March 19, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:23
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| As I told you, the greatest question you could ask to figure out what to do in life, little things and big things, ask what is the price? | |
| That's the question to be asked. | |
| And there's a price paid for... | |
| Playing a video game for two hours. | |
| Alright? | |
| You don't get to read. | |
| You don't get to play a musical instrument. | |
| I mean, most people don't think that way, but that's a price. | |
| Does the price pay if you play a musical instrument? | |
| And you won't be reading. | |
| I mean, I totally get it. | |
| But ask, what is the price? | |
| And society is paying a big price. | |
| So what is the price of your being home all the time? | |
| And not going to work where, you know, if you keep your three feet distance or whatever it is, the likelihood of your getting contaminated is very small. | |
| The best is the enemy of the better. | |
| So I wish more people did go to work. | |
| Now, I may be advocating something that will hurt some people. | |
| I understand that. | |
| But I look at the odds. | |
| You know what? | |
| I don't buy lottery tickets. | |
| I'm not against people buying them, but I don't buy lottery tickets because the odds are overwhelmingly against me. | |
| I think rationally. | |
| The odds are overwhelmingly against you getting the virus if you go to work. | |
| So I live by that. | |
| I'm here. | |
| That was my point. | |
| Trump urges $1 trillion a deal. | |
| Headline, Wall Street Journal. | |
| $1 trillion. | |
| A trillion is $1,000 billion. | |
| Virus-driven economic slowdown prompts a U.S. stimulus proposal. | |
| Fed also plans loans. | |
| My friends, I don't know the right answer. | |
| On this quarantine, I don't know. | |
| The shutting down of all Western economies. | |
| We don't know the price yet that will be paid, and we're not given any time limit. | |
| See, this worries me. | |
| Worries me that the health officials, who in my opinion should not be in charge of decision making. | |
| It's like the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces is a civilian. | |
| Isn't that interesting? | |
| Yes, because the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief. | |
| He's above all generals and admirals, etc. | |
| But when it comes to this stuff, the health people are the policy people. | |
| They shouldn't be. | |
| They should just be, like the military, in the case of the commander-in-chief, give information. | |
| But here's what I want to know. | |
| What number of deaths will necessitate going beyond 15 days? | |
| You have to tell us in advance. | |
| You can't fly by the seat of your pants. | |
| I don't know your criteria. | |
| We were told exponential. | |
| We were told we're two weeks behind Italy. | |
| What if we don't turn out to be two weeks behind Italy? | |
| What if it isn't exponential death? | |
| Are you going to still crush the economy of America? | |
| Crushing the economy is not an abstraction. | |
| It's crushing lives. | |
| I know people devastated already. | |
| Already devastated financially. | |
| Read my column. | |
| It's up from yesterday at Town Hall. | |
| You can see it at mythenisprager.com. |
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