Ep. 621 - Putting Children In Masks To Make Adults Feel Safe
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a two year old child and her family were kicked off a United flight because she wouldn’t wear a mask. We’ll discuss why masking children is an especially pointless, cruel, and cowardly move. Also Five Headlines including Bill Gates telling us that we cannot go back to normal for a while yet. And his opinion is supposed to matter, for some reason. Also the Cleveland Indians solve racism by changing their name. And in our Daily Cancellation, I will cancel Jill Biden. One of many Jill Biden cancellations yet to come, something tells me.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a two-year-old child and her family is kicked off a United flight because she wouldn't wear a mask.
We'll discuss why masking children is an especially pointless, cruel, and cowardly move, so much that it manages to stand out amid all the other pointless, cruel, and cowardly things happening right now in relation to COVID.
Also, five headlines, including Bill Gates telling us that we cannot go back to normal For a while, you know, even over a year.
In his opinion, it's supposed to matter about this for some reason.
Also, the Cleveland Indians have solved racism by changing their name.
And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel Jill Biden.
One of many Jill Biden cancellations yet to come, something tells me.
All of that and more coming up today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, it's long been clear to anyone with a discerning mind that many of the measures we've seen ostensibly meant to curb the virus are actually just for show.
They are, at best, psychological protections designed not to make people safer, but to make people feel like they are safer.
They might be likened to the signs you see in restaurant bathrooms that say, employees must wash hands before returning to work.
Hopefully the employees already know to wash their hands.
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A video went viral over the weekend which reveals, I think, the charade and poetic fashion an unnamed DOJ official can be seen preparing to walk onto the stage for a press conference Right before walking onto the stage, he puts on his face mask.
Then he travels from the side of the stage to the podium and takes it off to speak.
So he has it on for all of about 10 seconds.
It's absurd, but in fairness to the bureaucrat in the video, it's really no different from the now common practice of wearing a mask as you walk through a restaurant.
Only to take it off and speak loudly at your table for 90 minutes.
You are least likely to spread COVID while walking quietly to your table.
Yet that's the precise time when you're made to wear the mask.
There's no scientific reason for this, except in the sense that a placebo effect is, in its way, a scientific phenomenon.
The problem, one of them anyway, is that the charade around COVID, the many placebos put in place, often go beyond merely annoying and venture into outright cruelty.
Cruelty, for example, of telling restaurants they can't even have outdoor dining, thereby dooming many of them along with their employees and owners to financial ruin, even while allowing, as we saw last week, movie studios to have large catered lunches in the same parking lot where the restaurants you just destroyed were having their outdoor dining that you just said was dangerous.
That's not just hypocritical and arbitrary, it's monstrous.
The people responsible are sociopaths who care for nothing and about no one, as long as they can project the appearance that they're doing something.
But when it comes to theatrical but cruel and ineffective COVID safety measures, near the top of the list has to be the requirement that kids, especially very young children, wear masks.
So we've seen episodes like this play out many times over the last several months, but this latest incident has gotten special attention for good reason, I think.
A young family, mother, father, and daughter, kicked off a United Airlines flight and initially banned, they said, from future flights because the daughter wouldn't wear a mask.
The daughter is two years old.
I say again, two years old.
Now, before we play the footage from the plane, here is the mother, Eliz Orban, talking about their experiences when they attempted to take a United flight from Denver to Newark, and here's what she had to say.
We just got kicked off the flight because our two-year-old would not put on a mask.
And we tried.
I mean, I'm gonna put a video on.
And they're sending all of our bags and Adeline's car seat to New York.
And we're banned off of United Forever because a two-year-old would not put on a mask.
So they kicked them off the flight, banned them, and still sent their bags to their destination.
Like I said, cruelty.
She says here that they tried to get the child to wear the mask, but she just wouldn't do it.
Indeed, they did.
In fact, as you can see in the video, if anything, they tried too much.
If you can fault a family at all in this situation, it's for being too compliant, if anything.
Though, I don't fault them or blame them because it's difficult for families to navigate this insanity, you know?
And I would know, as someone who has two toddlers and two other young children, it's very difficult.
We're being put in very difficult situations.
Anyway, here's what happened on the plane.
Watch.
Just move slightly, don't try to hit me, okay?
I know.
Okay, then move slightly, try to hit me.
I know.
Move slightly.
Okay.
Move slightly, try to hit me.
Okay?
Ahh!
Okay, I'll put you behind the seat now.
Try to try to hit me.
I'm not sure if I'm going to have enough grip to go on you, so I'm not going to have to go.
But, we've got to get better ones, no sir.
Why?
We're over here holding this mask on her face.
I'm sorry, sir.
And I took that opportunity and I ran with it.
You see this?
I'm literally filming her face.
You guys do this all the time or what?
What?
This is compliance.
I'm literally holding it over my daughter's face.
This is compliance right here.
We can't force her.
She's literally holding it and she's crying.
You're gonna do this to us?
Alright, let's go.
Okay, so then they get kicked off the plane.
They were so desperate.
To get the two-year-old to wear the mask, that the father was initially holding the mask over the child's face as she squirmed to get away.
But, which I wouldn't recommend doing, by the way, but that wasn't good enough.
And they were kicked off the flight and humiliated anyway.
This, of course, is total madness.
For several reasons, let's establish just two of them.
Have you ever tried to get a two-year-old to wear, like, a hat or gloves in the wintertime?
Even just getting them into the gear is like trying to force a cat to take a bubble bath, with them squirming and fighting and kicking to get away.
And once you manage to get them into their Eskimo suit, they will immediately begin shedding all the pieces as soon as they get outside.
Hat comes off, one glove, a boot, you know, and they're strewn somehow across, like, a mile, even though the kid wasn't even a mile away.
It's all off.
And then, of course, they cry because they're too cold and you have to go back inside.
90 minutes of preparation for 9 seconds of fun.
That's parenting in a nutshell.
But the point is, if you can't get a 2-year-old to wear a hat or gloves, even when it's cold outside and they at least partially understand why they're supposed to wear that stuff, you aren't going to get them to wear a piece of cloth over their face.
Especially when they have not the slightest clue why they have to.
Of course, every time I talk about this, I invariably hear from some proud parent somewhere who says, hey, I have a two-and-a-half-year-old and he wears the mask without a problem.
What's the issue with your kids?
Well, good for you.
Or maybe not.
Because if your two-year-old does wear the mask, either he's naturally one of the most remarkably compliant young children on planet Earth, Which may not be as good as it sounds in the long run, or you have successfully scared him so badly that he wants to wear it because he thinks he'll die or get screamed at if he doesn't.
And I'm guessing that most young children who wear the mask without a problem fit more into that latter category.
The fact is that most normal children at that age, if they have parents who are not willing to bully and terrify them, won't wear the mask.
And for whatever amount of time they do wear it, they're going to be chewing it, licking it, doing all kinds of other gross things with the mask.
And it will quickly make them far more susceptible to germs than they would have been without it.
That's the first point.
Second point, if we're supposed to follow the science, Why aren't we doing it here?
Children are not at all likely to spread the virus.
This is the whole reason why shutting down schools is such a monumentally terrible idea.
New York City shut down schools a few weeks ago when the positivity rate in the general population of the whole city supposedly had reached 3%.
But the positivity rate at school were somewhere around 0.2%, not 2%, 0.2%.
What this means is that children are only rarely contracting the virus and even more rarely spreading it.
And a study just published out of Iceland involving 40,000 people confirms this.
National Geographic report just came out yesterday says this 40,000 person study found that children under 15 were about half as likely as adults to be infected and only half as likely as adults to transmit the virus to others.
Almost all the coronavirus transmissions to children came from adults.
So, half is likely to be infected and half is likely to transmit it.
So then, what's the likelihood that a toddler with no symptoms both has the virus and will spread it if she does have it?
Very small.
But even that doesn't tell the whole story, because we can probably assume that the rare child who does spread the virus likely is symptomatic when they do.
That just seems like the most likely thing.
The chances of an asymptomatic child spreading the virus must be even tinier than these numbers then indicate.
Point being, that toddler on the plane is almost certainly not going to get you sick.
I mean, there's a chance, it's just not a very high chance.
Toddlers walking by you on the street Or sitting within proximity of you for a few minutes somewhere are even less likely.
And yet toddlers across the country on planes and off planes are forced to wear the mask.
Why?
Well, the answer is what we've already said.
It's a charade.
It's theater.
The point is to make people feel better, feel safer, feel like something is being done.
But it's certainly not making the children feel better.
You know, we're only confusing them at best, traumatizing them at worst.
So this is all about the adults.
That child had to be muzzled and then thrown off the plane so that the adults around her could have their hysterical paranoia assuaged.
Adults are making children suffer so that they, the adults, can feel safer.
This is the exact opposite of how society is supposed to work.
We're supposed to be the calming voices, the rational ones.
We're supposed to be the ones saying to the children, it's okay, everything will be fine, don't be scared.
Instead, now the adults are growling, put the mask on, put it on!
Put it on, you're scaring me!
It's cowardice unlike anything I've ever seen before.
It is the most ridiculous and undignified display I can possibly imagine.
But it's also not all that new.
I mean, this is par for the course in a certain way.
After all, we're a country that kills babies for being inconvenient, drugs children in school in order to make them cooperative in class.
So this is a logical extension of what we've already been doing.
It is then not surprising.
But we should be no less embarrassed and ashamed for it.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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I don't want to say much more about it than that.
I'm not happy about it, is all I can say.
When am I happy about anything?
Let's go number one here.
Bad news, I'm afraid.
Bill Gates, whose opinion on COVID is supposed to matter for some reason, says that it's going to be a while before life can return to normal, and it's going to be a while before restaurants can open again.
He was on with Jake Tapper and was talking about it.
This is what he had to say.
Certainly by the summer, we'll be way closer to normal than we are now.
But even through early 2022, unless we help other countries, Get rid of this disease, and we get high vaccination rates in our country, the risk of reintroduction will be there.
And of course, the global economy will be slowed down, which hurts America economically in a pretty dramatic way.
So we'll have, starting in the summer, about nine months where a few things like big public gatherings will still be restricted.
But we can see now that somewhere between 12 to 18 months, And we have a chance, if we manage it well, to get back to normal.
It's a longer clip that I'm not going to subject you to, but I watched the whole clip and it's never really explained why we should care what Bill Gates has to say or why he should have any say in this.
It's not even like he's predicting what will happen.
And that would be bad enough, because again, why do his predictions matter?
But he's just saying.
He's just saying.
Well, here's what we're going to be allowed to do.
By summer of next year, you can go fully back to normal.
Says who?
You?
But of course, Bill Gates has the ability and is able, has the luxury of sort of sitting back and speaking about these things.
Oh, yeah, you know, a few more months.
Well, keep the restaurants shut down.
You know, keep them down, shut down for four or five months, maybe longer.
Because he's a multi-billionaire.
And we should also mention that Microsoft, during this pandemic, like so many other giant billion-dollar corporations, has done very, very well.
They've done record profits, especially with everybody, you know, moving even more online, doing online meetings and stuff.
Microsoft, other big tech companies are doing very well.
Bill Gates, of course, owns a lot of shares of Microsoft, and so he's recording record profits.
He's making lots and lots of money, and he's sitting there and saying to restaurant owners, oh yeah, just stay down.
Just stay shut down for four more months.
We talked about being a sociopath.
I mean, this to me is sociopathy.
Just don't care at all.
Not even pretending to care.
Not even pretending to acknowledge the suffering.
That is what Of everything else, that's one of the main things that has graded me and I think has graded all of us throughout this entire thing, is that you not only have people like Bill Gates and Fauci and all these other bureaucrats and billionaires and rich people, not only are they pushing for these lockdowns, but they're not acknowledging at all the suffering.
They're just being flippant about it.
Because to them, it just doesn't matter.
And again, this makes them feel safer.
If society shuts down, Bill Gates feels safer.
Alright, speaking of symbolic moves, moving on, number two, Cleveland Indians.
Baseball team are going to be changing their name after, I think, what is it, 100 years?
Over 100 years.
105 years or something.
They've been the Cleveland Indians, and now it's been announced that they're going to change their name.
We don't know what they're going to change their name to yet.
I don't think they've officially come out with their statement, but this is the report.
I think we can pretty reliably say they're going to be changing the name.
Probably for 2021, I guess, they're going to be the Cleveland baseball team, like the Washington football team.
And why are they changing it?
Because it's offensive.
Just the Cleveland Indians is somehow offensive.
At least with the Redskins.
Now, I was against the Redskins changing the name, and the main reason I was against the Redskins changing the name, because in a vacuum, you know, putting everything else aside, if none of this other PC craziness was happening, and it was suggested that just the Redskins might change their name, I wouldn't have a big problem with it.
But when you're doing it in response to this PC tidal wave, and you're responding to the pitchfork mob, that's when I say we can't do it.
It's just like with tearing down statues.
Of all the statues that have come down, there might be a couple of them, of all the dozens that have been teared down, maybe a couple of them you could make an argument for taking those statues down.
A couple of them.
But, even for those, I would say in this environment they should stay up.
Because even if you can make an argument for it, what I know for sure you shouldn't do is take down a statue because the Pitchfork Mob is demanding it.
The Pitchfork Mob should never get what they want.
Period.
And if they demand it, that's reason enough not to do it.
At another time, if we can have just a thoughtful, intelligent conversation about this and be normal, civilized people, then maybe you could present your argument, but not in this environment.
So that was it with the Washington Redskins.
The Cleveland Indians, though, it's just Cleveland Indians.
What's offensive about that?
And of course, it immediately brings to mind the comparison, as people often do, and I have, you know, the fighting Irish, Notre Dame.
That name's still there, no one gets offended by that.
But even more than that, because that comparison does come up, here's something that rarely comes up.
The Boston Celtics.
Their mascot is a stereotypical leprechaun.
Nobody ever thinks to get offended by that.
I'm of Irish ancestry, I'm not offended by that.
I'm not offended by that because I'm an adult with a brain.
And I know that it wasn't meant in an offensive way.
They didn't put that name on there because they had some plot to offend Irish people.
Same with the Cleveland Indians, but... You know, I did read what... The Cleveland Indians have been around for a long time.
The name they had before the Cleveland Indians was apparently the Cleveland Naps.
N-A-P-S.
I don't know why.
I don't know where, I guess if I wanted to research it I could, but I don't care that much.
So they were the Cleveland Naps before, maybe they could go back to that.
I think that, you know, that is an appropriate name for a baseball team at least.
Okay, number three, I just want to play this for you, see if you can make sense of it.
A little bit of word salad on MSNBC.
Mainly I just want your help deciphering this, so listen and tell me if you can understand what's being said.
Can I just add to that for a second, Nicole?
Because, you know, in Joe Biden's absence, in the years that he's been away from the Senate, you know who has been there?
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who is in the Senate even as we speak and has had a front row seat to the climate that exists in the Senate and, you know, is probably, you know, giving Joe Biden quite an update on the Senate that he, you know, may now be about to work with or not be able to work with, you know, based on The up-close view and involvement that she has had in trying to see how Democrats can potentially work with Republicans.
She is somebody that has had direct experience with the exact players that he is going to have to attempt to reach out to and attempt to maybe restore bipartisanship with.
If anybody knows the potential for that, I think that this is another potential way in which she can be an asset to him.
Got it.
Did you get that?
I mean, I didn't get it, but I hope you did.
I don't know.
I'll have to run that through Google Translate.
Number four, the Vatican debuted its official nativity scene, and this is it.
You can see some of the pictures if you're watching the show right now.
You can see it.
If you're listening, I'll describe it to you.
And of course, the Vatican has their nativity scene every year.
Usually quite beautiful.
This year, not so much.
And I'm looking at some of the pictures now.
It's hard to even describe what's going on here, but it looks like First of all, just rant just basically just random objects sitting there and it I'm guessing that this is The Virgin Mary With holding the baby Jesus, but it looks like she has a almost like a an astronaut helmet on So this is like Darth Vader and then there's some weird demon like creature in the background This won't surprise you learn is modern art art
Big scare quotes around that.
This is a nativity scene.
These were sculptures that were sculpted in, I think, 1965 or something.
And this is the nativity scene the Vatican is giving us.
Modern art, once again, proven to be incredibly ugly and pointless and sort of revolting and slightly disturbing.
But also, you know, maybe one of the main things that bothers me about modern art is how sort of cowardly it is.
It's afraid to say anything.
Just abstract and weird and it's not really anything and, well, you can interpret it.
And that's some of the defenses of the people that have spoken up to defend this nativity scene have said, well, you know, you can interpret it.
You interpret it how you want.
I don't want to interpret it.
You're the artist presenting something to me.
You tell me what you're saying.
It's not up for me to tell you what you're saying.
You have something to say.
You want to present an image or something, present it.
But I should be able to know what it is.
It should be clear to me what you are saying.
It's not about me projecting my own thoughts onto your work.
That's what you get.
Of course, we can't get the traditional nativity scene, where it's just beautiful images, everybody understands what it is, and we can judge it as beautiful, because we understand what it is.
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And everybody else in the men's warehouse was staring.
But I'm glad the New York Times has picked up on that the same way that I was able to.
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All right, let's move on now to our Daily Cancellation.
Now, today for our Daily Cancellation, we must discuss the huge, massive, important scandal surrounding a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed.
That op-ed, if you can believe it, if you can even stomach hearing about it, if you can endure the shock, that op-ed criticized Jill Biden.
Shocking stuff.
Yes, the big news here is that First Ladies are off-limits again.
After four years of Melania Trump being mocked and belittled and criticized ruthlessly, even having her private conversations secretly recorded and published, I can now report that it is once again sexist to say anything bad about the First Lady.
The ring of protection is being placed around her once more.
That this ring of protection only seems to descend from the heavens when there's a Democrat in the White House is, of course, entirely coincidental.
Whether it'll be sexist or not to criticize the First Lady, that is something decided by the alignment of the planets and the stars.
It's quite mystical and mysterious.
There is nothing political about it.
Trust me on this.
And that is why this editorial from a man named Joseph Epstein has been met with extraordinary, unquenchable rage.
Here's the report, in variety, about it.
It says, The Wall Street Journal is facing backlash to its December 11th op-ed that chided incoming First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and suggested that she drop the doctor from her title during her time in the White House.
Written by Joseph Epstein, the column states that Dr. Jill Biden, that, quote, Dr. Jill Biden sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.
Contending that because Biden has her doctorate in education, not medicine, she should drop the title.
The piece also calls Biden a, quote, kiddo.
Sorry, excuse me.
I'm so scandalized that he called her kiddo that I have to stop and collect myself for a moment.
That's rough stuff.
That is rough, rough stuff.
Kiddo.
My God.
That piece also suggests that someone should only be called doctor if they have delivered a child and undermines the value of her education.
But many people on Twitter felt differently and didn't hold back in expressing their opinions.
Jill Biden's spokesman, Michael La Rosa, blasted the essay's sentiments and the Journal's decision to run it.
Addressing the Wall Street Journal's editorial features editor, La Rosa wrote on Twitter, James Toronto, you and the Wall Street Journal should be embarrassed to print the disgusting and sexist attack on Dr. Biden running on the opinion page.
If you had any respect for women at all, you would remove this repugnant display of chauvinism from your paper and apologize to her.
Hillary Clinton tweeted a simple yet effective statement.
Her name is Dr. Jill Biden.
Get used to it.
Will and Grace actor Debra Messing told the Wall Street Journal that their hatred for women is showing, and called the whole ordeal a disgusting display of misogyny.
Jamal Bowman, the Democratic representative-elect for New York's 16th congressional district and former middle school principal, wrote that, quote, the erasure of Dr. Jill Biden's expertise is shrouded in both sexism and disrespect for the teaching profession.
Educators are experts, he continued.
While we're at it, it's also Dr. Jamal Bowman.
And on and on.
Lots of histrionics, lots of tearful sexism accusations, lots of academics without medical degrees touting their own credentials.
Jill Biden, excuse me, Dr. Jill Biden, did not address the controversy directly, but did offer this response on Twitter, which is being hailed as an epic clapback.
She said, And to that, I would say, yes, we should celebrate our daughter's accomplishments.
We should also celebrate Jill Biden's accomplishments as soon as she has one.
For now, I must admit, I tend to agree with Joseph Epstein.
Jill Biden got a doctorate in education at the age of 55.
So good for her.
But I'm just not terribly impressed by a rich woman with lots of time on her hands and no young kids to care for getting a doctorate in education.
I certainly don't see why I should have to acknowledge the achievement every time I say her name.
You know, you could say it takes a lot of work to get a doctorate in education.
I'm skeptical, but maybe that's true.
What I do know, though, is that it takes a lot of work to become a great mechanic.
Or an expert electrician.
There are carpenters with so much skill and experience that they have reached the level of master carpenter.
And yet, if I was a master carpenter and insisted that you address me as Master Walsh, you'd think I was insane.
And that's exactly how I feel about people without medical degrees going around calling themselves doctors and demanding that you address them accordingly.
In fact, even medical doctors shouldn't want you to call them doctor outside of the doctor's office or similar professional setting.
I can see the need to single out the doctors with a special title when you're actually in a medical environment.
It's important to acknowledge who's the doctor and who isn't, right?
I don't see any reason to treat doctors with greater reverence or courtesy than I would anyone else in general society, though.
So even a medical doctor is only Mr. or Mrs. to me when I see them on the street.
But somebody with a doctorate in education?
Why would I give any special notice to that whatsoever?
I could sooner be convinced to honor someone with a title if they're a long-tenured shift supervisor at Wendy's.
As I find his achievements far more impressive than earning a useless degree because you're in your 50s and looking for something to do.
In fact, given that the fast food industry has been deemed essential by the government, maybe all the people in that line of work can affix essential to their names as a permanent honorific.
Actually, media is essential too, apparently, so I can do the same.
My name is Lord Matt Walsh Essential.
Pleased to meet you.
Or it would be, I guess, just Lord Walsh ES in writing.
The Lord part I'm just throwing in there because why not, you know?
I mean, we could just add whatever titles we want, I guess.
I could go buy a plot of land in Scotland or something and officially earn the title, I suppose.
In the end, of course, it doesn't matter what Jill Biden calls herself.
It's just sort of annoying and pretentious.
The main thing that makes me want to defend Epstein is that all of the most irritating and absurd people are losing their minds over what he said.
The more they demand that we call Jill Biden doctor and cry that it's sexist if we don't, the more I must insist otherwise and laugh at their tears.
Or bottle them in the handy vessel I have here for such purposes.
And that's why all the people whining today are cancelled.
Dr. Jill Biden is also cancelled.
So says I, Dr. Lord, Sir, Mr. Walsh, Esquire IV.
Also, by the way, Ben Shapiro is going to have a lot more to say on this subject.
And his wife is a doctor, by the way, if you hadn't heard.
So I'll be interested to hear his take on this issue.
But in any case, Jill Biden is still cancelled, I'm afraid.
As I said, many more cancellations to come in the future.
But we'll leave it there for today.
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