Episode 871 Scott Adams: It’s Time to Stop Using an Obama Afghanistan Strategy Against a Virus

Date: 2020-03-25 | Duration: 47:17

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[Music] hey hey everybody glad you could make it come on in gather round we're going to set fire to the Republic today it's time to go on offense I'm not happy I'm not happy with the way things are going I'll tell you about that but not until we have a little simultaneous septum what do you need to do that well not much not much really all you need is a cover of margaret glass of tanker cello sir stein that canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid that like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine to the day the thing that makes everything better this simultaneous sip go mmm tastes better than Trump pillows you know what Trump pills are right the Trump pills

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Trump pills are right the Trump pills are the name I'm giving the combination of pills that are that hydroxy chloroquine and azithromycin and zinc because I really hate writing those down and I hate pronouncing them so from this day forward hashtag trumpet pills let's hope they work and for his sake all right like I've talked about some fun things and then some serious things this podcast which so this periscope gets turned into a YouTube for replay that you can see it on periscope and replay but it also gets turned into just an audio only and this week we at number 77 on iTunes so if all the podcasts in the world of which I got I think they're quite a few we've cracked the top hundred and it's number 77 it's good the New York Times has an

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it's good the New York Times has an article today that just got lost because you know nobody cares about anything except the coronavirus but there's this researcher who figured out how to reverse aging so while you are watching the crisis you know there's somebody over at a lab somewhere else like oh I just cured old age now is it real well we've heard this a few times maybe not but at least that the son Celie cellular level they've figured out how to reverse the age cell now it's it might take them a while to see if they can ramp that up into some kind of medicine that humans can use I don't know if they'll get there or not but has just found that in the middle of this crisis the most dramatically at least potentially positive thing in the in the history of human civilization just happened and nobody freaking cares we don't care about it right now no baby is good maybe it's good news not

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no baby is good maybe it's good news not know so I said last night and I'll say it again in case anybody missed my periscope last night the president putting the Easter date on this is just brilliant it's it's good managing it's good leadership I said I said it before it happened that we need at least their best guess it can change it can change you know if we need to make it shorter or longer I can change but it's really important to have an estimate out there and now we have it and I love the fact that the president picked Easter because it associates you know the resurrection with our economy be giving its resurrection it's just sort of perfect so I'm gonna give some harsh grades today to the to the administration but I want to start with the good news so so I'm not just all Angry all day the good news is I think setting the date is brilliant I think closing Li a China travel earlier was brilliant I think closing the European travel

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I think closing the European travel strong move I think the team is very strong I like the I like the the updates every day there was a great and there's a ton of stuff happening all right so there's a whole bunch of stuff if you're being fair you know if you can remove yourself from the politics a little bit there's a whole bunch of stuff that the administration is really doing well but there are things that aren't and we'll talk about those and what to do about it but first I'd like to point out and this will dovetail into the the meat of the conversation I've been saying for a while that the the Republic has evolved no longer do we elect smart people have them ride their horse off to Washington and makes of oats for us maybe we find out someday what they did that was the original system it was fine in a world with no social media and people were that connected communication wise but now we are and I've argued that the the

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are and I've argued that the the Republic has already evolved so the social media is effectively running the country for anything the social media cares enough about you know there's 99% of government we don't really care about it's you know collecting the garbage sort of stuff but for the 1% that we get excited about and the public can understand at some level the public is driving the car if you want to see a good example of that you just saw one of the best ones you'll ever see which is when Pelosi and Schumer parachuted into town to kill the relief deal by adding a bunch of pork to it that's business as usual usually usually you know the whole concept of making laws is if you have a funding bill everybody throws their pork on there and it's actually part of the process because if you can't get the senator from this state to vote for it maybe you can't get anything passed and the only

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can't get anything passed and the only way you can bribe that senator is to you know fund a military you know military base in this district or something like that so the pork has a functional purpose and mostly the public just says I hate it but I got other things to think about just you know make something happen it doesn't have to be perfect yeah I know there's pork and sort of useful but it's not I'll just let that go but in the middle of a national emergency our totally out of touch leaders Pelosi and Schumer and really they are so disconnected from the zeitgeist that they they failed to read the room in a way that's just astounding because right in front of us they flew into town and they just they just broke the system to throw some pork in there so what happened well of course the

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so what happened well of course the Republicans complained but they weren't complaining to the Democrats they complained to their bosses the Republicans took it up to their bosses no not the president the president is not the boss of Congress you are you are the bosses of Congress and what happened when the Republicans kicked it up to their bosses well we weren't happy were we because in this case the pork is not okay it's not okay with the Democrats it's not okay with the Republicans and and let me let me propose a rule for you something to watch if you see Mark Cuban using gross profanity on social media telling telling the government to get his act together as he did and you see me using gross profanity in exactly the same mission it's probably gonna happen in other words if you can piss off Mark

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in other words if you can piss off Mark Cuban and me at the same time you're probably pissing off everybody all right you're probably pissing off everybody and if we get that mad so that we're gonna just take the filter off and say as we tend I don't want to repeat the words but as Mark Cuban put it in in the cleanest most leadership way and by the way he's a superstar this this he's doing great he said this do your f and job and I don't need any details that's the beginning of the conversation and that's the end of the conversation I don't want to hear because I don't want to hear you can't do it I want to hear about the process I don't hear why it's a good idea to do it your way nope just do your effing job and you saw that it looks like they took the pork out of there and they're getting it done now this is the cleanest example you've seen of the Republic is not he is not

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seen of the Republic is not he is not the elected people in charge they're only in charge when you and I don't care and we're not watching but when we care and we understand the topic you know this was easy pork no pork and we're engaged you're elected you're elected people are not in charge not even close you the public made them change their mind right in front of you there's no question about what happened the Democrats did not cave to the Republicans they caved to you you the public you're in charge this is important for what I'm going to talk about in a moment so here's what Pelosi said this is an actual quote from her talking about you know the the pork that she tried to put into the bill yeah I think this is yesterday and she said this quote there is a whole concern in our country what what is a whole concern

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our country what what is a whole concern are there such things as partial concerns the first part of her sentence is literally babble it's actually nonsense and it doesn't get better so here it is there's a whole concern in our country what the does that mean sorry that if you're giving tens of billions of dollars to the airlines okay that's just the fact that we could at least have a shared value about what happens to the environment what that sentence doesn't make any sense Nancy you're not reading the room you're not serving the public and I'm sorry you're not even making sense you can't be our leader so from here until the crisis has passed she's not in charge you are do you want that in charge do you do you want decisions about your life and death made by somebody who's a hundred years old and can't put a sentence together in public no you don't want Joe Biden and you don't want decomposing Nancy Pelosi who can't put a

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decomposing Nancy Pelosi who can't put a sentence together they're not in charge and we're done with them we're done with them because you the people you can tell them what to do now all right so do it it worked the first time they it looks like some kind of stimulus bill is gonna come but it wasn't because they did the job no it was because you did the job you did the job they didn't do the job so that's the number one complaint I got more number two I've been saying for several days can the government to give us some visibility on their supply supply pipeline for these critical medical supplies at least tell us how many you need tell us how many you have and then give us some visibility doesn't have to be perfectly accurate for some sense of the pipeline you have noticed that that has not happened although I did hear one

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happened although I did hear one estimate that New York City thinks they need 20,000 ventilators and they got to 4,000 but that still doesn't tell you the story right doesn't tell you the story because how many are in the pipeline how many can they get right you're flying blind who is in charge you are you're in charge all right you're watching it yourself you're in charge and what information do you have to make a decision about ventilators none none it's been several days and your government can't tell you how many we need how many we have and what's in the pipeline failure failure that's simple all right that's simple tell us the basics if you can't do that failure all right how do it how are we supposed to know what to do how are we

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supposed to know what to do how are we supposed to mobilize how am I supposed to know should I find a way to help making ventilators or should I find a way to help making masks because I could probably help I don't know because I don't know what we have I don't know what what's missing so why do we have this situation well let me tell you so we got those War Powers Act if we had done it the standard way the government would say you factory or makin masks you I don't care if you don't like it it's a War Powers Act you're making ventilators you're making this if we had done it that way that's the old traditional way our government would know what we have what we're making what we need you know what's in the pipeline if the government controlled and just said you factory you factory you factory how many can you make all right you can make 5,000 I'll add that to my list but instead the president has taken another approach it has it has some benefits so I'm not going to say this is a mistake I'm gonna tell you what problems it caused which is different from saying it was the

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is different from saying it was the wrong path so he's gone with apparently there was so much voluntary cooperation from voluntary cooperation from companies which is great so that's the good news Apple 3m basically every company that could you know stood up and offered something so that's all good news right great news all these companies stepping up to do something except because of that we have no visibility I don't believe there's anybody in the government who has visibility of all the companies who have stepped up and what they're doing and what should be done so because we're doing it this way instead of the government saying you factory make 20,000 you factory make 30,000 in which case the government would know exactly what's in the pipeline I don't think they know and I think we have a system in which they can't know because it's people acting independently and

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it's people acting independently and just trying to figure here's what I recommend for a solution since we've already gone this path we're not we're not going to reverse it now but that's the path we're on so here's how to fix it there have been a number of apps and websites built by people spontaneous you know just people saying I think there's a need to connect doctors to other doctors somebody somebody built that slack channel somebody else said I think there's a need to connect the people who are making stuff where the people we're buying stuff and somebody built that that's our even existence but here's my problem we may have more than one of those in other words we may have duplicated effort but now I need my leadership I need my president do at the next task force to say these are the ones we're gonna endorse because they're probably a number of websites that are trying to do the same thing oh yeah just Patriots jumping in what is confused the field at

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jumping in what is confused the field at this point somebody in an administration has to say here are the five apps and websites that everybody should use thank you thank you thank you for all the people who use the other ones built them jumped in and tried to help thank you thank you thank you but we got to get everything on the same platform otherwise we're flying blind so we got to know what's in the pipeline and we got to get it all on the same app and your your leadership is not asked for that as far as I know that's an F sorry I'm grading tough today that's enough for visibility to the public because the public is going to have to have a big role in running this this war and if we're flying blind we can't help all right here's my big problem with what we're doing as a strategy and you're not going to like to hear this but I'm just going to be as honest as I can today our

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going to be as honest as I can today our strategy to fight this virus looks a lot like the Obama strategy for Afghanistan if the Obama strategy for Afghanistan was apparently that if somebody in the field on the battlefield said hey looks like we found somebody to target they would have to run it all the way up to the chain and I don't know if Obama had to say yes or somebody at the top and by the time they didn't word came back the situation had changed so it was impossible to fight the war the way the people on the ground knew it should be fought because they weren't in charge it was all centralized that appears to be the same bad strategy that we're using against the virus and here's what I mean right now the guidelines are that if you have some symptoms you you can get a test if you don't have symptoms you can't get a test but if you have symptoms you can get a test can you get the meds well you can get the meds if

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the meds well you can get the meds if the test comes back and says that you've got the corona virus how long does that take five days ish because the tests are all centralized and the whole process of you know who gets a pill and under what condition is centralized so the FDA has these guidelines about now you've got to you've got to actually you know show in a test that takes five days you got to show that you've got symptoms or that you really have the corona virus and then your doctor baby can give you some off-label meds all right so that's our situation that's the Afghanistan strategy so while you're waiting for your test for five days you could die is that hypothetical no no that's not a hypothetical people are dying because we've got an Afghanistan strategy meaning that you and the doctor can't make a battlefield decision right that's the guidelines you and your doctor can't make a battlefield decision you got to run it up to the FDA

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decision you got to run it up to the FDA what's the FDA say well you got to get a test can I get a test I don't know sometimes they work sometimes they don't they've got to go through the state labs these old state official labs are they are they geared up to be able to do the volume no can they gear up to do the volume probably not you have a completely failed strategy and play it's the Afghanistan strategy we know it doesn't work you got to bring down the control to the doctor and the patient and I'm going to tell you how to get those meds from your doctor so I'm going to save the lives of everybody who's watching this in the sense that your risk from the coronavirus is going to go from a little bit too big to something closer to zero I'm going to tell you how to get the the meds from your doctor I'm gonna break the government alright at least for you so you're gonna be freed of these government restrictions in a while in a way that will work absolutely okay I'll get to that in a moment so we've

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I'll get to that in a moment so we've got a testing process in which we can't do these home testing so so you're not allowed to have a test kit at home swab yourself and mail it in or drop it off someplace which would be completely safe you actually have to go to a facility that's steaming and coronavirus and in fact your doctor may be the worst and then wait five days while you may or may not suddenly turn bad and die while you're waiting for your goddamn incompetent government to run the Afghanistan war strategy on a goddamn virus it's the wrong strategy I'm gonna break it right now okay so the strategy doesn't apply to you anymore and I'll tell you why but but you're free of it and here's why everybody who is in the know knows that the meds work I'll call them the Trump pills because I think it's funny it's easier to

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think it's funny it's easier to pronounce you know the hydroxychloroquine the Zefram Isis and the zinc I'm here to tell you I have more information than you have about most things in other words I'm pretty tapped in to the collective brain of the world at this point largely because of this process and I can tell you that pretty much all the doctors are prescribing it to themselves pretty much all the doctors are making sure they have enough they're family I betcha you're not gonna see one famous person die from this disease unless they have underlying conditions why because every famous person gets this drug as soon as they go into his symptoms do you know no you don't you go into the symptoms and they say well you have to take your test where is the test we don't have it but maybe I can get one and then I'll test you sometimes the test works that sometimes they don't but it's gonna take five days and you might drown in your own lung juice while you're waiting there's a celebrity do that no

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waiting there's a celebrity do that no does a billionaire wait for the test not one time every billionaire already has this drug I thought I was kind of playing it cool for a while because I thought wow there must be some kind of shortage of the drug now I know what you're thinking you're saying but Scott Scott Scott it's not proven let me let me let me tell you the cost-benefit here these drugs are widely available you could probably get them at Walmart I don't recommend getting them if you don't have symptoms because that that breaks the whole country right if you hoard them it'll be hard to get them without symptoms but probably if you tried really hard you could do it I just don't recommend it but the moment you give symptoms I'm gonna tell you how to get it before you get the test all right it's not allowed it's not recommended but I'll tell you how to do it so stay tuned so here's the trade-off we know that this is a well tolerated drug we know that if you're taking a short term

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that if you're taking a short term probably the worst case scenario is you get a little diarrhea and maybe a little nausea no big deal compared to drowning in your own lung juice all right which is the other potentially possibility we know that everywhere around the world is being used they're pretty happy about it for twenty dollars in the risk of a little bit of diarrhea are you going to take five days of risk of dying from the corona virus plus giving it to everybody you touch no you're not so let me tell you how to convince your doctor to skip the test and give you the meds alright I'm getting lit up lit up by some messages from somebody who knows I'm on periscope
somebody says where's your proof none if you're asking for proof you're a

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you're asking for proof you're a idiot let me give you the let me give you the the trade-off the trade-off is it costs about $20 for a widely available drug it's worst case scenario because we've been using it for years is that if you took it for a long time there might be some issues for a short time couple weeks or whatever the regimen is basically no side effects and if all your doctors are using it and all the tests are showing that it works oh wait you say did you see that did you see the study that that followed some people and said it didn't work you probably saw that in the news right bloomberg reported it Bloomberg do you know where the study came from China there was a Chinese University the only one who says it doesn't work huh in the middle of China using a massive disinformation campaign to lie about every goddamn part of this virus situation they lied about how much a

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situation they lied about how much a good problem was and that they had it they are lying now about their statistics they're lying about the United States being maybe responsible for it and I guaran-fucking-tee you that that study the key men if a Chinese university was disinformation can I prove it no but are you gonna believe anything China tells you about the virus today no look at every other source and they all point in the same direction every one only one points on the other direction China a very small Chinese University which of course is owned by the government so don't or this drug but hearsay again it let me let let me tell you the persuasion technique you go in to your doctor and you've you've clearly got the symptoms you know you know what the symptoms are you've clearly got them your doctor says yes I agree it might not be coronavirus but you do have the symptoms here's how you

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have the symptoms here's how you convince your doctor to give you the drugs the first thing you need to know is that you need to go in there well-informed if your doctor even sniffs that you know less about this situation than the doctor you might not get them so job one is to know more than the doctor or at least as much just about this very narrow you know drug application and that's not hard so I'll tell you what to know to prove to your doctor that you understand enough to get it off label because I can give it to you legally off label without a test so they don't go to jail if they give you the jug it's legal but the guidelines say you wait for the test don't wait for the don't wait for the test that is your doctor that that waiting from the test is the Afghanistan Obama strategy to let some centralized things slow down the process that you know needs to be fast

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process that you know needs to be fast all right here are the things you want to tell your doctor number one every doctor either is taking it planning to take it or has already stockpiled it look at your doctor in the eyes and say tell me you won't take this for yourself if you get the symptoms look me in the eye and tell me that you're gonna wait five days for a test if your spouse starts a dry cough you liar because if you tell me that you wouldn't give your spouse that on day one you're just lying alright now you don't call you your doctor a liar yet but they are a liar if they say no no I'd wait for the test because that's what the FDA said no no doctor anywhere in the world will wait for the test if their own spouse has a dry cough in the middle of the coronavirus crisis and don't believe anybody who says otherwise secondly other countries are massively

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secondly other countries are massively taking it we know this to be true it's not a coincidence the other thing is that you should know that the costs the cost of the regimen for getting the drugs it's about a twenty dollar cost for the entire cycle that you would be on it twenty dollars I think you've or take you know the prices are all over the place what does it cost of a test a thousand dollars right do you do you think you should take a twenty dollar test that you can take immediately and take the odds of you worsening down to a pretty low according to anecdotally everything that's happening or do you want to take a thousand-dollar test and wait five days and you might be dead before the test comes in there's no question which is smart so make sure your doctor knows that the pills cost twenty dollars and that the test cost a thousand and then here's the kill shot and here's the kill

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here's the kill shot and here's the kill shot don't leave this one out because you know so that so the high ground manoeuvre is the show that you understand you know the costs and the risks as much as the doctor does and here's an expert the disease progresses quickly that's that's the end of your persuasion the disease progresses quickly there are plenty of anecdotes that your doctor will be familiar with them of somebody who wasn't that bad and suddenly you know it's time for the ventilator so your doctor knows that if you show that you know it too then you have said I have potentially a deadly disease it could kill me before the test comes in it is legal for you to give it off-label I will go literally insane if I'm worrying about this for five days because remember doctor you're not just treating my body you're treating my mind and if I don't get this drug

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and if I don't get this drug and I have to wait five days I'm gonna flip out and here's the next part doctor and by the way this next thing I have used and I know this works doctor here's the deal I am going to get that drunk if you prescribe it to me that's the preferred situation because you're my doctor and you can you can monitor my whole situation but if you don't give it to me I'm gonna walk out of here and I'm gonna get it I'll get it on the black market which can be done I'm gonna shop for a doctor to give it to me who won't know as much about me but here's the thing doctor that I need you to understand by the end of today I'm going to be on that drug I would prefer it to you because I know you can I know it's legal and I know you're allowed to use your judgement when to use it and when to not you clear you oh you know that I know understand the field you know that I've looked at the cost of the benefits and you know that although we don't have the long-term tests that it's such a low

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long-term tests that it's such a low risk it would be absolutely insane not to give it to me how many of your doctors are going to give it to you well either everyone or find another doctor so your ability to find a doctor that will give you this with that you know with that preamble you have to use the persuasion so you might want to you know bookmark this and play it back and write it down did you want to get all the points you need to know all the costs you need to know the risks you need to know that it's a fast-moving disease you need to know that the labs are going to take five days and that the risk reward is simple and very importantly you have to know that the doctors themselves are prescribing it to themselves because that that's that's where the end of the conversation if you can get your doctor to say yeah I'd give it to my spouse under this situation because they would they would I looked at the language for the right to try now the right to try act does not cover this situation the right to try was a 20-18 law this said

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right to try was a 20-18 law this said that if you've tried all other allowed treatments and they didn't work and you're willing to at least oh and you're not able to go into a clinical trial so if you can go into a clinical trial you sort of have to but then you might get the placebo right so that's the risk but this right to try says that if you if for some reason you can't be in the trial and you've tried everything else under those conditions you could try an experimental drug that has not gone through phase one trials now does this apply to the Trump pills and the answer is no it does not but and the reasons it doesn't is because it just doesn't quite fit the description of what's happening here and I'm pretty sure that the lawyers would agree that this isn't quite meant for this situation it doesn't quite cover it but

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situation it doesn't quite cover it but in in attitude it does in in the let's say the the spirit of the law it absolutely does right the spirit of the law is that if you think you've got a deadly you know something that could kill you you get to be a little more flexible at least if you using common sense about you know what you know and what you don't know and what the risks are well this is exactly that so it doesn't fit the right to try but it is the right to try I mean it is the right to try you know you as a citizen have the right to try now if you're paying attention you'll see that what I have done is I've taken power from the government so your government is telling you to pursue the Afghanistan strategy wave five days for your test oh don't do the test at home that's got to be centralized and don't get the drug when it would be a smart

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get the drug when it would be a smart idea in terms of risk reward now get away for the test Obama Afghanistan strategy don't don't do it take control all right so all of you who have heard my experience now are largely safe from the Krone because everything that we've heard and by the way you should keep your social isolation like crazy it doesn't mean you should take risks that would that would be stupid speaking of stupid dan Patrick what does he lieutenant governor or something of Texas I said this before but I'm gonna pile on because britt hume considered that dan patrick had an entirely reasonable viewpoint there's a lot of pushback in social media to that so i want to weigh in so Dan Patrick's point of view was that people over seventy you would be willing to take the risk of sort of normalized than the economy

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sort of normalized than the economy because even though they're the ones most likely to die they also want to leave a functioning economy for their grandchildren and children and so dan Patrick was saying quite bravely that he would take that risk because it's for the greater good here's my problem with that it's not for the greater good it's not if it were for the greater good I would say well that's pretty noble you know I I would have like a ton of respect for something you said you know I'm in the danger zone and even I'm gonna take a chance because I don't want it to hurt the rest of you but that's not what's happening if if the 70 year olds leave the house and go back to work some number of them are going to fill our hospitals and that's my problem that's my problem so dan Patrick you're not taking a risk on yourself which would be fine you know taking a personal

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would be fine you know taking a personal risk for the greater good well that's that's sort of the ultimate the the ultimate hero move right so that would be great but he's not doing that he's taking a risk for us so he can get out of the house now I realize it's good for the grandchildren as well but Dan Patrick I want you to stay home if you're asking me what I want you know what's good for me what's good for you know my grandkids I want you to stay the home stay the home don't don't become a casualty and fill up my ICU I might need that if I get a heart attack so stay the home and Brit Hume who is I have to say one of the most consistently reasonable voices on social media I mean really you know whenever whenever I see a Brit Hume tweet I always read that thing if he tweets an article I always read it he's just one of the better yeah you know he sees the whole field I mean it's just just one of the best people talking about anything on TV but

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people talking about anything on TV but I don't think it's a reasonable a few points it's reasonable for him to take a risk for himself but not on our behalf so here's what we need I think the public is going to need the to leave the argument about reopening and I think it's already happening if you ask me the the president picking a date and getting a little more aggressive about opening is a response to the public I don't think that's just because smart people in the government said Oh some of us think you ought to open some of us down we're trying to work it out I don't think it's that I think the public is driving that date you know the the government has to give us a date but I think the public is driving give us a date everything's better when you have a date because once you've removed some uncertainty yeah there's always some but you've removed a lot of uncertainty is this a six-month thing we're a two-month

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this a six-month thing we're a two-month thing you know it's closer to two than six
six that's what removing a lot of uncertainty so that should be a you know a big boost let's see what the stock market's doing today
stock markets look in it's a little mixed we got some ups we got some downs I would expect that yeah you should it should look mixed today that would be expected because yesterday was a big update all right so let's say go break the system here's the thing if enough of you demanded the drug without the test that's the law you get that right if nothing you go to your doctor's and are perfectly reasonable and by the way you're not cheating you're just being smart you and your doctor can have a you can have an honest conversation about risk and reward you're allowed to do that you're not breaking any laws so go

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that you're not breaking any laws so go do it go break the system break the system by the a day from now I want to hear that anybody with symptoms is getting that drug I don't want to hear that people are unwisely waiting five days just bully your doctor push them I know there's I know there's at least one person watching right now who doesn't want to hear the doesn't want to hear the sentence and bully your doctor but let me be as clear as I can on bully your doctor and for your own good yeah and if your doctor can't be bullied and don't be a jerk about it you don't need to be you just need to lay out the case and it should be fine you don't have to be you know have to actually be a bully or actually be a joke jerk but get what you want or go somewhere else and get it but get what you want you don't have to worry about not getting it all right let's see I saw so here's some

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all right let's see I saw so here's some CNN fake news so CNN had a headline that says a physician on Trump's request : it's really impossible so if you saw this headline physician on Trump's request now the topic was Trump was mentioning that maybe some of the n95 masks not all of them but some of them could be sterilized and reused so that's that's Trump's request so CNN Headline physician on Trump's request it's really impossible so you play the video and you expect to hear a physician say that it's impossible to sterilize any and 95 masks and so you play it and it's not there it's actually not there there's nothing in the interview in which this doctor said of Trump's request it's really impossible didn't use those words didn't use words to that effect basically just changed the subject because it's just the doctor she's now

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because it's just the doctor she's now some this random physician that you know who has some expertise about the disease probably does not have expertise on designing and testing and sanitizing n95 masks and to her credit did not offer an opinion because she's a doctor and she's not an expert on sanitizing and 95 masks of some types I'm pretty sure nobody is because nobody's really had to worry about it before so this is just grotesquely fake news it the headline doesn't have any any correlation with the actual story it's crazy so Prince Charles apparently got the corona virus seems to be feeling good what are the odds that he has already received the Trump pills they could call that they might call it something different in England what are the odds in the comments Prince Charles has coronavirus

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comments Prince Charles has coronavirus what are the odds he's not already taking the $20 regimen of Trump pills zero zero those are exactly the odds not one percent that he's not taking him not two percent he's taking him so gay so if you if you get you know those symptoms don't get your pills alright
that's about all I have to I don't know if masks can be sterilized by the way I'm just saying that the CNN headline was fake I think I've said what I want to say traffic seems to be pretty heavy right now so I'll say it again in an emergency you know leaders emerge you've got you've got your president you've got your head of your FDA you've got you know a head of the CDC a lot of leaders

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know a head of the CDC a lot of leaders emerge in a crisis but that does not absolve you of your responsibility to also be a leader you also get to be a leader all right now you can lead in your household you can lead on social media you can lead in any number of ways but you don't get to not be one all right this is not a spectator sport so lead it's time for the people to take the decision away from the government the government is giving you an Afghanistan strategy for testing you have a centralized make you wait die while you're waiting don't do the smart cost-benefit thing and take the meds right away if that's your government strategy then the government has lost its leadership okay it doesn't it doesn't have the moral authority to lead you anymore because that's and by the way I would also accept a good argument from the government that says I'm not

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from the government that says I'm not telling you the right stuff to do I would accept a good argument yeah Nevada it has put a limit on the drug but I think that has to do with shortage and it has to do with the fact that those drugs are used for other important diseases and those people don't want to be left without it so that the Nevada decision should be seen as proving it's useful because if Nevada thought that this was not a useful drug I don't think they'd act this aggressively I think they just sort of tried to talk you out of and say no don't you know that's not tested but when you see the lengths that they're going to secure there supply don't you know you should interpret that all right so that's the dog that isn't barking the dog that doesn't barking is that the drug works and if you're not getting it soon you're in the Afghanistan Obama strategy and it's not going to work all right that's

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it's not going to work all right that's all for now go break the system it needs to be broken in just those those few ways let's see if we can change that by the end of the week and by the way the the the studies that are happening in New York City because I think it was Monday they started giving people these Trump pills to test them it's Thursday right today's Thursday from Monday to Thursday you would already know if they worked but anecdotally they do work that fast anecdotally you already know in 24 hours if the patient is recovering or getting worse by the third day you pretty much know and I'm telling you that anybody who got the drug on Monday they might be close to symptom free by now so if we wait one more day that's a failure of leadership all right if we wait one more day where you have to wait for tests before you get the drug that's just a failure of leadership but it doesn't mean you have to fail because you can be a leader too so go make it happen go

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a leader too so go make it happen go break the system if it doesn't break itself talk to you later