WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - The Cuomo Cover Up Explodes 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.559 you subscribe on the iHeart Act or wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.880 your podcasts. How many times have we talked about how 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:17.960 Governor Cuomo of New York has the worst results, has 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:24.400 been the biggest failure, the most egregious buffoon, and caused 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.600 the most unnecessary suffering and death of any governor in America. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.880 We've been saying it for many months. You're on the 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.760 show because it's obvious, because we know it's true. But 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.760 he was important for a while to Democrats. Now why 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.720 was he important Because he was turning on Trump as 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.239 soon as things got tough with COVID, and so he 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.320 was useful. He became a tool for the other side. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.199 He decided that the way to get the media to 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.800 back him up, including of course his brother who has 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:00.640 a prime time show at CNN, way to get him 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.960 to back him up. The way to get the media 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.200 aligned behind him was to go all out on Trump trashing. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:13.080 And then it's like you have a cloak of invincibility. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.840 Then you can do anything, say anything, and the media 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:23.000 will debase themselves to lie for you. Well, Now we 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.360 have the proof we need that this wasn't even just 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.360 something that went awry, but that there was an active 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.360 cover up of the disastrous nursing home order from Governor Cuomo, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:39.200 Democrat of New York, at one point talked about as 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.200 a possible last minute presidential candidate before Biden had even 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.640 won the primary. Remember that there were people who were 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.800 buying Cuomo underwear. There was a there was a trend 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.960 on social media of people referring to themselves as Cuomo 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.040 sexuals because he was so hot. This is real, that's true, 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.760 because he was doing such a great job in those 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.560 press conferences. He got an Emmy, that's right, an Emmy 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:13.200 for his COVID press conferences. And now we find out 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.080 that they were hiding the nursing home data so that 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.120 the Trump administration, so the Department of Justice last year, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.840 couldn't look into anything, couldn't figure out what had really happened. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.880 And of course this was all about the twenty twenty election. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.880 More information suppressed that the public should know about on 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.680 behalf of Democrats doing an awful job. It shouldn't be 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.080 surprising to anybody. Now we have the proof. I'd also 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.679 say it feels good to be right. A lot of 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.320 being right this week for the Buckster, gotta tell you, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.320 and with Cuomo, this as yet another one we have 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.080 to put on that list. Here's the story, Cuomo aid, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.200 Melissa de Rosa admits they hid nursing home data so 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.680 feds wouldn't find out. God. This is in the New 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.800 York Post. Governor Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.320 lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing home death toll from 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:17.000 COVID nineteen, telling them, quote, we froze out of fear 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.600 that the numbers, the true numbers, would be used against 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.560 us by federal prosecutors. The stunning admission of a cover 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.720 up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa de 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.440 Rosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.560 in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.840 legislative request for the tally in August because right around 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.880 the same time, then President Donald Trump turns this into 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.880 a giant political football. According to an audio recording of 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:56.360 the two hour plus meeting, exactly what I've been telling 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:01.360 you is what happened here. They lie about the deaths 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.080 in the nursing homes because the number was so huge 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:10.200 and so catastrophic and so much higher than anywhere else 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.360 in the country that they knew it would be politically disastrous. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.280 So Cuomo hid the numbers and kept having his press conferences. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.400 Let's think about this too. Was this a tough called 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:28.560 to make when you have a disease that is overwhelmingly 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:33.839 dangerous to people who are over sixty five? By far, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.599 the single biggest risk factor here is age. When you 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.000 have a disease that's so dangerous to people who who 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.799 are older like that, and you have people who already 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.240 have the disease in that age bracket, so their immune 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.200 system is very taxed, and they probably have a large 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.520 viral load, and while they're still active with the virus, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.839 you send them back into nursing homes. I mean, this 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:02.760 was the executive order equivalent of a mass casualty attack. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:09.680 Nine thousand seniors. That's the number. Nine thousand seniors believed 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.359 to be still recovering from COVID, still have active virus, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:20.040 still shedding that virus, sent back into nursing homes where 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.839 they were a huge infection risk to their fellow high 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.720 at risk population. And as we know in New York 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:35.960 about twelve thousand seniors in nursing homes alone died died 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:43.800 twelve thousand, seven hundred and forty three as of January nineteenth. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.039 That came from the State Attorney General, Leticia James. Now, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.159 this is one of the biggest stories about COVID from 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:56.400 the last twelve months. I mean, this is massive, major mouthfeasance, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:04.080 intentional hiding of critical data from the public. This is fraudulent, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.960 it's so dishonest, and yet the media let him get 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.800 away with it every step of the way. Why did 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:16.000 they do that? Anything to beat Trump, anything that is 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.760 useful for attacking Trump has to be protected. Any story 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.520 that attacked the former president was justified. It didn't matter 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.400 how dishonest, it didn't matter how many lies or what 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:32.599 was at stake for the Democrats, for the lib power apparatus, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:37.000 nothing was more important than defeating Donald Trump. And it's 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.719 terrible that they managed to accomplish that, but they did. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.440 They were rewarded for this kind of behavior. The mainstream 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.040 media may have a day or two here where some 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.560 people open their eyes. I mean, you and I understand 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.000 who they are already. Some people open their eyes to 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:59.440 how disastrously partisan they are. And how they're just so 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.640 full of it. But at the end of the day, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.480 do you think that any of them would really change. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.880 They would they really change what they did? Know? Trump lost, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.000 That's all that matters to them. Sure, they lied about 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.320 a mass casualty event in New York. People lost mother's 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:23.120 father's grandparents, huge numbers, unnecessarily because of writ because of 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:28.640 reckless policy. And it was all off the order of 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.600 a governor who was a pompous jerk at every step 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.760 of this thing. But people were terrified, and he knows 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.920 how to manipulate emotions. Have your press conference, sit there, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.840 have the slides, tell people how much you care, Tell 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.400 the people that you have family too, and my grandmother, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:54.680 your grandmother is not disposable. Well, it turns out he 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.280 was actually disposing of a lot of people's grandparents an 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.920 executive order to send COVID pos their patients back into 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.280 nursing homes. You could not have come up with a 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.760 more disastrous public health policy than that. This was going 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.640 after the single most vulnerable part of our population. Remember, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.679 almost half of all COVID deaths nationwide came in nursing homes, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.360 which was a very small percentage of the population. Nursing 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.640 homes were the weak point here in our war against COVID. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.800 Nursing homes were the Achilles heel, and we did not 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.360 do enough to protect them. And one of the reasons 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.120 we did not do enough to protect them was that 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.560 people were lying about what was going on in the 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.320 early days, and they were trying to shift blame, and 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.240 they were pushing panic, and they made it about an 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.240 anti Trump movement instead of what's going to save the 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.600 most lives, and they pushed for lockdown and they wanted control, 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.280 and they fed the panic. You can look back now 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.520 and see the Great Barrington Declaration which dates that there 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.960 should have been There should have been extreme measures to 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.440 protect the at risk and minimal to no measures for 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.520 the rest of us. If you want to save lives, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.600 that would have been the approach to take. But instead 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:20.040 we had the fauciism of arbitrary and near endless lockdowns 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:24.000 throughout twenty twenty. That was the path they took on 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:29.400 people like Cuomo. We're taking a bow getting Emmy's for 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:38.640 a disastrous, a simply incomprehensibly awful performances as essentially a 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.200 COVID dictator, which is what Governor Cuomo and other governors 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.000 became the state legislature gave Cuomo power to do whatever 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.440 he wanted. He took all that authority into his hands. 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:54.480 He must be held to account. We don't have a 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.040 recall mechanism in New York State like they do in California. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:03.040 For Gavin Newsom. We should. There should be a tsunami 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:08.280 of pressure on a Governor Cuomo to resign, but that 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.080 won't happen. Do you think they'll do a lot of 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.520 really hard hitting coverage on CNN? Do you think that 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.640 Fredo is going to really dig deep into this one? 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:20.240 I don't think so. The news media failed you on this. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.680 They lied to you about this, they helped in the 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.360 cover up, and now it finally comes out through a leak, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:34.040 not through dogged investigative journalism, not because the mainstream the 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.760 corporate media wanted you to find out, because somebody was 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.160 so disgusted on that call that they leaked the information 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:48.320 to news outlets that would actually tell the story. You 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.000 think that journalists now are going to be more honest 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.040 in their coverage of the Biden administration. You think they 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:59.560 have all of a sudden discovered honor or integrity. No, No, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.800 as far as they're concerned. And this is the party 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.120 you have to really remember. They pretty much got away 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:10.240 with this. It doesn't really matter. Trump is gone, Trump lost, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.400 Quomo still in power, and the lockdowners are now talking 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.360 about how we have to extend for months and months more. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:24.240 Governor Quobo was the single worst governor in the entire 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.560 country during the COVID pandemic, and you should never forget 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:33.319 that the Democrat Party, the corporate media celebrated him. They 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.120 went in the exact opposite direction of the truth, and 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.760 they pretended they held him up as a hero while 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.200 people were dying because of his order, and he was 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.480 lying to the public about the very numbers of those 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:52.320 who died. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.679 fuck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You know will people 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.840 have asked me about there was some type of report 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:05.280 about potential travel restrictions on Americans and on Floridians, and 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.160 I just I think it's an absurd report that they 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.680 would be doing that. I think it would be unconstitutional, 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.920 It would be unwise, and it would be unjust. And 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.000 if you think about it, restricting the right of Americans 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.720 to travel freely throughout our country while allowing illegal aliens 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.640 to pour across the southern border unmolested would be a 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:32.400 ridiculous but very damaging farce, so we will oppose it one. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.560 It would not be based in science. It would purely 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.520 be a political attack against the people of Florida. Why 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:46.920 would the Biden administration even consider taking actions specifically against 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.080 the state of Florida. We all know the answer, but 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.560 we need to keep saying this out loud. Why would 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:59.880 the Biden administration do that? Because Florida proves that the Democrats, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:05.320 the lockdowners, the Fauciites, are a bunch of buffoons. The 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:11.120 Democrats prove that they were not right by the actions, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.720 by the numbers now that we've seen, and they hate 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.880 what Florida has done. They hate what Florida has shown 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.360 the country, which is, yes, there was no perfect answer. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.280 There's a pandemic. We didn't have a cure. We're still 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.640 getting the vaccine out there. But arbitrary and capricious lockdowns 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.840 were not the answer. They were not worth it. They 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.840 did not work. That's why everyone's fleeing to Florida, not 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.599 even just from the northeastern corridor, where you got a 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.400 ton of people from New York and New Jersey, but 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.360 from California, from the West coast. They're headed out of 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.920 Florida too. They've they've had enough. It's fascinating. There's a 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.120 piece in the New York Times as Recline, who's just 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.559 a dogmatic orth the docs left winger. All he does 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.480 is tell people on the left exactly what they want 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.040 to hear. Never has an independent, are interesting thought ever, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.520 and puts the sheen of he looks like a nerd, 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.240 so he must be smart on it all, but not impressed. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.880 The whole thing, though, is if if progressivism can't work 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.440 in California, how can it work anywhere else? And of 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.360 course he comes up with a million different rationalizations, and 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.720 ultimately it's that California is it's kind of governed in 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.880 a conservative way, even though totally run by progressives. Oh 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.600 look at that. Look at that. Isn't that amazing? Isn't 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:33.400 that a stunning reversal? Who would have ever thought it's 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.840 so liberal, it's conservative, it's so left wing, it's right 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.000 wing or something like that. Right, I mean, it's just 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:44.560 it's so dumb. But they're worried. They're worried. They know, Okay, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.240 we've we've been forced to give them the keys to 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.920 the car. Biden's in charge. He looks like he could 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.920 fall asleep or take a nap at any moment. This 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.840 is the guy that we were waiting for. This is 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.080 who's going to fix the country, bring us together. The Democrats, 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.640 who at least look away, are going on and on 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.160 about how Trump supporters are terrorists and basically we need 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.080 to send them to Gitmo. Great, that's really helping, really 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.600 uniting the country. They shut down the Keystone Xel pipeline 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.520 cost a bunch of actual Americans who are working hard 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:21.080 jobs so that they could make donors to environmentalist groups 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.200 and other left wing causes in Malibu and Brooklyn feel 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.360 good about themselves for a day or two. Yeah, fighting 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:33.120 climate change. The border has been kicked wide open. All 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.520 the old games are being played again. You show up, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.960 you say the lines. The cartels are going to be 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.280 making tons of money off of this. This is what 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.880 we get. Trump was worse than Hitler, and Biden will 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.640 be amazing. And this is really where we are now. Huh, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.720 Governor de Santists is the beacon of light in all 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.680 of this. Right now, there is a better way. There's 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:05.200 a different way. There's good governance. There's making wise decisions, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:10.120 measured action based upon data and what a reasonable person 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.600 thinks is fair to ask people in society to do. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.920 That's one way to go. Or we have the newsome 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:25.200 Quomo Whittemer lockdown, lockdown, harder, put on one, mass, put 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.520 on two, put on three, maybe five, don't go outside, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.160 mask up alone in the woods with your dog. They 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.840 actually say this stuff. They banned people from exercising alone 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.400 at UC Berkeley. There is no, let me say, zero 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.400 scientific basis for this, none, none, whatsoever. This should be 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.200 like telling telling people to avoid STDs. Don't stand in 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.840 the same room with anybody for ten minutes. What does 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:59.280 one have to do with the other? Whatever, it'll work, okay. Science. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.359 People are power mad imbeciles, and they think that the government, 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.800 They think the state exists to make all problems disappear. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.640 What they never stopped to think is maybe the state 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.359 is actually the cause of a lot of problems. Maybe 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.399 the reason that America has worked out so well is 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.119 that it's a government first and foremost built upon individual 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.360 liberty and the limitations of state power to infringe upon 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.080 those liberties. Maybe that's a better approach I don't know. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.520 A couple of hundred years of history seems to suggest 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.000 that's better than what we see in other places around 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.320 the world, where the government can do anything to you 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.920 at once. This has been a stress test on our republic, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.959 on our freedom, this whole COVID nightmare. And I'm starting 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:43.679 to think finally the lockdowners have gone so nuts and 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.439 so overboard that enough Americans are waking up to this 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.280 that we're going to start pushing back. You're in the 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.000 freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to the buck Sexton Show podcast. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.680 Get the latest from Buck at buck Sexton dot com. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.439 Isn't to relax these lockdowns now, you know, if you 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.199 do it gradually, George, without turning a light switch on 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.760 and off. Remember we had that conversation months and months 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.560 ago when we were trying to open up America again 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.240 for the economic reasons. You want to do it. You 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.239 want to do it gradually and safely, as opposed to 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.080 just turning it on an off right away. There's still 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.080 going to be the important need to wear masks. I 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.399 think we still need to do that. You want to 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.479 avoid congregate settings, but you can gradually get to the 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.760 situation where you might open up restaurants with limited seating 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.040 and things like that. But it's got to be done 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.960 prudently and gradually. And when you say need for masks, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.719 you mean for quite some time into the foreseeable future. Year, 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.600 two years, three years. I'm not so sure it's measured 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.199 in years, George, but I think until we get the 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.879 level of virus to such a low level into community. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.040 And I had said a projection, and it's only a 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.199 projection that hopefully, by the time we get all the 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.719 people vaccinated and let's say seventy to eighty five percent 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.879 of the people vaccinated, the level of virus in the 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.320 community could be so low that you could start pulling 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.000 back a bit on what are stringent public health measures. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:12.840 You don't want to do it all at once. But 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.720 I think we're going to be wearing masks for several 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.480 several months into the future. He's actually telling you that 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.399 we're going to be wearing masks until at least the 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.480 end of this year and probably this time next year. 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.320 And I would wager they're not going to really the 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.160 mask chambers. The people. Where aren't you marrying three masks? 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.440 Where are your three masks? Those people are not going 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:42.719 to calm down until next June, not this June. Next June. 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:44.960 So if you're in a blue state, I know a 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.560 lot of you in red states, you're like stinks for you, buck, 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.160 I know. But if you're in a red state, you'll 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.199 be okay. If you're in a blue state, they're going 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.440 to be people, remember, because it's all about whether they 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.720 think them the mob would be on their side. That's 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.800 really what it comes down to. Are you in a 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.560 part of the country where someone masks shaming you? You know, 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.280 people that are standing around or that are watching this 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.920 would say it's just one person. They're probably fine. You're 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.679 not near them, stop being crazy, leave them alone? Or 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.399 would they all run up to you? Why aren't you 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.000 wearing a mask? Where is your mask? Because I can 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:17.480 tell you here in New York City that's what it 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.239 would be right away. How dare you not wear your 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.760 mask all the time all the time. I can't tell 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:26.720 you how many people I see the mask is down, 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.200 their nose exposed. And I don't care what I'm gonna saying. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.440 This is it's the whole thing is so absurd, it 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.680 all in its face now it's double masking. You know, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.040 I had I put a video on TikTok. I got 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.880 suspended from TikTok because I put a video up arguing 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.680 that we shouldn't have to mask and social distance after 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.280 Any individual should not have to do that after they're vaccinated, 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.960 because we at that point you've hit an acceptable risk 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.080 to other people. If I get vaccinated and I get 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.639 sick and I die, that's on me. I want to 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:02.040 live my life. If the rest of society gets vaccinated 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.720 and then one or two people out of ten thousand 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.679 or fifty thousand give the virus to somebody else, eventually 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.320 there may be one person who dies because of COVID 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:16.280 that wouldn't have otherwise. But is the speed limit ten 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:20.560 miles an hour or not. I know they hate this argument, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.280 but that's because it's true. The people who go, oh, 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.800 look at seat belts. Masks are like seat belts. Really, 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.240 you gotta wear a seatbelt when you're going for a 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.840 walk alone in the woods. Gott to wear a seatbelt 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:33.440 every time you're outside your home. Gott to wear a 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.920 seatbe No, it's not the same. One is super annoying 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:41.360 and tyrannical and dehumanizing, and the other is a minor inconvenience. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.679 For the duration of time that you were in a vehicle. 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.160 And yeah, quite honestly, the government probably shouldn't be able 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.360 to make you wear a seatbelt. If we're really being 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.880 honest there, we say it's because, oh, because you could. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.600 I've heard the argument that you could become a projectile. 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.800 It hits somebody else, right, They make it about someone 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.760 else so that they can control you, which has been 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.919 the nightmare of COVID all along. You know, if it 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.919 were just about you taking individual risks, that would be 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:09.560 harder for them. But they say, oh, but you're putting 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.160 all these other people at risk, so then they can 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:15.760 control you. David Leonhardt over at The New York Times 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:23.760 wrote on COVID absolutism, and I'm starting to say, oh, 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.400 the New York Times will publish something about how this 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:30.320 has gone too far. The people who are saying listen 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:34.280 to the experts, obey the science, they are now officially 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:40.040 emotionally unhinged about this. For anyone who's paying attention, there's 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:44.359 a balance here. I've never said, oh, there's there's nothing 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:47.520 we should do at all, there's no reason for worry, none, 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:49.840 none of that stuff. But they always pretend they create 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.000 this massive straw man of yeah, whatever, just live your life, 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:57.600 go out there, go to bars, breathing people's faces, or 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:03.240 you can't leave your home, you can't be outside. You 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:08.240 can't do anything until they say so. And they'll say so. 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:10.560 Not in a couple of days, not in a couple 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:14.520 of weeks. Now we're going on a year. It's wondering, 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.280 you know, you start to see this with the government. 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:23.240 Where does this ability to protect the public from the 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:27.359 possibility of disease stop? You know, I mean, if the 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:32.320 government wanted to indefinitely, indefinitely quarantine a whole state, could 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.840 they do that? Would would that be okay? Would you 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:37.640 be all right with the federal government saying, oh, sorry, 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:39.120 we've had a lot of cases. Of course, it would 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:41.040 be Florida. They would pick on right now, a lot 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:42.840 of cases in Florida. So no one's allowed to leave 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.320 a state of Florida. And they put, you know, troops 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:47.320 on the border and shut down all the airports. No 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:51.440 one can leave Florida. Public health, public safety. I think 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.640 there's a lot I know this is just a thought experiment, 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:55.199 but there's a lot of people in America right now 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:57.320 who have Fauci said, that's what we need, they would 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:02.320 do it, they'd go along with it. I would be 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:04.480 at the point where I would have to say it 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:08.680 is time to take up arms. We cannot allow that. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:10.600 That is the kind of tyranny that was warned about 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:13.320 in the Constitution. That is the kind of tyranny that 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.480 was the basis for the Second Amendment. Right, you can't 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.879 go anywhere you didn't do anything wrong because the public 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:22.399 because the public health authorities say so, for how long? 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:24.600 How long can they lock you in your home? I mean, 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:27.280 is this communist China you started to see? I understand 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:29.639 we're not at that point. I know that we have 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.160 not yet gotten there, but we've been moving in that direction, 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:37.760 and there's been far too little willingness to have a 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:42.760 discussion about what are the red lines here. Finally, it 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:47.639 seems the New York Times. Finally, The New York Times 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:52.280 has published something where they're saying, you know what, this 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:56.119 has gone too far, and they liken it to the 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.640 overreaction to the AIDS crisis, which is interesting on many levels, 0:24:59.640 --> 0:25:02.960 but one of them is that doctor Fauci was one 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:09.000