit.

00:27:46.160 Um, and I will look this up right now, just out of curiosity, live on the air.

00:27:52.680 Okay.

00:27:53.100 So look it up Miami.

00:27:54.380 Okay.

00:27:54.800 Just as an example, Miami, according to the New York times statistics has not had a death

00:28:02.140 from COVID since, what is this?

00:28:05.160 We'll call it June 9th or 10th.

00:28:10.720 So they've gone almost the entire summer in Miami without a single death.

00:28:16.560 Um, what is the most populated city in Florida?

00:28:19.920 I think it's Jacksonville, I believe.

00:28:23.060 And, uh, let's see.

00:28:26.980 What about them?

00:28:27.840 I'm looking at it right now.

00:28:28.860 They have not had a death in Jacksonville in the entire city since again, early June,

00:28:35.340 let's say June 3rd or 4th or 5th.

00:28:39.360 Um, you could go, I don't know, Orlando we could look at.

00:28:43.920 Let's see, Orlando again, just a, just a, the, the death line on the, on the graph is just

00:28:50.140 solid straight across.

00:28:51.400 Until you get back to again, early June.

00:28:56.500 So some of the biggest, the most populated, most condensely populated cities in Florida

00:29:01.940 have not had any deaths at all for almost the entire summer.

00:29:08.420 So that's the, that is unbelievably frightening.

00:29:12.740 And you know what?

00:29:13.620 It's true that that is unbelievably frightening.

00:29:15.680 If you want the pandemic panic to continue, if you're frightened of the pandemic ending,

00:29:21.400 then it is absolutely frightening that so few people are dying, I suppose.

00:29:27.360 But to those of us who don't want people to die and who actually love and cherish life.

00:29:33.820 Okay. 0.98

00:29:34.260 To those of us who are not deranged scumbags, this is great news. 0.99

00:29:39.520 This is, this is great. 0.98

00:29:43.420 It's very sad when anybody dies.

00:29:44.980 We know that people are going to die every single day in this country.

00:29:47.740 Hundreds of people every single day die.

00:29:48.780 Very sad thing.

00:29:50.560 But when you can look at some of the most populated cities in Florida or across the country and

00:29:54.680 see that almost nobody is dying from this.

00:29:58.520 Great.

00:29:59.420 Wonderful news.

00:30:00.040 We should throw a parade celebrating it.

00:30:02.920 But we can't because it is actually being mourned by, by the COVID panic pushers.

00:30:07.720 All right.

00:30:08.320 Next year, the CDC's eviction moratorium has expired.

00:30:11.860 That was the rule passed down by our overlords of the CDC saying that landlords are not allowed

00:30:17.880 to evict people who don't pay their rents.

00:30:20.760 Now, how in the hell does the CDC have the authority to make a policy?

00:30:25.920 How do they have the authority to make any policy, let alone a housing policy?

00:30:31.100 Well, nobody ever quite explained that.

00:30:33.060 The CDC never explained where they get this authority from, but they found it.

00:30:36.960 Or rather, they just claimed it.

00:30:39.260 That's what tyrants do. 0.99

00:30:40.340 They say, oh, you know, that's what do you mean authority?

00:30:42.260 I have the authority because I'm doing it.

00:30:43.860 That's why I have it.

00:30:46.760 And so that was the policy had been in place for months now.

00:30:49.080 And then it expired.

00:30:50.240 Congress didn't extend it.

00:30:51.400 And now the socialist wing of the Democrat Party, which is otherwise known as the entire

00:30:55.600 Democrat Party, is playing the blame game.

00:30:58.040 First, here's AOC a few nights ago in the middle of the night saying that she was marching

00:31:03.060 to the Capitol to demand that the moratorium be extended.

00:31:07.540 This, I think, is pretty frightening.

00:31:09.240 This is kind of an insurrection that she, you might say, that she conducted on her own.

00:31:14.160 Let's watch this.

00:31:14.660 Hello, from Washington.

00:31:19.060 It is about 1124 right now.

00:31:22.620 And I am walking to the Capitol because Congress is about to allow the national eviction moratorium

00:31:31.280 to expire at midnight tonight.

00:31:34.780 And they're forcing the moratorium to expire before the emergency rental assistance money

00:31:42.780 has gotten out to renters and mom and pop landlords.

00:31:48.240 And so I'm heading out over there because Sister Cori Bush has called for us to come out there

00:31:57.040 and call on Congress to bring their butts back so that we can vote to extend the moratorium. 0.98

00:32:01.580 It's not just me and it's not just Representative Bush, but we've done a call and lots of everyday

00:32:10.500 people are starting to show up on the Capitol steps demanding that we extend the eviction

00:32:17.020 moratorium because the alternative is to allow almost 11 million people to be at risk of eviction

00:32:25.480 starting midnight tonight.

00:32:27.680 Look at that.

00:32:28.800 That is, uh, that's, that's terrible.

00:32:30.880 People storming the Capitol, an insurrection, it's worse than 9-11, honestly.

00:32:38.680 Um, but it's the, the eviction moratorium, she's saying it's, it's coming to an end.

00:32:43.420 People are going to be evicted.

00:32:45.020 It's going to be a crisis across the country.

00:32:47.400 And that might actually happen where, where lots of people lose their housing because,

00:32:51.560 um, they've been told for the last many months that they don't have to pay their rent.

00:32:56.760 And, and, and, and that was never going to last forever.

00:33:00.660 It couldn't last forever.

00:33:02.920 And so by giving people, waving your magic wand and giving millions of people the right,

00:33:10.600 quote unquote, to not pay their rent, you have set them up for this AOC.

00:33:15.040 You've set them up for what's about to happen.

00:33:20.180 But we should say she was on CNN later after storming the Capitol and, um, and conducting

00:33:26.900 this insurrection.

00:33:28.000 The insurrectionist was on CNN talking about this and she doesn't blame the Republican

00:33:32.860 party.

00:33:33.100 She actually blames the Democrats.

00:33:34.100 Let's watch that.

00:33:34.620 Democrats control the house.

00:33:36.640 You guys control the Senate.

00:33:37.840 You guys control the white house.

00:33:39.520 Nothing aggressive was done by leadership, uh, until just a couple of days ago.

00:33:44.240 Who's to blame here?

00:33:45.820 Well, you know, I think there's a couple of, of issues here.

00:33:48.340 First of all, you are absolutely correct in that the house and house leadership had the

00:33:52.780 opportunity to vote, to extend the moratorium.

00:33:55.320 And there were many, and there was frankly a handful of conservative Democrats in the house

00:34:00.100 that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote. 0.83

00:34:02.820 And we have to, um, really just call a spade a spade.

00:34:06.420 We cannot in good faith blame the Republican party when house Democrats have a majority.

00:34:11.520 Now there is something to be said for the fact that this court order came down on the

00:34:15.460 white house a month ago and the white house waited until the day before the house adjourned

00:34:20.700 to release a statement asking on Congress to extend the moratorium.

00:34:25.540 Conservative Democrats.

00:34:27.840 That's the funniest thing I've heard in several days.

00:34:30.560 A handful of conservative Democrats.

00:34:32.500 Who are those exactly?

00:34:35.300 Yeah, it's conservative.

00:34:36.240 Hey, every single Democrat that you will talk to publicly will say, you know, for example,

00:34:42.000 that men can get pregnant. 0.99

00:34:43.480 So that, that, that's conservative now.

00:34:47.220 Conservative Democrats.

00:34:48.640 Uh, but this is a perfect example of the faux compassion that you get from the left.

00:34:55.860 And even a lot of people on the right who, who defend these sorts of policies and eviction

00:35:00.100 more time.

00:35:00.760 If we could put to the side, the fact that the CDC does not have the authority to issue

00:35:05.380 such a proclamation in the first place.

00:35:08.380 And it's, it's kind of, you know, that's the law.

00:35:10.780 Okay.

00:35:11.000 The constitution, it's sort of hard to put that to the side.

00:35:13.260 It's, it's really important.

00:35:14.180 I would say if we want to be a civilized society, um, under, under any kind of rule of law, then,

00:35:21.040 then you can't really put the law to the side.

00:35:22.920 But if we were to do that and just talk about this thing on the merits, 1.00

00:35:26.720 this is horrific, um, counterproductive, stupid, morally deranged, immoral, that you are telling 0.99

00:35:42.220 people that they must, that they're required to keep people in their homes, on their property, 1.00

00:35:50.040 who are not paying for the right to be there.

00:35:54.020 That's what the government declared.

00:35:56.720 If you're a landlord, um, and there's someone on your, on your property, in your home,

00:36:03.380 who is refusing to pay you, refusing to compensate you at all, you must continue to pay for them

00:36:11.680 to live there.

00:36:13.760 You got to pay their bills.

00:36:15.160 You're paying the mortgage.

00:36:16.880 You have to pay their rent for them and allow them to stay on your property.

00:36:24.140 That, you know what that is?

00:36:25.060 That's slavery. 0.99

00:36:25.780 That's forced labor. 1.00

00:36:28.340 You're being forced by the government to pay someone else's rent for them on your property.

00:36:36.780 It's like, it's unthinkable. 1.00

00:36:39.320 And yet millions of idiots will defend it on the basis of compassion. 1.00

00:36:43.940 Compassion for who exactly? 1.00

00:36:45.140 What about the person who owns the house?

00:36:51.960 Owns the property?

00:36:54.240 What about them?

00:36:55.640 You're putting them underwater because a big part of their financial plan here is that,

00:37:00.020 you know, they've got to pay the mortgage on this property.

00:37:02.520 And so to help them pay the mortgage, then that's, that's, that's why the renters have

00:37:07.160 to pay.

00:37:07.560 It's not, you know, just to be clear, it's not because they're mean landlords are, it's

00:37:11.740 not because they're mean that they're making you pay the rent.

00:37:14.580 It's because they're providing you with something with a service and you have to pay in exchange,

00:37:18.840 but also they need to pay.

00:37:21.740 Very often they have bills.

00:37:23.540 They have to, they have to pay the mortgage on this property.

00:37:25.480 And if you don't chip in, then now they got to pay their own mortgage for their home plus

00:37:31.340 this and however many other properties they own.

00:37:34.440 So you are putting them in a financial crisis by not fulfilling your own obligations.

00:37:42.500 And so, yeah, it's, you know what?

00:37:43.680 It's compassionate if we pretend that the landlords don't exist, that they're not really

00:37:48.320 people.

00:37:51.440 Speaking of forced labor and slavery, if we just pretend that they don't count as people, 0.95

00:37:55.480 then, yeah, it's perfectly compassionate.

00:37:59.580 And, and again, the land, yeah, there are mean landlords out there.

00:38:04.680 I haven't, I haven't rented in a long time, but with my experience with landlords, I had

00:38:08.540 some good experiences and some bad experiences.

00:38:11.560 So there are mean landlords out there. 0.99

00:38:13.200 There are bad landlords, sure, but it's still their property.

00:38:17.440 They own it and you don't have a right to be there if you're not paying for it.

00:38:21.980 Imagine thinking, imagine thinking that someone else, some stranger is entitled, you are entitled

00:38:29.400 to stay on their property without compensating them.

00:38:32.040 You're entitled to it.

00:38:33.840 Imagine walking into someone else's house, a stranger, you don't know them and saying,

00:38:37.420 I'm entitled to be here.

00:38:38.240 No, you can't kick me out because that's what you're doing.

00:38:40.840 You're squatting.

00:38:41.560 You're a squatter now and you are trying to defend your right to squat on this property

00:38:48.260 without paying.

00:38:49.820 It really is infuriating.

00:38:52.520 And, and, and just so you know, yeah, there are mean landlords out there. 0.92

00:38:56.000 There are bad landlords, but not every landlord is some sort of fat cat, you know, in his,

00:39:02.480 in his office, sitting on his leather chair, stroking his, his, his white cat, smoking a cigar,

00:39:09.140 laughing maniacally about all the poor people he's about to evict from his property.

00:39:13.880 Okay.

00:39:14.600 That's, that's not the case.

00:39:15.640 That's not how, that's not how all landlords are.

00:39:17.240 In fact, most of them aren't, you know, a lot of landlords, they're just normal people.

00:39:21.860 You want to know a situation that happens a lot.

00:39:23.620 And this is how, you know, a lot of, um, single family homes that are for rent.

00:39:28.220 You can have just a normal family that moves from a house and let's say they're not able to

00:39:34.740 sell it or they decide they don't want to sell it.

00:39:36.580 And so, and they move into a different house and they rent out the house they just moved out of.

00:39:42.380 These are just normal middle-class families.

00:39:44.720 Yeah.

00:39:44.920 There are plenty of normal middle-class families, middle-class people who are landlords.

00:39:51.760 And, but they don't count.

00:39:53.820 And now you're saying, oh, you got to pay two mortgages now.

00:39:58.780 And if you're destitute because of it, that's your problem.

00:40:01.980 And, and, and also I think it, it, it, it's, uh, there's some bearing had, this has some bearing on this thing that employers across the country are begging for employees.

00:40:17.720 Okay.

00:40:18.100 There is not a crisis of jobs not being available.

00:40:22.360 Employers are begging for people to come work for them.

00:40:25.780 Offer, you can get a signing bonus at McDonald's now.

00:40:28.320 So who exactly are these, uh, these millions of renters who simply cannot pay their rent at all?

00:40:40.340 Don't have the ability, can't get a job, can't do anything.

00:40:43.760 While you've got employers begging saying, please come work for us.

00:40:46.840 We'll do anything.

00:40:47.580 But I know you have the, you have the right to say, no, I don't want the job, but I'm just going to stay here and I'm not going to pay for anything.

00:40:55.580 And you have to pay for me to stay here in your house.

00:41:00.380 Yeah.

00:41:00.940 Great compassion there.

00:41:02.440 All right.

00:41:03.000 Um, let's see, what else do we got here?

00:41:06.120 Chicago under a mayor, Lori Lightfoot has reinstated its mask mandate.

00:41:10.160 I'm sorry.

00:41:10.600 It's guidance.

00:41:11.240 They're, they're calling it wearing a mask is strongly encouraged for everyone indoors.

00:41:16.000 And this is because of a surge in cases.

00:41:18.360 Although the daily death rate from COVID in Chicago right now is, I think before I said it was, excuse me, it's actually two.

00:41:24.700 So the, I think I said it was one.

00:41:26.420 It's double that.

00:41:27.120 It's actually two.

00:41:28.100 So the COVID daily death rate is two in Chicago, two people dying per day, but now they're reinstating the mask thing.

00:41:32.880 Um, and yet Lori Lightfoot, after reinstating the mask guidance, decided to, um, still have Lollapalooza, which is the, uh, you know, the rock festival.

00:41:47.740 Thousands of people showed up and now, now I, I see, and she was getting some criticism for that and she should be.

00:41:53.620 But I see no problem in principle with having Lollapalooza.

00:41:58.920 I mean, have all the music festivals you want.

00:42:00.780 Live your life.

00:42:01.280 It's fine.

00:42:01.660 It's great.

00:42:01.980 Go to music festival.

00:42:02.740 It's, it's fantastic.

00:42:04.020 But when you're doing it while telling people to wear masks and you're not wearing one yourself, that's where the problem comes in.

00:42:11.680 Although it isn't as bad as DC, where they reinstated their mask mandate, full mandate, even though the average daily death rate from COVID in DC, again, is zero.

00:42:21.360 Yes, zero.

00:42:22.360 And yet even, even after Mayor Bowser put the mandate in effect, she officiated a wedding without masks on for hundreds of people.

00:42:30.600 And the day before that she had, she threw a birthday party, a maskless birthday party for herself.

00:42:36.380 Um, so more, more COVID hypocrisy there.

00:42:39.660 Other Lollapalooza news that I think is worth mentioning, Limp Bizkit performed.

00:42:46.100 Um, kids, you don't know about Limp Bizkit, probably for the better.

00:42:50.080 Fred Durst.

00:42:51.260 Uh, I think, do we have the picture of Fred Durst?

00:42:53.120 This is really important.

00:42:54.180 Okay, there he is.

00:42:55.680 So Fred Durst, I didn't even know he was still alive, but he is.

00:43:01.320 Just barely, based on the picture.

00:43:02.700 That's what Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit looks like now, as he was performing at Lollapalooza.

00:43:06.640 He looks like an LAPD homicide detective in like 1975.

00:43:11.820 Or maybe a, a, a, a track and field coach or something.

00:43:16.740 And everybody calls him Coach Creeper behind his back because of certain rumors that may or may not be true.

00:43:22.860 We're getting old.

00:43:24.340 In conclusion.

00:43:25.040 Um, all right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:43:28.740 This is from Jacob Nobles.

00:43:30.660 He says, it's hilarious that Matt spouts off all of these scientific facts about masks and vaccines,

00:43:35.500 yet he can't even admit the fundamental scientific truth that trans women are women.

00:43:41.080 See, I sense that you're, you're trolling, Jacob, but I, I can't, I don't know.

00:43:44.620 I can never tell anymore.

00:43:45.680 That's the problem.

00:43:47.860 Um, Moose Chuckle says, Matt, this is day three of me making you regret saying,

00:43:52.860 Sweet Daddy Walsh.

00:43:55.340 Well, I regret nothing.

00:43:57.160 And pretty bold of you to make fun of my name with a name like Moose Chuckle.

00:44:02.620 Um, Rebecca says, I posted on social media that I was a proud member of the Sweet Baby Gang.

00:44:06.880 Now everyone thinks I'm pregnant.

00:44:09.140 Thanks, Matt.

00:44:10.200 Well, what's, what, what's wrong with that?

00:44:12.160 Um, and SK says, after your example of how unsafe driving is, I'm scared to ever get into a car again.

00:44:21.580 Yeah, I got a lot of comments like that.

00:44:22.700 We were talking about this comparison with driving and wearing masks.

00:44:24.980 Um, and that's, but that's the thing.

00:44:28.580 And we'll talk more about this in the daily cancellation, come up in a second.

00:44:30.660 But you don't, there are, there are so many things you do in your life that aren't really dangerous.

00:44:37.060 But there are risks involved that you don't even stop to think about.

00:44:42.140 You don't, you don't dwell on it at all.

00:44:43.980 You just go about living your life.

00:44:45.560 I mean, think about how many bridges you have gone over without calculating ahead of time, the probability that this might be a bridge with structural integrity issues.

00:44:58.840 You just don't think about those things.

00:45:01.500 That, that, that's the only way to live and function as a human being.

00:45:04.140 Um, and, um, and finally, Rebecca says, the pornography epidemic terrifies me and the lack of freak out about it is pretty horrifying.

00:45:17.300 Yeah, well, I, I think the, it's, it's not freak out.

00:45:21.140 I don't think we ever want people to freak out about anything because nothing constructive happens about that.

00:45:24.840 But paying attention to it and what it's doing to our children, what pornography is doing to our children.

00:45:29.980 Um, yeah, the fact that we're not paying attention to that, that is horrifying.

00:45:34.140 Especially on the right.

00:45:37.140 Because we know on the left, it's all hedonism all the time.

00:45:41.680 But if, if on the right, we can't focus on this issue or see that it's important to protect our children from this, then, I mean, what hope do we have?

00:45:49.140 What hope do our kids have?

00:45:50.980 We've talked plenty today about the tyranny of the CDC and other supposed public health authorities who, uh, are not authorities at all on that subject anymore.

00:45:58.900 And when we're, we're, we're in the midst of this tyranny, it's the perfect time for Ben's new book, uh, the authoritarian moment to come out and for you to read it.

00:46:08.260 It's now available everywhere that you buy books, pick up this book, authoritarian moment and learn how to say no to an increasingly tyrannical government.

00:46:14.460 The authoritarian moment is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other major bookseller.

00:46:18.520 So get your copy now and leave a five-star review to let others know that this book is definitely worth their time.

00:46:23.400 Also, it might seem like a dream, but lounging with the hosts backstage has never been more in your reach.

00:46:30.560 Um, you probably haven't been dreamt about that.

00:46:33.000 In fact, if you have been dreaming about us, then I'd prefer if you didn't show up for this, or at least don't tell us, because that's kind of creepy.

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00:47:23.280 As we know, Dr. Fauci always has a very busy schedule filled with TV interviews.

00:47:33.020 So it's nice when he could take some time away from his TV interviews to do some more TV interviews.

00:47:37.060 And that was the case this Sunday when he appeared on the show this week on ABC and addressed the skeptics who object to the CDC's new mask mandate.

00:47:44.500 And by the way, skeptics of the CDC's mask mandate include the CDC itself, which, as we've covered, previously said that immune people don't need to wear masks.

00:47:53.140 And now they say they do without ever providing any data to justify the change.

00:47:56.900 In any case, Fauci, who agreed with the CDC when they said one thing about the masks, now agrees with them when they say the opposite.

00:48:02.820 And he goes further.

00:48:03.640 He says that if you disagree, you are infringing on other people's rights.

00:48:07.920 Listen, the fact is there are things that are individual responsibilities that one has, and there are things that have to do with you individually, which also impact others and get the spread of infection that we're seeing now.

00:48:25.040 The surge in cases, John, is impacting everyone in the country.

00:48:30.380 So although you want to respect a person's individual right, when you're dealing with a public health situation, and we are, in fact, in a very serious public health challenge here with a pandemic, with a virus that has an extraordinary capability of spreading rapidly and efficiently from person to person.

00:48:52.400 So a person's individual, individual decision to not wear a mask not only impacts them, because if they get infected, even though they say it's my decision, if I get infected, I'll worry about that.

00:49:07.480 But the fact is, if you get infected, even if you are without symptoms, you very well may infect another person who may be vulnerable, who may get seriously ill.

00:49:18.260 So in essence, you are encroaching on their individual rights because you're making them vulnerable.

00:49:25.080 So you could argue that situation both ways.

00:49:29.080 That's pretty impressive, you have to admit.

00:49:30.800 Dr. Fauci was not content to simply be wrong about literally everything he says about science and medicine.

00:49:34.920 Now he's expanding his horizons to be wrong legally and philosophically, too. 0.98

00:49:39.160 He's like a renaissance man of wrongness, a jack of all bulls**t, you might say. 0.91

00:49:43.200 And this all may remind you of the ranting and raving done by Don Lemon on CNN a few days prior, which we played on the show, where he called for vaccine passports and claimed that unvaccinated people don't have the right to use public transportation, eat at restaurants, go to their jobs. 0.62

00:49:57.780 But he's not trying to infringe on their rights simply by removing their ability to do anything at all.

00:50:02.480 No, he says that they're infringing on everybody else's rights by existing.

00:50:06.760 Now, the idea that you're taking another person's right away by unknowingly getting them sick is total abject nonsense.

00:50:16.800 But it's also the idea that lies at the heart of most of these draconian policies.

00:50:20.780 I doubt whether the people pushing and instating the policies believe it themselves, but it's certainly what they want you to believe.

00:50:27.380 They want you to believe that you have a right to be free from sickness.

00:50:30.640 And anybody who makes you sick, even if they don't mean to, has committed some sort of wrong against you.

00:50:37.540 They want you to believe that it's your right for everyone else to wear a mask.

00:50:41.760 You are entitled to have everyone else wear a mask, they say.

00:50:44.900 And as far as that goes, they're lying.

00:50:47.920 Probably the craziest form of this argument came from Congressman Ted Lieu, who tweeted recently, quote,

00:50:52.360 You have no right to spread your respiratory droplets on me, on others, in public, and in businesses.

00:50:59.200 The majority of reasonable Americans are going to fight the tyranny of the minority who insist that they can leave their saliva everywhere, and we will win.

00:51:07.940 Yes, that's what.

00:51:09.500 Going out in public and breathing is now insisting that you can leave your saliva everywhere.

00:51:16.940 You have no right to breathe around other people.

00:51:19.740 You have a right to be free of other people breathing.

00:51:22.360 Is what Ted Lieu says.

00:51:24.780 This is, that's the kind of statement that, in another time, in another place, that would get you locked in an insane asylum.

00:51:33.060 That's the kind of thing that clinical OCD patients would say.

00:51:40.040 So let's begin with a very basic point here.

00:51:41.880 If you are infringing on other people's rights by unknowingly getting them sick, then you have infringed on other people's rights hundreds of times in your life.

00:51:52.180 Every time you leave your house, COVID or no COVID, mask or no mask, you are potentially infringing on other people's rights because you could potentially get them sick with any disease you do or don't have.

00:52:02.680 Do or don't know you have, I should say.

00:52:04.240 If you don't have the right to put other people in jeopardy by going about your daily life, then you don't have the right to go about your daily life ever at all, period.

00:52:17.340 When you venture out into the world and encounter other humans in any context, you are putting them in jeopardy theoretically.

00:52:25.300 You could get them sick.

00:52:26.880 You could cause them harm some other way.

00:52:28.480 Driving is an obvious example that we talked about last week.

00:52:31.180 Whenever you drive down the highway, you're putting other people on the highway in jeopardy.

00:52:36.400 Especially if you're a woman.

00:52:38.220 Just kidding.

00:52:39.180 Not really.

00:52:39.620 There are, of course, undue or unreasonable risks that you might take, which may result in harm coming to another person.

00:52:44.980 Driving drunk is one.

00:52:46.620 Another might be, you know, setting off a pink smoke bomb in the middle of a drought surrounded by dry wood and grass as part of a gender reveal party, leading to a wildfire that torches 20,000 acres and kills someone in the process. 0.86

00:52:59.240 And that was a real thing that happened.

00:53:00.340 The couple in that case face up to 20 years in prison.

00:53:03.020 And that's probably fair because the risk they took was extreme and unnecessary and unreasonable.

00:53:09.340 And their actions, given the context, had a very high likelihood of resulting in disaster.

00:53:15.360 The question then is whether a person with no symptoms, who has no known contagious illness, and no particular reason to think he might have such an illness,

00:53:25.780 and who might even be immune because of prior infection or vaccination, is somehow engaging in extreme, unreasonable, potentially murderous risk-taking by simply walking out of his house and down the street without a mask on his face.

00:53:40.380 If the answer to that question is yes, then, again, it must apply all the time to everyone, whether COVID is a factor or not.

00:53:48.620 There is always a chance that you could get someone else sick with an illness you don't know you have.

00:53:53.200 There is always a chance that this unknown illness could be fatal.

00:53:59.160 If we're not supposed to take those kinds of chances with each other's health, if it's an infringement on their liberty to do so,

00:54:05.340 then we should never see a stranger's face ever again in public.

00:54:09.380 Permanent masking is the only way.

00:54:10.960 It is not unreasonable for a healthy-seeming person to go about their lives as every other healthy-seeming person in history through all time has gone about their lives.

00:54:24.640 Remember, this idea that you should just wear a mask preemptively everywhere you go,

00:54:29.500 even if you're not at any significant risk of spreading or contracting a virus, is completely new.

00:54:35.440 Humans have never responded to a disease this way.

00:54:37.940 And it's not because there weren't any diseases.

00:54:42.400 And yet, if we don't adopt a radically new approach to living, rejecting the way that everyone everywhere for all time has lived,

00:54:50.100 then we're not only wrong, but somehow we are the extremists, the radicals.

00:54:55.180 The ones who need to defend our own behavior rather than the other way around.

00:55:00.060 What it comes down to is this.

00:55:02.420 And if what I'm saying, what I'm about to say here offends or scandalizes you,

00:55:05.400 that's a sign that you're hopelessly confused.

00:55:06.960 So here it is.

00:55:09.180 You don't have the right to not get sick.

00:55:14.800 Someone else's bare, maskless face can only be considered an infringement on your rights if you possess the positive right to be free from all illnesses.

00:55:24.680 But you don't have that positive right.

00:55:26.960 You cannot have that positive right.

00:55:29.640 You may as well say you have the right to never die.

00:55:32.720 I mean, sickness is an inevitability of life.

00:55:34.800 If the risk of sickness comes hand in hand with your membership in a human society,

00:55:38.900 in fact, even if you separated yourself from human society and all human contact, you're still going to get sick.

00:55:44.560 Because nearly everything you come across in the physical world is a potential transmitter of disease and death.

00:55:53.400 Everything.

00:55:53.880 Now, it's not psychologically healthy to view everything that way or to dwell on it, but it's true. 0.96

00:56:01.440 To say that you have the right to not get sick is to say that everyone else, the entire world, nature itself,

00:56:07.660 has a responsibility to shield you from an inescapable aspect of reality.

00:56:14.200 The idea that we have the right to not get sick stems then not only from an overwhelming, suffocating sense of entitlement,

00:56:21.000 but also from the utterly deluded notion that a sickness-free, death-free existence is potentially available to us if we just take the right precautions.

00:56:29.600 It isn't.

00:56:30.220 No such existence is on offer for anyone.

00:56:34.820 Sickness, discomfort, misery, death.

00:56:38.400 All of these will accompany you through your life, no matter what you do.

00:56:42.820 They're always going to be right there, standing right beside you.

00:56:46.640 Until they finally consume you and put you in the dirt.

00:56:50.040 Again, we may not like to dwell on this fact, but it is a fact, undeniably, unavoidably.

00:56:55.220 With all that said, does that mean that a person who is sick with a dangerous illness and knows it

00:57:01.940 has no responsibility to take precautions or avoid contact with other people in some circumstances?

00:57:08.320 No, of course not.

00:57:09.720 You don't have any universal and inalienable right to never get sick,

00:57:14.100 but that doesn't mean that someone can infect you effectively on purpose.

00:57:17.720 Just as you don't have a universal inalienable right to never die,

00:57:21.820 but that doesn't mean that someone could just walk up and stab you in the heart.

00:57:25.220 So here's an example of a form of viral transmission

00:57:28.100 that would constitute an infringement and a crime.

00:57:32.480 Or it should be a crime anyway.

00:57:34.280 If somebody knows they have HIV

00:57:35.940 and they have sex with somebody else without telling that person that they're HIV positive.

00:57:41.800 Okay, there's an infringement.

00:57:43.920 But incidentally, in California, it is no longer a felony to do exactly that.

00:57:48.980 In that state, a law was passed recently making it so that it is not a felony

00:57:52.440 to knowingly expose another person to HIV without their consent.

00:57:58.700 To do something with them that you know is very likely to give them HIV and not tell them.

00:58:06.640 That is no longer a felony.

00:58:10.640 And of course, that change in the law was celebrated by the left, especially by LGBT activists.

00:58:16.320 And as it happens, these are many of the same people who now say that you're infringing other people's rights

00:58:21.220 by walking through Walmart without a mask.

00:58:23.480 Having sex with someone and exposing them to HIV on purpose is all right. 0.93

00:58:29.360 But standing by a person with no known illness, you know, in a checkout line for a few minutes without a mask on, 0.91

00:58:37.040 that makes you effectively a biological terrorist.

00:58:40.860 That's the logic we're supposed to accept.

00:58:42.660 And it's exactly backwards.

00:58:45.120 And that is why the mask cultists are once again,

00:58:48.600 not for the first time, not for the last time,

00:58:51.740 canceled.

00:58:52.000 And that'll do it for us today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 02, 2021

Ep. 766 - I Cannot Trust The Experts Because They've All Gone Insane

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