WEBVTT - Experts Have Been Wrong A Lot 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:16.320 You are entering the freedom hunt. A stunning and frightening 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.680 assessment from the President's Coronavirus Response Task Force will dive 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.919 into those numbers what it means for the weeks and 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.279 months ahead. Plus we know China lied, but to what 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.920 extent and how bad is coronavirus in that nation? And 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.839 who didn't tell us the truth about it here in 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.600 this country, perhaps for fear of upsetting China. We're going 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.480 to have added more coming up. This is the Buck 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.839 Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:50.120 what really matters with passionable intelligence. Make no mistake here 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:55.000 a great American Again, The Buck Sexon Show begins an 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:05.080 he's a great guy. Now, the answer is yes, we 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.960 need as sobering a number as that is, we should 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.440 be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much? 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.800 I hope not, and I think the more we push 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.600 on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that number. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.360 But as being realistic, we need to prepare ourselves that 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.399 that is a possibility, that that's what we will say 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.280 a short period of time, that's happened, right, Can the 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.440 country handle that in such a short period of time, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.319 within a couple of months. You know, thirty thousand a month. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.840 You know it will be difficult. I mean, no one 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.080 is denying the fact that we are going through a 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.280 very very difficult time right now. I mean we're seeing 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.480 what's happening in New York that is really, really tough, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.800 and if you extrapolate that to the nation, that will 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.440 be really tough. But that's what it is, Jim, and 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.680 we're gonna have to be prepared for that. Welcome to 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.840 the buck Sex and show everyone. Look, we're gonna do 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.400 what we always do. Deal with the fact as we 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.920 know them to be, try to speak the truth, try 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.120 to get to what really matters. I mean, no change 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.560 in that during this period of quarantine, of national shutdown, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.000 of pandemic panic, We're going to keep doing what we do. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:19.280 The mission stays the same of this show, despite all 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.640 of the challenges that are around us and the fear 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.280 that is rising in the sense that the government has 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.200 been playing catch up all along. We need to be 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.040 honest with ourselves about how the response has been from 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.640 government at all levels, What could have changed, what could 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.720 have been different, because it matters for how we deal 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:43.760 with this going forward. There you had doctor Fauci telling us, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.160 and I looked at the slide as they released it, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.120 and it's pretty amazing when you think about how a 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.320 week or two ago the administration we were told fifteen 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.600 days to stop the spread, fifteen days to stop the spread, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.720 which led people to think, myself among them, that all right, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.520 within fifteen days, we'll get close enough to where we 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.720 need to be on personal projective measures and all the 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:13.520 equipment that we can begin some lessoning of some of 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.640 these for the most essential really just the economic measures. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.560 It's not going to change our social lives or anything 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.000 like that, and that would come with some risk, but 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.000 we would handle those risks and we would try to 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.119 deal with this on a rolling basis. That was where 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.480 that was where the administration was a week or two ago. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.560 That changed, As I told you on Sunday, they said 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.600 we're going with lockdown till April thirtieth. And I remember thinking, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.600 how did we go from fifteen days to another thirty 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.520 days in the blink of an eye. What could they 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.680 have learned? What could have changed so dramatically? And it's 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:54.080 now it's this chart. The assessments that I had seen, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.840 you've seen assessments of total deaths from coronavirus in the 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.040 United States. Over the course of the first wave of 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.280 this pandemic. I had seen online and look, there's a 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.960 ton of stuff out there. Anywhere from fifty thousand ish, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.880 which is about what you'd see. That's a pretty that's 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.840 a bad but mid level bad flu season of additional 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.360 casualties to what we have from the flu all the 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.440 way up to the absolute peak of one percent of 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.159 all US population. Essentially we should be between two and 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.480 three million, right, So that was the range you're working with. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.400 And in recent weeks it seemed like the administration, because 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.559 we're doing all these measures, we're getting all this gear. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.520 We have some treatments that are not yet working but 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.600 we are hopeful will work. We would switch to a 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.520 more state by state strategy and we would have some 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.240 we would get some of America back to work. That 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.080 was the plan a week ago. I mean, you know 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.520 the president with that line, let's not let the cure 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.200 be worse than the disease. Well what does that mean. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.640 It means let's not let the shutdown cause more devastation 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.880 and destruct than the actual virus. We went from that 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:09.040 a week ago to yesterday being told that this press 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.920 conference at the Task Force press conference that we should 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.880 expect one hundred thousand to a quarter million dead even 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:24.880 with this full on draconian lockdown situation and affected so 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:29.600 many states. Now, really all the most populous states have 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.160 some version of lockdown stay at home orders. There's some differentiation, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.839 but we also all know that the CDC guidances stay 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.359 away from people, stay home, don't do anything if you 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.960 can avoid it. And oh, by the way, this virus 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.839 is much more contagious, not quite as lethal as the 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.440 initial assessments, but much more contagious and substantially lethal, and 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.760 from the medical community, also more unpredictable than we had 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.359 been led to believe, more unpredictable in the way that 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.240 this disease would go. People think that their doctors have 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.640 been anecdotally calling in and saying telling different news stations 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.360 and giving interviews where they say, I thought the patient 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.719 was getting better and then within a matter of hours 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:19.960 was gone. That's what's keeping so many people on edge 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.520 right now about this whole situation. We just don't know, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.719 We don't have good answers about so much of what's 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.839 going on, and we're losing a lot of Americans. Now 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.599 I would know that the comparison that I'm seeing now 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.760 about how we've lost more people to coronavirus than lost 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.680 in nine to eleven. We lose more. I mean, I'm not, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.560 I'm not. This is like the flu person Okay, I 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.120 haven't been, but particularly now, I mean, this is worse 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.040 than the flu. Okay, it's worse than the flu as 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.200 we're used to dealing with that. Obviously, the Spanish influenza 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.200 pandemic was horrific. But we haven't dealt with anything like 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.960 this in a hundred years. We haven't. We haven't seen 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.520 anything like this in one hundred years. This is this 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.520 is a one hundred year virus storm that we are 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.479 going through. Okay, but it feels like so much of 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.480 this information that's coming forward from the government level is new. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.480 Why is it new? Shouldn't we have known this? And 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.240 I will get into a lot of the rewriting of 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.160 history now from people are frantically rewriting history all over 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.560 the media saying that they knew, they saw it, and 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.520 of course Trump's a moron, he didn't see it. This 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:34.520 is what you're hearing from everybody. It's not true, and 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.640 there's evidence. Unfortunately, you can look online. You know. I 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.000 I sit here, and I start from the premise of 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.160 initial every day honesty with you that this is worse 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.160 than I expected. It is worse than I expected. And 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.360 I'm here in New York City very close to in 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.640 terms of physical distance, the worst of it. But also 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.880 I know people that are dealing with this every day, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.120 and I'm dealing with it just as as a person 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.920 in the midst of the quarantine zone with the precaution. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.680 Every time I go out to get food, I can't 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.760 get food delivered. People say, how food? I can't get 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.200 groceries delivered. It's been impossible. I gotta go out. I 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.160 gotta get grocery. Every time you touch a button, forget 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.120 about just touching. Now you walk into an elevator and 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.920 you think my breathing in this virus. You think that 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.800 that wouldn't be the case, right because we had been 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.960 told that this is about contact, this is about touch, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.240 and yet now they're saying, maybe maybe everybody should wear 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:33.080 masks in public. Oh only how many weeks, how many 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.440 months into this, and we're figuring out that is what 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.040 has been a much more widespread practice in Asia for 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:47.480 years of people during the season wearing face mask of 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.480 some kind. Maybe that was better for us, My friends, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.440 we have been failed by the experts at every level 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.080 on this. I'm here to tell you that we've been 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.600 failed by the media. We've been failed by journalists. We've 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:03.400 been failed by epidemic task forces and the epidemiologists. Worst 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.679 of all, we've been intentionally failed. Those were good faith 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.200 errors for the most part, not with journalists necessarily, but 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.240 with the other You know, the FDA is a slow, 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.200 lumbering giant, does not move quickly. Same with the CDC. 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.000 It's not that people that didn't want to help. Their 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:27.440 organizational structure just wasn't up to it. China's China's shortcomings 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.520 here are malicious, their intentional, the Chinese Communist Party, and 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.680 it's it's much worse than we had even thought before. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.480 So I will get into I will get into that 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.520 today on the show. But I'm I'm a little bit 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.559 stunned by how much all of the people that are 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.200 telling us to trust them now and do everything that 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.680 they say, how much they have gotten wrong, and will 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.719 I will walk through that with you, and I can 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.160 only base my assessments. I don't have a network of 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.520 epidemiologists in wa on China that I can speak to 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.360 or you know, I'm just going with what is reported 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.880 on all of this all along, and we have been 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.360 failed here by institutions. We need to understand that, and 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.760 some of you, I'm sure feel like institutions are failing 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:19.040 us additionally by putting in place for all these different states, 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:25.720 these economic these economic sanctions effectively, I mean these economic 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.800 shutdowns in order to deal with this virus in a 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.679 way that perhaps is not worth the long term economic 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.680 cost if certain states, certain counties that don't have a 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.640 high level of virus took basic precautions, but also allow 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.800 there to be more commerce and more business underway, which 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.720 would give people a greater sense of normalcy across the country. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.439 Although right now, if you even bring this up, you're 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.320 a monster. As I've said, if you talk, if you 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.560 try to say, we need to be looking at risk 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.240 at every step of this because if we make the 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.560 wrong calls here, the devastation to the country overall, to 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:08.559 our future could become insurmountable. So this is a very 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.960 important time in this nation's history, and yet we're being 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.959 told to shut up, do what you're told. The experts 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.200 know what they're doing, and I don't just mean the 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.640 experts on health, I mean the economic experts, the government experts. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.280 They know what they're doing. Trump, they say, is a moron. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.880 But everybody else in the bureaucracy or the the expert 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:34.319 class really of you know, economists, politicians, and some within 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.400 the medical community that they say that they know what 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.840 to do. Really well, let's let's get into some of 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.840 that today. But before I go there, I all seem 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.160 to say, you know, the motto of the show for now, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.800 I can't even count how many years, going on a 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.960 decade has been shields high, a reference to the phalanx 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.920 in ancient Greece, notably when I would talk about ancient 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.360 Greek warfare Hoppala warfare, where you would have people in 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.600 the phalanx with a hop long shield that's where the 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.920 term hop light comes from, a large round shield, and 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.760 they would interlock their shields and they would have to 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.520 hold them at shoulder height shields high. And that was 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.120 how you fought, and that was how you not only 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.400 defended yourself, but you defend the person next to you. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.000 The concept of phalanx, I mean the phalanx warfare and 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:28.040 different iterations really continued throughout history. For many, many centuries 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.040 after ancient Greece, the ancient Romans used it, and then 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.839 even later on there were there was pike warfare or 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.560 pike units that use very long spears interlocking spears as 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:44.880 a defense against cavalry charge. So conversation, perhaps that's a 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.720 history that I've been thinking about lately for another time. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.000 But we are in for a very very difficult period here, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.760 and it's one that we did not get sufficient warning about. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.680 I don't have any masks in my home. You know why, 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:05.040 because I figured they're telling us not to take masks 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.880 off the market because first responders need them. And now 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.480 I'm looking around and people are saying increasingly, well, you know, 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.600 you probably should have some masks. Oh so I listened 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.520 to the experts, and now I'm one of the I'm 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.800 one of the chumps that doesn't have a mask. It 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.600 seems right. I mean, this is this is the thought 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.920 process I'm much talking about me. This is for everybody now, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.000 all right. You know, now we're in quarantine. So if 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.480 this happened and you had you know, you're I don't 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.000 have a second home and barely have a home. But 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.760 if you have some home in the country, a cabin 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.600 in the woods and you went to it. You're in 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.320 much better shape now, you know. We were told don't 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.679 worry about it. We were told by Di Blasio here 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.959 in New York, go out, go to crowd, spend money, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:53.040 go to restaurants. People have been top to bottom catastrophic 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.960 with this. And I see so much finger pointing and 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.760 running around. You do this, and you do that. I 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.800 follow the left and the right constantly all day long 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:05.240 in media. Nobody really knew how bad this was going 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.960 to be and what it would do to the country. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.320 No one with a platform big enough to influence the 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.640 rest of the nation. There was so much focus. Yeah 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.120 they're saying it's bad, it's bad, but it was always 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.440 it's bad and Trump is the problem, and that made 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:24.040 people tune out. Nobody was saying a month ago, Hey, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.960 if this runs through the United States without anybody taking 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.120 mitigation measures, it's going to kill two million people. Now 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.280 I know people have problems. Also, I've seen this with 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.240 the modeling. Are they using New York as a baseline 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.360 for the rest of the country, because that would seem 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.680 from a statistical standpoint to be very, very poor thinking. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.800 New York is the most crowded and largest metropolitan are 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.120 in the United States place I know very very well. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.360 I mean, I understand when you look at the spread 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.400 of the disease. Here in the city, we are packed 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.320 on top of each other. Walking on the street, I 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.880 often brush up shoulders against people. That's how close you 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.440 are here every day to strangers, hundreds and thousands of 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.080 them all the time. You don't have that in most 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.760 of the country. Even in a place like Washington, DC, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.200 the streets are practically empty all the time. Compared to 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.960 New York, the metro is far fewer people on it. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.800 It's a fraction, right, so, and I mean, these are 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.600 two places I've lived in. Now we're being told a 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.360 week ago it was we might have to go back 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.040 to work, we might have to make some trade offs. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.960 And even Fauci was saying, you know, we got to 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.240 avoid a rebound. But there was And then all of 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.800 a sudden they crunched the numbers. They said, nope, lockdown, lockdown, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.320 or or there's going to be so much death it'll 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.960 be overwhelming. And anybody who now looks at this and says, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.040 wait a second, why didn't we know about this weeks ago? 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.120 They weren't able to do this modeling who my friends, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.160 this is a period of time where we have to 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.800 do as much of our own thinking and be willing 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.680 to question authority as much as we ever have. But 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.680 first we have to get ready for what is coming 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:58.680 in the weeks ahead. I'll get to that. You're in 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:04.080 the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.760 I want every American to be prepared for the hard 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.960 days that lie ahead. We're going to go through a 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.760 very tough two weeks and then, hopefully, as the experts 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.360 are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.880 after having studied it so hard, you're going to start 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.080 seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.480 But this is going to be a very painful, very 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.120 very painful two weeks, very very painful two weeks. This 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.800 is from the President, folks. He's seen all the all 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.440 the projections. Now he has been speaking with his team, 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.120 with his team of experts in this field, and they've 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.920 gone for maximum closure of the United States in response 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.520 to what they've seen. Now, is this the right move 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.160 if they're really, if they're correct, if we really are 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.400 facing hundreds of thousands of dead, well, what other what 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.560 other move I guess do you have anyone who says 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.080 even relaxing this a little bit. The media, the Libs, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.440 the left, and a lot of Republicans want just chop 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.640 your head off right away. How dare you? People are dying? Okay, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.200 that's that's fine. We no one wants people to die. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.600 We also want the country to live, right. We also 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.080 want there to be a society going forward, and that's 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.960 where some of the tension is. That's what Trump talked 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.960 about with the trade offs. But nope, if we're really 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.080 talking about hundreds of thousands of people's that's quite clear, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.359 isn't it. We're going to have this shutdown and there's 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.240 not going to really be any discussion about it. This 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.960 is getting troubling as well, because there's not going to 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.600 be a discussion about civil liberties, about the constitution, about 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.640 what the government is able to do. Now. I took 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.960 it as particularly ominous that former President Barack Obama brought 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.560 up yesterday climate change. Really right, now, we've got news 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.120 channels with body count tickers at the bottom of the screen, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:53.159 and you're going to talk about climate change now. Wow, oh, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.560 but remember what the appeal of climate change has been 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.639 all along for the Left is total domination and control 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:03.120 of society with an existential hook to it. The world 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.120 is at risk. You can't you can't compete with the 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.440 world is at risk. That's what they say, That's that's 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.760 what they use against you. Well, now, guess what the 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.320 world is, according to these calculations at risk. It's at 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.760 risk from the virus, it's at risk of economic collapse. 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:21.160 Do you think that they're going to try to use 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.840 that for their own expansion of power and authority? And 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.840 are they really going to just give it back? You know, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:33.800 to borrow from Gladiator when Marcus Aurelius wants to hand 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.879 over the keys to Rome and then he's just going 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.080 to give it back. Do you think that that's what 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.680 the left is going to do now? Yeah, I don't 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.640 think so. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.760 Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.359 wherever you get your podcasts. Since I messed up that 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.520 quote a little bit, it's actually from Senator Gracis who says, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.159 so after rooms all yours, you'll just give it back 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:05.359 to the people. Tell me why, Maximus, Because that was 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.080 a dying man's last wish, Maximus says, Gladiator is a 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:09.919 great movie. If you're looking for a movie to escape 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:15.040 all this nonsense, you really can't go wrong with Gladiator. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:21.080 So oh, it's just I wish I could just turn 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.120 on Gladiator these days and not have to think about 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.040 all these things. But here we are, friends, We are 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.280 in a we are in a very very tough spot 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.080 as a country. And even if this isn't affecting your area, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.720 your county, perhaps even your state all that much, because 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.400 of what it's doing in other parts of the country. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.520 It's we're all dragged into this. We're all in the 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.720 midst of dealing with this disaster, which just keeps it 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.960 keeps getting worse. We really haven't gotten any good news 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:53.119 in quite a while, and it is not confidence inspiring 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.360 at all. That a week ago, it seemed like we 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:02.600 were moving toward some duration of economic activity. That's not normalcy, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.040 that's not hey, let's throw house parties and forget and 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.840 not protect vulnerable populations. But there seemed to be an elevated, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.800 elevated risk acceptance as a trade off with economic activity. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.080 That's what we were talking about, that's what the administration 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.160 was saying. And then it's just a complete about face. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:25.440 And now the President ends up telling us things like this, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.440 He's telling us that this is going to be really tough. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.160 Play clip six. As a nation, we face a difficult 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:41.600 few weeks as we approach that really important day when 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.840 we're going to see things get better all of a sudden, 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.480 and it's going to be like a burst of light, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.480 I really think, and I hope the strength will be 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:53.360 tested in our endurance will be tried, but America will 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.080 answer with love and courage and iron't lad resolve that 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.560 this is the time for all Americans to come together 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.280 and dot. This is the time for all Americans to 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:09.080 come together and do our part. This is the time 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.399 for all of us to try and rally and show 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.240 our best selves. That much is true. Where did we 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.080 Where did we go wrong? Though in the run up 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:24.480 to this, we are a country of unprecedented wealth, We 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:32.359 are a country of unbelievable material capacity, instantaneous communication in 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.399 everyone's hands, and we went in the span of a 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.600 month from this won't be a big deal. And by 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.040 the people that are saying that they knew, no one 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.200 who had the attention of the nation a month ago 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.240 was saying that this was going to shut down the 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:54.159 country right now, indefinitely. No one was saying that, all right, 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.760 I all I do is watch and read and listen, 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.639 And that was not the position. In fact, there were 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.200 a lot of people who were taking the position even 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:07.840 three weeks ago, that this was man nothing, This was nothing. 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.800 I had people writing into me from the wor show 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.320 that I do here in New York City who were saying, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.400 you're sounding very negative right now. You shouldn't sound so negative. Well, 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.600 if you're in New York and three weeks ago you 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:23.919 thought I was sounding too negative, you probably think right 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.760 now I don't sound negative enough. Things have gotten very, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.920 very bad here. So what do we do about all 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.119 of this is a big question. Before I get too 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:38.120 far down that pathway, I do want to start though, 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.879 with how did we get here? You know, we have 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:43.520 a lot of time to think about this. We have 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:48.119 a lot of just sitting around and not seeing family. 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.040 I mean, I haven't been able to see my parents 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.399 in weeks. You know, we have not been able to 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:56.040 We're not able to communicate in person with loved ones. 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.159 Social life, that's a thing that doesn't really exist. I 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:02.000 saw that a very I will say a pretty funny 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:03.800 tweet from somebody. I don't remember who it was, but 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:06.520 it was I wish I developed a hobby other than 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.600 going out to eat. That's how I feel too, you know, 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.320 between going out to eat and reading. The problem with 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.040