While governors like Cuomo and Newsom are complaining that they don't have the necessary equipment to battle the coronavirus, California had mobile hospitals specifically created to meet the emergency needs of the state for this specific purpose but was scrapped because of "budget reasons" in 2011.
Newsom and Pelosi both see opportunity to push through a progressive agenda during this pandemic. Search "Cloward-Piven Strategy" and see how politicians are seeing this as an opportunity to change our political and societal landscape going forward.
How is California faring so well when a state like New York is quickly becoming a mess? Is it only because of social distancing or are there other factors at play?
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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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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the California
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underground. W:, everyone's still in
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quarantine for another 30 days as it's been told to us that.
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Yep. We're here till April 30th.
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And I do especially here in California is one of the hot
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spots States. I told you think we'll be
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getting out anytime soon. I'd like to think that by April
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30th. We're gonna figure this out and
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get past it. But until then, I'll be here,
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recording playing know the news a couple.
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To get to today. I want to focus exclusively on
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California today, that's sort of where the show is kind of
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evolving. That way is becoming more of a
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California news politics show, just because there's so much
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stuff to cover right now. I know you're bombarded with
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what's going on in the national news that it's probably better
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just to focus on what exactly is going on here in California with
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that. Let's start with our out of the
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gate, monologue and get going. There's no doubt in my mind that
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this crisis is going to pick Winners and losers, it will
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forever change. The political, societal and
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economic landscape coming out of this locally.
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Nationally and internationally. This crisis has put every level
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of government in every business to the test.
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It is pushing individuals to reevaluate their lives, their
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finances, and their views on the world.
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They live in and already tumultuous populace is now
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staring at each. Other wondering what is going to
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happen. There's blame all around from
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President Trump to China. The finger-pointing has already
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begun is likely will not stop for a long time.
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But out of this crisis, some Nations will handle this.
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Well, and some won't, they will be ravaged by the outcome of
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this crisis, pushed to the brink of collapse.
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The parallels between this in the fall of WWII continue to
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grow. Everyone's economy has been hurt
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by this and OMB, yet to be seen who comes out of this.
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The economic superpower. China has already been in
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trouble before this and no amount of Cool Under reporting
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will save face or save their economy.
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When this is all over, there will certainly be a backlash
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against China for this Supply chains.
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And Manufacturing may be eliminated.
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They will lose factories and their people will continue to
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suffer in poverty. European nations will fare.
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Not much better. They're socialized medicine is
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already shown its flaws in its weaknesses.
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And will it be enough to wake them up to the idea of
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privatized Health Care in their countries?
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The OSI maintain I'll still come out stronger than most
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countries. Sure.
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We will have our bruises to show for it.
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How many of the newly unemployed will go back to work?
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There really is no telling but with the whole world licking his
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wounds from this any economy. It comes out of this half,
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competent will be the world economic leader.
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And that will be the United States of America.
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There will be winners and losers between our political parties
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Old Guard politicians, like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have
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shown. They are not up to the task of
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handling, such a crisis Pelosi has This into a partisan fight,
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no surprise and impeachment. Part do if you will by an is
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barely coherent. The more people are tuned in to
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see these politicians, the more they will see them for who they
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really are crusty old establishment politicians.
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Who should have been put out to pasture a long time ago.
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Making this a political fight right now is a bad move for
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Democrats like Pelosi and it's a sad State of Affairs.
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When one of your most calm and rational members of your party
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is Alexandria. Ocasio Cortez.
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We've also seen the rise of two Democratic Governors during this
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Governor Newsom and Governor Cuomo while not perfect, they've
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acted like adults in the room saying the Administration has
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been nothing but helpful, they have shown that you can be a
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strong leader who gets things done without the political
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bickering so much. So at the Democratic voters are
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already clamoring for Cuomo to ride in and save them from a
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disastrous Biden run, but it's also seen the fall of another
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Democrat. Governor Governor, Whitmer of
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Michigan, a rising star, who Play the victim card just like
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the mayor of San Juan. It was called out for it.
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Then her quick reversal on the use of the drug.
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Hydroxychloroquine one day ban its use to four days later
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begging the federal government to send as much as possible.
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The media will also face a reckoning channels, like CNN
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shutout down anyone in their Network for giving the
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administration. Any sort of compliment Dana
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Bash, was the first to be dragged through the mud for
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saying that President, Trump was the leader.
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We need right now. Even Jim Acosta, who said that,
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the president sounded like sounded great and a press
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conference. The other day is being bombarded
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and self-proclaimed journals like Rachel Maddow put their
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foot in their mouth. When they say there would be no
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naval hospital ship in New York in a week and there was one a
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week later, forget the Nationwide.
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Of hydroxychloroquine and how successful it's been simply,
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because, President Trump touted, it might be an effective drug to
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come back to coronavirus. People are looking for strong
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leaders right now, not people to point fingers in this
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unprecedented time. People are looking to those who
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are actually getting things done.
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They're looking for answers, and facts and not political fights.
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They're looking to their country to help any way.
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They can. This crisis will pick the
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winners and losers for years to come.
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And I bet anyone who has been watching.
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Watching can already pick them for themselves, too.
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So as you can see, there's a lot of pointing fingers going back
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and forth. Everyone's kind of figure out
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what's going on. And everyone is clamoring for
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any new news. Any day.
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Kind of reminds me of back when I was in the east coast around
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Hurricane Sandy time and people were just kind of looking for
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any sort of information, anything they could get because
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they're in this kind of Frozen state of not being able to do
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what they wanted to do, not being able to enjoy the freedoms
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and Liberties that they had before this.
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So any news seems to News that people are holding on to.
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So while Gavin Newsom has been doing a I so would I have said a
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decent job and surprisingly decent job because he hasn't
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really turned this into much of a political fight and he hasn't
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really turned this into something that he can.
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He he, he can use it as a Podium to jump up on.
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And in that case, try and get his name out there.
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He's not like the governor of Michigan who is trying to use
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this to jump at the president. Do anything to kind of embarrass
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the president? He's been very, he's been kind
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of like Cuomo and I would say he's actually been a little bit
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better than Cuomo in that sense because he hasn't really come
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out and said anything bad about President Trump and because of
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that California's been doing relatively well.
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And we're going to get to the Paradox of why California is
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doing really well. Is it?
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Because of the social distancing?
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Is it because Gavin Newsom took such aggressive action, or is it
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because of some other things? As a big article?
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I mean, I broke it down for you again.
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I'm going to To put it up in the show notes, so you can read the
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whole article. It's a really, really long
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article and even when I chopped it down, took the highlights.
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It's still a pretty long article, but it's a very
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interesting article on the less. But the first article I want to
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talk about is headline, California, dismantle, its
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Mobile hospital citizen system ventilator or respirator
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stockpiles in 2011. This is a story that's been
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going around because people are starting to say federal
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government hasn't really responded to What the requires
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our cries for help are or what they need and since they've been
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saying that they need more of this stuff, or make more that
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and they weren't prepared, and they're trying to sue, the
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federal government wasn't prepared.
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But a lot of the states are starting to come out and as more
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news and more people, investigative journalist are at
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least independent journalist. I should say are starting to
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figure out what's going on here. They start to find out that
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maybe the state's weren't as prepared either and maybe they
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should be facing some of the brunt.
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And this is not to say that anybody has On a spectacular, a
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plus bang-up 100%, knocked it. Out of the park job.
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When it comes to the response to this, this pandemic.
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I'm not going to sit here and say, the federal government was
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100% ready. I'm not going to say the states
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were 100% ready. No one was 100% ready, which is
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why I think in the, in the terms of, if you're in a glass house,
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don't throw stones because right now a lot of states are showing
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that, they weren't particularly ready as well.
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So this came from redstate.com, Calm again, California dismantle
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its Mobile hospital system ventilator or respirator
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stockpiles as Jeff. Charles reported Los Angeles.
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Mayor, Eric Garcetti predicts that the City of Angels is less
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than a week away from reaching New York City levels of Wuhan
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coronavirus cases, such a major increase, nearly doubling every
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two days would overwhelm the city's Health Care capacity.
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Carcetti said, mind you. This was also written March
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29th. So it's a little older.
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We've probably almost hit that week marked and we don't really
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have the numbers that from LA. Eric, I say says, we will be
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where they are. He told reporters on Friday,
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will doctors making excruciating decisions will be trying to
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figure out what we, what to, what we do with that surge, how
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to get final layers and where to find beds.
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If Garcetti had access to three mobile 200 bed hospitals, with I
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see units and surgical Suites, 50 million.
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N95, respirators 2400 portable ventilators and kits to set up
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21 additional patient beds, wherever they were needed.
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He would probably feel a bit more prepared to handle the The
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onslaught California had such a system implemented, by former
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006.
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Schwarzenegger was troubled by the suffering.
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He saw along the Gulf Coast after Katrina and was concerned
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about a possible bird. Flu pandemic, knowing that,
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devastating earthquakes and quote, wanted to prepare the
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state for future calamities. Dr. Carlos out, east egg, way
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to--. I think I said that, right.
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I probably butchered it who served as Schwarzenegger is
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emergency. Medical director from 05, 2007
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described the 200 Planet hospitals.
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They are not like mash tent on TV.
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They're fully insulated, HVAC equipted semi-permanent tents.
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They had ventilators, a full complement of medications and
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they would roll out an 18 wheelers with a highway patrol
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escort. They had sleeping quarters for
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the staff. They were really comprehensive
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during the 2008 recession State revenues plummeted and state
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faced a twenty six billion dollar budget deficit by the
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time. Schwarzenegger left office
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Governor Jerry Brown cut the system in 2011.
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Sarcastically. I think StarTek sarcastically is
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the important part here. We're marking that quote.
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The programs have been set up to counter a quote potential
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influenza pandemic, which did not occur insert foot in mouth
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right now as California recovered from the recession,
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the state. Again, had bread budget surplus.
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2.8 billion in 2016 and nine billion Surplus in 2018.
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When guy, The Newsom was elected.
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The state collected a 21 billion dollar Surplus in 2019, but
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despite seeing massive swaths of the state devastated by
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wildfires. The state didn't prioritize,
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replacing equipment supplies that had been used given away.
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Let expire in the meantime. Article goes on to say, the 2400
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portable battery-powered ventilators were donated to a
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County Health departments and local hospitals.
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Medical device dealers told the Los Angeles Times.
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They recall, as many California. Valerie's being resold by
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hospitals and nursing homes to other dealers who, then likely
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shift them out of the United States out of the 50 million n95
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respirator masks, 21 million remain, but they're all out of
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date between 2011 and 2012. A mass were not were used but
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not replaced. The expired Mass have been
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released from the stockpile, but are quote approved for use only
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a limited low-risk circumstances.
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According to the California Department of Health.
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As of March 20 20 California has 90 hospital bed Statewide
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the ability to add 21 mobile beds, that Supply would be
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invaluable in the current situation by 2011.
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When the system was disbanded the maintenance cost for the
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entire program, was 5.8 million a year, which seems kind of
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small. Considering that California
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spent 129 billion in the 2011 budget, it over 200 million and
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2019 in contrast, the Also, leave space for 177 hospital
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beds in Daly City will cost the state 3.2 million dollars.
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It was extremely short-sighted for Jerry, Brown to eliminate a
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program with a minimal maintenance cost.
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A number of Democrats criticized the move at the time, but he
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want to stick a finger on Schwarzenegger's I and now all
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Californians are going to pay the price.
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So yeah, this is a little bit of a black mark, specifically on
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the California government being ill-prepared.
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Even if you can say that the social distancing has worked.
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I bet you California will feel a lot better knowing that Had
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these Mobile hospital. Second place, and I have to give
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Schwarzenegger a lot of credit. This is good for site on his
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part to say, disasters, like this happen, and they happen
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when we least expect it. So, Sherry Brown or Governor
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Moonbeam saying, well, it never came.
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So I guess we don't need to have these things anymore.
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Is kind of little side has bad foresight and really just just
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bad. acting skills of saying, It'll just because it hasn't
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happened doesn't mean it's not going to happen.
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And as we've seen, this does happen on a regular silikal
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basis. In the sense that we have the
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czar's, we've had swine flu. We've had a baby and flew.
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We had the Ebola crisis. This comes around every couple
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of years or so. So to say just because it didn't
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happen, doesn't mean that it will never happen.
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And this is part of a bigger Trend also going on in, New
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York. Where you have Andrew Cuomo, who
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is saying that they need more ventilator yet.
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They were sitting on a stockpile of 2 of them and they were
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confiscating them and saying well we need them as fast as
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possible. We need a ship and I don't
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doubt, they need a ship. New York is in really bad shape
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right now, but the state's need to be a little bit more
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prepared. And if you're someone who is a
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more state rights person, rather than a federal government type
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person, and this is sort of endemic of what's going on in
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our political system. All it's been happening over the
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past couple decades of the federal government has taken
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more and more of a larger role as the be-all and end-all of all
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governing decisions. And while the states have
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control and power. I mean, they've been granted
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enormous power under our constitution.
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To do a lot of things to craft their own constitutions to cover
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themselves the way they want to. They still seem to think that
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the federal government will bail them out.
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And that's something that I think needs to change moving
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forward from this. This state's need to start
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realizing that you can't depend on the federal government to
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bail you out all the time. It's irresponsible.
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It's naive to think that they're going to do so and it doesn't
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help the people of your state. As you're seeing with New York,
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California again, has been doing a pretty good job of keeping it
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low. We're going to talk about the
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numbers in a little bit about how we've been doing a little
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bit better, but you can't have States especially one like
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California that likes to Puff out its chest and boasts that it
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has the biggest economy in the entire country or the biggest.
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Fifth largest or ninth largest, Whatever It Whatever the ranking
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is now. To say that puff out your chest,
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you know, all these billions of dollars laying around its a
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surplus. It doesn't mean squat.
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If it doesn't go to help the people of the state, which we're
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seeing right now, if the people of the state need more zany,
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more hospital beds and they need more vital leaders and they need
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these more mass. What did it?
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Make it sense that we had a stockpile of these, Mass.
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Now, I would like to think that maybe I would give credit to
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Governor Newsom if he goes out there and he says, okay.
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Well based on this we're going to be ready for the next time
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this comes around and we're going to create a stockpile and
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bring these mobile hospitals back.
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I'd give him credit for that. But I don't know if you will
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because they like to post and brag about this enormous
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Surplus. That is supposed to be used for
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rainy days. And I guess a rainy day.
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I'm not quite sure. What a real.
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Day is and their definition. California seems to be 0
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prepared for wildfires. Now.
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It's ill-prepared for pandemics, Lord knows if we're even
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prepared. For if there is an a massive
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earthquake that could Rock a city again, and it seems that
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they like to Puff out their chests, that they keep taking
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more and more of our tax dollars.
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Putting it in a little piggy bank, but they won't let anybody
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touch or anybody use. Our infrastructure is crumbling.
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Our roads are crumbling. We have record amount of
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homeless people yet. They The like, the keep boasting
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about how they have this enormous Surplus every year, and
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it keeps the point. Why do you have the Surplus?
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And you keep asking for people for money.
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And I've talked about this before, if you have a surplus
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and you seem to be doing so well, budget with your budget
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and your budgeting skills, and yet you have the Surplus, you
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shouldn't be asking people for more money.
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Obviously you've been asking for too much money, because you have
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more than enough socked away. And whether you're using that
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for the proper purposes, is you To be seen.
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It hasn't been seen yet. Even with the wildfires were not
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prepared. What happened when we had the
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wildfires. Gavin Newsom went running to
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President Trump hat in hand. Again, you know, played nice for
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a little bit. So the president was very
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helpful. Thank you very much.
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Thank you for the FEMA help. Okay.
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See you later. Okay, back to bashing Trump and
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how horrible he is. This comes along out of a
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sentence back to hat in hand. Go back to President Trump say,
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okay, this is horrible. This is what we need your help
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and we're going to work together as soon as this is over.
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I don't doubt. Gavin Newsome will go back to
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bashing Trump saying, how horribly is what a racist
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misogynist racing, you know, just all the different things.
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So with that said, this is definitely I think the governor
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is focusing on other things, rather than really what's at
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hand here. And a lot of people are who saw
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what happened with the cares Act and the Relief act and saw?
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What Nancy Pelosi did trying to shove in different funding for
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the biggest one was 25 million for the Kennedy Center which
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people really don't understand why the Kennedy Center near 25
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million. Once they even after they fired
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all their people, they got the money and then fired all their
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musicians. So they wasn't to help keep the
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Kennedy Center going. Who knows what the 25 million
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went to obviously it wasn't to keep people on staff.
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But I guess Gavin. Newsom was related to Nancy
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Pelosi. The Apple doesn't fall far from
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the family tree. Also believes that these
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opportunities this opportunity and I want to we're going to
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talk about this a little bit, is a good opportunity to start
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offering a progressive era because as you're seeing people,
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when they are scared will do anything and they will comply
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with anything to get back to which sense of normalcy and
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security. And what that means is if the
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government says You have to do X Y and Z 0 Cal.
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Okay. Well do this?
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Well do this. Okay.
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Yeah, we agree. And this is how you start to
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change society little by little and you get to change the
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perception of what Society is. So in the California Globe, it
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was noted that the governor said when asked if there's a
00:20:12
political opportunity out of this pandemic, he is quote
00:20:16
saying there is an opportunity for reimagine anymore.
00:20:19
Or Progressive Era as it relates to capitalism Governor Newsom
00:20:23
said, so yes, we absolutely see this as an opportunity to
00:20:26
reshape the way we do business, and how we govern, pretty scary.
00:20:30
Because this shouldn't be the time to start thinking about how
00:20:33
you're going to reshape Society. Out of a pandemic.
00:20:38
I can understand because of capital and people are going to
00:20:40
start looking at the way things are done and people will step
00:20:43
back and say, okay maybe we can't have our business entirely
00:20:46
brick-and-mortar. Maybe we need to start learning
00:20:48
how to use. Platforms.
00:20:50
And I understand, I think that's a good way for capitalism to
00:20:52
start figuring that out. This isn't the best way to do
00:20:55
it. Putting millions of people out
00:20:56
of jobs, but I think the economy figures it out on its own.
00:21:00
I don't think this is a time for politicians to start ramrodding
00:21:04
their entire Progressive politics, and their agendas
00:21:08
through, which is what Pelosi is doing, which is now what we're
00:21:11
going to see, Gavin Newsom doing.
00:21:13
And I want you to Google this when you get a chance and I'll
00:21:16
go over a little bit. It's called cloward.
00:21:19
Even strategy. It's clo.
00:21:22
Wa Rd cloward and Piven Pi ven. Talk about right.
00:21:30
Now. What is it was first proposed in
00:21:32
1966 and named after Columbia University.
00:21:36
Sociologists, Richard Andrew cloward and his wife Frances Fox
00:21:40
Piven. Both longtime members of the
00:21:42
Democratic Socialist, America were Piven.
00:21:44
Today is an honorary chair, the cloward Piven strategy seeks to
00:21:48
hasten the fall. Capitalism by overloading the
00:21:51
government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands,
00:21:54
thus pushing Society into CrossFit crisis and economic
00:21:57
collapse inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black District
00:22:02
of watts in Los Angeles, which erupted after police had used
00:22:06
batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving
00:22:09
cloward and Piven published an article titled.
00:22:11
The weight of the poor, a strategy to end poverty in the
00:22:15
May 2nd 1966 issue of the nation.
00:22:19
Following its publication, the nation sold.
00:22:21
An unprecedented. 30 reprints activists were abuzz
00:22:25
over the so-called crisis strategy or cloward Piven
00:22:29
strategy as it came to be called many.
00:22:32
Were eager to put it into effect.
00:22:34
In 1966 article cloward and Piven charged, that the ruling
00:22:38
classes used welfare, to weaken the poor that by providing a
00:22:42
social safety. Net, the rich douse, the fires
00:22:45
of rebellion. Poor people can advance only The
00:22:48
rest of society is afraid of them.
00:22:50
Cloward told the New York Times on September 27th, 1970, rather
00:22:54
than placating, the poor with government, handouts broke
00:22:57
cloward and Piven activists would we should work to sabotage
00:23:01
and destroy the welfare system. The collapse of the welfare
00:23:04
state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would
00:23:07
rock the nation. Poor people would rise in Revolt
00:23:10
only then with the rest of society accept their demands.
00:23:14
The key to spark in their Rebellion would be exposed the
00:23:17
inadequacy of the welfare state. Klauer, Pivens early promoters
00:23:21
cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration.
00:23:25
Quote, make the enemy live up to their own Book of Rules olinsky
00:23:29
wrote in his 1971, book Rules for Radicals.
00:23:33
When pressed to honor every word of Law and statue, every judeo,
00:23:36
Christian, moral tenant, at every implicit promise of the
00:23:39
liberal social contract, human agencies, inevitably fall short,
00:23:43
the systems. Live up to its rule book and
00:23:46
then be used to discredit it all together.
00:23:48
And to replace the capitalist rule book with a socialist one.
00:23:52
The authors know that the number of Americans subsisting on
00:23:54
welfare about 8 million. At that time, probably represent
00:23:57
less than half the number who were technically eligible for
00:24:00
full benefits. They proposed a massive drive to
00:24:03
recruit the port, onto the welfare rolls cloward and Piven
00:24:07
to calculate that persuading, even a fraction of potential
00:24:10
welfare, recipients to demand. Their entitlements would
00:24:13
bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted would
00:24:16
be a profound and financial political crisis, that would
00:24:19
unleash powerful forces for major economic reform at the
00:24:22
national level. There article called for cadres
00:24:25
of a regressive organizers. To use demonstrations to create
00:24:29
a climate of militancy intimidated by threats of black
00:24:32
violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government
00:24:35
for help carefully. Orchestrated media campaigns
00:24:38
carried out by friendly, left-wing journals would float.
00:24:40
The idea of a federal program of income redistribution.
00:24:44
In the form of a guaranteed living income for all working
00:24:47
and non-working people. Like local officials would
00:24:49
clutch at this idea, like drowning men to a Lifeline.
00:24:52
They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it with
00:24:55
every major city erupted into chaos.
00:24:57
Washington would have to act. This was an example was commonly
00:25:02
called Trojan Horse movements, mass movements, whose outward
00:25:05
purpose seems to be providing material help to the
00:25:07
downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft.
00:25:10
Poor people into Service as a revolutionary foot soldiers to
00:25:14
Sighs poor, people en masse to overcome overwhelm government
00:25:18
agencies with a flood of Demands beyond the capacity of those
00:25:21
among agencies to me. The flooded demands was
00:25:24
calculated to break the budget Jan, the bureaucratic gears into
00:25:27
gridlock and bring the system crashing down fear turmoil,
00:25:31
violence and economic collapse, would accompany such a breakdown
00:25:34
providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change, and
00:25:37
that was the theory. So as you can see, it's this
00:25:41
happened almost 40 50 years ago. And this theory is seems to be
00:25:46
working right now. That the idea that there is a
00:25:49
crisis going on, you're having the people start to flood the
00:25:52
system almost to the point that it will be unsustainable
00:25:56
untenable after a certain point. We can't keep doing what we're
00:25:59
doing. Even if you like the idea of
00:26:01
this coronal relief package and you think that it's good to give
00:26:06
people all this money. The idea is shouldn't be to
00:26:10
continually give people more and more money and shouldn't be the
00:26:12
idea to continue to open up the welfare state to the point where
00:26:15
a collapses and a lot of it. We talked about last week in the
00:26:19
sense of you're starting to see a little tenants of socialism
00:26:23
here and there do you like your idea of socialism?
00:26:26
Because that's what it's starting to be pushed into.
00:26:30
This idea that the federal government should be responsible
00:26:32
for your health care and they should be responsible for your
00:26:34
income and should be responsible for Distributing the goods and
00:26:37
services of other people, determining what's essential,
00:26:40
and what's not essential. And this is a big issue and you
00:26:44
got to be keeping your eyes wide open on this.
00:26:47
That if you don't think people like Nancy Pelosi or James
00:26:50
Clyburn, or Joe Biden, or Bernie Sanders, or even Gavin, Newsom,
00:26:55
we're going to start taking advantage of this opportunity.
00:26:58
Never let a good. Isis.
00:27:00
Go to waste keep those words in mind.
00:27:02
Never let a good crisis. Go to waste.
00:27:05
Jim Clyburn said that this is an opportunity to start building
00:27:09
the agenda and the vision of the country that they've always
00:27:12
wanted and can't do can't do because we have checks and
00:27:16
balances because they're not represented because they don't
00:27:18
have the power because they lost elections and they don't have
00:27:21
control of the senate, or the white house, which is how it
00:27:24
should be in our government. It shouldn't be that you should
00:27:27
be ramrodding or using this crisis.
00:27:30
To start ramrodding your political ideology through and
00:27:33
I'm worried that Gavin Newsom will start to do this as well
00:27:35
here in California. That he'll say, he's been pretty
00:27:38
tame so far and he's been keeping hands off, especially
00:27:42
when it comes to stuff, like keeping gun shops open, or
00:27:44
letting people go, buy guns and ammo to protect themselves.
00:27:48
He's kind of step back and say, well, I'm not going to decide
00:27:51
it. I'll let the sheriff's decide
00:27:53
it. And even if the, you know, the
00:27:55
sheriff up in l.a. County decides, he wants to
00:27:58
close all the gun shops, even though, Was quickly dismissed
00:28:01
out, of course or that was quickly shot down by the court.
00:28:04
I should say it was shot down by the court, not dismissed by the
00:28:06
court that you can't do that. You can start to say that this
00:28:11
is a chance that it, when pressed with dire numbers and
00:28:15
fear, that it will never get better.
00:28:17
People will back into a corner and accept almost anything.
00:28:22
And that's sort of what the strain of these past couple
00:28:24
podcast has been, is that you have to start questioning those
00:28:27
and looking at not to say well I don't care and I don't think
00:28:30
this is a big deal but also to question whether everything
00:28:35
you're being told is the right idea or it's the right solution
00:28:39
to this problem, in a lot of it is statistically, is it?
00:28:43
Because of and again, with this big article, I'm going to get to
00:28:47
has a lot of the stuff we've been talking about which is
00:28:49
confounders. Is it just because of the Also
00:28:52
distance in that California has been.
00:28:55
Kind of safe from this or hasn't seen the brunt of it yet or it
00:28:59
hasn't gotten out of hand yet. I know people are starting to
00:29:03
get you know, San Diego County's, been doing pretty
00:29:05
well. Allah is probably the worst hit.
00:29:07
San Francisco. Jumped on it early.
00:29:09
They were badly hit, but the rest of the continent, you know,
00:29:12
rest of the state seems to be faring pretty well.
00:29:17
But you have to start to question.
00:29:19
Don't let this fear take over your rational thought.
00:29:23
And don't let this become your lizard brain taking over where
00:29:26
it's fight or flight and it's all about survival and people
00:29:30
you can see it every day. The government says, well, you
00:29:32
need to do this to go out and survive to fight the virus and
00:29:36
for the common good. What happens.
00:29:38
The next day everybody runs out, they all do exactly what the
00:29:40
government says. And I'm not saying it doesn't
00:29:43
have Merit. There are things that have
00:29:44
merits, they are things that probably are good ideas.
00:29:47
But just look at this whole issue with masked two weeks ago.
00:29:50
They said Mass may have been more dangerous than actually
00:29:53
helpful complete one. Eighty two weeks later now, Mass
00:29:56
are essential. Now, you got to go out and you
00:29:58
got to wear a mask everywhere you go.
00:30:01
So, just start to question this and keep your eye on what's
00:30:05
going on with these politicians, who's taken advantage of this,
00:30:09
who's leaning on the federal government a little bit too much
00:30:12
who's not prepared, who's pointing the finger in the wrong
00:30:15
place, you know, point the Finger at where it should be
00:30:18
responsible. When this all in all the dust
00:30:20
settles down. I would love to hear a reporter
00:30:23
or someone get to Gavin. Newsom and say, look, are you
00:30:26
going to bring back those mobile hospitals and all that stuff
00:30:29
that Governor Schwarzenegger did?
00:30:30
Because we have a surplus and it's obviously really not that
00:30:33
expensive if we're doing this. Well and we have an enormous
00:30:36
Surplus. Are you going to bring back
00:30:38
these mobile hospitals so that you can be better prepared.
00:30:41
The next time this comes around or another predecessor is better
00:30:45
prepared the next time this comes around.
00:30:47
I will you will you agree to that?
00:30:49
Or will you promise to do that? I doubt he would.
00:30:52
I doubt anyone's going to ask him that and I doubt anyone's
00:30:55
even going to put his feet to the fire.
00:30:56
I think he'll put himself on the back and say, we did better than
00:30:59
most States and we're one of the largest one of the largest
00:31:02
states most have, most people. And look at us.
00:31:05
Look at how we did. We did really well, because of
00:31:07
my decisions probably could have done a lot better.
00:31:10
Probably could have been a lot more prepared.
00:31:12
I would think stays have to start to figure out and I don't
00:31:15
think they will that they need to be bread.
00:31:17
Prepared locally. So when stuff like this
00:31:20
happened, they can say, okay, we're better prepared.
00:31:23
So, this, when this happens again, we don't have to go back
00:31:26
the Federal Government for help. We don't have to be at the mercy
00:31:30
of whoever is in the Oval Office or in the White House.
00:31:35
But I doubt that will happen instead.
00:31:37
They're going to use any Avenue they can.
00:31:41
To start to push the agenda that they want, while getting the
00:31:44
federal dollars to push the agenda that they want.
00:31:51
So be wary, be wary of what communism is going to be doing.
00:31:54
After this is all done, be wary of the power that he wields
00:31:58
right now. He hasn't been too heavy-handed
00:32:01
with the power. He wields right now, which is
00:32:03
good and maybe that's just him laying the foundation that he
00:32:06
hasn't. He isn't doing anything out of
00:32:08
the ordinary so that when he does something a little bit more
00:32:11
extreme people say, well, I mean, he's been pretty, pretty
00:32:14
conservative, but up until this point, so maybe, you know, maybe
00:32:18
this is just what we need to do. So keep your eye on it.
00:32:22
See what you know question. Everything question was coming
00:32:25
out question the statistics and this next article is exactly an
00:32:30
issue on that when it comes to questions.
00:32:32
Two districts and questioning those.
00:32:35
And what we've been told this was from what article is this
00:32:42
from? This is from the National Review
00:32:44
by Victor Davis, Hanson headline, coronavirus, the
00:32:47
California heard. Papa.
00:32:56
Coronavirus painter, California herd immunity again.
00:33:01
I'll post all the Articles. I'll post the links to all these
00:33:03
articles hold onto your butts for this one is a little bit
00:33:07
longer. And again I try to trim this
00:33:10
down as much as possible. I went through it and highlight,
00:33:13
only what I thought was the most essential stuff.
00:33:17
The blue is State's public officials have been warning for
00:33:20
weeks that California will be overwhelmed given federal
00:33:22
government unpreparedness in the purported in effect.
00:33:25
See in efficacy of the local state and federal governments.
00:33:32
Before I begin, I want to say that.
00:33:33
This was this was post on March, 31st.
00:33:35
The numbers are going to be a little bit different, but I'll
00:33:37
go over that. California.
00:33:39
Governor, Gavin, Newsom is assured his state that over half
00:33:42
of the population or in his words 56%, will soon be infected
00:33:46
that is more than 25 million coronavirus Azure on the horizon
00:33:50
which at the viruses current fatality rate of 12 percent.
00:33:53
The ratio of dusted, known positive cases would mean that
00:33:57
the state would anticipate 250 to 500 thousand dead
00:34:01
Californians in the near future. Los Angeles.
00:34:04
Mayor Eric Garcetti predicted that this week, Los Angeles
00:34:07
would be short of all sorts of Local supplies as the epidemic
00:34:10
killed many hundreds, as in the case of New York City.
00:34:13
It's been well, over two months since the first certified
00:34:16
coronavirus case in the United States.
00:34:18
So one, my expect to see early symptoms of the Apocalypse
00:34:20
recently forecast by Governor Newsom yet, a number of
00:34:24
Californians, Top Doctors epidemiologist, statisticians
00:34:27
and biophysicist including Stanford's John.
00:34:30
Ian has Michael Levitt, Aaron bhavani benefit?
00:34:35
Ben David and Jay not even gonna put Oz that name.
00:34:39
It's a long name. Have expressed some skepticism
00:34:42
about The Bleak models, predicting that we are on the
00:34:44
verge of a Statewide or even National lethal.
00:34:46
Pandemic of biblical proportions.
00:34:49
The Skeptics may be right as of this moment California's
00:34:53
Community Middle of fatalities attributed to the coronavirus or
00:34:56
somewhere around and this is that the art writing at the time
00:34:59
as 140. It's about 300.
00:35:02
Let me pull this up right now. If you're not tracking LA times
00:35:07
as a really good tracker right now 323 and literally, at the
00:35:10
time of recording this is says, 323 out of 14 confirmed
00:35:17
cases. So, keep those numbers in mind,
00:35:19
as I Go, like I said, these numbers are a little old but
00:35:22
still 14 that 323 out of 14. That totals relatively
00:35:28
confirmable. No numerator.
00:35:30
The coronavirus is not always the sole cause of death, as
00:35:32
opposed to a widely unreliable denominator of caseloads, which
00:35:36
is currently at the point of this recording 14 in the
00:35:39
state. There are judged to be only a
00:35:41
fraction of the population that has been tested.
00:35:43
The Iceland study, for example, suggests that half of those who
00:35:46
are infected show, no symptoms. Currently even with fluctuating
00:35:50
statistics, California suffering, roughly about one,
00:35:53
death to the virus for every 250 to 300 of its
00:35:58
residents. In contrast, as of Monday
00:36:02
morning, New York state with about half of California's
00:36:05
population has about eight to nine times the number of deaths
00:36:09
and 20 times per capita rate at 60 deaths, per million
00:36:12
residents. In fact, California has a much
00:36:15
lower per capita death rate than many of the nation's largest
00:36:17
states for that matter. Its per capita.
00:36:20
Death rate is similar to that of Nations that so far have
00:36:23
mysteriously escape. The virus has modeled wrath
00:36:26
currently, California has lost fewer than four people per
00:36:29
million, roughly. Between South Korea's three
00:36:31
deaths per million and Germany's 5 which are both being studied
00:36:35
as outliers, of course, the statistics change hourly, but
00:36:38
for now California's data remains Mysteries, like I just
00:36:41
said, this was a couple little bit ago.
00:36:43
Showed you the numbers, numbers are still pretty low.
00:36:46
Even at this midpoint in the viruses ascendance.
00:36:49
Most believe that. California would be faring, far
00:36:51
worse, and they have good reason for such a pessimism, California
00:36:55
and a normal year. Usually experiences.
00:36:57
The greatest number of deaths associated with the flu in the
00:37:00
It states and it ranks about. Midway among the states and flu
00:37:04
deaths per capita. The state was hit hard by
00:37:07
influenza unusually early in the first few weeks of November,
00:37:10
including a strain that at the time was characterized as
00:37:12
probably not a, but a rather be and occasion.
00:37:17
Quite virulent, many Californians.
00:37:19
Complain late in 2019 of getting the flu a bit early with flu
00:37:23
symptoms that were somewhat different.
00:37:25
From the norm at times, including severe muscle, aches
00:37:28
some digestion of cramping and unproductive cough.
00:37:30
Of days or even weeks of post fever fatigue.
00:37:35
Travel forecast from China for 2020, even amid.
00:37:38
The trade War had estimated more than 8 daily rivals in
00:37:42
California, two years ago, Los Angeles.
00:37:44
Mayor, Eric Garcetti, brag that 1.1 million Chinese tourists at
00:37:48
visited La more than 3 per day.
00:37:52
The greatest number of foreign tourists to Los Angeles are
00:37:54
Chinese and the city is the favorite spot in America of all
00:37:57
visitors from China during the months of October November
00:38:01
January, and February alone before the travel ban, perhaps
00:38:05
nearly 1 million Chinese citizens arrived in California
00:38:08
on direct and indirect flights originate in China.
00:38:11
Due to go and down in the case of California again.
00:38:16
Unfortunately, the state should have had many things going
00:38:19
against it at least in terms of susceptibility to any pandemic
00:38:23
infection that curbs. It's huge tourist and Commercial
00:38:25
travel with China. The state has the nation's
00:38:28
highest poverty rate affecting over 20% of the population or
00:38:31
some eight million people. The greatest number of homeless
00:38:34
people at somewhere. Over 150 and the most
00:38:38
residents in the nation, on some form of public assistant,
00:38:40
one-third of the nation's total. The state is not especially
00:38:44
healthy and rarely rates among the top 10 states in terms of
00:38:47
per capita Health, by whichever metrics one uses a decade ago,
00:38:51
study suggested that one in three, admissions of those over
00:38:54
35 to Calvary, hospitals, were suffering from either diabetes,
00:38:58
or pre-diabetes a known risk factor for Coronavirus patients,
00:39:02
California, ranks near the bottom.
00:39:03
When we count the number of available.
00:39:05
Four beds 1 population at about 1.8 likewise.
00:39:09
Its number of active, doctors per tent, under thousands,
00:39:12
similarly unimpressive about Midway among State rankings at
00:39:15
276 per 100, versus Massachusetts, high 450 and
00:39:21
Mississippi's low of 191 in most surveys of nurses per 100
00:39:26
California ranks near last with only 664.
00:39:31
How then has California in the third month of known covid-19.
00:39:35
Ins in the u.s. Lost between at this point.
00:39:38
So 323 lives. Again, a number of experts have
00:39:42
offered hypothesis. It is a question of the
00:39:45
statistical anomaly. Asuma suggested is the case of
00:39:48
Germany for which similarly post few total deaths from the virus
00:39:52
given differences in how countries and perhaps even
00:39:54
States record. The chief causation of death.
00:39:56
IE. Some places are listing covid-19
00:39:58
as the cause of death evil. In the decedent suffered from
00:40:01
underlying chronic conditions, as California experienced, a
00:40:05
debris flow. In the fashion of Japan, which
00:40:07
likewise has suffered few days so far, but may be poised to
00:40:09
suffer far more. Is there a lag in ascertaining
00:40:12
in determining dust in a state? That's geographically huge and
00:40:15
linguistically diverse elapsed. That will shortly.
00:40:18
See these correct in such Miss Impressions from a radical
00:40:21
increase, in a Corona sociate desk as is now forecast for
00:40:24
Japan, to a lesser extent. Germany.
00:40:27
Did California's Draconian shelter in place policies that
00:40:30
aim to dated many of those in other states simply arrest quote
00:40:34
so far. What should have been by now?
00:40:37
Alisal epidemic did California's proverbial warmer weather, slow
00:40:41
down the virus? Did it Suburban ranch, homes,
00:40:44
lifestyle and large. Open Spaces in the central
00:40:46
Valley's here in Nevada. Desert in Northern counties make
00:40:49
Transmissions harder than it has been in say the highest density
00:40:52
living in New York. Maybe maybe not one less mention
00:40:57
hypothesis. Is that California?
00:40:59
As a Frontline state may have rather rapidly developed a
00:41:02
greater level of herd immunity than other states.
00:41:05
Given that hints antidotes and some official indications for
00:41:08
both China. Italy that again, the virus May
00:41:11
well have been spreading abroad far earlier in the first
00:41:13
recorded case in the US and likely from the coast in word.
00:41:17
So, given the state's unprecedented, direct are access
00:41:20
to China and giving us large expatriate and Taurus Chinese
00:41:23
communities, especially in its huge or denser, Metropolitan
00:41:26
quarters, and Los Angeles in the Bay area.
00:41:29
It could be that what thousands of California experience as
00:41:32
unusually early and bad flu. Season might have also Reflected
00:41:36
an early coronavirus epidemic suggested that many more
00:41:39
Californians per capita than in other states, may have acquired
00:41:42
immunity to the virus. Tip tip tip tip down.
00:41:47
Huge article. Thanks for sticking with me.
00:41:50
Again, going to post it. You can read the whole thing.
00:41:52
I'm just taking Snippets out in the meantime, for a few days.
00:41:55
At least. We are left with the California
00:41:56
Paradox, as with the apparent, outliers of Germany, South
00:41:58
Korea, and Japan. It reminds us that all there are
00:42:01
endless known unknowns about the origins lethality infection has
00:42:05
and patterns of travel to the coronavirus.
00:42:07
And that today's latest frightening statistical model is
00:42:10
often superseded tomorrow by more realistic appraisals in.
00:42:14
And then again, rendered naive by even more frightening, new
00:42:17
backlash models, until now, without either widespread,
00:42:21
antibody or current infection testing.
00:42:22
The number of people who died from the virus, in comparison,
00:42:25
to a given population base is about all we can rely on to
00:42:29
determine The lethality of the disease.
00:42:31
And in that regard, at least for a few weeks or few weeks, a few
00:42:34
days, or weeks longer, California remains a mystery.
00:42:40
So again, huge huge article lot of good thoughts.
00:42:44
In their numbers are a little off because it's been a week
00:42:47
goal. But again, even 140-150 with an
00:42:50
increased to 323 over that time paint time span still not really
00:42:55
that bad. When you think about it, and
00:42:58
look at the LA Times, look in the statistical, numbers isn't
00:43:00
Rising as fast. As let's say, New York where
00:43:02
they said have hundreds and hundreds, hundreds of people
00:43:04
dying. Every single day, seems to be
00:43:07
maybe in the double digits every night that it gets.
00:43:10
Updated. But this is part of the larger
00:43:15
issue that I think I wanted. I've been pushing these past
00:43:17
couple weeks is that you have to question what's going on.
00:43:21
And you can't just sit here in a bubble and be spoon-fed what
00:43:25
everybody is telling you and it's not unpatriotic.
00:43:29
I think it's more patriotic and more American to question.
00:43:33
What's going on out there? It's in our DNA to question.
00:43:37
What's going on out there when it comes to this Coronavirus?
00:43:40
So I think you can say are there different solutions and to a
00:43:45
certain extent like the president.
00:43:46
Say you can't have the Cure be worse than the problem.
00:43:50
Do we have to start figuring out ways to move forward?
00:43:52
And I think I hear a lot of people already pirating.
00:43:55
This idea. This is the new norm and this is
00:43:58
the new reality and we're all going to be stuck inside for a
00:44:00
very very long time. And I don't buy any of it.
00:44:04
I don't buy that. The American people are going to
00:44:06
sit here and be dormant and stay inside their homes.
00:44:10
Four months on it. I feel by the time we get to the
00:44:14
end of April. I think there will be a lot more
00:44:16
pushback for people clamoring and clawing up the walls to get
00:44:20
back out at work. And even asking someone to say,
00:44:24
well if you are allowed to go back to work, if things were
00:44:27
allowed to go back to somewhat normal.
00:44:30
If let's say they put in, okay, just make sure you do social
00:44:33
distancing. Make sure the restaurants can do
00:44:36
this or that or if there was some little bit of step in the
00:44:39
right direction. Ian.
00:44:40
And I'm not saying in a rational.
00:44:42
Oh, let's just rip the Band-Aid off.
00:44:43
And everyone go Hog Wild because everything's fine.
00:44:46
I'm still saying that there are ways to kind of move forward in
00:44:50
the right direction, without being shouted down, as if you
00:44:53
want to kill grandma, and I think you have to continually
00:44:56
keep asking questions, be vigilant.
00:45:00
Be this is a time. We all get caught up in the
00:45:03
normal daily routine of Our Lives.
00:45:05
We all get caught up in the everyday Russian to work,
00:45:08
rushing home making dinner watching a couple things.
00:45:10
Netflix and going to bed doing that week in and week out.
00:45:13
We have a lot of time on our hands.
00:45:14
We have a lot of time on our hands to sit around and read.
00:45:18
I think now would be a productive time and you're
00:45:20
starting to see a lot of people, you go on social media, you go
00:45:23
on Twitter. A lot of people are starting to
00:45:25
question what's going on, they're questioning the models.
00:45:27
They're questioning the statistics, their question, why?
00:45:30
No one's talking about cures? Why they always seem to be
00:45:33
saying, you know, even with the results of something like
00:45:36
hydroxychloroquine, even if that's really powerful, and
00:45:39
that's the Treatment that can be used, even that's something that
00:45:42
can stem the tide. Even when people like, Laura
00:45:45
Ingraham are going out there and saying, well is
00:45:47
hydroxychloroquine a good idea. Is it really true, you know,
00:45:51
turning the tide and Twitter saying up, you got to take that
00:45:54
down. There is a balance.
00:45:56
There's a balance of you don't want people who are not medical
00:45:58
professionals to start pushing things out there.
00:46:00
But at the same time you also want reporters and people in the
00:46:03
news to be able to say hey, this looks pretty promising.
00:46:06
Maybe we should start talking about this more.
00:46:09
And it's amazing how fast it went from hydroxychloroquine.
00:46:14
Was this great drug, that was working really well.
00:46:17
And the minute President. Trump said something about
00:46:19
everybody had to all of a sudden you're out.
00:46:21
Nope. We're going to ban it.
00:46:22
It's no good. Look at this person who drink
00:46:24
fish, bowl cleaner, and he died from it.
00:46:27
Forget the, we'll just leave out the fact that he drank fish bowl
00:46:29
cleaner, which is not exactly the same chemical compound.
00:46:32
Let's just push hydroxychloroquine to the back
00:46:34
because the president touted and now, people are saying he touted
00:46:37
a false. Hope for a Look, if you look at
00:46:41
the statistics, it's not false. Hope it seems to be working and
00:46:45
that's where people are starting to get really frustrated and I'm
00:46:47
saying that you have to question everything.
00:46:49
You have a lot of time on your hands.
00:46:51
You have a lot of time to read articles and figure this stuff
00:46:54
out for yourself. And there's not much we can do
00:46:57
in terms of what everyone else is doing.
00:47:01
People are going to listen to the government.
00:47:03
They're going to listen to what the news is telling them, and
00:47:04
they're going to do exactly what they need to do.
00:47:06
Because they're scared. And like what?
00:47:09
No, for good reason. A lot of people are scared out
00:47:11
there. It doesn't mean you have to
00:47:12
continually be scared and think that we have to just blindly
00:47:16
accept, everything that's being told to us.
00:47:19
Be precautious. Obviously be precautious, be
00:47:22
safe, be healthy, but also question, what's going on?
00:47:26
And I believe that we've lost that kind of discourse going on
00:47:29
in this country. I feel like if you try and bring
00:47:32
it up if you even try to bring up, maybe there's ways to get
00:47:35
around this and fix it and kind of move in the right direction
00:47:38
and getting the economy back. Been getting people back to
00:47:40
work, making it. So we don't have to continually
00:47:42
live on government handouts for the next couple months.
00:47:46
People shout you down, people shout you down because even if
00:47:48
you may not mind Lee just suggest.
00:47:51
Oh, I just want to suggest that we could maybe move towards
00:47:55
bringing everything back and maybe slowly letting the economy
00:47:59
open up. So people could get their jobs
00:48:00
back and we can return to some form of normalcy.
00:48:03
People shout you down for wanting to kill people at a
00:48:07
reckless Pace, but I'm going to say that the people who are
00:48:10
going to step up and question this, we need all those people.
00:48:14
We need all those people right now to step up and questioning
00:48:16
what's going on. We need all the people to step
00:48:18
up and say. I don't believe that a lot of
00:48:21
these statistics are right. I think there's something going
00:48:23
on here. Hold your politicians feet to
00:48:26
the fire. Don't accept everything.
00:48:27
Don't accept everything and blind fear or blindly out of
00:48:32
here because you're afraid. That if you don't do exactly
00:48:35
what they tell you everything you're going to ruin everything.
00:48:39
So, with that, this one went on a little bit long because there
00:48:42
is a lot of stuff to get through that article was really, really
00:48:44
long. But the moral of this is that
00:48:48
you got to step back and you gotta say, What is really going
00:48:52
on here and you can't be afraid. Don't be afraid to question it.
00:48:56
And people are going to shout you down.
00:48:58
And people are going to say hyperbolic things.
00:49:01
Like you want to kill everybody or you want to kill Grandma and
00:49:04
Grandpa. That's not what you want.
00:49:06
You want answers. You want the truth.
00:49:08
You want to hold the politicians feet to the fire.
00:49:10
You want to hold the people who are are kind of pushing out bad
00:49:14
models and we've seen there's been bad models.
00:49:16
There's been bad statistics. There's been bad reporting.
00:49:19
There's been people reporting the fake things.
00:49:21
Ben you've seen news networks that have put out fake footage
00:49:25
to try and scare people. So don't don't back down just
00:49:29
because people's shout you down. Question question, question,
00:49:32
continued, as questions. Keep your eye on the ball and
00:49:37
just keep looking at the optimistic news that's out there
00:49:40
with that said and this one because it did run over a little
00:49:44
bit trying to keep these little bit shorter to maybe, you know,
00:49:47
30 to 40 minutes for easier digestion, but keep it on.
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