Dennis Prager Show - No, The Lockdown is not Comparable to Seat Belts
Aired: 2020-09-28
Duration: 02:41


=== Why Lockdowns Are Like Seatbelts (02:14) ===

[00:00:00]  You asked earlier, why are the lockdowns?
[00:00:02]  And I've always learned that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, just like seatbelts.
[00:00:07]  Nobody wanted to wear seatbelts, but then it was mandated to save people.
[00:00:11]  So you're comparing the lockdown to seatbelts.
[00:00:14]  How many people lose their jobs, income, and start taking opioids because of seatbelts?
[00:00:22]  Well, if you didn't wear a seatbelt and got a ticket and you were a CDL driver, you would lose your license.
[00:00:27]  You would lose your license.
[00:00:30]  I missed that.
[00:00:31]  You lose your license in Florida if you don't wear a seatbelt?
[00:00:36]  Yeah, you get a ticket, and if you have a commercial driver's license, a CDL... Oh, if you have a commercial driver's license.
[00:00:41]  I didn't understand the acronym.
[00:00:42]  You can use your job, and you would lose your livelihood.
[00:00:45]  I see.
[00:00:46]  But you didn't quite follow my question.
[00:00:49]  There is no price paid in society for people wearing seatbelts.
[00:00:53]  The price paid for the lockdown is the end of people's livelihoods in the tens of millions.
[00:01:00]  So I don't think that there's a comparison.
[00:01:03]  Anyway, and I obviously go to calls that disagree with me first.
[00:01:09]  Folks, nobody's forcing you to go out of your house.
[00:01:15]  If you feel the lockdown is right, stay locked down.
[00:01:21]  You know, pickle your fear, and God bless you, and I'm not...
[00:01:27]  I don't mean that sarcastically.
[00:01:29]  God bless you.
[00:01:29]  You want to stay home?
[00:01:30]  Stay home.
[00:01:33]  But why should everybody have to stay home, especially the people who are incredibly unlikely to get sick, let alone die from it, like anybody under 50?
[00:01:44]  What was the statistic?
[00:01:46]  You have a 10,000 greater chance of dying of COVID over a certain age than under a certain age?
[00:01:54]  10,000 times more likely.
[00:01:57]  And you're not even likely.
[00:01:58]  Yes, indeed.

=== Can't See My Services (00:42) ===

[00:02:05]  Herb in Wisconsin.
[00:02:06]  Many doctor's visits were canceled due to COVID. That's right.
[00:02:09]  We don't know why the excess deaths, certainly in a lot of the cases.
[00:02:15]  Greg in Victorville, California says similarly.
[00:02:18]  Many of the excess deaths are probably from the lockdown.
[00:02:22]  That's right.
[00:02:25]  Jacob in LA, why aren't you fighting for in-person high holiday services?
[00:02:30]  Yes, I would do it in a nanosecond.
[00:02:34]  But I don't own my own building.
[00:02:37]  Where am I going to do it?
[00:02:39]  But you can't see my services.