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March 31, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
09:19
We Need to Cut Ties With China
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And all the horrible, truly horrible repercussions versus the horrible repercussions potentially, and I emphasize the word potentially, with not having the closing down.
That's the question.
Singapore, as you just heard last hour, and Sweden have decided not to close down.
They are not faring particularly worse than the rest of the world.
And so I don't know.
I do know that when this is over, we better ask some very serious questions, because there will probably be another virus, and it will probably come from China, because that's where they seem to come from.
And it is an astonishing thing.
Well, it's not astonishing.
There's nothing astonishing from the left that they would say that this is racist.
Can you imagine if the virus came from Israel, what the left would be saying?
Or America?
As I said somewhere on my fireside chat yesterday, I believe it was, if this virus started in Nashville, Tennessee, it would not be called the Nashville virus?
What do you think it would be called?
Anyway, we will have a lot of questions.
Getting out of China is one of the things that we need to do.
Not because it's China, because it's run by communists.
China is not the issue.
I would be very happy, for those of you who think it has anything to do with it being Asian, I would be happy if we simply shifted to Vietnam.
Now, that's a communist government too, but it's less virulent.
And it has no international ambitions of dominance.
You know, China in Chinese means Middle Kingdom, because the Chinese believe they're the center of the world.
That's what the center kingdom, that's what China means.
I know this because when I wrote my book on anti-Semitism, I have a chapter on Jews being hated for the belief that they're the chosen people.
And I said, well, it's a little absurd, though, because the Chinese believe that they're the middle of the earth, and the Japanese believe they get the sun before everybody else, the land of the rising sun.
Anybody hate the Chinese or the Japanese for those beliefs?
But anyway, that's how I came across it.
1-8 Prager 776. I'm very interested to hear your take and your reactions to what I'm saying and what you're living through right now.
Every one of us knows people who are suffering.
I do, and it's very painful to me.
Probably five times a day I think about my 90-plus-year-old aunt and my love.
In Florida, and she just is in solitary confinement.
She's living alone because her full-time aide is now with her family.
I mean, it's an incredible thing.
You know, when I was driving into the radio studio, we in the media considered essential work.
Driving into the radio studio today, and obviously seeing other cars.
Not many, but other cars.
Realized the safest mode of transportation vis-a-vis any communicable disease is the car.
Let's get everybody onto trains and buses is let's get as many people dead as possible.
I mean, that's just a fact.
It's not anything but a fact.
Let's get everybody into urban centers.
That's an interesting thing.
I don't know.
How is Chattanooga doing versus Chattanooga's not even rural vis-a-vis New York City?
Maybe people living on top of each other is not the healthiest idea.
I don't think it's the healthiest idea in any way possible.
I've never understood the infatuation with living in a tiny, tiny apartment in order to be in Manhattan.
And I grew up there.
And I appreciated the culture immensely.
It's where I taught myself how to conduct orchestras at the New York Philharmonic Library.
used the culture a great deal until I left at the age of 26 but I knew it was not healthy the the contempt for the the house with the picket fence and the two-car garage The contempt among the elites doesn't turn out to be, health-wise, a good idea, does it?
Would you rather be locked up for two months in a house or in a tiny apartment?
It's a rhetorical question.
Everybody has the same answer.
Anybody normal would have the same answer.
I don't know what will be, but I know what people are going through now.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I mean, we're talking about people hit, you know, in every class.
The super-rich obviously never hit by anything, but...
I have a relative who's a distinguished dentist.
Nothing.
Just nothing.
He has no income now.
It's an astonishing thing to go from a good income to nothing.
Over literally overnight There was a point that I made as well I'll keep making it because nobody else is making it and I'm not saying it is a that.
I'm terrific.
I don't engage in silliness.
I don't need to.
I don't do it.
I'm only mentioning it because it is not talked about, and it should be.
So let me explain in a nutshell.
If you want an Ultimate Issue and the Ultimate Issues Hour, here it is.
Here's the Ultimate Issue.
Maybe we should do an hour on this.
Science has taken the place of religion.
If you ask atheists, what do you believe in?
You don't believe in the Bible, you don't believe in the creator God of the Bible, etc.
Fine.
What do you believe in?
They'll say, science.
Okay, you believe in science.
So here's the interesting thing.
Who are the disseminators of religion?
Priests, rabbi, ministers, correct?
Science has disseminators.
They have their own clergy.
The clergy of science are scientists.
So scientists have the role of the clergy in any religion.
So, for example, you have a pope in the Roman Catholic Church.
You have a pope in a number of churches.
The Copts have a pope.
The Greek Orthodox have a pope.
Russian Orthodox have one, I think, or a patriarch.
Anyway, but the best known is the pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
So you have Dr. Fauci is, in effect, the pope.
He has the same status in science as the Pope has in the Catholic Church.
And I might add more.
He's more so.
I'll tell you why.
Many non-Catholics know about the doctrine of infallibility that the Pope can say something and be regarded as infallible.
Cannot have a mistake in it.
But it has been used only twice, I believe, in the history of the Catholic Church and on doctrinal matters, not on policy.
But Dr. Fauci, and this is not an attack on Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci is regarded as infallible regularly.
So he has a much higher status than does the Pope.
For Catholics.
In other words, he is higher to the science lovers and to the secular society than the Pope is to Catholic society.
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