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Speaker 1: talking of smart people, We talked to Ian Grammar earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. You should try to catch that on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Um, we got another one for you. You
Speaker 1: talked to a smart person every day. I wish you
Speaker 1: would appreciate me, but you don't want he Jen Zee,
Speaker 1: David and Diane Stephie research fellow, too Over Institution, Director
Speaker 1: of Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford University lant he how
Speaker 1: are you? I'm drink fine, gentlemen, how are you excellent?
Speaker 1: We ran late, repressed for time, and we blame ourselves.
Speaker 1: But as the director of Domestic Policy Studies at Stanford
Speaker 1: and in the lecture in Public Policy, what do you
Speaker 1: think about the implementation of this shocking public policy, for
Speaker 1: instance in Stinson, California. Thus far, well, look, I think
Speaker 1: it's important. I actually am in favor of trying to
Speaker 1: keep people home as much as possible. Here's the problem, though,
Speaker 1: in a democratic society, we're never going to do with
Speaker 1: some something like what China had to do, which is
Speaker 1: basically an enforced quarantine. So the best you're gonna have
Speaker 1: is government saying, look for public safety reasons, because we
Speaker 1: don't want to spread this to people who are more vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Try to do your best to stay at home, and
Speaker 1: and you know, we're gonna see what happens. I do
Speaker 1: think it's going to have a difference. It's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna make a difference in terms of the transmission of
Speaker 1: this disease. But hopefully, yeah. Do you think we'll even
Speaker 1: do what Italy does though where they're they've given out
Speaker 1: fifty thousand citations so far in Italy tickets to people
Speaker 1: who know. No. I don't, I don't, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I mean, I think here's my sense.
Speaker 1: At least in the Bay Area where I live, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's just my community, people have been pretty good
Speaker 1: about sticking to the rules. I mean, yes, of course,
Speaker 1: occasional you'll see people out and you'll be like, do
Speaker 1: you really need to be out? But for the most part,
Speaker 1: I think I think folks are are abiding by the rules.
Speaker 1: I don't see the same kind of enforcement happening here
Speaker 1: in the US well, and I hope it doesn't have to.
Speaker 1: And I think that speaks to the sort of society
Speaker 1: we have where we are governed by our own consent,
Speaker 1: and if our government says, hey, we really need to
Speaker 1: do this, y'all, I think most people will say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I consent to that seems reasonable. That makes me happy. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it makes me happy too. And I think I do
Speaker 1: like the fact that more and more Americans are are
Speaker 1: doing things like, for example, saying, hey, look, I've got
Speaker 1: a neighbor who's vulnerable. I've got someone I know in
Speaker 1: my family who's vulnerable. I'm going to do what I
Speaker 1: can for them during this time. I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: them food, I'm going to help make sure that they're
Speaker 1: okay when they're when they're staying in. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of spirit, and that's the kind of of community that
Speaker 1: makes me proud to be an American. Quite frankly, and
Speaker 1: and it's not something, by the way, you would find
Speaker 1: in China. The reason that they had to do what
Speaker 1: they had to do in China is because that's not
Speaker 1: the off there. It's just a different kind of place.
Speaker 1: I assume you, like me, are in favor of caning
Speaker 1: young spring breakers. Absolutely, okay, no, no punishment too severe.
Speaker 1: I mean these these these guys are just more odds.
Speaker 1: And when you look at them saying things like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if I get corona, I get corona. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. I still want a party.
Speaker 1: I want to drink my corona. It's like, you idiots,
Speaker 1: Well they're gonna haven and so they'll they'll, they'll, they'll
Speaker 1: get their own. But so I am a proud American.
Speaker 1: I'm not real proud of this though. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're like following the Wall Street Journals expose of
Speaker 1: the fact that the c d C was telling States
Speaker 1: and probably the President, oh, we got plenty of testing,
Speaker 1: we can we can match this, when they when they
Speaker 1: either were so incompetent they knew they couldn't, or they
Speaker 1: were lying to us. Yeah, well that's something. You know,
Speaker 1: As this goes on, we're gonna find out more and
Speaker 1: more about what happened during what I call the lost week. Right,
Speaker 1: there was a period of time between when the President
Speaker 1: said no one coming in from China to the outbreak
Speaker 1: of this virus, and and those few weeks, unfortunately were lost.
Speaker 1: And we're going to figure out why they were lost.
Speaker 1: Was it because of poor leadership at the top? Was
Speaker 1: it because of failures that agencies like the CDC. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, having worked in the big bureaucracy that
Speaker 1: included the CDC, it does not surprise me to hear
Speaker 1: that you had elements of the bureaucracy not functioning well
Speaker 1: or just trying to cover their own were rent. That's
Speaker 1: something that's unacceptable. I mean, but we'll find out exactly
Speaker 1: what happened, you know, at some point, lin he if
Speaker 1: we can impose on you for more of your time.
Speaker 1: We had to do the long form podcast again about that,
Speaker 1: which is one of our very favorite topics, um and
Speaker 1: that's uh, bureaucracy disease and the iron law of bureaucracy
Speaker 1: and the damage it does and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: And and I would love to I'm pressing another time.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of interested. In the last minute I saw
Speaker 1: a picture of burning and Biden on TV for a
Speaker 1: brief store and thought, oh, yeah, right, that story that's
Speaker 1: still happening. You know what, what the hell is gonna
Speaker 1: happen with all that? Well, here's one observation I'll make.
Speaker 1: I know we're short on time. You know, the strategy
Speaker 1: of the Trump people before the whole coronavirus thing was
Speaker 1: once they had a nominee on the Democratic side, they
Speaker 1: were going to attack the heck out of them and
Speaker 1: define them in the same way that Barack Obama defined
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney. In two thousand twelve, right after Mitt Romney
Speaker 1: came out of a divided primary, they Obama and the
Speaker 1: Obama superpacs spent you know, hundreds and millions of dollars
Speaker 1: attacking Mitt Romney, essentially, you know, costing him the election.
Speaker 1: During that time, their strategy was to do the Trump
Speaker 1: strategy was to do the same thing to the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be able to do that as
Speaker 1: readily now, and given the fact that coronavirus is out
Speaker 1: there and it's going to look unseemly to attack by
Speaker 1: it in the same way. So I do think it's
Speaker 1: going to change the dynamic of this campaign going forward.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's mostly advantage to the challenger them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I mean I think it gives Biden a
Speaker 1: chance to catch his breath, could define a general election narrative,
Speaker 1: and the fact that we know the Democratic nominee this early.
Speaker 1: I think it's a big advantage to the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: because it didn't look like it was going to turn
Speaker 1: out that way. Well, the coronavirus notwithstanding. If indeed the
Speaker 1: campaign is shortened, that is to me proof that there
Speaker 1: is a God and he loves us and he wants
Speaker 1: us to be happy. So thank you guys for that.
Speaker 1: Lani Chen of the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, thanks
Speaker 1: a million. Lon. He's sorry it was so short, but
Speaker 1: we look forward to the next chat. Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 1: How good is he? Oh, he's terrific. You know, I
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