Dennis Prager Show - Coronavirus: Hysteria or Deadly?
Aired: 2020-02-04
Duration: 02:56


=== 24 Hours of Coronavirus (02:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Take it away, Michael Fermento.
[00:00:01]  You know who's actually worse?
[00:00:04]  The worst is CNN. I call them the Corona News Network.
[00:00:12]  It's basically 24 hours of coronavirus.
[00:00:16]  They even have a man there in Wuhan who does his TV broadcast with a mask over his face.
[00:00:28]  TV! I hear you.
[00:00:31]  Who are they going to get the virus from?
[00:00:33]  The cameraman?
[00:00:35]  The camera?
[00:00:38]  You know, it's obviously, when I saw that, I said, I've got to write this article.
[00:00:42]  It's drama.
[00:00:43]  That's all this is entirely about, really, is drama.
[00:00:47]  I mean, I don't mean to downplay the people who have actually been infected and the people who have actually died, but this is heterofficial AIDS all over again.
[00:00:58]  This is SARS all over again.
[00:01:00]  This is Ebola 1 and Ebola 2. I knocked this article out in just a few hours time because it's still in the blanks.
[00:01:09]  And the editors barely edited it because, you know, they trusted me.
[00:01:14]  The article that, let me just tell everybody, the article is in the New York Post and is up at DennisPrager.com.
[00:01:20]  Go ahead.
[00:01:21]  Yeah, so it was just fill in the blanks.
[00:01:24]  We've been here over and over and over again.
[00:01:28]  There's nothing really special about this virus except for one thing, and this is what drives all the hysteria.
[00:01:36]  It's new.
[00:01:37]  That's it.
[00:01:38]  It is new.
[00:01:39]  But is it more infectious than the flu?
[00:01:43]  We have no reason to think it's more infectious than the flu.
[00:01:46]  Is it more deadly than the flu?
[00:01:48]  We have no reason to think that either.
[00:01:50]  We do know it kills the same categories of people as the flu.
[00:01:57]  That is, The elderly, people who are immunocompromised because they've had transplants or something like that, and people with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes, exactly like the flu.
[00:02:13]  This really, from everything we can tell, is like a mini-flu because the real flu kills as many as hundreds of thousands of people each and every year.
[00:02:27]  But people don't panic about the flu because we've had the flu forever and the coronavirus is new.
[00:02:35]  Okay, we'll be back with Michael Fomento if you have a question about the coronavirus.
[00:02:42]  It is interesting.
[00:02:43]  I had no idea that he would isolate CNN. CNN is so compromised.
[00:02:50]  I don't know who takes it seriously.
[00:02:54]  And I wish it were not the case.