Dennis Prager Show - Covid-19 Hospitalizations are Down!
Aired: 2020-09-28
Duration: 04:35


=== Notre Dame's Zero Hospitalizations (04:19) ===

[00:00:00]  For COVID, Notre Dame University of North Carolina and Illinois State.
[00:00:05]  This was by September 9. Not one hospitalization.
[00:00:11]  Nationwide, hospitalizations are down 16% just from September 1st, 50% since July 23rd.
[00:00:21]  And you still can't go into a nail salon in California, or at least we're in Los Angeles.
[00:00:29]  Arizona's rolling seven-day average has more than doubled in the last two weeks, mostly in the Tucson area around the University of Arizona.
[00:00:39]  Yet hospitalizations statewide have been flat and are about the same as in early April.
[00:00:47]  Only 122 intensive care beds in the state are occupied by COVID patients.
[00:00:54]  Compared to 970 at the peak two months ago.
[00:00:59]  You hear that?
[00:01:01]  One ninth.
[00:01:03]  One ninth of the ICU beds are used as compared to two months ago.
[00:01:12]  So why are there lockdowns?
[00:01:17]  Really, why are there?
[00:01:21]  It's not an easy question to answer.
[00:01:23]  It's a combination of fools, power hunger, desire to smash Trump's economy.
[00:01:29]  It's a very complex sort of ingredients.
[00:01:40]  They make a very interesting point here at the Wall Street Journal.
[00:01:44]  Reopening college campuses for in-person classes may keep older generations safer.
[00:01:51]  And perhaps limit a third wave.
[00:01:55]  Yes.
[00:01:58]  Because they get together kids, they bring home COVID, and parents or grandparents can get infected.
[00:02:07]  But if the kids are off to college, they're not infecting anybody.
[00:02:12]  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show per capita hospitalizations.
[00:02:18]  Declined 70% among those 65 and older in the week ending September 12th, the latest data.
[00:02:25]  From the week ending July 25th, among 18 to 29-year-olds, per capita hospitalizations have fallen 77%.
[00:02:34]  Trends could change, but there's no reason so far to panic over COVID on campus.
[00:02:46]  It's one of the reasons I am proud to be a conservative.
[00:02:50]  At the New York Times, there is just hysteria and mendacity.
[00:02:58]  At the Wall Street Journal, there is a love of truth and no hysteria.
[00:03:05]  Oh, some of you will remember, if you're a long-time listener, this is a little dark, what I'm about to say.
[00:03:16]  I'm gonna say it anyway.
[00:03:18]  When I think about, you know, let's say being on a plane that for whatever reason was going down, the thing that I fear the most is the people screaming.
[00:03:31]  One of the noble things of the human being is the ability to control oneself.
[00:03:39]  And that's not been taught.
[00:03:43]  Secular age.
[00:03:44]  Because you don't work on yourself.
[00:03:47]  You work on society.
[00:03:49]  You don't work on yourself.
[00:03:51]  So people panic so easily.
[00:03:55]  I thought I wish I had a video of this girl who saw me without a mask outside.
[00:04:00]  And, you know, she made a point.
[00:04:02]  She exaggeratedly walked around me rather than by me with her Black Lives Matter mask.

=== Alas, Circled Paths (00:30) ===

[00:04:13]  Folks, I want you to know I would pay serious money to have her as a guest on this show.
[00:04:22]  There are so many things I'd want to ask her.
[00:04:26]  But alas!
[00:04:28]  Our paths, well, I can't say they crossed.
[00:04:32]  I was circled, not crossed.