Part Of The Problem - Dave Smith - The Numbers Don't Lie
Aired: 2021-12-30
Duration: 57:05


=== Phenomenal Show Conclusion (13:15) ===

[00:00:00]  Fill her up.
[00:00:02]  You are listening to the Gash Digital Network.
[00:00:08]  We need to roll back the state.
[00:00:10]  We spy on all of our own citizens.
[00:00:12]  Our prisons are flooded with nonviolent drug offenders.
[00:00:16]  If you want to know who America's next enemy is, look at who we're funding right now.
[00:00:22]  Every single one of these problems are a result of government being way too big.
[00:00:26]  You're listening to part of the problem on the Gas Digital Network.
[00:00:30]  Here's your host, Dave Smith.
[00:00:34]  What's up, everybody?
[00:00:35]  Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
[00:00:37]  I am Dave Smith.
[00:00:38]  He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein.
[00:00:40]  This is, this is our last episode of the year.
[00:00:45]  I got Michael Malice coming on to do a year and review for our next episode.
[00:00:51]  But this is me and you.
[00:00:52]  This is it for us for 2021.
[00:00:55]  Another crazy year.
[00:00:56]  Congratulations, brother.
[00:00:57]  I think we did a good job.
[00:00:59]  I think it was the most honest reporting.
[00:01:02]  I mean, it was better than a lot.
[00:01:05]  I don't know if it was the most honest, but it was better.
[00:01:07]  Well, it was honest.
[00:01:07]  I don't know if it was the best.
[00:01:09]  It was definitely honest.
[00:01:11]  But yeah, you know, look, we, as the year comes to a close, I will say that as has been the case every year with us for quite a while now, this was our best year by far and the best year for the show.
[00:01:25]  The most people watching and listening and all of that.
[00:01:28]  And I would like just to say that, you know, I guess I'll talk about this a little on the episode with Malice, but I want to talk about it particularly on the episode with you that, you know, we're both very thankful to everybody who listens to the show and really appreciate what, you know, what you guys do for us by listening.
[00:01:47]  And I hope we keep bringing you value and bringing you fucking like good shows that, you know, help you think, you know, about what's going on in the world, hopefully entertain you a little bit and hopefully break some shit down the way other people don't.
[00:02:04]  So yeah, thanks to everyone who listens.
[00:02:06]  And on that note, it's cool as hell being able to show up to live events and actually see that you're real people and see that you guys are good and cool people.
[00:02:13]  And then specifically with the Meekawk stuff, that there's a vibrancy to the movement.
[00:02:18]  Yeah.
[00:02:19]  Isn't it a weird thing, right?
[00:02:20]  Like as we've experienced over the last few years and like COVID fucked a little bit of this up or whatever, but that we'd be like, you know, you kind of like look at the numbers, like as the show has been growing over the year and you, you know, you'd be like, oh, 30,000 people are listening.
[00:02:34]  Oh, 50,000 people are listening.
[00:02:35]  We've had this conversation in a green room to zero people for years.
[00:02:40]  Yes.
[00:02:41]  Well, that's exactly right.
[00:02:42]  You know, so it was like, it's just me and you talking.
[00:02:44]  And then like you, you come on the podcast.
[00:02:46]  And when you came on the podcast, we were already like, you know, we were in the tens of thousands of people listening, but it went, you know, as I'm saying, it's like, oh, shit, we hit 30,000.
[00:02:56]  Oh, we hit 50,000.
[00:02:58]  Oh, we hit 70,000.
[00:02:58]  We hit 100,000.
[00:02:59]  We hit that, like all these benchmarks.
[00:03:01]  And then you kind of have that.
[00:03:03]  And then you start going out on the road and like all these shows are sold out.
[00:03:07]  But it's not till you get there that you're like, oh, it's real.
[00:03:11]  You know, like before it was just a number that some fucking podcast app was telling me or like YouTube or whatever.
[00:03:17]  You're like, that's, that didn't feel that real, but this feels real.
[00:03:21]  And so that is the best.
[00:03:22]  And in 2022, we're going to be doing a lot of road shit.
[00:03:27]  You know, 2019, me and you kind of like started to go out on the road a bunch and like take this, this part of the problem touring.
[00:03:35]  2020 at the beginning, we were set.
[00:03:38]  We were like ready to tear it up and do a whole year of touring.
[00:03:42]  We had a lot of plans for that year, as many people did that got, you know, thwarted.
[00:03:47]  And then in 2021, we kind of got back on the road.
[00:03:50]  And then I, you know, my wife got pregnant and we had, you know, complications in the pregnancy and everything like that.
[00:03:55]  And I kind of like retreated and wasn't able to go out as much.
[00:04:00]  But 2022 coming up, we're back and we got some gigs.
[00:04:05]  And the first one coming up is Baston.
[00:04:09]  We're coming right back to Boston.
[00:04:11]  We always start with the most racist city we can find.
[00:04:16]  That is our rule here on part of the problem.
[00:04:18]  If we're going to go on tour, we're going to start.
[00:04:21]  Listen, give me somewhere where it's still acceptable to say all the words that I love to say.
[00:04:26]  So Boston, we're coming to you.
[00:04:28]  Tell them about it, Rob.
[00:04:29]  That's right, everybody.
[00:04:30]  We are back in Boston, the same venue we were at last time, which was an electric room.
[00:04:34]  It's January 13th and 14th on Thursday.
[00:04:36]  We're going to be doing an eight o'clock stand-up show, followed by a live podcast.
[00:04:40]  And then we're back Friday for another stand-up show.
[00:04:43]  So if you're in the Boston area, this is probably our only Northeast gig for a little bit.
[00:04:48]  Show up.
[00:04:48]  It's going to be a blast.
[00:04:49]  Yeah.
[00:04:50]  Two stand-up shows and a live part of the problem podcast back in Boston, back at the White Bull Tavern, which is a really cool room.
[00:04:58]  We really enjoyed doing it last time.
[00:05:00]  So please come out to the show.
[00:05:03]  And yeah, we're going to have a lot of fun.
[00:05:05]  That's one of the funnest venues I've ever played.
[00:05:07]  I like the way the audience was right on top of you.
[00:05:09]  Yeah, it was great.
[00:05:10]  It was a great time.
[00:05:12]  And I remember we did that show, I believe, I think it was the, was it early March?
[00:05:19]  It was like right before the world shut down.
[00:05:21]  It was literally like the first week in March.
[00:05:23]  And I remember talking to you and to Chris after the show.
[00:05:27]  And it was just such a great show.
[00:05:30]  And I said, I was like, I'm two months away from being ready to put another hour special out.
[00:05:37]  I go, I need two months to work out this material.
[00:05:40]  And it's going to be, this is going to be big.
[00:05:42]  I go, this is going to be better than Libertas.
[00:05:44]  This is going to be fucking like phenomenal.
[00:05:46]  And nothing could possibly get in my way.
[00:05:50]  Exact words, nothing.
[00:05:52]  And then I said, short of a global pandemic and a totalitarian government response, I don't see what could possibly stop me from putting out this next great hour of stand-up comedy.
[00:06:05]  And then that happened.
[00:06:08]  So, you know, look, you live and you learn.
[00:06:11]  Never jinx yourself.
[00:06:12]  That's the.
[00:06:13]  And your stuff is somewhat topical.
[00:06:15]  So that's like the Dave Smith lost hour.
[00:06:17]  That's kind of sexy.
[00:06:18]  Oh, dude, I had, I have it on audio recording somewhere, but the audio is so bad.
[00:06:23]  But I thought I'm supposed to, Scott Horton's been beating me down to send it to him.
[00:06:27]  I got to send it to him, but I have it on audio recording.
[00:06:30]  It is the Dave Smith lost hour.
[00:06:32]  It was my hour all about fucking 2019 into 2020.
[00:06:39]  A lot of great fucking bits about the whole presidential election and all that.
[00:06:43]  Yeah.
[00:06:43]  No, it all got.
[00:06:44]  Where's the recording from?
[00:06:46]  From my iPhone, literally from me.
[00:06:47]  No, no, no.
[00:06:48]  I'm saying which show.
[00:06:50]  I have Boston and I have the one we did in Philly also.
[00:06:54]  That was right around that time.
[00:06:56]  Both great shows.
[00:06:57]  And, you know, whatever.
[00:06:58]  Well, we're going to, we're getting back on the road.
[00:06:59]  The point is, it's all that stuff had to be burned.
[00:07:02]  None of it makes sense anymore, but we're fucking, you know, you live and you learn.
[00:07:08]  And or you live.
[00:07:09]  I don't know.
[00:07:10]  For all the things people had to sacrifice over the last couple of years, me sacrificing an hour of stand-up comedy doesn't seem like that big of a thing.
[00:07:18]  But anyway, we'll be up there.
[00:07:20]  And then after that, I am going to fly directly out to Arizona doing a big libertarian party event out there.
[00:07:28]  I'm going to be doing some stand-up comedy and giving a speech, I believe.
[00:07:31]  It's like the Libertarian, the Arizona LP convention.
[00:07:35]  And so that'll be a lot of fun.
[00:07:37]  A lot of great people will be out at that one also.
[00:07:39]  So I'll tweet the links out to both of these if you want to come check them out.
[00:07:45]  And then at the end of the month in January, I believe we have a gig in Connecticut for the Libertarian Party as well.
[00:07:52]  There's going to be a big after party.
[00:07:53]  Everybody's welcome, not just LP members.
[00:07:56]  So we'll tweet all these links out and come check us out.
[00:08:00]  And yeah, should be a lot of fun.
[00:08:02]  All right.
[00:08:03]  So I wanted to talk about, there was an article yesterday in the LA Times about the COVID Omicron variant.
[00:08:17]  Everyone's ultra going to die.
[00:08:18]  Before they were just going to die now, it's ultra deathy.
[00:08:21]  Now, it's pretty funny that you just like on the surface of it, as we've been, you know, describing for quite a while, on the surface of what's happening here, you see a variant that is,
[00:08:36]  I think already, it seems pretty clear, is far more contagious, substantially less deadly, and substantially more resistant to the vaccine emerging.
[00:08:53]  Now, what is the logical conclusion?
[00:08:56]  What is the only conclusion?
[00:08:58]  Corona's over.
[00:09:00]  Well, I mean, just think about this, right?
[00:09:02]  If you have a variant that's more contagious, less deadly, and more resistant to the vaccine.
[00:09:08]  Now, you could argue with me, if you will, about any of those three points, but I think the evidence is pointing in those directions.
[00:09:17]  What do you conclude from that?
[00:09:20]  You don't need a vaccine and Corona's over.
[00:09:22]  I mean, I think the really the only reasonable thing to conclude is that it's like, well, we kind of got to live with this.
[00:09:32]  And this is life now.
[00:09:34]  And yes, COVID is a thing.
[00:09:36]  It's unfortunate.
[00:09:37]  It's here to stay.
[00:09:38]  I wish Fauci hadn't fucked that bat and we didn't have to deal with COVID.
[00:09:43]  You know, I wish he hadn't created COVID by fucking that bat.
[00:09:47]  And sure, is this putting our YouTube channel at risk to reveal the truth like this?
[00:09:53]  Yeah, probably.
[00:09:54]  But the point is that the only logical conclusion from all of the information that we have is that it's like, well, then I guess none of these measures really make sense.
[00:10:04]  And we just have to accept the fact that it's like, this is going to be here.
[00:10:09]  At least it's better.
[00:10:11]  You know, work on the best therapeutics that we can, work on the best treatments, you know, and that's that.
[00:10:18]  Instead, the corporate press, their response is freak the fuck out.
[00:10:25]  And the government response is institute vaccine mandates and passports everywhere you can.
[00:10:32]  But this one particularly got to me as something that I thought was worth spending some time on.
[00:10:40]  And I will say, as, you know, I think because I got kids too, there's something about this that just really, really bugs me.
[00:10:49]  So let's jump into this.
[00:10:51]  This was an article from the LA Times.
[00:10:53]  This was trending number one on Twitter yesterday when it came out.
[00:11:01]  Or I'm sorry, the day before yesterday when it came out.
[00:11:04]  And this is the article is titled, this is again, the Los Angeles Times.
[00:11:12]  And the article is titled, Jump in Child COVID Hospitalizations in New York Sparks Concerns in California Amid Omicron, Omicron, Omicron.
[00:11:27]  Okay.
[00:11:28]  So right away, they're telling you that like there's a there's a jump in child COVID hospitalizations and that is concerning.
[00:11:39]  And as, you know, to people who have kids, like there's like nothing more concerning than that.
[00:11:48]  Like, oh my God, my kid could get sick from this.
[00:11:51]  We better make sure that we do whatever we can.
[00:11:56]  And especially when someone is reputable as the Los Angeles Times is telling you so, then, okay, there you go.
[00:12:03]  All right, so let's start reading the article and we'll get into it a little bit and see what we can learn from all of this.
[00:12:10]  Okay.
[00:12:12]  So a jump in child COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York is a warning to get more children vaccinated in California and elsewhere as the Omicron variant, as the Omicron variant continues to surge, according to California health officials.
[00:12:32]  The Omicron wave hit New York before California, where cases have been surging in the last week.
[00:12:38]  California officials said they are monitoring the rise in child hospitalizations.
[00:12:44]  Unfortunately, New York is seeing an increase in pediatric hospitalizations, primarily amongst the unvaccinated, and they have similar 5 to 11-year-old vaccination rates.
[00:12:57]  Dr. Erica Pond, the California state epidemiologist, wrote on Twitter: please give your children the gift of vaccine protection as soon as possible as our case numbers are increasingly rapid, are increasing rapidly.

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[00:13:16]  All right.
[00:13:17]  Well, right away, that sounds concerning, right?
[00:13:20]  I mean, numbers are increasing rapidly.
[00:13:23]  And don't you want to give your kids the gift of the vaccination?
[00:13:26]  That's what my kids asked for for Christmas.
[00:13:29]  Yeah.
[00:13:29]  I mean, I would recommend that you don't give your kids that gift in lieu of actual gifts.
[00:13:36]  Your kids might start to resent you, but okay.
[00:13:39]  That's, you know, as I've said many times before on the show, you're already getting into begging the question territory.
[00:13:50]  And begging the question, by the way, is something people use wrong all the time.
[00:13:56]  But just meaning that it's circular logic.
[00:13:59]  So if you say, like, oh my God, people are having the, you know, people are going to the hospital.
[00:14:09]  So we obviously need to get them vaccinated.
[00:14:12]  Well, you're, you're begging the question, which is that you're assuming that vaccines are going to stop them from being hospitalized, but you actually have to prove that.
[00:14:22]  You can't just assume it and assume that the answer is therefore that people need to be vaccinated to not be hospitalized.
[00:14:29]  Okay.
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=== Alarming Hospitalization Claims (15:29) ===

[00:15:59]  All right, let's get back into the show.
[00:16:01]  Let's back to the article.
[00:16:03]  The increase in concept, the increase is concentrated in New York City and surrounding metro areas.
[00:16:09]  Officials describe pediatric admissions quadrupling in New York City in recent weeks.
[00:16:16]  Half of the children being admitted to the hospital are younger than five and ineligible for vaccination.
[00:16:24]  Three quarters of those ages 12 to 17 who were admitted into the hospitals for COVID-19 were not fully vaccinated.
[00:16:32]  And 100% of those 5 to 11 who were admitted into hospitals were not fully vaccinated.
[00:16:40]  So let's take apart that for a second.
[00:16:46]  So, okay, half of the children being admitted to hospitals are younger than five and they're ineligible for the vaccine.
[00:16:56]  So, okay, that is, that does sound alarming.
[00:17:02]  And the idea that before that it says that there's been a quadrupling, that sounds alarming too.
[00:17:10]  So, okay.
[00:17:11]  Three quarters of those ages 12 to 17 who were admitted into the hospital for COVID-19 were not fully vaccinated.
[00:17:18]  So that's actually a kind of interesting statement, right, Rob?
[00:17:24]  I mean, what, what, there's a lot of like relevant data that already you can just tell.
[00:17:32]  I mean, if you're just looking at this and not just like going, oh my God, I'm going to be hysterical.
[00:17:36]  Kids are being hospitalized, which is clearly the message of this article with no, you know, real sound data.
[00:17:46]  You'd start to go like, okay, well, there's some a few things.
[00:17:49]  Like if you're looking at this critically, you'd be like, there's a few things that they're not telling me here.
[00:17:54]  Number one, how many?
[00:17:58]  I mean, don't just tell me there's an increase.
[00:18:02]  Don't tell me that, you know, the percentage increase of children going to the hospital.
[00:18:12]  Tell me how many were going and how many are going now.
[00:18:16]  That's important, no?
[00:18:18]  Because if I, you know, if you went from, let's say, I don't know, you went from two to 10.
[00:18:29]  Well, that's a huge increase in the number of people going to the hospital, but it's not a huge number.
[00:18:36]  But if you went from 2 million to 10 million, that's a huge increase in the number, right?
[00:18:41]  So just saying that like the percentage increase alone doesn't give you that much information, right?
[00:18:48]  So give me the number as well as the increase.
[00:18:53]  Just to clarify, no, just to clarify how flagrant that is, a two to three increase or a one to two, actually a one to two increase is 100% increase, but it's irrelevant.
[00:19:02]  The fact that you now have two kids in a hospital in a city of a million people is literally meaningless, but it's a very alarming stat.
[00:19:11]  I can tell you that if you're a person reading these articles, anytime they're not giving you real numbers, it's because more often than not, if the real numbers supported a reason to be alarmed, they'd be telling you the real numbers, which also they pull the reverse trick sometimes will be like a thousand people.
[00:19:28]  And then you realize, well, a thousand people is also meaningless because like they'll tell you there are a thousand deaths in the country, which, well, there's 350 million people, a thousand.
[00:19:37]  And then like, so in percentage terms, that wouldn't be impressive.
[00:19:40]  Yeah.
[00:19:40]  I won't tell you the percentages.
[00:19:42]  They always go with what's more alarming.
[00:19:44]  That's exactly right.
[00:19:45]  Exactly right.
[00:19:46]  And that's when they say a quadrupling in New York City in recent weeks, this is just what's like, like to me, it's so transparently dishonest.
[00:19:56]  It's like, I have no problem, say quadrupling and then in parentheses, give me the numbers.
[00:20:02]  Why wouldn't you?
[00:20:03]  You know, because as you pointed out, if it's like, just use extreme examples, right?
[00:20:08]  If it's one to two and that's 100% increase, that is meaningless.
[00:20:12]  That means nothing.
[00:20:14]  Even though it's a 100% increase, it means nothing.
[00:20:17]  It could be completely random and basically means there's no issue here at all.
[00:20:21]  But if it's a 1 million to 2 million, that's a huge deal that it's a 100% increase.
[00:20:28]  So just give me the numbers.
[00:20:30]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:20:31]  But of course, they don't want to do that.
[00:20:33]  Now, the other thing that jumps out to me there, there's two other things in this next paragraph.
[00:20:42]  It's that three quarters of those ages 12 to 17 who were admitted into the hospital were not fully vaccinated.
[00:20:50]  Now, another way to say that, if you're not trying to paint the narrative, is that 25% of those admitted were fully vaccinated.
[00:20:59]  Okay.
[00:21:00]  Now, the other thing you'd want to ask yourself there is, what percentage of 12 to 17 year olds are fully vaccinated?
[00:21:09]  All of this data seems very relevant to the case that you're trying to make.
[00:21:15]  And I don't know, by the way, I've been trying to find this all day long.
[00:21:18]  I've tweeted out about it.
[00:21:19]  You've been looking this up.
[00:21:20]  I do not know exactly what the percentage of 12 to 17 year olds in New York City are who are fully vaccinated.
[00:21:29]  And I'm willing to assume that maybe it's more than 25%, but how much more?
[00:21:36]  I doubt it's much more.
[00:21:39]  You know?
[00:21:40]  So I mean, there are certain demographics of adults that are not more than 25% vaccinated.
[00:21:48]  I don't know.
[00:21:48]  So in other words, a high rate of vaccinated kids might still be like, in other words, the reason why it's 75% unvaxed is because most of the kids in that age bracket are not vaccinated.
[00:21:59]  Exactly.
[00:21:59]  So in other words, this is not proof that you should be getting vaccinated.
[00:22:03]  It's nothing at all.
[00:22:04]  So if you say, if let's just say hypothetically, if 12 to 17 year olds, if 25% of them were vaccinated, of all 12 to 17 year olds, and then you said, well, of the ones hospitalized, 25% of them were vaccinated.
[00:22:19]  That would be evidence that the vaccine isn't doing anything.
[00:22:23]  Not that it's doing a lot, like that it's just.
[00:22:25]  Or even worse, if only 10% of kids were vaccinated.
[00:22:28]  Then it would be evidence that.
[00:22:29]  Yes.
[00:22:30]  So we don't know.
[00:22:31]  Now, if, but, and then continue that out.
[00:22:34]  If 35% of that age group is vaccinated, then it's very weak evidence that it's really doing anything.
[00:22:42]  You're not, if you're already telling me a quarter of the people least likely to have been vaccinated, then I don't know.
[00:22:49]  It doesn't really mean anything.
[00:22:51]  And then the other part they never tell you, are these fat, goofy kids or is this going to harm my regular kids?
[00:22:55]  They never tell you that part.
[00:22:57]  Are we talking regulars?
[00:22:58]  Yeah.
[00:22:59]  Or what?
[00:23:00]  And then, of course, say 100% of those 5 to 11 who were admitted into hospitals were not fully vaccinated.
[00:23:07]  But again, what percentage of 5 to 11 year olds are fully vaccinated?
[00:23:15]  I'd have to imagine it's a very, very small percentage.
[00:23:18]  But I, you know, I don't know.
[00:23:20]  But again, I don't know because the article isn't telling you any of this because that's not what they're interested in doing, clearly.
[00:23:26]  They're just interested in telling you, give your kids the gift of vaccination.
[00:23:30]  Vaccinate your kids, which of course has to be, again, as we were saying before, we got a new variant that is more contagious, less deadly, and more resistant to the vaccines.
[00:23:43]  And so, of course, the message is vaccinate your baby.
[00:23:47]  All right.
[00:23:48]  The warning about pediatric hospital admissions comes as California's public health director and health official, Dr. Thomas Aragon, warned that the state's modelers are predicting hospital surges for California.
[00:24:03]  Why?
[00:24:04]  Omicron is contagious, is so contagious that it finds unvaccinated non-immune people who are most vulnerable for hospitalization.
[00:24:15]  You gotta pause there.
[00:24:17]  Okay, I mean, what's so annoying about this is if Omicron is just finding the unvaccinated non-immune people, so if 80% of the population has been vaccinated, is what, 100% of the unvaccinated people are going to end up in hospitals, that the hospitals are going to be overwhelmed.
[00:24:35]  I mean, how many times can they keep pretending like hospitals are going to be overwhelmed?
[00:24:39]  And what evidence do you have that Omnicron is as worse as the previous variations that we've had of this, which have yet to overrun hospitals?
[00:24:47]  How can you still make this claim?
[00:24:51]  We're going on two years, Robbie.
[00:24:53]  Two years of this claim.
[00:24:55]  Also, anytime you see modelers, like you just know that it's not real information.
[00:25:01]  Yes.
[00:25:01]  No, I think that's a, I think that's a good, a good rule of thumb.
[00:25:05]  All right.
[00:25:07]  Aragon urged people to get vaccinated and boosted to test before risky events as well as three to five days after them and to consider skipping or postponing high-risk indoor gatherings.
[00:25:19]  What's a low-risk indoor gathering?
[00:25:21]  How does he categorize that even?
[00:25:23]  I guess staying at home in your studio apartment alone.
[00:25:26]  Oh, all right, fair enough.
[00:25:28]  So he also suggested improving ventilation and air filtration and improving the fit the fit and quality of masks.
[00:25:35]  Health experts have increasingly urged people to update their masks from cloth masks alone.
[00:25:41]  A more productive, more productive wearing setup involves a cloth mask over a surgical mask, which improves the fit and even more blah, blah, blah, blah.
[00:25:51]  Okay.
[00:25:52]  Advice on masks.
[00:25:53]  Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical advisor.
[00:25:57]  I think before we get into this, there's another detail on the kids that I think is worth pointing out.
[00:26:04]  So to me, they're painting a picture here that unlike the earlier variants, kids are more at risk for Omicron than they were for the other ones.
[00:26:12]  What they're not actually telling you here, though, is that if there is a spike in hospitalizations, like they're not comparing it to the earlier waves.
[00:26:21]  So if you look at Delta, I think I sent you an article from the CDC that when Delta was going on, there was like 10 times more.
[00:26:27]  Every time there's a wave and you get this giant increase in people getting sick, you're going to have an increase in kids.
[00:26:33]  But are they more at risk than they were?
[00:26:34]  Like they make it seem like, hey, the kids were always fine, but now we got this new variant and now they're at risk because hospitalizations have jumped.
[00:26:42]  They don't give you the real numbers.
[00:26:44]  And then I looked into it because all of these New York City articles were referencing one database.
[00:26:48]  I went into the database and I pulled it.
[00:26:50]  They were telling you the rate of hospitalization, not the actual hospitalization.
[00:26:54]  So I couldn't make a firm reading on what they were telling you.
[00:26:56]  But I did look at every single spike and this is no more aggressive.
[00:27:00]  Like their term of rate of hospitalization is no more aggressive now than it was during any other spike.
[00:27:06]  Right, right.
[00:27:07]  Okay.
[00:27:08]  And you would think, you know, if you weren't just trying to scare the shit out of parents, maybe you'd mention that.
[00:27:17]  Maybe you'd be like, hey, this is.
[00:27:19]  And the total deaths from the earlier spikes were not that much.
[00:27:21]  So you would go to a current spike, yet this is exactly what we saw the last two times.
[00:27:28]  It's actually not a higher rate of hospitalization in the last two times that resulted in close to zero death.
[00:27:33]  And then if you were really good with this stuff, you'd be able to see where we are in the spike charts of how much longer this is going to even go, which is math, I can't do, but I can just tell you they're like, they got fancy models.
[00:27:44]  They could actually put them to use.
[00:27:46]  Yeah.
[00:27:46]  No, that's exactly right.
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[00:28:53]  Go to the kinds of indoor parties attended by dozens of people whose vaccination status you don't know.
[00:29:00]  Fauci said it's safer for people to attend smaller size gatherings with family and friends in homes where everyone is known to be vaccinated and boosted and even safer if people get rapid tests just before the event.
[00:29:13]  So how about instead of that, just tell me, like, what evidence you have that the vaccination actually like is going to prevent against you getting this or getting very sick or anything like that.
[00:29:26]  Like, remember they used to use these numbers, Rob?
[00:29:29]  Remember when they used to say 99% of vaccinated people don't get hospitalized or die or any of that?
[00:29:36]  You know, even when we would break down why the numbers were kind of felonious.
[00:29:42]  Yeah, not even trying.
[00:29:43]  Just Fauci said.
[00:29:45]  That's our next paragraph.
[00:29:46]  Fauci said, and he hasn't been wrong about anything.
[00:29:50]  Fauci on Sunday told ABC that recent data from Britain shows that it's that in its Omicron wave, a lower percentage of newly infected people are needing hospitalization.
[00:30:02]  Hmm.
[00:30:03]  That's crazy.
[00:30:05]  Interestingly, the duration of hospital stay was lower.
[00:30:09]  The need for oxygen was lower.
[00:30:12]  Fauci said on ABC's this week.
[00:30:13]  Well, you got to pause again.
[00:30:14]  So in other words, less people are going to the hospital.
[00:30:16]  And when they do go to the hospital, it's not as serious of a condition.
[00:30:20]  But interestingly, interestingly, the duration of the hospital stay was lower.
[00:30:25]  That is so interesting.
[00:30:28]  You know, I don't know why that would be.
[00:30:32]  Okay.
[00:30:33]  So, and but he's saying that the high volume of new infections, from the article, the high volume of new infections, the variant could find many more people who haven't been immunized and could still result in hospitals becoming overwhelmed.
[00:30:49]  Because of course, Rob, that can always happen.
[00:30:51]  That still could happen.
[00:30:52]  And by the way, and there's no math that can be done on this.
[00:30:54]  There's no math that could be done on how many people have natural immunity, how many people have been vaccinated, what percentage of the unvaccinated are actually at risk of going for a hospital, how many beds are available, where are we within the spike?
[00:31:08]  I'm not even that good with data and analytics.
[00:31:10]  I failed stats four times in college, and I'm not a scientist.
[00:31:14]  And I can tell you you could be figuring this out.
[00:31:16]  Yes, yes.
[00:31:17]  So, and here's back to that point of two guys who aren't, you know, professionals or aren't, you know, statisticians or anything or epidemiologists.
[00:31:26]  But look, here's the next paragraph.

=== Severe Illness Reality Check (11:30) ===

[00:31:28]  Unvaccinated people, quote, are the most vulnerable ones when you have a virus that is extraordinarily effective in getting to people and infecting them the way Omicron Omicron is.
[00:31:40]  You got to pause again.
[00:31:41]  So, why are they more at risk if this virus is so extraordinary and it might be so extraordinary can even get to the vaccinated?
[00:31:49]  So, why are the unvaccinated more at risk?
[00:31:52]  Well, and then you might ask yourself, like, unvaccinated people are more at risk.
[00:31:57]  Okay, well, if you're claiming that, like, let's break that down into subgroups a little bit.
[00:32:04]  So, unvaccinated people are at greater risk.
[00:32:07]  Well, how about unvaccinated with natural immunity versus vaccinated without natural immunity?
[00:32:16]  You know, are all unvaccinated people at a higher risk than vaccinated people?
[00:32:23]  I'm just saying, none of this data is being given to us.
[00:32:28]  All right, let's continue.
[00:32:30]  While unvaccinated people are at the highest risk of contracting the virus and suffering severe illness, the Omicron variant, the Omicron variants, mutations increase the risk of breakthrough infections amongst those who are vaccinated.
[00:32:49]  Still, vaccinated people, especially those who are boosted, are expected to be generally protected from severe illness and death unless they have a weakened immune system.
[00:32:59]  Now, let me just, yes.
[00:33:01]  Ooh, is that a hell of a line?
[00:33:03]  Okay.
[00:33:04]  Well, yeah, okay.
[00:33:05]  You go first.
[00:33:06]  Oh, man.
[00:33:07]  Oh, man.
[00:33:09]  Let's just look at this.
[00:33:11]  Let me read this one more time.
[00:33:13]  Vaccinated people, especially those boosted, are expected to be generally protected from severe illness and death unless they have a weakened immune system.
[00:33:26]  Yeah, they are.
[00:33:29]  You are expected to be generally protected from severe illness and death unless you have a weakened immune system.
[00:33:41]  If you're vaccinated and boosted, hear me one more time.
[00:33:45]  With COVID, if you are vaccinated and boosted, you are expected to be generally protected from severe illness and death unless you have a weakened immune system.
[00:34:00]  You know, that sounds to me a lot like COVID.
[00:34:08]  That sounds to me a lot like this whole entire thing is, let me tell you something, okay?
[00:34:16]  And this is just a fact.
[00:34:18]  And if you guys want to, you know, if they want to pull down the channel or give me shit for all of this, fine.
[00:34:24]  But here's the sentence.
[00:34:25]  I'll give you it one more time.
[00:34:26]  And then I'm going to give you my sentence, which is equally true to this.
[00:34:30]  Vaccinated people, especially those who are boosted, are expected to be generally protected from severe illness and death unless they have a weakened immune system.
[00:34:40]  Let me tell you something.
[00:34:42]  Unvaccinated people, this is my sentence.
[00:34:44]  Unvaccinated people are expected to be generally protected from severe illness and death unless they have a weakened immune system.
[00:34:53]  That is a fact.
[00:34:55]  That is how COVID works.
[00:34:58]  You will generally be expected to not suffer severe illness or death unless you have a weakened immune system from COVID.
[00:35:09]  That is a fact.
[00:35:10]  That is what the data backs up.
[00:35:12]  So that's the best you can offer for vaccinated and boosted people that they're still right where everybody else who has COVID is.
[00:35:24]  All right.
[00:35:27]  Fine.
[00:35:28]  But that's where we always were.
[00:35:31]  Sorry, is there anything else you wanted to on top of that?
[00:35:34]  I think you nailed it, dude.
[00:35:36]  Well, okay, so one more thing.
[00:35:39]  I just love the legal language of that it's what if you're boosted, you're expected, which doesn't mean anything.
[00:35:46]  Like we expect that that's not, that's not a very firm claim.
[00:35:51]  Yeah.
[00:35:51]  The amount of kickers he throws in here, it's unbelievable.
[00:35:55]  It's just so sick that an article that's designed to say like, give your kids the gift of vaccination and all this shit and like scare people about what's happening with children that they'd even like say something like that where it's like, yeah, dude, like that's, you're really going to bring this up that this is, this is the reason why you have to get your five-year-old vaccinated.
[00:36:16]  By the way, just to explain like to all of these kickers would be like, I mean, I don't even know if the basketball season is going on right now, but if the Knicks were playing tomorrow night, you'd be like, I expect that the Knicks will win if Michael Jordan from his prime also was playing with them along with Larry Bird in his prime.
[00:36:34]  Like every time you add a kicker, you're reducing from your earlier sentence of what you believe, which is he's added like 15 kickers here.
[00:36:43]  Yeah.
[00:36:44]  Yeah.
[00:36:44]  But it's also kickers that would apply to anything.
[00:36:47]  I mean, this is just COVID.
[00:36:49]  Like this is, this is what it's been from the very beginning.
[00:36:52]  And everyone knows that.
[00:36:54]  You know, you're generally protected.
[00:36:57]  You're expected to be generally protected from severe illness or death in COVID unless you have pre-existing conditions.
[00:37:06]  Right.
[00:37:06]  Because severe illness and death doesn't even mean hospitalization.
[00:37:09]  You can end up in the hospital with what's not considered severe illness.
[00:37:12]  Well, we'll get into that in a second, which is another thing.
[00:37:17]  Well, let's save the big punch for now.
[00:37:19]  Oh, you know, I didn't even realize that was coming.
[00:37:21]  My bad.
[00:37:21]  Yes, we got a big punch coming.
[00:37:24]  Okay.
[00:37:25]  At its peak last winter, LA County was averaging about 16,000 new COVID cases a day.
[00:37:31]  Officials have warned that LA County could be on track to see daily case numbers that could break that record with as many as 20,000 new cases a day.
[00:37:40]  Okay.
[00:37:40]  I also remember Delta being predicted to have a huge September, October spike that never came.
[00:37:47]  So whatever, they're predicting that.
[00:37:48]  But I, you know, I'm not opposed to the idea that maybe this is going to happen with Omicron because I do think this is the most highly contagious variant that we've seen yet.
[00:38:02]  The percentage of coronavirus tests in LA County coming back positive has risen dramatically.
[00:38:08]  For the seven-day period that ended Sunday, 10.8% of COVID tests, coronavirus tests had positive results.
[00:38:17]  By comparison, for the seven-day period that ended on December 20th, 3.4% had positive results.
[00:38:26]  Yeah, there's a wave.
[00:38:28]  No question.
[00:38:29]  Right.
[00:38:29]  And by the way, and that's another critical thing that they're not telling us is now we've had multiple waves before this.
[00:38:34]  So we could be comparing it to the previous waves to let us know whether, like, how much worse that this potentially is.
[00:38:41]  Well, you're also talking, they're talking about LA County.
[00:38:44]  You know, it's not as if they're talking about like you, you know, this isn't some dunk like they're talking about somewhere in like a red district in Florida or something like that.
[00:38:54]  You're talking about an area that's had all of the policies that you guys have asked for.
[00:38:58]  And yet, yes, there's still a wave coming.
[00:39:01]  It kind of goes to prove the point that we've been making this whole time.
[00:39:04]  And it's like, yes, these waves are going to come.
[00:39:07]  And, you know, Tom Woods has that great.
[00:39:09]  Have you seen the Tom Woods quiz that he has?
[00:39:13]  You mentioned on the last one.
[00:39:14]  I'm going to have to look this up.
[00:39:15]  Yeah.
[00:39:15]  So it's great.
[00:39:17]  It's just a quiz that he has.
[00:39:18]  It's just charts and you have to guess which state this chart is and when the mask mandate came and when all of this and what policies they used.
[00:39:27]  And the giveaway, the spoiler of it all is that you can't.
[00:39:31]  You can't pass this quiz.
[00:39:33]  He's made a quiz that it's impossible to pass.
[00:39:35]  You will not get a passing grade.
[00:39:37]  You have no idea.
[00:39:38]  It's impossible to say.
[00:39:39]  When did the mask mandates come in?
[00:39:41]  When did all this happen?
[00:39:42]  What state are these?
[00:39:43]  What measures did they take?
[00:39:45]  And the point of it at the end is that now the virus kind of moves the way the virus is going to move.
[00:39:51]  And it's funny, you know, the more time that goes on, the more we can look back and see.
[00:39:56]  It's like they, you know, they can justify the policies they're taking right now.
[00:40:00]  But when it's like, you know, as we come up on the end of the year and we look back at this year, and of course, also most of last year, and as we're going to Boston, the place that we were at in March of 2020, it's like you realize how, okay, so right now it's pretty well accepted.
[00:40:20]  This is pretty much accepted science that it's in New York, COVID, the winter is kind of the spiky period.
[00:40:30]  You know, like there's other spikes, but the winter is the bad one.
[00:40:34]  And in like Florida, the summer is the bad period.
[00:40:37]  And, you know, everyone realizes at this point now that the reason is it's when people stay home.
[00:40:47]  Like when people stay home, when people stay indoors, that's when cases tend to spread, like the virus spreads more.
[00:40:54]  So if it's freezing outside and everyone's at home, people spread COVID more because it's easier to spread it indoors than outdoors.
[00:41:04]  And same in Florida in the summer when it's like so crazy hot that you stay home.
[00:41:09]  And if you remember, the initial policy was to get people to stay home.
[00:41:17]  They were roping off basketball courts and playgrounds and things like this to make sure that people didn't go out.
[00:41:25]  Just stay home.
[00:41:27]  Just go to the supermarket and then go straight home.
[00:41:30]  This is terrible advice.
[00:41:31]  No one's even pretending that this is good advice anymore.
[00:41:35]  But, you know, at the time, that was what they were saying.
[00:41:38]  And, you know, so they were dead wrong.
[00:41:40]  And now they'll start saying all this shit.
[00:41:41]  And, you know, it won't be another six months till they admit that it was dead wrong.
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=== NYC Pediatric Surgey Data (13:06) ===

[00:42:58]  Okay, going back to the article.
[00:43:02]  Los Angeles County COVID-19 hospitalizations have also increased significantly since December 1st from 569 to 904 on Christmas, an increase of 59%.
[00:43:16]  Thank you there for actually giving us the numbers, which actually kind of let you know an increase of 59% sounds a lot worse from 569 to 904, like still not that many people in LA.
[00:43:32]  But the latest number is far less than it was a year ago when vaccinations had just been introduced and were in sharply limited supply in LA County on December 25th, 2020.
[00:43:43]  There were 6,815 people with COVID-19 in LA County hospitals, up from 2,572 on December 1st, 2020.
[00:43:56]  Yeah, I mean, the waves come at different times.
[00:43:58]  At its peak, LA County logged 8,098 COVID-19 hospitalizations on January 5th, a time that coincided with overwhelmed hospitals and overflowing morgues.
[00:44:16]  All right.
[00:44:17]  Well, you know what's infuriating about this is that if they, I guess, disclosed the data and kept honest data, it would be very easy.
[00:44:25]  I mean, the picture that that paints is that, hey, the current version of this is way less concerning than the earlier version.
[00:44:32]  So even though there's an increase, hey, let's remember that there was a time when there was 8,000 people in the hospitals.
[00:44:38]  Right.
[00:44:38]  But it would be more interesting to me.
[00:44:40]  And this is not hard to keep these numbers.
[00:44:42]  When the people were in the hospitals, then how many of them were vaccinated?
[00:44:46]  How many of them were unvaccinated?
[00:44:49]  And currently, the people in hospitals, how many of them are vaccinated?
[00:44:51]  How many of them are unvaccinated?
[00:44:53]  How many of them are healthy?
[00:44:54]  How many of these people had pre-existing conditions?
[00:44:56]  What's your rate of risk with the current version of this compared to the earlier version of this?
[00:45:00]  If you're a generally speaking healthy individual who's both vaccinated and unvaxed, there should literally just be a chart online with like, if you're fat and age 65, unvaxed, here's your risk factor.
[00:45:11]  If you're fat, age 65, vaccinated, here's your risk factor.
[00:45:15]  You know what I mean?
[00:45:16]  Like this could literally be broken out by age group, by weight, by the way, when I look on the back end of this stuff, they keep records based on race and ethnicity.
[00:45:26]  Like they could do this math to a T where you could be looking at one chart and just going, here's my age, here's my race, here's my weight, here's my risk.
[00:45:36]  There's no reason why we don't have that.
[00:45:37]  It should be the first thing on Google.
[00:45:39]  Yep, that's absolutely right.
[00:45:41]  All right.
[00:45:42]  So, you know, I'm not even sure if I want to keep reading from the article or I want to get to our, you know, kind of like numbers that we've been able to find out.
[00:45:53]  So let's take a pause from this for a second and say, okay.
[00:46:00]  So the, you know, the meat of the article was kind of right up front.
[00:46:06]  The meat of the article was that there's a jump in child COVID hospitalizations in New York.
[00:46:14]  And there's an LA newspaper who's writing about this and saying, hey, poof, you know, New York got this wave first and there's been a jump in children who are being hospitalized.
[00:46:26]  Now, anyone who has kids or anyone who has kids in their lives who they care about, you're like, whoa, that is something you would really think about, you know?
[00:46:34]  And then you have the numbers that we were going over before about, you know, 5 to 11 year olds and all this and what the jump is.
[00:46:44]  And I don't know.
[00:46:46]  Three quarters of those 12 to 7 were admitted into the hospital.
[00:46:50]  COVID-19 weren't fully vaccinated.
[00:46:52]  100% of the 5 to 11 year olds weren't, you know, and all of these numbers.
[00:46:57]  So let's go through exactly what the numbers are in New York City.
[00:47:04]  And Rob, you were able to pull this up before.
[00:47:06]  So what exactly, like how many hospitalizations, let's say total, are we talking about here in this huge wave in New York City that's getting everyone to freak out in LA?
[00:47:18]  Well, what didn't add up, I'm recalling off the top of my head, was that the seven-day moving average was 200 total, I believe.
[00:47:27]  Right.
[00:47:27]  Hold on.
[00:47:28]  So let me, I'll pull this up from you because you sent the date, the data before.
[00:47:35]  From the numbers that are posted here, and this is from ABC 7, New York.
[00:47:43]  So the total number of hospitalizations is coming in at, let's see here, Rob.
[00:47:56]  Motherfucker.
[00:47:57]  Well, what we're looking at is that they were claiming that it's up 395% in New York City since the week ending December 11th, jumping from 22 to 109 the week ending December 23rd.
[00:48:08]  Right.
[00:48:08]  So that means that they're claiming that there's 109 current child hospitalizations in New York City.
[00:48:14]  So you have 219 hospitalizations total.
[00:48:19]  Okay.
[00:48:20]  And they're saying that we're up to 109 child hospitalizations in the week of December 22nd or 23rd.
[00:48:31]  Sorry.
[00:48:32]  The week ending.
[00:48:32]  No, it's the week.
[00:48:33]  No, the week ending December 11th, they're claiming that it jumped up to 109.
[00:48:37]  I'm sorry.
[00:48:38]  In the week December 11th to December 23rd, it went to 109.
[00:48:43]  But then according to the same website, and I believe the exact same date range, we're seeing a total amount of hospitalizations of 219.
[00:48:51]  So with the question of how is it possible that half of all of current New York City hospitalizations are in children under the age of 17, unless the Omnicron variant is somehow completely different than everything else that generally exists where children would have a better immune system.
[00:49:10]  Well, then the major question that you'd have to ask yourself, which of course no one will address in this piece, is what does this mean?
[00:49:22]  What do the 200 or so children, because that's what we're talking about, 200 or so.
[00:49:27]  And what did you, Rob?
[00:49:28]  I think you sent me the percentage because you worked that out, which I thought was pretty funny.
[00:49:35]  That you were like, well, hey, look, if it is 200 children out of all of the children in New York City, this is like 0.00006 something, you know, percent, whatever.
[00:49:46]  It doesn't even matter the exact.
[00:49:47]  I mean, I have the math right in front of me.
[00:49:49]  So it's 20% of the New York City population is people under the age of 18.
[00:49:56]  New York has 8 million people in it.
[00:49:58]  So you have 1.6 million kids.
[00:50:00]  So if you have 100 kids in the hospital out of 1.6 million, you've got a, that would mean if you're a kid under the age of 18 living in New York City, you have a 0.0000625 chance of being a kid in New York City hospitalized from COVID.
[00:50:16]  Right.
[00:50:16]  Okay.
[00:50:17]  Now, I just want to preface that I'm doing the best I can to try and find data that is not easily found.
[00:50:23]  Yes.
[00:50:24]  I'm not a total dumbass when it comes to data stuff.
[00:50:27]  I've worked in finance, but these numbers are not that easy to find.
[00:50:30]  I can't tell you why the New York City one website is different than why ABC is reporting, but it just stands to the fact that there is an honest reporting here and that they have this information, but they're not giving it to you in an honest way.
[00:50:42]  Now, here's the other thing that I think doesn't get mentioned in any of this that really should.
[00:50:47]  And if you remember, Rob, we did a podcast on this, you know, months back.
[00:50:52]  Hold on, I think I have the article here on my phone, but this was months back that we addressed this.
[00:50:59]  Hold on.
[00:51:00]  It was a big Atlantic piece that came out September 13th of 2021, where if you remember, my whole thing was that this should be the biggest news in the country, but it wasn't.
[00:51:16]  But that they, even the Atlantic and a whole bunch of other sources reported on this, that it had, they had found that 50% half of the hospitalizations from COVID in the United States of America were people who had mild or no symptoms.
[00:51:44]  And so I was just trashing someone on Twitter who happens to be like an LP member.
[00:51:51]  That's why I was trashing him.
[00:51:52]  Or is not just a member, but like a co-chair of a little city organization.
[00:51:56]  Okay, it's a bullshit position, but still, you know, you're like, come on, you have some.
[00:52:01]  And he goes, look, if they're hospitalized, that means it's serious.
[00:52:04]  And like, no, actually, it doesn't.
[00:52:06]  And here's how these numbers get manipulated a lot.
[00:52:09]  And this is a big factor, right?
[00:52:11]  So if there, if there are people who are hospitalized with COVID, everyone thinks to themselves, well, that means that you had COVID so bad that you had to be brought to the hospital.
[00:52:27]  Like just staying at home wasn't enough.
[00:52:31]  Just staying at home and calling your doctor wasn't enough.
[00:52:33]  Just staying, just going to urgent care or something like that wasn't enough.
[00:52:36]  Your doctor told you, you need to go to the hospital right now.
[00:52:39]  And then you went to the hospital and they were like, we must admit you because your COVID is so bad and out of control that we, fuck, you are in really serious trouble.
[00:52:48]  We need to examine you here at the hospital.
[00:52:50]  But that's not the truth.
[00:52:52]  When they say people hospitalized with COVID in many cases, and who knows about these, what they're saying is people hospitalized with COVID.
[00:53:05]  Meaning like you come in because you broke your arm or you have, you know, an appendix or, you know, whatever it might be, or you need some type of surgery, or you fucking, you know, got a cut and you need fucking stitches or something.
[00:53:20]  And then as a protocol, they give you a COVID test and you pop positive.
[00:53:25]  And then you are hospitalized with COVID.
[00:53:30]  And again, as the Atlantic wrote on this piece just a few months ago, that accounted for 50% in America of the people hospitalized with COVID that they maybe, you know, had the sniffles and then were in the hospital for some other reason, or they maybe had no symptoms at all.
[00:53:52]  And maybe, I mean, maybe it's a false positive.
[00:53:54]  Who the fuck knows?
[00:53:55]  But the fact is that they went in there for, you know, shoulder surgery or knee surgery or whatever the other reasons you go in there for are.
[00:54:03]  And there you go.
[00:54:04]  You're hospitalized with COVID.
[00:54:07]  I mean, I'm just saying, like, they, as I've said on the show before, they gave my wife a COVID test when she was delivering our baby boy and she didn't have it.
[00:54:17]  But if she did have it, I bet she would have been one of the numbers hospitalized with COVID.
[00:54:22]  But she wasn't hospitalized with COVID.
[00:54:25]  She would have been hospitalized with pregnancy, you know, with delivery.
[00:54:29]  So that's, so now you take this number that's around 200.
[00:54:33]  And according to at least what the latest data that showed what hospitalized with COVID really means, it might be half of that.
[00:54:42]  It might be 100.
[00:54:43]  Now, out of those 100 in a city of millions and millions and millions, how many of them had very serious, you know, underlying health conditions?
[00:54:56]  Well, I don't know because the article won't tell you that.
[00:54:59]  All they'll tell you is the percentage increases.
[00:55:02]  And this is what's so dishonest and so despicable about trying to get people scared about the health and safety of their kids.
[00:55:11]  So, I hope as you read these articles, just look through this.
[00:55:14]  Look, look through this from like the prism of like what's actually going on here.
[00:55:19]  They're bullshitting you.
[00:55:20]  There is not an epidemic of children getting severely sick and dying from COVID.
[00:55:27]  There has never been since COVID has existed.
[00:55:30]  This is bullshit.
[00:55:31]  And the LA Times ought to be ashamed of themselves for trying to present this as if that's what's happening.
[00:55:38]  And it's really awful to think that there's so many people out there, and I, for some of them, understandably so, that they see an article like this in the way they present it and go, ah, shit, this thing's getting kids now.
[00:55:51]  I guess I got to get my four-year-old vaccinated.
[00:55:55]  Just fucking disgusting, man.
[00:55:58]  Like, and the people who are doing this, man, oh, there's a special place in hell for you.

=== Keeping Track of Truth (00:59) ===

[00:56:05]  All right.
[00:56:06]  Anything you want to add, Rob?
[00:56:08]  Yeah, I just want to say, you know, I don't have that Rachel Maddow good hair confidence.
[00:56:13]  So of course not.
[00:56:14]  I do want to state I did my best looking at these numbers.
[00:56:17]  You guys are smarter than me.
[00:56:19]  Rob'snewsermitgmail.com.
[00:56:20]  If you can tell me what was wrong with these numbers or why the New York City one number was that different than what we were seeing from ABC, I'm welcome to an explanation.
[00:56:29]  I'm just pointing out that they don't make the easy information easy to find.
[00:56:34]  And it makes it seems to me that it's intentful that they don't want these numbers to be readily available.
[00:56:44]  They are keeping track of this stuff.
[00:56:46]  It should be much, this should be really simple.
[00:56:48]  It should be readily available.
[00:56:50]  You should be able to see these numbers.
[00:56:51]  They don't make it easy.
[00:56:52]  That's on them.
[00:56:54]  Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
[00:56:56]  All right.
[00:56:57]  Happy New Year, Rob.
[00:56:58]  I love you, brother.
[00:57:00]  We'll be back.
[00:57:00]  2022 is going to be our biggest year yet.
[00:57:03]  All right.
[00:57:04]  Thanks for listening, guys.