1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you so 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: much for joining. Only a few days here before Christmas, 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: but still much happening, much going on here at home, 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: in the States and even around the world. We'll dive 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: into it together. Finally, Congress decided to do its job 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: a little bit. We've got a nine hundred billion dollars 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen relief package for the economy. This is what 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: we're talking about now, right, This is the way we're 12 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: supposed to view this, is that Congress rides in to 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: save the day. And I got to sit here and 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 1: tell you, why did it take so long? Why did 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: we have to wait for months? Businesses are going under, 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: people are suffering terribly economically and otherwise from this. So 17 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: what's the reason for this taking so long? Well, we 18 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: know the reason. We know why this took so long, 19 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: and it's of course Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: playing games here. They didn't want Donald Trump to have 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: any assistance from the Congress doing what it should have done. 22 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: Months ago, so she stood and blocked the whole thing. 23 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: In fact, she's now agreed to less money than she 24 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: was offered by Manuchin over the summer, by the Treasury Secretary. 25 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: So Nancy was so smart in these negotiations, or perhaps 26 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: I should say, so concerned with the interests of the 27 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: American people that she slowed this whole thing down under 28 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: the premise that she wanted more. And now because she 29 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: believes Biden has this thing all sewn up and it's 30 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: all done. Now Pelosi is taking less money. Now Pelosi 31 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: is taking less money. Well, why does that do anything 32 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: that should make us think that the Congress is even 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: a little bit competent, or perhaps a better way of 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: putting it, it's not really about competency at some level, 35 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: isn't it, Because this is what they wanted. They'll tell 36 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: us that, oh they stopped us, or the other side stimondists. 37 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: But the Democrats in Congress wanted to slow this whole 38 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: thing down. They wanted to make sure that people were 39 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: suffering from maximum misery, that the economic pain was at 40 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: an all time possible high right before the election. Right, 41 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: that's what they were hoping for. And now they're taking 42 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: a substantially worse deal than what they were offered, because 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: ultimately it wasn't about getting what's best for the American people, 44 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: it was about doing what will benefit democrats politically the most. 45 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: Here's what we get in this deal. Remember, this is 46 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: the government effectively giving your money back to you. So 47 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: they've shut down businesses, they've shut down millions of people's 48 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: livelihoods across the country. They've caused a at least a 49 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: temporary recession in many industries. People are bankrupt, they've lost 50 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: small businesses they've worked on for decades. They are facing eviction. 51 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: There's a huge eviction wave that's going to hit in January. 52 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: People are going to be turned out of their homes. Well, 53 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: now they're finally stepping in to say that they're going 54 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: to try to prevent some of that. You've got six 55 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: hundred dollars direct payments to individuals making up a seventy 56 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: five grand a year, and you have payments phased out 57 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: for higher run incomes, so with six hundred additional payments 58 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: per dependent child. So this is kind of a means 59 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: tested situation. And with unemployment insurance, it revives supplemental federal 60 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: pandemic unemployment benefits at three hundred dollars per week instead 61 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: of the six hundred dollars per week that expired in July. Okay, 62 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: so you've got a little bit more unemployment coming in 63 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: six hundred dollars direct payments. It extends pandemic benefits for 64 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: gig workers. This is all via the AP. Extends the 65 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: maximum period for state paid jobless benefits to fifty weeks. Total, 66 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: brings back the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans to 67 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: businesses that meet certain criteria. So the PPP comes back. 68 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: Why didn't the PPP come back a long time ago? 69 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: Ask yourself that why has there been such a PPP delay? Oh, 70 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: that's right. This was politics. This was Democrats making sure 71 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: that there was increased suffering, that they had the ability, 72 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: they had the ability to get, you know, to get 73 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: money to the American people, but they chose not to. 74 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: They prefer to do something else, and that was to 75 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: wait and to make sure that the political fortunes of 76 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: the Democrats were the primary consideration in the Congress, at 77 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: least for the Democrats in the Congress, twenty five billion 78 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: dollars for a new rental assistance program. So these are 79 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: funds that are going to be distributed by state and 80 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: local governments, meant to help people falling behind on rent 81 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: and who face eviction. So that's what they've got going 82 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: on with that. Oh and then also surprised. This is 83 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: another one. They have surprise medical billing, which protects consumers 84 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: from bills after they receive out of network providers. This 85 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: strikes me as this doesn't really have anything to do 86 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 1: with doesn't really have anything to do with the COVID 87 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: relief package necessarily, or rather with COVID relief directly. But 88 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: I do think that the stories you will hear about 89 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: out of network benefits are stunning. Meaning the people will 90 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: all of a sudden think that they're in network, they're 91 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: out of network. They'll get an anesthesiologist who will swing 92 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: on by, and sure enough, the anesthesiologists will end up 93 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: offering a bill for you know, forty grand or something 94 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: crazy for what was supposed to be an in network procedure, 95 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: so that I believe is ended by this surprise medical billing. 96 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: So that's another thing added into this. Now, is this 97 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: a terrible package? No, it is going to help. But 98 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: why wasn't this done in August? Why wasn't this done 99 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: when the PPP ran out the first time, and I've 100 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: really been hammering this home because the media is covering 101 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: for them. It's Pelosi and the Democrats. They didn't want 102 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: to do what they could to help people because they 103 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: were benefiting from the suffering of the American people. They 104 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: were benefiting from people being in misery and losing money, 105 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: being worried about losing their homes because at that point 106 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: they just figured they'd vote for anyone other than who's 107 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: purportedly in charge president of the United States. And it's 108 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: also a reminder during all this, and this, as you know, 109 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: has been something of a recurring theme here on the show, 110 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: but it's a reminder of the fact that we aren't 111 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: all in this together. That was never true. Yeah, we 112 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: all have to deal with the pandemic and with the 113 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: changes in the world because of it. But for some 114 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: of us, for some people in the elites, for the 115 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: ruling class, for elite media organizations, they haven't suffered during this. 116 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: They haven't had to have massive layoffs. They've been considered 117 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: essential workers. The politicians who have been telling many of you, 118 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: not only can you not go out see relatives and 119 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: enjoy even the most basic aspects of your day to 120 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: day life. Those same politicians are out there and they 121 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: are telling you that you can't open your business, but 122 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: they keep getting paychecks. They keep getting paid, so we're 123 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: not all in this together. They were not suffering the 124 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: way that you were. I mean, Nancy Pelosi doesn't need 125 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: the money anyway. She should really give her whole salary 126 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: to charity if she doesn't already. I don't know, got 127 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: a very wealthy husband. So they allowed people to be 128 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: hurt during this while pretending to care about you. This 129 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: is why people lose so much faith in Congress in general. 130 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: This is why there's so much outrage at the ruling 131 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: class in this country, as there should be, because they 132 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: tell you that they're doing things to help you while 133 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: they're making sure that you are hurting. They tell you 134 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: that they are there to stand for your benefit. These 135 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: are government mandates that cause these disruptions in the economy. 136 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: Notice that you'll you'll hear this argument frequently. Oh, it 137 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: doesn't matter that they ordered all these closures. Nobody would 138 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: go to all these businesses anyway. Oh really, why the 139 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: closures then, because that's bull and we know it's bull, 140 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: but they just throw these arguments out there trying to 141 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: absolve those making these decisions of the responsibility for the disastrous, 142 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: the utterly disastrous economic effects that have come from all 143 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: of this. And what benefit, what benefit have we had 144 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: as a result of them doing all these things? Oh, 145 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to ask that question. California a masking 146 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: and lockdown and social distancing exemplar for all the rest 147 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: of us. That's what we were told. They were the 148 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: epitome of listening to Fauci and the science as a state, 149 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: and now they're having the biggest surges they've ever had, 150 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: the most cases, the most people in ICU. California is 151 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: getting hit in a way that is reminiscent, at least 152 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: in terms of the percentages in the spike of what 153 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: New York was facing at the very beginning of the pandemic. Fortunately, 154 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: we have better treatments now. The mortality rate is lower, 155 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of reasons why it's not as 156 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: bad as it was in New York and New Jersey 157 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: at the time, but just in terms of overall cases 158 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: and people showing up to go to the hospitalization, it 159 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: has been an enormous increase in a very short period 160 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: of time, and We've been told that California over the 161 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: summer didn't get hit that badly because they were doing 162 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: such a good job with all these mitigation measures, as 163 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: Fauci would call them. Why should we still believe that? Exactly? 164 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: Show me. I just want to know where the evidence is. 165 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: I can only ask questions about this now because declarative 166 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: statements get me into all kinds of trouble. The social 167 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: media censors come after me. You know, you can't say 168 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: things like this policy did not work, did it? You 169 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: can't say that not allowed. But I think you can 170 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: ask the question, how exactly show me how these policies 171 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: are working when you have a city like New York 172 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: with a one percent of COVID cases are believed to 173 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: come from restaurants one percent, so they shut down all 174 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: the restaurants because of that. Now, at some point, you 175 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: see what we've lost here is the ability to make 176 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: decisions as a society where we know that we can't 177 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: stop all of this, and trying to stop all of 178 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: it becomes counterproductive. We no longer have balancing the risks 179 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: that we're running by being out there living life with 180 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: the risks of this virus. No, it's now just the 181 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: people in charge have these dick tots. They just say 182 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: this is how it will be, no matter how stupid, 183 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 1: no matter how unlikely to succeed. And if you question that, 184 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: they treat you like a virus truther, like you think 185 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. Well, I've been wondering when people are 186 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: going to realize that. In fact, I tweeted out a 187 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: couple of days ago, just wait, just wait until, because 188 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: we're right right now, we're in this phase where we 189 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: think it's all going to get better after the vaccine 190 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: is distributed. Not on everyone believes that, but most people 191 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: believe it's going to get a lot better off the vaccine. 192 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: I think the vaccine will help tremendously. But we also 193 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: have to address this mentality, the mentality that there is 194 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: no acceptable degree of risk from COVID nineteen, that there 195 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: is no acceptable mitigation that we can do that isn't 196 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: to the maximum right that we have to go. It's 197 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: either exactly what they say or else you're reckless and 198 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: your army people and you're putting Graham on Grandpa at risk. 199 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: And let me tell you this, as we continue to 200 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: see how this plays out, I mentioned that all you 201 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: have to do is Wait, and I put this out 202 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Wait until you start hearing about mutations and 203 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: you realize that they're not going to give you back 204 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: control over your life. How can they? There's mutations out there, man, 205 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: and you gotta get ahead of this thing before it 206 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: really spread. So you can't even wait to see what 207 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: the numbers are. There's mutations. And now where are we? 208 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: The United Kingdom is in a most extreme lockdown it 209 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: has gone to yet because they say they have found 210 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: a seventy percent more infectious strain of COVID nineteen in circulation. 211 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: That is a mutation. Oh that's right, we are. It's 212 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: all going to get better if we just listen to 213 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: the experts, right, How many of you still believe that? 214 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get 215 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: the latest news and information from Buck by heading to 216 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: Bucksexton dot com. Here you go. Just as I was saying, 217 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: just as I was telling, everybody, countries cut off as 218 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: Boris Johnson holds crisis meeting on new coronavirus variant. Alarm 219 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: over the new variant which was first identified. This is 220 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: from CNN identifying in England as resulted in British travelers 221 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: being cut off from much of Europe and other parts 222 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: of the world as countries impose restrictions on travel from 223 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: the UK. France announced the temporary travel ban. The move 224 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: has sparked fears that European exporters would be reluctant to 225 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 1: send goods to the UK. The timing of the restrictions, 226 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: just days before Christmas and the end of the Brexit 227 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: transition period, raised concerns about food and medicine travel restrictions 228 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: by dozens of countries across Europe, the Middle East, in 229 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: the America's announced travel bands to the UK. Greece and 230 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: Spain have imposed restrictions that require travelers from Britain to 231 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: undergo coronavirus tests or quarantine. It's just all over the place. 232 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: What do we know about the new variant? The new 233 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: variant can spread more quickly. Response well for sixty percent 234 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: of new infections in the capital, which have nearly doubled 235 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: in last week alone. He said that it's no evidence 236 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: to suggests it's more deadly or neutralize the effectiveness of 237 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: the vaccines, but a more easily spread virus could result 238 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: in more cases. Okay, there will be mutations to this 239 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: as well, and there will be panic that is put 240 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: in place by those making decisions, that's going to happen. 241 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: You can basically it's basically guaranteed. Right now, they're saying, 242 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,479 Speaker 1: oh no, we the vaccine will still work against it. Okay, 243 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: I think that's hopefully you know, from what we know 244 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: right now, from what they're telling us, that's true. What 245 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: do we have with the influenza vaccine every year? That's right, 246 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: you have a new vaccine for the flu every year? 247 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Does anyone Can anyone tell you definitively right now whether 248 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: there won't be Wheeler will not be a mutation in 249 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, so that would be COVID twenty or COVID 250 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: twenty one or whatever. That will mean that there'll have 251 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: to be a new round of vaccines distributed. I'm just 252 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: saying this is something I believe we should all at 253 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: least have on the radar. We should at least be 254 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: aware of this very real possibility because the people in charge, 255 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: the people in charge are going to do everything in 256 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: their power to continue to be in power and to 257 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: make all these calls for you. They will not give 258 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: it up, meaning that it's not going to be here. 259 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: The guide here, the guidelines. Guys, you know, make decisions 260 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: for yourself, try to be smart, try to be safe. 261 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: But we recognize there's only so much we can do. No, 262 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: it's going to be more lockdowns, more lockdowns, more of 263 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: this stuff, because they'll never admit that this wasn't really 264 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: the answer. Even though the pre pent the pre COVID 265 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic playbook always always looked at the possibility of 266 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: a stay at home order, stay in place, freeze, lockdown 267 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: or whatever, and said this would be too much. So 268 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: when they were looking at more, even more people dying 269 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: from a lethal pathogen then we've seen from COVID nineteen, 270 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: but they understood the societal and economic impacts of telling 271 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: everyone you can't see other human beings as a mandate 272 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: of the state. They came away from him and said, well, 273 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: we can't. We can't advocate that as policy now. Now 274 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: it's the default policy. You know, it was one thing 275 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: when it was all theoretical. I guess an academic, now 276 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: that they're supposed to be the ones protecting us, now 277 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: that they're the ones looking for answers, sure enough, they 278 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: will not They will not relent. They will not go 279 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: back and say hold on a second, Maybe we shouldn't 280 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: have taken it upon ourselves to take away people's basic 281 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: freedoms and to tell them that they're in no position 282 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: to make these decisions for themselves. The government, the state 283 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: has to step in and make these decisions for them 284 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: until the people say enough. This will continue. You know 285 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: the old phrase, no one really knows where it comes from, 286 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: but you see it all over the place. The beatings 287 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: will continue until morale improves. The lockdowns will continue until 288 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: the morale improves. They're just gonna keep doing it. They 289 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: will not stop this because to stop it what also, 290 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: and you have to remember, this would open up the 291 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: possibility of us being able to see how dangerous this 292 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: really is. You know how different it really would be 293 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: in terms of the danger if we just had guidance, 294 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: but people living their lives versus mandates and closures and 295 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: all the catastrophe at at a top this very awful, 296 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: evil and lethal virus. We're told that this was a 297 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: trade off to make everything less bad. There is the 298 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: possibility that really what we've done is just added insult 299 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 1: to injury in many of these cases with the lockdown policy. 300 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the buck Sexton show podcast. Get 301 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: the latest news and information from Buck by heading to 302 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: Bucksexton dot com. Doctor Burke's not quite doctor Fauci, but 303 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: doctor Burks. Remember her. She was a mainstay of the 304 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: Virus task Force, a memorable for her very florid and 305 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: intricate silk scarves up there during the Coronavirus task Force. Well, 306 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: she over the months has become more and more of 307 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: a mask. Mask masks, stay away from people. You know, 308 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: they have they don't have any real answers, folks. They 309 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: don't know how to control all of societies that we 310 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: stop a virus that has clearly figured out a way 311 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,239 Speaker 1: to be very easily transmissible among a huge number of 312 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: human beings. So what they do is they just repeat 313 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: themselves and then they blame us, as you know, that's 314 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: really the go to. It's not that the decisions they're 315 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: making are insufficient to deal with this virus. It's that 316 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: the people that are supposed to be engaging, the people 317 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: that are supposed to be acting on the advice of 318 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: these professionals, you and me were the problem. You see, 319 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: we're the shortcoming. We're the reason that the virus still 320 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 1: continues to spread. That's what the experts want you to 321 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: know it's it's never that they need to rethink some 322 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: of this. Have you ever heard have you ever heard 323 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: Fauci or Burke say closing schools was absolutely the not 324 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: not that. Yeah, maybe we opened them, you know, we 325 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: got to be careful with the mitigation. And no, no, 326 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: have you ever heard them say closing schools because of 327 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: COVID was a catastrophically bad decision rooted in panic and 328 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: not data, because that's a fact. Will they ever say 329 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: it like that? No? You know why because Fauci's a 330 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: big Democrat who's going to be working for Biden going forward, 331 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to upset the teachers unions who 332 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: demanded the shutdowns because they wanted their teachers to be 333 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: able to sit at home on a couch and basically 334 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,719 Speaker 1: play a video and pretend to be teaching kids and 335 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: still get paid and still get their benefits and not 336 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: have to not have to even go through the bother 337 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: of pretending to do in classroom instruction. So they won't 338 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: come down on that stuff. They won't tell you the 339 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: truth about all that. You know, in New York they've 340 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: had all these rules. Now it's really tough to even 341 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: keep up with it. You had, No, you're not allowed 342 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 1: in New York City, which, mind you, has half the 343 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: COVID positivity rate of the rest of New York State. 344 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 1: So we have less COVID in Manhattan, in New York City, well, 345 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: New York City in general, but it's specifically in Manhattan 346 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: than you do in a lot of other parts of 347 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: New York State with far less population. Why do you 348 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: think that is? We have many more people, much greater 349 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: population density, got hit so badly in the early spring. 350 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: Could it be? Could it be? I'm asking a question, 351 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: I'm making a declarative statement. Don't want any to you know, 352 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: yell at me. Ssurology tests show that New York had 353 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: a twenty percent COVID COVID positivity positivity a COVID syrology rates. 354 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: So when they looked at blood they found antibodies. The 355 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: tune of one in five people in New York City 356 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: had COVID antibodies as of I think it was either 357 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: May or June of this past year, which was among 358 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: the highest the country. And that's just what they were 359 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: able to tell from the ssurology tests. Then do you 360 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: think it would be by now thirty thirty five percent. 361 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean that people are safe. It doesn't 362 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: mean the COVID not spreading. Clearly, it's still out there. 363 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: But when you have a much smaller pool of people 364 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: who can be infected, they're all these they're all these 365 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,679 Speaker 1: blocks in the transmission route along the way, they are 366 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: all of these places where you can see that somehow 367 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 1: it's less less easy for this virus to reach that 368 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: exponential spread. You know, even we don't understand this, the 369 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 1: mechanism of this at all, at least I haven't seen 370 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: anyone who claims to know why. Most people only infect 371 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: one other person, and usually it's a person in the home. 372 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: So if that person the home has already had it, 373 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: there's a good chance you, over the course of an illness, 374 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: will not actually spread it to anybody, right because you 375 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: only then they're the super spreaders. And I've never seen 376 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: a real explanation for this. Maybe it's just people with 377 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: extreme viral load for some reason, but they'll infect like 378 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: a whole room of people somehow. At least that's what 379 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: we've seen in different instances. There's a famous case in 380 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: South Korea. A woman I think went to church choir 381 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: practice and all of a sudden, there were a dozen 382 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: or two dozen cases. They are a huge and upper 383 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: cases from what they think was one exposure based on 384 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: the test and trace that they did. But in New 385 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: York City we have lower COVID positivity rate than in 386 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: the rest of the state. And we're not even allowed 387 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: to talk about how we're doing so many more tests 388 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: now that to comparing where we are now to where 389 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: we were in the early spring and fall, it seems 390 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: like early spring rather. You know, it's a little bit 391 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: apples and oranges in terms of how much COVID is 392 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: out there because there is so much more testing now. 393 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: But the restaurant regulations are all you're really out there, know, 394 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: I mean, they're picking on this industry that their best 395 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: guess is was under two percent of new COVID cases 396 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: we're happening in restaurants, and they're picking on this industry 397 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: in ways that it's it's just mean, I mean, it's 398 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: it's almost sadistic at this point with the stuff that 399 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: they're doing to the restaurant industry. They said that you 400 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: can't the people that are dining outdoors. It's freezing in 401 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: New York City. I mean, there's snow on the ground, 402 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 1: it's freezing outside, and people were dining outdoors. They were 403 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: told initially, you cannot go in to use the restaurants. 404 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 1: I talked to you about this last week, and that 405 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: was so dumb. It was Finally they finally reached a 406 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: point where were so stupid and so counterproductive that they 407 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: had to quote clarify it. But that was the guidance. 408 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: They wanted people to go eat outdoors at a restaurant, 409 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: which already is borderline nuts in the freezing called New 410 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 1: York City streets. I might do it if there's a heater, 411 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 1: just because I want to keep some of these places 412 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: in business. You know, people say, oh, why not just 413 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 1: donate all the money? Well, I mean I also people 414 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: need to eat too, right, I mean, you're spending money 415 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: on food to feed yourself, and you want to keep 416 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: the restaurant going, You're not. You know, It's it's a 417 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: different thing than just saying I'm just gonna write checks 418 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: to every business that's struggling. That's the government's job. Right now. 419 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,959 Speaker 1: That actually is the government's job because the government has 420 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: shut them down. But the restaurant restrictions even go beyond that. 421 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: There's the ten o'clock curfew. And then there's the you 422 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: can't if you do pick up. I think it's only 423 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: you can't go into the restaurant to get it. They 424 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,479 Speaker 1: have to bring it out to you. They're all these rules, 425 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: just annoying into oblivion the restaurant industry as it's being annihilated, 426 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. And yet again I mentioned doctor Burkes, 427 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: who seemed to be the less totalitarian of the duo 428 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: of Burkes and Fauci. You know, she seemed to be 429 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: the one who is a little bit less extreme in 430 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: these lockdown situations. And sure enough it comes out that 431 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: she was telling everybody that you shouldn't travel over Thanksgiving. 432 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 1: It's too risky. You cannot see your family, you cannot 433 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: be with your loved ones. And yet what do you 434 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: think doctor Burkes did over Thanksgiving? It has now come 435 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: out she traveled to a second home, to a country house, 436 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: if you will. Traveled to a second home, and I 437 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: believe it was either Delaware or Maryland. I forget, I 438 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: think it was Maryland, but doesn't matter. Traveled to a 439 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: second home where there were three generations of family congregating 440 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. And do you know what Her response was 441 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: when this came out, was it, guys, I'm so sorry this. 442 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: I should not have You know, I shouldn't have done this. 443 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: I clearly have said a bad example. No, of course not. 444 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: That's not That wasn't her response. That wasn't what she said. 445 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 1: It was I didn't really want to go, but we 446 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: were trying to close the house up properly because we're 447 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: trying to sell it, so you know, it's almost like 448 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: a business transaction. You could say that I was an 449 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: essential traveler to my own home, like an essential worker, 450 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: even though I is with three generations of family over Thanksgiving, 451 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: as if we're all a bunch of idiots. Oh, she 452 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: gathered with her family for them. She's an older woman. 453 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: To keep that in mind, she's at risk from COVID herself. 454 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: She gathered with family over Thanksgiving. But you're not supposed 455 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: to and if you do it, you are reckless. That's 456 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: and you're not allowed to make the choice. Even they're 457 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: going to do everything they can to stop you from 458 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: going to these places. They're going to do everything they 459 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: can't put in place. I mean in Oregon, right they 460 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: had a sixth person in a household. Limitation can't go 461 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: to church the way you want. You can't be inside 462 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: your own home the way you want to. Here's one 463 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 1: of the reasons why I'm so sick of these people. 464 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: And yes I am cynical about these orders that were 465 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: given all the time, because I see them being just 466 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: constantly absurdly abused. I mean, so doctor Burke's travels and 467 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: then gives us a dumb excuse because you know, yet 468 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: another person. None of the people telling you to live 469 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: your life this way in constant fear, stay away from 470 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 1: your family, don't see anyone. None of the people who 471 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: are making the most noise about that publicly actually do 472 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: that themselves. What does that tell you. It's easy to 473 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: call for the sacrifice of your business, of your mental 474 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: and emotional health, from being separated from loved ones and 475 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: family at all. It's easy to say just pretend like 476 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: you're in a frozen state for the next three to 477 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: six months, because that's the safest thing from this virus. 478 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: You can tell people that, you know, I could sit 479 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: here and tell you, you know, if you really want 480 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: to be lean and you really want to have a 481 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: great physique, you know you should eat about sixteen hundred 482 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: to eighteen hundred calories a day for a lot of 483 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,719 Speaker 1: guys in their late late thirties early forties. I can 484 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 1: tell you that. I can tell you that that's also 485 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: not something that I'm doing because I like food, and 486 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 1: so I'm not going to pretend like that's easy advice 487 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 1: or that's a straightforward you know. Yeah, if you want 488 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: to be like a mister Olympian or something, these are 489 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 1: the things you do. But for the rest of us, 490 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: we're not going to do that. The hypocrisy is just 491 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: too much. The hypocrisy has become too burdensome for me 492 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: to sit here and pretend like it's not driving me insane. 493 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: A perfect example this is on Friday, I was hoping 494 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: to have a relatively quiet night here in New York, 495 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: so there's nothing. Look, I want to go back to 496 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: the normal life. So I also have better stories for you. 497 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: I can travel, I can see more of Team Buck 498 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: across the country. I mean, there's so many reasons, right, 499 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: that's maybe, you know, on a list of a thousand things. 500 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: I want everyone to be healthy. I want what everyone 501 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 1: to be able to go back to work in their lives, 502 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: their businesses. But you know, I'd also like to be 503 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 1: able to tell you better stories than I've been able 504 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 1: to the last year, because when you're locked down at 505 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: home all the time, there's just not a whole lot 506 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: of a whole lot of interesting stuff to say about 507 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: what you're up to. But I was. I was at 508 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: home on Friday, and there was a party, a party 509 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: that might a neighbor threw and it was allowed party 510 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: at least. And I know the different parts of the building, 511 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: meaning what the layouts are for apartments. This is a 512 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: one room apartment. This person has maybe six hundred, six 513 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: hundred square feet, not a big apartment. I mean, I 514 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: don't know. And some of you may think that's a 515 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: pretty silently And I had six hundred squareoot apartment's pretty 516 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: pretty tight, pretty cozy, certainly cozy and tight for over 517 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: a dozen people. And there were at least a dozen 518 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: or so people, maybe fifteen or twenty in what was 519 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: probably a Christmas party. Now, look, I'm not I'm not 520 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm not the party police. I don't care really. But 521 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: the part of this that I find so interesting is 522 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: that my building is extremely strict about masking. My building. 523 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: You know, they will tell you go upstairs and put 524 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: your mask on before you leave. If you walk around, 525 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: if you're if you put your mask down for a 526 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: second and you're drinking coffee and you don't have that 527 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,239 Speaker 1: coffee cup up to your lips for more than like 528 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: two seconds, people are gonna come over and excuse me, 529 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: could you mask up again? I mean, that's they are. 530 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: They are mask maniacs. Here the people at the party, 531 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: all together in enclosed space for I mean, they were 532 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: rocking out. It was. It was still going at one am, 533 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: and they arrived around eight, so you know, they're up 534 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: there for a few hours, indoors, closed quarters. No masks. Okay, 535 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: I went up there. I said, no masks. I didn't 536 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: go to the party, but I saw what was going on. 537 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: And do you think what do you think they did? 538 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: As soon as they left the party where they had 539 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: been with fifteen people or so all, you know, dancing 540 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: and jumping around and all this stuff, I mean, not 541 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: jumping or you know what I mean, partying whatever. But 542 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: it was loud. It's a loud party. Obviously it annoyed 543 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: me because I wanted to watch a movie in peace. 544 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: Masked up. Got a mask up for that. Walk out 545 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: of the living room, got a mask up for that. 546 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: I mean of the a lobby. Rather got a mask 547 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: up for that, you know, because that's that's really showing 548 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: how seriously they take this. Now to me, I look 549 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: at this and say, what a farce this whole thing is, 550 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: How absurd this whole thing is. Because if you're going 551 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: to go to a party in closed quarters with a 552 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: lot of people up close, and then you're gonna walk 553 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: out and put your mask on afterwards, you're just doing 554 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: this for show. And you know, Burkes and fouc you 555 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: and they show up at all these press conferences where 556 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: no one's really all that close to them, wear that mask. 557 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: You know, people have it on their their avatars on 558 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: social media. Got a mask photo up? Now? Got to 559 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: put a mask photo up? What? Why the whole port 560 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: of an avatar so we can see your face? No 561 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: one wants to see you with a mask on. But 562 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: as we know, it's been politicized beyond beyond belief, really, 563 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,239 Speaker 1: and the people that are telling you what to do 564 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: won't do it themselves, which is really all you have 565 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: to know. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the 566 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following 567 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 1: him on social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, 568 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: and Instagram. AOC got the vaccine over the weekend. AOC 569 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: is one of the people you're seeing now who has 570 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: been vaccinated. Now, now I have to ask, why are 571 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: we vaccinating young healthy and this is this is not 572 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: a specific AOC. I know there are others and this 573 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: is the government's plan. So usually i'd bring up AOC. 574 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: You're gonna criticize her crazy left wing socialist policies. But 575 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: I'm just saying she got a lot of attention because 576 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,719 Speaker 1: she has a huge social media following. She got the vaccine. 577 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Why? Why? This is like 578 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: a government continuity or national security thing. I mean, the 579 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: chance of sowing AOC is like thirty years old. The 580 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: chance of her getting COVID and it being any severe 581 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: risk to her health is like one. Numerically, it really 582 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: is like one in ten thousand. I mean it's it's remote, 583 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: it's a remote possibility. But she's going to the vaccine. 584 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: This is gonna get uglier, friends, This is gonna get 585 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: worse because the cases keep going up, keep going up. 586 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: This mitigation stuff that we're doing, it's not gonna stop it. 587 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: We all know that. I mean, we'll bring it down 588 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: a tiny bit in a couple of weeks, they'll say, 589 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: see it works, so well, maybe virus is gonna keep spreading. 590 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: We're gonna keep having this terrible fight with people in 591 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: the hospitals and going to be losing people. We're gonna 592 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: lose people, and it's awful and it's a gut punch, 593 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: and it's been you know, twenty twenty is the worst 594 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: year I can remember in twenty years at least. So 595 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: where's year since nine to eleven? No question? And now 596 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: we're starting to see that, yes, the vaccine is out there, 597 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: but there's also a time sensitivity to all this. Who 598 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: gets the vaccine first? I saw over the weekend there 599 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: was a story that half of US states, according to polls, 600 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: think that minorities should get the vaccine first. I'm sitting 601 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: here saying this is that this is creating very strange 602 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: tensions in our country and in our communities. You should 603 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: just be by age. The real, the real information we 604 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: have on this that's global in nature, not just specific 605 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: to America, is that this is dangerous to people in 606 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: age categorizations and then with comorbidities on top of that, 607 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: there's no greater risk based upon ethnicity that we know 608 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: of from this virus. It doesn't not exist, So why 609 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: is it being treated as such? Why do we have 610 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: that as a even a debate that's happening in the 611 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 1: country right now. Shouldn't it just be along age lines? 612 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: You're going to see this is going to get much 613 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: nastier because there are people right now who are not 614 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 1: getting the vaccine who probably should be at the very 615 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 1: top of the list. I mean, AOC got it, she 616 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: doesn't really need it based on her age. Demo and 617 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: other members of Congress too, Republican and Democrat. They're getting it. 618 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: If they're young, they don't really need it. And there 619 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 1: are people who are seniors who are basically, you know, 620 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: at the highest possible risk of this, and they're not 621 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 1: getting it. Yet We're going to lose some of those people. 622 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: The government is at some level you're pinking who's going 623 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 1: to live and who's going to die.