Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Debates a Caller Over Masks
Aired: 2021-01-04
Duration: 06:23


=== Why Masks Outdoors? (03:44) ===

[00:00:00]  They suppress dissent?
[00:00:02]  I welcome it.
[00:00:03]  Julius in Jersey City, thank you for calling.
[00:00:06]  New Jersey.
[00:00:08]  Yeah, Dennis, I'm just going to be blunt here.
[00:00:11]  Grow up with the whining about Newsom.
[00:00:14]  The reason you wear the mask is not so much to protect yourself, but because nobody knows if you have a virus or not, and your spittle, when you talk, that actually comes out of your mouth, might hit someone, and they get infected.
[00:00:26]  That's the reason you wear the mask, why I wear the mask, why people should wear the mask.
[00:00:32]  As I always note, I wear a mask whenever I go inside any place.
[00:00:37]  Yeah, and it also includes walking down the street and dealing with...
[00:00:40]  It does.
[00:00:40]  Yeah.
[00:00:41]  Okay.
[00:00:42]  So when you have...
[00:00:44]  Allow me to talk now.
[00:00:46]  Do you wear a mask when you walk alone outside?
[00:00:52]  Well, it depends on where I am.
[00:00:53]  If I'm by myself in my own little area where I'm going to be expecting no one, yeah.
[00:00:59]  So if somebody passes you outdoors, you feel that there is a real risk of you're infecting them, A, and that they will die from it.
[00:01:12]  You think those are real risks?
[00:01:14]  You know what?
[00:01:15]  Let's pull the stop here.
[00:01:17]  It's not so much about just dying.
[00:01:18]  It just sucks.
[00:01:20]  Getting sick, okay?
[00:01:21]  Okay, so you feel that...
[00:01:23]  Let's just be honest here.
[00:01:24]  It's not just about dying.
[00:01:25]  Okay, it's not just...
[00:01:27]  You're right.
[00:01:27]  It's about getting really sick, right.
[00:01:30]  Okay, that's fair.
[00:01:31]  So you feel that there is a genuine risk of people getting really sick from your passing them while walking outdoors.
[00:01:39]  I'm not arguing with you.
[00:01:40]  I'm trying to understand why you would wear a mask outdoors.
[00:01:46]  Because Spittle, if I'm talking on the phone, for instance, Spittle can hit people.
[00:01:52]  And I'm going to explain to you why.
[00:01:54]  And you know what?
[00:01:55]  I want to expand on this, on the thing about eating.
[00:01:59]  There's a difference between eating face-to-face, where you're chewing down on a hoagie, and spit could hit someone else across you.
[00:02:09]  And I think, you know, from that of saying, like, if you're sitting in an airplane, like in JetBlue, Where the middle seat is left vacant.
[00:02:21]  And I doubt, unless you eat side to side, you're most likely not going to aim your spit at someone while you're eating.
[00:02:32]  Because you're going to be facing down.
[00:02:34]  How far does your spit travel when you eat?
[00:02:38]  Let's see.
[00:02:39]  I travel a lot and I eat.
[00:02:41]  No, no, no.
[00:02:43]  I didn't ask how much you travel.
[00:02:45]  How much does your spit travel?
[00:02:46]  I'm not being cute.
[00:02:48]  I think you are being cute right now.
[00:02:52]  No, no.
[00:02:53]  I think it's unrealistic to believe.
[00:02:56]  We have no evidence whatsoever.
[00:02:58]  You know, here's the thing.
[00:02:59]  Okay, I have to be able to speak.
[00:03:01]  I'm really sorry.
[00:03:03]  I have to be able to speak, too.
[00:03:04]  Not because it's my show, but because that's the way people have civil dialogue.
[00:03:10]  So, we have zero evidence that people eating face-to-face, outdoors, During the brief time that that was allowed has increased COVID suffering or death.
[00:03:23]  A state that is open where you can eat indoors as well as outdoors is Florida.
[00:03:29]  Florida has fewer people per capita dying than California.

=== Damage To America's Children (02:52) ===

[00:03:34]  Well, he hung up.
[00:03:35]  Okay.
[00:03:36]  But the rest of you can hear me.
[00:03:39]  He may not be.
[00:03:43]  Florida, they should be dying like flies.
[00:03:46]  There should be mass suffering and death.
[00:03:51]  Why are schools closed?
[00:03:55]  If kids get it, the chances of their getting seriously ill, let alone dying, are minuscule, truly minuscule.
[00:04:02]  The chances, however, of their lives being adversely, truly adversely affected by no school for a year are tremendous.
[00:04:12]  The damage being done to America's children is a form of child abuse.
[00:04:16]  I charge all the teachers unions and every teacher who is a member and supports the union with ruining their children's lives.
[00:04:24]  But teachers unions care about children and students as much as communists cared about workers.
[00:04:31]  Teachers unions use students.
[00:04:33]  They don't give a damn about students.
[00:04:36]  And cowardly teachers who won't go in a classroom?
[00:04:40]  I am a senior citizen.
[00:04:41]  I would walk into any classroom mask-free and teach kids with joy.
[00:04:48]  Try me out.
[00:04:49]  Invite me.
[00:04:51]  You cowards.
[00:04:53]  You fools.
[00:04:54]  You corrupting of the kids.
[00:04:56]  Take your kids out of the schools where teachers refuse to teach your children.
[00:05:00]  They are abusing your children.
[00:05:04]  Sweden kept its schools open the entire time.
[00:05:11]  God Almighty.
[00:05:13]  Look, half the country agrees with me, and half the country doesn't agree with me.
[00:05:18]  That's right.
[00:05:20]  And half the country that disagrees is a frightening half.
[00:05:24]  Because they will ruin the lives of the entire country, not just the fools who agree with them.
[00:05:32]  That's the problem.
[00:05:35]  Because these people have no problem crushing the business.
[00:05:39]  You know what this is all about.
[00:05:41]  People who have their incomes are perfectly happy with crushing people who lose their incomes.
[00:05:47]  Right?
[00:05:49]  Tell me one official, has Newsom lost his salary?
[00:05:53]  Tell me one government official who's lost their salary while they force people to lose their incomes.
[00:06:03]  The callousness in the name of health.
[00:06:07]  In the name of health.
[00:06:09]  Health uber alles.
[00:06:10]  I said this before COVID. The fascist notion, Deutschland uber alles, Germany above all, it's now safety above all.
[00:06:20]  That's why there are safe spaces at colleges.