WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - 12/3/20 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.120 You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.520 Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.440 social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.040 Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. Oh my, that's 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.599 right here. We are at a point where we now 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.320 see the numbers for a COVID case is higher than 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:28.320 they've been since April. We're seeing spikes in hospitalization, we're 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.559 seeing high levels of day to day deaths from COVID nineteen. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.600 And the people who were celebrating over the summer in 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.800 places like California, celebrating what a great success they were 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.479 in stopping this virus because of their masking and their lockdowns, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.800 now have no answer other than lockdown even more, do 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.880 more of what we've said you have to do for months, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.880 and just ignore the fact that anyone who's observing what's 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:02.480 happening here could not come away from this believing that 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.319 this stuff actually works. Now, that's not the same thing 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.960 as saying that a mass cannot help you in any circumstance, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.240 or that if you stayed home and avoided all human 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.759 contact you would be safe from the virus. I'm talking 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:21.480 about government policy, government mandates, government's use of force to 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.800 shut down your business and keep you in your home 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.119 and limit your freedom of travel, your freedom to operate 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.840 day to day. Is that working? Is it helpful? Or 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.160 does it just make everything worse? Does it take out 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.560 of individual hands the right to make your own health 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.679 decisions for a pandemic that the government clearly, flatly, obviously 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:52.240 cannot stop. Can it be any more obvious? At this point? 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.440 What else has to happen? New York, California. Places that 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:01.400 have been touting how we came together listened to the science, 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.720 That's what they were saying. Ard, did we stop listening 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.200 to the science suddenly in the last sixty days, No, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.799 we did not. Maybe there's another issue here. Maybe there's 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:15.320 another problem. People are starting to see what's really happening here. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.320 They can't hide it from me anymore. So what they're 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:23.160 gonna do is insist you obey and use force. They're 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.000 going to send men with guns from sheriff's offices, local 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.840 police departments, health department, and I don't know if they're 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.600 armed or not, depends on where you are. Maybe they're 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.760 going to send people with the force of the state 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.040 behind them to make you do things that aren't even 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.560 provable as good ideas. That's what they're going to do, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.360 and we're all supposed to accept this. Now. Now you 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.200 might say, well, buck, the government does a lot of things. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.840 The government takes money for me in taxes. Yeah, but 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.120 there are guarantees, you see, there are constitutional guarantees of 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.400 due process, of equal protection of the free x size 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.760 of religion, of freedom of assembly, and these have been 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:09.600 completely trampled over by these idiot tyrants, who are overwhelmingly 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.040 Democrats at the state and local level. They do it 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.240 all across the country. It's terrible here in New York City. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:22.080 It's awful in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta. Name a city, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.920 a major city with Democrat control, and I'll show you 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.040 a place that has shown no ability whatsoever to control 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.160 COVID nineteen, but wants even more authority, wants even more 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.200 power now to make you submit, to make you obey. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.320 In stott An Island. This is one of the five 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.960 boroughs of New York City, perhaps the least known, it's 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.360 the least populated, and it has much more in common 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:54.080 with New Jersey than Manhattan. Proper, great place. I like 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.160 Staton Island a lot. They had a bar owner bar 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.640 and restaurant for Max Public House. I spoke to his 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.800 lawyer last night. They had a rally where they just 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.360 gathered together and they said enough is enough. Here's what 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.920 they did to Max Public House. They sent sheriffs in 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.360 because this guy had said on social media, I can't 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.080 continue to have my business destroyed, So they send sheriffs in, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:23.760 twenty of them. They arrested him. They arrested him and 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:30.120 brought up multiple citations because he's in a red zone 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.360 or an orange zone or whatever the color of the 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.799 zone is. He's in a zone designated as too dangerous 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.560 for indoor dining. But two blocks away there are other businesses, 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:44.880 his competitors, who are in a more free zone on 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.800 the same island, so they get to make money and 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.880 feed their families. Max Public House does not. And he 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:56.520 just says, this is capricious and arbitrary. This is bullcrap, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.719 that's what it is. There's no science to justify this. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.159 There's no Oh, look at the data, it'll tell you. No. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.400 This is idiot politicians who can't control this thing, who 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.840 have been wrong at every phase of the pandemic, who 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.760 only view the answer as one thing. It's the same thing. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.640 Every time they do more, they do more stuff, they 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:26.520 have more power, more infringements, more dictates, more mandates, and 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.360 so the backlash in Staten Island has begun. Hundreds of 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:36.960 people gathered together there. What about other places, Well, you 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.160 think of the states that have had the most extreme 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.240 restrictions and have also been the states generally speaking with 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.440 the worst COVID results. California perhaps an exception, which I 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.400 think has more to do with climate, meaning that the 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.880 weather or not climate change, the weather in California and 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.719 the fact that people aren't as densely populated even in 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.560 the major cities there as they are on the East 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.760 Coast and in some of the central Midwestern cities like 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.720 Chicago and Detroit. But the states with the worst records 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:15.000 dealing with COVID are New York, Michigan, New Jersey. These 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.600 are blue as blue can be places. Well, Michigan maybe 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.479 a little less so, but Detroit is where most of 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.840 the COVID cases we're happening, most of the fatalities, and 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.800 California is now having a massive surge as we know. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.520 So we look at what's going on and we understand 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.400 that the regulations, the rules that they put in place 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.000 clearly have not had the intended effects, so you know 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.880 what they're doing. They want more regulations as a result. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:45.200 Here is the mayor of Los Angeles who's just telling 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.680 you shut it down, shut it all down. Play six. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.919 The choices between us are stark, between health and sickness, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:01.880 between care and apathy, and yes, between life and death. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.719 For too many of the people that we love. My 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.440 message couldn't be simpler. It's time to hunker down. It's 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.880 time to cancel everything, and if it isn't essential, don't 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.800 do it. Don't meet up with others outside your household, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.520 don't host a gathering, don't attend a gathering. And, following 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.600 our targeted safer at Home order, if you're able to 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:30.240 stay home, stay home. This is equivalent to a public 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.160 official telling you you really just stop living your life. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.120 And keep in mind they'll say for a week or two, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.480 it's not a week or two, so the next sixty 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.920 to ninety days do you want to make that trade off? 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.480 Even more important question, do you think the government should 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.240 be able to force you to make that trade off? 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:56.520 Of the people listening to this, just Americans, you have 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.320 a ninety nine point across all age groups believe it's 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.520 a ninety nine point seven percent chance of surviving if 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.520 you get COVID. Three out of a thousand people who 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.440 get COVID could die from it, and that includes people 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:15.280 in their eighties and nineties in that sample size. If 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.280 you're under the age of fifty, your chance of dying 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.200 from this is less than your chance of dying if 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.680 you got seasonal flu. That's a fact. You want to 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.560 you want to stay at home and and give up 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.360 the next sixty to ninety days of living life. And 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.520 let me ask you this. Do you think that's worked 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:37.240 so far? Do you think that's stop this? They just 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.440 keep trying to constrict, keep trying to put more pressure 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:47.560 and just squeeze down on this. It doesn't work. It's 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:53.440 obvious it doesn't work. They hope and pray, not that 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.120 the kind of people that call for this stuff really 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.200 pray in earnest, but they hope that you won't notice 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.200 that You'll just be scared and you'll listen and you'll 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:08.280 do as you are told. That's really what this is about. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.760 Do as you're told, peasant, don't ask any questions. That's 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.520 what Garsetti wants. Yeah, people are scared, but there are 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.679 other people who aren't scared. I go into an office 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.400 every day. Every day, I'm traveling, I'm moving around the city. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.240 I go into an office every day. I try to 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.720 be careful around older family members, and I'm very attuned 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.680 to whether or not I have any symptoms. I get 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.480 tested if I think there's a concern. That's it. That's 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.840 the only thing that I think a reasonable person can do. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.360 And I'm in the most densely populated part of the country. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.920 I'm in the middle of the biggest city in America 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.880 that had the most COVID depths of any place in America. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.880 And I'm telling you, I want to live my life, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.959 and I do. I'm not hunkered down. I go out 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.720 to the stores, I go to my office every day. Now, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.040 I tape a TV show every day. Now, this is 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.640 what I'm doing, and I don't want to stop. And 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.080 I don't think that these idiots in charge have the 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:10.400 right to make me stop. And as importantly, they're wrong 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.960 about what will happen if they make me stop. Do 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.880 we live in a free country or not? We're starting 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.000 to have to ask this question, do we live in 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:24.280 a free country? If your mayor or your governor can 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.080 tell you you're not allowed to leave your home except 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.080 under specifically defined circumstances. You certainly can't gather together with 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.680 other human beings. You can't have a wedding, you can't 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.440 have a funeral. You can't open your business, your restaurant, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.280 your shop, your store. The answers, we don't live in 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.440 a free country. We need to face up to that. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.600 We need to look at this and deal with the reality. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.400 It's time to say enough. Not everyone's going to do it. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.080 Not everyone's going to push back, but you know what 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.360 they can do. They can look down to Florida, where 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.480 I'm not saying it's some utopia down there, although weather 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.920 is very nice, but they're doing better than New York City. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.440 They're doing better than California right now in this fight 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.360 against COVID. No mask mandates, no mandates you want to 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.440 wear a mask, wear a mask. But they're not having 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.520 the government ram this down people's throats. They're not shutting 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.719 down businesses all across the board, and they're doing a 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.360 little bit better. Think about this, though, they should be 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.040 much worse. According with the lockdowners say, Florida should just 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.120 be oh my gosh, pandemonium for the pandemic, right, It's 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.440 just it's not the case. Why Why is that? Why 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.160 is that observable? I'm not telling you. This is not 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.240 just my analysis. You can see it, look at the numbers. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.360 It's because the people who have been taking away your 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.720 freedom this whole time and promising you safety in return 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.320 have been lying to you. Thanks for listening to the 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.240 Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:58.120 from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. Michigan is 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.720 one of the states that's been hit the hardest by COVID, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.520 mostly in and around Detroit, but Michigan overall has has 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.360 had a tough time with it, and Gretchen Whitmer has 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.680 been among the most extreme governors. She's one that wants 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.880 to make her mark by telling everybody that they can't 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.800 even go from one home they own to another home 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.520 they own. Not allowed. Maybe you'll infect somebody in your 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:24.480 car by yourself. Idiotic, of course. But there are people 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.920 in Michigan as well as many other states, who are 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.359 starting to see all of these failures, all of these shortcomings, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.680 and they've had enough. They're sick of it. In central Michigan, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.440 there's a guy who went on a rant on a 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.320 local TV station. He's a restaurant owner who interrupted a 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.960 local TV report. And I want you to is this 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.520 is a little bit of a longer clip. I want 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.640 you to hear the whole thing by this guy. Here's 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:56.520 just an American. Here's a guy who showed up probably 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.600 five thirty six o'clock in the morning. Restaurant hours are 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.280 long and hard. He's been there, you know, scrubbing pots 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.040 and pans, telling his staff they got to show up, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.800 they got to get the meal out, Fire up that chicken, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.160 get that burger, cook properly. They mean. It's restaurant work 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.800 is hard, as friends of mine, people I know, will 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.800 tell you at any opportunity. It looks glamorous on TV, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.520 it's not a lot of depending whether you're doing the 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.360 chef side of it or the server side of it, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.360 a lot of long hours on your feet. It's not 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.120 easy stuff. And to be a restaurant owner, you're in it. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.840 You're in that fight every day. You gotta deal with customers. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.040 You gotta deal with their whims and their fits. So 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.480 when you've built a restaurant that's able to pay the bills, 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.960 you know what, you're a success. You've beaten the odds. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.680 And this guy has a successful business that's being destroyed. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.960 It's being taken from him by tyrannical bureaucrats. And he's 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.320 in Central Michigan. He's had enough and this is what 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.640 he had to say. Play twelve, The details on the judges. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:05.600 No spy is everything? Okay, okay? Our government leaders have 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.880 abandoned me. Are you? Are you the owner threety dollars 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.680 of stimulus money? They gave it to who? Especially winter 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.360 scrips and campaign donors. I'm Dave Morris. I owned the players. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.600 So what's going on? What's going on? You know what's 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.040 going on? Tell me? You tell me. Hey, we got 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.760 a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.720 it to special campaign donors. They gave it to special interests. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.160 They abandoned me, and they have put me in a 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.560 position where I have to fight back. Okay, So do 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.080 you feel that this is the right thing to do? Absolutely? 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.360 I feel everybody needs to stand up. Hey, listen, there 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.480 was enough money to give every family, every family in 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.880 this country twenty thousand dollars to go home for two months. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.240 They chose to give it to special interests and campaign 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.600 donors the Kennedy Space Center, and they abandoned us, so 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.600 you could have given me money. I glad to walk 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.960 away for sixty days and let this virus settle down. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.680 I'm not going to do it a long Okay. Are 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.960 you going to continue to violate the state's orders? Is 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.479 a state order? This isn't an order. This is a conspiracy. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.960 This is a tyranny. What do you want to tell 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.280 other restaurant owners who wake up? Stand up? This is America, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.400 be free. I got patriots coming out supporting me. Wake up, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.720 stand up, this is America, Be free. That's Dave Morris, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.400 restaurant owner in central Michigan. My government leaders have abandoned me. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:32.320 He says, that's true. They have mandated that he shut 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.840 down his business. No more income, ruined, all the hard 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.040 work he put into it gonna be he's falling behind 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.160 on rant. I'm sure for the for the location, it's 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.000 unlikely he owns it. Staff members that he might have 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.040 trained and worked with have had to go and find 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.440 other work, or perhaps they're at home on unemployment. It's 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.160 a mess. And for what Because this works so well, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.480 Because shutting down human contact has stopped this virus in 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.480 its track. Who believes that at this point, Who really 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:08.040 thinks that's true based on what look at where we 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.040 are now versus where we were before they were going 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.800 into all these lockdowns. You're gonna tell me it's such 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:18.360 a better situation. Notice that they can't decide depending on 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.200 which news outlet you check at at any moment. If 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.600 they see one area where cases have gone down a 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.480 little bit in the last week, it's, oh, see, all 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.760 of our lockdowns have worked. If they see that cases 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.400 have gone up a little bit, it's all people didn't 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.920 listen to us over Thanksgiving. There's no honesty in the 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.440 assessment of these figures and numbers. There's no honesty in 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.760 how they're looking at these lockdowns. I'll tell you this. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.480 Even a lot of conservative jurists and a lot of 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:48.120 conservative politicians for sure, are cowards. There are constitutionalist judges 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.400 who are cowards right now on this. Because nobody wants 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.040 to be the one who says the government can't protect 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.760 you from this virus. It will pretend and do a 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.800 lot of damage by pretending. But it is up to 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:07.440 you and your family to find what works best for 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.080 you to protect yourself, to make your own decisions. You 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.320 can listen to all these mandates. You can listen to 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.359 everything they're telling you and go for an essential doctor's visit, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.800 go to the hospital because you have to get something 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.520 checked out that has nothing with COVID and have a 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.240 nosocomial infection. You could go to the grocery store and 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.199 sure enough, somebody there's infected too, because this is the 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.800 place where we're all gathering, and you can still get infected. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.080 I understand that they say this is meant to mitigate 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.199 your chances of getting infected, but how much is that 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.159 really working? And what's the cost mitigated? By what degree? 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.919 I mean if I told you that your chance of 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.040 getting COVID nineteen, I mean it went down by five percent, 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.280 would it be worth all these lockdowns? Why can't we 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.600 have a trade offs discussion? You're in the Freedom Hunt. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.600 This the Buck Sexton Show podcast. For more buck head 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.320 to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.359 Well in Florida, Tuckers, you mentioned all businesses are open. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.679 We've had things like theme parks, beaches open for months 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.600 and months. We have schools open, all K three twelve 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.720 school districts, private schools, charter schools. We have sporting events, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.399 and I think that for me, I think, as you 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.920 alluded to, a lot of these lockdowns have been very ineffective. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.439 They have huge negative consequences. And my view is that 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.200 everybody's essential. Whose government to say that your job is 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.080 not essential. I think it is essential. I think some 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.800 of the stuff in March and April didn't work. I 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.040 think you have to let people earn a living. And 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.720 it's really not even government's role to say who could 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.600 pick and choose. So we want everyone to have gainful employment. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.040 We want businesses to be able to operate so they're 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:04.320 open Florida stool functions. As a as a relatively normal society, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.080 they are. You're hearing from RHND to scientist the governor. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.760 There is another way, friends, That's what I'm saying, and 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.560 they just ignore it because the people that have pushed 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.440 these lockdowns they think they're so smart. Oh, they think 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.160 they're so much smarter than all the rest of us. Oh, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.200 and they've got a bunch of Biden voting blue check 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.800 mds who will say, will you listen to the science. Yeah, 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.119 I can see with my own eyes what's happening. I 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.080 don't need someone to tell me. Lost science. Looking at 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:35.480 the most recent data coronavirus cases. Mind you, if you 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:37.400 look at the fatality rate in New York is still 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.760 far worse, far worse than Florida. But if you look 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.080 at cases as of let me see yesterday, you got 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:51.320 about eight thousand COVID nineteen cases in Florida, and you've 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:56.360 got let me see here, yeah, eighty nine seventy five 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:02.760 in New York. And you got eighty eight forty seven 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.000 in Florida the last couple of days. And just to 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.879 give you a sense of the numbers, so you got 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.600 about the same number of cases in New York, same 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.280 member case in Florida. And these are popula, These are 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.320 states with close to the same population. Florida is actually 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.720 more populous than New York by a couple of million. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:23.040 So what exactly is New York gaining in what way? 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.080 Is New York doing such a great job with Orange 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:30.679 zones and red zones and shutting down businesses? Cases are 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.120 the same. So we are running the experiment right now 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.359 in real time. Florida is run by people like Rhonda 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.800 Santis who are saying, let's look at what's actually happening 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.280 and deal with what we're seeing. In real life, New 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.760 York is all go to Cuomo, I listen to to science. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.240 If you don't listen to me, you want your grandparents 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:58.720 to die. Because I'm very sciency. I listened to a 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.760 lot of science. That's what's going on. We all understand. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.520 All you have to do is think for yourself, and 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.959 you will come to the conclusion that the people who 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.680 have pushed these lockdowns are living in a fantasy. Remember, 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:17.240 the alternative to lockdown is not go out to a 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.360 crowded bar as soon as possible if you're a senior 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.239 citizen and let people cough in your face. Right, they 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.440 always set up this straw man. The alternative to lockdown 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.879 is put out all the public health messaging you can 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:31.919 about things people can do to try to mitigate, but 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:36.560 then allow individuals to make choices, allow them to design 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.400 whether they want to go to a restaurant and eat 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.679 indoors or not, whether they want to go to a 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:45.200 store and buy something or not. Life is at your 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.920 own risk. That's the way we should be allowed to live. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.200 But that's certainly not what's happening right now. Now. We're 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:57.480 having all these all these dictates and mandates just foist 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.680 it upon us. We were under this terre unical yoke 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:05.240 of idiots, idiots who think that they know so much 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.960 more than they do about how to make this better. 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:14.840 I would love to see the CDC director try to 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.200 explain why Florida New York have about the same number 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.680 of cases when one is you heard the governor. Schools 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.840 are open, businesses are open. No mask mandates. If a 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.160 business owner wants you to wear a mask, they can 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.119 put up a wear a mask sign and that's a 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:35.440 private premises And if they want that, fine, I'm not unreasonable. 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:38.919 But you see in New York every business requires it 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.040 as a function of law from the government. They didn't 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.080 make a choice. Some of them might want it, some 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.760 of them might not. You have to do it. See, 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.960 that's the mandate part of this. That's the force you 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:55.399 all based upon this highly specious argument that this is 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.840 a game changer for stopping the pandemic spread. It's clearly 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.560 not what happened in Los Angeles. Why is California exploding 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:08.400 with cases? Oh they were. California was all about masks, 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.360 all about masks. Remember why they would have mask gatherings 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:14.480 for BLM protests or for Biden victories well, they were 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:18.600 wearing masks. Oh, okay, what happened they stopped wearing masks? No, 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:24.159 so what's their explanation for this? It gets colder out, Oh, 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.720 human behavior changes because it gets a little colder. California 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:31.359 is not that much colder. Saying so, what's their explanation. 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.960 They don't have one. They don't have one. Their explanation 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:36.560 is mask up, shut up, do what you're told. That's 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:38.439 all they have to say to you. And the CDC 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:44.119 director is entirely unhelpful in this regard Play seven. The 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:46.600 time for debating whether or not mask work or not 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:50.560 is over. We clearly have scientific evidence. You couple that 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:56.320 with social distancing, handwashing, being smart about crowds, doing things 0:23:56.400 --> 0:24:01.960 more outside than inside. These are critical mitigation steps which 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:05.520 to many people seem simple and they don't really think 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.280 you could have much of an impact. But the reality 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:12.520 is they're very, very powerful tools. They have an enormous impact, 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:16.520 and right now it is so important that we recommit 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.480 ourselves to this mitigation as we now begin to turn 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:24.639