WEBVTT - Cancer Awareness In Our Community. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.119 What's up, family, I'm your girl to meet A D. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.559 Mallory and it's your boy my song in general, and 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.560 we're your hosts of Street Politicians, the Places in the 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:20.560 Street and me. We've got a great show today. Um. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.160 Two individuals that are going to be coming up to 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.440 talk about their experiences. UM. One is a woman that 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.960 I'm really really excited about having on. I haven't actually 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.400 had a platform. I love Street Politicians because we now 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:39.640 have a platform to be able to highlight Um, yeah, 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.720 our friends and so many different things. And so I'm 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.800 really excited about giving a moment to my friends to 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.080 have her come on and talk about her struggle and 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.560 her story. But then also men deal with cancer man, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:57.400 you know black men, especially in our community, cancer is 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.000 one of the leads leading causes of death amulti black people. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.959 So you know, it's a very important show. UM. You know, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:09.280 I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, we we I wanna. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.840 I wasn't able to be a part of the second 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.280 interview that we're gonna have today with our brothers, um 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.920 that when you had them on before, so we get 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.959 a chance to have him back today and again just 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.280 using Street Politicians as a place where people can come 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.720 and really kind of tie everything together that we fight 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.440 for because we don't have our health, we don't have wealth, 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.400 we can't fight for in the streets, um, you know, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.520 for our political stability and our lives and not also 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.520 be really fighting for our lives by making sure that 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:45.840 we're physically found. So, um, you know that work has 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.520 to be done, and certainly during this month is an 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.240 important time to hone in and focus on it. I 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.160 was looking at the rundown that was created today, you 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.600 know by our production team led by being sister Janets 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:05.680 and um, they sent us some some really important points 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.400 that I thought we should really make sure to mention 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.640 today because I'm not sure that people really get how 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.680 serious cancer is. And of course we focused on breath cancer, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.800 but all types of cancer uh impact in our communities. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.560 And so the first thing, it says that breath cancer 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:28.359 continues to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.840 second leading cause of cancer death among US women, that 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:38.760 all women. So the breath cancer being the most commonly diagnosed, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:44.200 but then also the the leading cause of death among women, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:50.560 and they're saying that is higher among black women compared 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.519 to one right, right, right, I wonder and that's something 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.800 I would like to dig deeper into, is like, is 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:06.919 it more detection, more early prevention, or is it just 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.760 cases in general, because that would be crazy that we 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.400 would get more more breast cancer. Wow. Then it says 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:21.040 that about one in three Black men and women will 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.200 be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and one in 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.800 five will die from the disease. Now that is scary 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.400 as hell. That's that's that is incredible. That is the 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.760 craziest that I've ever seen. Like you, if five people 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.440 is in the room, that means one person it's gonna 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:44.800 die from cancers and and one in three one in 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:51.000 three in general, madam. And then it says among African 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.840 American women, there are three cancer types breast, lung, and 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.120 colon cancer make up more than have of all new 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:05.160 cancer cases. Wow, in colon cancers, nothing else we're gonna 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.360 be focused on today. That's one of the main for 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:14.720 many Black men are guy from coal cancer at alarming rates, right, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.440 and if they're in there. For black women, it's one 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.400 of three. With breath lung, which we know long has 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.040 been I've been hearing more and more about lung cancer. Um, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.479 you know that that long breath and Colon are the 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.919 three most new cases. So I'm ready to bring the 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.640 guests on. But before we do that, I want to 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.799 kind of veer off a little bit talk about something 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.919 that I saw the last couple of days sort of 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.360 bubbling up on social media. And it's a part of 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.760 my thought of the day because you know, I've been thinking, 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.400 I mean, think you good, um, and it kind of 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.839 just it hit homes so much, uh, for a lot 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:02.000 of different reasons that I really lay still one day 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:10.359 really deeply thinking about and processing this particular post. So 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.599 Cardi b somebody said they tweeted that Cardy and he said, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.880 what happened? You used to speak on political issues all 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:26.760 the time, and she responded and said, I stopped because, Um, 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.400 I was tired of getting bullied or bashed. That's no, no, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.560 the things she said, bullied something like that by the Republicans, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.039 but then also being bashed by the folks that I 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.920 was standing up for. And it was on the shade room, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.280 and I sat and I really really contemplated it. Like 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.560 I said, it hit me from a deep place because 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.800 number one, Cardi being in the foreword of my book. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.720 I know how just a little over a year ago 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.560 when I was talking with her working on the forwards, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.279 how passionate she was, and I'm sure she still is today, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.760 but she was just in a different place, you know, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.000 she was in a in a in a space of 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.880 being like, yeah, you know we we we really together 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.039 have to fight. But then the other part of it 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.440 is that I've seen where the transition happened for her 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.600 because it's happened within me several times over these rocky 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.159 twenty five years of my career that I had these 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.920 moments of being like, you know what, I'm fighting for 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.839 my life literally, like I'm literally fighting against people who 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:48.080 want me day because of our outspokenness. Um, you know, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.520 because we're going up against the system, you know, as 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.919 you know, we're we're out here under our real names 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.480 in this struggle for real, for real dealing with being 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.000 blocked from being able to go to events. I had 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.640 a friend of mine just took on a big political 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:10.280 position in in the in the country, and um, you know, 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.680 they mentioned to me that I wasn't that they that 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.679 that that I was on the list of those being 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.320 blocked from even going to the events of you know, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.679 their celebration event because you know, of course those people 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.200 that we fight against. And mind you, these are people 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.600 who are supposed to be with us, but even they're 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.440 afraid to have me in the room because they don't 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.680 want the back last that comes along with it from 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:42.360 the you know, the the negative press and what have you. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.280 But meanwhile, there are people who really think that I'm 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:51.040 just like this succested person within the movement. And the 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.920 thing that really struck me was I wrote a comment 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.280 on the post where are I wrote it somewhere where 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.800 I said that, you know, I understood what CARDI was 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.480 going through and I and I often feel that way. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.640 And somebody said, oh, you're not real, because if you 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.000 are a real activist, you be dead. They kill people 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.920 that are real, like true bona fide leaders, And I 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.800 thought to myself, Wow, I'm not even forget about that 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.920 ignorant person who made that comment. But it's sad that 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.920 we actually that there are people out here that identify 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.199 you being a real leader with you dying at an 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.600 early age. And I just said to myself, Wow, I 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.000 can imagine that there are a lot of people out 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.560 here who want to get into the worst. They want 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.880 to be leaders, they want to fight, they want to 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.120 be a part of the struggle, and they're not forget 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.600 about because people are gonna talk about you and all 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.680 of that. We already know that, but that comment had 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.960 me thinking that people might not want to be a 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.520 part of the work because they believe that they have 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.640 to be willing and we do. We do have to 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.080 be willing to accept that we could die, but that 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.959 the only way that they will ever be able to 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.480 prove themselves as a real leader is that their life 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.400 would have to be taken so that the world will 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.200 acknowledge them. And that's my issue around us waiting to 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.400 give people their flowers until they're dead, rather than recognizing 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:35.480 their sacrifices while they are actually alive. As so well 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.200 stated what you just said, And I think that brings 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.440 me to the situation that I'm watching Kyrie Irban deal with. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:47.040 And whether you a pro vaccine, anti vaccine, wanted or 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.400 anything that is has nothing to do well what I'm 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.000 about to say right now. You know, when you watch 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:57.440 your men like Kyrie, who has been vocal throughout his 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:02.840 whole career about issues that marginalized communities deal with. He's 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.199 donated his time, his money, he's built, he's giving resources 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:12.680 he's been someone who has been civil rights savvy and 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.800 and connected his whole career. You know, and when you 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.160 when you decided the man who's been in the league 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:25.559 and you you you accumulated wealth, stature, you know, fame, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.679 and you decide that you want to utilize that fame 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.480 for something other than just basketball. You know, there comes 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.360 a time like even when you're that talent, some people 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.760 have a different calling on their life with this my 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.760 skills that when God's gifted me with this, but maybe 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.480 the gift that he gave me to do this was 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.880 so I can have the ability to help people over 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.559 here and shot like on that. So when a man 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.800 makes a decision that he's watching hundreds of thousand people 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.120 be mandated to do something that's against their own will 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.360 and lose their livelihoods, and some of them and pay 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.960 their family because of their personal beliefs or religious beliefs, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.960 or whatever it is that they personally believe, and he 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.760 decides that he wants to speak up and say that 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.480 that's not right. You know that you shouldn't be forced 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.200 to do anything that you shouldn't be forced if you 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.040 want to do it, if you believe that it's best 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.360 for your help. But people should have the right to 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.440 be able to discern information and take information and make 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.520 guests and hypothesis and decisions for themselves. And when that 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.040 man said that, that's what he stood up for. And 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.880 see the way he's crucified by his own brothers, you know, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.640 from people from the same people that he will go 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.640 out here in support and been helping for years and 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.120 being crusiveized by people that look like him, that the 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.760 people that are supposed to Even if you don't agree 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.320 with whatever it is, but you have to respect the 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.439 man for want to take a stand, because everybody doesn't 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.600 want to take a snare. So it's not about whether 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.960 you agree with what he's taking a stand for, but 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.800 the fact that he's taking a stand, you should probably 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.040 just mind your business. If you don't agree, you're to 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.800 said what I'm saying, and that's what it is for me. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.200 It's like people will criticize you, they have destroyed you. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.800 They're trying to tear you down because they might not 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.439 agree with your position. You know, they might not agree 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.400 with something you say, but the bottom line is mean 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.000 there are very few people who are willing to stand 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.400 up and be willing to be villainized and vilified and 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.200 crucified and deal with what comes for the greater good 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.640 of the masses. So, man, what you said it means 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.720 a lot, man, because Cardi B was a voice. Cardi 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:34.640 B wasn't chanting the most politically savvy person. She she 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.840 she she exactly she, but she made a decision like 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.280 you know what, I know that's wrong. So I want 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.160 to say it, you know, I want to say that. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.920 That's where I don't know the best worlds. I don't 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.719 know all the big words. I don't know none of that. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.400 I just know that right there is not right. And 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.040 you know, and when people stand on that, you know, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.800 like we we realize that you're gonna be crucified, You're 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.520 gonna be attacked because nobody wants you to stand that strong. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.360 Nobody wants you to speak the truth to power. You know, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.880 there's against especially against the status quo. Well, you know, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.319 I mean I so first of all, I support Kyrie 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.959 not because again I think that he should or should 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.800 not be vaccinated. In fact, I think that New York 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.480 the NBA, and which we know it's not the NBA 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.840 and totality, but the Brooklyn Nets. I think they have 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.880 a right to set whatever standards they believe are in 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.960 the best interests of their team. Right, and therefore, and 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.920 you have you have to decide whether you accept those 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.199 things or not. What I would what I would say, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.400 is this right and this and this is what I 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.480 would ask when when you said the government supported people 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.320 by the people. Right, And if you say that, you're 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.679 you're making a decision for the best for the team. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.440 If you're not asking the team what's best for them, right, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.680 If if you're in New York and you're just saying, hey, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.120 we want to do a consensus. How many people who 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.319 think there should be a man? Well, let's see, I 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.280 don't I don't remember. First of all, I was in 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.960 the process of speaking of your people. But here's the thing. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.920 I don't think that that's how medicine and pandemics work, right. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.880 Maybe it should change. Maybe they are people who should 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.040 get together and decide on some new ways of seeing 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.120 the world and the government operate. But that's not how 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.840 pandemics have ever worked. It's not how any um you know, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.080 situation in terms of a disease or a virus that 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:41.080 has gotten out had worked. The government supposedly works alongside 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:46.320 scientists and medical people who decide whether or not there 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.320 should be something for smallpox and for all all measles, months, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:56.000 chicken pox, all of these things. And they make mandates 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:01.000 on schools, they make mandates on health, hair workers, they 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.000 make mandates on you know, law enforcement, which we see 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.400 that there have some issues there, and I think we 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.560 should definitely do a show where we delve into how 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.120 there are a lot of people who don't actually have 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.680 to follow this mandate and what does that mean for 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.760 other people who are being forced to write? So so, 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.240 you know, I'll be honest, somebody said to me or 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.080 you just you just bouncing back and forth. How can 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.200 you support Kyrie and then at the same time say 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.400 you want people to be six feet away and then 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.600 also say that you support those who have been vaccinated, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.120 and you know and and and um and that I'm 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.200 not against the vaccination. Right. So, so, because I'm human, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.320 and as a human, I can have multiple things and 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.520 thoughts and understanding happening all that once, and I can 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.800 reconcile all those things and and use them to make 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.520 decisions for myself. And sometimes we just don't know. Sometimes 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.440 we could just say I don't know, I think this 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.760 might be good. I don't know. I don't know, but 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.960 I still have a voice that I should be able 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.560 to speak to what it is that I believe and 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.880 what's impacted me. I'm saying that since the beginning of time, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.400 the way that or that or not not time forever, 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.360 but the time I know, the way that mandate and 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.440 especially like I said, viruses that aren't that impacts a 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.440 greater society not you know, you as one person who 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.120 can choose whether or not you're going to smoke, or 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:34.040 have unprotected sex or whatever. Those are things that you 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.520 can say, I'm not gonna smoke, so more than likely 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:46.000 I can save myself. And the vaccine individual and individual 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.680 not an individual choice. And the reason why I'm not 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.120 talking about I'm not talking about and not talking about 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.560 whether what the taking a vaccine for it the individual 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.679 choices that I have to I don't have to smoke 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:11.040 a cigarette, right, which can ultimately give me x y 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:18.720 z things as an individual. A cyrus, which a pyrus 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:25.560 that is that is is very um uh, it's easily transmissible. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.440 You can't choose if you get it and if you 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:35.000 give it to your mother, if you choose to. I 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:40.000 don't under why you don't understand is because you're speaking 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.840 over me and trying to insert also rather than listening 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.320 to my full thought. So therefore you can't understand, because 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.960 we can't understand nobody that we don't listen to. What 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:56.000 I'm saying is that I'm talking about how things have 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.600 operated for all of this time. I'm saying, maybe it's 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 something know that needs to happen. But what has happened 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:08.880 in our society is that when there is a virus 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.840 or a disease that can spread, that people can sit 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.760 here and say I'm healthy, I'm this, I'm that, and 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.560 the third thing. And so if I believe that if 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.800 I get it, I can fight it, all right, that's 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.560 your personal thing. But when you're in the room with 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.000 twenty people and there are other people in that room 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.359 that could potentially catch it from your healthy self, and 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:35.199 their unhealthy self could die. There have been processes in 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:39.240 the past to try to vaccinate and or give people 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.480 things that they need to stop it or slow it down, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.040 because there's no such thing as stopping it, which is 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.760 one thing that you've constantly said that I agree with. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.240 But there have been mandates in our society that says 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.920 we have to bring it down the issue. What I'm 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.680 saying is that the NBA or the New York Nets 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.480 have the right to say, we've got too many different 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:08.320 people around here with different issues in unal compromise. We've 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.600 got people who have this, that, and the third is 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.520 all different things, and this virus is something that concerns us. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.720 We gotta shut down the team playing if we get 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.760 six people that have six this Senate third. So we've 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.639 decided that we believe it is in the best interests 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:29.240 of US as a as as a company to follow 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.760 what the government is saying and what this vaccine is 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:37.960 supposed to do. Individual people have the right to look 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:42.120 and say I don't want it, and therefore I'm not 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.080 gonna work there, just like people have quit their jobs, 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.960 their schools or whatever. But I do believe that they 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.360 have the right to say it. You have a right 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.840 to say I'm going home school my kids because I 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.040 don't want my child to take X, y Z vaccines. 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.560 And that's that's what has happened so far. And I'm 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.560 saying that if I in my house, if everybody coming 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.000 into this house has to be vaccinated, you have to 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.720 decide whether you're coming in my house or not. That's 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.800 a fact. And those people who are the ones that 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:15.959 are the boss of the of the of the New 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.680 York Knicks, they have a right to say, this is 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.280 what's gonna happen in our house. We, to your point, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.119 have to say, do we want to start our own league? 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.520 Do we want to do other things that give us 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.080 the ability to have our own rules. That's what I'm 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:37.320 in So now now can I respond? Please? And I 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.919 would not interrupt you. So, based on what you're saying, 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.879 the individuals right, Right, If you have a virus that 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:51.800 affects everyone and spreads, the vaccine is supposed to protect 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:56.679 the person who takes the vaccine. The individual takes the vaccine. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.840 The reason why you take the vaccine is so that 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.919 it does the virus does not affect you, right, So 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:10.000 tell me what I understand about the vaccine standing from 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.440 the medical professionals that I have heard. And I first 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:15.560 of all, if I'm interrupting you, I don't want to know. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:22.040 I want What I've understood about the vaccine is that one, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:26.320 it is supposed to reduce the person's mortality and or 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:31.080 definitely illness or very sickness. But it also it's supposed 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:36.360 to help bring down the mutation of the virus because 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.920 so many people are getting so so let me just 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.320 give you this one understanding that I had. I studied 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:45.400 this about HIV because I used to believe that if 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.199 I have HIV and you have HIV, we can have 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.679 sex with each other without a condom, because why not, right, Like, 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.159 we've both got it, so we just But what I 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.960 learned is that when two people, especially if they have 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:03.560 different strength ends of HIV or whatever, when they are 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:08.439 passing bodily fluid, it makes it stronger, which means it 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:12.600 can kill both people quicker, and it also can mutate 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.800 into a new form of it because of the fact 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.320 that you've got two different bloods that have a sickness 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.760 that are its basically combined. And it's not a good NIX. 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.600 So what I'm gonna do when I'm understanding about what 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:32.040 they're saying about COVID, is that when people are all 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.000 around each other and they're passing it around, maybe you 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.920 might not die yourself from it. But what we're doing 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:43.240 is increasing the chance where a new mutation of the 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.960 virus can continue to live and keep going. So they're 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.720 trying to bring down the because they say that if 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.640 you have code, if you have if you are vaccinated, 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.000 it's not that you can't give it to anybody, but 0:22:56.160 --> 0:23:02.240 the chance which has much less. So it's all about 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.960 so two people who have the last name both catch 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:14.520 um COVID and the and it too together Kenny music. Um. 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.560 I don't so. First of all, I'm not I'm not 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.439 a medical professional, and I always say that neither one 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:26.600 of us are medical profession that defination. And I'm what 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.320 I'm gonna say is I do not believe. I do 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.960 not believe, but I have not studied it. And maybe 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.919 somebody who's listening to the production side wants to chime in. 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.120 I don't believe that two people who are vaccinated are 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:45.720 passing COVID back and forth. I think that more than understand. 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.840 In other words, what in other words, what I'm saying 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:51.800 is it is if I'm vaccinated, if I'm vaccinated in January, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.760 more than likely me and Janice are not gonna give 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.480 it to each other. That most so these two people 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.960 that don't wait, let me say so, two people who 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:07.280 don't have COVID, I mean, who don't have the vaccine 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:09.800 who have COVID can give it to each other. But 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.560 two people have vaccinated that we can't give it to 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.560 people who are anything. That's what you just said. You said, 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.960 if I'm vaccinating, you're vaccinating. We can't tactly back and forth. 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:23.360 I'm just I want to understand what you're you're understanding 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:26.960 it because I think two people who are vaccinated can 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.280 pass it back and forth. Things I'm saying one person 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:35.440 who is not vaccinated had I'm from what I hear 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:38.600 I hear, and I could be completely wrong because I 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.119 can really careful about that because I do respect medical 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:45.040 professionals who have actually study so but you know what, 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.840 the slimmer chances listen to me more every day, the 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:53.000 rising of people who actually vaccinated catching COVID and spreading 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:56.520 COVID is raised in every day. And that was those 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:58.960 odds that they had was based on smaller tests. So 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.800 every day there's more people who have the vaccine, let's 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:04.919 getting the virus. This is the fact everything that we 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:08.760 know people that have our vaccine that have gotten COVID. 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:13.679 But what what I'm suggesting, I'm suggesting to you is 0:25:13.720 --> 0:25:19.800