Dennis Prager Show - LA Health Director: Keep Schools Closed 'Until After the Election'
Aired: 2020-09-11
Duration: 06:28


=== Why We Listen to Experts (03:08) ===

[00:00:00]  People have gone out of their minds on the COVID. Play the health director of Los Angeles County, is that correct?
[00:00:11]  Dr. Barbara Furrow.
[00:00:12]  Why we listen to these people, of course, those of you who graduated, she's what?
[00:00:19]  She's a PhD in gender studies.
[00:00:24]  She's not even a doctor, really?
[00:00:27]  Anyway, it's irrelevant to me if she's a doctor.
[00:00:31]  All of a sudden, humanity has decided to give over its common sense to people who have an M.D. or Ph.D. in epidemiology.
[00:00:42]  We want their input.
[00:00:44]  We don't want their decisions.
[00:00:45]  Is that obvious?
[00:00:47]  Same thing with the military.
[00:00:48]  That's why the commander-in-chief is a civilian.
[00:00:51]  But we have no leaders.
[00:00:53]  You are taught at college not to think for yourself.
[00:00:56]  Ask what the experts say.
[00:00:59]  Most experts are fools because most human beings on big issues are fools.
[00:01:05]  They could be very wise in personal issues.
[00:01:08]  Human being is a complex creature.
[00:01:11]  But macro wisdom is not available to many people because they don't pursue it.
[00:01:16]  Let the experts...
[00:01:17]  Oh, what do the experts say?
[00:01:19]  Then they're lying about that, by the way.
[00:01:22]  Then you bring experts who differ.
[00:01:24]  Oh, they're quacks.
[00:01:26]  So it's all a lie.
[00:01:28]  It's a gigantic, spectacular lie.
[00:01:30]  Listen to the experts.
[00:01:31]  Listen to the experts that agree with me.
[00:01:35]  That's what Newsom says.
[00:01:36]  That's what Garcetti says.
[00:01:38]  You're not an expert unless you agree with me.
[00:01:40]  So really, I'm the expert.
[00:01:42]  Let's be honest.
[00:01:45]  They claim, let's follow the experts, but they really say, follow me, and I'll provide the expert I want.
[00:01:56]  Let's let's hear this farce this destructive farce coming from this Barbara Farrar Okay, let me excuse me.
[00:02:13]  We don't care about cases.
[00:02:15]  Is that not obvious?
[00:02:16]  We care about who is hurt It shows you she's a moron, and not in every arena.
[00:02:24]  She may be a genius in child-rearing, a genius in law, a genius in whatever field she wants to be.
[00:02:32]  She may be a genius mother and a genius wife.
[00:02:35]  She's a fool and a moron in this matter.
[00:02:37]  We don't care about cases?
[00:02:39]  Is that not obvious?
[00:02:41]  We care about who's hurt, who's hospitalized, and who dies.
[00:02:46]  What difference does it make how many?
[00:02:48]  Wait, let me quote Hillary.
[00:02:50]  What difference at this point?
[00:02:52]  What difference at this point does it make?

=== Damaging Flu Outbreaks (03:34) ===

[00:02:55]  Yes, exactly.
[00:02:56]  I knew that phrase would be useful one day.
[00:02:59]  And there it is.
[00:03:01]  She was foreseeing and foretelling the future.
[00:03:07]  Cases.
[00:03:08]  Cases.
[00:03:09]  By the way, there's more evidence that asymptomatic people don't even transmit it.
[00:03:14]  Have you seen that?
[00:03:16]  Yes.
[00:03:17]  I mean, I'm not telling you this is a given.
[00:03:18]  I just want you to know that I'm following that line, that the asymptomatic don't seem to transmit it, or not nearly as much as the symptomatic.
[00:03:31]  Very interesting.
[00:03:32]  Yes.
[00:03:33]  Cases and outbreaks when we open even for a relatively small number of people to be on campus.
[00:03:43]  So we don't realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either Tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least through, at least until after the election, after, you Because the election has an effect on the COVID, as everybody knows.
[00:04:04]  You study that when you get your PhD.
[00:04:07]  You know, in early November.
[00:04:09]  Like, when we just look at the timing of everything.
[00:04:11]  Of course, it makes sense.
[00:04:12]  It's a more realistic approach to this.
[00:04:14]  Election time.
[00:04:16]  We think that we're going to be where we are now until we get after, until we are done with the election.
[00:04:23]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:04:26]  It makes perfect sense.
[00:04:31]  Anyway, look, there is a bright side.
[00:04:33]  I'm not kidding.
[00:04:35]  I'm not kidding at all.
[00:04:37]  Schools in the Los Angeles district are propaganda mills.
[00:04:42]  They have completely abandoned teaching for the most part.
[00:04:48]  And you should just start homeschooling your kid.
[00:04:51]  By the way, you can't even send your kid.
[00:04:53]  You can't decide.
[00:04:54]  This is what is amazing to me.
[00:04:56]  You can't decide to send your child through private school in most cases.
[00:05:00]  This is mind-boggling.
[00:05:03]  This is a dress rehearsal for doing this all the time.
[00:05:08]  Now the flu, by the way, I don't understand why it'll be.
[00:05:11]  If that's flu season elections, where we're entering flu season.
[00:05:16]  People die.
[00:05:17]  Kids really do die of the flu.
[00:05:19]  They don't die of COVID, but they do die of the flu.
[00:05:22]  And then for the unsophisticated American mind, which is a tragedy for me to say, I truly believe the American mind is more sophisticated 50 years ago.
[00:05:34]  After 50 years of higher education and television, it's done its damage.
[00:05:45]  As the Chief of Health in the UK said, not having your kid go to school is much more damaging to them in a large number than having them...
[00:06:06]  It's more damaging than COVID. That's the way he put it.
[00:06:14]  The English-speaking countries...
[00:06:17]  I have a theory.
[00:06:21]  This is theory number 85226. If you're keeping track of Prager's theories.