Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Thursday, December 19, 2024.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1722.
This is no agenda.
Bangin' eggnog and broadcasting live, almost live, from
the heart of the Texas show country, here
in FEMA Region No.
6.
Evening and morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm here
avoiding the spike protein.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
This is Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yes, everybody.
Welcome to Episode 1722.
A best of, but we're here to get
you ready for it, as I am traveling
to my sister for the holidays.
This is something different.
Well, not really different, but something that I
think is timely, this one.
They're all timely.
We did a climate change once, kind of
an evergreen timely.
Yeah, yeah.
But this particular one, which Strokey Bill put
together for us in two parts, takes us
all the way back to the very beginning
of COVID.
Actually comes in with, I believe it starts
with the testing.
And man, remember that testing?
Yeah, and we talked about the spinning it,
spin it up.
How many of those kits do you still
have?
How many of those test kits do you
still have at the house?
Well, these are the kits that came in
later.
I have probably two or three cases of
them.
Because they always give them away.
They're giving them away free.
And when you order a batch from the
government or from your local pharmacy, they give
you five or six of them.
Yeah.
And they're useless, but they're kind of decorative.
Well, I mean, just look at now.
I mean, Tina and I take ivermectin weekly.
Well, you know, it was hydroxychloroquine that was
the first obscure drug that came into the
conversation.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
I forgot.
Don't forget that.
Hydroxychloroquine.
As soon as Trump mentioned it, it was
verboten.
Because this was the era, we have to
always remember, it's kind of hard to, but
it's all I have to remember because it's
so long ago, that whatever Trump did, they
did the opposite.
Yep.
So Trump suggests ivermectin.
I'm sorry, he suggests hydroxychloroquine.
And so it's bad.
Yeah.
And then ivermectin came into the conversation later,
and it became bad too.
Horse-paced.
What are you doing, you crazy people?
So this particular best of, warning, trigger warning,
you could get all mad all over again
in listening to it, because you just hear
how crazy it was and what we lived
through.
And congratulations if you're listening to this episode,
because you lived.
You lived through it.
You probably lived through it with us.
So let's get started right now with part
one of the best, if there's such a
thing, of COVID.
CBS2 has learned that an army of NYPD
officers will fan out across the city this
weekend to make sure that people are wearing
masks and maintaining social distance.
CBS2's Marcia Kramer has this exclusive story.
You might say it's no more Mr. Nice
Guy.
The NYPD will be out in force at
parks, beaches, and playgrounds this weekend to make
sure New Yorkers don't get up close and
personal with each other, that everyone observes social
distancing.
We're past the point of warnings.
This is a dangerous situation.
NYPD Chief of Department Terrence Monaghan telling me
that New Yorkers drawn out of their homes
by the expected sunny skies and warm temperatures
this weekend will see a large police presence,
1,000 cops all five boroughs to keep
New Yorkers safe by trying to stop the
spread of COVID-19.
Barbecues with large gatherings of people together, organized
sports events, people hanging together trying to drink
or something along those lines.
We will be breaking these up.
We will be actively involved.
People who are just walking together, exercising on
a blanket with their family, those aren't people
we're going to bother.
They don't have a mask, we'll give them
masks.
Will you really arrest people?
If they confront us, if it becomes an
incident, yes, we will.
If it has to be, yes.
I hope it never comes to that, though,
Marsha.
People should understand just how dangerous a virus
this is.
We will shut you down.
We will cite you.
And if we need to, we will arrest
you, and we will take you to jail,
period.
There should be nothing unambiguous about that.
Don't make us treat you like a criminal.
But if you act like a criminal and
you violate the law and you refuse to
do what is necessary to save lives in
the city in the middle of a pandemic,
we will take you to jail, period.
Mayor Lightfoot facing criticism tonight after getting her
hair done.
A photo surfaced of the mayor with a
hairdresser, but she appeared to ignore social distancing
efforts, standing right next to them for the
picture.
When asked about that photo today, this is
what the mayor had to say.
I'm the public face of this city.
I'm on national media, and I'm out in
the public eye.
And, you know, I'm a person who I
take my personal hygiene very seriously.
As I said, I felt like I needed
to have a haircut.
I'm not able to do that myself, and
so I got a haircut.
Do you want to talk more about that?
Part of the criticism came from the fact
that the mayor had called on people not
to go out and get their hair done,
and one of her Stay Home, Save Lives
PSAs.
Necessary for new members to function properly in
the society they are being inducted into are
all imbued at this time.
Repetition is typical, as its use helps hammer
the spell home.
The wearing of masks may be required.
Masking has traditionally played an important role in
rituals of this kind, enabling and hastening the
suppression of ego to help facilitate a death
of the old identity before the identification with
and manifestation of a new one.
Disguised under a mask and hidden away, the
initiate is more easily able to transcend the
self, pushed further toward that invisible line between
the physical and spiritual realms.
I'm sure you've seen it in a number
of polls.
There's a huge difference between Democrats and Republicans
over whether or not they think it's necessary
to wear a mask in public.
Do you have any sense as to why
that would be?
No sense as to why that would be.
That's the choice of the American public.
It's the choice of the individual as to
whether to wear a mask or not.
But again, I'd praise the extraordinary work of
this administration in distributing those masks and ensuring
healthcare providers get them.
The idea of shutting everybody down is a
new idea that was developed in the 2006
Bush administration provisional plan on pandemics based on
a high school student's science project.
So the idea that this is the way
to go, shutting everything down, is not true.
It's not scientifically true.
It may be superior, but we don't know
yet.
So it may just be that when we
go back to masks and social distancing in
the world, there will be no uptick in
the cases.
So this idea of a second wave may
never happen.
Now, we will have some upticks, some little
outbreaks, but the idea will be to isolate
and contain those outbreaks.
While this lockdown has been going on, I
know from communications to me and Gaz and
Jamie at davidite.com, I know from all
the postings on the internet, not just in
Britain, but around the world in America, that
while this lockdown has been going on, 5G
masks are being rolled out at a very
rapid rate.
In the same period of this lockdown, something
like another 21 towns and cities have been
opened in Britain to 5G.
5G is being rolled out all over the
world at a very great rate of knots.
This is a time where everything is supposed
to be stopped.
Yeah, and they're still building towers overnight.
Yes, because that's considered essential work.
Do you think that Dr. Fauci played a
part in COVID-19 then?
Do you think that he should be held
accountable or responsible or criminally responsible for the
corruption with COVID-19 or even tracing back
as far as 30 plus years?
Oh, absolutely.
He should be held criminally responsible all the
way back to the spread of HIV-AIDS
through the country.
At the same time, he did the same
thing he's doing now in COVID-19, that
is, prevent the use of therapies like hydroxychloroquine
or low-dose type 1 interferon alpha or
any number of natural things, prevent people from
doing the appropriate testing.
The FDA didn't do the appropriate serology testing
that would have shown that, in fact, the
virus had been through this country earlier than
thought and we may have actually had, in
many places, a natural herd immunity that isn't
occurring with the lockdown and that people are
being prevented from, even if they were exposed,
from getting the disease with prophylactic measures.
That's preventative measures like hydroxychloroquine.
And all the same time, promoting drug use
in research and clinical trials, which he's also
doing a similar thing to what he did,
what he directed to be done in the
case of the XMRVs.
That's fraudulent studies that show that a drug
works when it really doesn't work and how
they manipulate the study design in order to
drag it out.
And then, because we're not developing a natural
herd immunity, the amount of disease and death
that's being caused while he's promoting measures that
not only don't work but have caused literally
the devastation of our economy and we won't
even be able to count the number of
deaths from people who couldn't get adequate care
for things like cancer and cardiovascular disease, just
simple care for things that have nothing to
do with COVID-19.
As we come on the air tonight, coronavirus
infections are still growing in much of the
country.
Just as we're learning, there is now a
more powerful mutant strain of the virus that
is even more difficult to treat.
There are now more than 20,000 new
confirmed cases every day here in the United
States.
And while cases are declining in the New
York City area, the epicenter of the crisis,
elsewhere, the rate of infection is rising.
Still, 44 states are moving forward with lifting
restrictions.
And tonight, President Trump is acknowledging those moves
to reopen could lead to even more deaths,
telling reporters today that Americans should, quote, think
of themselves as warriors.
COVID-19 remains a threat, but there's a
drive to get out, to get back to
normal.
Well, AHS says there's now an app that
could help.
Providing this information voluntarily is crucial to our
work to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Alberta Trace Together is the first contact tracing
app available in North America.
Every time users pass one another, their phones
record the encounter using Bluetooth.
Encrypted data will be stored on the phone.
Now, if one of those users tests positive
for COVID-19, the user can upload their
interactions to AHS, and a contact tracer would
call the numbers the phone registered, telling them
to self-isolate.
Like bringing a camera into focus, these techniques
give us a far clearer picture that help
us to inform our actions going forward.
Now, the app stores only phone numbers, no
locations.
It doesn't use GPS.
But tracking still raises privacy questions.
Alberta's privacy commissioner says she has been involved
and she supports enhanced contact tracing.
In a statement, she adds, In my view,
Alberta Health has chosen a less intrusive approach
in deploying this app.
President Trump is lashing out against a new
advertisement by a Republican-led group called the
Lincoln Project calling out his mismanagement of the
coronavirus pandemic.
The one-minute ad is titled, Morning in
America.
Spin on Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign slogan.
There's morning in America.
And under the leadership of Donald Trump, our
country is weaker and sicker and poorer.
And now, Americans are asking, if we have
another four years like this, will there even
be an America?
That morning in America ad spelled M-O
-U-R-N-I-N-G.
In a series of angry tweets posted just
after midnight Tuesday morning, Trump attacked the makers
of the ad, singling out George Conway, longtime
Trump critic, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne
Conway.
Trump tweeted, I don't know what Kellyanne did
to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface,
but it must have been really bad, Trump
tweeted.
CBS's Mola Lenghi is going to lead us
off tonight in New York City.
Mola?
Well, Nora, while deaths in New York are
down significantly from their peak just a few
weeks ago, we're still losing more than 200
people a day to this virus.
So many that bodies are being stored in
makeshift morgues, like those white refrigerator trucks that
you see behind me there.
And that is why there is so much
hope in this experimental new vaccine that could
be ready by this fall.
Well, we certainly hope so.
I want to put up a quote from
Governor Cuomo in New York, which sort of
had some surprising information in it.
He said 66% of the people who
were in new cases were at home, which
is shocking to us.
He said, this is a surprise.
Overwhelmingly, the people were at home.
We thought maybe they were taking public transportation
and we've taken special precautions.
But actually, no, these people were literally at
home.
66% of the new cases.
How does that happen?
Well, generally speaking, patients report, and this has
been well established, better and safer behaviors than
reality.
So people report that they may be staying
at home.
But in fact, we know 600 people got
the infection during pretty harsh sheltering conditions in
the New York area.
How did that happen?
That means they got the infection during the
extreme measures.
So we know the drivers of this infection.
We know what they are.
They're mass gatherings.
They're travel.
They're people working in confined areas.
They're people with direct contact.
And we know that 20% of those
admissions to the hospital were in nursing homes.
We're seeing now in meatpacking areas, those that
work in confined areas, especially with high-risk
individuals.
That is one of our major battles, is
dealing with the outbreaks in these challenged areas.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Dr. Marta McCary, thank you very much.
Good to have you here tonight.
Right now in the United States, people should
not be walking around with masks.
You're sure of it?
Because people are listening really closely to this.
Right now, people should not be walking.
There's no reason to be walking around with
a mask.
When you're in the middle of an outbreak,
wearing a mask might make people feel a
little bit better, and it might even block
a droplet.
But it's not providing the perfect protection that
people think that it is.
And often, there are unintended consequences.
People keep fiddling with the mask, and they
keep touching their face.
And can you get some schmutz sort of
staying inside there?
Of course, of course.
But when you think masks, you should think
of health care providers needing them and people
who are ill.
And a 56-foot billboard called the Trump
Death Clock has been unveiled in Times Square
here in New York.
The billboard was created by the Oscar-nominated
filmmaker Eugene Cherecki.
So the Trump Death Clock is a billboard
that hangs over Times Square.
And what it shows is an estimate of
the number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths
that resulted from the president and his team's
failed response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Thanks to Dr. Fauci and leading epidemiologists, we
now know that had the mitigation guidelines been
put into effect just one week earlier, on
March 9th instead of March 16th, 60%
of U.S. COVID-19 deaths would have
been prevented.
That's an incredible number.
And on behalf of all those who needlessly
lost their lives to this failed leadership in
a pandemic, we need a symbol, a symbol
that cries out not only for accountability, but
also for more responsible and responsive stewardship going
forward.
At the time of this broadcast, the Trump
Death Clock stands at 46,485 and growing.
This is the New York City Police Department.
Nonessential gatherings of any kind have been prohibited
by the governor and the mayor.
This gathering is unlawful, and you are ordered
to disperse.
If you fail to disperse immediately, you are
subject to arrest.
In my lifetime, this will be the greatest
economic hit.
But you don't have a choice.
People act like you have a choice.
People don't feel like going to the stadium
when they might get infected.
You know, it's not the government who's saying,
okay, just ignore this disease.
And, you know, people are deeply affected by
seeing these deaths, by knowing they could be
part of the transmission chain.
And, you know, old people, their parents, their
grandparents could be affected by this.
And so you don't, you know, you don't
get to say, ignore what's going on here.
There will be the ability, particularly in rich
countries, to open up if things are done
well over the next few months.
But for the world at large, normalcy only
returns when we've largely vaccinated the entire global
population.
And so, you know, although there's a lot
of work on testing, a lot of work
on drugs that we're involved with, you know,
trying to achieve that ambitious goal, which has
never been done for the vaccine, that rises
to the top of the list.
All right, what do we got here?
We've got, oh, look at this.
Look closely at this.
That's a restaurant that's using mannequins to fill
out the half-empty dining room.
What's the story behind this one, Ash?
This is the Inn at Little Washington in
Washington, Virginia.
It's no ordinary restaurant.
It's a Michelin three-star restaurant.
To get a table here, it is very
coveted.
So rather than leave them open, the owners
of the restaurant said, let's put in the
mannequins.
Very well-dressed, I may add.
Three-piece suits, ties, hats, nice dresses for
the ladies.
The company is a little lifeless.
But by the way, the tasting menu, tasting
menu is 248 bucks.
So I hope you get more than fried
chicken and fish and chips.
Yeah, I want a mannequin.
That's what I want.
On Capitol Hill, House Democratic leaders have unveiled
a massive 1,800-page coronavirus relief package
worth $3 trillion.
The so-called HEROES Act would fund expanded
unemployment benefits through January 2021, send most U
.S. adults another one-time $1,200 stimulus
check, and provide $1 trillion in assistance to
hard-hit state, local, and tribal governments.
It would also expand SNAP food benefits, fund
hazard pay for frontline workers, increase funding for
COVID-19 testing, and provide $25 billion in
funding to the U.S. Postal Service.
The bill would not expand Medicare to cover
millions of newly uninsured Americans, nor does it
provide for rent and mortgage relief or recurring
cash payments to U.S. households.
The bill would expand the Paycheck Protection Program
to bail out corporate lobbyist firms.
Climate activists say the bill also fails to
close loopholes for big polluters.
Greenpeace USA tweeted, quote, Fossil fuel CEOs will
be rejoicing that Congress has once again left
the door wide open for handouts to struggling,
mismanaged oil and gas corporations.
Do you agree that stimulus should move forward?
There's been some Republicans who suggest that...
I don't know.
It depends.
It's certainly not the package that I saw
today.
Basically, if you look at that package, what
they want more than anything else is it's
a voting package.
They want to be able to make sure
that Republicans can't win an election by putting
in all sorts of mailing ballots.
Now, that's the problem with mail-in ballots.
Are they going to dump a whole pile
of ballots on your desk just before the
election?
So the problem with the mail-in ballots,
it's subject to tremendous corruption.
Tremendous corruption.
Cheating.
And so I'm against it.
And if you look at the bill that
Nancy Pelosi is putting in, it has a
lot to do with elections.
And we're not going to lose elections because
of that.
Tonight, the FBI and federal cybersecurity agents are
warning that hackers linked to the Chinese government
are trying to steal research on coronavirus vaccines
and therapies.
The FBI says the potential theft could jeopardize
the treatment of patients here in the U
.S. Here's CBS Chief Justice and Homeland Security
correspondent Jeff Begay's.
While the coronavirus was sweeping across parts of
China in January, U.S. officials say Chinese
hackers were already focused on the United States,
trying to steal research from universities and pharmaceutical
companies that were working on a cure.
John Demers is the assistant attorney general for
national security.
The Chinese for years have targeted biomedical research,
and there's nothing more important than COVID-19
research right now in that field.
The hacking charges ratcheted up tensions over the
virus between the U.S. and China.
What should have been stopped at the source,
which was China.
But it's not just China.
Iran is also on the attack.
Researchers at the cybersecurity company Recorded Future say
the Iranian state targeted an executive at Gilead
Sciences, the manufacturer of the promising coronavirus treatment
drug Remdesivir.
But Demers said China is desperate to be
first with the vaccine.
You call this a holy grail of information
that these foreign hackers are going after?
There's nothing more important right now than these
treatments, and perhaps most significantly for China for
geopolitical value to be able to say that
they were the first to develop a vaccine.
Tonight in a statement, Chinese officials said the
accusations were without evidence.
But U.S. officials say anyone working on
a vaccine should be on hyper alert.
Margaret.
Yeah, go ahead, please.
Many times that the U.S. is doing
far better than any other country when it
comes to testing.
Yes.
Why does that matter?
Why is this a global competition to you
if every day Americans are still losing their
lives and we're still seeing more cases every
day?
Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the
world.
And maybe that's a question you should ask
China.
Don't ask me.
Ask China that question.
OK, when you ask them that question, you
may get a very unusual answer.
Yes.
Behind you, please.
Sir, why are you saying that to me
specifically?
I'm telling you, I'm not saying it specifically
to anybody.
I'm saying it to anybody who would ask
a nasty question like that.
That's not a nasty question.
Please go ahead.
Why does it matter?
OK, anybody else?
Please go ahead in the back, please.
I have two questions.
No, it's OK.
But you pointed to me.
I have two questions, Mr. President.
Next, please.
You called on me.
I did, and you didn't respond.
And now I'm calling on the young lady
in the back, please.
I just wanted to let my colleague finish.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
There's an approach called the RNA vaccine that
people like Moderna, CureVac, and others are using,
that in 2015, we'd identified that as very
promising for pandemics and for other applications as
well.
And so if everything goes perfectly with the
RNA approach, we could actually beat the 18
months.
We don't want to create unrealistic expectations.
The efficacy of vaccines in older people is
always a huge challenge.
It turns out the flu vaccine isn't that
effective in elderly people.
Most of the benefit comes from younger people
not spreading it because they're vaccinated.
And that benefits, on a community basis, the
elderly.
Here, we clearly need a vaccine that works
in the upper age range because they're most
at risk of that.
And doing that so that you amp it
up so it works in older people and
yet you don't have side effects.
If we have 1 in 10,000 side
effects, that's way more, 700,000 people who
will suffer from that.
So really understanding the safety at gigantic scale
across all age ranges, pregnant, male, female, undernourished,
existing comorbidities, it's very, very hard.
And that actual decision of, okay, let's go
and give this vaccine to the entire world,
governments will have to be involved because there
will be some risk and indemnification needed before
that can be decided on.
Taking on coronavirus in hard-hit communities of
color.
Join Don Lemon and Van Jones with Dr.
Regina Benjamin and Robert Smith, plus messages of
hope from Mario Lopez, Samuel L.
Jackson, and more.
The Color of COVID, live tomorrow at 10
on CNN.
And now on to the frauds.
Let's start with Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine,
who weeks ago ordered nursing homes to admit
COVID-positive patients.
Well, while thousands of residents saw their loved
ones and family members die, Levine quietly extracted
her own mother out of harm's way, reportedly
moving her from a nursing home to a
hotel.
My mother requested, and my sister and I
as her children complied, to move her to
another location during the COVID-19 outbreak.
My mother is 95 years old.
She is very intelligent and more than competent
to make her own decisions.
I'd rather have her mother be Health Secretary
of Pennsylvania, frankly.
Do you mean a fully approved vaccine for
everyone, the full public, or a partially approved
vaccine with emergency use?
No, we're looking for a full vaccine for
everyone that wants to get it.
Not everybody's going to want to get it.
But we're looking at a full vaccine.
Is that a correct statement?
Yeah, we'll...
So the answer is yes, we're working for
a fully approved vaccine, but we'll also use
the tools we have.
For instance, emergency use authorization, as appropriate.
We use all of our regulatory tools to
bring vaccine available for the entire American population
by January.
Okay, and then Mr. President, can you just
clarify, why are some of you wearing a
mask and why are some of you not
wearing a mask?
We've all been tested, I've been tested, we've
all been tested, and we're quite a distance
away and we're outdoors, so I told them,
I gave them the option, they could wear
it or not.
So you can blame it on me, but
I gave them the option, we could wear
it or not.
The President, and he said it again today,
we need to move ahead, whether we're ready
or not in the direction of opening up.
Yes, he did, Judy, and the President proves
once again, he's not actually strategic or tactical
in his political fights that he engages in.
He's visceral, he's instinctive.
You should always, if you're going after somebody
politically, go after somebody who's a lot weaker
than you are politically or less popular.
I mean, Democrats won five consecutive presidential elections
running against Herbert Hoover because he was there
in the Depression and unpopular as a Republican
President.
But he picked Anthony Fauci, Dr. Fauci.
David mentioned he's been there since the Reagan
years, but not only that, in a presidential
debate when George H.W. Bush was asked
to cite a contemporary American hero, he cited
Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The Food and Drug Administration halted a coronavirus
testing program promoted by billionaire Bill Gates and
Seattle health officials pending reviews.
The program sought to send test kits to
the home of people both healthy and sick
to try to bring the country to the
level of testing officials say is necessary before
states can begin safely reopening.
The program, which has already gone through thousands
of tests, found dozens of cases that had
previously been undiagnosed.
The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network said on its
website that the FDA has asked it to
pause testing while it receives additional authorizations, but
maintained its procedures are safe.
Every player, unless they're from the same household,
has to bring their own tennis balls so
that you don't touch other people's tennis balls
with your hands.
You can kick their balls, but you can't
touch them.
I'm going to blush, sorry.
Of course, if you're playing with someone in
your household, you can't touch those tennis balls.
To avoid confusion between whose balls are whose,
you can use a marker, like a Sharpie,
to mark out, to put an X, or
put someone's initials on them.
The P4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology has come under scrutiny as a potential
source of the virus.
According to an NBC report, a hazardous event
may have happened at the lab in October
last year.
Three people familiar with the matter told NBC
that U.S. intelligence agencies are reviewing an
unofficial report on cell phone location data.
The report found there was no cell phone
activity around the high-security part of the
P4 lab between October 7th and 24th last
year.
The report suggests there may have been a
hazardous event there sometime between October 6th and
11th that required the lab to be closed
during that time.
The report talks about images from October 14th
to 19th last year showing no outbound traffic
from the lab.
It suspected a roadblock was set up to
prevent cars and people coming and going.
This is in contrast to satellite images from
August to October 6th, which show a lot
of activity.
The next instance of activity was on October
25th.
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton also spoke about
the data in an interview with Fox News.
Cotton said normally thousands of mobile phones are
in use around this area.
Wuhan has about the same population density as
New York.
He adds the sudden drop in cell phone
usage is likely an indicator of when the
virus first began spreading.
He said we could get to the bottom
of it a lot faster if the Chinese
regime was more transparent.
U.S. intelligence officials say the evidence is
not enough on its own.
They are still investigating.
I mean, there's a real possibility that the
convention does not happen or it happens in
a virtual sense.
Is that correct as of today?
Well, first of all, our convention has to
happen because we are not officially nominating Joe
Biden in order to take Donald Trump.
So our convention is happening.
There is business that has to happen.
Now, when it comes to what our convention
is going to look like, I can guarantee
you that our convention will ensure that the
safety first, whether it is our delegates, the
people of Milwaukee, or all of those involved
in a convention, we will make sure that
they are safe, whatever that looks like, and
that they vote for our nominee.
With summer right around the corner, New Jersey
announced this week that beaches would be open
by Memorial Day weekend with some restrictions.
The openings are weeks behind other coastal states
like Georgia and Florida, but as one of
the states hardest hit by the COVID-19
pandemic, local officials say they are proceeding cautiously.
At exactly 10 a.m. yesterday, barriers that
had been blocking the boardwalk and beach in
Seaside Heights, New Jersey, were pushed aside.
An announcement made it official.
These beaches are now officially open.
Once again, these beaches are now officially open.
It's a sign that things are returning to
normal in this quintessential Jersey Shore town, sort
of.
We're looking to see how we deal with
the social distance, and that's going to be
our test today.
Tony Voss is the mayor of Seaside Heights.
After nearly two months of being closed because
of COVID-19, visitors can now walk and
ride bikes on the boardwalk, provided they heed
the rule of six feet between groups of
people.
On the beach, there's no swimming or sunbathing,
but the public can walk, fish, and even
surf.
Mayor Voss says it's just the first phase
of Seaside Heights' reopening.
I'm optimistic that this is a good first
step.
Obviously, I would love to see everything open.
I would love to see a swimming and
so forth, but we have to recognize that
we have to take this in steps.
Seaside Heights is one of more than three
dozen communities along the Jersey Shore grappling with
how best to reopen.
In neighboring Seaside Park, beaches are already open
to sunbathers, provided beachgoers keep their distance.
These are unprecedented times.
We know things are hard right now.
You're stuck inside with nothing to do.
You might be going out of your mind.
Just wanting to do something.
Anything.
But now, more than ever.
More than ever.
It's time to think about how your choices
affect others.
So please, please.
Please.
Don't start a podcast.
Just don't do it.
Don't do it.
You might feel like it's a productive use
of your time right now.
You've probably already got a USB mic and
a spare room ready to go.
And your mate Dave's got some interesting opinions.
But we're here to tell you.
He doesn't.
He really doesn't.
He's a fuckwit.
We don't need your true crime exclusive, which
is just you reading Wikipedia articles to your
housemate.
We don't need your minute-by-minute breakdown
of every episode of Parks and Rec.
What are you going to do?
Send everyone in your contact list a mail
-chip newsletter?
And force them to mark you as spam
instead of unsubscribing?
Because they're scared to hurt your feelings?
We're in the middle of a pandemic!
Look, it's pretty straightforward.
Just don't start a podcast.
Make some pasta from scratch like everyone else
and just shut up.
The greatest gift you can give your fellow
human beings right now.
Right now.
Is to shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
Come on.
Do it.
Don't start a podcast.
What's your reaction to the president saying that
he's now taking hydroxychloroquine?
Are you concerned?
Well, first let me say how happy I
am about your new baby.
How lovely.
Oh, thank you.
Wyatt.
How perfectly named.
We all know why that is.
And congratulations.
And as you now are a father, you
see how important it is to keep the
world safe for the children.
For the children.
As far as the president is concerned, he's
our president.
And I would rather he not be taking
something that has not been approved by the
scientists, especially in his age group and in
his, shall we say, weight group.
What is morbidly obese, they say.
So I think it's not a good idea.
Does this make medical sense?
Yes.
Listen, people have got to separate politics from
the practice of medicine.
He everything he said was absolutely accurate.
It has been around for 40 years.
It's been prescribed hundreds of millions of times
for malaria.
I personally have prescribed it hundreds of times
for malaria, hundreds of times for rheumatic diseases.
I've never seen one adverse side effect.
I can't say that of Tylenol.
I can't say that of aspirin.
Now, every medication has risk.
That's just the way it is.
But in a otherwise healthy person with maybe
a rheumatic condition or to prevent malaria, it's
a very safe medication.
Do not confuse it with chloroquine.
That's different than hydroxychloroquine.
Different medicines.
So the FDA put out a warning about
both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
They said this morning in April that it
can cause dangerous abnormality in heart rhythm and
virus patients.
Said about both of them.
And that only in hospitals should it be
used and in clinical trials.
This is not being used in a hospital
and not being used as a clinical trial.
That's the FDA standard.
Doctors are entitled to do anything they want
with a medication.
They take on a certain degree of liability.
They do when they do that different than
when something is FDA approved.
We use off label medication all the time.
Some of our more common prescribing is off
label, not FDA approved.
Now this is for not a hospital setting,
not a COVID setting.
It's being used for prophylaxis.
Doctors take it themselves for prophylaxis.
They prescribe it for patients for prophylaxis.
But the FDA says that there's no evidence
that that works.
No, because that study's not been done yet.
They're talking about the treatment of COVID.
In the treatment of COVID.
No, preventatively, there's no study that shows that
that works.
The president is doing this to prevent, unless
he's had coronavirus and he's lying about it.
Doctors can prescribe it prophylactically.
I know many doctors are doing it.
I know many doctors that are taking it
themselves, because there's some evidence that it might
be prophylactic and it is so safe.
So they feel like rather than do nothing,
they'd rather do the hydroxychloroquine, not the chloroquine,
which does have cardiac side effects.
Look, the studies on hydroxychloroquine and the cardiac
effects have yet to be washed out.
Exploring the unintended consequences of a safety-first
culture through the lens of a quarantine was,
to me, a really interesting rumination.
Because we can be a safety-first country,
but only for very, very, very short periods
of time.
And then we're reminded that the chief goal
of living is not to merely stay alive.
At least not for most people.
And then this fascinating conversation starts to unfold.
So that's a long way of saying that
for the last 60 days or so, I've
seen a lot, a lot of conversation right
around a couple topics that I love.
Specifically, homeostatic risk, compensatory risk, risk equilibrium, and
all the subconscious things we do to maintain
our own illusory relationship with the illusion of
safety.
I mean, did you change your mind on
herd immunity?
No.
I don't know what you mean by that.
Herd immunity is just a thing.
Herd immunity or population immunity is what, you
know...
But for a period in March, the government
appeared to be pursuing a strategy of mitigating
the spread of the virus, allowing Cheltenham races,
for example, to go ahead between March the
10th and March the 13th, allowing it to
spread naturally, to allow the development of some
herd immunity.
Was that a mistake?
I don't know.
I'm not quite sure whether that really was
the strategy.
I think that at the time, it was
difficult to imagine.
I mean, we weren't sure by what levels
of compliance with various social distance measures were
possible.
Was that why you didn't model full lockdown
until the middle of March?
I think it was very hard.
I don't think anybody looked at it.
It wasn't just myself.
I don't think anybody...
I mean, we all looked at a range
of different measures, some of which were very
stringent.
But it was, you know, it's difficult to
say, you know...
But it was difficult to imagine just how...
In some sense, it was difficult to imagine
just how easy the lockdown was, if you
see what I mean.
You see two families who've suffered losses inside
nursing homes, and they're looking for accountability, and
they'd like to see justice.
For example, I've recently interviewed a family of
three siblings.
They've had two nursing home losses within a
few weeks of one another on two separate
floors in the same facility here in Albany.
They felt so much solace when you got
up and talked about Matilda's loss.
They said, great, we're protected.
Like, our loved ones are going to be
okay because of Matilda's loss.
And then their loved ones passed away because
they couldn't get the testing.
So they're looking for accountability, and they feel
that they were failed.
What's the comment to that?
Yeah, the comment is this.
And I have those conversations all day long
with people who have lost people, right?
We lost 139 people yesterday in hospitals.
Who is accountable for those 139 deaths?
How do we get justice for those families
who had 139 deaths?
What is justice?
Who can we prosecute for those deaths?
Nobody.
Mother Nature, God, where did this virus come
from?
People are going to die by this virus.
That is the truth.
Older people, vulnerable people are going to die
from this virus.
That is going to happen.
Despite whatever you do.
Because with all our progress as a society,
we can't keep everyone alive.
Despite what everything you do.
And older people are more vulnerable.
And that is a fact.
And that is not going to change.
And look, to me, the really difficult conversations
for me are my son was 40 years
old.
He was not a senior citizen.
Did not have a comorbidity.
And got this virus because he was an
essential worker and doing the right thing.
And had an aneurysm.
I thought young people were fine.
And he was doing the right thing as
an essential worker.
There's a randomness to this virus that is
inexplicable.
Just everything we possibly can to make sure
people have a good time, but it's safe.
Kelly Jones is a manager at the Palazzo
Gentlemen's Club in South Austin.
He says their employees, along with dancers and
entertainers in the industry, have had it tough.
A lot of people don't know that our
entertainers are actually independent contractors, much like hairdressers.
So they had a lot of issues collecting
unemployment.
They work on cash tips, like a lot
of other people in the service industry.
So they're struggling as well.
A lot of them have families and kids.
They're trying to make sure that they have
arrangements for childcare, for putting food on the
table.
And now they'll be back to work Friday.
But with a long list of safety protocols
in effect, that includes how many people can
get into this building.
Which normally holds close to 300 people.
We're going to have to cut that down
to comply with the governor's order of 25
percent capacity.
Going to be back to the old days
with hand clickers, making sure what our capacity
is.
We're going to have to have barriers around
our stages so that our customers have social
distancing from the entertainers.
As far as private dances go, they're going
to have to maintain that six-foot division
between them.
But of course, they're also a bar and
serve food.
We're going to have to go to plasticware
instead of nice metal knives and forks.
Paper napkins, place mats, plastic cups.
Bartenders and our staff are going to make
sure that we follow hand washing policies.
Our employees definitely are wearing masks.
Including the entertainers.
So we're encouraging them to be creative, find
something they like that maybe goes with their
outfits.
And they'll also have employees specifically designated for
constantly cleaning the place.
And while it won't be a full house
inside by any means, they're just glad to
get business moving again.
Aside from the fact that most believe that
this president has botched this crisis from the
get-go.
And this will be known in history worldwide
as a human catastrophe that he could have
prevented.
And he's trying to deflect at all times.
And Willie and Mike, he's tweeting again all
sorts of crazy things.
Once again, tweeting conspiracy theories about Joe, falsely
accusing him of murder.
Talking about the death of a young staffer
in his congressional office years ago.
And calling him dangerous to walk the streets.
And I'll just say, I'll take a point
of personal privilege here.
That's sick.
Donald, you're a sick person.
You're a sick person.
To put this family through this.
To put her husband through this.
To do this just because you're mad at
Joe because Joe got you again today.
Because he speaks the truth.
And he speaks plainly about your lack of
interest and empathy in others.
And your lack of ability to handle this
massive human catastrophe.
The fact that you've made it worse.
And that you make it worse every day.
And that you won't even wear a mask
to protect people from your germs.
But the germs you're spreading on Twitter.
First of all, Twitter, you shouldn't be allowing
this.
And you should be taking these tweets down.
And you should be ashamed of yourself.
You'll be hearing from me on this.
Because this is BS.
But Donald, you're a sick person.
You're really a cruel, sick, disgusting person.
And you can keep tweeting about Joe, but
you're just hurting other people.
And of course, you're hurting yourself.
Willie, why don't you take final thoughts.
I'm done.
A professor at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland has been arrested over his alleged financial
ties to China.
This just days after the FBI sounded the
alarm on China's attempts to steal coronavirus research.
A professor at the University of Arkansas was
arrested on similar charges last week.
And then in January, Harvard's chemistry chief was
charged with failing to disclose that he, too,
was being paid by the Chinese Communist Party.
Two weeks ago, Senator Tom Cotton told us
that the CCP was trying in many ways
to steal medical data from the United States
to try and come up with a vaccine
for COVID-19 before the United States.
After several weeks of being stuck inside, thousands
have flocked here to Bolivar Peninsula to make
the most of their time while out.
I've been in quarantine, and I need to
get out and party.
Go Topper's Jeep Weekend.
What's better than beach and a few drinks
and Jeeps?
Man, I can't get any better than that.
In full swing at beaches on Bolivar Peninsula.
This event comes at a time where beaches
across the state are reopening following the coronavirus
pandemic.
And beachgoers like Chelsea Collier are still taking
precautions to stay safe.
Wash them hands for 20 seconds and keep
them clean with their Germ-X.
Totally.
Come down and have a good time.
You have a good time, there's no issues.
But when you start acting silly, like the
sheriff said on a previous interview, we've got
a jail that's got a whole lot of
empty holes.
The sheriff's office have made at least 63
arrests so far in connection to Jeep Weekend.
As for the enforcement of social distancing, they
say it's challenging to enforce.
I mean, you can't.
It's just, it's not possible to do that
on this beach with the amount of people
that we have here.
It's just, we can't do that.
The additional presence of law enforcement has been
a welcoming sight for beachgoers, given the history
of this event.
May 5th, we announced a wear a mask
in public campaign.
And we asked people to submit videos that,
and we would pick the winner by vote
of the people.
And the winner would become a public service
announcement.
We had over 600 submissions.
Isn't that amazing?
The competition is still open, and we're going
to show you now five of the runner
-ups.
United we stand, and divided we fall.
We mask up not just to obey the
law, but to obey the laws of nature.
We hope for immunity in our community.
We pray for normality in this calamity.
We want hope.
I mask up not because I fear getting
sick, but because I fear getting you sick.
I mask up because days, weeks, or months
of hot breath and acne bumps is better
than knowing my wife will soon have to
raise a fatherless son.
Mask up.
Senator, also, I think you know that this
whole thing started in Wuhan.
And you know that many people call this
the Wuhan virus or the Chinese virus.
Kamala Harris has had enough.
She has a resolution that's going to work
its way through the Senate to ban the
phrase Wuhan virus.
And she calls it anti-Asian.
Your feeling on this?
Well, I object to that resolution, Brian.
First off, Wuhan is just a city.
It's not even a people.
I guess she's going to have to call
out Lyme disease for being anti-Connecticut, or
maybe Legionnaire's disease for being anti-veteran, Zika,
since Zika is a forest in Africa.
But this political correctness run amok covers a
more serious point.
The Democrats want to wave their arms and
say that this is racist or xenophobic.
And that's because they don't have an answer
for China's rise and the threat that China
poses to us.
Joe Biden, as we said, has been weak
on China for 30 years.
So they want to have politically correct distractions
to distract people from his terrible record on
China.
We can't let that happen.
Would requiring masks across the board help?
Is that even, is that feasible?
Craig, I'm going to say this for the
benefit of your family.
I know you have young kids from my
family and for all Americans.
We should make masks mandatory in public.
Just like we ban indoor smoking because you
know what?
Nobody should, you shouldn't have to breathe somebody
else's that can't smoke.
I shouldn't have to breathe exhaled COVID-19
in somebody's breath.
Nobody should.
And so we should institute mandatory masks in
public when you can't guarantee social distancing.
That means retail stores.
That means public transportation, workplaces.
That's absolutely where we should be headed.
Makes no sense why we're not already there.
We're encouraging it.
People are flouting the rules.
A security guard at a retail outlet in
Michigan died trying to encourage a customer to
wear a mask.
They shot him because they didn't like the
way in which it was trying to be
enforced, that policy.
We need to not put the onus on
security guards at local outlets to enforce this
policy or to encourage Americans to abide by
it.
It's all in our best interest that we
wear masks.
The evidence is overwhelming.
We just need governors to do their job.
The idea of a bioterrorist attack is kind
of the nightmare scenario because they're a pathogen
with a high death rate would be picked.
Now, the good news is I'm not trying
to depress you.
It's tough enough right now.
Most of the work we're going to do
to be ready for pandemic two, I call
this pandemic one.
Most of the work we'll do to be
ready for that are also the things we
need to do to minimize the threat of
bioterrorism.
You panicked about the market, panicked about COVID,
panicked about the ventilators, panicked about the PPE,
panicked about ever going out again, panicked if
we ever get back to normal.
Joseph, you didn't panic about anything.
What good is it?
Why not help people keep their head?
A hundred thousand people died, Joe, and all
you did was try to help your friend,
the president.
That's what you did every single morning on
this show.
Every single morning on this show, you abused
your position, Joe.
I'm trying to help investors keep their cool,
keep their heads.
And as it turned out, that's what they
should have done.
That's what they should have done.
They should have kept their heads.
If they had listened to you, Andrew, we're
supposed to be at about 8,000.
I wasn't arguing to go sell your stocks,
Joseph.
I was arguing about people's lives.
We understand.
People's lives.
Andrew, it's a global pandemic.
Do the news.
I'm begging you to do the news.
It's a global pandemic.
I'm begging you, please.
Greetings.
My name is Dr. Tony Fauci, and I
am here to present some good news at
a time of great stress as we struggle
to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
I'm excited about the opportunity to shine some
light on one of the many young people
who have stepped up and helped us throughout
this difficult time.
The 24th annual Webby Awards will honor Avi
Schiffman as the 2020 Person of the Year
in recognition of his creation of ncov2019.live
to track the spread of COVID-19 across
the world.
As we collectively navigate the severe impact of
COVID-19, including the difficult but critical calls
for nationwide social distancing, the Internet has become
the lifeblood of people looking for accurate information
about the novel coronavirus and the necessary steps
to combat it.
Since launching the site on December 29th, Schiffman's
tracking tool has been an invaluable resource that
sounded the alarm on the virus and its
spread, notably calling attention to its severity long
before it was broadly recognized.
At a time when the spread of misinformation
can be so detrimental to our efforts, the
site has provided over 600 million visitors with
accurate real-time data.
Schiffman has helped people around the globe understand
COVID-19 and the necessity to upgrade current
healthcare systems and the importance of measures to
flatten the curve.
For having the foresight to track the global
spread of COVID-19 and for creating an
essential website to provide real-time data about
the virus to people everywhere, it is my
great privilege to honor Avi Schiffman as the
2020 Webby Person of the Year.
The president will sign an executive order concerning
social media as he escalates his feud with
Twitter.
Here's Peter Alexander.
Ahead of today's scrubbed launch, President Trump touring
NASA's campus striking an uplifting note.
It's a great achievement for our country and
our country's number one.
Members of the president's family traveling with him
wearing masks.
The first lady earlier seen wearing her mask
aboard Marine One.
Their visit coming the very day the country
marks that tragic milestone, 100,000 lives lost
to the coronavirus.
And today the president hosted New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo at the White House.
It was about how do we supercharge the
reopening, especially in New York, which has been
hardest hit.
No drama there, but the president is escalating
another battle with Twitter after the company for
the first time posted fact-check labels on
a pair of the president's tweets about mail
-in ballots.
President Trump accusing Twitter of interfering in the
2020 presidential election and today threatening to strongly
regulate or close them down.
A president has no authority to shut down
a private company, and the First Amendment limits
the government's ability to regulate free speech.
Meantime, some top Republicans are telling President Trump
to knock it off as he again today
pushed a debunked conspiracy theory.
That former Republican congressman and Morning Joe host
Joe Scarborough had something to do with the
death of an aide in 2001.
Laurie Klausutis died after an abnormal heart rhythm
caused her to collapse and hit her head
in Scarborough's Florida office.
Scarborough was in Washington at the time.
Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney.
We're in the middle of a pandemic.
He's the chief, the commander in chief of
this nation, and it's causing great pain to
the family of the young woman who died.
As for SpaceX, late tonight the president tweeted
that he plans to fly back to Florida
on Saturday for the next scheduled launch.
Lester.
Amazon has transformed its operations in response to
COVID-19 to protect employees and keep packages
flowing.
Amazon has transformed its operations in response to
COVID-19 to protect employees and keep packages
flowing.
The company is keeping its employees safe and
healthy while still delivering those packages to your
doorstep.
The company is keeping employees safe and healthy.
It spent $800 million on increased wages and
overtime pay during the pandemic.
It has spent $800 million on increased
wages
and overtime pay during the pandemic.
Every single one of Amazon's workforce of nearly
a million people has played a critical role
in making these changes happen.
I hope that they feel that passion that
we have for safety.
So they can stay safe and healthy while
you do too.
Look, the president today, you know, with these
with these retweets, one, so many viewpoints, he
comments, you know, with a columnist saying that
this is about social control as opposed to
medical reality.
Another one equating masks to silence, slavery and
social death.
Obviously, this is shocking.
I mean, and completely false when it comes
to so many viewpoints.
Yeah, the piece that the president retweeted could
have been written by a Russian bot.
It's essentially disinformation.
The irrefutable concept is that universal masking, having
the entire country wear a mask in public
would have dramatically reduced the death rate in
this country.
It's not up for debate.
It's just science.
But the president has an irreconcilable conflict of
interest.
And the conflict of interest is this.
He's running for president during a pandemic.
And some of the things that one would
need to do to suppress the pandemic run
counter to his election chances.
He needs to make things look like the
country is returning to normal.
And wearing a mask is decidedly abnormal, but
it saves lives.
So he not only does he not promote
universal mask wearing, he then promotes essentially negative
comments about it.
It's it's maddening.
You know, I've lost family members to covid.
You know, my colleagues at work have lost
family members.
And pretty soon everyone in this country is
going to know somebody who has lost somebody
to this virus.
And to think that the president of the
United States would not promote the simple public
health measure of wearing masks is insane.
I mean, Andrew Cuomo has been glorified by
media despite policies with respect to nursing homes
that caused to a number of tragic deaths,
whereas Ron DeSantis has instituted pretty successful policy
if you look at their numbers.
So what's going on here?
Ron DeSantis is not doing what he needed
to do two weeks ago to protect Florida
seniors.
Been a remarkable show of leadership by Governor
Cuomo in recent days.
He's providing hope.
And Governor Ron DeSantis is finally, finally, maybe
too little too late issuing a stay at
home order.
Cuomo has become a kind of acting president.
Governor DeSantis should have absolutely acted a lot
quicker, not only for the retired people.
Cuomo, everything Trump isn't honest, direct, brave.
In the case of Governor DeSantis of Florida,
he's going exactly the opposite way from what
the experts, the people on the front lines
indicate ought to be done.
Governor Cuomo has become a national leader and
not just the leader of New York.
No stay at home order from Governor Ron
DeSantis.
Why bother, right?
I'm sure Florida will be fine.
He is conveying incredible strength in the face
of this pandemic.
Act like you give a damn.
I've seen you referred to a little bit
recently as the love gov.
And I'm wondering if that's bleeding into your
demeanor at all.
Massive crowds swarming cities across the country are
choosing social justice over social distancing.
I could be dead tomorrow if I walk
on the streets.
But an urgent health warning from officials.
There's no question there's a danger this could
intensify the spread of the coronavirus just at
a point when we were starting to beat
it back profoundly.
How many super spreaders were in that crowd?
How many young people went home and kissed
their mother?
Hello or shook hands with their father.
But these demonstrators see in America infected with
injustice, too.
Are you worried about your safety?
Yes.
But the answer is that I'm worried about
my safety to both of those viruses.
Late today, the first comprehensive study on stopping
the virus found physical distancing three feet or
more is most important, even more than wearing
a mask.
And with tear gas flying, the risks even
greater.
Tear gas makes people cough, sneeze, their eyes
water.
And when that happens, the respiratory droplets that
carry the virus can travel further, meaning they
can infect a lot more people.
Public health and prosperity now jeopardized.
This restaurant owner's reopening was put on hold.
I worked for two months every day to
reposition ourselves for this to happen.
In South Florida, businesses were expecting to see
Miami Beach reopen today.
That's now been postponed because of the protests
as officials everywhere wait to see if cases
of the virus surge in the next two
weeks.
I can't tell you how many people have
been in touch with me today and tonight
and last night to say some form of
the following which we would have laughed at
five years ago.
The Russians must be having a good old
time looking at television images of the United
States.
Death toll of a 100,000, a pandemic
not at all under control, and now city
streets aflame in more cities tonight than we
can list.
Yeah, I've lost count of the number of
times you and I, Brian, have talked about
this very concept that the number one goal
of the Russian government is not to get
a certain person in the rather to sow
discord and chaos.
Now, it helps if the person in the
White House is unable to calm the nerves
of the nation, is unable to get peace
and calm restored in our cities through his
behavior, through trust, through his relationships and his
statements.
So yes, our adversaries are studying this right
now.
Some of them are actually pleased that we
are more divided than ever, and I'm very
troubled that we could be in for a
very long hot summer if this isn't quashed.
April Williams is a professor of communications and
media at the University of Michigan, and she
says the Karen meme resurged with a vengeance
last month.
A woman named Karen was denying that COVID
-19 was real, became ill, and unfortunately she
passed away.
And one of the things that I'm seeing
is people saying, look, this is peak Karen
behavior.
It seems so wasteful, but some American dairy
farmers are dumping milk, like the 56,000
pounds produced by farm owner Mark Muller in
northeast Wisconsin.
You put all that labor and work into
the milk, and you hate to see it
go down the drain when you know that
there's people starving in the world and in
our country even.
We hate to throw things away.
Despite strong demand for milk as consumers stay
home amid the coronavirus pandemic, dairy cooperatives that
oversee marketing and shipping logistics are asking some
farmers to dump milk.
Supply chain disruptions due to the outbreak are
preventing farmers from getting their products to the
markets.
With schools and restaurants closed, milk processors have
to shift to selling to retail grocers instead
of wholesalers.
That creates logistical and packaging challenges.
What's more, trucking companies are scrambling for drivers
as some who fear the virus have stopped
working.
Overseas dairy markets have dried up, and it
doesn't help that milk is highly perishable.
Some farmers say they will be paid for
the milk they dump, but payments for all
co-op members will take a hit from
lost revenues.
Today is a day of good news.
We have one of the lowest hospitalization rates
since this began.
And really good news, we have the lowest
death rate.
It's down to 35.
I've been asking all the experts who will
talk to me what is the lowest that
number can go.
And when it gets this low, it's really
a question of what they're attributing as the
cause of death.
In other words, you have people who are
gravely ill, who are going to die of
something, and if they get the COVID virus,
they attribute it to the COVID virus.
But there is a number.
When it gets down this low, it's really
a question of what that hospital certifies as
a cause of death.
So we'd like to see nobody die in
the state of New York ever.
Where is the president in a time of
national emergency?
Hiding.
Hiding in a security bunker, watching his shows,
afraid, alone.
Not a leader.
Supposing you brought the light inside the body.
Not a president.
Just a scared, incompetent.
Within a couple of days, it's going to
be down to close to zero.
Embarrassment.
You know that.
Those who have worked with him know that.
The former defense secretary, James Mattis, accusing President
Trump of being a threat to the Constitution.
Our allies know that.
And our enemies know that.
Everyone knows that.
It's time for a competent president.
Let's elect one.
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A vaccine, either by the end of this
calendar year or in the first few months
of 2021.
So that's the thing that makes me feel
confident that the process is really on track.
And that's good news.
Again, in the context of never being able
to guarantee success, things are clearly going in
the right direction.
That's very promising.
Very promising indeed.
And once there is a vaccine, how often
do you think we would need it?
Would it be like getting the flu shot
every year?
You know, we don't know that right now.
We're going to take it one step at
a time.
The first thing we want to do is
to determine if it's safe and if it
protects.
How long that protection lasts.
We're going to have to obviously observe that.
And that's the reason why when you make
a vaccine, it isn't the end of the
game.
You have to keep following and see how
long the duration of the protection is.
We hope it's substantial.
But if it isn't, you can always give
a boost.
So right now, step one, let's just prove
that it's safe and effective.
And then we'll go on from there.
Right.
So, OK, so people in the media, a
lot of them are not very good at
math and they're very prone to groupthink as
they as the cannabis thing taught me.
But there's something even worse than that.
Right.
And people call it Trump derangement syndrome.
I don't like to call it that because
that to me suggests there aren't good reasons
to be mad at Trump.
I call it orange man bad.
Right.
Because that puts you in on the joke
a little bit.
Right.
That, you know, Donald Trump does have lots
of issues, but there's orange man bad syndrome
going on.
And Donald Trump got blamed for this early
on.
And, you know, he didn't.
The government didn't prepare.
Right.
He shut the borders.
But then the government didn't really prepare in
February and early March.
And then it panicked.
But what people realized in the media, consciously
or not, was they could beat him up
with this.
They could beat him over the head with
it because his normal style is to bluster
and to bluff and to mock people.
And that does not work when they're when,
you know, when you have these death counts
every day.
Right.
So they realized they could embarrass him and
they have been doing it nonstop ever since.
But the flip side of embarrassing him means
you have to constantly talk about how terrible
this is.
Now, I mean, that's that's I know that's
quite a charge.
I mean, what makes you think they really
want them to to get covid?
Because money, money, it's I think it's at
least twenty nine thousand dollars per per patient.
And then you have to think you are
also charging supplies and more supplies, more supplies.
That's just like a bonus money.
But what do the but the residents aren't
getting that.
Right.
I mean, why?
Well, that's the thing.
And I actually had a I've went at
it with a lot of residents already.
And they're they're order followers.
You talk about psychological warfare.
Psychological warfare isn't just lying to you.
It's not just propaganda as we would normally
think of it.
Psychological warfare is changing the way you interpret
information so that you and I can be
looking at the exact same set of data
and we would come to wildly different conclusions
on it.
So, for example, with this virus right now,
this pandemic, you're looking at the Chinese regime's
handling of the virus.
We're both looking at the we're looking at
the exact same data.
Now, do you interpret it as being a
sign?
Oh, the Chinese regime did all it all
it could in its power.
It took very strong measures to ensure that
the virus didn't spread and the rest of
the world is just being unfair to it.
Or do you think the Chinese regime lied
to the world?
The Chinese regime arrested doctors, disappeared journalists and
these types of things.
If you were following only the information the
CCP was releasing and some of the organizations
that support the CCP, what they were saying,
you would view it in line of the
CCP's pro-CCP viewpoint.
If you were following all the real data,
for example, their cover-ups, their lying to
the world, their manipulation of data and numbers,
you would understand, okay, they were misleading the
world.
They were very dishonest about it.
And no, absolutely, they did not handle it
well.
The idea that they handled it well, you
would only believe that if you believed all
of the lies they were telling the world,
most of which have been exposed.
All right, well, let's get into it.
Veena, what has you fired up this week?
Well, I've been following this JK Rowling controversy,
and it all started with a tweet she
made.
Actually, it started with this headline, creating a
more equal post-COVID-19 world for people
who menstruate.
JK took issue with the word people being
used.
Maybe she was trying to be funny, but
she hinted that the publication should have stuck
with using the word women.
Some fans pointed out that there are lots
of those who menstruate who don't identify as
women.
And then things got a little messy, lots
of tweets back and forth.
And at one point, JK fired back with,
my life has been shaped by being female,
and I don't think it's hateful to say
so.
It's 2020.
Releasing these kind of statements online is not
a good look.
And hasn't she been accused of transphobic stuff
in the past?
Um, yeah.
Last year, she was criticized for supporting a
woman who was fired after saying that trans
women weren't real women.
Sis, read the room.
There are so many conversations right now about
equality, justice, and racism.
Is it any surprise that this story is
blowing up right now?
Exactly.
It's Pride Month, too.
And this week, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself,
reacted with an essay advocating for trans lives.
I thought he addressed the whole thing really
well.
And I liked how he expressed his hopes
that people don't lose their love for the
books themselves or forget the valuable lessons that
they learned from them.
I have not read the books.
I have not seen the movies.
Don't come at me.
Okay, Maya, get out of here.
What?
Well, I did watch the movies.
And seeing Daniel advocate for what he believes
in is so inspiring.
And also, I loved how he signed his
letter as Dan.
Definitely had a big major glow up.
Only you would notice such a small detail,
Sean.
Do we think this will have a long
-lasting impact on her career?
I think that this will diminish the amount
of respect that J.K. Rowling has acquired
over the years.
But her writing is just so exceptional and
renowned that I don't think the hype's ever
going to die down.
What about a month or so or two
or three ago when people were saying, you
don't really need to wear a mask?
Well, the reason for that is that we
were concerned, the public health community, and many
people were saying this, were concerned that it
was at a time when personal protective equipment,
including the N95 masks and the surgical masks,
were in very short supply.
And we wanted to make sure that the
people, namely the healthcare workers, who were brave
enough to put themselves in harm ways to
take care of people who you know were
infected with the coronavirus and the danger of
them getting infected, we did not want them
to be without the equipment that they needed.
So there was non-enthusiasm about going out
and everybody buying a mask or getting a
mask.
We were afraid that that would deter away
the people who really needed it.
Now we have masks.
We know that you don't need an N95
if you're a person, ordinary person, in the
street.
We also know that simple cloth coverings that
many people have can work as well as
a mask in many cases.
So right now, unequivocally, the recommendation is when
you're out there, particularly if you're in a
situation where there's active infection, keep the distance
physically and wear a mask.
So although there appear to be some contradiction
of you were saying this then and why
you're saying this now, actually the circumstances have
changed.
That's the reason why.
The gentleman yields back.
I want to announce that in accordance with
what I said this morning, the attending physician
of the House has said that it is
imperative for the health and safety of people
in this room that members wear masks.
I would greatly prefer that all presence simply
uphold the decorum of the committee by complying
with reasonable safety standards that are recommended by
the attending physician and are respectful of all
the occupants of this room.
I have been greatly lenient today.
However, I will tell you now that anyone
who is not wearing a mask will not
be recognized to speak, period.
Who seeks recognition?
Mr. Chairman.
The Ms. Escobar is next.
Mr. Chairman.
Ms. Escobar is next.
Mr. Chairman, a point of parliamentary— Ms. Escobar
is recognized.
Ms. Escobar— Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
McClintock has tried repeatedly to make his point.
Repeatedly.
Ms. Escobar has the time.
Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
No, no, it's our side.
You just had a Democrat speak.
It's our turn.
Ms. Escobar has the time.
Ms. Escobar— No, he doesn't.
Ms. Escobar has the time.
Mr. Chairman.
Mr.— Ms. Escobar has the time.
I think Mr. Lew just spoke.
It's Republicans' turn and Mr. McClintock has tried
now for several minutes to be recognized on
a point of order.
There is no point of order, but who
seeks recognition to speak?
Mr. Chairman, I seek recognition for a point
of parliamentary inquiry.
This gentleman will state his point of parliamentary
inquiry.
I would like the chairman to cite the
House rule requiring members to wear masks in
House proceedings.
If we had such a vote, I don't
recall it.
If we have such a vote, I will
vote against it, but I will be happy
to abide by it if the House so
decides.
Until then, I would like you to cite
me that rule since I obviously used that
vote.
The chair's authority to enforce the preservation of
order and decorum during committee proceedings derives from
the speaker's enforcement authority under Clause 2 of
Rule 1.
And with testing—you know, testing is a double
-edged sword.
We've tested now 25 million people.
It's probably 20 million people more than anybody
else.
Germany has done a lot.
South Korea has done a lot.
They call me.
They say, the job you're doing—here's the bad
part.
When you do testing to that extent, you're
going to find more people.
You're going to find more cases.
So I said to my people, slow the
testing down, please.
They test, and they test.
We got tests, and people don't know what's
going on.
We got tests.
We got another one over here.
The young man's 10 years old.
He's got the sniffles.
He'll recover in about 15 minutes.
That's a case.
Add up to it.
That's a case.
Today I want to talk about a peculiar
aspect of quantum measurements that you may have
heard of.
It's that the measurement does not merely reveal
a property that previously existed, but that the
act of measuring makes that property real.
So, when Donald Trump claims that not testing
people for COVID means there will be fewer
cases rather than just fewer cases you know
about, then that demonstrates his deep knowledge of
quantum mechanics.
Surges in cases of coronavirus are not linked
to recent protests such as the Black Lives
Matter, George Floyd, and police protests.
Not even more people leaving their homes during
the warm weather explains the surge of new
coronavirus cases.
This is according to findings of USA Today,
an analysis of counties nationwide.
For now, surges seem to be most intense
in counties that had avoided the worst outbreaks
earlier this year.
The analysis found no single cause seems to
explain why some places have seen spikes while
others have not.
The report cites one health expert as saying
the virus is still out there and the
strategy for fighting it has not changed.
Will any White House officials be at the
rally tomorrow?
There'll be several White House officials at the
rally.
And will those officials, will you be there
for example?
I will be there.
Will you and other White House officials be
wearing masks at the rally?
It's a personal choice.
I won't be wearing a mask.
I can't speak for my colleagues.
And why won't you wear a mask?
Is it sort of a personal political statement?
Is it because the president would be disappointed
in you if you don't wear a mask?
It's a personal decision.
I'm tested regularly.
I feel that it's safe for me not
to be wearing a mask and I'm in
compliance with CDC guidelines which are recommended but
not required.
This is not a mask.
This is confidence.
It's for getting out and working anywhere other
than home.
This is not a mask.
This is solidarity.
It's for opening the door to a friend
and keeping the doors open to your favourite
places.
This is not a mask.
This is a sign of love.
It was sold with plenty of promise.
That is Australia's ticket.
A ticket to freedom.
So we can get back to the things
we love.
But so far the $1.5 million app
has hardly helped.
There haven't been new contacts identified through the
use of the COVID app.
Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
yet to pick up a single close contact
from the app who hadn't already been identified
by contact tracers.
And in Queensland and Western Australia not one
confirmed case had downloaded the app.
The COVID-19 app is not working as
we hoped it would because too few people
have downloaded it.
Other states say tracing has been easier because
cases have been in hotel quarantine.
But in Victoria the virus is spreading in
the community and of the 568 cases confirmed
since the app was launched just over 30
had downloaded it.
It will help protect you.
It will help protect your family.
The UK government's not convinced that apps are
the right tool.
No country currently has a functioning track and
trace app.
I can't speak to those comments.
Australia's app doesn't notify users, only state governments,
when someone has been in contact with a
patient.
And Nine News has been told in some
cases the app didn't gather any data at
all.
The federal government is adamant the app is
working, insisting the country's low case numbers is
limiting how effective the app could be and
says it will be more useful as more
restrictions are lifted and more people stand around
each other.
Good evening from New York.
I'm Chris Hayes.
Right now, right this moment, there are Americans
who are alive and who are healthy who
will be dead by the fall.
And there are Americans who already died who
did not have to.
All because of the failures of our government
and more specifically the President of the United
States.
There is no other conclusion you can reach
at this point.
At this point there's nothing left to say
but that Donald Trump has gotten Americans killed
and is going to get even more Americans
killed in unfathomable numbers.
We've heard of this extensively.
The spike in cases is not coming with
a spike in deaths, sadly enough.
That's the one thing you look at because
that's a big worry.
Well, this is going to sound counterintuitive to
those who are trying to avoid another shutdown
because the plan that the mayor is floating,
he mentioned it last night on his Facebook
Live, actually involves a 35-day shutdown followed
by an extended period of lessons learned.
You remember the shutdown, the schools, parks and
businesses fully closed and churches were reluctant to
meet for fear of spreading the COVID-19
virus.
We all stayed home and only traveled to
essential businesses for food and supplies.
Well, if I understand the mayor, under this
proposal we can expect more of the same.
But coming out of the shutdown will be
different, he hopes, now that we've seen what
happens when people let their face masks down
and gather shoulder to shoulder in large numbers.
We're going to come out after 35 days.
Everybody's going to wear their face masks when
they're around other people.
Everybody's going to social distance.
Nobody's going to go out when they're sick.
Everybody's going to get tested.
We could do that.
We could come out, be in orange and
just stay in orange.
And if you look at this chart, that
also enables us to open up schools in
the fall.
Yeah, he's talking about our current stage four
orange on the city's COVID chart.
Everyone is struggling to find a way to
get our school kids back in the classroom.
The mayor sees this plan as one possibility,
but it would have to start pretty soon.
And just how long would we be in
this extended period of our best behavior?
Well, according to the mayor, until a vaccine
is available for everyone, it'll be that long.
I doubt seriously that any vaccine will ever
be 100% protected.
The best we've ever done is measles, which
is 97 to 98% effective.
If only, say, 70, 75% of Americans
are willing to get the vaccine, and it's
only, say, I think you just said 70,
75% effective, is that going to get
us to herd immunity?
Unlikely.
And that's one of the reasons why we
have to make sure we engage the community,
as we're doing now, to get community people
to help us, for people to understand that
we are doing everything we can to show
that it's safe and that it's effective.
And it's for the good of them as
individuals and in society to take the vaccine.
So we have a lot of work to
do, because as you well know, we've spoken
about this intensively in the past, there is
a general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine
feeling among some people in this country, an
alarmingly large percentage of people, relatively speaking.
The serious child abuse emergency room visits are
up 35% during the lockdown.
Now, let me tell you what that means.
This is very important.
Somebody who brings in their child to the
emergency room, that's not because they smacked them
around and gave them a black eye.
I'm saying this with sadness.
These emergency room visits are for children who
the parents think they might have killed them.
They're unresponsive.
They have multiple broken bones.
These are the most serious 35% increase
in child abuse, and that's directly due to
the lockdown.
And I'll explain why.
Because when you lose your job, the correlation
of amount of child abuse found in a
home is directly correlated for lower socioeconomic group,
unemployment, alcohol abuse.
This is markedly increasing during the lockdown when
we know that almost half of people making
$40,000 a year or less lost their
jobs.
By far more than people like you and
I.
And so when these people have children and
the schools are closed, and there's a tremendous
amount of stress in the household, we know
that the emergency room visits are going way
up.
And that's only part A.
Part B is that, do you know where
the number one place that child abuse is
noticed by an outside person?
The school.
You close the schools, you have no visibility
on the overwhelming majority of child abuse.
So this is creating a really a catastrophic,
sad, and simply unspoken harm to the children.
You realize, by the way, I didn't mention
in that, and this is in the article,
that when children go to school, that's the
number one place where people with children with
need glasses are detected.
Children that need hearing aids.
I mean, the schools are- The kids,
the school lunch program.
For some kids, it's the best meal they
get all day.
When you shut schools, you're really, and there's
no risk to the children.
Again, there's zero risk to the children.
You are directly harming children.
I don't understand how people who claim to
be so focused on children, teachers, teachers unions,
I think it's really outrageous.
This will go down as the most heinous
misapplication of public policy in modern America.
Hospitals on healthcare workers, paramedics and doctors and
nurses, it's really taking a toll on the
nation and the healthcare system in general.
Especially with the increased number of hospitalizations and
cases, it puts a strain during July, which
is a very important time of the year
because we tend to see more deaths in
the month of July because of the new
healthcare professionals that are entering the residency program.
So we've got a lot to do.
It comes down to simple- Wait a
minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop, stop, stop.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You're about to make something really important point
about masks.
But what did you tell me?
You just said that in the month of
July, you see death rates increase because you've
got new students or medical professionals coming online.
Sure.
So yes, July is when, yes, July is
typically the month where we have people who
pay doctors, they graduate medical school and they
enter residency.
So sometimes we tend to see increase in
the rate of medical errors and deaths.
That's something that is well known in the
medical field.
So that just goes to show you, we
have the burden of this virus with new
doctors on board.
Of course, they're always being supervised by professional,
well-trained doctors.
But something to keep in mind is simple
measures of protecting yourself so you don't have
to enter the hospital, not only because it's
July, but we also have another holiday that
we're approaching, 4th of July next week.
We don't want to see a remake of
increasing the number of cases like we did
with Memorial Day.
But again, just simple measures of wearing your
mask, a facial cloth covering, physical distancing, avoiding
crowds, and keeping your hands washed and clean
until we get a vaccine.
That's the only way to eradicate this virus.
So it appears that 90% of the
hospital or of the beds that's possibly available
for COVID patients is occupied.
Well, that's actually not accurate.
What it means is the current phase that
the hospital is in has a 90%
occupancy for that particular phase.
According to NMED Hospital, COVID-19 patients only
make up about 6% of all current
patients.
NMED released this statement in WIFF News 4
regarding the numbers, saying in part, when our
census dropped significantly at the beginning of the
COVID-19 outbreak, we appropriately reduced the number
of staff beds we report.
The fact that our occupancy is high means
we are doing a good job of matching
our resources to the level of demand during
this crisis.
Of course, you just heard McMaster mention how
we need and want more people to start
wearing masks and social distancing here in South
Carolina.
The people of Anderson County reiterating that same
idea.
Josh, I'm sure you would like to talk
to this lady because she's very pleasant.
Well, trying to get a hold of anyone
in this office is just ridiculous.
Yes, I have some questions about town.
Are people and businesses in Grants Pass supposed
to wear masks?
Because they're not wearing masks over at the
little subway place up north of town.
You got a kid drawing your drink and
he's giving it because he can't wear a
mask.
I mean, aren't restaurant workers supposed to wear
masks?
And why isn't the guy up there at
the little pantry up north of town right
before you get on the freeway?
Why isn't he wearing a mask when he's
working while he's coughing?
Are masks required at people who work?
Because maybe you better get out and do
your goddamn job.
Some employees at a Whole Foods in Cambridge
wearing masks with a message, but the store
sent them home saying wearing those masks violates
the company's policy.
We are simply asking to support what they
say they support and really support each other.
That's really all it is.
It's basic.
It's simple.
Matter.
Black lives matter.
This Cambridge Whole Foods employee puts on a
Black Lives Matter mask while making a delivery
outside the River Street store.
Employees say they've chosen to walk out for
not being allowed to wear them.
They told us that we are violating dress
code and we stated to them that we're
allowed to wear brands that are industry affiliated.
Wednesday, Savannah Kinzer says seven employees were sent
home another 13 Thursday.
Whole Foods Market responding, saying in part, all
team members must comply with our longstanding company
dress code, which prohibits clothing with visible slogans,
messages, logos, or advertising that are not company
related.
The company says employees are offered compliant masks
and if they don't want to wear one,
they can't work.
Kinzer says she's run out of the 85
masks they've given out so far.
She says the face covering is not a
political statement.
We're going to continue this and we hope
to just normalize it and we hope that
it empowers other people, other stores to do
it too.
Because again, it's not about politics.
It's simply about inclusion and equity and making
sure that everyone feels welcome.
At Whole Foods.
Oh, brother.
You remember, I just forgot about flatten the
curve.
Flatten the curve, everybody.
Let's do it.
We can do it.
We can all work together.
Was it going to be two weeks to
flatten the curve?
Was it 10 days?
I think it started off as two weeks.
Yeah.
Oh man, it's unbelievable.
And I remember that Tina and I were
in Austin still in the other house and
I was glued to the TV and then
this flatten the curve came up and it
was just so obvious that this was not
going to be good.
It was not going to be a good
thing.
It was really bad.
It was unbelievable.
Okay.
You're still with us.
We appreciate it.
Of course, we will be thanking everybody who
supported this show and our next show.
We'll do that.
We'll do a double donation segment on the
next show as we usually do.
And what are you planning on doing while
I am traveling?
Well, I'll probably just lounge.
I don't know.
I just lounge.
Maybe I'll go shopping.
I'll not go shopping.
That's why I go shopping in real stores.
Real stores that you walk into.
I'll go shopping at the Macy's store in
San Francisco.
They're shutting it down.
And it's a big giant store in Union
Square.
They're shutting that one down?
They're shutting it down for good because Macy's
doesn't know what they're doing.
That was the only reason for going to
Union Square.
Well, now there's going to be no reason
to go.
So I'm going to go there and do
some shopping.
If I can see what there is, there's
really not much more than perfume there the
way I see it.
But I'll go shopping.
It'll be the last Christmas at Macy's.
Do you think they'll turn that into apartments
like they're doing in other malls?
Like other stores?
It's such a good place for retail.
But the place is kind of...
Clearly not.
That building was built for Macy's.
It was like a corner store.
I don't know what they're going to do.
That's horrible.
San Francisco's a mess.
That's right.
And now we have the new mayor who
I thought was kind of a...
He's a Democrat, but he's going to be
cracking down.
He's going to Trump-proof San Francisco.
Oh boy.
To protect the gay community, by the way,
from being deported.
That's what he said on television.
He's going to deport the gays?
Well, that's what they think Trump's going to
do.
So these people are nuts.
And so the Macy's, I'll go there and
then I'll feel bad about it.
So that's what I'm going to do while
you're gone.
And I do want to remind people that
since this is a donation segment, that if
they're going to...
Just thinking about this particular COVID moment.
Remember when that all happened and how the
show helped.
Helped the show.
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Yes.
Noagendadonations.com.
Everyone's always saying we helped them during this.
And it would be great if you...
Yeah, I just want to remind everybody.
Good idea.
Now, let's go back to when the cops
were just swarming the cities because we had
to make sure everyone was wearing a mask.
Mask up.
Remember that?
Mask up.
Yeah, it was the worst.
Social distancing.
Stay away, slave.
Mask up.
Back to Strokey Bills.
Best if there is such a thing of
COVID.
You have been doing these for the past
month, which has put you in contact with
more people.
Have you been tested for coronavirus?
And if so, how frequently are you doing
that?
No, I have not been protected.
I have not been tested for the coronavirus
for two reasons.
One, I've had no symptoms, as my mother
would say, knock on wood.
And number two, I haven't wanted to take
anybody else's place in the process.
But it's not to say that people aren't
dying.
It is actually to say that people are
dying.
And people are dying related to an exposure
to a respiratory virus.
There's huge problems with our diagnostic tool here.
PCR is the tool that's been used globally
to determine if somebody has COVID or not.
And PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction.
It's an amplification technique for finding small amounts
of DNA.
It is a very big dilemma because the
presence of that DNA doesn't mean you're ever
going to get sick from that virus.
Most of us will have that DNA in
our bloodstream for a period of time as
we go into our genetic update.
As we're taking this virus in, we proliferate
the virus to get it into enough cells
in the body.
And then we reach homeostasis, where we've taken
in enough of that genetic information that we
stop making it.
Or we make tiny amounts of it.
And so that balance with that DNA has
nothing to do with whether we're in a
developed disease or not.
Again, most people exposed to COVID were asymptomatic
or mildly symptomatic.
And so the presence of the DNA has
nothing to do with whether that person is
going to die in the coming months.
Well, let's talk about vaccines.
The world is abuzz about vaccines as the
way in which we might ultimately get past
this and have a chance to go back
to something approaching normal life, where we can
all be back together again because this risk
won't be so high.
Where are we, Tony, with the vaccine efforts
that have been moving forward at unprecedented speed?
But of course, they are full of scientific
challenges.
Tell us about that.
Yeah, I think the first thing people need
to understand, that although timetables are given, whenever
you're dealing with a vaccine development, there's never
a guarantee that your candidate will be both
safe and effective.
So there's always the big question mark.
However, assuming that there will be one and
maybe more safe and effective vaccines, here's where
we are with the timeline.
There are multiple candidates using different platforms, several
of which the United States government and the
NIH itself.
We are involved in helping to facilitate the
development, either directly or indirectly with our sites.
If things go the way it looks like
they're going, one of these candidates will enter
phase three trial for efficacy at the end
of July.
Other candidates will sequentially come in.
Another one at the end of August, one
in September, and one in October.
It will be important to encourage people to
enroll.
So people who are watching this right now
might want to pay attention in two or
three weeks to announcements that there might be
a vaccine trial enrollment somewhere in your neighborhood,
because we will depend on the public to
sign up and help us figure this out.
Let's be clear.
These vaccines have already gone through phase one
and phase two trials.
So we know that they've been safe for
a significant number of individuals, and we know
that they seem to be capable of raising
antibodies, but we haven't actually done the real
testing in the field that is going to
be in the so-called phase three trials.
But particularly, Tony, it seems to me, because
this disease, COVID-19, has hit particular groups
really hard, and I'm talking about older people,
people with chronic disease, African Americans, Latinos, we
want to be sure that the vaccine enrollment
includes those folks as well.
Are there ways, based on past experience, where
we are sure that outreach will work and
we will get people to sign up from
those groups?
Well, thank you, Francis.
What Dr. Collins was referring to, leading me
into the answer to the question, was that
this is something that we have done with
all our HIV trials.
There is an analogy here.
When you're dealing with HIV, there's a disparity
of susceptibility, of involvement.
Thirteen percent of the American population is African
American, and 45 to 50 percent of the
new infections.
So whenever we do treatment and prevention trials
through our networks, we outreach through community representatives
and community outreach.
We're going to use that same model to
do the same thing for the African American,
Latinx, and Native American populations.
In fact, Francis and I, right now, are
very heavily involved in making sure that the
trials are quite well represented by the individuals
who are most susceptible, not only to infection
because of certain circumstances in their life, but
also because of the fact that they are
more prone to complications because of underlying comorbidities.
It's a major goal of the trial to
be properly represented, and that's what we're going
to make certainly a high priority.
Coming back to the vaccines, I keep getting
asked, Tony, okay, so suppose this all looks
really good and you have a vaccine that's
safe and effective and we start immunizing people.
How long will that protection last?
When you've got a vaccine, are you going
to need to take it again a year
later?
I mean, like the flu, where you have
to have a shot every year, or will
you get a boost or not?
What do you think?
Well, this is, Francis, a great question, and
it's the reason why we have to be
humble about what we do.
We do not know the answer to that.
We do not know.
I mean, you can assume that you're going
to get protection at least to take us
through this cycle.
When you look at natural infection, it's anywhere
between six months to a year.
However, with this spike protein that's being presented
in the way that we do it, with
primes and in some cases boosts, we're going
to assume that there's a degree of protection,
but we have to assume that it's going
to be finite.
It's not going to be like a measles
vaccine.
So there's going to be follow-up in
those cases to see if we might need
a boost.
We may need a boost to continue the
protection.
But right now, we do not know how
long it lasts.
Herd immunity is something that we've been supporting,
and nature supports that.
Herd immunity to COVID-19 is just around
the corner, new studies say, suggesting humans are
rapidly building natural protections against the virus.
That's according to at least two new studies
by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the
University Hospital Tübingen in Germany.
The studies find at least 30 percent of
humans now have COVID-specific antibodies, which means
they've been exposed to weak samples of the
virus and effectively equals a natural vaccine.
Herd immunity is essentially here, it's coming.
Like yesterday, when you put up the chart
to show where the death levels were from
the coronavirus, which is down to zero, I
said, well, maybe the epidemic is over.
We still need people to wear the mask
in public.
We still need people to keep social distance
and isolation.
But Ryan, the one thing I want to
try to get across today is we need
to do that when we're in our homes
also.
As you know, I'm a lifelong San Antonioan,
grew up there, worked there for many years,
and I know how many multi-generational families
that we have.
And while we believe the community is doing
a great job of following the rules when
they're outside of the home, we really need
to be thinking about doing the same thing
when we're inside the home.
And all of us are capable of catching
this disease.
None of us are immune from this.
And the fact that we need to get
across this in order to protect ourselves, we
need to protect our families and our loved
ones.
We really need to be thinking about the
care that we're providing inside the home right
now to make sure that we're not spreading
this disease inside the home and then making
it come outside the house.
So let me get this straight.
What you're effectively saying is that people should
be wearing masks inside their own homes now?
Ryan, I'm saying if you can't socially distance
and can't socially isolate, or if you've been
out in public and exposing yourself and you
haven't decontaminated yourself good enough when you get
home, if you have someone that has underlying
medical conditions at home, we really need to
be thinking about that.
Now, if you're the same two or three
people that are living in the same house
and you're really taking care of yourself and
you're following all the rules, then you probably
don't need to wear a mask in your
home.
But if you've gone out for Memorial Day
or 4th of July, or you've gone out
to parties, or you've gone out to graduation
parties, when you've gone out and you've come
back in, you can be bringing that back
inside.
And I think it's no secret we all
like to relax when we're at home.
But if we're not paying attention to how
the virus spreads outside or inside the home,
we're going to keep spreading this virus.
Customers and employees boycotting side-by-side outside
of the Whole Foods in Cambridge.
We've been told to take our masks off
or leave without pay.
It's going on day 18.
Some employees walking off the job daily after
being reprimanded by management for wearing Black Lives
Matter face masks at work.
I think they should let us support any
kind of movement that is human rights and
that's equal rights.
Until their bottom line is hurt and they
see that people care, I don't think they're
going to change.
Even the most loyal of shoppers are changing
their minds about the company, standing in solidarity
with employees.
I feel completely uncomfortable giving them any of
my dollars.
So we've stopped shopping here.
A Whole Foods spokesperson told CBS News their
dress code policy prohibits visible slogans, messages or
logos unrelated to the company.
But their employees disagree.
We're gay pride pins.
We wear Red Sox masks.
We wear Bruins masks.
We're encouraged to.
And I can't understand why they're not changing
this policy because it's so small.
Even though some of these employees are on
the verge of losing their jobs, they vow
to continue to walk out and to speak
out until changes are made.
The Florida Department of Health releasing its daily
coronavirus testing report, showing a statewide positivity rate
of 11 percent.
But Fox 35 quickly noticing some shocking positivity
rates.
Countless labs reporting 100 percent positivity.
That means every single person tested was positive.
We sifted through the reports to find local
testing sites with high numbers.
Like this CentraCare, 83 people tested and all
positive.
Check out the Orlando VA, a positivity rate
of 76 percent.
NCF Diagnostics has a location in Alachua, 88
percent of tests coming back positive and 98
percent for Orlando Health.
How could that be?
We investigated these astronomical numbers contacting every location
mentioned.
Orlando Health, the only to respond, confirming errors
in the report.
Its positivity rate is in fact only 9
.4 percent.
Now we just heard back from the Orlando
VA.
They are looking into the numbers.
We haven't heard back from the other two
labs or the Florida Health Department of Health.
Of course, it makes you wonder if these
numbers are wrong.
Are other numbers on the report also wrong?
We'll stay on top of this story.
I have four children.
The youngest one is 10 months old.
You know, the biggest concern is playing with
kids.
I don't want them to get sick.
And with like a 10-month-old, she's
going to want to crawl, right?
And she's at that age where she'll put
everything in her mouth, right?
And she's always touching things.
And then the other concern is, you know,
right now it's hard to trust other people,
I think.
You have the crowds at the airports, going
through security.
So you're just exposing yourself.
More than that, you have people with this
virus that may not show symptoms until, you
know, you're on the plane and then it's
too late.
If you're, especially if you're going overseas, you
can't go anywhere.
You're stuck.
I'll wait.
I'll wait as long as I have to.
Even when a vaccine comes available, I'm not
going to be the first one to run
out and get it.
I'd like to make sure that it's going
to be effective and it works.
I mean, if it lasts a year, maybe
two years, that's just what we have to
do.
I mean, you know, I obviously want the
kids to get out.
I want my wife to go do the
things that they want to do.
I want to go do things that I
want to do.
But at this time, it's just what it
is.
I mean, so we just kind of have
to put up with it and make the
best out of our time.
Just over 100 days until Election Day.
And this morning, we have a new CBS
News Battleground tracker out that looks at the
presidential race in three states heavily impacted by
the coronavirus.
That's Arizona, Texas and Florida.
Results show former Vice President Joe Biden will
be competitive or better in all three states.
Mr. Biden and President Trump are tied 46
to 46 in Arizona.
President Trump is up 46 to 45 in
Texas.
And the former vice president is up by
six points, 48 to 42 in Florida.
New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to
be on something of a victory tour, congratulating
the state and himself for defeating the virus.
Even selling this poster, which shows his state
getting over the mountain by bringing down the
curve during the 111 days of hell, as
the governor put it.
The poster includes references to his daughters and
a boyfriend, little inside jokes.
There are no illustrations, however, of the more
than 32,000 dead New Yorkers, the highest
death toll by far of any state.
No rendering on that poster of criticism that
Governor Cuomo ignored.
Warnings, no depiction of the study that he
could have saved thousands of lives had he
and Mayor de Blasio acted sooner.
No painting there on the poster of his
since rescinded order that nursing homes take all
infected patients in.
Here's what Governor Cuomo had to say yesterday.
What we went through and what we did
was historic.
Because we did tame the beast.
We did turn the corner.
We did plateau that mountain.
And then we came down the other side.
And they will be talking about what we
did for decades to come.
And I'll just end with a little global
aside, which is the research that's being done
about how much better countries run by women
have done during the COVID pandemic.
From New Zealand to Taiwan to Germany to
Finland, etc.
And, you know, maybe it's not a very
big sample, but the kind of inclusive leadership
that actually followed the evidence and listened to
science has proven to be quite effective.
You take a picture of me.
Does that make you feel better?
Why don't you get a life, lady?
I have a life.
And it's going around taking pictures of people.
Yes, because what you're doing, can you not
follow the lines on the floor?
Keep your mouth running.
The governor, the mayor has asked us all
to wear masks.
And look at you, not wearing a mask.
Oh, dear.
I wear a mask to protect myself.
People have made this sex a fucking political.
It's unbelievable.
Now, you have accosted me in this store.
You've accosted me, but you can't even find
me with a six-week not wearing a
mask.
And if you're going to keep this up,
maybe we'll get the police department in here.
What'd you call 911 then?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, God, another one.
You people are like monkeys.
Well, I'm out of a tree.
No, you're the monkey that hasn't.
Hey, I'm dragging those knuckles that you've not
evolved.
Okay, how's that grab you?
Ever heard of Darwinism, evolution, evolve, mister?
Why don't you burn something down?
Why don't you go back to where you
were?
Are you burning crosses?
You people are fucking idiots, man.
No, you're the idiot.
Yeah, yeah.
But you're the ones playing your life on
the freaking computer.
You have no life.
So this is what your life is?
Dude, I'm out doing my shopping.
You're unbelievable.
Good luck with the virus.
Your whole family tree is getting cut off
at its roots.
85 infants have tested positive for coronavirus in
Nueces County, which includes Corpus Christi.
The public health director made that announcement this
week and urged residents to wear masks and
practice social distancing.
These babies have not even had their first
birthday yet.
Please help us to stop the spread of
this disease.
No other details were provided on the condition
of those infants, but Corpus Christi currently has
82 deaths linked to the virus.
Chief, so tell us, what more do we
know about it came to be and also
about that White House relationship with Dr. Fauci?
Well, what we've seen is an escalating war
between the White House and Dr. Fauci.
Dr. Fauci has served some five presidents before
President Trump, and he's someone who's very restricted,
someone who's very restricted.
He was someone who also said before this
op-ed was written by Peter Navarro that
the American public should really trust scientists, including
himself.
The White House, you had your first conversation
with President Trump, we are told, this week
in perhaps a month or longer.
You had a meeting with the White House
chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
But just yesterday, he called you irresponsible for
a statement you made comparing, saying that this
pandemic could be worse than the 1918 pandemic.
You also have been attacked, as you know,
by Peter Navarro, the White House advisor.
Are you convinced that the White House is
not trying to discredit you, Dr. Fauci?
You know, I think you've got to be
careful when you say the White House.
The White House in general is not trying
to.
Certainly, the president is not.
I certainly believe that Mark Meadows is not.
What happened with Peter Navarro in that editorial,
I can't even comment on that.
That just is beyond my comprehension, why he
did that.
But I do not believe that the White
House is trying to discredit me.
No, I don't.
Do you think there are individuals in the
White House who are?
Well, I already mentioned one.
And Mark Meadows saying you're irresponsible for that
comment?
Well, what happened there is that that was
something that was said in another interview where
I went where there could have been a
misunderstanding that I was equating them.
So when the thing we wanted to do
was to correct that, which I did in
an interview that I had just like yesterday,
I believe.
I don't think he was calling me irresponsible
as a person.
I think he was referring to his concern
that there was going to be some misunderstanding.
I don't have a problem with that.
Mark and I are on very good terms.
Let me ask it this way, Dr. Fauci.
Do you think you have the full backing
and support of the White House from the
president on down?
I do.
I believe I do.
I spoke to the president about that.
I believe I do.
And why do you think they've been trying
to limit your public appearances?
Well, I think it's a question of different
messages getting out.
You know, the real emphasis right now, you
know, is on more of trying to get
the country opened again and economic messages.
I don't think there's going to be that.
Yes, it varies.
There are some times when I'm on a
lot and there's sometimes when I'm not.
Here I am with you.
You know, I always like to be with
you.
I'm glad they said yes to that.
And we appreciate it.
Do you have a worry, though, Dr. Fauci,
that the anti-vaccine movement could interfere with
this timetable?
Yes, I do, because, I mean, we have
to admit and realize that there is an
anti-vax movement that we've had to struggle
with in this country.
And I believe the solution to that would
be community engagement and community outreach to get
people that are trusted by the community to
go out there and explain to them the
importance of not only getting engaged in the
vaccine trial, but the importance of when the
vaccine is shown to be safe and effective
to actually take the vaccine, because it could
be lifesaving and it certainly would be the
solution to this terrible pandemic.
We're not just fighting an epidemic.
We're fighting an infodemic.
This famous quote from WHO Director General has
been widely shared.
So what is an infodemic?
An infodemic is an excessive amount of information
about a problem, making it difficult to identify
a solution.
During a health emergency, an infodemic can drown
out reliable information and allow rumors to spread
more easily, impeding an effective public health response.
Why is it happening now?
Information can spread faster than a virus.
With rapid growth of digital communications and social
media platforms, information spreads fast from online to
our physical lives.
And how does it affect us?
Online information can negatively affect our psychology, daily
lives, and behaviors, worsening the ongoing crisis at
hand.
Infodemics make it difficult to recognize accurate and
reliable information that tells people what preventative actions
they should take.
Some even promote stigma, discrimination, or violence.
Therefore, we all play an important role to
share trustworthy information and reduce disinformation.
Here are simple actions we can do to
mitigate the infodemic.
1.
Look for facts and evidence.
Be critical when receiving information.
Question the source for accuracy and evidence.
Compare with other sources.
2.
Choose carefully.
Share, like, or forward only content from trusted
sources.
3.
Be cautious.
Do not reshare, forward, or like false information
you know is not true.
4.
Be a good example.
Correct or call out people in your social
networks when they post something untrue.
Refer them to verified content and expert organizations
for further information.
5.
Spend less time online.
Only seek the latest information at specific times
of the day, once or twice a day
if needed.
Exercise, listen to music, or read a book.
This helps to maintain good physical and mental
health.
Together, let's combat disinformation and misinformation.
Turn the infodemic into a positive information experience,
one that promotes facts and science.
and the government agreed to offer solidarity and
participate in the trial, which is being led
by Oxford University through South Africa's Birch University.
The difficulty, of course, is one trying to
secure a sufficient number of volunteers for the
trial, with, as you correctly point out, within
a climate where the numbers of people living
with COVID are increasing, and we also estimate
that that is a significant undercount because our
testing strategy has been hampered by the lack
of available testing kits, so the criteria for
testing has changed, and in effect it amounts
to rationing at the moment.
The second issue with the trial, which actually
is, you know, involves quite significantly a pharmaceutical
company called AstraZeneca, and the issue around AstraZeneca's
relationship with Oxford, the relationship with the South
African government, as in the contractual relationship, including
Birch University and clinical participants in other parts
of the world, in Brazil as well, is
unclear.
We're calling for transparency in those agreements, because
on the one hand, if we are going
to participate in a trial that is trying
to ensure equitable access to a vaccine, if
it is successful.
And I had a nurse at, nurses at
Walter Reed Hospital who would bend down and
whisper in my ear and go home and
get me pillows.
They would make sure they'd actually, probably nothing
ever taught in, you can't do it in
the COVID time, but they'd actually breathe in
my nostrils to make me move, to get
me moving.
I understand hospitals are so overwhelmed in one
county in southern Texas so that doctors have
to choose who to send home to die.
What are you learning?
Hey, Wolf.
Well, this is happening in Starr County down
there in south Texas, an area that has
been the hotspot within this Texas hotspot.
County officials, they're saying at the county hospital
in Starr County, that they're going to create
essentially ethics and triage teams to go through
the patients and determine which patients can be
treated there at the hospital and which patients
might be too sick to be treated and
have to go home and, and, and wait
to die essentially.
This because the number of COVID patients has
exploded there over the course of just the
last month.
County officials say they didn't have any COVID
patients about a month ago.
Now they have more than 1,400, more
than 40 added to the rolls there yesterday.
So a great deal of concern there.
Hospitalizations and deaths up.
The number of overall new cases is beginning
to show signs of plateauing, but there's still
disturbing details in this medical data here in
Dallas County.
The County judge announced that one of the
people who died reported, died today was a
five-year-old child.
The top 10 videos that spread lies about
you had almost 5 million views.
It's also pointed out that according to Zignal
Labs, which is a media analysis company that
tracks this, misinformation about you is the most
widespread of all coronavirus falsehoods.
So there's a conspiracy theory that one of
our viewers asked about.
I just want to play that, that sound.
What would you say to the fringe portions
of the public like conspiracy theorists that seem
to think that you're somehow responsible for the
outbreak?
There's also a conspiracy theory that you're pushing
vaccines because you're going to inject people with
a tracking device when they get the vaccine.
It's all, it's all part of a so
-called globalist plot to control the world.
QAnon folks are, you know, which is actually
a group that's been targeting me as well
lately, they're claiming falsely that I'm somehow connected
with Jeffrey Epstein and global Kabbalists of sex
traffickers.
It's insane.
What, what do you say to people who
believe this stuff?
Because I mean, I'm sure you are inundated
by, I am by people direct messaging me,
just insane stuff.
It's not at all.
I mean, I can tell you, I get
stuff from people who seem, you know, they
have lives, they have families.
I don't know if they genuinely believe this
and they've just been misled, but you know,
and for me, it's, you know, I, they
claim I'm, I was on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane
and going to his Island with Tom Hanks
or, or, I mean, just, just insane, crazy
stuff.
Um, what do you, I mean, do you
think, I know internet companies are looking at,
at, at this, do you wish that they
would play a role in, in taking stuff
down, which is as demonstrably false?
Because I mean, it does have real world,
you know, it does have real world impact
on, on vaccines or, you know, a nut
showing up to a pizza parlor in Washington,
DC with a gun.
Yeah.
In some cases they are taking things down.
Um, you know, it, it's a bad combination
of pandemic and social media and people looking
for very simple explanation.
Who's the bad guy here.
Um, and a lot of that's been connected
to politics, um, more in the U S
than in other locations.
Um, and you know, of course, vaccines weren't,
uh, popular with everybody, even before this all,
all started.
So I, you know, I'm a big believer
in getting the truth out.
And if, if, but it's, it's kind of
not as titillating to say, you know, uh,
Cooper is innocent.
Uh, Oh, well, uh, you know, that's not
as exciting.
You don't forward that to quite as many
people, uh, as you do, um, the, the,
the acquisition.
Yeah.
On Tuesday, the centers for disease control and
prevention revealed the actual number of coronavirus infections
nationwide may be 24 times higher than the
public count.
This comes as the Trump administration's opposing more
federal funding for COVID-19 testing.
The white house has refused to spend up
to $8 billion already allocated for testing, even
though many States and cities face severe testing
shortages.
This morning is COVID cases mount across the
country.
The mass debate is intensifying.
People are very passionate on both sides of
the great mass debate.
The partisan mass debate is heating up mass
debates growing.
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I think we're going to get to the
point where eye protection is recommended.
You know, it might, I mean, if you
really want perfect protection of your mucosal surfaces,
just for your audience, Jen, as you very
well know, you have mucosa in the nose,
mucosa in the mouth, but you also have
mucosa in the eye.
And that's one of the things that, you
know, theoretically you should protect all the mucosal
surfaces.
So if you have goggles or an eye
or an eye shield, you should use it.
I mean, it's not universally recommended, but if
you really want to be complete, you should
probably use it if you can.
It's just that it's so easy for people
to just make a cloth mask.
Moderna vaccines sound concerning.
We looked after the second dose, at least
80% of participants experienced a systemic side
effect ranging from severe chills to fevers.
So are these vaccines safe?
Well, the FDA not being pressured will look
hard at that.
The FDA is the gold standard of regulators
and their current guidance on this.
If they stick with that is very, very
appropriate.
And, you know, the side effects were not
super severe.
That is, it didn't cause permanent health problems
for the things that are they, you know,
Moderna did have to go with a fairly
high dose.
And so, you know, to get the antibodies,
some of the other vaccines are going able
to go with lower doses to get responses
that are pretty high, including the J&J
and the Pfizer.
And so there's a lot of characteristics of
these vaccines.
It's great that we have multiple of them
that are going out there.
And yes, I think, you know, the data
better than I do, but the bill bill
that the data showed that everybody with a
high dose had a side effect.
Yeah.
But some of that is, is not dramatic
where, you know, it's just, you know, super
painful, but yes, there, we need to make
sure there's not severe side effects.
The FDA, I, I, I think we'll do
a good job of that despite the pressure.
How many doses of the vaccine will we
need?
Well, none of the vaccines at this point
appear like they'll work with a single dose.
That was the hope at the very beginning.
Maybe one of them, particularly in the second
generation, won't surprise us.
We hope just two, although in the elderly,
sometimes it, it takes more.
And so making sure we have lots of
elderly people in the trial will give us
that data.
The gentleman yields back.
I would remind Mr. Jordan, Mr. Biggs, and
Mr. Johnson to stop violating the rules of
the committee, to stop violating the safety of
the members of the committee, to stop, um,
holding themselves out as not caring by refusing
to wear their masks.
Is it permissible to drink a sip of
coffee?
It is not permissible.
Not to drink.
We can't drink.
I'm getting ready to ask questions now.
I'm getting ready to ask questions.
Mr, um, Mr. Gates is recognized.
No, no, no.
He's already went.
He went.
And that's why I took off my mask,
Mr. Chairman.
I'm going to go.
Okay.
Mr. Jordan is recognized.
Claiming my time in April, President Trump irresponsibly
suggested that the American people inject themselves with
bleach.
Was that superb?
Yes or no.
That's not what I heard.
That's exactly what he said.
That's what the American people heard.
And you know it and you can't defend
it.
Let's move on to May.
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Florida's governor declaring a state of emergency, shutting
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The president on the ground there tonight, greeting
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75 kids to college.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Dr. Fauci, do protests increase the spread of
the virus?
Do protests increase the spread of the virus?
I think I can make a general statement.
Well, half a million protesters on June 6
alone.
I'm just asking that number of people.
Does it increase the spread of the virus?
Crowding together, particularly when you're not wearing a
mask, contributes to the spread of the virus.
Should we limit the protesting?
I'm not sure what you mean.
Should how do we say limit the protesting?
The government limit the protesting.
I don't think that's relevant to.
Well, you just said if it increases the
spread of the virus, I'm just asking, should
we limit it?
Well, I'm not in a position to determine
what the government can do in a forceful
way.
Well, you make all kinds of recommendations.
You make comments on dating, on baseball, and
everything you can imagine.
I'm just asking.
You just said that protests increase the spread.
I'm just asking, should we try to limit
the protest?
No, I think I would leave that to
people who have more of a position to
do that.
I can tell you.
Government stopping people from going to church, Dr.
Fauci.
Last week in the Calvary Chapel case, five
liberals on the Supreme Court said it was
OK for Nevada to limit church services.
I mean, Justice Gorsuch said it best.
He said there's no there's no world in
which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesar's
Palace over Calvary Chapel.
I'm just asking, is there a world where
the Constitution says you can favor one First
Amendment liberty protesting over another practicing your faith?
I'm not favoring anybody over anybody.
I'm just making a statement that's a broad
statement that avoid crowds of any type, no
matter where you are, because that leads to
the acquisition and transmission.
And I don't judge one crowd versus another
crowd.
When you're in a crowd, particularly if you're
not wearing a mask, that induces.
It's a simple question, doctor.
Should we limit the protest?
Government is obviously limiting people.
And look, I know there's been no violence
that I can see at church.
I haven't seen people during a church service
go out and harm police officers or burn
buildings.
But we know that I mean, for 63
days, nine weeks, it's been happening in Portland.
One night in Chicago, 49 officers were injured,
but no limit to no limit to protest.
But boy, you can't go to church on
Sunday.
I don't know how many times I can
answer that.
I'm not going to opine on limiting anything.
I'm just going to tell you, you've opined
on a lot of things, Dr. Yeah, but
I've never seen something that directly impacts the
spread of the virus.
And I'm asking your your your position on
the protest.
Yeah, I'm well, I'm not going to opine
on limiting anything.
I'm telling you what it is, the danger.
And you can make your own conclusion about
that.
You should stay away from crowds, no matter
where the government is.
Government has stopped people from going to work.
In fact, just in New Jersey four days
ago, Ian Smith, Frank Trombetta were arrested for
opening up for trying to operate their business,
their gym.
They were arrested.
But my bet is if these two individuals
own this gym were outside just in front
of their gym and all the people who
are working out in their gym were outside
protesting, they'd been just fine.
But because they were in the gym working
out, actually running their business, they got arrested.
You think that's OK?
You know, I'm not going to opine on
who gets arrested and who does not.
I mean, I you get where I'm going.
I'm telling you, as a public health official,
I say crowd.
Do you see the inconsistency, though, Dr. Fauci?
There's no inconsistency, Congressman.
What?
There's no one.
So you're allowed to protest millions of people
on one day in crowds yelling, screaming.
But you try to run your business, you
get arrested.
And if you stood right outside of that
same business and protested, you wouldn't get arrested.
You don't see any inconsistency there.
I don't understand what you're asking me as
a public health official to opine on who
should get arrested or not.
That's not my position.
You could ask as much as you've advocated
for certain businesses.
You've advocated for certain businesses to be shut
down.
I'm I'm just asking you on your position
on the protest.
I mean, I haven't seen one.
We've heard a lot about hair salons.
I haven't seen one hairstylist who between haircuts
goes out and attacks police or set something
on fire.
But we've seen all kinds of that stuff
during protests.
And we know the protests actually increase the
spread of the virus.
You've said that.
I said crowds.
I didn't say specifically.
I didn't say protests do anything.
So the protests don't increase the spread of
the virus?
I didn't say that.
You're putting words in my mouth.
No, I want I would I just want
an answer to the question.
Do the protests increase the spread of the
virus?
I don't have any scientific evidence that anything
I can tell you that crowds are known,
particularly when you don't have a mask, to
increase the acquisition and transmission, no matter what.
You don't have a position on whether the
protest increased the spread of the virus or
don't increase the spread of the virus.
I'm saying that crowds, wherever the crowds are,
can give you an increased probability that there's
going to be acquisition and transmission.
But do you understand Americans concern?
Protesting, according to the Democrats is just fine,
but you can't go to work.
You can't go to school.
You can't go to church.
There's limits placed on all three of those
fundamental activities, First Amendment activities.
But protesting is just fine.
But will you get to meet with them
in person, do you think?
Well, I'm sorry.
Will you be able to meet with them
face to face?
Well, we'll see.
Going to have to wear masks.
They will have to wear masks.
Will you get tested, do you think, if
you have to do that for covid?
I'm not prepared to say much more than
that right now.
Thank you.
You wear the mask so you don't make
somebody else sick.
I want to ask- Sick.
What's with this guy?
Steve, that's our time.
Okay.
I don't believe that it's quite as deadly
as our government is leading us all to
be.
I think it's going to be more to
do with the vaccine.
And they want everyone to have the vaccine,
even though we don't want it, basically.
So that's why I'm here, just giving my
support.
So we are here exercising our democratic right
to assemble.
I'm concerned about the way the country's going
in terms of mandatory face masks used.
Now, this is my body.
Okay.
I used to be a nurse, a mental
health nurse.
And one of the things we learned as
mental health nursing students is that it is
considered battery to impulsively put something on a
person's body without their consent.
COVID-19 was called COVID-19 because it's
19 years since the last bloody disaster, which
was the made-up Twin Tower explosions.
COVID actually stands for- Look, I can't
remember what it is.
I've had half a beer.
But this is all just a reset button.
This is to hurry things up.
They want to get Trump off his perch.
This is the only way they can do
it.
They've got to stop those elections.
They've got to get the Democrats in.
They've got to get old sleepy Joe Biden
in.
What they're looking to do is get the
Blacks uprising by these Antifa riots.
This Democrat state's bloody melting down at the
moment because their counselors are all brown envelopes.
They're all paid off.
We know it's corrupt around the whole Western
nations, everywhere.
The counselors are all paid off.
They're all Marxists, all playing the Chinese game
because China pays their wages.
That's it.
I mean, it's like past time for us
to have a debate about hydroxychloroquine.
We shouldn't be, but let me just say,
first of all, there's many millions of doctors
in this country.
There's five peer-reviewed studies that show it
not to be true.
There's Dr. Birx.
There's Dr. Girard.
There's Dr. Fauci.
Hang on.
And to that study, particularly Dr. Fauci said
that study is a flawed study.
But I need to do this, Peter, because
what you're saying is irresponsible.
All right, let me say this to you,
okay?
And I reach out to all your viewers.
Scott Adams, you know Scott Adams, right?
He's the guy who wrote the Dilbert cartoon.
He did a beautiful video, 10-minute video
on Twitter.
And the thesis of the video is that
CNN might be killing thousands because of the
way they've treated that.
So I would just ask, I'll let Scott
Adams' video be my defense on this.
Okay, well, can I just say something?
I find that to be offensive because he's
a comic strip writer.
So for you to say that he-
Okay, so I just want to give you,
because I want to be clear.
I just said Dr. Fauci.
The person that the president of the United
States- Dr. O'Neill.
Is in charge of testing, Dr. Brett Giroir.
As of today, and I say as of
today at this hour, we have 33 confirmed
positive tests for the virus.
Yesterday we had 22 cases.
Today we have 33 cases.
So it's gone up by 11.
That brings, those are 11 new cases, 22
goes to 33.
As we sort through this here in Arkansas,
today we have 33 confirmed positive cases in
Arkansas.
As of today, we have 33 confirmed cases
with Boston residents.
We expect those numbers to climb.
As of this afternoon, we have 33 Pennsylvanians
who have tested positive for COVID-19.
Um, so as of this morning, there were
33 confirmed cases in North Carolina.
Good evening to you.
Lots to get to tonight.
I'm Leon Hedbergs.
We want to start with new information into
our newsroom.
Within the past couple of hours, there are
now 33 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in
Michigan.
Good evening, everyone.
Thanks for joining us for the news at
six.
I'm Richard Giroir.
Corrina Corral has the night off.
More cases of the coronavirus were confirmed today
in San Luis Obispo County, bringing the total
number down to 33.
Right now, Georgia is reporting a total of
99 cases in 19 counties.
That is 33 new cases from just yesterday.
Good afternoon.
I'm Karen Swenson.
More cases and more events affected.
Here is the latest coronavirus news.
There are now 33 cases in Louisiana.
As expected, the number of cases of COVID
-19 jumps.
A total of 33 people in our state
have been tested and are confirmed to have
the coronavirus.
Day four of the shelter-at-home order
brought six new confirmed cases of the coronavirus
to San Luis Obispo County, bringing the total
number to 33.
All troopers will be professional, polite, and we'll
treat everyone with dignity and respect.
These latest steps is the number of confirmed
COVID-19 cases in Rhode Island jumps by
33 overnight.
Dr. Fauci, great to see you again.
Allison here.
Hi, Allison.
Hi.
I have been listening with rapt attention, but
I feel like John didn't get to the
really burning question that America has for you,
and that is, did you hear that Brad
was nominated for an Emmy for playing you?
Yes, I did.
What a surreal world we're living in, Allison.
I mean, I hope he wins.
He's a great actor.
I mean, he's one of my favorite actors,
so I really do hope he wins.
Have you spoken to him since he played
you?
You know, I have not.
I would love to meet him, because I've
been such a great admirer of him and
his talent, but I have not spoken to
him.
I feel like we can make that happen,
Dr. Fauci.
I feel like we, you know, you and
I have the power to have you meet
Brad, because I sort of feel like anything
you and I suggest, he does.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see.
Thanks, Allison.
I'm not done with you, Dr. Fauci.
Would you like to go up on stage
when he wins?
Would you like to be there to help
accept the Emmy Award?
Yeah.
You know, Allison, the only reason I have
hesitancy about that is that we're in the
middle of an outbreak, a really bad pandemic.
And I think that if that association with
kind of show business thing might be misinterpreted,
that it's I'm not serious about what I'm
doing.
So I'd rather focus on my job and
really wish him well that he wins.
I was afraid there was going to be
a point that I pushed you too far.
And I feel that we have just gotten
up to that point.
But we really appreciate how playful you have
been on the lighter note with all of
that.
And it was just great.
I mean, it was just a great moment
to watch, you know, that obviously Brad Pitt
is a fan of yours and all of
your information as well.
You had all of those claims yesterday.
Now you've got new claims today that we
just reported.
These guards were taking cash in hand while
also claiming JobKeeper payments and also taking guests
out to supermarkets and 7-Elevens and what
have you.
I mean, what do you make of all
of that?
Well, this is a scandal of monumental proportions.
I mean, this is a complete fiasco.
And not one single minister in Daniel Andrews'
government here in Victoria has taken responsibility for
this fiasco, whether that be the police minister,
Lisa Neville, the health minister, Jenny McCarcos, the
jobs minister, Martin Bakula, or indeed the premier,
Daniel Andrews.
I mean, there are allegations that security guards
were bonking those in quarantine.
I mean, this is just quite extraordinary.
What is the actual recommendation by the FDA
or the CDC to doctors?
What is it you are being told if
your patient tests positive, here is what we're
recommending you do?
Let's say literally nothing that I know of.
It is stay home in isolation for two
weeks and then potentially either get retested again
or even that is money.
And I think one of the biggest points
throughout this is people have become so fear
-based because of the fear-mongering mainstream media
that most people are living in their amygdala,
this reptilian, fear-based part of our brain.
And when you do that, critical thinking is
out the window.
So people are not, they've lost critical thinking.
They're reacting with this immediate response from programming.
So for me, it's look at medicine.
It is not black and white.
It is called the art of medicine.
It's the practice of medicine because we look
at all kinds of things to come up
with a program.
Richard, you with us?
That I have right now is that when
the coronavirus took over, President Trump and all
his cronies in that White House knew about
it and took their money out of the
stock market and nobody is doing anything about
it.
And now that the stock market is back
up, they put their money back in and
nobody has caught that yet.
And the other thing is we need to
move this world ahead.
We've been here 50 million years, they say.
Well, I'm 56 tomorrow and I don't understand
why we're not in the Star Wars, like
Star Trek.
We can make movies about it, but we
can't be there.
Why are we not so far ahead?
Why are our brains not moving us forward?
Why is all this money going to all
these people that are way up high and
none of it is being put back into
our society?
Move us ahead.
Move us forward.
Get out of this debt.
Get out of the world.
Move us forward.
We should be a Star Trek era.
And I don't understand why 50 million people
for 50 million years can't move us forward.
Richard, thanks for the call.
I'm all for that ticket, though.
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This is the CBS Evening News with Norah
O'Donnell.
Reporting from the nation's capital.
Good evening and thank you for joining us.
Norah is off.
I'm Margaret Brennan.
Today, California topped 600,000 confirmed cases.
The most of any state since the pandemic
began.
As positivity rates remain above the recommended levels
for reopening across much of the country.
Dr. Fauci again warned against reopening too quickly.
In your understandable zeal to quickly get back
to normal and revive the economy.
You can do it if you do it
in a measured prudent way.
To think that you can ignore the biologic.
It's just not going to happen.
Looking ahead to a possible vaccine.
The CDC has reportedly reached out to four
states, including Florida, as well as the city
of Philadelphia.
To begin drafting plans on how they would
store and distribute a vaccine, including who gets
priority.
Margaret.
Well, as the battle against COVID-19 continues,
it's also time to get ready for flu
season.
And this year there are concerns about a
possible twindemic.
They're calling it a potential twindemic, the coronavirus
pandemic still going strong at the same time
flu season is approaching.
A new term you could be hearing more
this fall, twindemic.
And she says the earlier we get our
flu shots, the less likely we'll end up
in a twindemic.
The earlier you get that shot, the sooner
you have immunity.
This year with the COVID-19 pandemic expected
to coincide with flu season, doctors say the
concern over a possible twindemic underscores the need
for people to get the flu vaccine.
Do you know the term twindemic?
It's what they're calling a twindemic.
So Tom, a twindemic is exactly how it
sounds.
I want to ask you more, but is
twindemic a new word?
Did we just make this up or have
we experienced or used the term twindemic in
the past?
As far as I know, I think it's
made up.
So it's specially coined for what we're going
through, but it's coined, I think, based on
the Latin for where the pandemic comes from.
So the flu shot will be required for
all students in Massachusetts.
The Department of Public Health just announcing this,
that all children from the age of six
months to those enrolled in college must receive
an influenza vaccine by December 31st in order
to attend school in January.
Exemptions apply to students with medical or religious
reasons and those who are homeschooled and higher
education students who are completely off campus.
State health officials say this new requirement is
an important step to reduce flu-related illnesses
and the overall impact of respiratory illness during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
There will be strong, you know, I suspect
the majority of Australians will get vaccinated and
there will be a strong public view that
those who choose not to get vaccinated need
to, there needs to be some sort of
incentive stick, perhaps, through the current programs, including
No Jab, No Pay, to make that happen.
So I think that is a very reasonable
interpretation of what the PM had to say
today.
Again, looking at specific things like not being
able to go into restaurants, not being able
to travel internationally.
Police are preparing to launch their aerial arsenal
as part of a crackdown on COVID rule
breakers.
High powered drones will be used to find
people not wearing masks and cars too far
from home.
Over the next week, Victoria Police will dispatch
drones.
They'll be keeping a watch on St Kilda
and Port Melbourne Beach, making sure skate parks
and playgrounds remain empty and for those who
head to the park, a mask is a
must or at least a face covering.
Police have also been using drones to guard
the New South Wales border.
There's no escaping this high powered aerial arsenal.
It can be flown for seven kilometres.
The camera is infrared and it's so clear.
It can read a vehicle's number plate from
500 metres away.
It doesn't really bother me.
I'm doing the right thing.
So I've got nothing to hide.
And while this virus touches us all, we
got to be honest, it is not an
equal opportunity offender.
Black, Latino and indigenous people are suffering and
dying disproportionately.
And this is not a coincidence.
It is the effect of structural racism.
How much damage has been done by the
kind of conspiracy theories that have grown up
particularly on social media, even frankly about you
personally, you know, you caused the pandemic.
I mean, it's very ad hominem now.
Is that sort of, you know, something you
could brush aside?
Do you think there's real damage done by
that kind of conspiracy theory?
You know, it's hard for me because I'm
so, you know, science oriented to even, you
know, go, oh, come on.
Not really.
People don't really believe that.
You know, those things are completely untrue.
And to the degree they cause people not
to wear masks or seek out the vaccine,
you know, or to think this is all
some big conspiracy, that's unfortunate.
And, you know, countries where the leaders have
been more clear, you know, have had more
compliance on the masks and social distancing.
So that's been a benefit to them.
I think it'll die down.
I mean, a pandemic is a time when
it's not totally surprising that people's concern and,
you know, reaching for oversimplistic explanations gets a
little bit higher.
And, you know, weirdly it's come at the
time of an election in the US that's
fairly polarized.
So a lot of things, there seems to
be some confluence between social media, election and
pandemic that have this at a level that,
you know, I certainly never expected to be
mentioned in any of those things.
Because, you know, we were pretty obscure doing
our work on infectious disease, which is mostly
in poor countries.
And this has gotten infectious diseases and, you
know, crazy ideas about them into the rich
countries in a way that you never would
have predicted.
You know, the values of the foundation are
about saving lives.
We have a great track record of achieving
that, you know, so I'm not somebody who,
you know, can complain because I've had, you
know, this amazing life and get to do
this amazing work.
Now let's turn to the US because it's
the country, you know, it's the world's biggest
economy.
It's the preeminent public health country in the
world.
It's got the world's best epidemiologists.
Why is it done so badly?
Well, we believe in freedom, individual freedom.
We optimize for individual rights.
You know, there's some bad luck in this
that the CDC's initial test was slow, complicated,
didn't work.
They didn't let the commercial labs come in.
We messed up getting that commercial lab capacity
going.
We never created a CDC website that would
prioritize who was tested so that both we
didn't overload the system to avoid taking more
than 24 hours to give you results.
And we were making sure low-income communities
and people who really needed the tests were
getting them as opposed to wealthy people who
like to be tested on a regular basis
or force their delivery people or people who
work in their house to be tested every
week.
So we've had a very uncoordinated testing thing,
even though we have way more PCR machines
than any country.
We, and we performed at this point, although
that was slow to get going, we performed
a lot of tests, but the delayed results
and the fact that people's behavior, even if
they test positive, doesn't change their behavior as
much as other countries to take them out
of the infection pool, that's where, unfortunately, we
had a continued high level of infection through
the summer.
Governments have been using a range of Orwellian
mind control tricks during the coronavirus crisis.
The slogans, the clapping, and the symbols have
been carefully used to enable the authorities to
take control of our thinking.
I'm grateful to Dr. Colin Barron, a former
NHS doctor and eminent hypnotherapist who's the author
of the book Practical Hypnotherapy, for pointing out
to me just how our minds have been
taken over and how we've been very successfully
and skillfully manipulated into believing the lies we've
been fed.
Elected governments, aided by specialist behavioral scientists, have
been brainwashing millions into accepting the coronavirus propaganda.
The rhythm and pattern used in these phrases
is not a coincidence.
There are usually three words in each phrase
and the phrases run in threes.
This isn't a coincidence.
It isn't happenchance.
Using phrases of three words presented in groups
of three is a technique known as the
rule of three in psychological conditioning.
That's the reason for the three phrases with
which we're all being bombarded.
We're being trained and taught at the same
time.
It's behavioral psychology.
Other hypnotherapists have pointed out that if we
repeat phrases often enough, then the words and
thoughts become implanted in our subconscious minds and
then become a belief which motivates our behavior.
And so governments repeat slogans which become beliefs.
It's called auto-suggestion along the lines of
every day in every way I'm getting better
and better.
George Orwell, who invented Newspeak, also understood the
importance of the triple three word phrase.
In 1984, his futuristic novel which was written
in 1948, Orwell invented the slogan war is
peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
If you want a picture of the future,
wrote Orwell, imagine a boot stamping on a
human face forever.
We are taking a moment to recognize that
the throne speech we delivered eight months ago
had no mention of COVID-19, had no
conception of the reality we find ourselves in
right now.
We need to reset the approach of this
government for a recovery to build back better.
And those are big, important decisions.
And we need to present that to Parliament
and gain the confidence of Parliament to move
forward on this ambitious plan.
Somehow we've let politics overrule science.
It's an absurd situation.
People have compared this to 1984 and the
Ministry of Truth and so on that's limiting
what people can say on objective facts.
It's beyond belief.
Here's the thing.
I think they know that the treatment works.
I think that basically, they're afraid to even
let it be tried because letting it be
tried would show that it works.
So the message has to be shut at
all costs because anything will leak out.
And in fact, it is leaking out.
And you see across the country, people who
started to speak up, who become almost deathly
ill and have been turned around in three
days or sooner even.
And these are now public figures who are
speaking up, who've said that the medicine saved
their life.
And it's very difficult to close all the
leaks in that dike that are being suppressed
by the media that are trying to do
that.
We're seeing fights like this go viral.
Where businesses find themselves at times in verbal
or physical confrontations with customers.
Trying to enforce mask requirements under state or
county orders.
The horrifying videos, you know, they're horrifying.
They're just, they're not fun.
Steve Reinhardt is CEO of Robotic Assistance Devices.
And he's trying to take the ugliness out
of these encounters by deploying a robot.
We developed a face mask analytic so we
can either say, look for people with face
masks on, look for people without face masks
on.
They call the robot ROSA, which means Responsive
Observation Security Agent.
When ROSA recognizes a person about to enter
a business without a mask, you hear and
see the warning immediately.
It is a non-biased, non-confrontational approach
to reminding people to, you know, wear their
face masks.
The robot's creator acknowledges someone could choose to
ignore the messages.
But he says businesses are bracing for the
possibility they'll have to enforce COVID-19 safety
measures for years to come.
And they hope to avoid scenes like this.
You have a machine tell you to do
something.
It blows my mind that the level of
compliance is just skyrocketing.
There's a lot of bad information about therapeutics
out there.
Debunk some of the myths for us, hydroxychloroquine
being one of them.
Well, it's, you know, we, this is an
age of science, but, you know, sometimes it
doesn't feel that way.
You know, just the idea it's about testing
and hydroxychloroquine, you know, the numbers are quite
clear.
It got confused because the trials were done
so poorly, but there's lots of good things
coming in the therapeutic area that are, you
know, really proven to work without the severe
side effects.
So, you know, a little bit slow, but
a lot of good news to come in
that domain.
And if we don't solve the climate problem,
do you believe there will be more pandemics,
worse pandemics in the future?
Well, that's not the only thing.
You'll have incredible instability because your ability to
grow food in large parts of the world
will be so diminished that you literally have
hundreds of millions of migrants and you won't
have a thriving global economy because you will
have degraded the ecosystems.
And there is no quick fix to that
thing, unlike the magic vaccine that's a mere,
you know, year to two years at most
to come up with.
To all the people of Wuhan, you know,
you made a great sacrifice to be in
this very strict quarantine.
And, you know, I'm very glad that it
succeeded, but I'm sure that the difficulties were
very great.
And so we're thankful that you made these
sacrifices.
You know, being at ground zero of infectious
disease is a incredible challenge.
And, you know, you made changes, you know,
work was stopped, your living was very different.
And now the goal that all of that
had, which is getting the cases down to
very small numbers and still being super open
about, okay, where are those cases?
That critical thing is something that people should
feel good about.
And, you know, I'm hope that we can
get things even more back to normal in
the months ahead is, you know, we use
testing data to see where do we still
need to restrict things and where can we
go partially back to normal.
So, you know, thank you for your sacrifices.
Tonight, the urgent new warning ahead of the
Labor Day weekend, the make or break holiday
as we head into fall.
Dr. Anthony Fauci pleading with people, stay away
from those big crowds that have led to
COVID surges, packed pool parties, bars, beaches, and
super spreader events.
The first death linked to that massive biker
rally in South Dakota and the CDC's new
timeline on a vaccine.
What they're telling states.
On the attack, Joe Biden blaming President Trump
for what he calls a national emergency as
schools struggle to reopen.
The president's pushback today and the new alert
about Russia targeting Joe Biden's campaign.
Did the Trump administration try to bury it?
Nancy Pelosi firing back after video of her
inside a salon shuttered by law because of
COVID.
The house speaker now calling it a setup.
The new developments as a rival of Vladimir
Putin fights for his life.
What officials now say was used to poison
him.
The cyber attack on one of the country's
largest school districts.
Remote learning down for a third day.
Whether your kids are at risk.
And the chili challenge that swept the nation.
How all that cold cash raised means a
major step forward in the fight against ALS.
This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
I take responsibility for trusting the word of
the neighborhood salon that I've been to over
the years many times.
And that when they said what we're able
to accommodate people one person at a time
and that we can set up that time,
I trusted that.
As it turns out, it was a setup.
So I take responsibility for falling for a
setup.
And that's all I'm going to say on
that.
We're being told this is the science.
But it's not.
It's an appeal to authority.
It's science because Tony Fauci and Bill Gates
tell us it's science.
We want to see the studies.
We want to see the studies on hydroxychloroquine.
We want to see the studies on whether
the lockdown is killing more people than the
coronavirus.
We want to see real science and real
risk assessments.
And we are not going to take the
word my father told me when I was
a child.
People in authority lie.
And we all, if we are going to
continue to live in a democracy, we need
to understand that people in authority lie.
People in authority will abuse every power that
we relinquish to them.
And right now, we are giving them the
power to micromanage every bit of our lives
24 hours a day.
They're going to know where we are.
They're going to know the money that we
spend.
They're going to have access to our children.
They're going to have the right to compel
unwanted medical interventions on us.
We, you know, the Nazis did that in
the camps in World War II.
They tested vaccines on gypsies and Jews.
And the world was so horrified after the
war we signed the Nuremberg Charter.
And we all pledge when we do that
we would never again impose unwanted medical interventions
on human beings without informed consent.
Do we have enough infrastructure to contact trace
the way that we need to?
I think that's why the criteria that you
can see the gates that the federal government
has recommended are.
Four weeks ago, Don Baker became the first
person in the U.S. to get a
shot as part of a phase three clinical
trial for a coronavirus vaccine.
And now she's back.
Not just for a visit.
All right, take a nice deep breath.
But for another shot.
That's right.
The coronavirus vaccine will likely be given in
two shots a few weeks apart.
It's like the boxer going into the ring.
You might hit the other guy with one
punch and he might go down.
But two punches is going to be way
more effective.
And that's a problem for several reasons.
Many Americans aren't very excited about the coronavirus
vaccine.
According to a recent CNN poll, 40%
of Americans say they won't get it.
Second, for those who do take it, it's
a logistical challenge to have hundreds of millions
of people come in not once, but twice.
There's no question that this is going to
be the most complicated, largest mass vaccination program
in human history.
People will have to remember to come in
the second time.
They might have to take time off work
twice and possibly experience unpleasant side effects like
fever twice.
Government health officials are aware that's a big
ask.
On the manufacturing end, it's just more complicated
to make 660 million doses of a vaccine
than 330 million.
And it's not just double the vaccine, it's
double all the components that go with the
vaccine.
Two vials with two caps and two stoppers,
two syringes with two needles for everybody.
Doing it twice is going to be daunting.
It is going to be absolutely daunting.
For Don Baker, rolling up her sleeve a
second time was about saving lives.
You guys are doing this.
Yeah, you can show me your search warrant
before you go through my house.
So you're the occupier?
Yeah, I own this house.
Search warrant for what?
Now what I will explain to you is
if you want to listen, you got your
phone going?
Yeah, I do, yeah.
Now you're under arrest in relation to incitement.
Incitement?
You're not obliged to say or do anything,
but anything you say or do may be
given in evidence.
Excuse me, incitement for what?
What on earth?
Excuse me, what on earth?
Just put your phone down.
Can you like record this?
In my pyjama, I had an ultrasound in
an hour.
Yeah, she's pregnant.
So I'll take it easy.
What's this about?
Do I have an ultrasound in an hour?
Let me finish and I'll explain.
It's in relation to a Facebook post in
relation to a lockdown protest you put on
for Saturday.
Yeah, and I wasn't breaking any laws by
doing that.
You are actually.
You are breaking laws.
That's why I'm arresting you in relation to
this post.
How can you arrest her?
In front of my two children.
Can't you just say to her take the
post down?
Like, come on.
I'm happy to delete the post.
Yeah, that's fine.
But my two kids are here.
I have an ultrasound in an hour.
Like, I'm happy to delete the post.
You also have the right to communicate with
or to communicate with a legal practitioner.
You understand those rights?
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
Yeah, this is a bit unfair.
Come on, mate.
What about she just doesn't do the event?
Like, it's not like she's done it.
Well, she made a post.
We've already committed the offence.
So I've nothing to add to it.
So that's an offence.
Now, search warrant.
You put titles us and we're required to
seize any computers, any mobile devices you have.
What's it ask?
You're not taking my phone.
I'm not taking any device.
That's my phone.
It's nothing to do with her.
COVID has taken this year just since the
outbreak has taken more than 100 years Look,
here's the lives.
It's just it's I mean, think about it.
More lives this year than any other year
for the past 100 years.
Data points from a very recent study published
by the Center for Disease Control in August
and mid-August that surveyed thousands of Americans
at the end of June and asked them
a variety of questions designed to gauge trends
and developments in physical and mental health.
And probably the most striking of the statistics
was the one that was produced by the
following question.
Quote, have you seriously considered suicide in the
past 30 days?
A question that was asked among people around
the United States from June 24th to June
30th of 2020.
Of people 18 to 24, people in the
18 to 24 age range, 25.5 percent
or essentially one out of every four Americans
in that age group said that yes, they
have seriously considered not fleetingly or as a
fantasy, but seriously considered suicide not in the
past year, but in the past 30 days.
All right.
We'll hear from Josephine in Livingston, New Jersey
on our Biden line.
Good morning.
Morning.
It is very, very sad that this country
has come to the point it's you against
me, just like the woman you heard from
California.
My God, do we really live in America?
This idolatry to Lucifer.
That's how I label Trump.
I have to say it.
This idolatry to Lucifer and even the white
evangelical church who proclaims themselves pro-life.
They're not pro-life.
They're pro-birth.
Now they're saying go die like this Dr.
Atlas that Trump has just hired, who believes
in this idea of herd mentality to get
to that herd mentality.
Two million people have to die.
Tony's next on our Trump line from Joppa,
Maryland.
Go ahead.
Coronavirus in Victoria.
That is 63 new cases since my update
yesterday.
I'm sad to have to report that there
have now been 666 Victorians who have lost
their life because of this global pandemic.
That's an increase of 5 since yesterday's update.
Two of these deaths occurred prior to yesterday.
These include one female in her 80s, three
females in their 90s, one female in her
100s and we send our sincere sympathies and
condolences to each of those five families.
This will be a very difficult time for
them.
Yeah, Tom and Sally, a big concern.
Good morning.
The university plans to make sure every student
that attends Saturday's game is free of COVID
-19.
They're doing this by making sure that those
who are attending as part of the big
ticket student game package take a COVID-19
test tomorrow.
The test is free but mandatory.
Only students who show proof of their negative
COVID-19 test results will be given a
ticket for Saturday's game.
But thousands of alumni will also be attending
an interim Austin Health Dr. Mark Escott worries
as many as 50 people could catch the
virus at Saturday's game.
Our gathering limit's 10 and having 25,000
people in one space is a concern.
Ultimately, people have to make a decision whether
or not they're going to go to the
game.
I will be watching on my TV.
Dr. Escott says he worries the most about
the increased risk of transmission in lines for
the bathroom and concession stands.
Now keep in mind, UT did eliminate tailgating
for this season and they also plan to
provide over 200 hand sanitizing kiosks as well
as enforcing masks for everyone who attends the
game.
The same tragic story that happened in Wuhan
six months ago is now occurring again in
the Xinjiang region as thousands of residents in
high-rise buildings shouted and screamed into the
night in despair.
Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, has been under strict lockdown
for nearly 40 days after authorities announced a
resurgence of the CCP virus on July 16.
An Urumqi resident recorded the heartbreaking scene of
people living in surrounding buildings screaming together to
vent their frustration.
It is clearly audible that the videographer himself
was sobbing when filming.
An assistant commissioner has unleashed on anti-lockdown
protesters.
Luke Cornelius described his frustration at having to
prepare the force to face another round of
demonstrations this weekend.
To be honest, I feel a bit like
a dog returning to eat his own vomit.
I mean, it's just none of us would
want to do that and I'm sick of
it.
Please, please don't leave home to engage in
an activity which is going to spread the
deadly virus and keep us locked up in
home even longer.
Well, Al, from August 12th through September 5th,
just over 64,000 COVID tests were administered
to NFL players.
And in that time period, there were five
positive cases.
Now, along with testing, everyone from the front
office to the locker room is required to
wear a Conexon proximity chip from the time
they walk into the facility until they walk
out again.
They're also wearing them tonight.
They will in all games.
So if someone does test positive, the league
will know who they were near, at what
distance, and for how long.
So that is high-tech contact tracing now.
Michelle, it's amazing what's been done because it
was so daunting for so many players and
coaches when the protocols came out as the
pass is caught by...
Do you still trust the FDA?
I think in the FDA, there's a lot
of professionals.
Historically, just like the CDC was viewed as
the best in the world, the FDA had
that same reputation as a top-notch regulator.
But, you know, there's been some cracks with
some of the things they've said.
At the commissioner level, hopefully the staff isn't
pulled in that direction.
What about the CDC?
You made reference to the reputational damage that's
been done to the CDC.
Can you take what the CDC says to
the bank any longer?
Well, the CDC is largely being written out
of the picture because you have people at
the White House who aren't epidemiologists, you know,
saying what a great job they've done.
And so it's no longer a set of
experts.
The CDC actually did make some mistakes, the
way they thought about testing, the way they
hadn't figured out to bring the commercial providers
in.
Now, hundreds have gathered here in front of
the Washington County Administration building, calling for the
end of a mask mandate, saying they are
tired of not living their normal lives.
No more masks, no more masks.
Not on the backs of my kids, or
you're going to get more federal funding, that's
how I feel about that.
A passionate call for action Friday morning in
St. George, several police officers on standby, as
many locals called concerns about coronavirus spikes overblown.
The flu kills more than coronavirus.
Others calling the virus a hoax or stating
that asymptomatic carriers simply do not exist, and
they cannot be forced to wear masks anywhere
as citizens of the United States.
If we want to wear a mask, that's
fine.
We can take care of ourselves.
Some rally attendees say they shouldn't ever wear
masks if they have any medical issues or
mental health concerns, or if they feel they
simply can't breathe.
When George Floyd was saying, I can't breathe,
and then he died.
And now we're wearing a mask, and we
say, I can't breathe, but we're being forced
to wear it anyway.
But many say that they believe in all
cases, masks jeopardize kids' health.
Parents are demanding they have the right to
decide what to do with their children.
I'll tell you another reason I hate masks.
Most child molesters love them.
School administrators responding that they don't understand why
crowds are protesting them based on a mandate
given by the governor.
They blocked off the front entrance to the
school building, and we went out to ask
them to move, and they attempted to storm
the school building.
The school board is implementing the governor's recent
order that face shields alone are not enough.
And if a parent is adamant that their
child cannot wear a mask or a shield,
they must fill out a form, including a
doctor's note, so the district can review it.
In St. George, Katie Kralis, ABC 4 News.
And the tragedy is that this pandemic has
been predicted, and to some extent, it's been
caused by us, because we've disrespected the natural
world.
We've disrespected animals.
We've created environments which make it much easier
for a pathogen to jump from an animal
to a human, where it may cause a
new disease, a zoonotic disease, as it's called,
such as COVID-19.
Unfortunately, COVID-19 was incredibly contagious and has
raced around the world, causing so much havoc,
so much suffering, so much economic chaos.
At the same time, all the time, we
have been threatened by a much greater challenge,
and that is climate change.
And to a great extent, it's the same
disrespect of the natural world that has led
to this climate crisis.
Because this planet has finite natural resources, and
we've been plundering them in many places faster
than Mother Nature can restore them.
We're in the midst of the sixth great
extinction.
We depend on healthy ecosystems, and the healthy
ecosystem depends on the biodiversity.
We need to move into some of these
innovations of science, like solar, wind, and tide
energy.
Otherwise, for my grandchildren and theirs, the future
is more than grim.
It's very dark.
We mustn't let that happen.
We have a window of time which is
closing, and we need everybody who cares to
get together and find solutions now.
37,000 more people will be alive today,
and we're going to have another influx of
cases just between now and January.
It's expected that we're going to have somewhere
between, depending on which estimate you take, between
138,000 and 178,000 more deaths.
And if people just do what we're doing
here, and when you're at a social distance,
as I am, you can take a mask
off, but wear a mask.
They estimate that would save about close to
89,000, 90,000 people.
This newly amended order replaces the city's previous
provision that allowed people to take off their
masks while outside during the summer months.
Masks are part of the daily routine in
Cambridge.
99% of people around here wear them.
Wherever you look, it seems everyone is following
the rules.
It's rare you see someone who's not wearing
it.
Over the summer, the city allowed people to
remove face coverings if they could maintain six
feet of distance from others, but that will
change on October 2nd.
Masks will now be mandatory just about everywhere,
except your own home.
So starting next week, when you're crossing a
bridge from Boston into Cambridge, you're going to
need to mask up.
Whether you're riding a bike, on a basketball
court, or simply dancing on the sidewalk.
Even if you're in a wide open field
all by yourself.
The city says it's because of a slight
uptick in cases as students return to college.
The latest order will also require office workers
to wear masks at all times, unless they
are alone.
I think to have to wear a mask
24-7 outside is over the top.
Those who don't want to play by the
rules could face a $300 fine, but the
majority of people have no problem playing it
safe.
I'm pretty much used to it at this
point.
I've been doing that all summer, so no
different for me.
I think it's a really easy measure we
could take to protect the public.
I mean, it's such a simple thing.
The easiest thing we can do to protect
each other.
As far as enforcement goes, the city says
this is going to be more about education
and less about punishment.
The official United States death toll from COVID
-19 has passed 200,000.
By far the highest in the world.
As University of Washington researchers warn, the U
.S. is on track to double that death
toll by year's end.
In the past 24 hours alone, the U
.S. reported nearly 1,000 new deaths and
over 37,000 new cases, with Minnesota, Montana,
Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming reporting record levels of
infections over the past week.
On Tuesday, the COVID-19 Memorial Project placed
20,000 flags across the National Mall, each
one symbolizing 10 U.S. residents who've died
of the disease since the first recorded U
.S. death in February.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a memorial
for the dead.
This was preventable.
Not all of it, but much of it.
Mr. Ford says that we know that the
second wave is going to be worse than
the first wave.
Could you tell me in what way it
will be worse?
So I think the potential is that it
can be worse.
Right now, we're on the upward slope of
the second wave.
I think the premier, what he's alluding to,
is the fact that do we know it's
the so-called undulating waves that we've seen
in some of the modules?
How big those are, we have to see.
We always see it better after we have
some time to look at the test results.
If it is that more tsunami-type wave,
it will be far worse than the first
wave as we've seen in other countries.
How big this wave is going to be,
because already we've seen some test results that
are equivalent to what our maximum daily amounts
were in the first wave.
But as I said before, in that time,
the maximum tests we're doing a day around
that highest peak was around about 10,000
tests.
We're doing 41,000 to 43,000 at
the moment.
So it's a different curve, different epidemic.
So right now, we're anticipating if it keeps
going, we have to assume it could be
a lot worse than the first wave, especially
if it's the second scenario.
That's the more of the tsunami one.
But so far, it doesn't seem to be
going that way.
We'd like to hope that we can keep
on top of this and hear recommendations from
myself and others, medical officers around the province
to ask the public to really focus down
now.
We really have to hunker down and stay
at the task to see if we can
flatten this curve like we did the first
time.
People have gotten very casual, I think, at
the end of summer, early fall.
And we've seen that effect.
But I think by everybody refocusing, and we
have some ideas and suggestions of that, we
can turn this one around.
So hopefully, not the premier's fears, we might
be able to flatten it down.
And it may not be worse, but we
cannot be presumptive on that basis.
BLM, baby, remember that?
All of a sudden, it was OK to
go out.
Go ahead.
Yeah, if you were protesting and burning the
place down, yeah, that was OK.
Everything else, no, you had a social distance.
What a crazy time.
That was a crock of crap if ever
there was.
Isn't it amazing how you kind of just
forget that stuff and just it's like a
vague memory and we just moved on with
life.
And here we are, Trump is president again.
I mean, this is, or it will be
president.
Let's just hope that all goes well.
Yeah, unless the aliens show up and block
him.
Yeah, or Jamie Raskin, whichever is scarier.
Same thing.
All right, everybody.
You ever look at that guy?
He looks like he does.
Thank you very much to Strokey Bill Walsh
for producing the best of COVID.
We appreciate you very much, brother.
And we look forward to returning on the
next episode, which will be 1723, just before
we get to Christmas.
So please remember us in the meantime at
noagendadonations.com.
Currently, I am, probably my sister might have
thrown black bags over everybody's head for some
surprise birthday party for my brother-in-law
in Italy.
So I hope I return.
I have no idea where I am at
this moment, but I will soon be coming
to you from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on our
way back from Italy.
Until then, in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam
Currie.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'll be
shopping at Macy's.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
We'll be back on the next episode.
Please remember us, really, for Christmas.
noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and
such.