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People's Peril
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| The hospitals are not being overwhelmed. | |
| The suicide lines are being overwhelmed. | |
| I'm not the only voice that has said that we have gone way too far in isolation. | |
| Governor Cuomo, big advocate of it. | |
| Of course, he's the governor of the state that has the most because of New York City. | |
| Why people in upstate New York Can't leave their homes except to take a walk and are not allowed to make an income as a result because New York City is cursed with this virus is a question that history will ask and will not have a favorable judgment of Governor Cuomo's and the rest, not just Governor Cuomo. | |
| We have lived to see The biggest panic in American history. | |
| There is nothing close. | |
| I have warned against hysteria my whole life, as you all know. | |
| And now the price is being paid. | |
| 50,000 Americans, it is said, have died from this disease in any given flu year. | |
| Now it's obviously more lethal. | |
| More quickly than the regular flu. | |
| But I do want to remind you, as I do almost every day, that two years ago, between 60,000 and 80,000 Americans died of the regular flu and nobody talked about it. | |
| Will they talk about it next year? | |
| It'll be interesting. | |
| One country in the world withstood the pressure of the world. | |
| Sweden. | |
| They had more deaths. | |
| Than Norway and Denmark, the countries they're compared to. | |
| And they weighed, which is what mature people are supposed to do, but maturity is at a premium in our time. | |
| You weigh cost and what you gain. | |
| People are getting checks from the government with money that is increasingly worthless. | |
| Any reduction in the benefits that the government pays out to people. | |
| It's not the government's job as it happens, but the road to socialism is as smooth as butter. | |
| People want to be taken care of more than they want liberty. | |
| There's a woman in San Diego. | |
| I'd like to get her on the show. | |
| Living Martyr. | |
| She's been leading the protests, and she's been threatened with arrest. | |
| The amount of liberties deprived Americans and the ease with which Americans have accepted it is scarier to me than the virus. | |
| I'm an old-fashioned guy. | |
| I'm a liberty lover. | |
| Liberty is a great value. | |
| And it's not treasured by the human species. | |
| It isn't. | |
| I've said that, as you know. | |
| Everything, it's very sad. | |
| Everything I've said, I believe, has come to be accurate. | |
| The last thing I give a hoot about is boasting to you. | |
| I don't boast. | |
| I don't self-denigrate. | |
| I'm very realistic about me and about life. | |
| But when I've said all along, people don't yearn to be free, they yearn to be taken care of. | |
| You're living it now. | |
| It's not the land of the free and the home of the brave. | |
| You know I dropped that a decade ago from the National Anthem. | |
| My mother used to say to my father, don't let him out, he has a cold. | |
| Or he'll get a cold. | |
| And my father would say, what are you going to do, keep him in a china closet? | |
| And it's funny because when my father first said it for the first few years, I thought, does that mean a closet made in China? | |
| I had no idea what it meant, but I did understand that there are risks in life. | |
| My father fought in World War II. I wonder, there are very few left of the veterans of World War II, but I wonder what they think about the inability of Americans to confront risk. | |
| To be paralyzed, to bring down a way of life because of an infinitesimally small risk. | |
| Do you understand that? | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| People are afraid for their children. | |
| Children overwhelmingly don't get the coronavirus. | |
| It is exceedingly rare. | |
| It is almost unheard of. | |
| Yet we close the schools. | |
| The havoc that has brought into people's lives. | |
| But Governor Cuomo was asked about this, and he has his famous answer. | |
| Hey, what's worse than death? | |
| There you go. | |
| There were no Governor Cuomos in 1957, when the United States suffered 116,000 deaths from the flu that year. | |
| This is a new generation. | |
| It's a frightened generation. | |
| It's frightened because it takes health and safety and everything for granted. | |
| That's why. | |
| People are protected from the vicissitudes of life. | |
| This is Governor Cuomo at a news conference today. | |
| Not today. | |
| Two days ago. | |
| These are regular people who are not getting a paycheck. | |
| Some of them are not getting their unemployment check. | |
| And they're saying that they don't have time to wait for all of this testing and they need to get back to work in order to feed their families. | |
| Their savings is running out. | |
| They don't have another week. | |
| They're not getting answers. | |
| So, their point is... | |
| They'll get an answer now. | |
| ...the cure can't be worse than the illness itself. | |
| What is your response to them? | |
| The illness is death. | |
| That's the answer. | |
| What is worse than death? | |
| Well, what if somebody commits suicide because they can't pay their bills? | |
| Yeah, but the illness is maybe my death as opposed to your death. | |
| Oh, so he's worried about himself. | |
| You said they said... | |
| Wait, wait, wait. | |
| Leave it. | |
| Leave it for a moment. | |
| This is an amazing thing. | |
| It's clear, though. | |
| I love the clarity. | |
| Look, he said, if everything he's done, if the ruined lives are worth it, he said it. | |
| If I save one life, right? | |
| Remember that? | |
| That's the thing I played over and over from Governor Cuomo. | |
| If I just save one life, and it's my death, too bad she didn't ask, wow, well, what about a billion around the world, Governor? | |
| You know how many deaths from starvation the UN predicts? | |
| Tens of millions death because of this. | |
| You who want a lockdown are killing more people than the virus. | |
| Is that clear, ladies and gentlemen? | |
| That's a fact. | |
| That is not an opinion. | |
| It is a fact. | |
| The shutdown has killed more people than the virus. | |
| You who think you love life, you are self-deluded. | |
| You think you're heroes. | |
| Because that's the way people think. | |
| I don't think I'm a hero. | |
| I think I'm being real. | |
| You don't give a damn about the tens of millions outside of America. | |
| You, you know, we are people of the world. | |
| We don't believe in American nationalism. | |
| But your entire frame of reference is America. | |
| So I could shatter your life because I, Governor Cuomo, continue to get my income. | |
| I believe everybody who advocates that people not get an income, not get an income! | |
| Why is that not logical? | |
| I will continue to make my money, you can't make your money, and I'm a good man. | |
| Get it? | |
| Because I don't want to get sick. | |
| And this is considered noble. | |
| This is considered compassionate. | |
| Why would my dad have said to Governor Cuomo? | |
| Probably he would have asked my mother to pass him a vomit bag. | |
| That's what I think. | |
| God. | |
| My father's ships, two years, two, three years in the Navy, targets of kamikaze planes. | |
| I don't think this would have... | |
| He would have supported... | |
| Yeah, you don't make a living. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's okay with me because, hey, the other is death. | |
| You know how few people have died? | |
| The other is death. | |
| There you go. | |
| That answers the issue. | |
| Let him visit the people who... | |