A popular meme is floating around asking "Are you enjoying your 30 day free trial of socialism?" It's a good question because if anyone wants to know what's it like to live in a socialist country, this is pretty darn close.
A lot of politicians are trusting doomsday scenarios and bad predictions, it doesn't mean you should either. It's already been shown that a lot of the doomsday predictions are based on faulty models. It is your right and duty to ask questions and not be afraid to be skeptical of what is going on out there.
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If you're a California, conservative a Libertarian, a
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moderate Democrat. Believe in common sense, or just
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the same person. This is the political podcast
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for you. It's the California underground
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podcast. What's going on everybody?
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Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the
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California underground podcast. Hope everyone's having fun.
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Staying so Florentine staying inside the Salem order.
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Crazy at two weeks. Now.
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It's will be about two weeks. It's gonna be about two weeks
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coming up at Monday night. And I think that's one of the
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presidents. Got to make a decision, what's
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going on, who can come out, I doubt.
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California is going to be able to come outside for a while, but
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it'll be nice to see. We're heading in the right
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direction. With that said, let's start with
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our out of the gate monologue and get things going for this
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episode. I saw meme the other day and I
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laughed because it was the first thing I thought.
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When this whole pandemic really broke Upon Our Shores.
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The MEAP simply says, how are you all enjoying your free
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30-day trial of socialism and I chuckled because it was so
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eerily true. In a presidential election,
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where the word socialism continues to become more popular
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and out in the open candidates Like Bernie Sanders and AOC run.
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The Democrat Party socialism has been claimed to be the cure for
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all the ills of our society. They stand up and say see this
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is why we need a Universal Health Care system or when
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lumbar lambasted President Trump.
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And his two trillion dollar relief package.
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They say, see when corporations and Rich stockholders need help.
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Somehow we have the But not for climate change and single Pate
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single-payer healthcare. Well, every conservative I know
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was not crazy about our government passing.
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Something that cost two trillion dollars.
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Maybe I'll help. If you think of it as medicine,
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that we need to get through this economic malaise, sort of like
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that yucky tasting medicine. You just got to take to get
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past. It doesn't taste great going
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down but it's what's needed to keep us from completely
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collapsing further. A lot of the bailouts that a lot
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of the leftists are saying for big companies are Loans that
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need to be repaid. Unlike the direct relief that is
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helping small businesses. That will most likely not be
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repaid and that's a good thing. We want the small businesses to
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not have to worry about paying back.
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These loans user grants and instead direct relief is going
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to small businesses. But if you are or you know,
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someone who has been crowing about how socialism will solve
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everything, ask them how things have been the past few weeks.
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Ask them if they like the feeling of going into grocery
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stores. Empty shelves, bare of the
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essentials that you need to provide for your family or even
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when the shelves are. Semi restock, ask them how they
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like being told that you can only take one carton of eggs.
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One carton of milk, two bags of pasta and etcetera.
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Is anyone a fan of the food? Rationing that's happening right
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now? I know I'm not or ask them.
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How do they like being told at the government that they that
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they have no more civil liberties or freedom of movement
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that the government can just shut your business or your
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workplace with the stroke of a pen.
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People who worked for years to invest in grow their own
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business only to lose it in a blink of an eye because the
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government didn't deem your business, quote essential enough
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to stay open. The government has the
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Incredible power to rip you of your rights with nothing more
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than a proclamation. And that should scare the
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absolute hell out of you. Finally, the Socialist Screech
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about this is the reason we need single-payer healthcare.
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Now as you're a pilot is doing in the face of this, pandemic
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was single-payer healthcare not great, Spain and Italy can't
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contain the buyers. And as the result have thousands
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dead among them. The reason America will fare
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better, which is I've been saying all along then single.
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Pair countries is simple. We don't rely on one entity to
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solve this problem for all the hate and criticism.
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That's thrown at President Trump right now.
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Imagine what leftist would think if he was in charge of our only
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Health Care system, is that what they want or do, they want
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multiple entities to step up and assist with solving this crisis?
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If the choice was president President Trump, I doubt they
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would want to him to be in charge of the entire rescue
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operation left is also like tube ammonia for suggesting.
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Maybe some places can lift restrictions and go back to some
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semblance of normal. To that.
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They shout you down saying you'll kill everyone.
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Our lockdown is for the collective.
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Good. Giving up everything for the
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common good. Hmm.
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Nothing screams socialism more than that sentiment.
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So forget if you have a job and you need to provide for your
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family, your sacrifice is for the common.
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Good, forget that you worked hard to open a business at
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seeing grow during these booming, economic years of
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President. Trump at the helm, you lose in.
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Your business is for the common. Good.
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Your sacrifice is much appreciated.
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She ate it and we thank you, comrade.
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Is an interesting time in America, right now, for those on
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the left that play Down, how powerful government can be and
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how bad socialism really is. We're living it right.
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Now. We are seeing the immense power
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of the government. We have put in place over
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decades. I hope people are listening.
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Remember, I hope people listening.
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Remember this time in our history, a time.
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When we got to see what socialism was like in America,
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what it took Tyler Terry and police state looks like if we
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simply set sit by and let it happen.
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Now, remember this time come November and remember who you
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hand these incredible powers to, because as we've learned
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recently socialism is really just one crisis away.
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So at that, I it's been interesting to see these past
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couple weeks, in the reason I bring up what's going on in two
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weeks in national news. I'm sure you've seen that the
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goal now is to get people back to some sort of semblance of
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normal by Easter. Easter is Weeks away almost two
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weeks away at this point. So, it will be interesting to
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see how they get that done. Next week is not used to
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following week as you stir. So as I'm recording this also
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side note, if you hear a little birdies in the background is
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because there's birds outside of my studio right now, and they've
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been chirping, and they laid eggs, and now there's a little
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birdies. So if you hear a little birdies
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in the background, that's why but back by Easter is a I
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thinking Ambitious goal, I think is ambitious Target.
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Could it possibly work? I don't think we'll be throwing
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the shackles off right away and everyone go back to normal and
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everyone's going to go to their Easter services as if nothing
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happened, but I could see in the next two weeks.
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I think things are going to move along at a more rapid Pace.
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I think, once people really once now that we've got a lot of
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places gearing up and producing, what we need them to produce.
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I think there's a possibility that a lot of parts of the
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country are going to be able to let people do what they want to
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do with some restrictions with social distancing stuff like
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that. California.
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Not so much. I think we should be happy that
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we haven't turned into New York at this point.
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I think. Again, I want to give new some a
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little bit of credit. I'm not going to give them all
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whole bunch of credit because as we're going to talk about in a
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little bit, he may have used this to go a little overboard.
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But at the same time, I think it's good to California has
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really done a good job of sort of keeping this from exploding
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into an uncontrollable situation tri-state area.
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Really sounds like the biggest problem right now, and that's
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because the, New York, Again, this is something I want to talk
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to people about in the sense of what what is called risk
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management. And when it comes to risk
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management, this is probably one of the more interesting classes.
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I took and in school and specifically in law school it
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taught you how to look at things in a certain way.
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And of course people are being bombarded with a lot of
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Statistics right now. You know, they're being but
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borrow statistics from people who say there's going to be a
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million dead or two million dead or there's going to be a hundred
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thousand dead or 200 dead, and a lot of things that people
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need to look at when they start to make these decisions is not
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to accept them blindly. And to look at things called
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these, what I, what they're called is confounders,
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confounders are things that are things that may impact the
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result of an action. So just because You have to look
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at well, why is there a high rate of coronavirus people being
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infected people dying in New York and in the area?
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And you have to look at sort of the confounders.
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Same way, people are kind of looking at the confounders of
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Italy. What's causing the deaths?
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And to rise so quickly and the infection has arrived so fast in
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Italy. Some things I look at blind
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plainly and I'm not a medical scientist.
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I'm just looking at this from a social standpoint is well, Italy
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has an older population and everybody knows that Italy also
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has a population that's smokes heavily and it's very well known
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that smoking obviously hurts your lungs.
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It hurts your respiratory system.
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It weakens your respiratory system.
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Also, Italy and a lot of European countries are very
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close and intimate with how they say hello to each other.
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Kisses on the It's very intimate.
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Public transportation is another big thing, so public
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transportation and that's one reason I think New York is
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probably in the problem. It is right now, is because New
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York, is you think about how many millions of people share a
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Subway every single day? And how many people it took to
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infect? Those Subway's, get those
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surfaces infected. How many people cross through
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the turnstiles and go through those Subway's?
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Those Subways were probably breeding ground for Coronavirus
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and people getting on the subway people who commute to the city
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City who probably take trains into the City and then they go
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back to New Jersey, or they go back to Connecticut or they go
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back to New York State. Those are thing.
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It was a probably a hotbed breeding ground in New York City
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for Coronavirus. And these are things that people
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have to start looking at. In terms of statistics.
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It's not simply while we see this number Rising rising,
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Rising rising Rising. That's obviously bad news.
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We have to look at in a sense of well what's causing it to rise
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so fast in these areas as opposed to other areas similar
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or Conversely here in California, where I'm much more
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car-centric State, we don't have the big systems of public
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transportation. Yeah, there's turn public
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transportation here in San Diego up in San Francisco.
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San Francisco is very public transportation oriented.
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A lot of people ride the buses over there.
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A lot of people ride the bay. The BART is what it's called, a
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sort of the the fast train in and out of San Francisco, but
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some places like LA are not as public.
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Transportation oriented and even though, l.a.
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Is going under a strict lockdown right now.
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I think that it's going to fare a little bit better in New York
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because everyone knows that everyone sits in their cars and
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Allah, as their own little pods that they are kind of self
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quarantined away from everybody else's commuting, as opposed to,
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in New York, where you have people.
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Millions of people touching the same railing that you've
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touched. And probably the, who knows how
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many times he's subway? Cars have been cleaned.
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So it's important that people start to look at this, not
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through the hyper sensationalized lens of the
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media and start to look at this. And and question.
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What are the confounders? What are the things that are
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causing X Y and Z to happen until look at it with a morass
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to or critical eye and I urge you to go to sites that are news
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Aggregates. One of my favorite is ranking
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Lee.com., I like randomly.com., It's not super.
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Pro, I mean it's it leans more right?
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I would say but it's definitely has it has articles from all
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over the place and you can read a lot of what's going on.
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They've been posting a lot of stuff about science, articles,
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science journal, stuff like that.
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That have no political bias. So it's important to look at a
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lot of different sources of what's going on out there and
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stop listening, just to the sensationalize media numbers and
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saying that this is going to happen because well coronavirus
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causes massive amounts of death Well, we have to start looking
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at and say well why is Coronavirus causing a lot of
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death in certain areas? And what is it?
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We can learn from those certain areas.
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So with that said, I, you know, I didn't want to get too far
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into that. I just wanted to talk about that
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because I think it's important that you dude.
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Look at this critically and don't be ashamed.
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A lot of people are going to yell you down.
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It's almost like climate change in the sense of, if you
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question. Jean coronavirus?
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Are you question the idea that maybe this isn't as bad as it is
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or maybe some of the models, which we'll get to in a bit.
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Maybe some other models that have been projecting how bad
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it's going to be have. Now been proven false.
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That maybe you can question some of this and say, what's going on
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here. Who's doing the data?
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Why what? Where are we getting our data?
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From? What data are we getting?
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How reliable is it? Are we seeing not only the
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right. As of people being tested who
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are being tested positive, how many people are being tested -
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that's another thing. People don't really want to talk
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about is even though there's a lot of people who are being
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tested positive and they like to show how many people test
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positive, which is now in the tens of thousands of people, how
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many people have been tested - so far.
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That's another interesting thing that people really aren't
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showing and I think that would help people calm down a little
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bit. If maybe these new stations
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didn't have a big red tracker saying the coronavirus pandemic,
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You're counting up like a like a were in a horror movie or an
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apocalyptic movie where you just see the numbers.
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Go up and up, and up, and up. And instead.
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They said, okay, number of cases of people who are positive.
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They should say, how many people have been tested, how many
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people have been tested positive and how many people tested
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negative? I think that would help a lot
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but don't don't predict that's ever going to happen.
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I don't think the media is ever going to want to do that because
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it's too Sensational. It's good for people.
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Tune in and watch this number. Go up and up and up.
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Up and up and feel like there's no stopping this and that no
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matter what we're doing. It's not slowing down.
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So there's a couple stories, one story is about a B5.
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I don't want to get into it in this podcast because it's a
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separate story. It's on the epoch times.
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I'm going to share in the show notes for you to go check it.
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Out yourself. Basically the gist of the story.
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Is that a B5 as we've been talking about over and over and
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over again has really hampered Healthcare professionals from
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being able to work because of their designation as an
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independent contractor, so they won't be able to get a lot of
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these Healthcare professionals. I'm going to put it up.
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In the show notes, you can read it there.
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But this first story is going back to what we were talking
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about, which is the single-payer healthcare system and it's
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titled coronavirus state of emergency under single-payer,
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California would be in a permanent state of emergency.
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And this was by the Pacific Research Institute.
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For most of us, the coronavirus, pandemic is an ordeal were
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slogging our way through. However, some are seizing the
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opportunity to appeal, for support of the healthcare
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schemes that have failed other nations Vermont.
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Senator Bernie Sanders, for one has gone as far to claim that
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medicare-for-all would have been more effective in handling, the
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coronavirus outbreak than our current mixed Healthcare System.
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Meanwhile, Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of
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emergency. The Grim twist.
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Is that under the single-payer Arrangement.
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He's grown fond of Medical Care in, California.
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When you would be in a constant state of emergency earlier this
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year, Newsom cranked up his healthy.
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California for all commission. Its members were instructed to
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determine how the state will provide coverage and access
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through a unified financing System including but not limited
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to A Single Payer financing system, whatever.
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The commission comes up with. It would only worsen an outbreak
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of a violent and easily spreadable disease, such as one.
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We might have coming if the cases of coronavirus continue to
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grow a government-run medical. Well care system which will be
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overused and overwhelm due to its quote free nature.
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Even in ordinary times, could not handle the mass of patients
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in the not-too-distant past Canada and United Kingdom.
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Where have struggled to handle outbreaks of everything from
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severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS as it's called to
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the seasonal, flu quilt. It's largely because these
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countries government-run medicare-for-all style list
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systems, lack enough, Health Care, Personnel Hospital.
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It's an other resources to meet the needs of their populations.
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Even in Good Times. A public health threat like a
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pandemic can stretch single-payer Health Care to its
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breaking point, which we've talked about in this sense that
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if you have one choke point of pain, if that choke point breaks
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down, you lose everything and everything comes crashing down
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on itself. Pipes also notes that checking
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the spread of diseases requires Doctors Hospitals and public
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health. Officials to work fast and
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closely coordinate, their efforts, quote that stuff to do.
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She says when there aren't enough doctors or hospital beds
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to accommodate the sick apps in a pandemic, a government-run or
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Universal Health Care System would still be in a permanent
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state of Crisis. Single-payer systems place an
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unimaginable unmanageable strain on public finances, The Covered,
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California, legislative analyst office.
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A quote, single-payer program singular to say.
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Sorry about. That is single-payer program
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similar to that Invasion and Senate Bill 562 the healthy
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California act introduced in 2017, but never becoming law
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could cost around 400 billion dollars annually and require
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newts state tax revenues in the low hundreds of billions of
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dollars a government takeover of Californians.
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Medical Care. Would also produce a system
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under an endless Siege because users won't Don't regulate their
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consumption in a third-party payer Arrangement where there is
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no payment at the point of service doctors nurses and
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Physicians will be buried by demand.
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The only recourse available when this occurs is to deny treatment
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to some a year ago, flu season. That was hardly the worst of the
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decade pushed of the 70 year. Old National Health Service, to
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the brink of collapse pipes wrote in Fortune.
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The previous spring, the British Medical Association, send the
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NHS has reached the point of being a Perpetual, year-round
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crisis. Only months earlier, The Daily
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Express reported that the number of patients who died while
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languishing on NHS. Waiting list has skyrocketed.
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Shocking as the facts, they should surprise.
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No one a government system doesn't have the incentives to
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provide better care and extend lives and do these things more
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efficiently and competitive private sector Market does.
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It's just the one reason that as the Hoover Institute SLI.
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Ohioan reported last year. Britain's and HS is now turning
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over some NHS operations to for-profit.
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Companies with the expectations. They will achieve higher
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efficiency levels. It's also like California, so
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can afford to will be traveling to states to see, doctors and
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have surgery, should Sacramento force a single-payer scheme on
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the state. The outbound traffic would be
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heavy under normal circumstances and as miserable as Los Angeles
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rush hour when were threatened by Future outbreaks of nasty,
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highly communicable diseases. So, this is something I talked
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about a little bit in the monologue, which is that a
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single-payer Health Care system is not the answer to this.
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By no means, is it Because it doesn't promote government in
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this sense, never promote efficiency.
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And it only provides the incentive for people to
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overwhelm the system when it crisis like this occurs and not
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be able to handle it, not to mention that who is going to get
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the benefit of a single-payer Health Care System here in
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California. I'll leave that up for people to
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figure out but What I'm trying to say, is that more people in a
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single-payer Health Care. System like California, 40
00:20:42
million people. There won't be enough people to
00:20:46
there won't be enough Healthcare personnel as is, but a private
00:20:49
healthcare system, like one? That is competitive one, that
00:20:52
encourages efficiency, one that encourages Innovation.
00:20:56
That would be the way to really address these future pandemics
00:21:01
and we've been seeing that now, we've been seeing lots of labs.
00:21:04
We've been seeing lots of medical professionals.
00:21:06
The private sector picking up the slack and really jumping
00:21:10
into The Fray and being able to address this pandemic, a lot
00:21:13
better than that, any sort of government entity.
00:21:18
And it's this private-public partnership that we're seeing
00:21:21
right now and I keep harping on it is the reason why I think our
00:21:25
country is going to fare a lot better than other countries
00:21:27
because we have that ability to lean on the private sector and
00:21:31
say, okay. Can you be more efficient?
00:21:33
Can you get this turned around a lot faster?
00:21:35
Sure. Sure in a single-payer Health
00:21:37
Care System. It might not be.
00:21:39
That efficient might not be that easy for a private sector as a
00:21:42
private sector company to just figure it out turning around.
00:21:46
So, okay. What do you need from us?
00:21:47
And we'll do it and maybe more bureaucratic.
00:21:49
It may require a whole bunch of different thing.
00:21:52
Union workers. You're talking about a lot of
00:21:53
different factors. If you think the government is
00:21:56
inefficient as it is, now imagine a single-payer Health
00:22:00
Care system in California where it's full of bureaucratic red
00:22:05
tape, you And people who can't be fired, stuff like that.
00:22:09
There's no way that it would be able to handle a pandemic of our
00:22:12
of this magnet. They should be happy that when
00:22:16
they got these 170 panel areas. And this is news that just came
00:22:20
out that they got 170 ventilators in LA and Newsome to
00:22:23
his credit. Did it make a big political
00:22:25
stink about? He said, okay.
00:22:26
Well, there is a laboratory here in l.a.
00:22:28
That could fix them a private. A laboratory private company a
00:22:30
laboratory. They said, yeah, we'll fix them,
00:22:32
bring them down. So they bring them on down,
00:22:34
they'll be back and I'll be back there on Monday.
00:22:37
That's the ability of that is that there is plenty of demand
00:22:40
and plenty of efficiency when you have a private sector
00:22:43
Healthcare System. So a lot of people in the left,
00:22:46
keep screaming. This is why we need a
00:22:48
single-payer Health Care System. It's not why it is the absolute
00:22:51
reason why we don't need a single-payer Health Care system
00:22:54
is because the it would never ever last under a pandemic of
00:22:58
this magnitude. And in my belief, I think it
00:23:02
needs to be even more privatized and more competitive.
00:23:05
I think the shackles and the restraints of a private sector,
00:23:12
healthcare industry need to be Unshackled so that there is more
00:23:15
competition. So that there is more efficiency
00:23:18
so that they can drive cost lower increase, the ability to
00:23:23
address lots of demand. But I can tell you a
00:23:26
single-payer Health Care System would never ever pass.
00:23:30
Would be able to stand up especially here in California.
00:23:32
Never be able to withstand. What is coming or what is
00:23:36
already happening out there? Here's another Arco.
00:23:39
I wanted to post. I'll post it in the show notes
00:23:41
again. Again, going back to the
00:23:44
monologue and about police say, a lot of people are saying,
00:23:47
well, we're not at a police state yet, but there's an
00:23:50
interesting story that San Diego PD have bought a couple.
00:23:55
Drones, ironically from China. And the drones are now going to
00:24:01
be used to patrol the streets. Meaning they'll be able to fly
00:24:08
the drones around a little monitors and everything and
00:24:10
they'll be able to kind of with the little with a little
00:24:13
speaker. Be able to say this is the
00:24:15
police please disperse and boy does that not sound dystopian
00:24:19
1982. I mean it's crazy but Yeah, I'm
00:24:25
going to post that as well not no reason to really go deep into
00:24:28
it. But it's an interesting article.
00:24:29
I'll post the into the show notes.
00:24:31
The last thing I want to talk about and is a little kind of a
00:24:34
one-two Punch coming from talking about how these
00:24:37
statistics have really caused people to just kind of fly off
00:24:41
the handle and maybe over respond.
00:24:43
And it's too early to say whether people have overreacted
00:24:46
to this or not. But I think again this comes to
00:24:50
the idea that you have to step back and address the stats.
00:24:54
Are given to you that you have to kind of look at it with a
00:24:57
critical eye. So this is from cow matters
00:25:01
dot-org. It's called Newsome, veers off
00:25:05
the rails. Excuse me.
00:25:12
During his first couple weeks of managing California's covid-19
00:25:15
crisis, Governor, Gavin Newsom says words and actions.
00:25:17
Were impressively cool-headed and measured last week.
00:25:21
However, he veered off the rails needlessly causing alarm it
00:25:24
confusion as Californians were adjusting to the greatest Public
00:25:27
Health threat in more than a century.
00:25:28
He like President Donald Trump failed to Grass at the
00:25:32
hyperbolic rhetoric of a political campaign is not
00:25:34
tolerable in crisis management newsom's.
00:25:37
Most spectacular misstep, was in a letter to Trump asking for use
00:25:41
of a new Hospital ship flatly declaring, we project that
00:25:45
roughly 50 pre 56 percent of our population.
00:25:48
Twenty five point five million people will be infected with the
00:25:50
virus over an eight week period, immediately news, outlets in
00:25:54
California around the world. Amplified that huge number is
00:25:56
scared the bejesus out of anyone who heard it buffeted by demands
00:26:00
for an explanation Newsome. Spokesperson acknowledged that
00:26:03
the number was a raw estimate. Unadjusted for efforts to slow
00:26:06
the spread of infection, a vital context that the letter did not
00:26:10
contain. Important again, remember.
00:26:15
Look at the statistics and how they're projecting these
00:26:18
statistics and for a look at it and say, okay, are these
00:26:22
projections outside of if we do nothing, if this number will
00:26:28
balloon to be if we do nothing or if we're putting in place,
00:26:32
the stuff that we're doing now. Very quickly, Newsome himself
00:26:38
appeared before care is die. Lost my place very quickly.
00:26:43
Newsome himself appeared before Carousel announced a Statewide
00:26:46
or that Californians, quote shelter in place.
00:26:48
And add the caveats that this letter sorely lacked, the
00:26:51
numbers we put out today assume were just along for the ride.
00:26:53
We're not. We want to manipulate this
00:26:55
number down. That's what this order is about.
00:26:57
However, he simultaneously implied at justification for his
00:27:00
letter to Trump. If we're criticized at this
00:27:03
moment, Let It Be The size for taking this moment.
00:27:06
Seriously, let us be criticized for going full force, and
00:27:09
meeting the virus head-on Newsome, s, stumble, involve the
00:27:13
stay-at-home order itself. It's a rather technical
00:27:15
document, but newsom's verbal. Explanation of his Provisions,
00:27:18
didn't always comport with what the document said.
00:27:21
Moreover, its list of Exempted essential activities was listed
00:27:24
from a federal document pertain to war, rather than being
00:27:27
tailored to California and this crisis.
00:27:32
It left Californians. Confused about they could and
00:27:35
could not do business owners. Confused about whether they
00:27:37
should operate or must shut down and lay off their workers and
00:27:40
local governments uncertain. Whether their own orders were
00:27:43
superseded by Newsome's file declaration.
00:27:47
Finally. There's the issue of Martial law
00:27:49
or not earlier in the week while announcing that he might use
00:27:52
National Guard. Soldiers to battle.
00:27:54
The spread of coronavirus Newsome was asked about imposing
00:27:56
martial law to enforce abatement orders.
00:28:00
Newsom replied, that martial law could be used.
00:28:02
If we feel the necessity adding, I don't want to get to the point
00:28:06
of being alarmist, but we are scaling all of our
00:28:08
considerations, a few days later when he did activate the guards
00:28:12
to do social media lit up with speculation that the governor
00:28:14
was about to declare martial law compiling Administration,
00:28:17
officials to issue denials. We don't want this to be scary
00:28:21
for people. Brian Ferguson spokesperson for
00:28:23
the governor's office of emergency services said, quote.
00:28:25
This is a humanitarian mission to support health and safety.
00:28:29
Each of these situations could have been avoided had Newsome,
00:28:32
chosen his words more carefully. He should have not issued his 56
00:28:35
infection rate projection without the context.
00:28:38
He layer provided, his administration should have been
00:28:41
more specific about what the stay-at-home order meant and he
00:28:44
should have not even cited. Martial law is a contingency
00:28:47
unless he tended to use it. The virus itself scares in
00:28:51
confuses people. The Governor's job is to
00:28:53
reassure his constituents and persuade them with Precision to
00:28:56
do what's necessary without adding to fear and anxiety.
00:29:01
So I always said he's been doing a decent job.
00:29:04
There's been some stumbles. There's been some setbacks and
00:29:08
it's been interesting because people have even contacted me
00:29:11
and said, well people outside of the state saying, well are the
00:29:14
military patrolling the streets yet.
00:29:16
And you know, I'm sitting here going I don't see any military
00:29:18
and I live in a military town. I don't see any military,
00:29:21
patrolling our streets. And if that were even the case,
00:29:24
I don't even think the National Guard of California could maybe
00:29:28
lockdown, one city in California.
00:29:30
I think maybe they could, but I don't know if they could even
00:29:33
lock down some place like la. But with that said, I don't
00:29:37
think I think this is again. Why you have to look at these
00:29:41
statistics and say what are they accounting for?
00:29:45
A lot of these doomsday predictions are not accounting
00:29:48
for the fact that we're doing things that everyday new test,
00:29:52
come online. And a new test is approved that
00:29:54
a new treatment is being tried, that more people are recovering
00:29:57
from this and that's something people need to really look at
00:30:01
which is not really being talked about anywhere in the news
00:30:03
again, because it's more A tional to allow people to just
00:30:07
believe that this is spiraling out of control and that
00:30:10
everyone's going to get it. And that we're all going to die
00:30:12
because of this virus. I'm not saying that people, it's
00:30:17
and I never want to downplay the people who do get sick with this
00:30:22
people who have died from this, but I'm saying that people who
00:30:25
are out and about or people say that home right now, have to
00:30:28
look at the statistics and say, why are you projecting 25
00:30:33
million people? Are going to get sick.
00:30:36
Are you predicting that without the factors of a quarantine or a
00:30:41
lockdown or shutting things down or treatments or what's going on
00:30:44
or more tests are most? Is that where you're projecting?
00:30:48
And this is why statistics matter and statistics with
00:30:51
context matter. And this is a another article
00:30:56
from the Federalist sort of the same thing.
00:31:00
Talking about statistics and how a lot of these politicians
00:31:04
aren't looking at the statistics are looking at The Sensational
00:31:07
statistics. They're not looking at the
00:31:09
confounders things that they're not stepping back and saying,
00:31:12
okay. What's the risk management here?
00:31:15
That's another important question that people need to
00:31:17
really be asking themselves. There is a risk management
00:31:20
component to all of this there. Yes, there is a risk for letting
00:31:26
people go out and do what they want to do with no restrictions.
00:31:28
There's absolutely a risk. That the virus will spread
00:31:31
faster and infect more people and more people will be
00:31:34
susceptible to it. Excuse me.
00:31:38
There's a there's a risk management if you say, okay.
00:31:40
Well some people can go out if they're responsible and they do
00:31:43
social distancing. X y&z, there is risk.
00:31:47
If you shut everything down and say, everyone's got to stay in
00:31:50
their home. There's risk with everything.
00:31:52
It's about managing that risk and figuring out which is the
00:31:55
least risk full in this sense. And you can't just say You can't
00:32:01
use Sensational arguments about, we're going to kill everybody if
00:32:04
you everyone goes out and does things and again, you're going
00:32:10
to be lambasted for asking these questions because they're going
00:32:13
to say well you don't believe in the science now, I don't believe
00:32:17
in your science. And that's the other thing.
00:32:19
You can tell people, I don't believe in your science and I
00:32:22
don't believe in your statistics where you're getting these from.
00:32:26
It's almost like the climate change argument if you disagree
00:32:29
with the Sensational people. And usually it's the
00:32:31
sensationalist on the left who want to turn this into doomsday
00:32:34
because they have political gains or political ambition or
00:32:37
they have this political idea of how it's going to hurt President
00:32:39
Trump and people on the right. They will say to you while you
00:32:45
obviously. If you question this you don't
00:32:47
believe the statistics, they just want to believe their
00:32:50
doomsday statistics and they want to shove those doomsday
00:32:53
statistics down your throat. And if you don't comply
00:32:56
obviously you're trying to kill everyone's grandmother.
00:32:59
And that's where you got to be strong and say, I don't believe
00:33:01
your statistics and I don't believe what you're saying.
00:33:04
Tell me where you got these from, tell me what the what the
00:33:08
method for getting these statistics was Tommy, if this
00:33:11
factors in XY & Z, push them on this, don't be afraid to push
00:33:15
people on these questions and we all have to start kind of
00:33:18
looking at this and saying, how can we question this?
00:33:21
How can we figure out whether we're being fed?
00:33:24
Really just bad information, Sensational information,
00:33:28
accurate information? raishin, so this next article is
00:33:32
from the Federalist big fan of the Federalist.
00:33:35
They always do a great job. This one's called inaccurate.
00:33:38
Virus model are panicking officials into ill-advised
00:33:41
lockdowns as US state and local officials halt, the economy, and
00:33:47
quarantine their communities over the Wu.
00:33:49
Hen virus crisis. One would hope, our leaders were
00:33:51
making such major decisions based on well Source data and
00:33:54
statistical analysis. That is not the case.
00:33:58
A scan of statements made by media State Governors local
00:34:00
leaders. Judges Amor show.
00:34:03
How many relying on the same source as online mapping tool
00:34:07
called covid act. Now, the website says, it's
00:34:10
built to enable political leaders to quickly make
00:34:13
decisions in their coronavirus response, informed, by best
00:34:16
available data and modeling the an interactive map provides
00:34:20
users. A catastrophic forecast for each
00:34:22
state. Should they wait to implement
00:34:24
covid act? Now, suggested strict measures
00:34:26
to quote flatten the curve but a closer look of how many of covid
00:34:31
act. Niles predictions.
00:34:32
Have already fallen short, and how they became an ambiguous
00:34:35
resource across. The country overnight.
00:34:37
Suggest something more Sinister. When Dallas County Judge, clay
00:34:40
Jenkins announced a shelter-in-place on Dallas
00:34:43
County Sunday. He displayed covid act now,
00:34:45
graphs with predictive outcomes. After three months.
00:34:47
If certain drastic measures are taken the MBC Dallas affiliate
00:34:52
also embedded the covid act now models in their story, on the
00:34:55
Mandate, the headline of a NBC organ affiliate featured, covid
00:34:59
act now data and a I'm blaring coronavirus model sees, Horgan
00:35:03
hospitals. Overwhelmed by mid-april both
00:35:06
The Oregonian and the East Oregonian.
00:35:08
Also published stories featuring the widely shared data
00:35:11
predicting a point of no return Mission Governor Gretchen
00:35:16
Whitmore cited, covid, act. Now when telling her state that
00:35:19
would exceed seven million cases in Michigan with 1 million
00:35:22
hospitalized and 460 thousand deaths.
00:35:24
If the state did nothing. A local CBS report, Georgia
00:35:27
featured in Emory University Professor, urging Governor,
00:35:30
Brian Kemp. With the same point of no return
00:35:32
language and covid act now models.
00:35:36
The models are being shared across social media, news
00:35:39
reports, and finding their way into officials daily decisions,
00:35:41
which is concerning because covid act.
00:35:44
Now is predictions. Have already been proven to be
00:35:46
wildly wrong covid, act now predicted that by March 19th,
00:35:50
the state of Tennessee could expect 190 hospitalizations of
00:35:54
patients with confirmed, Wuhan virus by March 19th.
00:35:57
They only had 15 in New York covid act.
00:36:00
Now, claimed nearly 5 fortunate.
00:36:02
New Yorkers would have been hospitalized by March 10, 1937.
00:36:05
Actual number of hospitalizations is around 750.
00:36:11
I want to go back up just because this was published on
00:36:15
the federals couple days ago. So obviously the numbers are
00:36:17
changing but the point remains that the predictions are off the
00:36:25
site also claimed 13 New Yorker hospitalizations by March
00:36:28
23rd, the actual number Rose around 2 in Georgia covid
00:36:33
act now predicted 688. Oceans by March 23rd, by that
00:36:37
date, they at around 800 confirmed cases in the whole
00:36:39
state and fewer than 300 hospitalized this goes on and on
00:36:43
and on they go over a couple more States covid ax now models
00:36:46
and other States including Oklahoma and Virginia were all
00:36:49
so far off their projection. Jordan schlachter, eight
00:36:53
National Security, writer said covid act now's modeling comes
00:36:57
from one team based at Imperial College London.
00:36:59
That is only it's not only highly scrutinized but has a
00:37:03
track record of bad predictions. If you don't know about Imperial
00:37:07
College, they're the one that has recently come out predicting
00:37:10
that over 500 people and UK would die from this but were
00:37:15
quickly debunked and they had to revoke it because it showed that
00:37:18
they had bad faulty data and faulty models.
00:37:22
Jessica Hamill zoo at New Scientist.
00:37:24
Knows the systematic errors, researchers and scientists have
00:37:27
found the model and covid act. Now, relies on quote Shin-chan,
00:37:31
at the New England, complex Institute, a research group in
00:37:34
Cambridge, Massachusetts and his colleagues argue that the
00:37:36
imperial teams model is flawed and contains incorrect
00:37:40
assumptions. They point out that the imperial
00:37:42
teams model doesn't account for the availability of test or the
00:37:45
possibility of super spreader events at Gatherings and other
00:37:48
issues among other issues covet act.
00:37:51
Now. The known limitations of their
00:37:53
model. Here are a few that seem
00:37:55
especially alarming considering they generate a model for each
00:37:58
individual State. Many of the important parts in
00:38:02
this model, hospitalization rate are based on early estimates
00:38:06
that are likely to be wrong demographics.
00:38:08
Paula populations, and hospital-based counts are
00:38:11
outdated demographics for the USA.
00:38:12
El whole are used rather than specific to each state.
00:38:16
The model does not adjust for the population density,
00:38:18
culturally determine interaction, frequency and
00:38:21
closeness. T temperature Etc.
00:38:23
In calculating our oh, this is not a node based analysis in
00:38:27
thus assumes everyone spreads the disease at the same rate and
00:38:30
practice. There are some folks who are
00:38:32
super spreaders and others who are almost isolated.
00:38:37
Did you want to go down? Continue tonight.
00:38:42
So article goes on to say, basically, talking about how
00:38:46
this is all faulty data, the daunting phrase.
00:38:48
The point of no return is the same talking point being
00:38:50
repeated by government officials just to find their shelter in
00:38:53
place, orders, and filling local news headlines.
00:38:57
Democrats are not going to waste such a rich, political
00:39:00
opportunity, as a global pandemic are Americans already
00:39:03
witnessed Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and house Democrats
00:39:07
attempt to take advantage of economic recession with a pipe
00:39:09
dream relief. Bill this week projects, like
00:39:12
covid act now, or another attempt to play the same
00:39:14
political games, but with help from unknown behind the scenes
00:39:17
Democratic activists, instead our community leaders, the
00:39:21
Mayors and City council's deserve better than to be
00:39:23
swindled by a handful Silicon Valley Tech Pros.
00:39:27
Our Governors and state officials deserve better data
00:39:30
and Analysis than a democratic activist model that doesn't
00:39:32
adjust for important geographical factors, like
00:39:34
population, density, or temperature Americans and their
00:39:38
families deserve better. And to be jobless hopeless and
00:39:41
quarantine because of a single websites inaccurate and
00:39:43
hyperbolic hospitalization models.
00:39:45
So, again, like I've been saying a lot of these statistical data
00:39:50
and models are turning out to be wrong because they're not
00:39:54
factoring in these confounders. These extra factors that are
00:39:56
going on. Out there is stuff that people
00:39:59
are not accounting for and how it can slow the spread.
00:40:04
They like to put out. These doomsday scenarios,
00:40:06
everything that's going wrong is obviously going to continue
00:40:10
going wrong, but that's not the case.
00:40:12
Is that things are going to change everyday.
00:40:13
Things are changing every hour of every day.
00:40:15
People are working around the clock around the world, which
00:40:18
means that I don't think there's a point right now where
00:40:21
someone's not working on a solution to coronavirus.
00:40:23
And a lot of these projections are not Acting for any sort of
00:40:28
mitigating factors, which is what makes it scary.
00:40:33
So, again, I want to end the show with this is that you have
00:40:36
to look at these statistics, be smart out there, and we're going
00:40:40
to find out in the next couple days.
00:40:42
What the administration, the federal government wants to do
00:40:45
what they believe. Obviously, they've been looking
00:40:47
at it. Even.
00:40:49
New York is starting to say, okay.
00:40:51
We've went from New York. Pause.
00:40:53
That's their one plan. Now, they're trying to
00:40:55
transition into New York. Which means we're moving forward
00:40:58
from this, not staying paused indefinitely.
00:41:02
And for all the people who keep saying, well, we're going to,
00:41:06
we're going to get we're going to be quarantine forever.
00:41:12
You know, just ask those people. What makes you think that?
00:41:14
What makes you think that? Tell me your statistics.
00:41:17
Tell me the factors that make you think that and don't let
00:41:20
them shout you down and say that You don't believe in science
00:41:24
because you do but you also believe incorrect science and
00:41:28
correct models and correct statistical models that predict
00:41:31
exactly what's going on. So with that, stay safe out
00:41:36
there State quarantined, only do what's really essential.
00:41:41
So with that, I'm going to finish up today show.
00:41:43
I wanted to really focus on that statistical idea.
00:41:46
That just question, you know, be don't be afraid to question.
00:41:53
What's going on out there? Don't be afraid to question this
00:41:55
Statistics. There's nothing wrong with
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