WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - 12/21/20 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. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.600 Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you so 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.760 much for joining. Only a few days here before Christmas, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.480 but still much happening, much going on here at home, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.640 in the States and even around the world. We'll dive 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.120 into it together. Finally, Congress decided to do its job 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.720 a little bit. We've got a nine hundred billion dollars 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.760 COVID nineteen relief package for the economy. This is what 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.320 we're talking about now, right, This is the way we're 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.720 supposed to view this, is that Congress rides in to 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.440 save the day. And I got to sit here and 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.279 tell you, why did it take so long? Why did 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.920 we have to wait for months? Businesses are going under, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:01:01.080 people are suffering terribly economically and otherwise from this. So 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.680 what's the reason for this taking so long? Well, we 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.880 know the reason. We know why this took so long, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.320 and it's of course Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:16.000 playing games here. They didn't want Donald Trump to have 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:20.760 any assistance from the Congress doing what it should have done. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.759 Months ago, so she stood and blocked the whole thing. 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.800 In fact, she's now agreed to less money than she 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.920 was offered by Manuchin over the summer, by the Treasury Secretary. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.480 So Nancy was so smart in these negotiations, or perhaps 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.920 I should say, so concerned with the interests of the 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:43.400 American people that she slowed this whole thing down under 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.360 the premise that she wanted more. And now because she 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.280 believes Biden has this thing all sewn up and it's 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:56.920 all done. Now Pelosi is taking less money. Now Pelosi 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.280 is taking less money. Well, why does that do anything 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.840 that should make us think that the Congress is even 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.040 a little bit competent, or perhaps a better way of 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.000 putting it, it's not really about competency at some level, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.359 isn't it, Because this is what they wanted. They'll tell 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.800 us that, oh they stopped us, or the other side stimondists. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.800 But the Democrats in Congress wanted to slow this whole 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.359 thing down. They wanted to make sure that people were 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.239 suffering from maximum misery, that the economic pain was at 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.480 an all time possible high right before the election. Right, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.080 that's what they were hoping for. And now they're taking 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.520 a substantially worse deal than what they were offered, because 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.560 ultimately it wasn't about getting what's best for the American people, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.440 it was about doing what will benefit democrats politically the most. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.600 Here's what we get in this deal. Remember, this is 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.880 the government effectively giving your money back to you. So 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.480 they've shut down businesses, they've shut down millions of people's 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.200 livelihoods across the country. They've caused a at least a 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:08.840 temporary recession in many industries. People are bankrupt, they've lost 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.399 small businesses they've worked on for decades. They are facing eviction. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.200 There's a huge eviction wave that's going to hit in January. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.680 People are going to be turned out of their homes. Well, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.280 now they're finally stepping in to say that they're going 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.239 to try to prevent some of that. You've got six 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.560 hundred dollars direct payments to individuals making up a seventy 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.960 five grand a year, and you have payments phased out 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:39.360 for higher run incomes, so with six hundred additional payments 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.720 per dependent child. So this is kind of a means 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:49.560 tested situation. And with unemployment insurance, it revives supplemental federal 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.360 pandemic unemployment benefits at three hundred dollars per week instead 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.840 of the six hundred dollars per week that expired in July. Okay, 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.920 so you've got a little bit more unemployment coming in 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.800 six hundred dollars direct payments. It extends pandemic benefits for 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.000 gig workers. This is all via the AP. Extends the 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.840 maximum period for state paid jobless benefits to fifty weeks. Total, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.880 brings back the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans to 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.080 businesses that meet certain criteria. So the PPP comes back. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.680 Why didn't the PPP come back a long time ago? 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.840 Ask yourself that why has there been such a PPP delay? Oh, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.919 that's right. This was politics. This was Democrats making sure 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.200 that there was increased suffering, that they had the ability, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.640 they had the ability to get, you know, to get 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.200 money to the American people, but they chose not to. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.719 They prefer to do something else, and that was to 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.320 wait and to make sure that the political fortunes of 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.600 the Democrats were the primary consideration in the Congress, at 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.880 least for the Democrats in the Congress, twenty five billion 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.120 dollars for a new rental assistance program. So these are 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.800 funds that are going to be distributed by state and 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.159 local governments, meant to help people falling behind on rent 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.760 and who face eviction. So that's what they've got going 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.320 on with that. Oh and then also surprised. This is 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:22.400 another one. They have surprise medical billing, which protects consumers 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.359 from bills after they receive out of network providers. This 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.200 strikes me as this doesn't really have anything to do 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:34.479 with doesn't really have anything to do with the COVID 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.880 relief package necessarily, or rather with COVID relief directly. But 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.160 I do think that the stories you will hear about 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.320 out of network benefits are stunning. Meaning the people will 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.040 all of a sudden think that they're in network, they're 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.640 out of network. They'll get an anesthesiologist who will swing 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:56.920 on by, and sure enough, the anesthesiologists will end up 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.960 offering a bill for you know, forty grand or something 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.040 crazy for what was supposed to be an in network procedure, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.400 so that I believe is ended by this surprise medical billing. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.680 So that's another thing added into this. Now, is this 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.520 a terrible package? No, it is going to help. But 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.080 why wasn't this done in August? Why wasn't this done 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.159 when the PPP ran out the first time, and I've 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.320 really been hammering this home because the media is covering 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.760 for them. It's Pelosi and the Democrats. They didn't want 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.760 to do what they could to help people because they 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:40.360 were benefiting from the suffering of the American people. They 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.839 were benefiting from people being in misery and losing money, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.320 being worried about losing their homes because at that point 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.040 they just figured they'd vote for anyone other than who's 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.120 purportedly in charge president of the United States. And it's 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.960 also a reminder during all this, and this, as you know, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.279 has been something of a recurring theme here on the show, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.479 but it's a reminder of the fact that we aren't 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.120 all in this together. That was never true. Yeah, we 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.440 all have to deal with the pandemic and with the 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.720 changes in the world because of it. But for some 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.840 of us, for some people in the elites, for the 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:21.400 ruling class, for elite media organizations, they haven't suffered during this. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.000 They haven't had to have massive layoffs. They've been considered 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.280 essential workers. The politicians who have been telling many of you, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.720 not only can you not go out see relatives and 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.360 enjoy even the most basic aspects of your day to 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:41.080 day life. Those same politicians are out there and they 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.600 are telling you that you can't open your business, but 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.320 they keep getting paychecks. They keep getting paid, so we're 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.640 not all in this together. They were not suffering the 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.720 way that you were. I mean, Nancy Pelosi doesn't need 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.680 the money anyway. She should really give her whole salary 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.560 to charity if she doesn't already. I don't know, got 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.200 a very wealthy husband. So they allowed people to be 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.440 hurt during this while pretending to care about you. This 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.880 is why people lose so much faith in Congress in general. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.000 This is why there's so much outrage at the ruling 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.560 class in this country, as there should be, because they 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.920 tell you that they're doing things to help you while 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.160 they're making sure that you are hurting. They tell you 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.000 that they are there to stand for your benefit. These 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.240 are government mandates that cause these disruptions in the economy. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.360 Notice that you'll you'll hear this argument frequently. Oh, it 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.400 doesn't matter that they ordered all these closures. Nobody would 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.400 go to all these businesses anyway. Oh really, why the 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.720 closures then, because that's bull and we know it's bull, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.400 but they just throw these arguments out there trying to 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:52.080 absolve those making these decisions of the responsibility for the disastrous, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.520 the utterly disastrous economic effects that have come from all 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.120 of this. And what benefit, what benefit have we had 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.880 as a result of them doing all these things? Oh, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.880 you're not allowed to ask that question. California a masking 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:14.520 and lockdown and social distancing exemplar for all the rest 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.400 of us. That's what we were told. They were the 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.840 epitome of listening to Fauci and the science as a state, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.360 and now they're having the biggest surges they've ever had, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.080 the most cases, the most people in ICU. California is 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.280 getting hit in a way that is reminiscent, at least 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.880 in terms of the percentages in the spike of what 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.920 New York was facing at the very beginning of the pandemic. Fortunately, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.240 we have better treatments now. The mortality rate is lower, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.480 and there's a lot of reasons why it's not as 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.079 bad as it was in New York and New Jersey 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.000 at the time, but just in terms of overall cases 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.400 and people showing up to go to the hospitalization, it 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.720 has been an enormous increase in a very short period 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.800 of time, and We've been told that California over the 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.440 summer didn't get hit that badly because they were doing 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.840 such a good job with all these mitigation measures, as 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.240 Fauci would call them. Why should we still believe that? Exactly? 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.120 Show me. I just want to know where the evidence is. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.520 I can only ask questions about this now because declarative 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.400 statements get me into all kinds of trouble. The social 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.160 media censors come after me. You know, you can't say 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.040 things like this policy did not work, did it? You 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.400 can't say that not allowed. But I think you can 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.760 ask the question, how exactly show me how these policies 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.120 are working when you have a city like New York 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.000 with a one percent of COVID cases are believed to 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.840 come from restaurants one percent, so they shut down all 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.640 the restaurants because of that. Now, at some point, you 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.400 see what we've lost here is the ability to make 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.720 decisions as a society where we know that we can't 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.240 stop all of this, and trying to stop all of 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:55.160 it becomes counterproductive. We no longer have balancing the risks 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.720 that we're running by being out there living life with 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.640 the risks of this virus. No, it's now just the 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.120 people in charge have these dick tots. They just say 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.160 this is how it will be, no matter how stupid, 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.079 no matter how unlikely to succeed. And if you question that, 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.439 they treat you like a virus truther, like you think 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.240 it doesn't exist. Well, I've been wondering when people are 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.120 going to realize that. In fact, I tweeted out a 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.800 couple of days ago, just wait, just wait until, because 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.720 we're right right now, we're in this phase where we 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.200 think it's all going to get better after the vaccine 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.320 is distributed. Not on everyone believes that, but most people 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.000 believe it's going to get a lot better off the vaccine. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.280 I think the vaccine will help tremendously. But we also 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.960 have to address this mentality, the mentality that there is 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:44.480 no acceptable degree of risk from COVID nineteen, that there 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:51.280 is no acceptable mitigation that we can do that isn't 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.160 to the maximum right that we have to go. It's 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.000 either exactly what they say or else you're reckless and 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.000 your army people and you're putting Graham on Grandpa at risk. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.400 And let me tell you this, as we continue to 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.840 see how this plays out, I mentioned that all you 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.480 have to do is Wait, and I put this out 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.400 on Twitter. Wait until you start hearing about mutations and 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.160 you realize that they're not going to give you back 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.880 control over your life. How can they? There's mutations out there, man, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.720 and you gotta get ahead of this thing before it 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.520 really spread. So you can't even wait to see what 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.559 the numbers are. There's mutations. And now where are we? 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.960 The United Kingdom is in a most extreme lockdown it 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.959 has gone to yet because they say they have found 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.600 a seventy percent more infectious strain of COVID nineteen in circulation. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.240 That is a mutation. Oh that's right, we are. It's 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:46.840 all going to get better if we just listen to 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.280 the experts, right, How many of you still believe that? 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.000 Thanks for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.640 the latest news and information from Buck by heading to 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:03.920 Bucksexton dot com. Here you go. Just as I was saying, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.040 just as I was telling, everybody, countries cut off as 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:15.040 Boris Johnson holds crisis meeting on new coronavirus variant. Alarm 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.000 over the new variant which was first identified. This is 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.160 from CNN identifying in England as resulted in British travelers 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.160 being cut off from much of Europe and other parts 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.280 of the world as countries impose restrictions on travel from 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.560 the UK. France announced the temporary travel ban. The move 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.559 has sparked fears that European exporters would be reluctant to 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.439 send goods to the UK. The timing of the restrictions, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.600 just days before Christmas and the end of the Brexit 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:42.400 transition period, raised concerns about food and medicine travel restrictions 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.400 by dozens of countries across Europe, the Middle East, in 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.440 the America's announced travel bands to the UK. Greece and 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.760 Spain have imposed restrictions that require travelers from Britain to 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.000 undergo coronavirus tests or quarantine. It's just all over the place. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.400 What do we know about the new variant? The new 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.920 variant can spread more quickly. Response well for sixty percent 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.440 of new infections in the capital, which have nearly doubled 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.680 in last week alone. He said that it's no evidence 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.280 to suggests it's more deadly or neutralize the effectiveness of 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.760 the vaccines, but a more easily spread virus could result 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.120 in more cases. Okay, there will be mutations to this 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.880 as well, and there will be panic that is put 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.280 in place by those making decisions, that's going to happen. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.240 You can basically it's basically guaranteed. Right now, they're saying, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.479 oh no, we the vaccine will still work against it. Okay, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.400 I think that's hopefully you know, from what we know 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.720 right now, from what they're telling us, that's true. What 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.200 do we have with the influenza vaccine every year? That's right, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.200 you have a new vaccine for the flu every year? 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.240 Does anyone Can anyone tell you definitively right now whether 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.800 there won't be Wheeler will not be a mutation in 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.520 COVID nineteen, so that would be COVID twenty or COVID 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.560 twenty one or whatever. That will mean that there'll have 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.320 to be a new round of vaccines distributed. I'm just 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.520 saying this is something I believe we should all at 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.360 least have on the radar. We should at least be 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:11.080 aware of this very real possibility because the people in charge, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.400 the people in charge are going to do everything in 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.800 their power to continue to be in power and to 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.080 make all these calls for you. They will not give 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.400 it up, meaning that it's not going to be here. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.520 The guide here, the guidelines. Guys, you know, make decisions 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.600 for yourself, try to be smart, try to be safe. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.720 But we recognize there's only so much we can do. No, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.480 it's going to be more lockdowns, more lockdowns, more of 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.240 this stuff, because they'll never admit that this wasn't really 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.160 the answer. Even though the pre pent the pre COVID 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:50.680 nineteen pandemic playbook always always looked at the possibility of 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.360 a stay at home order, stay in place, freeze, lockdown 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.960 or whatever, and said this would be too much. So 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.160 when they were looking at more, even more people dying 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.400 from a lethal pathogen then we've seen from COVID nineteen, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.320 but they understood the societal and economic impacts of telling 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.400 everyone you can't see other human beings as a mandate 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.640 of the state. They came away from him and said, well, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.480 we can't. We can't advocate that as policy now. Now 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.200 it's the default policy. You know, it was one thing 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.840 when it was all theoretical. I guess an academic, now 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.080 that they're supposed to be the ones protecting us, now 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:27.160 that they're the ones looking for answers, sure enough, they 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.960 will not They will not relent. They will not go 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.080 back and say hold on a second, Maybe we shouldn't 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.400 have taken it upon ourselves to take away people's basic 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.000 freedoms and to tell them that they're in no position 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.280 to make these decisions for themselves. The government, the state 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.200 has to step in and make these decisions for them 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.720 until the people say enough. This will continue. You know 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.120 the old phrase, no one really knows where it comes from, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:53.520 but you see it all over the place. The beatings 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.040 will continue until morale improves. The lockdowns will continue until 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.040 the morale improves. They're just gonna keep doing it. They 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.040 will not stop this because to stop it what also, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.879 and you have to remember, this would open up the 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:12.600 possibility of us being able to see how dangerous this 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.240 really is. You know how different it really would be 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.560 in terms of the danger if we just had guidance, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:24.080 but people living their lives versus mandates and closures and 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.240 all the catastrophe at at a top this very awful, 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.280 evil and lethal virus. We're told that this was a 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.760 trade off to make everything less bad. There is the 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.120 possibility that really what we've done is just added insult 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.880 to injury in many of these cases with the lockdown policy. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.520 Thanks for listening to the buck Sexton show podcast. Get 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.159 the latest news and information from Buck by heading to 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:56.359 Bucksexton dot com. Doctor Burke's not quite doctor Fauci, but 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.720 doctor Burks. Remember her. She was a mainstay of the 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:05.240 Virus task Force, a memorable for her very florid and 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.120 intricate silk scarves up there during the Coronavirus task Force. Well, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.520 she over the months has become more and more of 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.639 a mask. Mask masks, stay away from people. You know, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.760 they have they don't have any real answers, folks. They 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.560 don't know how to control all of societies that we 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.240 stop a virus that has clearly figured out a way 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.239 to be very easily transmissible among a huge number of 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.800 human beings. So what they do is they just repeat 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.640 themselves and then they blame us, as you know, that's 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.760 really the go to. It's not that the decisions they're 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.320 making are insufficient to deal with this virus. It's that 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:50.680 the people that are supposed to be engaging, the people 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.240 that are supposed to be acting on the advice of 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.560 these professionals, you and me were the problem. You see, 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:01.920 we're the shortcoming. We're the reason that the virus still 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.879 continues to spread. That's what the experts want you to 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.679 know it's it's never that they need to rethink some 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.360 of this. Have you ever heard have you ever heard 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.280 Fauci or Burke say closing schools was absolutely the not 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.000 not that. Yeah, maybe we opened them, you know, we 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.280 got to be careful with the mitigation. And no, no, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.520 have you ever heard them say closing schools because of 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.159 COVID was a catastrophically bad decision rooted in panic and 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.280 not data, because that's a fact. Will they ever say 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.840 it like that? No? You know why because Fauci's a 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.400 big Democrat who's going to be working for Biden going forward, 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.880 and he doesn't want to upset the teachers unions who 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.480 demanded the shutdowns because they wanted their teachers to be 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.560 able to sit at home on a couch and basically 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.719 play a video and pretend to be teaching kids and 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.040 still get paid and still get their benefits and not 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.679 have to not have to even go through the bother 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:51.000 of pretending to do in classroom instruction. So they won't 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.000 come down on that stuff. They won't tell you the 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.720 truth about all that. You know, in New York they've 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.120 had all these rules. Now it's really tough to even 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:02.760 keep up with it. You had, No, you're not allowed 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.199 in New York City, which, mind you, has half the 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.840 COVID positivity rate of the rest of New York State. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.880 So we have less COVID in Manhattan, in New York City, well, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.000 New York City in general, but it's specifically in Manhattan 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.040 than you do in a lot of other parts of 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.399 New York State with far less population. Why do you 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.520 think that is? We have many more people, much greater 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:29.040 population density, got hit so badly in the early spring. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.280 Could it be? Could it be? I'm asking a question, 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.520 I'm making a declarative statement. Don't want any to you know, 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.639 yell at me. Ssurology tests show that New York had 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:45.000 a twenty percent COVID COVID positivity positivity a COVID syrology rates. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:46.960 So when they looked at blood they found antibodies. The 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.320 tune of one in five people in New York City 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.520 had COVID antibodies as of I think it was either 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.160 May or June of this past year, which was among 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:57.960 the highest the country. And that's just what they were 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.240 able to tell from the ssurology tests. Then do you 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:05.040 think it would be by now thirty thirty five percent. 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.680 Now that doesn't mean that people are safe. It doesn't 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.800 mean the COVID not spreading. Clearly, it's still out there. 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:12.439 But when you have a much smaller pool of people 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.800 who can be infected, they're all these they're all these 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.679 blocks in the transmission route along the way, they are 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:26.760 all of these places where you can see that somehow 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.199 it's less less easy for this virus to reach that 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.560 exponential spread. You know, even we don't understand this, the 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.440 mechanism of this at all, at least I haven't seen 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.760 anyone who claims to know why. Most people only infect 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.800 one other person, and usually it's a person in the home. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.560 So if that person the home has already had it, 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.080 there's a good chance you, over the course of an illness, 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.280 will not actually spread it to anybody, right because you 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.040 only then they're the super spreaders. And I've never seen 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:56.760 a real explanation for this. Maybe it's just people with 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.680 extreme viral load for some reason, but they'll infect like 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.520 a whole room of people somehow. At least that's what 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.600 we've seen in different instances. There's a famous case in 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.840 South Korea. A woman I think went to church choir 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.840 practice and all of a sudden, there were a dozen 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:11.600 or two dozen cases. They are a huge and upper 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.320 cases from what they think was one exposure based on 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:18.159 the test and trace that they did. But in New 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.960 York City we have lower COVID positivity rate than in 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.160 the rest of the state. And we're not even allowed 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:25.840 to talk about how we're doing so many more tests 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:27.760 now that to comparing where we are now to where 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.600 we were in the early spring and fall, it seems 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.560 like early spring rather. You know, it's a little bit 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:35.760 apples and oranges in terms of how much COVID is 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:37.840 out there because there is so much more testing now. 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:42.240 But the restaurant regulations are all you're really out there, know, 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.399 I mean, they're picking on this industry that their best 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.080 guess is was under two percent of new COVID cases 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.560 we're happening in restaurants, and they're picking on this industry 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:55.480 in ways that it's it's just mean, I mean, it's 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:58.159 it's almost sadistic at this point with the stuff that 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:01.880 they're doing to the restaurant industry. They said that you 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:06.840 can't the people that are dining outdoors. It's freezing in 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:08.320