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Increased Addicts And Suicides
00:03:07
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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. | |
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Governor Cuomo's Earlier Segment
00:03:56
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| 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. | |