Dennis Prager Show - A Gaping Left/Right Divide on Covid-19⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-04-27
Duration: 06:49


=== Increased Addicts And Suicides (03:07) ===

[00:00:00]  Bill Bennett is one of my favorite people.
[00:00:05]  And it's not surprising to me that we're aligned on this issue.
[00:00:10]  And I asked him, it's really a moment of clarity that conservatives have so aligned themselves against the panic.
[00:00:18]  And you mention, and nobody knows this better than you, and I know I've mentioned, I mean, what about all the suicides?
[00:00:25]  What about all the increased addicts?
[00:00:29]  Tell us about that, because this is really your field.
[00:00:32]  Yeah, we don't have the numbers yet, but one can imagine.
[00:00:36]  I'll start with one number.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:00:51]  Because they're not getting their measles or polio vaccinations, which still have to belong in the world in which we live.
[00:00:57]  And why aren't they getting them?
[00:01:00]  Because you can't get up close to people.
[00:01:03]  Everything has to make way for COVID. And then think about all the people.
[00:01:08]  We call it elective surgery.
[00:01:10]  But elective surgery can be very serious.
[00:01:14]  It can be a heart stent, you know?
[00:01:16]  And then people are not getting chemotherapy.
[00:01:20]  All sorts of people.
[00:01:21]  And then the hospitals are below capacity, because this was all overstated.
[00:01:28]  But, you know, I was the drug czar, apart from the Secretary of Education.
[00:01:31]  And I'm telling you the worst possible thing.
[00:01:33]  Someone has a bad drug habit.
[00:01:36]  Just to tell them, stay inside, stay away from friends, isolate themselves.
[00:01:41]  So God knows what's going on there.
[00:01:44]  But the economy.
[00:01:45]  And, you know, I keep telling our conservative friends, stop saying money versus life.
[00:01:51]  Well, we don't.
[00:01:52]  They say it.
[00:01:54]  That's what they characterize us.
[00:01:58]  Let me correct what I said.
[00:02:00]  I mean, I think the very nasty piece by Joe that was hurtful to me just because I didn't expect it.
[00:02:06]  I thought I'd get at least a heads up from a friend.
[00:02:08]  Rich Lowry's was also unpleasant.
[00:02:11]  I think unfair.
[00:02:12]  But the big guys, the big thinkers, Rush, you, Mark Levin, have all been very, very clear on this.
[00:02:21]  Victor Davis Hanson, George Gilder, Bill Bennett.
[00:02:26]  I mean, that's what I mean.
[00:02:28]  I mean, you go through the list of what we would call Heather McDonald.
[00:02:33]  I mean, it's been unbelievable.
[00:02:36]  It's almost a 1,000 batting average.
[00:02:39]  And how many people is that overall?
[00:02:42]  Come on, how many?
[00:02:44]  You mean not a lot.
[00:02:46]  Yeah, right.
[00:02:48]  Because I've been asked to join a couple of committees, you know, leading people, blah, blah, blah, who are against the conventional wisdom.

=== Governor Cuomo's Earlier Segment (03:56) ===

[00:02:56]  Who are these people?
[00:02:58]  Anyway, that's okay.
[00:03:00]  That's okay.
[00:03:01]  The American people are out there, and I want the president to be more unambiguous about his support for them.
[00:03:09]  And, you know, you expect an epidemiologist who's advising you to act like an epidemiologist.
[00:03:16]  Well, this could get worse.
[00:03:20]  It could be two million people.
[00:03:22]  Well, you know what I learned in philosophy in getting my degree, Dennis?
[00:03:26]  We had a German professor who said, one student said, could be.
[00:03:30]  He said, could be.
[00:03:31]  Anything could be that's not logically contradictory.
[00:03:34]  Anything could be, but is it likely to be?
[00:03:38]  So 2.2 million people predicted by the Imperial College of London, as you said earlier, in the earlier segment.
[00:03:45]  It's all over the news.
[00:03:47]  People swallowed it whole.
[00:03:49]  New York gets this large number of cases.
[00:03:52]  And there you go.
[00:03:54]  We're off to the races.
[00:03:56]  I'm going to give you a line from the Talmud, because you love this stuff, as I do.
[00:04:01]  Yep.
[00:04:02]  So you will love this.
[00:04:03]  This actually guided me from the beginning.
[00:04:07]  In exactly what you just said, to give you another ancient source.
[00:04:13]  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.
[00:04:23]  If you have certain, and you have maybe, certain takes precedence.
[00:04:34]  And that is a...
[00:04:35]  There are a series of guiding principles in Talmudic debate.
[00:04:39]  That is one of them.
[00:04:41]  So the certitude is all of these suicides, all of these terrible things happening, the possibility is this great number of deaths.
[00:04:53]  That's right.
[00:04:54]  And think about the work that is lost and the self-respect that is lost and all those other things.
[00:05:01]  We have a piece out.
[00:05:02]  Seth Leibs and I have been writing.
[00:05:04]  You know, Sam.
[00:05:05]  Of course.
[00:05:06]  He's your colleague on the great show.
[00:05:09]  Yeah, in Phoenix, he's great.
[00:05:12]  He's younger.
[00:05:13]  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.
[00:05:21]  We're older.
[00:05:22]  Actually, most of us, I don't want to say your age on the radio.
[00:05:26]  Goodness knows.
[00:05:26]  I don't even know what it is.
[00:05:28]  But I'll bet you you're pretty close to the target zone.
[00:05:32]  For the Wuhan virus.
[00:05:33]  Well, theoretically, anybody over 65 is in the target zone.
[00:05:39]  No, that's what's amazing.
[00:05:41]  Conservatives who are in the target zone are saying, okay, I may die, but I don't want my country to die.
[00:05:49]  That's right.
[00:05:52]  That's exactly right.
[00:05:54]  So anyway, let me cite one other thing.
[00:05:56]  You're probably aware of it.
[00:05:58]  Seth and I just wrote a piece to me out later today, probably on Fox.
[00:06:01]  News.com about Ron DeSantis in Florida.
[00:06:05]  Yes.
[00:06:07]  Here's a state with 2 million more people than New York.
[00:06:11]  More old people than New York.
[00:06:13]  5% of the deaths from the Wuhan virus is New York.
[00:06:19]  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.
[00:06:31]  He said, we're the canary in the coal mine.
[00:06:34]  Oh, yeah, I forgot that.
[00:06:36]  That's right.
[00:06:36]  Yeah, it's coming your way.
[00:06:37]  Well, it really didn't.
[00:06:39]  How do people get...
[00:06:41]  Do you have a mailing list?
[00:06:42]  Before we go, I just want people to know how to get your stuff.
[00:06:47]  Yeah, BillBennett.com.
[00:06:48]  That's easy.