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Speaker 1: Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining. Only a few days here before Christmas,
Speaker 1: but still much happening, much going on here at home,
Speaker 1: in the States and even around the world. We'll dive
Speaker 1: into it together. Finally, Congress decided to do its job
Speaker 1: a little bit. We've got a nine hundred billion dollars
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen relief package for the economy. This is what
Speaker 1: we're talking about now, right, This is the way we're
Speaker 1: supposed to view this, is that Congress rides in to
Speaker 1: save the day. And I got to sit here and
Speaker 1: tell you, why did it take so long? Why did
Speaker 1: we have to wait for months? Businesses are going under,
Speaker 1: people are suffering terribly economically and otherwise from this. So
Speaker 1: what's the reason for this taking so long? Well, we
Speaker 1: know the reason. We know why this took so long,
Speaker 1: and it's of course Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats were
Speaker 1: playing games here. They didn't want Donald Trump to have
Speaker 1: any assistance from the Congress doing what it should have done.
Speaker 1: Months ago, so she stood and blocked the whole thing.
Speaker 1: In fact, she's now agreed to less money than she
Speaker 1: was offered by Manuchin over the summer, by the Treasury Secretary.
Speaker 1: So Nancy was so smart in these negotiations, or perhaps
Speaker 1: I should say, so concerned with the interests of the
Speaker 1: American people that she slowed this whole thing down under
Speaker 1: the premise that she wanted more. And now because she
Speaker 1: believes Biden has this thing all sewn up and it's
Speaker 1: all done. Now Pelosi is taking less money. Now Pelosi
Speaker 1: is taking less money. Well, why does that do anything
Speaker 1: that should make us think that the Congress is even
Speaker 1: a little bit competent, or perhaps a better way of
Speaker 1: putting it, it's not really about competency at some level,
Speaker 1: isn't it, Because this is what they wanted. They'll tell
Speaker 1: us that, oh they stopped us, or the other side stimondists.
Speaker 1: But the Democrats in Congress wanted to slow this whole
Speaker 1: thing down. They wanted to make sure that people were
Speaker 1: suffering from maximum misery, that the economic pain was at
Speaker 1: an all time possible high right before the election. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what they were hoping for. And now they're taking
Speaker 1: a substantially worse deal than what they were offered, because
Speaker 1: ultimately it wasn't about getting what's best for the American people,
Speaker 1: it was about doing what will benefit democrats politically the most.
Speaker 1: Here's what we get in this deal. Remember, this is
Speaker 1: the government effectively giving your money back to you. So
Speaker 1: they've shut down businesses, they've shut down millions of people's
Speaker 1: livelihoods across the country. They've caused a at least a
Speaker 1: temporary recession in many industries. People are bankrupt, they've lost
Speaker 1: small businesses they've worked on for decades. They are facing eviction.
Speaker 1: There's a huge eviction wave that's going to hit in January.
Speaker 1: People are going to be turned out of their homes. Well,
Speaker 1: now they're finally stepping in to say that they're going
Speaker 1: to try to prevent some of that. You've got six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars direct payments to individuals making up a seventy
Speaker 1: five grand a year, and you have payments phased out
Speaker 1: for higher run incomes, so with six hundred additional payments
Speaker 1: per dependent child. So this is kind of a means
Speaker 1: tested situation. And with unemployment insurance, it revives supplemental federal
Speaker 1: pandemic unemployment benefits at three hundred dollars per week instead
Speaker 1: of the six hundred dollars per week that expired in July. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you've got a little bit more unemployment coming in
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars direct payments. It extends pandemic benefits for
Speaker 1: gig workers. This is all via the AP. Extends the
Speaker 1: maximum period for state paid jobless benefits to fifty weeks. Total,
Speaker 1: brings back the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans to
Speaker 1: businesses that meet certain criteria. So the PPP comes back.
Speaker 1: Why didn't the PPP come back a long time ago?
Speaker 1: Ask yourself that why has there been such a PPP delay? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right. This was politics. This was Democrats making sure
Speaker 1: that there was increased suffering, that they had the ability,
Speaker 1: they had the ability to get, you know, to get
Speaker 1: money to the American people, but they chose not to.
Speaker 1: They prefer to do something else, and that was to
Speaker 1: wait and to make sure that the political fortunes of
Speaker 1: the Democrats were the primary consideration in the Congress, at
Speaker 1: least for the Democrats in the Congress, twenty five billion
Speaker 1: dollars for a new rental assistance program. So these are
Speaker 1: funds that are going to be distributed by state and
Speaker 1: local governments, meant to help people falling behind on rent
Speaker 1: and who face eviction. So that's what they've got going
Speaker 1: on with that. Oh and then also surprised. This is
Speaker 1: another one. They have surprise medical billing, which protects consumers
Speaker 1: from bills after they receive out of network providers. This
Speaker 1: strikes me as this doesn't really have anything to do
Speaker 1: with doesn't really have anything to do with the COVID
Speaker 1: relief package necessarily, or rather with COVID relief directly. But
Speaker 1: I do think that the stories you will hear about
Speaker 1: out of network benefits are stunning. Meaning the people will
Speaker 1: all of a sudden think that they're in network, they're
Speaker 1: out of network. They'll get an anesthesiologist who will swing
Speaker 1: on by, and sure enough, the anesthesiologists will end up
Speaker 1: offering a bill for you know, forty grand or something
Speaker 1: crazy for what was supposed to be an in network procedure,
Speaker 1: so that I believe is ended by this surprise medical billing.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing added into this. Now, is this
Speaker 1: a terrible package? No, it is going to help. But
Speaker 1: why wasn't this done in August? Why wasn't this done
Speaker 1: when the PPP ran out the first time, and I've
Speaker 1: really been hammering this home because the media is covering
Speaker 1: for them. It's Pelosi and the Democrats. They didn't want
Speaker 1: to do what they could to help people because they
Speaker 1: were benefiting from the suffering of the American people. They
Speaker 1: were benefiting from people being in misery and losing money,
Speaker 1: being worried about losing their homes because at that point
Speaker 1: they just figured they'd vote for anyone other than who's
Speaker 1: purportedly in charge president of the United States. And it's
Speaker 1: also a reminder during all this, and this, as you know,
Speaker 1: has been something of a recurring theme here on the show,
Speaker 1: but it's a reminder of the fact that we aren't
Speaker 1: all in this together. That was never true. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: all have to deal with the pandemic and with the
Speaker 1: changes in the world because of it. But for some
Speaker 1: of us, for some people in the elites, for the
Speaker 1: ruling class, for elite media organizations, they haven't suffered during this.
Speaker 1: They haven't had to have massive layoffs. They've been considered
Speaker 1: essential workers. The politicians who have been telling many of you,
Speaker 1: not only can you not go out see relatives and
Speaker 1: enjoy even the most basic aspects of your day to
Speaker 1: day life. Those same politicians are out there and they
Speaker 1: are telling you that you can't open your business, but
Speaker 1: they keep getting paychecks. They keep getting paid, so we're
Speaker 1: not all in this together. They were not suffering the
Speaker 1: way that you were. I mean, Nancy Pelosi doesn't need
Speaker 1: the money anyway. She should really give her whole salary
Speaker 1: to charity if she doesn't already. I don't know, got
Speaker 1: a very wealthy husband. So they allowed people to be
Speaker 1: hurt during this while pretending to care about you. This
Speaker 1: is why people lose so much faith in Congress in general.
Speaker 1: This is why there's so much outrage at the ruling
Speaker 1: class in this country, as there should be, because they
Speaker 1: tell you that they're doing things to help you while
Speaker 1: they're making sure that you are hurting. They tell you
Speaker 1: that they are there to stand for your benefit. These
Speaker 1: are government mandates that cause these disruptions in the economy.
Speaker 1: Notice that you'll you'll hear this argument frequently. Oh, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter that they ordered all these closures. Nobody would
Speaker 1: go to all these businesses anyway. Oh really, why the
Speaker 1: closures then, because that's bull and we know it's bull,
Speaker 1: but they just throw these arguments out there trying to
Speaker 1: absolve those making these decisions of the responsibility for the disastrous,
Speaker 1: the utterly disastrous economic effects that have come from all
Speaker 1: of this. And what benefit, what benefit have we had
Speaker 1: as a result of them doing all these things? Oh,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to ask that question. California a masking
Speaker 1: and lockdown and social distancing exemplar for all the rest
Speaker 1: of us. That's what we were told. They were the
Speaker 1: epitome of listening to Fauci and the science as a state,
Speaker 1: and now they're having the biggest surges they've ever had,
Speaker 1: the most cases, the most people in ICU. California is
Speaker 1: getting hit in a way that is reminiscent, at least
Speaker 1: in terms of the percentages in the spike of what
Speaker 1: New York was facing at the very beginning of the pandemic. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: we have better treatments now. The mortality rate is lower,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of reasons why it's not as
Speaker 1: bad as it was in New York and New Jersey
Speaker 1: at the time, but just in terms of overall cases
Speaker 1: and people showing up to go to the hospitalization, it
Speaker 1: has been an enormous increase in a very short period
Speaker 1: of time, and We've been told that California over the
Speaker 1: summer didn't get hit that badly because they were doing
Speaker 1: such a good job with all these mitigation measures, as
Speaker 1: Fauci would call them. Why should we still believe that? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Show me. I just want to know where the evidence is.
Speaker 1: I can only ask questions about this now because declarative
Speaker 1: statements get me into all kinds of trouble. The social
Speaker 1: media censors come after me. You know, you can't say
Speaker 1: things like this policy did not work, did it? You
Speaker 1: can't say that not allowed. But I think you can
Speaker 1: ask the question, how exactly show me how these policies
Speaker 1: are working when you have a city like New York
Speaker 1: with a one percent of COVID cases are believed to
Speaker 1: come from restaurants one percent, so they shut down all
Speaker 1: the restaurants because of that. Now, at some point, you
Speaker 1: see what we've lost here is the ability to make
Speaker 1: decisions as a society where we know that we can't
Speaker 1: stop all of this, and trying to stop all of
Speaker 1: it becomes counterproductive. We no longer have balancing the risks
Speaker 1: that we're running by being out there living life with
Speaker 1: the risks of this virus. No, it's now just the
Speaker 1: people in charge have these dick tots. They just say
Speaker 1: this is how it will be, no matter how stupid,
Speaker 1: no matter how unlikely to succeed. And if you question that,
Speaker 1: they treat you like a virus truther, like you think
Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. Well, I've been wondering when people are
Speaker 1: going to realize that. In fact, I tweeted out a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, just wait, just wait until, because
Speaker 1: we're right right now, we're in this phase where we
Speaker 1: think it's all going to get better after the vaccine
Speaker 1: is distributed. Not on everyone believes that, but most people
Speaker 1: believe it's going to get a lot better off the vaccine.
Speaker 1: I think the vaccine will help tremendously. But we also
Speaker 1: have to address this mentality, the mentality that there is
Speaker 1: no acceptable degree of risk from COVID nineteen, that there
Speaker 1: is no acceptable mitigation that we can do that isn't
Speaker 1: to the maximum right that we have to go. It's
Speaker 1: either exactly what they say or else you're reckless and
Speaker 1: your army people and you're putting Graham on Grandpa at risk.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this, as we continue to
Speaker 1: see how this plays out, I mentioned that all you
Speaker 1: have to do is Wait, and I put this out
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Wait until you start hearing about mutations and
Speaker 1: you realize that they're not going to give you back
Speaker 1: control over your life. How can they? There's mutations out there, man,
Speaker 1: and you gotta get ahead of this thing before it
Speaker 1: really spread. So you can't even wait to see what
Speaker 1: the numbers are. There's mutations. And now where are we?
Speaker 1: The United Kingdom is in a most extreme lockdown it
Speaker 1: has gone to yet because they say they have found
Speaker 1: a seventy percent more infectious strain of COVID nineteen in circulation.
Speaker 1: That is a mutation. Oh that's right, we are. It's
Speaker 1: all going to get better if we just listen to
Speaker 1: the experts, right, How many of you still believe that?
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get
Speaker 1: the latest news and information from Buck by heading to
Speaker 1: Bucksexton dot com. Here you go. Just as I was saying,
Speaker 1: just as I was telling, everybody, countries cut off as
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson holds crisis meeting on new coronavirus variant. Alarm
Speaker 1: over the new variant which was first identified. This is
Speaker 1: from CNN identifying in England as resulted in British travelers
Speaker 1: being cut off from much of Europe and other parts
Speaker 1: of the world as countries impose restrictions on travel from
Speaker 1: the UK. France announced the temporary travel ban. The move
Speaker 1: has sparked fears that European exporters would be reluctant to
Speaker 1: send goods to the UK. The timing of the restrictions,
Speaker 1: just days before Christmas and the end of the Brexit
Speaker 1: transition period, raised concerns about food and medicine travel restrictions
Speaker 1: by dozens of countries across Europe, the Middle East, in
Speaker 1: the America's announced travel bands to the UK. Greece and
Speaker 1: Spain have imposed restrictions that require travelers from Britain to
Speaker 1: undergo coronavirus tests or quarantine. It's just all over the place.
Speaker 1: What do we know about the new variant? The new
Speaker 1: variant can spread more quickly. Response well for sixty percent
Speaker 1: of new infections in the capital, which have nearly doubled
Speaker 1: in last week alone. He said that it's no evidence
Speaker 1: to suggests it's more deadly or neutralize the effectiveness of
Speaker 1: the vaccines, but a more easily spread virus could result
Speaker 1: in more cases. Okay, there will be mutations to this
Speaker 1: as well, and there will be panic that is put
Speaker 1: in place by those making decisions, that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: You can basically it's basically guaranteed. Right now, they're saying,
Speaker 1: oh no, we the vaccine will still work against it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that's hopefully you know, from what we know
Speaker 1: right now, from what they're telling us, that's true. What
Speaker 1: do we have with the influenza vaccine every year? That's right,
Speaker 1: you have a new vaccine for the flu every year?
Speaker 1: Does anyone Can anyone tell you definitively right now whether
Speaker 1: there won't be Wheeler will not be a mutation in
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, so that would be COVID twenty or COVID
Speaker 1: twenty one or whatever. That will mean that there'll have
Speaker 1: to be a new round of vaccines distributed. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying this is something I believe we should all at
Speaker 1: least have on the radar. We should at least be
Speaker 1: aware of this very real possibility because the people in charge,
Speaker 1: the people in charge are going to do everything in
Speaker 1: their power to continue to be in power and to
Speaker 1: make all these calls for you. They will not give
Speaker 1: it up, meaning that it's not going to be here.
Speaker 1: The guide here, the guidelines. Guys, you know, make decisions
Speaker 1: for yourself, try to be smart, try to be safe.
Speaker 1: But we recognize there's only so much we can do. No,
Speaker 1: it's going to be more lockdowns, more lockdowns, more of
Speaker 1: this stuff, because they'll never admit that this wasn't really
Speaker 1: the answer. Even though the pre pent the pre COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic playbook always always looked at the possibility of
Speaker 1: a stay at home order, stay in place, freeze, lockdown
Speaker 1: or whatever, and said this would be too much. So
Speaker 1: when they were looking at more, even more people dying
Speaker 1: from a lethal pathogen then we've seen from COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: but they understood the societal and economic impacts of telling
Speaker 1: everyone you can't see other human beings as a mandate
Speaker 1: of the state. They came away from him and said, well,
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't advocate that as policy now. Now
Speaker 1: it's the default policy. You know, it was one thing
Speaker 1: when it was all theoretical. I guess an academic, now
Speaker 1: that they're supposed to be the ones protecting us, now
Speaker 1: that they're the ones looking for answers, sure enough, they
Speaker 1: will not They will not relent. They will not go
Speaker 1: back and say hold on a second, Maybe we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have taken it upon ourselves to take away people's basic
Speaker 1: freedoms and to tell them that they're in no position
Speaker 1: to make these decisions for themselves. The government, the state
Speaker 1: has to step in and make these decisions for them
Speaker 1: until the people say enough. This will continue. You know
Speaker 1: the old phrase, no one really knows where it comes from,
Speaker 1: but you see it all over the place. The beatings
Speaker 1: will continue until morale improves. The lockdowns will continue until
Speaker 1: the morale improves. They're just gonna keep doing it. They
Speaker 1: will not stop this because to stop it what also,
Speaker 1: and you have to remember, this would open up the
Speaker 1: possibility of us being able to see how dangerous this
Speaker 1: really is. You know how different it really would be
Speaker 1: in terms of the danger if we just had guidance,
Speaker 1: but people living their lives versus mandates and closures and
Speaker 1: all the catastrophe at at a top this very awful,
Speaker 1: evil and lethal virus. We're told that this was a
Speaker 1: trade off to make everything less bad. There is the
Speaker 1: possibility that really what we've done is just added insult
Speaker 1: to injury in many of these cases with the lockdown policy.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the buck Sexton show podcast. Get
Speaker 1: the latest news and information from Buck by heading to
Speaker 1: Bucksexton dot com. Doctor Burke's not quite doctor Fauci, but
Speaker 1: doctor Burks. Remember her. She was a mainstay of the
Speaker 1: Virus task Force, a memorable for her very florid and
Speaker 1: intricate silk scarves up there during the Coronavirus task Force. Well,
Speaker 1: she over the months has become more and more of
Speaker 1: a mask. Mask masks, stay away from people. You know,
Speaker 1: they have they don't have any real answers, folks. They
Speaker 1: don't know how to control all of societies that we
Speaker 1: stop a virus that has clearly figured out a way
Speaker 1: to be very easily transmissible among a huge number of
Speaker 1: human beings. So what they do is they just repeat
Speaker 1: themselves and then they blame us, as you know, that's
Speaker 1: really the go to. It's not that the decisions they're
Speaker 1: making are insufficient to deal with this virus. It's that
Speaker 1: the people that are supposed to be engaging, the people
Speaker 1: that are supposed to be acting on the advice of
Speaker 1: these professionals, you and me were the problem. You see,
Speaker 1: we're the shortcoming. We're the reason that the virus still
Speaker 1: continues to spread. That's what the experts want you to
Speaker 1: know it's it's never that they need to rethink some
Speaker 1: of this. Have you ever heard have you ever heard
Speaker 1: Fauci or Burke say closing schools was absolutely the not
Speaker 1: not that. Yeah, maybe we opened them, you know, we
Speaker 1: got to be careful with the mitigation. And no, no,
Speaker 1: have you ever heard them say closing schools because of
Speaker 1: COVID was a catastrophically bad decision rooted in panic and
Speaker 1: not data, because that's a fact. Will they ever say
Speaker 1: it like that? No? You know why because Fauci's a
Speaker 1: big Democrat who's going to be working for Biden going forward,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to upset the teachers unions who
Speaker 1: demanded the shutdowns because they wanted their teachers to be
Speaker 1: able to sit at home on a couch and basically
Speaker 1: play a video and pretend to be teaching kids and
Speaker 1: still get paid and still get their benefits and not
Speaker 1: have to not have to even go through the bother
Speaker 1: of pretending to do in classroom instruction. So they won't
Speaker 1: come down on that stuff. They won't tell you the
Speaker 1: truth about all that. You know, in New York they've
Speaker 1: had all these rules. Now it's really tough to even
Speaker 1: keep up with it. You had, No, you're not allowed
Speaker 1: in New York City, which, mind you, has half the
Speaker 1: COVID positivity rate of the rest of New York State.
Speaker 1: So we have less COVID in Manhattan, in New York City, well,
Speaker 1: New York City in general, but it's specifically in Manhattan
Speaker 1: than you do in a lot of other parts of
Speaker 1: New York State with far less population. Why do you
Speaker 1: think that is? We have many more people, much greater
Speaker 1: population density, got hit so badly in the early spring.
Speaker 1: Could it be? Could it be? I'm asking a question,
Speaker 1: I'm making a declarative statement. Don't want any to you know,
Speaker 1: yell at me. Ssurology tests show that New York had
Speaker 1: a twenty percent COVID COVID positivity positivity a COVID syrology rates.
Speaker 1: So when they looked at blood they found antibodies. The
Speaker 1: tune of one in five people in New York City
Speaker 1: had COVID antibodies as of I think it was either
Speaker 1: May or June of this past year, which was among
Speaker 1: the highest the country. And that's just what they were
Speaker 1: able to tell from the ssurology tests. Then do you
Speaker 1: think it would be by now thirty thirty five percent.
Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean that people are safe. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean the COVID not spreading. Clearly, it's still out there.
Speaker 1: But when you have a much smaller pool of people
Speaker 1: who can be infected, they're all these they're all these
Speaker 1: blocks in the transmission route along the way, they are
Speaker 1: all of these places where you can see that somehow
Speaker 1: it's less less easy for this virus to reach that
Speaker 1: exponential spread. You know, even we don't understand this, the
Speaker 1: mechanism of this at all, at least I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anyone who claims to know why. Most people only infect
Speaker 1: one other person, and usually it's a person in the home.
Speaker 1: So if that person the home has already had it,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance you, over the course of an illness,
Speaker 1: will not actually spread it to anybody, right because you
Speaker 1: only then they're the super spreaders. And I've never seen
Speaker 1: a real explanation for this. Maybe it's just people with
Speaker 1: extreme viral load for some reason, but they'll infect like
Speaker 1: a whole room of people somehow. At least that's what
Speaker 1: we've seen in different instances. There's a famous case in
Speaker 1: South Korea. A woman I think went to church choir
Speaker 1: practice and all of a sudden, there were a dozen
Speaker 1: or two dozen cases. They are a huge and upper
Speaker 1: cases from what they think was one exposure based on
Speaker 1: the test and trace that they did. But in New
Speaker 1: York City we have lower COVID positivity rate than in
Speaker 1: the rest of the state. And we're not even allowed
Speaker 1: to talk about how we're doing so many more tests
Speaker 1: now that to comparing where we are now to where
Speaker 1: we were in the early spring and fall, it seems
Speaker 1: like early spring rather. You know, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: apples and oranges in terms of how much COVID is
Speaker 1: out there because there is so much more testing now.
Speaker 1: But the restaurant regulations are all you're really out there, know,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're picking on this industry that their best
Speaker 1: guess is was under two percent of new COVID cases
Speaker 1: we're happening in restaurants, and they're picking on this industry
Speaker 1: in ways that it's it's just mean, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's almost sadistic at this point with the stuff that
Speaker 1: they're doing to the restaurant industry. They said that you
Speaker 1: can't the people that are dining outdoors. It's freezing in
Speaker 1: New York City. I mean, there's snow on the ground,
Speaker 1: it's freezing outside, and people were dining outdoors. They were
Speaker 1: told initially, you cannot go in to use the restaurants.
Speaker 1: I talked to you about this last week, and that
Speaker 1: was so dumb. It was Finally they finally reached a
Speaker 1: point where were so stupid and so counterproductive that they
Speaker 1: had to quote clarify it. But that was the guidance.
Speaker 1: They wanted people to go eat outdoors at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: which already is borderline nuts in the freezing called New
Speaker 1: York City streets. I might do it if there's a heater,
Speaker 1: just because I want to keep some of these places
Speaker 1: in business. You know, people say, oh, why not just
Speaker 1: donate all the money? Well, I mean I also people
Speaker 1: need to eat too, right, I mean, you're spending money
Speaker 1: on food to feed yourself, and you want to keep
Speaker 1: the restaurant going, You're not. You know, It's it's a
Speaker 1: different thing than just saying I'm just gonna write checks
Speaker 1: to every business that's struggling. That's the government's job. Right now.
Speaker 1: That actually is the government's job because the government has
Speaker 1: shut them down. But the restaurant restrictions even go beyond that.
Speaker 1: There's the ten o'clock curfew. And then there's the you
Speaker 1: can't if you do pick up. I think it's only
Speaker 1: you can't go into the restaurant to get it. They
Speaker 1: have to bring it out to you. They're all these rules,
Speaker 1: just annoying into oblivion the restaurant industry as it's being annihilated,
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. And yet again I mentioned doctor Burkes,
Speaker 1: who seemed to be the less totalitarian of the duo
Speaker 1: of Burkes and Fauci. You know, she seemed to be
Speaker 1: the one who is a little bit less extreme in
Speaker 1: these lockdown situations. And sure enough it comes out that
Speaker 1: she was telling everybody that you shouldn't travel over Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: It's too risky. You cannot see your family, you cannot
Speaker 1: be with your loved ones. And yet what do you
Speaker 1: think doctor Burkes did over Thanksgiving? It has now come
Speaker 1: out she traveled to a second home, to a country house,
Speaker 1: if you will. Traveled to a second home, and I
Speaker 1: believe it was either Delaware or Maryland. I forget, I
Speaker 1: think it was Maryland, but doesn't matter. Traveled to a
Speaker 1: second home where there were three generations of family congregating
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. And do you know what Her response was
Speaker 1: when this came out, was it, guys, I'm so sorry this.
Speaker 1: I should not have You know, I shouldn't have done this.
Speaker 1: I clearly have said a bad example. No, of course not.
Speaker 1: That's not That wasn't her response. That wasn't what she said.
Speaker 1: It was I didn't really want to go, but we
Speaker 1: were trying to close the house up properly because we're
Speaker 1: trying to sell it, so you know, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a business transaction. You could say that I was an
Speaker 1: essential traveler to my own home, like an essential worker,
Speaker 1: even though I is with three generations of family over Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: as if we're all a bunch of idiots. Oh, she
Speaker 1: gathered with her family for them. She's an older woman.
Speaker 1: To keep that in mind, she's at risk from COVID herself.
Speaker 1: She gathered with family over Thanksgiving. But you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to and if you do it, you are reckless. That's
Speaker 1: and you're not allowed to make the choice. Even they're
Speaker 1: going to do everything they can to stop you from
Speaker 1: going to these places. They're going to do everything they
Speaker 1: can't put in place. I mean in Oregon, right they
Speaker 1: had a sixth person in a household. Limitation can't go
Speaker 1: to church the way you want. You can't be inside
Speaker 1: your own home the way you want to. Here's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I'm so sick of these people.
Speaker 1: And yes I am cynical about these orders that were
Speaker 1: given all the time, because I see them being just
Speaker 1: constantly absurdly abused. I mean, so doctor Burke's travels and
Speaker 1: then gives us a dumb excuse because you know, yet
Speaker 1: another person. None of the people telling you to live
Speaker 1: your life this way in constant fear, stay away from
Speaker 1: your family, don't see anyone. None of the people who
Speaker 1: are making the most noise about that publicly actually do
Speaker 1: that themselves. What does that tell you. It's easy to
Speaker 1: call for the sacrifice of your business, of your mental
Speaker 1: and emotional health, from being separated from loved ones and
Speaker 1: family at all. It's easy to say just pretend like
Speaker 1: you're in a frozen state for the next three to
Speaker 1: six months, because that's the safest thing from this virus.
Speaker 1: You can tell people that, you know, I could sit
Speaker 1: here and tell you, you know, if you really want
Speaker 1: to be lean and you really want to have a
Speaker 1: great physique, you know you should eat about sixteen hundred
Speaker 1: to eighteen hundred calories a day for a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in their late late thirties early forties. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that. I can tell you that that's also
Speaker 1: not something that I'm doing because I like food, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to pretend like that's easy advice
Speaker 1: or that's a straightforward you know. Yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to be like a mister Olympian or something, these are
Speaker 1: the things you do. But for the rest of us,
Speaker 1: we're not going to do that. The hypocrisy is just
Speaker 1: too much. The hypocrisy has become too burdensome for me
Speaker 1: to sit here and pretend like it's not driving me insane.
Speaker 1: A perfect example this is on Friday, I was hoping
Speaker 1: to have a relatively quiet night here in New York,
Speaker 1: so there's nothing. Look, I want to go back to
Speaker 1: the normal life. So I also have better stories for you.
Speaker 1: I can travel, I can see more of Team Buck
Speaker 1: across the country. I mean, there's so many reasons, right,
Speaker 1: that's maybe, you know, on a list of a thousand things.
Speaker 1: I want everyone to be healthy. I want what everyone
Speaker 1: to be able to go back to work in their lives,
Speaker 1: their businesses. But you know, I'd also like to be
Speaker 1: able to tell you better stories than I've been able
Speaker 1: to the last year, because when you're locked down at
Speaker 1: home all the time, there's just not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of a whole lot of interesting stuff to say about
Speaker 1: what you're up to. But I was. I was at
Speaker 1: home on Friday, and there was a party, a party
Speaker 1: that might a neighbor threw and it was allowed party
Speaker 1: at least. And I know the different parts of the building,
Speaker 1: meaning what the layouts are for apartments. This is a
Speaker 1: one room apartment. This person has maybe six hundred, six
Speaker 1: hundred square feet, not a big apartment. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. And some of you may think that's a
Speaker 1: pretty silently And I had six hundred squareoot apartment's pretty
Speaker 1: pretty tight, pretty cozy, certainly cozy and tight for over
Speaker 1: a dozen people. And there were at least a dozen
Speaker 1: or so people, maybe fifteen or twenty in what was
Speaker 1: probably a Christmas party. Now, look, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not the party police. I don't care really. But
Speaker 1: the part of this that I find so interesting is
Speaker 1: that my building is extremely strict about masking. My building.
Speaker 1: You know, they will tell you go upstairs and put
Speaker 1: your mask on before you leave. If you walk around,
Speaker 1: if you're if you put your mask down for a
Speaker 1: second and you're drinking coffee and you don't have that
Speaker 1: coffee cup up to your lips for more than like
Speaker 1: two seconds, people are gonna come over and excuse me,
Speaker 1: could you mask up again? I mean, that's they are.
Speaker 1: They are mask maniacs. Here the people at the party,
Speaker 1: all together in enclosed space for I mean, they were
Speaker 1: rocking out. It was. It was still going at one am,
Speaker 1: and they arrived around eight, so you know, they're up
Speaker 1: there for a few hours, indoors, closed quarters. No masks. Okay,
Speaker 1: I went up there. I said, no masks. I didn't
Speaker 1: go to the party, but I saw what was going on.
Speaker 1: And do you think what do you think they did?
Speaker 1: As soon as they left the party where they had
Speaker 1: been with fifteen people or so all, you know, dancing
Speaker 1: and jumping around and all this stuff, I mean, not
Speaker 1: jumping or you know what I mean, partying whatever. But
Speaker 1: it was loud. It's a loud party. Obviously it annoyed
Speaker 1: me because I wanted to watch a movie in peace.
Speaker 1: Masked up. Got a mask up for that. Walk out
Speaker 1: of the living room, got a mask up for that.
Speaker 1: I mean of the a lobby. Rather got a mask
Speaker 1: up for that, you know, because that's that's really showing
Speaker 1: how seriously they take this. Now to me, I look
Speaker 1: at this and say, what a farce this whole thing is,
Speaker 1: How absurd this whole thing is. Because if you're going
Speaker 1: to go to a party in closed quarters with a
Speaker 1: lot of people up close, and then you're gonna walk
Speaker 1: out and put your mask on afterwards, you're just doing
Speaker 1: this for show. And you know, Burkes and fouc you
Speaker 1: and they show up at all these press conferences where
Speaker 1: no one's really all that close to them, wear that mask.
Speaker 1: You know, people have it on their their avatars on
Speaker 1: social media. Got a mask photo up? Now? Got to
Speaker 1: put a mask photo up? What? Why the whole port
Speaker 1: of an avatar so we can see your face? No
Speaker 1: one wants to see you with a mask on. But
Speaker 1: as we know, it's been politicized beyond beyond belief, really,
Speaker 1: and the people that are telling you what to do
Speaker 1: won't do it themselves, which is really all you have
Speaker 1: to know. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following
Speaker 1: him on social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker 1: and Instagram. AOC got the vaccine over the weekend. AOC
Speaker 1: is one of the people you're seeing now who has
Speaker 1: been vaccinated. Now, now I have to ask, why are
Speaker 1: we vaccinating young healthy and this is this is not
Speaker 1: a specific AOC. I know there are others and this
Speaker 1: is the government's plan. So usually i'd bring up AOC.
Speaker 1: You're gonna criticize her crazy left wing socialist policies. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying she got a lot of attention because
Speaker 1: she has a huge social media following. She got the vaccine.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Why? Why? This is like
Speaker 1: a government continuity or national security thing. I mean, the
Speaker 1: chance of sowing AOC is like thirty years old. The
Speaker 1: chance of her getting COVID and it being any severe
Speaker 1: risk to her health is like one. Numerically, it really
Speaker 1: is like one in ten thousand. I mean it's it's remote,
Speaker 1: it's a remote possibility. But she's going to the vaccine.
Speaker 1: This is gonna get uglier, friends, This is gonna get
Speaker 1: worse because the cases keep going up, keep going up.
Speaker 1: This mitigation stuff that we're doing, it's not gonna stop it.
Speaker 1: We all know that. I mean, we'll bring it down
Speaker 1: a tiny bit in a couple of weeks, they'll say,
Speaker 1: see it works, so well, maybe virus is gonna keep spreading.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep having this terrible fight with people in
Speaker 1: the hospitals and going to be losing people. We're gonna
Speaker 1: lose people, and it's awful and it's a gut punch,
Speaker 1: and it's been you know, twenty twenty is the worst
Speaker 1: year I can remember in twenty years at least. So
Speaker 1: where's year since nine to eleven? No question? And now
Speaker 1: we're starting to see that, yes, the vaccine is out there,
Speaker 1: but there's also a time sensitivity to all this. Who
Speaker 1: gets the vaccine first? I saw over the weekend there
Speaker 1: was a story that half of US states, according to polls,
Speaker 1: think that minorities should get the vaccine first. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here saying this is that this is creating very strange
Speaker 1: tensions in our country and in our communities. You should
Speaker 1: just be by age. The real, the real information we
Speaker 1: have on this that's global in nature, not just specific
Speaker 1: to America, is that this is dangerous to people in
Speaker 1: age categorizations and then with comorbidities on top of that,
Speaker 1: there's no greater risk based upon ethnicity that we know
Speaker 1: of from this virus. It doesn't not exist, So why
Speaker 1: is it being treated as such? Why do we have
Speaker 1: that as a even a debate that's happening in the
Speaker 1: country right now. Shouldn't it just be along age lines?
Speaker 1: You're going to see this is going to get much
Speaker 1: nastier because there are people right now who are not
Speaker 1: getting the vaccine who probably should be at the very
Speaker 1: top of the list. I mean, AOC got it, she
Speaker 1: doesn't really need it based on her age. Demo and
Speaker 1: other members of Congress too, Republican and Democrat. They're getting it.
Speaker 1: If they're young, they don't really need it. And there
Speaker 1: are people who are seniors who are basically, you know,
Speaker 1: at the highest possible risk of this, and they're not
Speaker 1: getting it. Yet We're going to lose some of those people.
Speaker 1: The government is at some level you're pinking who's going
Speaker 1: to live and who's going to die.