Dennis Prager Show - Shouldn't we Question Government's Virus Response? Aired: 2020-03-19 Duration: 05:05 === Dissent Outside the Herd (03:02) === [00:00:00] Don't you want people in society, do you not want them, even if they're wrong, do you not want people to say, wait a minute, we have to rethink? [00:00:09] Shouldn't we always be rethinking things? [00:00:13] Even if the herd is right, isn't it good to have somebody outside the herd? [00:00:22] Hasn't most good happened from people outside of the herd? [00:00:28] Moral good, scientific good. [00:00:32] Now, a lot of people outside the herd are cuckoo. [00:00:35] I fully acknowledge that. [00:00:37] But the people cited in the New York Times piece were not cuckoo. [00:00:41] I remember when George W. Bush was president. [00:00:49] Do you remember how many bumper stickers we saw? [00:00:52] Dissent is patriotic. [00:00:55] Do you know that there were no such bumper stickers when Barack Obama was elected? [00:00:59] Dissent is only patriotic if you dissent from a Republican. [00:01:05] It's so transparent. [00:01:10] Dissent is now regarded as absurd. [00:01:15] Deniers. [00:01:16] The left has always had that. [00:01:18] There's always been a label for people with whom they differ. [00:01:24] I wonder how this will play out later on, the overreaction with regard to global warming. [00:01:34] Because that's the big enchilada to engage in cultural appropriation here for a moment. [00:01:44] That's the big one. [00:01:45] So I've asked a question in my piece this week. [00:01:54] Thank you. [00:01:56] I asked, and I would love to have an answer. [00:02:02] If there is a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, why will they not declare a state of emergency over global warming? [00:02:13] They believe that is more dangerous than this. [00:02:17] It makes no sense, correct? [00:02:20] If we can shut down the economy of America for a virus that has killed thus far, what is the latest number in the United States killed? [00:02:32] It was 140-something yesterday when I went to bed. [00:02:39] It's still in the 140s? [00:02:41] Okay. [00:02:43] 140. Does anybody ask how come it hasn't killed more? === Everybody's Connected to China (02:17) === [00:02:50] Well, how often have you read we're two weeks behind Italy? [00:02:56] By the way, even Italy, I mean, we're not talking about millions or hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands. [00:03:04] 150, okay, so it's very slow growth. [00:03:07] 32 additional deaths? [00:03:13] Right, but we're not talking exponential. [00:03:15] It should be double of yesterday. [00:03:17] That's exponential. [00:03:20] How many people died in Italy? [00:03:22] Could you check them? [00:03:23] And by the way, you know what is never told? [00:03:25] How many of the people who died in Italy were Chinese? [00:03:31] I wrote about this, the Wall Street Journal wrote, well, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Iran's connections to China. [00:03:37] Everybody with massive connections, well, not everybody, but those who have the epidemic most had vast connections with China. [00:03:49] It is time to produce as much as possible in the United States of America, especially drugs. [00:03:57] A deal with the devil was made in having so much made in China. [00:04:02] My heart breaks for people I know who do business there. [00:04:07] I hope you'll simply, and simply is not accurate, I hope you'll be able to produce in Vietnam. [00:04:18] It's also a communist-led country, but they're not a threat. [00:04:25] You know how many Vietnamese died to protect the Stalinist regime of Ho Chi Minh? [00:04:31] When I went to Vietnam a few years ago, I came back angry. [00:04:34] This is such an industrious people. [00:04:37] They're so lively and they were so suppressed by the utter and total unambiguous evil of communism. [00:04:49] Communism is one of those things that reinforce one's belief that human beings are not basically good. [00:04:59] Anyway, thus far, it looks like they may have a cure.