Dennis Prager Show - Widespread Mask Wearing Has a Cost
Aired: 2020-03-31
Duration: 05:34


=== Defining Pandemonium Up (05:32) ===

[00:00:01]  Because of all this, we have curtailed our freedoms and badly hurt our economy.
[00:00:07]  How did we surrender so much so fast?
[00:00:11]  He has a very interesting statement at the end of the column.
[00:00:15]  They do.
[00:00:17]  And he says, Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the early 1990s warned that our country was defining deviancy down.
[00:00:27]  Today we are concerned about defining pandemonium up.
[00:00:33]  That's correct.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:01:04]  I have a terrific relative who's a dentist, known for his superb work.
[00:01:11]  Just, he has a great, stellar reputation.
[00:01:15]  And no income.
[00:01:18]  No income March, no income April.
[00:01:26]  And the people who work for him.
[00:01:32]  I told you, I have an aunt in her 90s who's living alone in Florida.
[00:01:38]  I just can't stop thinking about her.
[00:01:41]  The woman who took care of her every day, her companion, is with her family.
[00:01:49]  I mean, I don't know if any of you have ever been alone for a day.
[00:01:55]  Right?
[00:01:56]  Who's been alone for a day?
[00:01:59]  And there are people alone now?
[00:02:01]  It'll be eight weeks?
[00:02:06]  The notion of everybody wearing a mask is being entertained?
[00:02:11]  That has a terrible social price when you can't see people's faces.
[00:02:16]  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?
[00:02:38]  The president's instinct was to ask what's the price, but he's been shut down by the health professionals and the media.
[00:02:48]  Even Thomas Friedman, big liberal at the New York Times.
[00:02:53]  One of the only ones, by the way.
[00:02:57]  And he...
[00:02:59]  Why, essentially, why aren't we isolating the vulnerable?
[00:03:09]  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.
[00:03:19]  They're the healthiest crowd we have.
[00:03:22]  They can work, you know, people in supermarkets are worried.
[00:03:30]  So, let's have everybody tested.
[00:03:32]  Maybe you had it.
[00:03:33]  Maybe you have the antibodies.
[00:03:39]  I mean, if truckers...
[00:03:40]  I got a letter from the wife of a trucker.
[00:03:43]  She's quite worried.
[00:03:45]  Worried about her husband.
[00:03:48]  You know, it's fewer places...
[00:03:51]  Where does a trucker eat today?
[00:03:55]  Right?
[00:03:56]  I mean, are truck stops?
[00:03:57]  Truck stops are largely...
[00:03:59]  Desolate now, aren't they?
[00:04:04]  So what does he do?
[00:04:06]  What does he order from the truck and pick it up, I guess?
[00:04:10]  So, you know, the trucker as it is is alone much of his life, and now he's completely alone.
[00:04:18]  The trucker is in solitary confinement.
[00:04:28]  There are many considerations in life.
[00:04:31]  It's such a good example.
[00:04:32]  The left has always said, oh, we see nuances.
[00:04:35]  The right is simplistic.
[00:04:38]  It's a complete projection.
[00:04:39]  They don't see nuances.
[00:04:42]  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.
[00:04:59]  Oh, I'm callous.
[00:05:02]  Life might be mine.
[00:05:08]  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.
[00:05:17]  We're more likely to die than others, and still we don't think that because we actually care about the society.
[00:05:25]  You can't have a society...
[00:05:28]  And make policy.
[00:05:29]  If one person might die as a result, that's why I always give the speed limit example.