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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Well, here, i am back from the COVID
Speaker 1: hell that I started going through about a week ago now,
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry that I've been off the air. Sorry
Speaker 1: i haven't been able to talk to you for a
Speaker 1: few days, but it all hit me and I got
Speaker 1: word right as I started to do the show on
Speaker 1: Wednesday last week that I sure enough did have COVID
Speaker 1: and it was very much as advertised. Is very much
Speaker 1: something that I could have known just based on the
Speaker 1: symptoms when I got an unofficial test, and I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts on it. Now that I've talked
Speaker 1: to you about this for so long and I've actually
Speaker 1: experienced it myself, I could tell you that everything that
Speaker 1: I've told you up to this point has been correct,
Speaker 1: and now that I've actually had to deal with it myself,
Speaker 1: I am more certain than ever about the conclusions we've
Speaker 1: come to on this show about what to do, what
Speaker 1: not to do, what is sane policy, and is what
Speaker 1: is not? So I'm looking forward to breaking down all
Speaker 1: of that with you here, and then also I'm delaying
Speaker 1: my trip down to the border as a result of
Speaker 1: this illness, so it'll be a few more weeks now
Speaker 1: before I get down to the border myself. Certainly going
Speaker 1: to have updates for you on that. And I've got
Speaker 1: to tell you it remains remarkable to me that I
Speaker 1: just saw this today that Donald Trump. You can't post
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Speaker 1: to spiral out of control. The numbers are stunning. The
Speaker 1: Biden administration pretending that they have a good idea of
Speaker 1: how to handle all of this, folks. I've been looking
Speaker 1: forward to talking to you about about everything going on
Speaker 1: of the news. The border is obviously top of mind
Speaker 1: for me, and we'll dive into that. But first, just
Speaker 1: a quick word to all of you about why I've
Speaker 1: been out. I've had COVID. I've had COVID now for
Speaker 1: a week and it is very much what I expected.
Speaker 1: The symptoms. It was a little I was hoping that
Speaker 1: maybe i'd have a milder case than I did. I
Speaker 1: got hit pretty badly. Was very similar to a nasty flu.
Speaker 1: So as I was doing the show Wednesday, and I
Speaker 1: know that we I had to take a pause during
Speaker 1: it and wasn't even really able to get through the
Speaker 1: normal show. The fatigue and the dizziness that hit was
Speaker 1: just just immense. I'm doing a lot better now. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be out of quarantine in three days, so
Speaker 1: I'm doing this show now. From quarantine. I have not
Speaker 1: left my apartment in a week. I have not seen
Speaker 1: anyone in a week. But I'm getting to talk to
Speaker 1: all of you across the country, and I'm very thankful
Speaker 1: that I'm I was a mild enough case, didn't have
Speaker 1: to go see a doctor, even didn't have to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital. For me, it's largely been like a flu.
Speaker 1: And I'll talk to you more about what I see
Speaker 1: going on in COVID policy. And the short version is
Speaker 1: that having now had this and experienced it, I'm more
Speaker 1: certain than ever about everything that I've been telling you
Speaker 1: for the past year, all the conclusions, all the analysis
Speaker 1: about what would have been a better choice for our society,
Speaker 1: what works with regard to mitigation, what does in all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff or how well it works. So
Speaker 1: we'll certainly dive into all that, but I want to
Speaker 1: start with and I appreciate all the well wishes. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you didn't understand why I was
Speaker 1: out because I didn't make it clear. I figured, let
Speaker 1: me beat COVID before I tell you all that I
Speaker 1: have COVID. And so that's that's where I am. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be back and really thankful to be
Speaker 1: able to do the show once again. That all said,
Speaker 1: if I sound a little bit strained today or if
Speaker 1: it sounds a little bit like a challenge, well I'm
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent yet, so I'm still I'm playing
Speaker 1: hurt here on the radio. But that's how we that's
Speaker 1: how we do it in the Freedom Hunt. So let's
Speaker 1: get into the border situation where we have the journalists
Speaker 1: finally now that they've they've tried to make it a
Speaker 1: little bit less awful looking in terms of the conditions
Speaker 1: in these facilities. You've had journos gathering together and able
Speaker 1: to go and take photos of what's going on, to
Speaker 1: see what's happening in one of these facilities, and it
Speaker 1: is a it is a total mess. It's awful. What's happening.
Speaker 1: The biggest shelter for migrant kids. They let the journalists
Speaker 1: go see this. You got about one in seven kids
Speaker 1: has COVID. They've got tents that are at seventeen hundred
Speaker 1: percent capacity. They've got two thousand kids who have overstayed
Speaker 1: their seventy two hour legal limit. There's COVID outbreaks, there's
Speaker 1: a reported lice outbreak. I mean, it's really bad conditions.
Speaker 1: And what is the Biden administration say about all this?
Speaker 1: What is their approach to this? Well, they think, and
Speaker 1: I'm being serious, this is what they believe. They think
Speaker 1: that they're doing a good job. They actually believe that
Speaker 1: their approach to the border, which has led to all
Speaker 1: of this, is something they should be praised for. Here
Speaker 1: as Biden's borders are ROBERTA. Jacobson play nine. First of all,
Speaker 1: we don't apologize for the fact that this is a
Speaker 1: president who has a more humane policy. The President said
Speaker 1: it himself the other day during his press conference. He's
Speaker 1: not going to apologize for taking care of children who
Speaker 1: come unaccompanied across the border. But I do think we
Speaker 1: have to make sure people understand that the border is
Speaker 1: not open that the majority of people, especially single adults,
Speaker 1: will be expelled or deported, and that people need to
Speaker 1: understand that this is not the way to come to
Speaker 1: the United States, that we are working on legal pathways,
Speaker 1: on options that they can have to stay in their
Speaker 1: home countries. We are surging humanitarian assistance after two hurricanes
Speaker 1: last November. Now, there's a problem with the entire philosophy
Speaker 1: of the Democrats when it comes to the border, and
Speaker 1: it's apparent in all their public statements about it. They're
Speaker 1: always trying to lean on this notion that they just
Speaker 1: need to increase access to the system and this will
Speaker 1: work out for everybody. But that's not true. The reason
Speaker 1: that people are choosing to come in this way is
Speaker 1: because it's an end run on the system, because they
Speaker 1: won't really get refugee status or asylum. Remember refugee status
Speaker 1: you apply for in another country to be here in
Speaker 1: the United States. Asylum status is you show up and
Speaker 1: essentially demand to be an on the spot refugee. They
Speaker 1: won't get their claims, they won't get their claims taken
Speaker 1: through to the actual end where they get to stay.
Speaker 1: That's the problem, and they won't say this, so they
Speaker 1: keep telling us, but there's a humanitarian need. There's a
Speaker 1: humanitarian disaster in Central America. There was a hurricane at
Speaker 1: some point, As if the people are coming now because
Speaker 1: the hurricane, not because Joe Biden is the president, right,
Speaker 1: As if we're also stupid that we don't see what's
Speaker 1: going on. I mean this, you can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: They're showing up at the border in large numbers, and
Speaker 1: they're saying on camera, we're here because of Biden. They're
Speaker 1: wearing Biden t shirts. The Democrat Party is a de
Speaker 1: facto open borders party. They don't want to turn people away.
Speaker 1: They're a lying to you when they say they do.
Speaker 1: As far as they're concerned, anybody who wants to come
Speaker 1: to America should be able to notice. They never explain otherwise.
Speaker 1: They don't even go through the motions of saying, look,
Speaker 1: we got to have a cap here. We can't we
Speaker 1: can't take in a million refugees a year, on top
Speaker 1: of a million legal immigrants a year, which is what
Speaker 1: we currently do, a million legal immigrants in America every year.
Speaker 1: And now we're going to add on to that perhaps
Speaker 1: a million, perhaps two million refugees from Central America why
Speaker 1: not ten million. Now you have to get down to
Speaker 1: the basic philosophy here of what is an immigration system
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Why do we even have an immigration system,
Speaker 1: and deal with this reality. Look at these questions honestly,
Speaker 1: instead of what the Democrats do is the worst kinds
Speaker 1: of demagoguery. Right, they act like it's only an issue
Speaker 1: of fixing the efficiency of the system and then everything
Speaker 1: will be better. Well, no, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: these families that based on our immigration laws, in fact,
Speaker 1: a vast majority of these families, something like ninety percent
Speaker 1: of them, should not be able to stay in the
Speaker 1: United States and therefore must be deported. But they won't
Speaker 1: tell you that because they don't plan on doing that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of falsehood around this. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of lies, and you have to dig into this to
Speaker 1: see what's really going on. I'll be going down to
Speaker 1: the border, like I said, in a few weeks. I
Speaker 1: need to recover fully from COVID first, but I want
Speaker 1: to see it myself. I want to talk. I've been
Speaker 1: down there before for the last migrant crisis, but I
Speaker 1: want to speak to members of border patrol and use
Speaker 1: the sources and connections I have down there to get
Speaker 1: the most accurate story I can about what is really happening.
Speaker 1: Because here's the short version. The Biden administration is lying
Speaker 1: to you about a lot of this, and they're just
Speaker 1: living in an alternate reality, in alternate universe because ultimately
Speaker 1: they don't really have a problem with what's going on.
Speaker 1: They have a problem with you knowing about it. They
Speaker 1: wish they could find a way that this didn't look bad.
Speaker 1: But as for the actual enormous surge across the border,
Speaker 1: they have no problem with that. Oh. In fact, as
Speaker 1: we'll see, they have a problem with the usage of
Speaker 1: the term surge. This is this is pretty incredible stuff.
Speaker 1: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is someone who now says that to
Speaker 1: use the term surge is a vestige or a connection
Speaker 1: to white supremacy. I am not making that up. This
Speaker 1: is what so called public intellectuals of the Democrat Party
Speaker 1: or public officials. I don't know if any would call
Speaker 1: her intellectual. She thinks she's kind of an intellectual of
Speaker 1: the Democrat Party. This is what they really believe, and
Speaker 1: they'll say stuff like this. It's remarkable, but it also
Speaker 1: shows you just how much dishonesty there is around this
Speaker 1: issue where sure enough, they're turning them border into a
Speaker 1: oh it's a question of racism issue instead of a
Speaker 1: this is about safety, about law and order, about having
Speaker 1: an orderly immigration policy that benefits all Americans, that secures
Speaker 1: our borders, and that allows us to have sovereignty and
Speaker 1: control of our own nation. No, it's not that, it's
Speaker 1: just about finding a way Democrats finding a way to
Speaker 1: demagogue the issue and call anybody who disagrees with them racist.
Speaker 1: They want to say, what about the surge, Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, just gut check stop. Anyone who's using the
Speaker 1: term surge around you consciously is trying to invoke a
Speaker 1: militaristic frame. And that's a problem because this is not
Speaker 1: a surge. These are children, and they are not insurgents,
Speaker 1: and we are not being invaded, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: is a white supremacist idea philosophy, the idea that if
Speaker 1: another is coming in the population, that this is like
Speaker 1: an invasion of who we are. This woman is beloved
Speaker 1: by millions and millions of young Americans who are idiots.
Speaker 1: It's astonishing the amount of sway, the amount of power
Speaker 1: that she has in the national political conversation. For such
Speaker 1: a really shocking ignoramus. I mean, a deeply ignorant and
Speaker 1: not particularly bright person has tremendous sway over the national
Speaker 1: political conversation. And you have all these people that love her,
Speaker 1: and you know, they're all, yes, she's amazing, and she
Speaker 1: does these live streams, and it's it's just sad to
Speaker 1: watch all these twenty somethings and thirty somethings who believe
Speaker 1: that that AOC is speaking these eternal truths or some
Speaker 1: other such nonsense. I mean, let's start with a few
Speaker 1: of the things that she says, because remember, the Democrats
Speaker 1: don't want you to pay attention to what's actually happening.
Speaker 1: They're coming up with clever ways, Like we're all sitting
Speaker 1: in a classroom now at some third tier liberal arts
Speaker 1: college doing the deconstruction of Shakespeare. It's not what was
Speaker 1: on the page, it's what we think should be on
Speaker 1: the page. Right, This is the kind of relativistic approach
Speaker 1: the Democrats take to everything. It's not about what's going on,
Speaker 1: it's about what we can convince people is going on.
Speaker 1: Let's reframe this issue. Let's use pseudo scientific jargon to
Speaker 1: add some level of credibility. To what we're saying, just
Speaker 1: like the Marxist used to do. By the way, just
Speaker 1: like the Bolsheviks did. It was all about you know,
Speaker 1: committees and commissars and functionaries and people that are there
Speaker 1: was a mechanistic aspect to their political decision making because
Speaker 1: it was all you could say about believing the science,
Speaker 1: the political science in that case. So she uses terms
Speaker 1: like it's about a militaristic frame. No, it's actually not.
Speaker 1: If she owned a dictionary, which I'm sure she does not,
Speaker 1: or if she spent any time googling and going to
Speaker 1: dictionary dot com, she would find very quickly that a surge,
Speaker 1: it's a sudden, powerful forward or upward movement, especially by
Speaker 1: a crowd, or a natural force such as a wave.
Speaker 1: That is a large movement by a crowd is a surge.
Speaker 1: So I just want to know what other words are.
Speaker 1: Are white supremacists? I mean, if someone said there's a
Speaker 1: spike in illegal crossings, is that white supremacist? If somebody
Speaker 1: says we've seen an increase in numbers of the border increase,
Speaker 1: that's like the stock market, because like when it increases,
Speaker 1: like the rich people make money, and so it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: increase is now like a thing. Let's just call a
Speaker 1: white supremacy. She just said surges white supremacy. So I
Speaker 1: guess increase can be white supremacy too, right, And anything
Speaker 1: that they want to claim is white supremacy they will
Speaker 1: throw into the bucket with the rest. It's absurd. It's
Speaker 1: so intellectually empty. But so much of what the Democrats
Speaker 1: are doing now is intellectually empty in terms of the
Speaker 1: policy and the impact that it's going to have on
Speaker 1: the country. I mean, we are being scammed in massive
Speaker 1: numbers at our southern border. That's what's happening to our
Speaker 1: country right now. People are taking advantage of the kindness
Speaker 1: and the decency of the American people overall, and they're
Speaker 1: pretending that they're they're asiles. There are asylum seekers from
Speaker 1: around the world, they're refugees. Would be refugees from around
Speaker 1: the world who have real cases, who actually might be
Speaker 1: tortured and killed if they don't get out of their country.
Speaker 1: And you know, because they're not in walking distance, they
Speaker 1: have to actually apply and go through the system. But
Speaker 1: if you can walk, you can be part of a surge.
Speaker 1: If you can be part of a surge, the rules
Speaker 1: suddenly don't apply. Nobody really believes the Democrats plan on
Speaker 1: sending back all these people also back to the AOC.
Speaker 1: Just stupidity here. They're not all children. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of adults showing up at the border. They're a
Speaker 1: family unit showing up at the border. There are thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands of tens of thousands of adults who are
Speaker 1: showing up too. So they focus on the children aspect
Speaker 1: of it because they want to make this as sympathetic
Speaker 1: a situation as possible. But let's also remember that they
Speaker 1: screamed kids in cages during the Trump administration, and now
Speaker 1: the cages, so to speak, are more full than ever.
Speaker 1: There are more people in those cages, more children in
Speaker 1: those cages than ever before, by huge numbers. Ted Cruze
Speaker 1: was down to the border senator from Texas. Here's what
Speaker 1: he said. Play for by the way, Yes yesterday I
Speaker 1: went to Dallas to a different facility, the Kay Bailey
Speaker 1: Hutcheson facility, which is the Convention Center downtown. They've turned
Speaker 1: into an emergency detention center. And there's one gigantic room.
Speaker 1: It is the size of three and a half football field,
Speaker 1: so it's massive. The entire room is nothing but cots,
Speaker 1: one after the other after the other. Over two thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred cots lined up in a room three and
Speaker 1: a half times the size of a football field. Nothing
Speaker 1: but teenage boys ages thirteen to seventeen. Teenage boys, thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands of them, a facility three times the size
Speaker 1: of a football field. Why are they here Because Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's president and the Democrats let the world know that
Speaker 1: the virtue signaling they feel when they declare they want
Speaker 1: a de facto open border is more important than our
Speaker 1: immigration law. And it's more important actually than the safety
Speaker 1: of these kids. We know the numbers that will be
Speaker 1: that are not just being human traffic of course that's
Speaker 1: going on at the hands of the cartels, but also
Speaker 1: the sexual assault and sexual exploitation of these kids by
Speaker 1: people either affiliated with the cartels or just predators along
Speaker 1: the way is stunningly high. That these children are being
Speaker 1: turned over for these cartels to take to the border.
Speaker 1: I mean they're taking them over hundreds and hundreds of miles.
Speaker 1: The COVID positivity rate among the kids, and I know
Speaker 1: the kids are generally not at much risk from COVID,
Speaker 1: but you know, there's still the concern about seventeen year
Speaker 1: olds giving it to other people, right fifteen sixteen year
Speaker 1: olds they more easily transmit it to adults than say
Speaker 1: a ten year old or a five year old will,
Speaker 1: But they get in person instruction in school. That's something
Speaker 1: else that's come out about this. So it's not safe
Speaker 1: for teachers to teach your kids in person if you
Speaker 1: live in San Diego, let's say, where I know, they've
Speaker 1: got one of these big facilities now set up. But
Speaker 1: migrant children, who have in some cases a very high
Speaker 1: COVID positivity rate established through testing in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, migrant children do get in person instruction. So
Speaker 1: your kids may have been kept out of school for
Speaker 1: a full year. But if you show up illegally at
Speaker 1: the border and you're being held for what a few days,
Speaker 1: maybe a week or two max, you get in person
Speaker 1: instruction right away. Right away, you start to wonder, why
Speaker 1: are there two sets of rules the Democrats enforce in
Speaker 1: this country, and the set of rules they enforced for
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants who come to the country in violation of
Speaker 1: our laws is a more generous one, a more forgiving one,
Speaker 1: than what they have for the American people. What sense
Speaker 1: does that really make well. The Democrat Party is addicted
Speaker 1: to cheap virtue signaling, and if they can feel good
Speaker 1: about themselves through no actions they have to take through
Speaker 1: no sacrifice of their own, that is the policy they
Speaker 1: most they most adore, and that's what an open border allows.
Speaker 1: So if parents are vaccinated, they still do need to
Speaker 1: be concerned about their unvaccinated children playing together in groups.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, the children can clearly wind up
Speaker 1: getting infected. When we talk about what you can do
Speaker 1: when you're vaccinated, you can certainly have members of a
Speaker 1: family if the adults are vaccinated and you're in the
Speaker 1: home with your child, you don't need to wear a mask,
Speaker 1: and you could have physical contact. When the children go
Speaker 1: out into the community. You want them to continue to
Speaker 1: wear masks when they're interacting with groups from multiple households.
Speaker 1: Mask up your little kids, even after your vaccinated. Mask
Speaker 1: up your kids. I don't know what it's going to take.
Speaker 1: I really asked this question in earnest, what it's going
Speaker 1: to take for people to realize what a little tyrannical moron, this,
Speaker 1: this this fascist smurf Fauci actually is. I just have
Speaker 1: to wonder what he will say, what will be too
Speaker 1: much for them to finally that they will finally ignore him.
Speaker 1: And let's start with this. Has Faucci ever made the
Speaker 1: right call when it really counted? Has he ever made
Speaker 1: the right call? A lot of you are probably already
Speaker 1: thinking about the fact that we're three weeks into Texas
Speaker 1: is reopen. Texas cases are going way down New York
Speaker 1: cases where I am going up quite a bit. New
Speaker 1: York is being hit very badly. We've had about fifty
Speaker 1: thousand new cases in New York State in the last
Speaker 1: week or so. That's that's a lot of cases in
Speaker 1: a week. But I ask, why don't we actually see
Speaker 1: more pressure on Fauci to explain this? Why is Texas
Speaker 1: doing better new York doing? Where's Texas got rid of
Speaker 1: the mask mandate at the state level? Now I know
Speaker 1: there are still some cities with masking, But if it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter that Texas got rid of the mask mandate
Speaker 1: at the state level, why were we told that it
Speaker 1: was reckless? Why did Fauci warn us? Why is everyone
Speaker 1: saying it's such a bad idea. They can't have it
Speaker 1: both ways, folks, It can't be Removing the mask mandate
Speaker 1: is awful and then well, removing the mask mandate actually
Speaker 1: doesn't change mask wearing, right, That's what they do. These
Speaker 1: are the games they play. They never want to be
Speaker 1: held to account for what's really going on. They never
Speaker 1: want people to know what's truly happening. It's all about
Speaker 1: the narrative. It's all about the construct that's being used
Speaker 1: to control you. But I ask you, what will it
Speaker 1: take for the people of this country to reclaim their
Speaker 1: dignity and their sanity by telling this feckless bureaucrat, tyrant
Speaker 1: Fauci that his advice is no longer want it? What's
Speaker 1: it going to take? I mean, here's this guy thinking
Speaker 1: that he's telling you something really revolutionary. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you if you vaccinated adults at home, in your
Speaker 1: own home, all the adults fully vaccinated, and there's just
Speaker 1: children there. Okay, maybe I'll let you take the mask
Speaker 1: off and hugg you kid for the first time in
Speaker 1: a year. Maybe this is what we've come to as
Speaker 1: a country. I'm speaking. I have COVID right now as
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you. I am doing this show with COVID. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm speaking from a degree of familiarity and
Speaker 1: experience here that I that I couldn't have had before.
Speaker 1: And here's what I'll tell you. I am more angry
Speaker 1: at Fauci than I've ever been. And all the lockdowners
Speaker 1: and all these other people. It's it was fascinating me.
Speaker 1: I had people that were asking me, and you know,
Speaker 1: I have friends who are who are on both sides
Speaker 1: of the aisle, and I have you know, friends of
Speaker 1: my personal life who people who know me, who will
Speaker 1: who will reach out, you know, when I'm sick and
Speaker 1: try to check in on me. And I know that
Speaker 1: they don't agree with what I say on Faucci, But
Speaker 1: people were asking me questions I thought were so so interesting,
Speaker 1: like wow, do you know where you got it? And
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the one of the
Speaker 1: big problems that we've had this year. No, I have
Speaker 1: absolutely no idea how I got COVID, because I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten COVID clearly in the last year and last twelve months.
Speaker 1: I was riding the New York City subway during the
Speaker 1: first out every day during the first major wave of outbreak.
Speaker 1: I've I've been going to stores and going to restaurants
Speaker 1: when they're open for indoor dining. I've traveled across the
Speaker 1: I've traveled around the country many times, been on planes,
Speaker 1: been on airports. I've been to large congregate setting events
Speaker 1: in the past, you know, last summer and this past fall,
Speaker 1: and I got sick going from my apartment to my
Speaker 1: TV studio and back. And that's it. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: nothing else that I can think of that would even
Speaker 1: And so the people ask, well, you know, to somebody, No,
Speaker 1: I live alone, so I don't have someone in my household.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no one in my household who gave
Speaker 1: it to me, thank God, nobody that I know in
Speaker 1: my personal life, and no one in my family has
Speaker 1: come down with it. So I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing this up though, because we've been led to
Speaker 1: believe that somehow, if you don't listen to Fauci, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get this. And I'm sitting here telling you, against
Speaker 1: my will, I've been listening to Fauci for the whole
Speaker 1: year because you have absolutely no choice. In New York City,
Speaker 1: I mean they you will be shamed and mobbed and
Speaker 1: harassed and arrested. You'll be kicked out of your building.
Speaker 1: I mean, trust me. I tried to go mask us
Speaker 1: through the lobby, and then it was I was basically told,
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna have to stop this or they're
Speaker 1: gonna evict you. And they didn't say the word evicted,
Speaker 1: but that was the subtext. So I've already been through this.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind, when I was walking through without
Speaker 1: a matter, I didn't get sick. Then I didn't stop
Speaker 1: wearing a mask. Even though I think that it's wildly
Speaker 1: overstated how effective masks are. I mean when I say
Speaker 1: wildly overstated, yeah, I believe that maybe maybe it could
Speaker 1: reduce one percent of transmission if you do it pretty properly. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I and anyone who yells at me,
Speaker 1: I'd say, Okay, go look at the CDC. The go
Speaker 1: look at the actual CDC numbers for mask policies and
Speaker 1: mask mandates, and then which says about that one point
Speaker 1: five percent. But I'm the crazy person for actually, you know,
Speaker 1: they say science. What they mean by science is shut
Speaker 1: up and do what we tell you. Shut up and
Speaker 1: tell me that I'm and tell them that they're right.
Speaker 1: So much of this has become a transference of a
Speaker 1: mass delusion and really a mass psychosis onto other people.
Speaker 1: They're finding ways to blame other people for this, and
Speaker 1: the other people in this case, or anyone who asks
Speaker 1: questions about it, anyone who points out here, I am
Speaker 1: in New York City. I've I've got I've got a
Speaker 1: whole you know, bucket, oh masks by my front door.
Speaker 1: I actually wear a fresh mask every day. You know,
Speaker 1: I do this because I don't. I mean, that's because
Speaker 1: I have to wear a mask, so I don't want
Speaker 1: to wear an old, dirty one. That's because sometimes you
Speaker 1: burp into your mask and you know it's gross. So
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting here, I'm telling you I went twelve
Speaker 1: months without getting sick. I have no idea what happened
Speaker 1: to make me get sick now, And that's the whole point.
Speaker 1: And why am I supposed to feel like, oh now
Speaker 1: you must think that it's even more important. No, No,
Speaker 1: this is this just shows exactly what I've said all along,
Speaker 1: which is that you don't you know, it's just a
Speaker 1: numbers game and you don't know when your number is
Speaker 1: gonna get called. And all this stuff about the mitigation
Speaker 1: and them handwashing and all that. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: all just it's theater. It's theater. I have known that
Speaker 1: I was at risk of getting COVID for the entire year,
Speaker 1: you know, as soon, of course, as soon as I'm sick,
Speaker 1: I'm quarantining. It's just I have acted like somebody who
Speaker 1: understands that what was true about the flu in many
Speaker 1: ways in terms of transmission and what's reasonable and how
Speaker 1: we can change society and how we can't. What's reasonable
Speaker 1: to think about the flu? Is reasonable about this? No
Speaker 1: one when you get the flu, no one says to you, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you must have gotten it because you didn't do X,
Speaker 1: or you must know where you got it. You know
Speaker 1: you did you let up on the did you let
Speaker 1: up on the mitigation? No one says that to you
Speaker 1: because you have no idea. I've gotten the flu before,
Speaker 1: no idea where you get the flu usually, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: unless you get it from somebody in your home. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a pretty good indicator. But in other
Speaker 1: instances you say, I don't know. I just woke up,
Speaker 1: I woke up sick. That's what happened. I woke up
Speaker 1: sick in the morning, and I was sick, and then
Speaker 1: I had to beat it. But the illusion, there's been
Speaker 1: the illusion of control over the virus when really, all
Speaker 1: they've done is established all the lockdowners and the so
Speaker 1: called x worts have established control over you. I've had
Speaker 1: to think of all the theater, all the nonsense that
Speaker 1: I've been through the last year. Couldn't go to the gym,
Speaker 1: gained about you know, ten to fifteen pounds, can't can't
Speaker 1: get on the gym now, can't get on a treadmill
Speaker 1: now without wearing a mask. All the times that I
Speaker 1: did that last year completely irrelevant to me in my
Speaker 1: future and my health because I obviously didn't have COVID
Speaker 1: then and I got it now and I wasn't even
Speaker 1: doing anything. And now I'm sitting here doing a radio
Speaker 1: show for you while I am why I am sick
Speaker 1: with COVID, And it's pretty much exactly what I anticipate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you had you had the you know, the
Speaker 1: body aches, the fatigue, you know, the respiratory symptoms, paying
Speaker 1: the lungs, all the classic stuff. I lost taste and
Speaker 1: smell for a bit. It came back a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty shaky. That's the weak that's the
Speaker 1: one that actually weirds you out the most, I think,
Speaker 1: because when you've if you've never had the sensation before
Speaker 1: of biting into your food and it just tastes like
Speaker 1: like empty mush in your mouth. That's a weird thing.
Speaker 1: That can be a bit that's just more psychologically unsettling.
Speaker 1: But so I had all that, and I look back
Speaker 1: on this year, and so I think, so, really, what
Speaker 1: was all the handwashing, all the I got sick? Now,
Speaker 1: I could have gotten six six months ago and never
Speaker 1: had to worry about it again. So why am I
Speaker 1: to think that this was somehow a worthwhile trade off.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've lost a year of my life. I
Speaker 1: got sick. Anyway, when they actually look at how many
Speaker 1: people I know, they say there are thirty million cases
Speaker 1: in the United States. There are way more than that.
Speaker 1: It's spent, just based on their own numbers, with how
Speaker 1: many people are supposedly asymptomatic and all the rest of it,
Speaker 1: there's way more than that. I mean, we're closer than
Speaker 1: ever to herd immunity. And yet you'll you notice there's
Speaker 1: a bit of a panic, I mean quite obvious panic
Speaker 1: with the CDC director Wilenski, But there's something of a
Speaker 1: panic out there right now for these these high level bureaucrats.
Speaker 1: Even though we're in a better position against COVID than
Speaker 1: we've ever been before. More people have vaccinated, more people
Speaker 1: recovering from infection, and now I'm in this remarkable circumstance
Speaker 1: where I'm expected to keep as I get better, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to go out more and do more things.
Speaker 1: I'm still supposed to mask up. Why that's moronic. There's
Speaker 1: no good reason for you to mask up. I'm immune
Speaker 1: based on everything we know for you know, over a
Speaker 1: century of modern medicine and pandemics and vaccinations. You know,
Speaker 1: for the last hundred years, they would say, okay, you
Speaker 1: had it, you're immune. But now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's well, occasionally there's an outlier, so we can't say
Speaker 1: you're immune. Bull crap. They want to control us. They
Speaker 1: want to control me. The moment I get past my
Speaker 1: quarantine and have and have no more symptoms, I am
Speaker 1: no longer a COVID risk to anyone. Yes, lightning can strike.
Speaker 1: You cannot live your life that way, all right. To
Speaker 1: tell me that there have been a couple of dozen
Speaker 1: reinfections around the world in the last six months or something,
Speaker 1: and that's really the numbers. When you look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: they're shockingly low. A couple of dozen reinfections around the
Speaker 1: world or here in the US, or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: That doesn't justify me continuing to live with this tyrannical bullcrap,
Speaker 1: because there are people who are terrified, and honestly, they've
Speaker 1: embraced a kind of psychology of cowardice. People who are
Speaker 1: my age cannot and should not live in fear of this.
Speaker 1: No one should live in fear of it, but people
Speaker 1: should take more serious precautions based upon whether or not
Speaker 1: they're in the high risk category. Right, That's just the way.
Speaker 1: That's just the way that society has to function, you know, yes,
Speaker 1: it does. It sting a little bit to get this
Speaker 1: two weeks before I'd be available to get the vaccine
Speaker 1: in New York, Yeah, of course, but you know, my
Speaker 1: number got called. My number got called, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: was wearing masks when I was supposed to do in
Speaker 1: the whole thing, big surprise. Still got sick, folks. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pause here, I'm gonna lose the script, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have an
Speaker 1: impending doom. We have so much to look forward to,
Speaker 1: so much promise and potential of where we are and
Speaker 1: so much reason for hope. But right now I'm scared.
Speaker 1: I know what it's like as a physician to stand
Speaker 1: in that patient room, downed, loved, masked, shielded, and to
Speaker 1: be the last person to touch someone else's loved one
Speaker 1: because they're left one couldn't be there. So I'm speaking today,
Speaker 1: not necessarily as your CDC director, or not only is
Speaker 1: your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother,
Speaker 1: as a daughter, to ask you to just please hold
Speaker 1: on a little while longer. I so badly want to
Speaker 1: be done. I know you all so badly want to
Speaker 1: be done. We are just almost there, but not quite yet.
Speaker 1: What about me? What about the millions of Americans who
Speaker 1: are infected and recovered? We're supposed to wait till When?
Speaker 1: When is it good enough? And when do we get
Speaker 1: to start to really tally the ill effects of the
Speaker 1: continued lockdowns, of continued isolation, the shutdown of businesses. When
Speaker 1: does that actually start to factor into the conversation in
Speaker 1: a meaningful way for people like Welensky. Why is it that,
Speaker 1: as I've said, we're closer than ever to the end here,
Speaker 1: and yet she's talking about impending doom. Yeah, we've we've
Speaker 1: suffered a half a million, half a million deaths from
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. We've had tens of millions of infections. We
Speaker 1: have not controlled this. We did not come up with
Speaker 1: some policy to to do anything really other than just
Speaker 1: you know, up and down. As the virus bounced around
Speaker 1: the country. We would react in you know, in terror
Speaker 1: in different places, and then we'd start to open up
Speaker 1: and there would be more cases, or we would not
Speaker 1: open up and there'd be more. It didn't really matter.
Speaker 1: In fact, they're telling you now the problem, the reason
Speaker 1: we're having more infections is because of the change in
Speaker 1: some states mask mandates. Bine just gave a speech about this.
Speaker 1: I don't know was it earlier this week, yesterday, I
Speaker 1: think day before. Here he is saying, this is his
Speaker 1: favorite line, it's here's your patriotic duty, here's your patriotic duty,
Speaker 1: play seventeen. I'm reiterating my call for every governor, mayor
Speaker 1: and local leader to maintain and reinstate the mask mandate. Please,
Speaker 1: this is not politics. Reinstate the mandate if you let
Speaker 1: it down, and business should require masks as well. The
Speaker 1: fairy to take this virus seriously, precisely, what God is
Speaker 1: this mess in the first place? Risk more cases, more desks, deaths.
Speaker 1: Look as I do my part to accelerate the vaccine,
Speaker 1: just to be vaccinations, I need the American people to
Speaker 1: do their part as well. Mask up, mask up. It's
Speaker 1: a patriotic duty. It's the only way we ever get
Speaker 1: back to normal. These people are delusional. The mask mandate
Speaker 1: has dropped in Texas for three weeks. I told you
Speaker 1: we would go back and look at this and guess what.
Speaker 1: Texas's cases are going down, down, down, mask mandate still
Speaker 1: in effect. In New York, cases going up, going up.
Speaker 1: A lot people wearing masks outside here. I wear masks
Speaker 1: in New York. Got to no choice. I just got sick.
Speaker 1: What's what's the fauci? I'd answer to that, How is
Speaker 1: it that I'm not in a congregate setting. I live alone,
Speaker 1: I wear a mask, and I get sick. I thought
Speaker 1: it was just if you, if you were being a
Speaker 1: reckless Trump supporter, you get sick. That's what they tell you,
Speaker 1: which is the rude idiocy of all of this. They
Speaker 1: have no idea how most people get sick. Most people
Speaker 1: who get sick have no idea how they got sick,
Speaker 1: just like every other respiratory illness we've ever come across.
Speaker 1: But they have this illusion of control over the virus,
Speaker 1: so they can maintain control over you. Vaccine passports are coming,
Speaker 1: they're already in process with them here in New York.
Speaker 1: But the Biden administration, being very sly of course in
Speaker 1: this or thinking they're being very sly, doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be in charge of making you get a vaccine passport.
Speaker 1: So they're they're leading on the private sector to insist
Speaker 1: on this. This is the way this happens. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate. But Democrats, because they've seen so many institutions, Now,
Speaker 1: what the Democrats can't get through government, they want to
Speaker 1: get through private multinational corporations that have tremendous influence and
Speaker 1: are tools of oppression just like the government can be right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there are a lot of ways
Speaker 1: that that corporations can hurt you. And Democrats used to
Speaker 1: be all about telling corporations what they can and can't do.
Speaker 1: Now that they've seized power in them, we're all supposed
Speaker 1: to sit back and say, oh, well, they're private companies. Really,
Speaker 1: aren't Democrats The ones that insist that you bake that cake.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not that's that's not a private business issue.
Speaker 1: That's about you know, what kind of country we are,
Speaker 1: what kind of side? Okay, well, guess what. We also
Speaker 1: demand political tolerance. We also demand free speech. We demand
Speaker 1: that these these these companies built on one promise to
Speaker 1: the public can't then be turned and transformed into quasi
Speaker 1: government entities working hand in glove with the White House
Speaker 1: to attack political opponents, as we see with social media companies,
Speaker 1: among many others. But vaccine passports are the Biden administration
Speaker 1: is trying to do through the private sector what it
Speaker 1: doesn't want to have to do itself, because it understands
Speaker 1: the problems that come up as a result of this,
Speaker 1: that the challenge that will exist as a result of this.
Speaker 1: For one thing, so I have to get vaccinated. Why
Speaker 1: now not to make this about me, But I'm saying
Speaker 1: anybody who's already been infected, which is millions of millions
Speaker 1: of people I get to get vaccine, really don't even
Speaker 1: get me into Also, so now the government can basically
Speaker 1: take away your ability to live your day to day
Speaker 1: life without unless you're willing to comply with an unprecedented,
Speaker 1: unprecedentedly fast vaccination. Look, I've advocated for vaccines against this
Speaker 1: virus for my own family members who have gotten it,
Speaker 1: So I'm not anti vaccine in general, but I do
Speaker 1: have a problem with vaccine passports, and I do have
Speaker 1: a problem with being told why isn't my natural immunity,
Speaker 1: which which if you look, natural immunity is usually much
Speaker 1: stronger in fact than vaccine derived immunity. Why isn't that
Speaker 1: good enough? Why can't that Why doesn't that count? You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could maybe theoretically get reinfected if you've had it naturally.
Speaker 1: You could maybe theoretically get reinfected if you've gotten the
Speaker 1: vacca or not even theoretically it's happened to some people
Speaker 1: with the vaccine. But that's how we're going to build
Speaker 1: the policy. That's how we're going to be thinking about this.
Speaker 1: The possibility of it being imperfect is enough to change
Speaker 1: the way that we order our society around this. That
Speaker 1: seems crazy to me, But there's so many complexities on
Speaker 1: this issue, and there's a lot of moving pieces. But
Speaker 1: you know what this has turned into for members of
Speaker 1: the corporate media, This is an opportunity to bash the
Speaker 1: Trump supporters right. The other rising of anyone who asked
Speaker 1: questions about any COVID policy that doesn't fall in line
Speaker 1: with the Fauciite consensus is constant. It's happening all the time.
Speaker 1: Here is look I mean, for me, Morning Joe is
Speaker 1: the premier MSNBC news program for Latte liberals who are
Speaker 1: Snyde elitists. You know, if you were a B student
Speaker 1: in prep school and your parents got you into Brown
Speaker 1: University with a call to the advancement office. But now
Speaker 1: you're all about social justice, you know, as you go
Speaker 1: and do the bidding of golden sacks or whatever, Mourning
Speaker 1: Joe is your cup of tea. But Mourning Joe, this
Speaker 1: guy was member the GOP. Now I don't know. He
Speaker 1: goes on TV tells Snyde liberals what they want to
Speaker 1: hear for his paymasters at MSNBC. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: how this goes here. He is just losing his mind
Speaker 1: on TV over vaccine passports. Because this guy, he's not
Speaker 1: very bright, and he's a very insecure and very nasty individual.
Speaker 1: That's well known, and here he is. Play it. If
Speaker 1: I want to go to a baseball game with my son,
Speaker 1: who has a history of upper respiratory issues. I don't
Speaker 1: want a bunch of idiots sitting any we're near us
Speaker 1: and Finway or in a Little League baseball park that
Speaker 1: haven't taken the vaccine. Now, if they don't want to
Speaker 1: take the vaccine and they want to die, but if
Speaker 1: they're right as Americans, if they don't have to take
Speaker 1: the vaccine, and they can die or they can get
Speaker 1: really sick, they can live in ignorance and stupidity. They
Speaker 1: have that right, even though they're hurting other people. But please, please,
Speaker 1: please don't tell me that we can't do something. So
Speaker 1: smart people who actually follow science, who actually want to
Speaker 1: take care of their children, who actually want to save
Speaker 1: their neighbors' lives, who actually want to make sure everybody
Speaker 1: around them is safe, they can't tell us what to do.
Speaker 1: And the government, our sports teams are organizations, are concert promoters.
Speaker 1: Damn well, better put together something where you can show
Speaker 1: your vaccine receipt or you can have something on a
Speaker 1: ticket stub that shows it. Yeah, show your papers, in
Speaker 1: this case, your scanned code. That's where we are. That's
Speaker 1: what we're turning into as a country here. This is
Speaker 1: what Joe Scarborough wants to have happened. Notice the the
Speaker 1: bile here, Notice the way that he's so nasty, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a moron and you want
Speaker 1: to die and all this stuff. Because in his head
Speaker 1: it's very clear, I mean he thinks this is about
Speaker 1: because he also said this I'm hearing now. Lunatics are
Speaker 1: still pushing back on the masks, saying, if we have
Speaker 1: something that identifies as having a vaccine, we're like Satan
Speaker 1: or the mark of the Devil or Nazi Germany. It's
Speaker 1: beyond idiocy. They're following a failed game show host or
Speaker 1: reality TV host and they don't understand because there's such morons.
Speaker 1: And then he says, I want to go to baseball
Speaker 1: with my son. So he in his head because Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough is actually not a thoughtful, brighter, worthwhile person. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a home wrecker. He's, you know, a guy who's
Speaker 1: really got a lot of demons. He's decided that the
Speaker 1: only problem of vaccine passports are Trump supporters. Well that's
Speaker 1: fascinating because he doesn't seem to understand that vaccine hesitancy,
Speaker 1: which will obviously translate into vaccine passport problems. People that
Speaker 1: don't get vaccinated, can't get vaccine, passports, vaccine. Hesitancy among
Speaker 1: the minority community in this country is very high, remains high,
Speaker 1: and that's been a problem for months now. But he'll
Speaker 1: never speak about minority communities that he would assume are
Speaker 1: predominantly Biden voters. In the way that he just spoke.
Speaker 1: That was only for the Trump supporters that are problems
Speaker 1: with us, you see, just to give you a sense
Speaker 1: of what a disgraceful hack this guy is. But he's
Speaker 1: got a a national platform and it paid millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to act like a jerk on television, act like
Speaker 1: he's smarter than he is. He says at a baseball game,
Speaker 1: the truth is that there's almost no chance that you're
Speaker 1: going to get COVID from somebody outdoors. It's very, very
Speaker 1: very rare. But when it when it comes to them
Speaker 1: wanting to be in control, the possibility is enough. You
Speaker 1: notice that the possibility is enough. That's all that it takes.
Speaker 1: And we live in a world where where you're talking
Speaker 1: about so many people and such large numbers, there's always
Speaker 1: a possibility that something won't won't work, will work, something
Speaker 1: will fail, something will get through you can't live your
Speaker 1: life that way. We have abandoned reason and rationality as
Speaker 1: a society because of loudmouth morons like Joe Scarborough. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just one of countless. There's so many of them.
Speaker 1: But they act like anybody who has a problem with
Speaker 1: the vaccine passport, they're the problem. Okay, well why should
Speaker 1: I have to Why can't I just show my positive
Speaker 1: COVID test? You know? And what you know, why isn't
Speaker 1: is that insufficient? Show me the science on that. Oh
Speaker 1: but if you've had it, you still need to get
Speaker 1: vaccinated because there's still a chance. There's still a chance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's always going to be a chance, don't you see.
Speaker 1: But they want the power to tell you when the
Speaker 1: chance is acceptable, you can live your life even though
Speaker 1: there's a chance when we say so. That's what this
Speaker 1: is about. That's what they're doing. That's the plan. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're just at the earliest stage of this vaccine passport thing.
Speaker 1: You've got all the privacy concerns. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be required to carry around this proof of vaccination every
Speaker 1: time your scandal will create a digital record of your presence.
Speaker 1: Will there be other health data loaded into this. I mean,
Speaker 1: how are they going to enforce these rules? And could
Speaker 1: this be used for flu shots every year too? Why not?
Speaker 1: If not, why not? What about the future strains of
Speaker 1: COVID that will be out there. There'll be other COVID strains.
Speaker 1: It's never going away entirely. You know, there's so many
Speaker 1: questions about this, but no, just let's let's do this
Speaker 1: vaccine passports. It was a conspiracy theory. Now it's a mandate.
Speaker 1: And that's really been the history of the whole pandemic
Speaker 1: from a lockdowners. Oh, that's crazy. We would never do that.
Speaker 1: We would never say if to max up, mask up
Speaker 1: after a vaccine, actually now you have to double mask
Speaker 1: after a vaccine according to them,