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March 26, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
08:47
It's a Rescue, not a Stimulus
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It's an interesting term.
It's a substitute.
It's a rescue.
It's not a stimulus.
A person having 1,200 who wouldn't have 1,200, it's not stimulus.
It's keep you solvent.
And even so, more than 3 million people, right, have filed for unemployment benefits.
The largest number.
Even the largest number.
Period, or the largest number at any one time.
It may be absolutely necessary.
Literally, only God knows.
But I do believe that honorable and honest people have to debate it.
There is no debate in the media, because the media have no interest in intellectual honesty.
None.
Do you hear me?
CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, they are worthless if you care about truth.
It's not that they say, how can we lie today?
Although to a certain extent that exists because NBC's head said our mission is to get rid of Trump.
But this was true before Donald Trump was president.
Their mission is not to give you the news.
Their mission is to give you the way they look at the world.
Do you know how many scientists have a different view of what we're doing?
Are they ever on television other than Fox News?
Are they on Fox News?
I can't say.
I'm watching much.
I've been reading to you from totally unassailable sources.
Doctors who have a different view of how long there should be the confinement.
Doctors know medicine.
And we should get their knowledge of medicine.
Doctors have saved my life, literally.
But as regards...
Advice on how to run a society?
They are not the only voice.
They see the worst.
Do you ask policemen, how do we deal with crime?
Asking doctors how we should deal with an epidemic is the same as asking police, how do we deal with crime?
We clearly want the voice of police, but police don't answer the question.
They see these things, and so they have a certain view, understandably.
Most interesting story of the day from the Financial Times.
Sweden bucks global trend with experimental virus strategy.
Sweden has become an international outlier in its response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak by keeping schools open and adopting few other restrictions as the Scandinavian nation embarks on what one health expert called a huge experiment.
Sweden is the largest European country with the fewest limits on where people can go and what they can do.
Schools for children up to the age of 16 remain open.
Many people continue to go to work.
Packed commuter trains and buses.
That's really remarkable.
We're reported this week in the capital, Stockholm.
Swedish authorities have banned public gatherings of more than 500 people.
We have banned gatherings of more than two.
Just to give you a perspective.
Closed universities and higher education colleges and advised workers to stay at home if possible.
Authorities on Tuesday ordered restaurants and bars only to serve people at tables rather than at the bar.
Major restriction.
Johan Carlsen, head of Sweden's public health agency, last week defended Sweden's approach, saying the country, quote, cannot take draconian measures that have a limited impact on the epidemic.
But knock out the functions of society.
Wow.
That's the head of Sweden's public health agency?
A person who is worried about the rest of society and not only the virus?
It's a very famous biblical phrase from where will my salvation come?
It doesn't mean salvation in the eschatological sense.
Just, who's going to save me?
And every so often, you never know who might.
I'm not saying Sweden will, but needless to say, we should all be rooting for Sweden to succeed.
The future still looks manageable, said Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist.
Who has become one of the public faces of the outbreak.
He argued that schools needed to stay open to provide childcare for health workers, noting that young people appear to have much lower infection rates.
But, I was waiting for the but the whole time I read it, a significant number of Swedish health experts disagree.
Mr. Tegnell has faced a barrage of criticism after details of the country's antivirus tactics leaked to Swedish TV at the weekend.
Joachim Rachlov, an epidemiologist at Umea University, better known as UU, said the Swedish authorities were taking huge risks with public health when so much remained unknown about coronavirus.
I do not see why Sweden would be so different from other countries.
It is a huge experiment, he told the Financial Times.
We have no idea it could work out.
But it could also go crazily.
No, excuse me.
We have no idea.
They should have put a period.
It could work out.
But it could also go crazily in the wrong direction.
Let's keep up with the Swedish experiment every day.
The number of people who die there.
My dear friends, I sit in stunned astonishment, which is redundant, but I do, at how often I hear...
Even on stations I broadcast people speaking about the alarming increase, the quote-unquote alarming increase, in the number of people with COVID-19 who test positive.
As I read to you yesterday, there are people in the UK who assume half of the UK has had it or has it.
The reason the numbers are going up is we have a larger number of people tested for it.
9,600 people have it in the UK.
9,600 people have been tested positive.
But for all we know, it's tens of millions.
The idea that they think that half the country has it.
No, no, I wouldn't be surprised if half the country did have it.
That's my point.
I don't know that it's not true.
We don't know.
But the numbers tested positive doesn't tell me anything.
If anything, I want you folks to understand, if the numbers tested positive are very high, and the numbers who die are very low, that should be reassuring to you.
It should not be alarming, it should be reassuring.
If everybody tested positive, went to an ICU, that would be a horror.
The fact that the numbers of...
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