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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from coast to coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Let's say hi to Bruce in Canada east of the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: Hey Bruce, good to get on to coast. Finally, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you're a host tonight, and I'm in the western

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Speaker 1: part of Canada here. And earlier on in the week,

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Speaker 1: George was talking about possibly I'm not going to really

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Speaker 1: say it, but maybe a conspiracy theory with the coronavirus

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Speaker 1: in China. And I'm going to tell you I live

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Speaker 1: in the university town and a lot of these expat

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Speaker 1: Chinese students are mailing back to China and Hong Kong

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Speaker 1: boxes and boxes of masks. This has been going on

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Speaker 1: for a month, a month and a half. They're grabbing

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Speaker 1: product off the shelf. There's stuff that's being running out

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Speaker 1: of hardware stores and other business stores. ND ninety five mask,

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Speaker 1: heavy duty masks, and these kids are sending them home.

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Speaker 1: These people are panicking out there, and I only think

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Speaker 1: we're getting part of the story about what's going on. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question about that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: anytime you have an authoritarian regime in the affected area,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to get one percent of the of

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Speaker 1: the true story. They're going to play their cards pretty

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Speaker 1: close to their vest I mean, even if this were

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Speaker 1: happening in the West, obviously the authorities would be in

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Speaker 1: order not to create panic, you're not going to get

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Speaker 1: the full story. But in China, my word, no, we

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Speaker 1: have no idea. I believe what's going on over there.

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Speaker 1: I even think I even think that if there're is

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Speaker 1: an issue. I mean, you have the Luhan Institute of

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Speaker 1: Technologies there, which is a biological and chemical center where

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Speaker 1: all this is going on. If something's happened out there,

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Speaker 1: I mean, eventually it's going to get out what's going

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Speaker 1: on to those people. But you can see it here

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Speaker 1: with the people that are that are here, and I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about maybe the one percentage that are coming to

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Speaker 1: our universities that are beginning to see some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff that's happening at home. And for us, you know,

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about the topic about being prepared

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Speaker 1: in our community and everything else. They were definitely not

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Speaker 1: prepared for any of this stuff out there because of

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Speaker 1: the authoritarian and totarian regime. But for us out here,

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Speaker 1: we're just kind of waking up to this fact that

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Speaker 1: it can happen because we're a global community. Now, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I have seen some pretty disturbing videos. You probably have

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Speaker 1: seen them two on YouTube. In one incident, there were

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Speaker 1: authorities that were they appeared to be welding the doors

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Speaker 1: and windows shut on an apartment complex, I guess, And

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Speaker 1: this was in the Uhan region as part of their

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Speaker 1: forced quarantine. But I mean, they are obviously that they

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Speaker 1: are taking it very seriously. In China, you have university

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Speaker 1: professors from Harvard that they're being charged with the collusion

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Speaker 1: you know of chin Chinese. You know, I guess whatever

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Speaker 1: they call it one thousand hands or whatever they're doing,

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Speaker 1: or to infiltrate technology and everything like that, and I

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Speaker 1: think something got out of hand and they're trying to

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Speaker 1: contain it. I mean, even when they set up that

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Speaker 1: eleven hundred bad hospital in the record number of days,

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Speaker 1: or they sequenced the virus in nineties, they probably knew

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Speaker 1: what was going on in November. Hard to say. Hard

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Speaker 1: to say, however, I always fall back on this regular,

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Speaker 1: every day garden variety influenza. And I use that term,

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Speaker 1: I guess advicely because you know, obviously it can be

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Speaker 1: very serious, particularly with people with underlying conditions, but I

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Speaker 1: believe it was we had a particularly a bad influenza

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Speaker 1: season in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, the winner of twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen eighty thousand Americans died from the flu, just from

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Speaker 1: the regular influenza. Eighty thousand. Um. So what are we

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Speaker 1: talking about now here with with the coronaviruses, it around

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred, that's mainly in China. So part of me,

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Speaker 1: you know, yes, we need to be vigilant, we need

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Speaker 1: to be concerned, we need to keep our eye on

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Speaker 1: these things. But on the other hand, you know, I

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Speaker 1: know that a lot of authorities, a lot of certain

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Speaker 1: groups and interests, invested interest groups, they loved to tou tou,

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Speaker 1: engage in a lot of hyperbole when these things happen,

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Speaker 1: and and uh take advantage and create panic. Uh and um.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we have to be careful that we've

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Speaker 1: seen this before, right. We saw it with stars, we

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Speaker 1: saw it with um there was an a the Avian flu,

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Speaker 1: there was what was the Middle East when mirrors. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's you know we uh ebola u. You know, every

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Speaker 1: time something like this happens, we get this apocalyptic worldview

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Speaker 1: that you know, this this is going to be greater

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Speaker 1: than the Spanish flu of nineteen eighteen and so forth,

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Speaker 1: and it never never happens. So yes, we need to

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Speaker 1: be vigilant, but we also have to be we have

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Speaker 1: to be very suspicious of those people that are pushing

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Speaker 1: those particular agendas. That's true, you know, and I think

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Speaker 1: like for us here, for what they've done in Canada,

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Speaker 1: and especially for the United States. You know, the United

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Speaker 1: States was one of the first to shut down the

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Speaker 1: borders for travel and everything else. Um, it's the little things.

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Speaker 1: If you do the little things right, you know, whatever's

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Speaker 1: out there won't be something as as major as we think.

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Speaker 1: Notice how quickly Russia was able to close its border

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Speaker 1: with China. Yes, yes, it was pretty amazing the way

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Speaker 1: they did that Starian regime. Maybe, yes, that helps, doesn't it?

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Speaker 1: Indeed it does. Bruce, Thanks so much for the call,

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