Dennis Prager Show - Do We Have Vaccines Against Unhappiness?⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-05-22
Duration: 07:37


=== Suicides Are Up (03:40) ===

[00:00:00]  Okay, everybody, so here's the story.
[00:00:04]  I'm going to try to do some good with you today.
[00:00:07]  I try to do every happiness hour some good, but this is more direct.
[00:00:12]  So I read to you a statistic from a doctor in Northern California.
[00:00:20]  He said he has seen more death by suicide in the last month.
[00:00:29]  than he has from the coronavirus.
[00:00:34]  Suicides are up.
[00:00:37]  Usage of drugs is up.
[00:00:39]  Usage of alcohol is up.
[00:00:42]  So give me a call if you're struggling with happiness or know somebody who is.
[00:00:50]  Maybe, and it's just maybe, I could say something that might be a little helpful.
[00:00:55]  I'm not sure I can.
[00:00:58]  Because I'm very angry on your behalf.
[00:01:00]  If you lost your job, that is not caused by the coronavirus.
[00:01:07]  It is caused by the lockdown.
[00:01:09]  The irrational, immoral lockdown.
[00:01:16]  I repeat, 1968-69, people about normally, though 100,000 Americans, That's 50 years ago, right?
[00:01:29]  50 years ago.
[00:01:30]  50 years ago, we have 330 million Americans.
[00:01:36]  So what did we have?
[00:01:37]  You want to take a look, what was the U.S. population in 1968?
[00:01:42]  I would guess 250. So, 100,000...
[00:01:53]  Anyway, I have to do the math.
[00:01:54]  But I would say so would be equivalent today to 140,000 Americans.
[00:02:00]  Nobody lost their jobs, their livelihood.
[00:02:04]  So I'm angry on your behalf if that happened to you.
[00:02:08]  But give me a call if you're struggling with happiness and why.
[00:02:14]  And do you know somebody who is and why?
[00:02:20]  Here's an interesting question that just occurred to me.
[00:02:25]  You know we vaccinate against certain viruses, correct?
[00:02:31]  201 million?
[00:02:32]  What did I guess?
[00:02:34]  Wow, so it's a much higher percentage.
[00:02:39]  I'll figure that out.
[00:02:40]  Thank you.
[00:02:40]  200 million?
[00:02:42]  So we have gone 130 more million Americans in 50 years.
[00:02:48]  Wow.
[00:02:49]  How do you like that?
[00:02:51]  And they all listen to the show.
[00:02:54]  Isn't that gratifying?
[00:02:57]  Okay.
[00:02:59]  So, it occurred to me, we have vaccinations against measles, chicken pox, and yellow fever, and what else?
[00:03:13]  What else is there vaccinations against?
[00:03:15]  Polio, obviously.
[00:03:17]  Okay.
[00:03:18]  Do we have vaccinations against unhappiness?
[00:03:24]  Here's a test, because this has tested everybody, obviously some far, far, far more than others.

=== Lockdown's Impact (02:15) ===

[00:03:35]  My situation is quite easy compared to others, and I know that.
[00:03:41]  But I am bummed out for my country and worried about it.
[00:03:45]  So I've had to grapple.
[00:03:49]  I'm not just, you know...
[00:03:53]  What is it?
[00:03:54]  Strolling along, singing a song.
[00:03:58]  I'm not.
[00:04:00]  And I share that with you.
[00:04:02]  I'm angry.
[00:04:04]  I'm sad for my beloved country.
[00:04:10]  Not because of the virus, because of the lockdown.
[00:04:13]  So I am not immune to being affected.
[00:04:20]  But some people are really being affected.
[00:04:22]  But I did have the question of the vaccination.
[00:04:25]  Are some people...
[00:04:26]  I mean, I think the answer is obvious.
[00:04:29]  But I'll just pose it.
[00:04:31]  Are some people better equipped for a difficult situation than others?
[00:04:39]  Of course the answer is yes.
[00:04:42]  It's like, who...
[00:04:44]  Who dies from the coronavirus?
[00:04:46]  Somebody with an underlying pre-existing condition.
[00:04:50]  Who gets suicidal?
[00:04:54]  And this is an open question.
[00:04:56]  I'm posing it as if it's rhetorical, but it's an open question.
[00:05:00]  Who is suicidal during this?
[00:05:03]  Is it somebody who commits suicide or who becomes addicted?
[00:05:13]  Or re-addicted.
[00:05:15]  Is it a surprise to those who know this person?
[00:05:21]  Wow, that's the last person I would expect to have such a reaction.

=== Emotional Shock Absorbers (02:11) ===

[00:05:26]  In other words, is there an underlying emotional, psychological happiness condition in people getting depressed and even suicidal now?
[00:05:42]  Just as there is an underlying condition, pre-existing condition for those who die from the coronavirus or get very sick from it.
[00:05:54]  So, you see, I believe in vaccinations.
[00:05:57]  I'm not talking about physical, in fact, I'm talking about emotional vaccinations.
[00:06:03]  What was the term that Dr. Marmer used?
[00:06:06]  Shock absorbers.
[00:06:07]  See, I believe that you develop shock absorbers.
[00:06:10]  When things are going well, so that you have your shock absorbers when things aren't going well.
[00:06:18]  That's one of the reasons I have a happiness hour, is to protect you, or enable you to protect yourself.
[00:06:26]  Why is one of my mottos, if nothing's horrific, life is terrific?
[00:06:30]  Because I recognize that the horrific is going to happen.
[00:06:36]  It's just the nature of life.
[00:06:40]  Avoids a whole lifetime of anything horrific happening.
[00:06:44]  A very, very tiny percentage of humanity.
[00:06:51]  Right?
[00:06:54]  You know anybody who's avoided it?
[00:06:58]  Mr. Martyr?
[00:07:00]  I never called him that.
[00:07:01]  Mr. Martyr.
[00:07:02]  I like that.
[00:07:04]  Living is his first name.
[00:07:08]  So you don't know anybody.
[00:07:10]  I'm serious.
[00:07:11]  A single person in your whole extended life or extended contact that has avoided something awful.
[00:07:21]  In their whole life?
[00:07:23]  Yeah, in their whole life.
[00:07:24]  It doesn't happen.
[00:07:27]  So you have to take vaccines.
[00:07:29]  You have to work on it in advance when things are good.
[00:07:33]  It's like a savings account.
[00:07:37]  All right.