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Quarantined in the Philippines
00:04:27
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| Michael Femento, are you still in the Philippines? | |
| Yes, Dennis, and I have to say that the people here are relatively sane, but the politicians have just absolutely gone bonkers. | |
| We're basically in quarantine here. | |
| I'm allowed out of my house, but they make it such that there's really nothing to do with this, so you might as well stay in your house. | |
| I feel like I've been boarded up. | |
| Yeah, well, that's what's happening here. | |
| Worldwide. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So, I'm shocked. | |
| I thought the Philippines, with its hot climate, was fairly impervious to this. | |
| You hit on something right there, Dennis. | |
| There is no correlation between the epidemic and the hysteria. | |
| None. | |
| I live on the second most populated island in the Philippines. | |
| Five million people on this island. | |
| We haven't had a single case. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| The stores are closed. | |
| The bars are closed. | |
| The gyms are closed. | |
| Everything's closed, closed, closed by order of. | |
| And we just have to, you know, unfortunately, you know, Filipinos, after 350 years of Spanish rule, that's what I say, they become very sheep-like. | |
| They simply accept it. | |
| Oh, sheep-like? | |
| They're not more sheep-like than Europeans or many Americans. | |
| There is a... | |
| Individualism is dead. | |
| The notion that the state knows best is universal now. | |
| I love the Filipinos, but I'm not defending their reaction. | |
| I find this amazing. | |
| You are on an island of 5 million people. | |
| Not one person has been found to have coronavirus or even hospitalized for symptoms, and it's in lockdown. | |
| Yeah, they are looking. | |
| They're looking? | |
| I'm sorry go on. | |
| They're looking at, I mean, everywhere you go they have these temperature readers. | |
| They look like something out of Star Trek. | |
| And they aim it at your forehead to see if you have an elevated temperature. | |
| Mind an elevated temperature, your temperature could be elevated for all sorts of things. | |
| Of course. | |
| But I don't know what they do to you if your temperature is elevated. | |
| How many people in all of Philippines have been tested positive? | |
| Um... | |
| I think it's about 100, maybe a couple hundred now, and I think about 60. No, I'm sorry. | |
| It's probably about 60 to 80 right now. | |
| But that's out of 105 million people. | |
| This is, you know, this is one of the largest population countries in the whole world. | |
| But something dampening the virus here that we discussed on earlier shows. | |
| What clearly is applying to coronavirus already is that coronavirus, like most respiratory viruses, cold, flu, sirens, doesn't like heat and humidity. | |
| And as we all know, the Philippines is hot and the Philippines is humid. | |
| So it's never going to spread very much here. | |
| Really, I am truly amazed. | |
| I am amazed to hear that about the Philippines. | |
| So I'll put you on the spot here. | |
| Do you continue to be as negative on the response and characterize it as hysteria as you were in the beginning? | |
| Yes, it's all the more interesting because I'm pretty much all alone on this. | |
| I do have a third article coming out in a publication called Issues and Insights, and it's tomorrow out of Los Angeles. | |
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Burial Pits and the Black Death
00:02:10
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| But I'm almost alone, not completely. | |
| A few other people have put in writing that this is hysteria that the media has not to be trusted. | |
| It's such madness. | |
| Let me give you an example. | |
| Both the Washington Post and CNN reported They're digging burial pits in Iran. | |
| If you know history, what does a burial pit make you think of? | |
| It makes you think of the Black Death. | |
| Bring out your dead. | |
| A third of all Europeans swept away and all that. | |
| And they emphasize this in the headlines. | |
| These burial pits can be spotted from outer space. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| Google Maps. | |
| I should hope that, you know, every individual grave can be seen from out of state. | |
| That tells you right there, this is media hype. | |
| But another thing is that on average, 12,000 Iranians die each and every day. | |
| Through the course of the epidemic, over a month long now in Iran, 30 people or 60 people have died. | |
| So why would they be digging burial pits for an additional three or so people a day, when on average 12,000 a day are dying? | |
| It's just nonsense. | |
| It's made up of these article publications. | |
| Didn't I just say CNN and the Washington Post? | |
| It's maddening. | |
| Okay, we'll be back in a moment. | |
| Thank you. | |
| You have no idea how much information I hear. | |
| Of course you have. | |
| You hear it too. | |
| But I get it personally because I have relatives in medicine. | |
| We'll be back in a moment. | |
| The Dennis Prager Show. | |