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Job Losses Cause Suffering
00:05:14
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| Well, yeah, 22. Oh, NPR reported that, you know, it's very bad, but it's less than last month. | |
| This was the NPR report. | |
| Last week. | |
| Was it last week? | |
| Yeah, last week. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| There's Betsy McCoy, former lieutenant governor of New York State in the New York Post. | |
| We must count the deaths from shutdowns as well as from coronavirus. | |
| It is almost certain to kill more Americans than the virus. | |
| Job losses cause extreme suffering. | |
| Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a.99% increase in suicides, according to data from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. | |
| These are facts based on past experience, not models. | |
| Good dig on the models, folks, on the left. | |
| If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs, deaths of despair. | |
| Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment. | |
| Health economist Michael French of the University of Miami found a significant association between job loss and binge drinking and alcoholism. | |
| The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing, and drinking, however. | |
| Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63% higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in the journal Social Science and Medicine. | |
| To make reopening possible, schools should resume in most places so working parents can return to jobs, even in New York State. | |
| Only a single child under the age of 10 has died. | |
| Why aren't they allowed to go to school? | |
| That's tragic, but very unusual. | |
| Some 84% of fatalities in New York are people over 60. Okie dokie. | |
| Just thought you should know. | |
| Oh, it's just money. | |
| That's the left's argument. | |
| It's just money. | |
| People, conservatives, just care about money. | |
| That's the intellectual and moral level of the left. | |
| We just care about money. | |
| I should read the article. | |
| Where was that article about the guy in Cambodia who can't sell clothing now? | |
| Americans aren't buying. | |
| LA Times. | |
| We were in Cambodia. | |
| Cambodia is still reeling from the auto-genocide of the communists. | |
| Which, of course, if you went to Yale, you don't know about. | |
| It's a cute comment, but I mean that completely 100% sincerely. | |
| If 5% of Yale seniors can identify Pol Pot, I will send Yale a donation. | |
| You learn so little of importance at universities. | |
| The only good thing, well, it's not the only. | |
| I have a list of good things that might come out of this. | |
| Kurt Schlichter wrote a very powerful piece, too. | |
| Maybe people won't send their kids to college. | |
| That garbage waste of money. | |
| Unless you have to. | |
| I mean, if you have to, you know, there are things you can't study physics on your own. | |
| I get that. | |
| It's a very... | |
| We should put the Betsy McCoy piece up. | |
| it's already up from the New York Post yeah I can't even imagine what it is like to have a job and then not have it. | |
| No income. | |
| It overwhelms me with despair on behalf of such people. | |
| See, I'm a big believer, too, in human dignity. | |
| Dignity is a big deal to me. | |
| Big deal. | |
| Probably too big. | |
| But in any event, it's very big. | |
| And to be able to sustain yourself is a source of dignity. | |
| That's a big part of where dignity comes from. | |
|
Walks and Pet Coverings
00:04:58
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| Okay, let's see what you have to say. | |
| I certainly have a lot. | |
| Ken in La Crescenta, California. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi, Dennis. | |
| I live right next door to you in La Crescenta, and I got this email last night from the city of Glendale, and at first I thought it was a hoax. | |
| I read the caption, face coverings are required, and then I read the first paragraph. | |
| Face coverings are now required anytime you leave your home. | |
| Yep. | |
| This includes going on a walk, picking up essential goods, walking your pet. | |
| Yep. | |
| I know I played it on the air. | |
| Play it again, Sean. | |
| This is the message my wife got. | |
| Face coverings are now required anytime you leave your home. | |
| This includes going on a walk, picking up essential goods, or walking your pet. | |
| Okay, I do like that. | |
| Who the hell are you in any city to tell me I have to wear a mask when I walk my pet? | |
| What is it? | |
| Walk your pet? | |
| Do you walk anything besides a dog? | |
| That's a very funny, that's a very funny question. | |
| Other than a dog, what do people walk? | |
| Well, Sean walks his armadillo. | |
| So I think they were thinking of you. | |
| You know, what is the armadillo? | |
| That's very good. | |
| Who gets antsy? | |
| The armadillo? | |
| That's very funny. | |
| That was very witty. | |
| You know what? | |
| That was so witty that the next time you deserve, you're going to get a pass the next time you deserve to go into the punishment room. | |
| That was one of the wittiest comments of my lifetime. | |
| Your armadillo got antsy if he didn't walk. | |
| That is great. | |
| What's his name again? | |
| Oh, it's a woman. | |
| Ant Eater. | |
| That's correct. | |
| A-U-N-T. Her name is Eater and you call her Ant Eater. | |
| That's really nice. | |
| Okay. | |
| Your question is valid. | |
| What pet do you walk? | |
| You don't walk a cat. | |
| That is clear. | |
| Your cat would pee on you. | |
| I mean, he'd be so angry. | |
| No, yeah, I have never seen a cat. | |
| Look, Alan has owned cats since he is married. | |
| Okay, Alan lives with cats. | |
| He refuses to have the charge of ownership made. | |
| Okay. | |
| Fine, anyway, walk your pet. | |
| Anyway, you know what it is? | |
| They don't want to be sued by cat owners. | |
| You know, this is what it is. | |
| You can't discriminate on the basis of pet. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| No, no. | |
| She's right. | |
| My wife is right. | |
| So here's the answer to you. | |
| This is the IM from my wife, who for the first time in 15 years sent me two giant emojis as an IM text, which I only respond... | |
| You are definitely flipping out. | |
| This is so atypical of my wife. | |
| I don't know what prompted it. | |
| Be that as it may, I told you last night an Italian woman was fined for walking her tortoise in Rome. | |
| Now, we have two tortoises who, by the way, they weigh about 65 pounds. | |
| They're gigantic. | |
| In fact, that's how I got my wife. | |
| Because I remember I put an ad in Match.com, Want Woman with Tortoises. | |
| Who also loves classical music, is an ethical monotheist, and she just fit the bill. | |
| She does not walk the tortoise. | |
| That is correct. | |
| That is exactly right. | |
| Yeah, it's in Newsweek. | |
| Here's the piece. | |
| Italian woman fined for taking her turtle. | |
| I can't believe they said turtle. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| They don't know the difference. | |
| The difference between a turtle and a tortoise is humongous. | |
| Turtles go in the water and tortoises would drown. | |
| Anyway, Italian woman fined for taking her turtle for a walk during coronavirus quarantine. | |
| That's really something. | |
| Okay. | |
| Yes, indeed. | |
| Health Uber Alice. | |
| How many times have I said that? | |
| Better safe than sorry. | |
| The new motto used to be land of the free and home of the brave. | |
| I take this seriously. | |
| It's a terrible virus, by the way. | |
| Needless to say. | |
| But I take a lot of things seriously. | |