March 31, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Because of all this, we have curtailed our freedoms and badly hurt our economy. | |
| How did we surrender so much so fast? | |
| He has a very interesting statement at the end of the column. | |
| They do. | |
| And he says, Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the early 1990s warned that our country was defining deviancy down. | |
| Today we are concerned about defining pandemonium up. | |
| That's correct. | |
| Former Secretary of Education, Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Seth Leibson, and host of the Seth Leibson Show, on my station in Phoenix, AM 960 KKNT. My God, I tell you, I'm talking to my relatives and my heart breaks. | |
| I have a terrific relative who's a dentist, known for his superb work. | |
| Just, he has a great, stellar reputation. | |
| And no income. | |
| No income March, no income April. | |
| And the people who work for him. | |
| I told you, I have an aunt in her 90s who's living alone in Florida. | |
| I just can't stop thinking about her. | |
| The woman who took care of her every day, her companion, is with her family. | |
| I mean, I don't know if any of you have ever been alone for a day. | |
| Right? | |
| Who's been alone for a day? | |
| And there are people alone now? | |
| It'll be eight weeks? | |
| The notion of everybody wearing a mask is being entertained? | |
| That has a terrible social price when you can't see people's faces. | |
| it's like the only thing that we weigh is the potential health benefit which in the case of masks in any event are dubious it's the I asked this from the beginning is Do we have any voices? | |
| The president's instinct was to ask what's the price, but he's been shut down by the health professionals and the media. | |
| Even Thomas Friedman, big liberal at the New York Times. | |
| One of the only ones, by the way. | |
| And he... | |
| Why, essentially, why aren't we isolating the vulnerable? | |
| I mean, ideally every, I mean, that's not possible, but ideally everybody would be tested, not only for whether they have it, but whether they had it. | |
| They're the healthiest crowd we have. | |
| They can work, you know, people in supermarkets are worried. | |
| So, let's have everybody tested. | |
| Maybe you had it. | |
| Maybe you have the antibodies. | |
| I mean, if truckers... | |
| I got a letter from the wife of a trucker. | |
| She's quite worried. | |
| Worried about her husband. | |
| You know, it's fewer places... | |
| Where does a trucker eat today? | |
| Right? | |
| I mean, are truck stops? | |
| Truck stops are largely... | |
| Desolate now, aren't they? | |
| So what does he do? | |
| What does he order from the truck and pick it up, I guess? | |
| So, you know, the trucker as it is is alone much of his life, and now he's completely alone. | |
| The trucker is in solitary confinement. | |
| There are many considerations in life. | |
| It's such a good example. | |
| The left has always said, oh, we see nuances. | |
| The right is simplistic. | |
| It's a complete projection. | |
| They don't see nuances. | |
| The fact that I am so roundly attacked, Washington Post, NBC, The Atlantic, because I said you can't wage a war if your attitude is we can't lose a life. | |
| Oh, I'm callous. | |
| Life might be mine. | |
| They even mocked older conservatives for saying, you know, look, we're in the vulnerable category, but we don't think America should be shut down. | |
| We're more likely to die than others, and still we don't think that because we actually care about the society. | |
| You can't have a society... | |
| And make policy. | |
| If one person might die as a result, that's why I always give the speed limit example. |
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