Dennis Prager Show - Should I Travel During Corona Virus Scare?
Aired: 2020-03-03
Duration: 03:21


=== Riding on the Edge (03:20) ===

[00:00:00]  Brian in Los Angeles.
[00:00:01]  Hi.
[00:00:03]  Dennis, this is Brian.
[00:00:05]  We met a few weeks ago.
[00:00:07]  You had lunch at my in-laws house.
[00:00:10]  Hi again.
[00:00:11]  Oh, yes, I remember.
[00:00:12]  Yeah, of course.
[00:00:13]  Good to hear from you.
[00:00:14]  How are you?
[00:00:15]  Well, I don't have the coronavirus.
[00:00:20]  Oh, good.
[00:00:21]  Neither do I. Well, quick question for you.
[00:00:23]  We have a trip planned to Mexico leaving Friday.
[00:00:27]  And my wife is worried about the coronavirus.
[00:00:32]  What's your take on leaving the country, and I guess more important than going through the international terminal at LAX? I have a speech in Budapest in a few weeks, and I intend to go.
[00:00:47]  It never occurs.
[00:00:48]  It doesn't even occur to me not to go.
[00:00:49]  It's the numbers are so small.
[00:00:57]  It's not and it's not like you, you know, you get it and you're dead.
[00:01:01]  You get it, you may not know it.
[00:01:03]  You get it, you may have flu symptoms.
[00:01:05]  You get it, you may be treated.
[00:01:08]  But the overwhelming odds are even if you get it, and the odds are you won't get it, that you will be okay.
[00:01:16]  And see, what I'm already seeing is the cure is worse than the disease at this point.
[00:01:23]  The closing down of the economies of countries at this time will hurt so many more people than the disease, as it appears now.
[00:01:33]  I mean, obviously, I would go on the trip, for whatever it's worth.
[00:01:40]  But this is my attitude in life.
[00:01:43]  I don't motorcycle over the Grand Canyon.
[00:01:48]  But I do believe that you live life fully.
[00:01:51]  It's like, I'll give you a good example you should give to your wife.
[00:01:55]  And I respect her worry.
[00:01:59]  And that is this.
[00:02:00]  For all of my broadcast career, people have called me and told me the following.
[00:02:05]  Dennis, I would so love to visit Israel, but I want to go when it's safe.
[00:02:13]  So I've been broadcasting 35 years.
[00:02:15]  These people who feel that way have never gone.
[00:02:18]  In the meantime, I take 600 people every other year.
[00:02:23]  And I have gone about 25 times and have had the most wonderful experience as a result.
[00:02:32]  It's an attitude in life.
[00:02:36]  There are minimal risks that are just worth taking.
[00:02:43]  That's how I look at life.
[00:02:46]  This is a great learning lesson for all people.
[00:02:52]  Will you look at life and be scared or will you look at life and embrace it?
[00:02:59]  That's it.
[00:03:02]  I wear seatbelts.
[00:03:07]  I do not ride a motorcycle on highways.
[00:03:12]  To be honest, I don't ride a motorcycle anywhere.
[00:03:14]  But I'm not against it.
[00:03:16]  But I think that riding a motorcycle on highways is risky.