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Jan. 15, 2021 - Epoch Times
10:00
Why Some Men Survived COVID-19 (by Their Wives) | Larry Elder
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Well, obviously the coronavirus has been catastrophic for our country, but if you notice, it affects different people different ways.
This is a 94-year-old World War II vet who spent 11 days in the hospital because of COVID. Signed up, 44.
1944.
That's when Norman MacArthur joined the Navy and fought in World War II. Now at the age of 94, Norman has survived another war, this time against COVID-19.
You can walk out that door, shake somebody's hand, and you got it.
Norman, or Mac as he likes to be called, became infected with the virus in late November and became so sick he had to be taken by ambulance to Kaiser Permanente, Riverside.
He gets out of the hospital, and according to local NBC News...
Fortunately, everyone recovered, including Mac, who got out of the hospital just in time to celebrate his 72nd wedding anniversary.
You see that?
Got out just in time to celebrate his 72nd winning anniversary.
There's a lot that we don't know about coronavirus, but there's a lot we do know.
We do know that it's contagious.
And we do know that in about 80% of people Who develop or catch coronavirus, the symptoms are very, very mild.
Cough, sore throat, small fever.
And only about 20% of people go on to severe illness.
And of those who develop severe illness, it can be fatal in a smaller group.
When we look at The population of people who are developing severe illness, they appear to be one of two groups, older adults and those with chronic or serious underlying medical illness such as heart or lung disease.
What we don't know is whether that is an and or an and or.
That is, are healthy older adults at increased risk, or is it only older adults who have coexisting medical conditions?
We don't know that yet.
Which means, had the old trooper died, he would have been survived by his spouse.
That brings me to the story of the 96-year-old World War II veteran in Indiana who also suffered from COVID-19.
Ferd Markley is a 96-year-old that lives in Holland.
He's a World War II veteran, a husband, a father, and grandfather.
And now he can also add coronavirus survivor to his long list of accomplishments.
And who took this old soldier to the hospital when he contracted COVID-19?
His wife, Jo, took him to the hospital.
She says within two days, they learned his COVID-19 test result was positive, and he was kept in isolation at St.
Ann Hospital for four days.
So had he not survived, and fortunately he did, he too would have been survived by his spouse.
Are you noticing a trend here?
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
This hotel opened October 23, 1966.
Today is March 8, 1987, and they're celebrating their 20th anniversary, which is exactly the way they count in the casino.
I... No, there's no time for laughter.
No time for laughter.
About 16 years ago, I stood on this stage with about the same amount of business.
There was always empty in the front when I worked there.
And I was doing my wife jokes at the time.
This is long before women's live in the ERA. And while I was doing jokes, I did a joke one night.
I said, women live longer than men.
And I said, the reason for it is that they're not married to women.
Now, it was not a big joke then.
Just part of a story.
A woman stood up, right about where you are there, who was a member of the State Assembly of Nevada, and this is absolutely true, she started to berate me about me being a male chauvinist pig, and there is no record, there are no recordings, no history, about women living longer than men.
Now, I haven't done this in a long time, and I dug out some of the obituaries, That I'd like to do for you now, just to prove this point.
Nothing has changed.
Good evening.
Would you turn around so we can get to a camera?
I put my glasses on.
When I did this bid 15 years ago, I didn't need the glasses.
But this is an obituary.
Would you examine it?
It's a Xerox copy and obituary.
New York Post, is that correct?
That's correct.
Nothing I made up.
There are seven obituaries.
Now, would you just read, without getting personal and mentioning the names, what does it say at the bottom of the first obituary?
He is survived by his wife.
Could you read the second obituary over here?
What does it say there, dear?
He is survived.
Survived by his wife.
Could you read the third obituary?
What does it say?
He leaves his wife.
See, they changed it around so you won't get bored.
And this one is, he is survived by his wife.
What does this one over here say, dear?
He is survived.
Survived by his wife.
And what does this one say here?
Survived by...
And what is it?
You know God done well without...
Survived by his wife.
Here, I want you to have that seven out of seven.
Now, wait a minute.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Wait one moment.
Good evening.
How are you, dear?
Those roots are not dead, you know.
Darling, please, this is the Los Angeles Times, is that correct?
I have nothing up my sleeves.
Will Rogers said, I only know what I read in the newspapers.
Here's the newspaper, obituary pages, three obituaries, okay?
Dr.
Carl Sachs, botany expert, is that correct?
Yes.
How old was he when he died?
Can you see that?
81.
81!
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.
What does it say at the bottom, dear?
He leaves his wife.
81.
Okay, now.
Next one.
Ludwig von Alder.
Mises.
92.
Is that correct?
92.
What does it say over there?
Survived by his wife.
92.
That's all.
Just the facts.
Okay.
Now.
Read the headline of the next obituate.
T.C. Kistner.
Retired architect dies at 99.
99!
Gave it a hell of a shot, didn't he?
What does it say over there, dear?
He leaves his wife.
Now, wait a minute.
Now.
I got him in every pocket.
Hello, darling.
This is from the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
This was sent to me in 1983.
Right here, it says here, West Point's oldest graduate dies.
Is that correct, dear?
Yes.
Nothing I made up.
No.
Oldest graduate, West Point.
How old was he when he died?
You see that?
Can't see.
You can't see?
This is your seeing-eyed dog.
Yeah, put your glass on.
It's too important.
Does a lot for you.
104.
104?!
West Point's oldest grad, 104.
Is that correct?
Right.
Died.
Okay, now.
Shut up, I'll be back there in a minute.
It says here, this man fought in the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Philippe campaign, Philippine campaign against the Mouros.
He was with Pershing when they gave Pancho Villa a new a***** south to the border.
Just look at this.
World War I night, look at this.
Four times he was awarded the Silver Star.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Not making this up?
No.
He received the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Croix de Guerre.
Yes.
Is that correct?
Yes.
What does it say at the bottom, dear?
Survived by his wife.
A man went up against arrows and bows, flamethrowers and bombs.
He beat them all.
The only one he couldn't beat was that old broad right there in Nevada, survived by his wife.
Now...
Good evening.
You're not Juliet Prowse, are you?
No, you're sitting down.
She always moves around.
Here is a Xerox.
This is going into the Smithsonian Institute.
Here is a letter from a young lady who heard me do this many years ago.
Sent this lovely note.
She was a widow and she said it was the first laugh she had received in years and I was very grateful about this since her husband died.
At the bottom she enclosed a little piece from a Reuter communique.
Would you read it?
This is from the newspapers.
Could you read what it says there?
It says, wife ends all.
Read it, please.
Mrs.
Vera Shermack of Prague, Czechoslovakia, on hearing that her husband was leaving her for another woman, threw herself from a third-story window to end it all.
Correct.
She was taken to a hospital and soon recovered.
Right.
Wait a minute!
She threw herself out of the third-story window to end it all.
Soon recovered.
itching.
Her husband on whom she landed was killed on the spot.
This threw us up out of the window and landed on the old man and he was wiped out.
Now that's it.
That's it.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
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