May 14, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:30
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| Good morning, Dennis. | |
| Thanks for having me. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| Did you ever think you would be a national star? | |
| Well, listen, I don't look at it that way. | |
| I'm not a star. | |
| I'm just an ordinary guy that is speaking out and having the courage to do so. | |
| So, no, I never thought that my voice would go national and actually international. | |
| But to the extent that I represent literally thousands of physicians around the country. | |
| And their voices are not being heard, a rational voice, a different voice than the mainstream narrative, then I'm happy to do so. | |
| What is your message? | |
| My message is really this. | |
| I think we've overreacted in a big way. | |
| We are harming people like we've never seen happen before with the shutdown of the economy. | |
| You know, I wrote a piece recently that was published in the American Thinker, and I was channeling you as I wrote it. | |
| I titled it Better Safe Than Sorry. | |
| And what I point out is that we're at depression levels of unemployment right now. | |
| We're seeing domestic violence at the highest levels we've ever seen. | |
| Our local sheriff here in Orange County, Sheriff Don Barnes, reports that our 911 systems are being overwhelmed by domestic violence calls. | |
| And remember, one domestic violence case is lifelong. | |
| That person will be affected for many, many years to come. | |
| The World Health Organization has estimated that we're going to see Up to 30 million children die as a result of poverty. | |
| Make that the World Vision Organization published in the LA Times recently. | |
| We are literally letting criminals out of jail, yet preventing Americans from defending themselves by buying guns, at least in California, because gun stores are all closed. | |
| There's a report out of Ontario, Canada, where there's How many of your fellow physicians have reached out to you? | |
| A lot of them have, but here's the reality. | |
| You know, when I recorded a video at a protest, actually my wife turned on the camera, I'd asked her just to take a couple pictures, and she recorded it, and then later posted it on Facebook, and this video literally went viral. | |
| The problem is, after that went viral, it's not my ideas that are being attacked, and I'm not suggesting that my ideas are the only correct ones, although I do think I'm correct. | |
| We're now being attacked viciously. | |
| Not my ideas, but me personally. | |
| Threats to call the medical board to try to have my license taken away. | |
| Threats to call my local hospital association to have me removed from staff at my hospital. | |
| And then my family and kids are brought into the equation as well. | |
| I'm happy to defend my position because I think my positions are right. | |
| But to bring my family and to attack me personally is just unconscionable and is the epitome of lack of tolerance that we see mostly from the left. | |
| The attacks on you have any come from physicians? | |
| No, not really. | |
| I've had disagreements with physicians about the issue of herd immunity, about whether we should wear masks. | |
| And so forth. | |
| But they're not attacks on me personally. | |
| They're just attacks about my—not attacks, rather. | |
| They're just arguments against some of my positions. | |
| And some of them make sense, by the way. | |
| I learn from criticism. | |
| I learn from an interaction about what I believe to be the case and what others believe to be the case. | |
| And I've altered some of my positions, even, in having robust discussions with my fellow physicians. | |
| But none of them are attacking me personally. | |
| They're just discussing my ideas. | |
| Give me an example of a position you've modified. | |
| So one example, for example, is this idea of herd immunity. | |
| Now, I believe, and I've heard you talk about it and others talk about it as well, that the only path forward at this point, since we don't have a vaccination, we will likely not have a vaccination for the foreseeable future, is to expose the young and the healthy. | |
| All right, good. | |
| I want to hear why that's wrong. | |
| I'll be back with Dr. Jeff Barkey in a moment. |
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