WEBVTT - Did All Lockdowns Save Lives? 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:15.080 You are entering the freedom hunt. A case study in 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.840 elite Panic San Francisco and the nineteen eighteen flu. Do 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:24.040 full lockdowns actually save lives? The New York City antibody tests. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.160 We've got updates for you on that, plus a sting 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.840 operation in Texas for painting nails. General Flynn was set up? 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:35.080 And why are there no Sunday questions about Biden's sexual 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.120 assault allegation? That and more coming up. This is the 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.400 Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:48.640 decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.199 you're a great American. Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:02.320 He's a great guy. Now. I want to review that 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.800 timetable because when I heard Mitchell on the floor the 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.679 other day, he was saying, we have all these things 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.320 in here that we ask for. No you rejected, No, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.280 you rejected. And speaking of Mitch, what's gotten into him? 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.720 While it's an indication the President is asking people to 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.400 inject lysol into their lungs and Mitch is saying that 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:28.280 states should go bankrupt, it's a clear visible within twenty 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:34.240 four hours of how the Republicans reject science and reject governance. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.720 If you don't believe in science. They don't believe in governance. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.479 That's their approach, and we do not. We don't want 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.280 more government that we need, but we know that governance 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.120 has a role, and we know that science has a role, 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.800 and without science in our decision making, we are not 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.200 going to be on a very successful path. Nancy Pelosi 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.960 is a stupid person's idea of what an intelligent politician 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.640 and sounds like welcome to the buck Sex and Show. Everybody. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.240 Thank you very much for joining. I trust you had 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.480 a relaxing and rejuvenating weekend. At least I hope you did. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.720 Some of you, I'm sure on the work line doing things, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.359 making sure that you were on the front lines and 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.120 making sure the food is delivered, making sure that people 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.280 are getting taken care of in hospitals, doing all the 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.200 things that we need to have happening to keep this 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.040 country going. But for the rest of you, I will 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.040 have my thoughts for you on Netflix and some of 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.359 the latest there. But first I want to get into 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.760 where we are right now and this whole process, because 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.079 you know, Pelosi there telling us about how there's no science, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.880 there's no governance, or the Republicans, how can someone say 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.079 something that is so devoid of underlying facts that it's 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.760 just so bizarrely disconnected from reality, and no one seems 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.519 to bat an eyelash about it. It's certainly no Democrats do. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.160 They have no problem with us whatsoever. They view the 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:04.880 whole thing is entire entirely justified. There's no governance, there's 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.040 no science with Republicans. The president is standing up for 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.320 two hours a day. He actually might not be doing 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.960 it quite so much and for so long pretty soon, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.720 because I think people are feeling like he might be 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.519 a little bit overexposed with all this. But the president 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.880 is doing these things, he's having these press conferences, and 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.679 they're claiming that he does not give he does not have, 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.200 you know, a governance going on. He doesn't listen to science. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.680 He's got scientists that are basically running the briefings. Okay, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.520 it's the scientists. They're the ones that are actually doing 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.520 the briefings for the most part. And he just gets 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.760 up there and tries to bring it all together. But 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.720 this is the kind of stupidity that we expect from 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.480 the Democrat left, the same Democrat Left that is put 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.800 now credibly accused sexual assaulter Joe Biden and man who 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:56.280 is perpetually confused and deeply unimpressive. He's the answer. Sure, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.720 these people are unserious, the Democrats. They've always been unserious. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.360 They never learn and they will never change. So we 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.960 need to understand that they haven't gotten better because we'ren't 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.440 a crisis. They haven't gotten more honest. This is just 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.200 who they are, so we will have to accept that. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.960 I suppose as much as one can while trying to 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.560 defeat them and do everything we can to make sure 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.640 they do not once again wield power. I had a 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.160 fascinating read for you over the weekend that I picked 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:29.360 up by James Meigs. I believe I've never heard of 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.480 or read anything by him, and I had to ben dominant. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.480 You was sharing this from the Federalist. This was in 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.640 commentary magazine though, and it's elite panic versus the resilient 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.960 Populace is the title of piece by James. James Meg's 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:49.880 here and it's fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating. I highly recommend it. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.920 We'll share it on some of our social platforms so 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.000 you can see this piece. He talks about how in 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:01.720 nineteen sixty four North America had its strongest recorded earthquake 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.320 just off the coast of Alaska on March twenty seventh, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.440 nineteen sixty four, so a month ago today, back in 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:14.160 nineteen sixty four the shaking from the magnet, or a 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.640 month earlier in the year. The shaking from this quake 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.480 was nine point two on the Richter scale, and it 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:24.280 shook for four and a half minutes. He writes that 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:29.160 the tectonic forces reshaped Alaska's coastline and triggered tsunamis that 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:35.520 wiped out villages and claimed lives as far south as California. Anchorage, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.280 which was the main city, the closest city to the 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:44.279 epicenter of the earthquake, was home to one hundred thousand people, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.679 and buildings were just completely destroyed all of our Anchorage, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:53.360 I mean just collapsed, caved in. Buildings were rumbling down 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.880 the sides of embankments after there was just earth moving, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.880 the soil moving beneath them. There was brand new J. C. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.120 Penny department store that was collapsing in parts of it. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.120 We're just completely falling apart. I've been to Anchorage and 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.839 it's a it's a it's a nice town. I actually 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.920 liked it there and I know we're on KNI, which 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.560 is our wonderful affiliate up and Anchorage that actually comes 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.120 up in this story, so being high five to k 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.520 e N. I are our Anchorage, Alaska affiliate for the 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.720 Bucks X and show. Because back in nineteen sixty four, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.520 that was the station that people were turning to for information. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.000 That was the first line for folks in the Anchorage 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.360 area to find out, Hey, what's going on, Who's who's missing? 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.040 Where do they need help? But officials immediately, and this 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.640 is what this piece and commentary magazine talks about. Officials 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.080 began worrying about the response from people. They thought to themselves, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.720 wait a second, there's going to be looting, There's going 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.480 to be rioting. This is terrible. What can we do? 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.559 And so they deputized a number of people on the spot, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.120 including giving some of them firearms, to say, hey, prevent 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.040 all this looting in the post disaster environment that we 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.680 think is going to happen. So this is where were 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.720 there were concerns that people would quote behave like frightened 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:22.280 and unsatisfied children, and that there could be a mass 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:27.520 outbreak of hysterical neurosis among the civilian population. That was 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.600 what the police and some of the authorities that some 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.360 of the authorities in the city assumed would happen. And 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.960 the author here points out that there are plenty of 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.880 counterexamples in history, the British response during the Blitz in 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.840 World War Two, the Japanese response after the Fukushima nuclear 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.720 reactor disaster, which was initially thought to perhaps be much 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.960 much it was believing much much worse than it ended 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.760 up being in terms of the amount of radiation that 0:07:55.000 --> 0:08:02.160 was let loose, but most the author of this piece 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.960 cites a book. The book is called This is Chance, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.240 the shaking of an all American city, a voice that 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.000 held it all together. And this is in Anchorage. This 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.200 is about what happened in Anchorage during this period. And Chance, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.400 I believe, was a radio, TV and radio announcer, Genie Chance, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.520 a minor celebrity in Alaska. The earthquake caught her in 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.680 her car quote running down a downtown running a downtown 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.280 aaron with her sons. She saw the mangled body in 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.240 the rubble. Cars were buried in debris. One station wagon 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.960 had been crushed almost flat by a concrete slab. Chance 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.400 could hear a woman's voice coming from inside a crowd 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.760 of people was trying to save her, clawing at the slab. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.600 Then a man stepped forward to organize the effort. Somehow 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.560 two chow trucks were located. They were able to split 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.000 the slab partially into another man climbed into the breach 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.480 with a cunning torch and carved a hole in the 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.800 vehicle's roof. The woman was pulled free, great injured, but alive. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.120 She would survive. Chance later marveled that all the people 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.959 involved in the operation were mere passers by impromptu volunteers, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.760 and yet they functioned as a team. Though she didn't 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.720 know it at the time, this dynamic was being replicated 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.720 all over the city. Chance made her first broadcast as 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.439 soon as her radio station k E and I came 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.679 back on air. End quote. That's right, Kae and I, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.840 the same station that folks up in Alaska are listening 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:29.040 to us on right now up in Anchorage. But that 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.520 was the station that she was able to use to 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.920 get the word out to people about rescue efforts. Now, remember, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.520 there was the official rescue effort and there was the 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.120 civilian rescue effort that was going on people all over 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.440 Anchorage back in nineteen sixty four doing everything that they 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.400 could to try to save lives, try to pick people 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.559 out of the rubble. And it was impromptu. It was 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.800 on the spot. Chance Quote set up a broadcast desk 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.200 at the Anchorage Public Safety Building, home to the city's 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.640 police and fire department. City employees hurried in and out, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.360 and civilian volunteers as well. Everyone, it seemed, had a 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.120 message they need a chance to read on the air. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.480 A high voltage power line is down on Northern Lights Boulevard. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.680 There's a large crevice on Seward Highway. Both highways out 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.000 of Anchorage or closed. There wasn't much comfort of the 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.440 news Chance and or fellow broadcasts were conveying. But Anchorage 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.600 residents remember those voices as a lifeline. Information one would 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.760 later say, is a form of comfort. Another called k 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.959 E and I our only beacon of light in a 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.280 night of terror end quote. Fascinating, isn't it so? The 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.960 official of response from the authorities was what people would 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.600 call in the disaster study area elite panic. The elites 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.520 right off the bat generally assume, not always, but will 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.880 generally assume that people will react terribly the moment that 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.880 their sense of normalcy is shattered. Otherwise, good, decent, law 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.959 abiding people will either be terrified or will act out 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.199 badly and will not be You cannot count on them 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.640 to do helpful things, and it's up to the authorities 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.240 to make all the decisions for them. I think you're 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.600 starting to see a little bit of a little bit 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.920 of a comparison here, aren't you. Elite. Panic is when 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:10.319 the authorities believe that citizens will become dangerous so quote, 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.920 they begin to focus on controlling the public rather than 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.880 on addressing the disaster itself. They clamp down on information, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.640 restrict freedom of movement, and devote unnecessary energy to enforcing 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.360 laws they assume are about to be broken. These strategies 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.880 don't just waste resources, they also undermine the public's capacity 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.080 for resilient behaviors. In other words, nervous officials can actively 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.640 impede the ordinary people trying to help themselves and their neighbors. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.400 End quote. Yeah you don't say so. Here, the city 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.400 of Alaska, Vanchorage in Alaska, with a hundred thousand residents 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.679 gets hit with an over nine point oh earthquake, which 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:56.480 is and absolutely stunningly devastating her Keep pointing to stay earthquake, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.760 hurricane earthquake. It's stunningly devastating, and yet they were able 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:06.080 to band together the people of Anchorage with a little 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.880 help of coordination at the top, courtesy of our affiliate 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.760 Ke and I, they were able to direct people. And 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.319 do you know how many ended up actually dying in 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.920 that earthquake? Five? That's obviously a tragedy for those five 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.320 people in their families, but from what could have happened 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.040 given all the people that were picked out of rubble, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:33.359 it's really astonishing. But human beings, especially in good, healthy societies, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.040 which ours is. Despite all the criticisms that we can 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.520 have for America, despite all of our shortcomings here and there, overall, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.960 we are a good country filled with good people. When 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.240 we're given the opportunity, we will more often than not 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.199 do good things. But the government doesn't always seem to 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.280 think so. And this is how you have sting operations 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.320 against nail salons. This is how people can be chased 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.679 down on the beach for being completely alone and going 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.319 for a jog. This is how you have some of 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:07.200 the absolutely absurd enforcement of regulations that they say are 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.240 meant to keep us safe, meant to keep us healthy, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.080 But no serious person could ever think that they would 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.719 have that effect. Why are they doing these things? Why 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.040 are they putting us through this? These are questions that 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:26.040 we should demand answers too, because right now we're being 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.200 told something that's very troubling. It was a few weeks 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.760 ago that the data, the data dictated that we had 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.199 to do whatever the government told us, and that we 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.199 could not be counted on, We could not be counted 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.400 on to be responsible citizens who would take mitigation measures ourselves, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.400 allow businesses to adapt and create safer environments, but still 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.280 able to still be able to continue in business. No 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.240 mandates lockdowns across the board, across the country. Well, now 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.400 we have data about those lockdowns, and it does not 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.240 look good for the across the board lockdown chorus. There 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.560 are some places, New York being the most notable one, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.520 where it might have been justified because of the extreme 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.520 nature of the infection, but even then only justified for 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.800 a short period of time. But in other places the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.040 lockdown has been, if anything, counterproductive. And if you look 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.280 at Europe where they've had essentially a control group with 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.240 Sweden versus other countries in Europe, Sweden is in the 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.800 middle of the pack. Sweden is not worse off. In fact, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.520 it's better off on a per capita basis than Italy, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.400 than Spain, than the UK. It's slightly worse off than 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.480 Finland or Denmark. But they didn't shut down their society. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.440 And everyone's pointing out of the economic impact of it 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.400 there and saying, well, their economy still got hurt. And 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.840 you hear this now, Well, the economy won't come back 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.440 online because people are too scared. Well, you know, would 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.280 make people less scared if they started to see other 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.200 people go to stores and be okay, and other businesses 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.200 start to operate and life start to return to normal. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.240 Normal right away, but normal in phases. That has to happen. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.960 That's where we are, and we need to start having 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.840 authorities give the American people greater latitude to make good decisions, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.680 to be helpful to each other in our day to 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.520 day lives, and stop this insanity of everything that they 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.200 say must be done and not be questioned because they 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.040 have the answers. They've already shown us they don't have 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.720 the answers. They absolutely do not. The data was used 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.000 to tell us stay inside or else weeks ago. Now 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.920 the data shows that in many places and in many 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:37.680 cases that was not necessary and perhaps counterproductive. Where's the 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.920 focus on that? Now we're all of our so called 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:45.080 firefighter journos running toward, running toward the flames for the 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.800 betterment of our republic. They got no answers for this, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.080 do they? We're heading into a different phase, my friends. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.080 We had we had demands for government action because people 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.880 were scared and the government saw an opportunity to use 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:05.680 its power. And now we have overreach, ineptitude, and a 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:10.120 complete lack of accountability for bad decisions that government is making. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.160 Enough is enough. Let's actually start making some good decisions, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.160 and let's allow the American people to be a bigger 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:23.160 part of that process. You're in the freedom Hunt. This 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:29.840 is the Buck Sex and Show podcast again on this 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:35.520 wonderful piece in Commentary magazine by James Meigs. It's really 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.160 a fascinating story and I love it. It's at the 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.440 center of it all. I mean, there's the everyday heroes 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.080 who are using blow torches and pickup trucks impromptu. Just oh, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.720 I happen to have my blow torch in the back. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.560 I happen to have, you know, earth moving equipment that 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.920 I can use to save somebody from the rubble all 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.280 over Anchorage back in nineteen sixty four. And also, it's 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.080 kind of cool that the coordination and operations center for 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.640 this whole thing was our affiliate for the Buck, Sex 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.360 and Stone show an Anchorage, Kae and I, So they 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.879 must feel pretty pretty darn good about that. But but 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.320 there's other other more recent examples to the piece goes 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:15.000 into the situation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. There 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.360 there were all these stories about, oh, the horrific violence 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.320 and looting, and there were some bad things that happened there, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.520 but you know, there was also a lot of coming together, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.000 a lot of community in the Cajun Navy was just amazing. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.840 Hundreds of boats. Private citizens are saying, I'm there, man, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.320 I'm I'm I'm showing up and I'm helping everybody I 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.080 can help. Hundreds of boats getting people out of floodwaters 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.080 and saving lives and coordinating with And this is not 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.560 to say that first responders are not essentially doing incredible work. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.320 Of course they are. But while the first responders are 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.000 doing things, there are also a lot of citizens, a 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.200 lot of civilians who step up and do important things. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.680 They often work together and the impulse of authority though, 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.520 and this is this brings us back to elite panic, is, Oh, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.800 the people cannot be trusted. You must have a very 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.400 firm hand with them. And this is particularly the impulse 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:10.159 of unaccountable bureaucracies and regulatory boards and bodies, things like 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.960 the FDA, which in the early days of this coronavirus pandemic, 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.920 the FDA slowed down testing because they couldn't figure out 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.600 that the regulations they had were not were not necessary 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.040 given the scope and the problems that we're facing right 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.280 now with coronavirus. They couldn't They couldn't figure it out 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.000 in times, and they slowed down the whole testing process. Again, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.280 the elites panic, while the people actually try to do 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.240 something to help each other. Remember that thanks for listening 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.639 to the bus sets and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.879 on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:52.119 get your podcasts. No, and it's outrageous for Senator m 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.040 Accountel to even suggest that the facts of the matter 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.760 is our general fun budget, when adjusted for inflation, is 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.879 the same size it was or an when Richard Nixon 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.399 was our president. We have been incredibly smart stewards. We 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.200 have not made some of the investments I think we 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.800 should have as a state because of you know this, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.320 you know, artificially low number that we've been working with. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.600 But the fact of the matter is that for Senator 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:21.680 McConnell to suggest that is incredibly dangerous, and I don't 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.439 think that the vast majority of governors in this country, 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.200 Republican and Democratic, would agree with him. He's wrong, and 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.760 we need Congress to step up and help states because 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.680 this pandemic. It's because of this global pandemic that we 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.680 are all having to make tough decisions. We need the 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:43.000 federal government to have our backs. Governor Whitmer of Michigan 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.480 has become among the best known of the of the 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.160 overreach folks in all of this. I think that's fair 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.800 to say she is somebody who has come to our 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.800 attention for being willing to have the most the most 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.680 petty tyranny in the most obvious ways. As as being 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.480 a governor, you didn't have that interview that Tucker Carlson 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.400 did some weeks ago with the Governor Murphy of New 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.760 Jersey in which he's like, well, that's above my pay grade. 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.520 Why did you suspend the Bill of Rights? Governor Murphy well, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.919 that's above my pay grade. That was the conversation with Tucker, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.560 And to that one would say, well, no, it's not, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.439 because you're the governor and you have responsibility to protect 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.480 the Bill of Rights and you cannot override it as 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.159 a state official. But we've seen a lot of that, 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.920 and I want to remind you all now that we 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.480 were told certain things about why we had to just 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.240 accept this. We were told this as a country, we're 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.040 told this for really all fifty states. They're only a 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:45.440 handful that did not go with statewide lockdowns. And now 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.440 we have more dated, more information, and we're supposed to 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.399 forget that we were told things that weren't true, to 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.879 take actions that did not protect us, that did not 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:58.080 help us or save us. And you would think that 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.639 this would be a point for the jury knows to 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.879 stand up and say, well, hold on a minute, maybe 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.879 we need to rethink some of this, But nope, because 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.200 the lockdown consensus has also become very much melded in 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.240 with the anti Trump left and the critics of the 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:18.080 Trump administration. So lockdown has become political in a way 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:22.359 that you can't you can't avoid this. You can't pretend 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.040 that it's not happening, because this is in fact a 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.280 p a primary goal for a lot of the people 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.040 who are pushing for lockdowns across the country to make 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:37.400 sure that the Trump administration suffers, because what they're able 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.240 to do here is they're able to put all the 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.080 blame on Trump, feel like they're saving lives in the process, 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.480 and ensure that there is catastrophic economic damage. Now, people 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.040 could say, well, book, why do they do this, Why 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:50.560 do they do this in Europe? And I say, yeah, 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.040 why why do they do this in Europe? Considering that 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:58.080 European countries are opening up right now, So the lockdown 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:00.520 forever folks are just wrong. I mean, they're they're not 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.399 doing this in Europe much longer. They are opening up schools, 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.280 they are opening up businesses. And I keep pointing to Sweden, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:11.680 not because I have some obsession with Stockholm, but you know, 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:17.800 I don't have Stockholm syndrome, But no, because the Swedes 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:19.080 were the only ones who were able to be a 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.440 control group for all the measures that we were told 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.600 needed to happen. They didn't do it, and they basically 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.280 went through what the countries that did do it, meaning 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.480 the lockdown. They had the very similar outcome, in fact, 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.119 a better outcome than the countries with the most severe restrictions, 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.320 like Italy and Spain. What we really see is, if 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.879 nothing else, by the time the authorities recognize that a 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:43.160 lockdown is needed, it's too late. And now what we're 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.480 seeing is, by the time it's clear or a tribute 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.440 clear to everybody, the lockdown has gone on too long. 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:50.800 The authorities don't want to lift it. That is where 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:55.119 we are right now. So this brings me to a 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:59.080 fascinating piece the Wall Street Journal. Do lockdown save many 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:04.720 lives in most places? The data say no. The speed 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.320 with which officials shutter the economy appears not to be 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:12.240 a factor in COVID debts. This is a piece by 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:21.040 Joe Joe malchow Yannon Weiss, and T. J. Rogers, And 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:27.160 here's what they say. Here's the basics of it. Sweden. 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.840 Sweden is fighting coronavirus with common sense guidelines that are 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.840 much less economically destructive than the lockdowns in most US states. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.680 Since people over sixty five account for about eighty percent 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.960 of COVID nineteen debts, Sweden asked only seniors to shelter 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:43.280 in place, rather than shutting down the rest of the country, 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.760 and Sweden had no pediatric debts. It didn't shut down 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:52.120 elementary middle schools. Sweden's containment measures are less onerous than Americas, 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:54.160 so it can keep them in place longer to prevent 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:58.800 COVID nineteen from recurring. Sweden did not shut down stores, restaurants, 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.399