In this episode of Day 50 of the Apocalypse, we talk about the coronavirus crisis and how the government is planning for it to last 18 months. We also talk about how the Dutch Health Minister collapses in parliament due to fatigue from fighting the crisis.
00:03:44.000There was a research study done by Edelman, and they found that of like 15 different criteria, the most trusted individuals on the coronavirus are scientists.
00:05:25.000You have a global pandemic, a respiratory illness that causes people to become faint and have shortness of breath, and then people pass out.
00:05:31.000I mean, two plus two equals four, right?
00:06:20.000People that are that, I mean, working that hard, first off, we do need people that are working crazy, but you're basically Lowering your immune system when you do contract it you're gonna get hit crazy good point, man So if if this isn't the coronavirus and he's that weak right now if he comes in contact with anybody this dude's dead Well, come on.
00:07:11.000Bruins is a top government health official in the Netherlands, where the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus rose by 346 on Wednesday to 2,051, with 58 deaths, the country's National Institute for Health said.
00:07:42.000I think the deaths in New York City is only like 10 or 6.
00:07:45.000Dude, when MSNBC came out and now I guess they've done like multiple segments where it's at least Joe Scarborough being like, we must support the president.
00:07:58.000Dude, these people are scared if they're going to come out and support Trump.
00:08:02.000But what Scarborough was saying is that the worst case estimates are 2 million dead, more than World War II, Korea, Vietnam combined or something like that.
00:08:21.000And, look, this is a verified, this is Chinese-Austrian artist haunted by the Chinese.
00:08:27.000I don't know who this person is, but they're a verified Twitter user, so they have, you know, I don't know if that necessarily means they're more credible or less, because journalists, you know what I mean?
00:08:36.000But what, you know, what am I supposed to think when I see a bunch of people wearing masks in a hospital and someone passes out?
00:08:41.000And we're talking about a respiratory illness.
00:08:43.000Now, the funny thing about this is that I actually pulled up, there was a bunch of videos from Snopes.
00:08:54.000But Snopes and other fact-checking outlets were really, really, really downplaying this.
00:08:58.000Whenever somebody would say something like this, like, check this out, Wuhan pneumonia, they'd say, no, no, no, fake news, fake news, ignore it all.
00:09:05.000The World Health Organization tweeted mid-January, new report, new study from China shows that the coronavirus can't be transmitted person to person.
00:09:45.000Carlson said he was alerted to the danger of the new coronavirus after speaking to a non-partisan figure in the US government with access to intelligence, who claimed that the Chinese authorities were not being transparent about the outbreak, which really got my attention.
00:09:58.000Carlson talked about the outbreak in his monologue on his show on February 3rd, but attention at the time was focused on the Iowa caucuses, and that when people see everything through an ideological lens, it's very hard to get to tell a straightforward story.
00:10:15.000Calling this out, but what is disconcerting to me is that this story basically confirms, look, I know everyone basically speculates China's lying.
00:10:45.000So apparently what ended up happening was Trump is hearing from all of these, you know, he's got, he's got yes men around him and he's got people who just don't trust the media.
00:10:53.000So they're like, no, no, no, no, ignore this.
00:10:56.000And a lot of Fox personalities were saying the same thing, you know, incorrectly, but that's the big challenge when you have, like you said, an ideological lens, you have all of these people, you know, in media who just lie all the time.
00:11:46.000But this story, to me, it gives some confirmation that the U.S.
00:11:50.000government knows that China's been lying the whole time.
00:11:52.000So if anyone in the government now comes out and says, you know, China's, you know, getting the numbers down, we're seeing the end of this, I'm gonna be like, nah, you're lying.
00:12:47.000I mean, look, I'm not an expert on China.
00:12:49.000Like, I get hit up by a ton of people in the comments saying, like, you should check out these channels.
00:12:53.000Yeah, that's, like, you know, I've seen some of them, and for sure.
00:12:57.000My understanding is, you know, because I've talked to a few people who are experts in the region, some journalists, and they were saying that they're low-income, uneducated, you know, people who just go about their daily lives.
00:13:07.000And they're just kind of like cogs in the machine.
00:13:09.000They're not super concerned for the most part.
00:13:11.000There are a lot of people who are, but a lot of regular people are just like, leave me alone.
00:13:15.000And so the government does their thing, and as long as you don't rock the boat, you just do your thing and you live.
00:14:35.000When I was working for Fusion, there was a team of journalists there that were, I say team, but it was a couple, they were investigating the Nicaraguan Canal.
00:14:44.000Now this collapsed, but basically you had Chinese interests didn't want to pay for the Panama Canal.
00:16:18.000So what happens now that we're taking all of this stuff away from China?
00:16:21.000They were undermining us, they were taking our manufacturing, that was building up their economy, we take it all back, then what?
00:16:28.000They get desperate, they get angry, facing collapse.
00:16:31.000You know, it's possible the rich people in China just bow out, but I gotta imagine there's some people in that government who are gonna be like, no way, I'm not giving it up, and I'll take it by force.
00:16:40.000So I think, you know, what you end up seeing is, I don't think you'll see China, you know, send a bunch of U-boats to our shores and then storm the beaches of, you know, San Diego or something.
00:16:49.000But what you will see is them increasing their push on the South China Sea into other regions, doing underhanded deals with other countries that we've sanctioned, and then eventually it gets to that point where... World War III?
00:17:01.000Yeah, because, like, imagine you have the South China Sea.
00:17:03.000Let's say China starts saying, you know what?
00:17:06.000The more we isolate our economies, this is one of the ideas that, you know, I don't necessarily want to use the word globalist, but there are people who had this political theory that if you create free trade, you will force economic trade lines that both countries will resist being broken, you know, which prevents war.
00:17:25.000So, if we had, say, the TPP with China, and all of our manufacturing is over there, war would be very difficult because it's supposed to be reciprocal.
00:17:36.000So, I don't want to pretend like I know what the plan was that a lot of these politicians had, but this is something that's been talked about.
00:17:42.000If you get trade lines between the countries, both sides have an interest in not going to war.
00:17:47.000But what happens when China controls, it's all one-sided, and they're getting everything from it, and just extracting your labor and siphoning it away?
00:18:40.000One of the challenges of any democratic system, we're not a democracy, we're a constitutional republic, but we use democratic institutions to send representatives to Washington.
00:18:50.000With representative government, it is very, very difficult to go to war.
00:19:10.000So I don't know all of my World War II history, but I remember reading that they were anti-World War II protesters.
00:19:16.000They were like, we should not enter, you know, we should not intervene and stuff, and they were protesting that we were going over there.
00:19:23.000You know, the really crazy thing about military and stuff is that people don't seem to realize how powerful a single individual with a gun is.
00:19:33.000So, you'll talk to these people, a lot of like, I guess, I don't know, more urban types, uneducated, non-military, you know, no experience, and they'll say things like, no one will go to war with us, we've got aircraft carriers and scud missiles and blah blah blah, and it's like, what is that gonna do?
00:19:50.000We're going to level a few city blocks.
00:20:07.000So that's one of the funny arguments about, you know, the gun control groups is that You know, if you're really gonna go up against the government, they got missiles, and it's like, so why did we lose in Afghanistan and Vietnam?
00:21:10.000Yeah, but, you know, in this regard, if China ends up, you know, if we really went into a war with them, I'm pretty sure their standing army is bigger than ours.
00:21:18.000But we do have technological superiority.
00:21:42.000I remember when I first started playing, like, Command & Conquer, and I'm like, you gotta upgrade your science, and then you gotta make special, you know, get the Tiberium, and then make special robots, and make the better guys.
00:21:51.000And then my friend actually showed me, and he was like, no, just look, and he started just, like, spamming it, and just, like, making a bunch of, what are they called, GIs?
00:21:57.000It's been two decades since I've played that game.
00:22:46.000Yeah, especially if he comes out on top of this.
00:22:49.000If he comes out on top, and this ends in two months, and the market skyrockets, and he's saved the day, dude, you're gonna see people who you never thought being like, oh, I was wrong about him.
00:27:06.000But now that you have the moderates of this country, regular Americans saying, just keep me safe, now you see Joe Scarborough be like, support the president, right?
00:27:18.000Well, their reaction is based on the fact that they don't want to defy what they think the general public wants.
00:27:23.000So if Trump now says, I know a lot of people have, you know, raised questions and criticisms about this, but you have to understand what Mexico has been doing.
00:27:31.000They've been not taking this seriously and we need to get these numbers down.
00:27:43.000It would almost be like, and this is actually worrisome to me if this, if this continues with no one, you know, putting a check on like government authority, then You're going to have people being scared to question what Trump is doing because it's for national security, right?
00:30:16.000Like, these aren't, these aren't like mandatory lockdowns where the government shows up and like, get in your house!
00:30:21.000No, it's like, you go out, walk the dog, you go to the store, but you just don't- You go to, you work, like, grocery store workers, the unsung heroes.
00:30:30.000Yeah, I got a lot to say about that, too.
00:30:32.000So let's do the Super Chats first, then we'll come back to this, because there's a point I want to make about there are certain jobs that are a necessity for a society, and then there are fake jobs, like ours.
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00:31:38.000So, that was a decent while ago, you know, because Super Chat's coming earlier, but just for those that are tuning in now and curious about what the initial subject was, it was the Dutch health minister was fielding questions on the coronavirus and he collapsed mid-discussion.
00:31:52.000Somebody was saying he might have locked his knees.
00:33:57.000There's, like, an executive's room, like, an executive office, and, like, a top of a skyscraper, and there's, like, a big fat guy with, like, a double chin and a cigar, and, like, he's sitting around with a bunch of toilet paper executives, and he pulls out a roll, and he wads it up and lights it, and then they use it to light their cigars while laughing.
00:34:59.000I'll be walking upstairs, and there'll be, like, someone in the guest room, and she'll be, like, just, like, around the corner, peeking her head out, staring at them while they sleep.
00:39:03.000There was a study done that found something like, I don't know what the number was, it was some high number of percentage of people don't have an inner monologue.
00:39:10.000Dude, I was thinking about that when I was washing my hands earlier.
00:39:25.000But then what I think what an inner monologue is like reading, like now I'm talking into a microphone and now I'm picking up my phone and I'm not typing on my phone.
00:39:35.000But they can't even hear their own voice in their head.
00:40:37.000So I used to do fundraising for non-profits.
00:40:40.000And I got to a point where I would tell people I was training, like, there are, like, seven distinct responses you will get from every single person.
00:41:14.000So I was reading something from, it was like a scientist said this a long time ago, you guys can Google this, he said that humans are very much like electrons, 80% of the time they're predictable.
00:41:48.000That forced a bunch of NPCs to go get toilet paper instead of food?
00:41:52.000No, it's because they're not... They're not... They're not thinking.
00:41:56.000Yeah, it's like when someone pressed go and a bunch of random things are bouncing around a room randomly.
00:42:01.000No, for real, because it literally... It would take five seconds to think about what you would need from a store and toilet paper is not... It is not even in the top ten.
00:43:03.000So, funny story, I was telling this, I've had these, I have a bunch of things I consider silly ideas and fun, you know, thought experiments and whatever you want to call it.
00:43:13.000About 10, 13 years ago, I was in Chicago, and I was talking to a friend about this, and I said, basically what I said just now, like, there's, you know, it could be a single player game like Skyrim, it could be an MMO like World of Warcraft, where you have NPCs and you have players, or it could be just the real world, it's regular and, you know, everyone's alive.
00:44:48.000what sentient means and I understand like not everybody knows these things
00:44:50.000but it was weird to me that at a college well you also taught yourself how to
00:44:55.000learn I guess that's a that's not a huge thing but learning how to learn but
00:45:00.000here's what I'm saying yeah of all of the places outside of a college dorm
00:45:05.000where these kids are supposed to be in higher learning For someone not to know what the word sentient means was weird to me.
00:45:09.000I can understand if, you know, you're a tradesman and you spend your days, you know, you're not being, you're not reading science books and being exposed to a lot of these, you know, things like that.
00:45:19.000Yeah, working a tough job, you go home and you just pass out.
00:45:22.000But then, I think it's fair to say that, you know, my view on college is that they're NPCs.
00:45:28.000Because think about the kind of person that would be attracted to going to a college for the most part.
00:46:25.000Leadership is, yeah, so whatever it is, my experience, you know, especially with colleges, They're people who are just walking mindlessly into a room and then just don't even think about it.
00:46:37.000Which brings me back to the toilet paper people.
00:50:45.000Eli says, at my work, we received letters for out-of-work vehicles from Homeland Security stating that we are allowed to be on the road and allowed to get fuel at the gas station.
00:53:07.000Well, so here's my advice to all of you.
00:53:09.000If you're looking to bug out, the first thing you need to do is make sure that you have a full... your 35 to 40 gallon gas tank for your conversion van is filled.
00:53:19.000And make sure the shower and the solar panels are all working.
00:54:14.000My favorite part is when War Machine, they're heating up the War Machine armor, and he goes, alright, let's do this, and he just jumps out and then, boom, right in the guy's face.
00:54:22.000That scene is awesome, but then he gets beat up because the guy breathes fire, and then he's like, whoa, and then he gets punched in the face.
00:54:27.000But it's still cool when he jumps out and he's like, yeah!
00:55:31.000I don't know what you're talking about.
00:55:33.000Brent says, y'all ever consider the possibility that China was developing the Wuhan coronavirus as a bioweapon and it just got released early by accident?
00:55:49.000Yeah, and so what was actually released and very likely against the wishes of China was that somebody had been doing research on bat coronaviruses and bats bit him and then peed on him.
00:56:01.000quarantined and then whoop here we are.
00:59:19.000It was like, a king thought he was, you know, gonna, you know, he told a jeweler, I want you to craft me something that will make me happy when I'm sad and sad when I'm happy.
00:59:29.000And so, like, I'm probably getting it wrong, but he wrote on a ring, this too shall pass, and so the king could always look at it, and he would know that in his happiest moments this would end at some point and he'd be sad, but in his saddest moments he would realize this too shall pass.
01:03:16.000Matthew Hammond says, will countries sanction China like they did with Germany after World War I, World War II to pay for the costs involved with coronavirus?
01:03:22.000That's why they don't want to admit it's their fault.
01:03:27.000AJ says, I remember seeing an ad 10 to 15 years ago about the Chinese business class laughing about how we were basically paying them to take our country.
01:04:07.000I'm just really, really opposed to the lengths we go to.
01:04:11.000The challenge is there's so much we don't know.
01:04:14.000What I always tell people is I'm willing to bet Trump, Obama, Bush, whoever, they get in office, they're campaigning saying, I'm going to do this.
01:04:21.000They get in office and the intel guy goes, oh, here you go, and hands them a folder.
01:04:25.000And they look at it and open it up and go, Whoa.
01:04:38.000And then all of a sudden, that's why I've always been like, I just don't even want to vote for anybody, you know, because like, I don't, you know, if, and they can't tell us, because what's being said about China, I mean, and Russia too, with like the Qatar Turkey pipeline stuff.
01:04:51.000If people knew it was really going on, they'd be freaking out.
01:06:20.000I'm not going to feel comfortable going to a place that associates with that fringe ideology.
01:06:25.000MineMalek says, considering how big the meme about how we are screwed when Greenland gets infected, I am surprised that no one cares now that it is.
01:09:01.000Well, I don't know if that's a reference to, because we've been inundated with superchats, so I'm gonna have to speed things up in a second.
01:09:05.000Atlas Report says, Remember when Mr. Burns is like, I'm invincible, and Dr. Hibbert says, No, actually, the slightest gust of wind could kill- Invincible!
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01:11:35.000Now I'm going to start moving through the Super Chat, so I apologize to those if I don't read your comments, but, you know, we're getting slammed.
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01:11:44.000JT Brown says, if there are no consequences for the Chinese government and these wet markets, or politicians like Joe Biden take their money, we are screwed.
01:11:52.000Red Beard says, what's your opinion of Trump's response to the question about calling it the Chinese virus it came from China?
01:14:04.000So if you're like a hippie communist who wants to go live on your own private farm with your friends and do your own thing, hey, man, do your thing.
01:14:10.000If you're the kind that wants to, like, you know, throw random people in a gulag, then we got trouble now.
01:15:28.000Richard Levina says, I know we have a history not trusting emergency bills, but early estimates show 4 million people being out of work if there isn't a Fed small biz loan.
01:15:37.000I say this as a small business owner myself with 50 employees.
01:15:42.000Balthazar, thanks for becoming a member.
01:15:44.000For the small business thing, dude, I definitely think the government needs to do something.
01:15:48.000It's annoying to me how they're saying, like, see, socialism works because the government is stepping in.
01:15:52.000No, it's what the government does in emergencies.
01:16:04.000Like, this is the craziest thing to me about the people I grew up with who are, you know, absolutely opposed to ever getting unemployment or food benefits.
01:17:27.000So just for those that are new to this, YouTube will just drop like 800 superchats at once, and then the whole thing... Man, we are seriously inundated with superchats here.
01:19:39.000Thomas Jones says, you are the first person to give me the heads up on the toilet paper issue, and it turned out to be true in a small part of Montana.
01:19:49.000Marcelo Weerman, most people only started noticing that things got real here in Europe when TP and Italian pasta vanished from Amazon Fresh.
01:19:58.000There are some people who are just in front of things, and they're gonna snatch up that TP before you know it.
01:20:04.000But how is that possible that these people were paying attention enough, but not smart enough not to get other things?
01:20:41.000Student of History says, the Defense Manufacturing Act actually affect me because I work in a machine shop that makes medical parts and tools.
01:20:48.000I was so looking forward to having a few weeks off to relax.
01:20:56.000Ryan Vanney, thanks for becoming a member.
01:20:57.000Tim Clark says, Aussie here, the federal government has banned all gathering of 500 people outside and 100 inside, and my local government has shut down all visitor info centers, pools, libraries, sports, events, etc.
01:21:12.000Joey Telly says, Tim, have you seen the story of Marjana Soldo, who supposedly has been visited by the Virgin Mary every month for 40 years and was told this would be the last visit?
01:24:26.000The introductory trailer, where the man explains why we're gonna take back Safe Space and Snowflake, and make them heroes, who are apparently twins, who are a tad incestuous.
01:29:47.000A meme-obsessed super teen whose brain became connected to the internet after becoming exposed to his grandfather's experimental internet gas.
01:30:49.000The new warriors have been zeitgeist characters from the beginning.
01:30:52.000You get edgy skateboarding night thrasher in the 1990s, and the reality TV team in the 2000s, and now in 2020, we have new warriors who have never grown up without the internet, and one character who appears to essentially live inside it.
01:31:06.000The word screentime is only ever used in a sort of restrictive sense.
01:31:10.000And because we're doing a story about teenage rebels, a lot of the names are about teens fighting against labels that are put on them.
01:31:19.000If you call yourself a superhero name, don't be... Are you implying that they're fighting against being called the name they want to be called?
01:31:25.000It would make sense actually, because people are nuts these days.
01:31:28.000So with screentime, we liked the idea that he has infinite screentime.
01:31:52.000Here's the lovingly embraced twins, who apparently one is non-binary, even though she's very clearly female with, you know, she's got breasts and white hips.
01:32:00.000Whoa, whoa, you're just assuming that's the non-binary one.
01:32:46.000No, okay, I'll be fair, like, if there was a bully and you socked him one, like, that's a difference from, you know, being a bully and stopping a bully.
01:34:27.000In America, you know, a regular kid scooped up into the world of teenage superheroing.
01:34:32.000Her magic backpack is actually a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite space, that explains, you know, the size, from which she can pull out useful or random objects.
01:34:44.000She claims to get her power from God, but not the God you're thinking of, because that would be offensive.
01:34:50.000She's a group home and foster kid who is volunteering at a senior center when this mysterious threat shows up and Night Thrasher runs to the rescue.
01:34:59.000And because she helps him, she ends up in the crosshairs of this new outlawed law.
01:35:04.000Trailblazer wants to help people, but she doesn't think of herself as a superhero yet, Kibblesmith concludes.
01:37:53.000When Kamala's Law goes into effect in the highly anticipated one-shot Outlawed, superheroics will be left to the adults and underage heroes will be banned unless they have official government-assigned mentors.
01:38:04.000That's where the new warriors come in to break the law.
01:38:37.000Yeah, but Trailblazer is a character that's going to be encouraging young people to be accepting of unhealthy lifestyles and gluttony and hedonism.
01:44:28.000I still almost just can't believe this is even real.
01:44:32.000When I first saw this, especially the overweight woman, and then like, I'm gonna reiterate this, I'm just gonna point out again, like they're lovingly embraced, they're loving embraced.
01:46:18.000That's one of the reasons why they have this big push for diversity.
01:46:21.000It's not because they think they're morally right to do so, it's because they're like, how do we get comic books in the hands of these groups?
01:48:13.000Magic, I've got this love-hate relationship with it, because you've got to play with other people's decks that they make that could be not fun to play against, but skating.
01:50:53.000Mark Robertshaw says, my missus works retail in Australia and everyone has been told to bring hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes and they'll be compensated lol rip retail.
01:52:41.000Paxton says, if there is an earthquake of nine or higher along the Wasatch Fault, it has a chance of setting off Yellowstone, thus ending humidity as we know it.
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