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May 6, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
12:21
Stefan Molyneux's Statement on Coronavirus Predictions!
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So let's do our closing stuff here.
I'll just do a wee little thing here to clarify my position for people as a whole and respond to, you know, the fear.
And I appreciate criticism that comes back, but I want to sort of be clear because some people do think that I joined in the fear porn brigade and that's why they can't go to Starbucks.
So let me sort of be clear about all of that.
So, okay, first and foremost.
I never said that the government should handle things.
I'm fine with the...
Look, I was fine with the flights being closed.
Flights being closed from China, it should have happened.
It should have happened in January.
It did, I guess, at the end of January.
But yeah, you've got to stop flights from China.
The fact that flights from China are still flying into Canada, still flying into the UK, is absolutely ridiculous, right?
So I was fine with that.
I was fine with that.
That's not exactly fascism, right?
To close down flights from a place that has a pandemic, that's, you know, if you're going to call me a fascist for that, then I don't even know what to tell you, like you're not in the realm of rational consideration at all, which is not an argument, it's just a fact.
So I never said, you know, what the government should do is arrest people having barbecues in a park.
Like, I'm an anarchist, for heaven's sakes.
I don't want the government doing anything.
And so people say to me, well, Sweden is doing it right.
Well, you know, Sweden has a pretty high death rate.
But Sweden also has a high IQ population, very socially conscious, a very homogenous to a large degree population, and really good at social enforcement, and they are being very responsible and assiduous and so on, because I said there should be a slowdown so that we can get things ready in the hospitals.
I never said the government should be in charge of it.
I never made any policy proposals other than In terms of your own personal life, it'd be really great.
If you can find a way to avoid people, if you can find a way to shut things down, that's a great thing to do.
So when people say, well, Steph, you did too much fear porn.
Sweden's the right idea. That's what I wanted.
What I wanted was for people to voluntarily do this.
Because, of course, as I said from the very beginning, that the real virus is communism.
SARS-CoV-2 is just how it spreads.
So I never wanted the government to institute this massive lockdown program that occurred.
I was talking about the dangers, and I will defend that to my dying day unless some vast amount of information comes out that's totally different.
Because what we had was a bioweapon adjacent release of a novel coronavirus with...
Some AIDS components that was coming flying in that attacked just about all human cells known to man that attacks the kidney, attacks the livers, attacks the brain, attacks the heart, attacks the lungs.
And it was dangerous as shit.
And we still don't know.
It is going to be the long haul, as Paul pointed.
There's the sudden stuff, which is really, really important to know.
But there's the chronic stuff that could go on for a long time.
So this thing got out from a bioweapons lab.
Now, people say, well, there's no proof for that.
It's like, well, yeah, of course there isn't, because they torched the damn seafood market.
They scrubbed and eradicated the seafood market to the point where they can't possibly figure out which animals they claim it came from.
They destroyed the evidence.
We know for a fact that they were working on gain-of-function coronavirus back to human in that lab.
This is not controversial. This is directly published.
We know that they destroyed paperwork.
We know that they destroyed samples.
We know that they destroyed the seafood market, which they claimed it came from.
That is a confession.
For God's sakes, this is not brain surgery.
I'm not a conspiracy theory guy.
I pushed back against conspiracy theories all the way.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It came a couple hundred meters from the lab, working on doing exactly that, and they destroyed evidence.
And even if you think...
That's all bullshit. Even if you think, and I'm not saying it was released on purpose, I don't actually think it was, though it doesn't really matter.
It doesn't really matter whether it's negligent, homicide, or first degree.
Somebody's still dead. But even if you think all of that's bullshit, And it did come from the wet market and blah, blah, blah.
The bats flew 900 kilometers from the caves deep in the mountains and they flew all the way to the most polluted place on the planet because they just love sniffing sulfur, shit like that.
Okay, let's say you believe all of that.
Fine. China still released it into the world.
China lied about human-to-human transmission.
China suppressed, disappeared, maybe murdered, imprisoned, threatened doctors who were talking about it.
China sealed itself off from Wuhan and let Wuhan fly out to the whole rest of the planet.
You are locked down.
You are under house arrest because China committed a crime.
And this is not a crime that was optional for them to commit.
Because the only reason they got into the world community, the only reason they got into the World Trade Organization, the only reason they got favored nation trading status, the only reason they're part of the world economy, unlike North Korea, is because they signed solemn treaties in the basic, most deep blood that they could summon in their lying, fat bases.
They signed these treaties that said, if there's any kind of illness, man, we're going to be totally transparent.
We're going to tell everyone the truth.
That's the only way that they got into the world community and gained any kind of economic authority and power.
Otherwise, they would be as starved and isolated and hungry as North goddamn Korea.
I don't know if it spilled.
I don't know if somebody got bitten.
I don't know if some idiot in the lab sold...
Stuff that they'd experimented, animals that experimented onto the wet market, I don't know.
And we'll never know. We'll never know.
Trust me. They're very smart people.
IQ people. East Asians, right?
Chinese people are very smart. IQ 105, 106, particularly in spatial reasoning.
They know how to bury a body, my friends.
If there's one thing the communists know how to do, it's bury their goddamn bodies because they've got a lot of them to bury and they're about to have a whole lot more.
So when people say to me, oh, it was fear porn, the death count hasn't Extrapolated the way it was.
It's like, hello, welcome to 2020 hindsight.
Look at that. Are you at the end of your life?
If you buy fire insurance and your house doesn't burn down, say, I'm such an idiot for buying fire insurance because my house never burnt down.
It's like, the whole point is you don't know.
That's why you buy insurance.
If you knew that your house was burning down and you tried to get insurance, that'd be called fraud and you'd go to jail.
Well, unless you were being investigated by the FBI, in which case you'd be promoted.
So this is the basic reality.
We have a bio-weapon adjacent novel coronavirus leak that scared China so much that they were running their crematoriums 24-7.
You could see the sulfur clouds over Wuhan from space.
They sealed themselves off and they sent this goddamn virus.
They were going around the world picking up all of the pieces of personal protective equipment they could possibly find.
For this situation, we don't know how many people died in China.
We know that a lot of people vanished from the cell phone records, which you legally have to have in China, so we don't know.
We'll never know. The great thing about deaths in a communist country is it's always just some godforsaken rule of thumb.
I don't know. We can get it down to a couple of million, but that's about it.
So, there was every conceivable reason to be concerned, to be alarmed, to be terrified.
And now the death rate isn't so high.
Why? Why is the death rate not so high?
Because nothing's working.
Because nobody's doing anything.
Because everyone is stuck at home.
And that's why the death rate is so low.
What's going to happen when we recognize that we kind of need food?
And people are going to die.
As I talked, over a month ago, I said everything should be reopened.
No, almost a month ago, I said everything should be reopened.
That was my first policy suggestion, was the government should let everything reopen, and this should be a voluntary situation.
So, yeah, there was every reason to be alarmed.
I never told, never made a single policy suggestion that the government should suppress business or trade internally.
All I said was, of course, you should stop flights from outside the country.
But that's not an internal matter of government power.
That's simply not allowing people who could be infected into the country.
People in China don't have a right to live in America or come to America, right?
So that was the entirety of my policy proposal.
Was, hey, social distancing would be great if we do it voluntarily.
It'll give the hospitals a chance to prepare.
And then the lockdown went a lot further than I was expecting.
Because governments started enforcing it at a point of gun.
You know, you stick your nose out your window and someone comes by with a machete from the local I'm an asshole Parks Department, right?
So, I was not expecting this giant fascist boot to stamp itself into the entire economy and nobody could leave their house.
So, of course, the death rates are lower because the suppression is far lower than I recommended or that was anticipated.
I wanted Sweden.
And what did we get? Late Weimar Republic, hello Hitler!
I mean, good lord! So, yeah, the death count is lower because the fascism is higher!
So, I'm sorry that the government overreached.
It's not my fault. I'm a podcaster.
I don't have the power to hello, right?
So, that's sort of my basic explication of my current position.
Yeah, based on the information, it was the right call.
And we'll find out.
And I don't mean to say, well, I made these predictions, although I didn't personally make the predictions.
I was passing along predictions of others.
But, you know, there's some responsibility I have in the matter.
I'm not going to completely squidge that and say, it was...
So, last thing I'll say is, yeah, I made those predictions, or I amplified those predictions, and I think those predictions were valid concerns to have at the time.
And I don't want to be the guy who says, well, you can't tell yet, you know, because then you can just keep pushing things out and keep, well, maybe there's going to be an illness in 14 years.
So, you know, I understand. You can't be the guy who says, well, I made these predictions, but I'm not going to admit that I'm wrong or whatever, because down the road there could be more.
But the reality is that this ain't the flu, my friends.
This ain't the flu.
This is some seriously scary shit that is floating around in the air.
And the fact that we've all sealed ourselves in like Gollum and the Root of the Mountain doesn't mean that everything's going to be fine because at some point we've got to poke our noses out of our hidey holes and go back about our business.
And we will find out then what kind of lethality, what kind of history we're going to be dealing with.
And it will take some time to see about the long-term effects of this thing, because some people are having real difficulty clearing this thing from their system.
There does appear to be some significant damages even to a lot of people who've survived.
Sure, it's getting the tall poppies right now, but as we all grow, that scythe is going to hit more and more people, and we'll see.
And I hope to be horribly wrong about all of this.
I don't know if it's going to be on the millions.
I don't think so. But it's going to be a lot higher once we get out there in the world.
And that is going to push medical stuff aside for other people.
We already know that there are dozens of people up here in Canada who've died because they can't get the heart surgery they need and they just dropped dead.
And this is what I talked about a month ago, that there's a shadow cast by COVID that is interfering with other people's health care.
I mean, you get a toothache, what are you going to do?
Well, tooth bacteria can fall down into your heart and do serious damage to your heart muscles and so on, right?
We're going to have a lot of secondary effects that aren't even going to be seen or measured.
So, you know, you can say, well, there could be a lot more people sick and that makes the death rate lower.
And it's like, yeah, but are you counting all the people who are going to get sick because they couldn't get cancer treatments or cancer screening or the people who couldn't get their heart surgery, couldn't get stents put in?
Are you going to count those people?
I mean, that's a pretty significant thing as well.
And that's all occurring while we're hiding in our holes.
Like Saddam Hussein post-invasion.
So let's see what happens when we poke our heads back out and have to take the full brunt of this freight train in the face, because I think it's going to be a big deal.
But the media doesn't want you getting too angry right now, because they're concerned that you might get kind of pissed off at the communists, not just in China, which is the least of our problems, but the communists in the media and in academia and in Hollywood, that...
It's the real danger, and they don't want you getting mad at that.
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