April 9, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hey everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Freedom Inn. | |
| Hope you're doing well. So I'm going to do just a brief recap of the fairly, well, let's not be kidding, very lengthy live stream that I did last night about my thoughts which I've resisted giving on practical plans for dealing with COVID-19. | |
| So I'm going to summarize them here. | |
| You can, of course, find more details in the link below along with sources for what I'm talking about. | |
| So, First thing we need to understand is that there's the seen versus the unseen, as there always is in these kinds of balanced, socially complicated decisions that we have to make. | |
| So there are the seen deaths, those people dying explicitly of COVID, even those who are dying whose deaths are marked as COVID-related, and those are the ones we see. | |
| What we don't see are the other deaths that are accumulating, but it's those deaths I really need to draw your attention to, because I think they are starting to outstrip actual deaths from COVID. So what am I talking about? | |
| Well, Do you know that unemployment is significantly related to suicide? | |
| People who are unemployed are 200 to 300% more likely to kill themselves. | |
| Did you also know that substance abuse, particularly opioids and other forms of illegal drugs, significantly correlated with being unemployed? | |
| Domestic violence goes up and all other sorts of social dysfunctions goes up. | |
| Stress goes up, which causes health problems. | |
| And so how many people are dying of COVID and how many people are dying From being forced into unemployment or underemployment because of COVID? Well, that's an important thing. | |
| What about all the people whose, quote, elective surgeries are cancelled because of COVID-19? | |
| Well, those people are going to die in the future, particularly people, and I speak from bitter experience, who need cancer surgery. | |
| Well, it could go very badly for them, but you see, that's the hidden cost that doesn't stack up as much against coronavirus bodies, but we need to remember that and see that. | |
| Now, Where has this come from as a whole? | |
| Why are we in such a bind? | |
| Well, there's a couple of reasons. The first, which I really want to talk about very explicitly, is that we have this addiction to purity of environment and purity of safety to the point where we have rendered ourselves extraordinarily unsafe. | |
| We have so many health and safety regulations, so many environmental regulations, so much bureaucratic red tape and licensing that it has become functionally impossible to run factories efficiently in the West, particularly in Canada and the United States, France as well, other places. | |
| What's happened? Well, we tried to keep the environment perfectly clean and we tried to keep safety perfectly upright and uptight. | |
| And what's happened? Well, all the manufacturing went overseas and that drove to a large degree the opioid crisis because of the resulting unemployment and destruction of social norms that is currently costing the America the equivalent of one Vietnam War every single year. | |
| 70,000 plus deaths. | |
| So it turns out Trying to go for endless cleanliness and endless safety and security has left America in particular, though other places as well, extraordinarily unsafe and death prone. | |
| It's just that the deaths happen to be from overdoses rather than industrial accidents and far more. | |
| From overdoses than were the case with industrial accidents. | |
| So let's drop this fantasy that we can keep ourselves perfectly safe and perfectly clean. | |
| That is a delusion and a highly dangerous one. | |
| What I mean by that is lower the regulations, eliminate the hyper-regulations, and this OCD, anal retentive, toilet-trained-at-gunpoint restrictions on everything that everyone can do in the pursuit of a fantasy security that is being undermined by the very thirst. | |
| For purity. So, repeal the regulations, reduce the regulations, let America, let the West, let Canada, let Europe once again start to make its own stuff so that we don't end up dependent upon a sociopathic communist dictatorship like China for the vast majority of our goods and particularly our medicines. | |
| It does not strike me as overly safe. | |
| Now, what have we learned? | |
| We have learned from Taiwan that masks are actually pretty efficient and effective. | |
| And we know that, A, because Taiwan has proven it, and B, because the World Health Organization has questioned the efficacy of masks. | |
| And that's how you know that they're good, because the World Health Organization, like the UN, has been infiltrated by Marxists and is run by a monstrous human being who has praised Zimbabwe and praised Mugabe in Zimbabwe and is a Maoist and was part of a government involved in torture and human rights abuses and so on. | |
| So, yeah, we know that the World Health Organization is utterly corrupt, and America and the rest of the West should stop funding this horrible organization driven to expand Marxism into decliningly free countries, often on the back of coronavirus. | |
| The real virus is communism. | |
| Coronavirus is just how it spreads. | |
| So masks are very effective. | |
| They're effective for three reasons. | |
| One, they of course reduce transmission of aerosols. | |
| Number two, they remind you not to touch your nose and your mouth. | |
| Number three, they reduce the amount of virus you might get. | |
| And of course, coronavirus is highly dose dependent. | |
| The more you get of it, the worse your outcome is and the worse the illness is. | |
| So masks are very effective. | |
| So I do believe that it is time for us to get back to work and we're going to just have to wear masks and we're going to have to wash our hands. | |
| We might have to wear gloves, but that's The important thing, because I think we're at the tipping point where more deaths of the unseen variety are coming along as opposed to deaths of the seen variety. | |
| And of course the whole point of flattening the curve was to give governments time to prepare, to get masks, to get gloves, to get other forms of PPE, personal protective equipment. | |
| What is it now? It's a couple of months since this first came on the radar, and it's close to a month since the, quote, quarantine was put into effect. | |
| If it hasn't happened by now, it's pretty unlikely to happen, what with China shipping out all of these inferior, defective, and sometimes actually COVID-infected masks around the world. | |
| It's time to make your own masks. | |
| Look it up right here on YouTube and other places. | |
| You can figure out how to make your own masks. | |
| It's time to go back to work. And mask it up, and that will slow the transmission, in my humble opinion, of course, to a manageable level, because we're going to have our second wave, which is probably going to be larger than the first, and then the third wave, which will be smaller than both, if it's based upon historic norms. | |
| So, the last thing that we have to do, and this is actually pretty important and pretty powerful, and something that you can actually and actively do, What we need to do is we need to undo the close to a century, if not an outright century, that the communists and the Marxists have been infiltrating Western organizations, in particular three areas. | |
| The entertainment complex, the news media complex, and the academia complex. | |
| This is a monstrous infiltration. | |
| It's been recorded as early as the 1920s. | |
| They're deeply embedded, and they've got to come out. | |
| Now, I get there's contracts, and there's tenure, and so on. | |
| That's really outside my purview, but at least you've got to stop consuming. | |
| The big media networks that have basically just turned into monkey-like organ dancers for the Geppetto of the Chinese Communist propaganda machine. | |
| You've got to not send your kids to universities that employ Marxists, which is in fact most universities, particularly of course in the arts, where in certain disciplines up to 25% of the professors are outright Marxists. | |
| Outright Marxists. Marxists are far more dangerous than Nazis at the moment. | |
| I'm pretty sure you wouldn't send your kids to universities that had Nazis teaching there, would you? | |
| Marxists are much more dangerous at the moment than Nazis, who last year in Maine and the eighty-year back in time rearview ash heap of history. | |
| So these are the things that we need to do. | |
| Lower the regulations. Start wearing masks. | |
| Recognize that the unseen deaths, I believe, are beginning to significantly eclipse the seen deaths. | |
| Get back to work. Deal with the crisis that's happening. | |
| But most importantly, we have got to stop funding the Marxists that, in conjunction with people like the Chinese Communist Party, are undoing everything that our ancestors fought and bled and died so hard to build. |
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