Dennis Prager Show - Media Reporting Coronavirus Numbers Irresponsibly
Aired: 2020-03-19
Duration: 04:13


=== Why Not Report Flu Deaths? (03:35) ===

[00:00:00]  I, as you know, have had many, many questions about this whole thing, which have not been made clear to me.
[00:00:09]  As, for example, the constant reporting on the number of cases.
[00:00:15]  Why don't they report on the number of cases of flu?
[00:00:19]  Tens of thousands have died from the flu this year, or this season, to be precise, since October.
[00:00:28]  It is an interesting question, is it not?
[00:00:30]  Why is there not a constant chart, ticker, giving numbers of dead from the flu each year?
[00:00:40]  Tens of thousands each year.
[00:00:42]  20,000, 30,000, 40,000.
[00:00:46]  Number of cases.
[00:00:50]  Do you have an answer to that?
[00:00:54]  I don't have an answer to that.
[00:00:59]  Yeah, no, no, why we haven't done it in the past?
[00:01:02]  I don't worry, we won't do it in the future.
[00:01:07]  Yes, exactly, because we accept it.
[00:01:10]  As I said originally, we don't give them a name.
[00:01:13]  All they had to do was give this year's flu a name, and everything that has happened could have been done with regard to that.
[00:01:25]  Shutting down everything, the tickers with the numbers.
[00:01:32]  Well, let's hope I was right, obviously, and it was another panic.
[00:01:40]  My feeling is that if indeed it turns out to have been another panic, nothing will change.
[00:01:47]  Nothing.
[00:01:49]  I have lived through enough of these to realize that it makes no difference.
[00:01:56]  There are too many people who are easily panicked.
[00:01:59]  There are too many people in whose interest Whose interest it is, and in whose interest it is to have panic?
[00:02:10]  I mean, the fact that the press keeps reporting the number of cases of the coronavirus, of COVID-19, who cares?
[00:02:23]  The issue is, does it hurt anybody?
[00:02:27]  And yes, it does.
[00:02:28]  It hurts some people.
[00:02:29]  That's the number I need.
[00:02:34]  It's quite remarkable.
[00:02:36]  It breaks my heart, the number of people losing jobs.
[00:02:40]  The hotel industry is teetering.
[00:02:44]  The hotel industry.
[00:02:47]  Yes, there's nobody in hotels.
[00:02:50]  That's correct.
[00:02:54]  That's right.
[00:02:55]  No, this is frightening.
[00:03:00]  Okay, let's...
[00:03:02]  Where's the Washington State?
[00:03:04]  Dave in Rootsville, Washington.
[00:03:07]  Hi.
[00:03:09]  Hello.
[00:03:10]  Hello.
[00:03:12]  You can hear me right?
[00:03:14]  Not great, but I hear you.
[00:03:16]  Okay.
[00:03:17]  The reason I called is because...
[00:03:19]  No, no, you're breaking up.

=== Anyway, A Democratic Dilemma (00:52) ===

[00:03:21]  You're breaking up.
[00:03:22]  Oh, God.
[00:03:25]  I don't understand it.
[00:03:29]  Isn't this...
[00:03:31]  2020?
[00:03:34]  Why are phones an issue?
[00:03:36]  I don't know what to say.
[00:03:38]  I'm sorry there.
[00:03:38]  What he wanted to report is Washington changed Marshall's state provision to include global warming.
[00:03:46]  I looked that up seeing I couldn't find it on the internet.
[00:03:49]  So I really wish you would send me an email with that and I would report it as such.
[00:03:55]  I have to see backup for any of these things.
[00:03:58]  Anyway, you know, I said this, it doesn't make any sense to me that if there is a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, they will not have, they will not institute a state of emergency over climate change.
[00:04:10]  That, they believe, is an existential threat to humanity.