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April 27, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
06:49
A Gaping Left/Right Divide on Covid-19⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
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Bill Bennett is one of my favorite people.
And it's not surprising to me that we're aligned on this issue.
And I asked him, it's really a moment of clarity that conservatives have so aligned themselves against the panic.
And you mention, and nobody knows this better than you, and I know I've mentioned, I mean, what about all the suicides?
What about all the increased addicts?
Tell us about that, because this is really your field.
Yeah, we don't have the numbers yet, but one can imagine.
I'll start with one number.
A number of world health organizations, including the WHO, but others as well, since their credibility has been heard a lot, have suggested at least 200,000 to 300,000 children will die.
Because they're not getting their measles or polio vaccinations, which still have to belong in the world in which we live.
And why aren't they getting them?
Because you can't get up close to people.
Everything has to make way for COVID. And then think about all the people.
We call it elective surgery.
But elective surgery can be very serious.
It can be a heart stent, you know?
And then people are not getting chemotherapy.
All sorts of people.
And then the hospitals are below capacity, because this was all overstated.
But, you know, I was the drug czar, apart from the Secretary of Education.
And I'm telling you the worst possible thing.
Someone has a bad drug habit.
Just to tell them, stay inside, stay away from friends, isolate themselves.
So God knows what's going on there.
But the economy.
And, you know, I keep telling our conservative friends, stop saying money versus life.
Well, we don't.
They say it.
That's what they characterize us.
Let me correct what I said.
I mean, I think the very nasty piece by Joe that was hurtful to me just because I didn't expect it.
I thought I'd get at least a heads up from a friend.
Rich Lowry's was also unpleasant.
I think unfair.
But the big guys, the big thinkers, Rush, you, Mark Levin, have all been very, very clear on this.
Victor Davis Hanson, George Gilder, Bill Bennett.
I mean, that's what I mean.
I mean, you go through the list of what we would call Heather McDonald.
I mean, it's been unbelievable.
It's almost a 1,000 batting average.
And how many people is that overall?
Come on, how many?
You mean not a lot.
Yeah, right.
Because I've been asked to join a couple of committees, you know, leading people, blah, blah, blah, who are against the conventional wisdom.
Who are these people?
Anyway, that's okay.
That's okay.
The American people are out there, and I want the president to be more unambiguous about his support for them.
And, you know, you expect an epidemiologist who's advising you to act like an epidemiologist.
Well, this could get worse.
It could be two million people.
Well, you know what I learned in philosophy in getting my degree, Dennis?
We had a German professor who said, one student said, could be.
He said, could be.
Anything could be that's not logically contradictory.
Anything could be, but is it likely to be?
So 2.2 million people predicted by the Imperial College of London, as you said earlier, in the earlier segment.
It's all over the news.
People swallowed it whole.
New York gets this large number of cases.
And there you go.
We're off to the races.
I'm going to give you a line from the Talmud, because you love this stuff, as I do.
Yep.
So you will love this.
This actually guided me from the beginning.
In exactly what you just said, to give you another ancient source.
I rarely do this because I have no desire to show off my knowledge of Hebrew, but it's such a famous phrase for those who studied, as I did, in yeshiva.
If you have certain, and you have maybe, certain takes precedence.
And that is a...
There are a series of guiding principles in Talmudic debate.
That is one of them.
So the certitude is all of these suicides, all of these terrible things happening, the possibility is this great number of deaths.
That's right.
And think about the work that is lost and the self-respect that is lost and all those other things.
We have a piece out.
Seth Leibs and I have been writing.
You know, Sam.
Of course.
He's your colleague on the great show.
Yeah, in Phoenix, he's great.
He's younger.
But one of the other features, I don't know if this makes sense, of the people you and I have mentioned, is we're older.
We're older.
Actually, most of us, I don't want to say your age on the radio.
Goodness knows.
I don't even know what it is.
But I'll bet you you're pretty close to the target zone.
For the Wuhan virus.
Well, theoretically, anybody over 65 is in the target zone.
No, that's what's amazing.
Conservatives who are in the target zone are saying, okay, I may die, but I don't want my country to die.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
So anyway, let me cite one other thing.
You're probably aware of it.
Seth and I just wrote a piece to me out later today, probably on Fox.
News.com about Ron DeSantis in Florida.
Yes.
Here's a state with 2 million more people than New York.
More old people than New York.
5% of the deaths from the Wuhan virus is New York.
If you're smart and you do the right thing, and you don't just get on TV and complain, Governor Cuomo, you remember, I was thinking of this in your earlier segment when you were talking about the New Yorkization.
He said, we're the canary in the coal mine.
Oh, yeah, I forgot that.
That's right.
Yeah, it's coming your way.
Well, it really didn't.
How do people get...
Do you have a mailing list?
Before we go, I just want people to know how to get your stuff.
Yeah, BillBennett.com.
That's easy.
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