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So, Gavin Newsom declared a state of an emergency after announcing that California had 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including one death.

The deceased patient was a resident of

California, was on a Princess cruise ship that went from San Francisco to Mexico last month.

The boat's currently at sea, slated to return to San Francisco soon.

However, they're delaying the cruise ship's arrival to give federal officials more time to prepare for that.

LAX looks like one of the screeners has tested positive, one of the people who are screening you every day.

Can you imagine having that job?

Seattle has confirmed 10 new cases today.

The latest coronavirus death is among the 10 cases confirmed on Wednesday.

The patient who died was described as a woman in her 90s who lived at LifeCare.

That's a nursing home in which multiple cases and deaths have been reported.

I can't even imagine what it is like to be in that nursing home, working at that nursing home, being a patient there, or having your parents there.

Can you imagine if your mom or dad was in this nursing home?

It's now quarantined, so you can't go and see them.

The staff is overwhelmed, like nobody's answering the phone call.

It's like a

bad, scary movie.

And

the the stats on coronavirus,

I want you to really try to understand what's happening here.

Coronavirus is spreading rapidly, but it is not.

And I have to be really careful because I'm in the target range.

I'm at the bottom end of the target range.

If you are under 18,

nobody's died yet.

Somebody will, but nobody's died yet under 18 in the world.

It generally doesn't affect kids, children, and

adolescents.

They can get it, but it's not that bad.

Generally, people who are around 60 are the ones who start to get it, and they're the hardest hit.

The ones who are dying, the median age is 80.

So the median age of really being affected by it is 60.

The median age of dying is 80.

Now, with that being said, I don't want to lose my parents.

I don't want to lose any.

I mean, I know probably five people off the top of my head that if this happens and they get it,

they probably will die.

Some of them are younger than I am by far, but they're not healthy.

So I want to be really careful that when we say, oh, you know, it's just okay.

It's like the flu.

Okay,

yeah, but there are humans that are attached to that.

And our hearts and our prayers and our thoughts go out to anybody who is struggling with this.

Stu just said he was reading something just,

what was it, a blogger yesterday, last night?

Yeah, someone I follow on Twitter that does, you know, election stats and such.

And just said,

If you're the praying type, pray for a person with a breathing tube currently down their throat on their last leg, suffering from this horrible virus.

Coronavirus sucks, particularly when it's threatening to kill members of your own family.

That's so sad.

I mean, I can't imagine being in, I mean, and this is happening all over the place.

And you're right.

You might not be in the target here, but

everybody knows someone who is.

You're going to know somebody.

Now, listen, here's why this is being

to be, to look like panic.

There's a couple of reasons, and I'm going to go into what the government is doing economically that I don't understand.

However, when it comes to, hey, we're going to close schools, we're going to declare a state of emergency, they want people to stop traveling.

They want people to stay at home.

You know, a lot of people don't have a choice because they either don't get paid or their boss yells at them because they're sick all the time.

Anytime that anyone in this building comes in sick, we all look at each other and go, what are you doing?

Go home.

Go home.

No, I'm not that sick, but you're going to get us sick.

Go home.

But people always are like, I'm going to soldier on.

I'm going to be fine.

I'm not that sick.

Well, it's not about you.

It's about everybody else.

And that is the key on this one.

They want to try to stop people from getting it so it doesn't spread throughout everywhere.

You don't want 70% of the world having this,

even though the vast majority are not really going to have a problem from it.

It's not like any other virus we have seen.

We don't think that you build up immunity, so you just get sick.

And then what?

The people we have to pray for are the people who are on the front lines of this, the people who are driving the ambulance, the people who are in the hospital, the nurses, the doctors, the firemen.

This is why they're saying, please stop buying the N95 mask.

Please stop buying it because they need it.

And as much as it might make you feel better,

they need it.

And there is a global shortage on this.

You might feel better.

Well, I didn't get sick.

Well, yeah, but maybe a nurse or a doctor did and either couldn't perform and couldn't help really sick people or

they died we are going to need every doctor every nurse every fireman everybody on

on duty

the people who are getting it are the ones who are serving those who are sick we need to keep them in our prayers and and help them in any way that we can that's why italy is now banning all sports stadiums all sporting events

are going to continue, but the fans won't be allowed to attend.

We're talking about now, what is it, the

NCAA tournaments this year?

They're now talking about the final four and all of the tournaments leading up to it not happening with crowds, just in empty stadiums.

That's amazing.

Amazing.

That's a historic.

It's happening, and they've already done it in other countries where they're having soccer matches with empty stadiums.

Right.

I mean, it's progressing pretty quickly down that road.

Yeah.

The Dow has added almost 1,200 points.

That was yesterday.

It went 1,173 points.

That is up almost 5%

just yesterday.

That comes after massive losses on Tuesday, even though the Fed said, we're going to cut the rate.

We're going to cut the rate.

And then everybody freaked out and panicked.

Why is the Fed doing that?

And I'm going to give you some information on why we should be questioning this.

Then it surged yesterday.

It was up almost 1,200 points.

And today, what does it stand now?

We're opening the opening bells in about 15 minutes.

What does it look like it's going to open?

I'm saying between down 500 and 700 points, which, I mean, it used to be something really dramatic, right?

But after this last couple of weeks, where it's been up a thousand and down a thousand so many times, it's hard to even.

put that in perspective anymore.

We now have the second New York family infected, according to Governor Cuomo.

One of the family's daughters tested negative, the governor said, but the father of the family came in contact with a Westchester attorney who had been diagnosed earlier.

He says there's going to be dozens and dozens and dozens of people who are sick.

United Airlines has reduced flights in April.

They have announced that it's going to reduce its domestic flight schedule by 10%.

Those are the domestic flights, 10% reduction, and international flights by 20% in April due to declining demand.

The employees, they're offering the option to voluntarily apply for an unpaid leave of absence, instituting also a hiring freeze and suspending the 2019 merit salary increases until July.

This is why we are going to have trouble with the economy.

This is why the Dow is reacting.

You have the airline industry already taking globally what they project to be a $30 billion hit.

And

that's a problem.

That's a problem.

How many cruises?

I'm not going to talk about this on the air until you can just follow.

If you're on our cruise, just follow the directions that you are getting in the mail.

I just cut something, I think, a day or two ago that should have gone out.

We are on top of it.

We are going to have final decisions for you in the next few days.

But

there is a fine line between panic

and

insanity in the other direction.

You have to find that fine line.

Now, a thousand people are in self-quarantine in New York.

Yesterday, the Congress just approved $8.3 billion in emergency funds.

Now, Donald Trump okayed, what was it, $2.5 billion for coronavirus, $2.5 billion.

To put this into perspective, Barack Obama was praised in, I think, 2009, 2010 when he okayed $1 billion

for swine flu.

Okay, well, that swine flu, it didn't do anything.

Swine flu had killed a thousand people in the United States before the president did anything.

What is the dead here in America?

Eight?

A thousand people.

Swine flu killed 10,000 Americans.

And the president was praised for giving a billion dollars after a thousand people had died.

This president gave 2.5 billion when no one had died, and Congress just upped it to $8.3 billion.

Now, I am not complaining.

I'm just saying that's a lot of money really early.

And another reason why people look at this and say, well, what is really going on?

I mean, if they're doing this,

why?

If they're saying it's nothing to worry about.

Hospitals now are being told by the President's coronavirus task force that they need to be more proactive in testing.

Now here's the problem.

If you think you have the coronavirus, you go to the hospital, first of all, alert the hospital, call someone, say, I think I might have the coronavirus.

What do I do?

Don't just show up

in the emergency room if you think you have it.

Call them in advance.

If you're going to call an ambulance, let them know in advance.

The The Kirkland Fire Department now has a group of their firefighters that have to be quarantined and they can't do any emergency runs because when that first patient was called, no one said we might have coronavirus.

They didn't know, but now we do.

If you think you have it, call in advance so you are not exposing everyone else possibly to this.

People are being told told just self-isolate.

This is one of the reasons why

they are talking about canceling events, et cetera, et cetera, because maybe you shouldn't go to church.

Is there a way to watch church,

you know, at home?

Is there a way to do church at home?

Do you have to go to the movies this weekend?

This is going to hurt everything and everybody, but they're doing it so it doesn't spread as fast.

The best thing that everyone can do is isolate themselves as much as possible.

It will stop this from growing out of control.

It is less at this point about the number of people that will die as it will be about the number of people that are infected because it will overwhelm the system.

And we all know, Cloward and Piven, what happens when you overwhelm the system.

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All right, the Dow is set to drop nearly 600 points at the opening.

It has been a roller coaster for stocks.

The SP 500, however, has been relatively stable, has it not?

Yeah, it's down a little bit.

I think year to date, it's down 2.5%,

which is not

panic levels, although it was a little higher.

It gone up a little bit from the beginning of the year to the beginning of coronavirus hitting the markets.

But it's, you know, it's

luckily we we have a strong economy, but I, you know, there's only so much it can take, right?

And this is happening in other parts of the world when you talk to big manufacturing cities in China and

sort of disrupting the global supply chain situation.

So with that going on,

you run into a lot of issues where, you know,

this is going to be very difficult for the world to just handle, especially because we don't have treatments for it yet or vaccines or anything.

We don't know how big it's going to get.

So we have, I'm taking your phone calls at 888-727-BECK.

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I really am interested in hearing from somebody who is in the Seattle area,

in the area that is the Bellevue-Kirkland area,

where this is really taking effect.

Stores are empty in many cases.

Toilet paper is on the rise.

I got some great toilet paper shortage stories from all around the world today that

you don't want to miss.

We'll do that.

Microsoft and Amazon and other high-tech firms are urging employees now to work from home.

And I want to share a story with you about

what it's like to

live in Seattle where this is going on.

I have a friend who wrote to me this morning and said, Glenn,

I'm not sick with the coronavirus, but I have the flu.

My wife has the flu.

My daughter has the flu.

My dog seems even sick.

And we went and they can't figure out what my daughter has.

They say it's not the coronavirus, don't worry, but they don't know what she has.

And so we're just kind of sitting at home.

And he said, like, a lot of people on my street are sick.

We don't think we have the coronavirus, but it is really, really freaky, this situation.

He's like, this is like the beginning of you know

all of those really bad zombie movies

this is the way it feels right now

and

i can understand that i don't think we're all going to turn into zombies i think we make it to the summer

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Well, welcome to the program, Mr.

Pat Gray, who probably has the coronavirus.

I think we just, Dow just opened down 735 points.

Because they heard I had it too.

Yeah, I think

we should have a contest.

Which one of us is going to get it first?

We're going to be first to have.

I mean, if you're going to do it, let's be the first show where everyone is infected with coronavirus.

That way we can all come in because we can't give it to each other more.

Right.

And and there's three of us.

So every episode, somebody could, you know, say, whatever you do,

just make sure that you.

Did he just die?

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I mean, it sounds good.

It'd be good.

Sounds good.

Yeah.

I think it'd be great for release.

Let's go lick some Iranian doorknobs.

Oh, man.

Isn't that a bizarre thing?

Is that weird?

Even if there's no pandemic, I'm sorry.

I'm not licking your shrine.

I don't care.

No, you don't really?

No, I'm not doing it.

Seriously.

Seriously, yeah.

Yeah.

Come on.

No, even if they tell me, hey, that's the most Mormon thing you can do in the world.

You're not going to do it.

Really?

You're not doing it.

Wow.

No.

The only way to get to heaven is to lick this doorknob.

Not going to know.

Neither am I.

No.

I think, you know, there's some weird things that happen in Iran.

Now, that is an understatement,

but, you know, the latest is, besides the licking of the doorknob in the shrine, is the idea that the coronavirus has gotten so bad in prisons that they've decided to open the doors of prisons and let almost everybody out.

They freed 55,000 prisoners this week.

Nuts.

I mean, we're quarantining people and they're like, hey, all these sick people in prison, let them out.

Let them out.

Go roam around.

What is that?

There might be a reason the virus is that bad in that country because they're doing things that just don't help.

You think?

Yeah, that doesn't help.

That's not a good idea.

There is a story today.

A woman called the police for help because

she was locked in a bathroom.

It took place after a man found out that his wife had met with a Chinese woman who had been to Italy recently the

the man claimed that he acted on the advice of a medic and he chased her into the bathroom and then locked her in the bathroom now I'm not sure that that doctor quote unquote he was consulting with

actually said that but the woman has not filed any charges against her husband maybe she should

In Iran, they're now saying that anybody who is hoarding

may face the death penalty.

Wow.

Okay.

Wow.

Hoarding medical commodities in the current circumstance is playing with the lives of people and cannot be forgiven by any means.

So if you're already in jail,

Don't worry, they're going to let you out.

But if you hoard a surgical mask, you could be executed.

And what qualifies as hoarding?

If you're stocking up on certain items, you know, just in case for an emergency,

is that hoarding?

Isn't that exactly what they did in Germany?

Yeah.

All of the people who had been prepared

all of a sudden were called hoarders

and they got in trouble with the government.

So I don't know.

I don't know.

I know I said last week that

I have a surgical kit.

I went as far as years ago making sure that I had an at-home surgical kit.

By the way, it does not come with a manual.

I had to buy that one separately.

You know, how to remove, you know, an appendix.

I don't know.

I bought the book and the kit.

Just in case you had to do it to you or somebody in your family?

Well, I don't think I would be doing it to me.

I would hope not.

But I don't know who I would want in my family.

Hey, Rafe, come here, man.

I got a really bad pain in my side.

Cut me open and take that out, will you?

This is an interesting conversation, though.

Who would you pick to do the surgery?

Tanya.

You'd pick Tanya.

Yeah,

even if it is Tanya who is sick, you should do this, honey.

Because I feel like she probably wants to kill you for multiple reasons.

So putting you under and doing a surgery.

We haven't figured out how to put people under yet.

No,

probably Jack Daniels.

Jack Daniels will be the way to do it.

Will Will be the way to do it.

Drink until you pass out, then the surgery starts.

Yeah.

Can you imagine that?

Oh, man.

So I guess I'm hoarding, you know, surgical supplies.

Well, I guess.

I don't really know.

Here are the really bad stories out of the coronavirus.

Baby Yoda is being delayed.

Oh, no.

It may not make it because...

No, it's not.

Don't you do it.

Until at least December, right?

They say it may not.

If something doesn't change soon, it may not even make it for Christmas.

Oh, no.

One of our producers bought tickets to the James Bond movie that was coming out.

Uh-huh.

And he, Daniel Craig, I guess, is hosting SNL, schedules to host SNL this weekend or whatever for the launch.

Yeah, and now they move to November.

Yeah, I'm really upset.

This was your big thing.

Really?

I don't care if my family dies.

It's the James Bond movie.

It's the James Bond movie.

I'm a huge Daniel Craig fan.

I love, I think he is a great actor.

And I think, yeah, I'm going to say it.

Sean Connery, you have been bumped off.

Daniel Craig is the best James Bond we've ever had by far.

And this is his last one, and you're moving it?

No.

Better than Timothy Dalton?

Yeah.

Yes.

Timothy Dalton.

Should we talk George Lasenby here for a second?

Who?

Lasenby.

Isn't that the name of the name?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's his name.

I think he did one.

He did one.

Now, Dalton did a few, right?

He did three or three, maybe?

Maybe

two or three.

Yeah, but Lasimby only did one, if I remember correctly.

I don't even know.

I don't think I've ever heard the name George Lazenby.

What kind of Bond fan doesn't know all the Bonds?

Well, I knew Timothy Dalton.

I didn't know George Lazenby.

Because that was, I think, 60s.

He did it.

Is that when he did it?

He did one movie on Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969.

Okay, one.

Oh, I always thought that was Craig.

I never, not Craig,

Connery.

I'd never seen that one.

Connery only did the first couple, right?

Oh, listen to this.

Why did George Lazenby only do one Bond movie?

George Lazenby had a bad manager who advised him to not do any more Bonds because it was never going to last.

Oh, my.

That's true.

That's amazing.

George Lazenby right now is like,

I'm praying for the coronavirus.

I could have been somebody.

That's amazing.

That's a bad decision.

That's a tough one.

That's a tough one.

So

here's some other bad news.

A truck carrying toilet paper went up in flames due to a mechanical error in Brisbane, Australia.

Apparently, Australians, there's something about this.

They're stockpiling toilet paper.

You notice that in China, you didn't hear these stories.

And I think that may be a reason why it was so bad in China.

You didn't hear them about,

we're running out of toilet paper.

Kleenex has come out and said, there's no reason to panic.

We're going to make all the toilet paper and all the tissue anybody wants.

Let me go to Kent, Washington.

Casey is in Washington State.

Welcome to the program.

Hey, good to talk to you again, and got to see you at Christmas, and we talked for a little bit.

So I've been on the phone a couple of times with you.

I think Pat should do a Michael Jackson voice for the little Yoda before he dies, so maybe we could do that.

The Michael Jackson, I'm in the Kent area, and in the last couple of days, it's just amazing.

Some of the local radio announcers have said that they have tried to find out supplies here locally and then find out that the antiseptic supplies at the big box stores, they might be open, but 81 miles from here they've got plenty down in the South Deep Sound down in Centralia and I know you know the area

because of mountain.

But I'm not very far at the moment from the new place that the county bought, which is an old Howard Johnson bought by Acona Lodge, which is now closed, and they're going to use that as a quarantine place without telling anybody in the city of Kent.

And the mayor is absolutely upset.

I would imagine,

did they buy three, or is this the first of three that they bought?

They're just buying these old motels and saying,

yeah, we're just going to keep sick people in there.

Yeah, this was the first that I know of.

I've been trying to keep abreast of what's been going on.

And by the way, I want to say hello to my friends at Boeing,

especially one who's turned down a lot of people to the Blaze Network.

All right.

Well, good.

I appreciate

that.

Turning that on.

All right.

Anyway, that's what's going on here with

that.

There's been a lot of stuff that's been hoarded.

For instance, I I have bought, you know, to keep myself healthy, two large bottles of the well-named Aloe Vera company that makes hand sanitizers.

And I remember buying those for seventeen bucks in November.

They're now up to $89.90 on Amazon, but

they're being hoarded so you can't get anything

for the shelves up here.

All right.

Casey, thanks.

The experts are saying, too, like the antibacterial, it's not even like there's no point in it.

Just like wash your hands.

They're saying the Pure L thing is not even something that you need.

It has nothing to do with this.

It doesn't help.

Doesn't it kill?

It can be as good.

It's a more convenient way to wash your hands.

And again, I don't even think they're saying it's necessarily to that level, but like

they're saying

don't substitute it for washing your hands.

And also, if you can just wash your hands enough, you don't really need pure oil.

It's not necessarily an additional layer of protection.

We have a guy in Washington State who visits the nursing homes.

I guess is it Reverend Mel?

Is that right?

Yes, it is.

Hi, Reverend.

How are you?

Oh, doing really good.

I'm totally blind, but

I go into the nursing homes every week.

And

one of the things I wanted to bring out is that every nursing home that

I go to and minister in

is severely, I mean grossly severely understaffed where they can't even move the patients or the residents down to the lunchroom for a

service.

And then with this on top of it, a lot of them are canceling out.

Now like I can't go to this one nursing home for two weeks because of the corona thing, which is good.

They should be very protective of them.

And the other thing is I wanted to bring out,

I want to echo the the same sort of thing that the gentleman said before me,

is that we went to Costco

just the other day.

I think it was on Monday and

it was a madhouse.

It was worse than Christmas Eve.

I'm not kidding.

We stood in line for

a good hour before we even was able to get checked out.

And then Fred Myers, we just went to Fred Myers the other day.

And they were out of toilet paper.

They were out of hand sanitizers.

They were were

so

what is it?

What is it that people are what is it that people are preparing for just to stay home?

They're afraid that they're all going to be quarantined?

Is that what's happening?

Yeah,

I think that's part of it.

But

do you know the thing is here is that all

King Phi Como 7 and 13 are just whipping the people into frantic every day.

The whole hour in the hour and a half is just coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus.

And

I know I just came from the doctor yesterday for my in from my injection and he said just vinegar water and just plain soap and water.

Yeah.

He said, don't worry.

He says it's...

It's just being blown way out of proportion.

And

I know here in Shoreline, they open fern crests up,

which is real old, you know, fern crests here on 15th Northeast.

Right.

Reverend, I'm sorry, I have a network break I have to get to, but I understand it.

And what he's saying is they're opening up these places that have been closed for a long time.

They're doing this in California.

They're thinking about opening up the old state mental institutions and using them for places.

It is crazy what we're seeing, but the best thing you can do is not panic, not worry about it.

Just keep yourself informed on what's going on and just stay at home if you're not feeling well.

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First of all, everything the president said yesterday about coronavirus is absolutely true.

He said, it's just a hunch, but I don't think this 3.4% death rate is where it's going to end up.

It's a lot lower than that.

Of course it is.

And every single medical expert that I have ever read or heard talk about this says exactly the same thing.

Of course.

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he's got all of the stats.

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they got to prove that he's wrong on that.

Yeah, despite the fact that they all know what he's saying, and they all know he's right.

Yeah, they all know he's right.

And he actually, the hunch is a good phrasing for it.

Yeah.

Because we don't know.

There's not 100% certainty from scientists yet.

But the scientists have all seen these things happen before.

And they've all said, this is not the final number.

It's going to come down.

They don't even say it's a hunch.

No.

They just say it's going to come down.

That's because when you test things, when you have more tests available, there's probably a ton of people walking around this country right now who think they have allergies and have COVID-19.

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Things are starting to look crazy,

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Hello, Joe.

Welcome.

Thank you for taking my call, Glenn.

I'm a very, very avid listener.

Thank you.

I appreciate everything you do.

Thank you so much.

So how can

tell me what you're feeling in the hospital there in Florida?

Well, we're in the Tampa area, and my wife and I work for one of the major hospitals here in Tampa that is handling now that we have been informed, the testing for the coronavirus.

On or about the 10th of February, we received a company, a hospital-wide email that they were

have two patients that they were observing for

an infection.

They weren't given any details of what the infection was, but they made sure that it went out that

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Lo and behold, what, six, seven days ago, bam, the Tampa Bay area has two coronaviruses,

and we were not told where they got it, where they've been, who have they touched.

I think the best way, if somebody tells me that they've been to a local supermarket and that's where they've contacted it, I'm not going to stop there.

Information is key.

so what are you what are you saying

i'm saying that we're not getting the information we should be about where it's spreading from if people are going from the airport i mean they're saying that they've come from this country or they've been to this facility but that doesn't help us when somebody's sick with the measles a kid and they've been to junior's house you don't send your kids over to junior's house anymore for another 13 14 days

Well, the problem here, the problem is, Joe, is we don't like junior, but you know, we'll sure we're going to stay away.

Are we sure?

You know, the problem is, is that we haven't known because we haven't had the testing, et cetera, et cetera.

So we haven't really known what we're dealing with until recently.

Now that the testing, and this is why what Donald Trump said yesterday is

right.

He said, you know, I'm just basing this on a hunch, but that number of, you know, 3.2 for the number of deaths, that number is going to come down.

It will because there are people walking around right now with the coronavirus that don't know they have it, and it's not affecting them in any sort of way that is putting them into ICU.

And so, you know, in the past, we haven't known, we still won't know for a while because, you know, as Mike Pence said yesterday in his press conference, we are looking now, just now, to being able to get people,

the diagnostic labs, the commercial diagnostic labs, to start taking tests for the coronavirus.

Right now, you have to go to either a university, a state-run university hospital, or one of the regional hospitals that can do it.

Soon, all of our hospitals will be able to test, and your local doctor will be able to send you to Quest Diagnostics, where they take your blood.

They'll be able to swab and then alert you, and you can go to your regular doctor.

That's not happening yet, And that's why we're going to see these numbers explode.

I agree with you.

Once we know, we have to tell people.

But I'm not sure if we all knew about that even a couple of weeks ago.

Joe, thanks so much for your phone call.

There's a couple of other things that I want to address.

Stu is going to be talking about this tonight,

where Trump is going up against a media that wants him to fail.

They must blame all of this on him.

And they're going to disagree with whatever he says.

For instance, he gave $2.5 billion

for the CDC to be able to start their work on what is happening in coronavirus before there was a single death in the United States.

Now, I want to put that into perspective.

During the swine flu, when Barack Obama gave the first $1 billion for the swine flu, and everyone in the media cheered, this is so brave and he's way ahead.

You didn't hear me complaining that he gave a billion dollars.

You didn't hear me complaining when he didn't give a billion dollars soon enough.

I thought it was appropriate.

There were about a thousand people that had died in the United States before he released the first billion dollars.

That's Barack Obama.

And everyone made him out to be a hero.

Donald Trump gives two and a half times that amount

before anyone dies, dies, and he's a villain.

He's acting slow.

Right.

Yeah.

No one had died here in America yet.

Then on top of it, they just released $8.5 billion yesterday.

Okay, good.

If that's what it's going to take, if that's what they need, fine.

But are the politicians doing this because they're actually operating on information, or are they just operating on get the president?

So we have to be really, really careful because what the president said yesterday is 100%

accurate.

It is based on, quote, as he said, a hunch, but every single

CDC,

every single person that I've read from the WHO, they all say the same thing.

The number of death rate right now is about 3.1 to 3.4%.

They expect that number to come down, possibly below 1%

as the death rate.

Of course, it will.

We're not testing people.

So, if you're seeing,

you're seeing,

you don't know how many people have heart disease, and all of a sudden, four people in your hospital come in and they had a heart attack and they die.

Well, we've had four people and they just died from this heart thing that is in the center of their chest.

If something goes wrong with your heart so far, it's a 100% death rate.

No, there's lots of people that have heart attacks and heart problems, and it doesn't lead to their death.

We have a lot of people with COVID-19 right now that don't know it.

And we know that's happening.

They just were talking about this infection in Washington, and they believe thousands of people have been walking around spreading it to each other for weeks.

But because they might think they have allergies, they might think they were sick with something else, they might not even notice it at all.

It's not that big of a deal in most people.

Yeah.

And that's what it looks like

to be true here, by the way.

So if it's not that big of a deal in most people, when you start to see the numbers of this go up through the roof, which they will,

and that's going to seem bad, it's actually good.

That's what we're diagnosing.

Exactly.

Over the next few weeks, we're supposed to get, I think it's 1.5 or 1.35 million tests.

for COVID-19 in the United States by next week is what they believe they're going to have.

So far, there's only been a few hundred, maybe a couple thousand people who have been tested in total.

As of last week, there were only 422 tests that had been done total, coast to coast, Alaska and Hawaii.

So

because they're only using these tests when it is very obvious, you go into a hospital, you have all the symptoms, you're about to die, they test you.

Right?

So yes, the death rate seems pretty high because those are the people getting the tests.

However, when you go to,

let's just say you have a sore throat and you go into the urgent care today, what are they going to do?

They're going to swab your throat and give you a strep throat test, right?

Because they have plenty of those.

So anyone who comes in who has even the possibility of having a strep throat, they give you a strep throat test.

Same thing with a flu.

You get a flu test every time you go in there when you're sick.

I don't think I have the flu.

Yeah, but we just want to rule it out, right?

That's what they always say to you.

Well,

eventually, down the road, we will have enough tests for COVID-19 for that to be the process.

Yeah, that's a problem.

Donald Trump hasn't done enough.

How come we don't have 320 million tests that we could take right now?

I know.

I don't know why he didn't think of this before someone had bat soup, which we don't think is actually the cause, but it's the funniest way to say the cause.

Poor bats are getting blamed for all of this.

You know, there have been other countries that are a little bit ahead of us.

That's as popular as Romney, but go ahead.

That's true.

And there's some people who are criticizing over that.

I mean, look, it's about making sure that you accelerate this as fast as possible.

We're going to put in a lot of private businesses that are going to make this happen in an impressive way.

And so far, the response, I think, has been correct for Trump.

And he's put, I think, a lot of weight on it.

It's not his area of expertise, but he's put his best people on it.

And that's what you do.

But like,

for example, he said, Trump's quote is this.

Well, I think 3.4% is really a false number.

Now, this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people who do this, because a lot of people will have this, and then it's very mild.

They'll get better very rapidly.

They don't even have to see a doctor.

They don't even call a doctor.

You never hear about those people.

And he goes on to say,

so I think that number is very high.

Personally, I'd say the number is way under 1%.

Again, he based this on a hunch.

Here is a quote from the New England Journal of Medicine.

Tell me how dissimilar these are, other than the fact that one guy's talking like a doctor and one guy's talking like Donald Trump.

If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.

Same thing.

It's the exact same thing.

That's from the New England Journal of Medicine.

He's just saying it like Donald Trump as opposed to like a doctor.

But what he's even saying, it may, if it turns out, it is at some level a hunch because they don't know all the details yet.

But it's acting like all of the previous viruses they have,

that they dealt with before.

They've seen these things come before.

They have hundreds of years of medical knowledge that has brought them to this point.

And they're now under trying to understand where this is going to go.

And they think they have an idea of it, but they can't be certain, which is why you have to take it seriously.

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All right, so he's got that tonight.

But there's another part of this that I think is really important.

The other reason why

you're feeling like there's mixed messages.

The president is saying one thing,

and then you'll hear from the medical community saying, for instance, the CDC said, stop comparing this to the flu.

It's not the flu.

Why are they doing that?

Because they need us to stay home.

The entire world is doing this.

This is not about an election or an economy or anything else.

They're trying to get everyone to stay home.

Because if this mutates at this point without some sort of vaccine,

it could become very, very deadly.

And so they don't want it to spread until we're more prepared for this.

We are probably 10 days away from a vaccine announcement coming from Israel.

That could put us six months away from a vaccine being able to be made.

And then

how fast can they get that around the world?

They are trying to buy time in case it mutates in a dangerous way.

But as I told you yesterday, this has already mutated once and it has become less dangerous in its latest mutation.

So that's good news.

You just have to stay informed and don't spread the things that you're like, well, this is crazy.

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Cats are going out at night and intentionally

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Corona

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Cats start with a C.

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What do you think is going on?

Don't spread that stuff.

Get the real information and tell your friends to remain calm.

All right.

Got a great, great hour remaining.

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because you have a life, and strangely, this is what you pay us to do to not have a life, just pay attention to this stupid crap coming out of Washington.

Let me give you what Schumer said that

some would say, and I'm one of those,

was threatening the conservative Supreme Court justices.

Listen to what he said.

And they're taking away fundamental rights.

I want to tell

Really?

What do you mean by that, Chuck?

Can you imagine

what they'd say if I gave that same speech about him?

And not only if you gave that speech, speech, what they'd say to you, but they would go around to every Republican in Congress and get their reaction to see if they agreed with you.

And

they would make them denounce you if they were going to be in good standing with the media.

So, Chuck, what did you mean?

What did you mean?

His way out of this is what I was saying is Republicans would face electoral consequences.

That's not a consequence.

They won't know what hit them.

That has nothing to do with Supreme Court.

Exactly.

He's acting like he was applying that to politicians, which he's not.

No.

Before it and after it,

he says the name specifically, and then he says, if you come down with these decisions, which there's no decisions coming out of Congress,

you're talking about the Supreme Court outside.

The Supreme Court, and

he has no idea the whirlwind that he has brought upon himself, in my opinion.

They are now calling for him to step down.

It won't happen.

The press will not cover this.

They'll just...

Oh, they're just saying, like, oh, Republicans are pouncing on his comments.

Yeah, no.

Is that what they're doing?

Is that what's happening?

I just want you to listen to who he was speaking to.

Here's a cut of one of the women at this pro-abortion rally.

You can't say this is pro-choice because there is no choice anymore.

There is no choice.

You either choose the way they choose or you're going to have a whirlwind come on your head.

Listen to this woman who is pro-abortion

speaking before Chuck Schumer.

Listen.

Yes.

Where the abortion providers at.

We're the future abortion providers at.

Woo!

Awesome.

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We're going

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Woo!

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So, as I said, I had an abortion when I was 19.

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All right.

That was a great decision.

Yeah, great decision.

Great decision.

I don't think anybody in America wants to condemn anyone in that situation.

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I am going to judge you if you're like, you know what?

It was great.

And I've had a couple of them.

Because, you know, I just, hey, it was where I was at.

And it was great.

And I encourage you to do it.

No,

no, I am going to judge you on that.

But this is where

the left is.

This, followed by Chuck Schumer.

Same rally.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.

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It is Thursday.

We have our coronavirus update, the official one coming up here in about 30 minutes from now.

It's one you don't want to miss.

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There's lots of information, disinformation, and misinformation that is going around.

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I want to introduce you to somebody.

Her name is Tracy Walder, and

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Thank you for having me.

I'm good.

So have you been compared to the alias story?

Alias is definitely the one I hear the most in terms of comparison.

How similar was your life in some ways to that?

So I've never watched Alias.

Oh, really?

No.

Okay.

Well, you know, the idea that you go out and you are actually in these

really

crazy situations.

Give just a couple of things that you have seen and done in your life that would shock people if they were passing you in the grocery store.

So I've interrogated terrorists.

I think most people are usually surprised when they hear that.

I've served some time in some pretty desolate war zones,

seen a bunch of decapitated heads.

I've watched a woman die.

So those are just some of the things.

You are,

when you say

you interrogated terrorists, you went over, and these are some of the real bad guys in the world, that most of them would never, ever speak to a woman.

And here you come in, you seem like you're very mild and sweet and nice.

What is the situation like when you walk into somebody who's not used to talking to a woman or answering to a woman?

So that's a good question.

I think it depends on sort of what stage of their detention they're at, if you catch my drift.

You know, if they've just entered,

you know, they're usually a little bit more combative, and I'll usually need to work with someone to kind of get us through that.

And then, you know, if they've been there for a bit and they're a little bit more complacent, it's usually not that big of a deal.

I mean, they're there, they're in prison, they have to talk to me.

And, you know, it may seem sweet, but I have a little bit of a bite sometimes.

I bet you.

I bet you do.

So you went out

and

let's start at the beginning.

You're just at this job fair, and they approach you.

So, the way that it worked was that USC is where I did my undergrad.

We have a sort of a main thoroughfare, and it's called Truesdale Parkway.

And on Truesdale Parkway, there were just a bunch of different tables set up for a bunch of different organizations.

And I actually went to the CIA table and gave them my resume.

So, I guess I sought them out anyway.

And so, you get in, and what year was this?

This would have been 1998, 1998.

And you actually come up with a chemical weapons chart.

Yes.

Right.

Explain what that is that you did.

So during my time at the CIA, I worked in the counterterrorism center in the weapons of mass destruction group.

And so one of the things that we did just to keep the people who we were following straight, it was just for visual purposes, was we created sort of a toxins and poisons chart.

You know, who was at the top of procuring these weapons for al-Qaeda, and then, you know, where were their henchmen?

And so we had created that chart and we sort of put that chart on the walls of all of our cubicles to just keep an eye on things.

And it was just a lot easier to track where they were.

Did you ever think to cross your mind?

Maybe I'm in,

how did I get here into this profession where I have that chart on my cubicle wall?

This is,

I don't used to.

I think I kind of question my career choices.

If I'm like, oh, yeah, deadly toxin chart.

I got it over here on the wall of my cubicle.

And this is this chart.

What role did it play in the Iraq war?

So the chart, what we had titled it was Al-Qaeda's Poisons and Toxins Group.

They were just a cell that we were following that was trying to procure them.

One day in our office, it wasn't unusual to have members of the administration sort of coming in and out, just given the...

given the nature of what we were doing and the year that it was.

And someone from the administration had come down and wanted a copy of that chart, which if they ask, you, of of course, say yes.

And I don't think we thought really anything more about it until it was used by Colin Powell on the floor of the UN.

How'd you feel about that?

So I think

not what people assume.

You know, I think my mind didn't jump to the Iraq war actually initially.

I think for us, what was frustrating was there were individuals on that chart who we didn't want to know that we were looking for them.

And as a result, all of those individuals sort of went underground and disappeared.

So were there chemical weapons in Iraq?

This story has never really

had a satisfying answer, one way or another.

Do we know?

You know, I don't know that we know.

I mean, I moved to the FBI about a year later, so I'm not, you know, entirely certain what they ultimately found.

I mean, we know Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons.

I don't think that's shocking.

They're a nation state.

Most nation states have them.

But in terms of al-Qaeda,

we don't really have evidence that they were trying to acquire nuclear weapons per se.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Are you concerned about what was announced yesterday on the nuclear weapon front from

Iran?

Yes, I tweeted that actually the other day.

I'm actually very concerned.

Explain what came out, why it concerns you.

So why it's concerning is now we believe that they have more than enough nuclear material to build a nuclear bomb.

Certainly there's kind of steps they have to take to do that.

Obviously, they need the centrifuges and launch devices and all those kinds of things.

but I am concerned that they now have obtained enough material.

The coronavirus, they thought that this was a weapon.

I don't believe that at all.

Do you agree?

I agree.

I do not.

You agree?

You do?

I do not.

What about the bioweapons lab?

That's a level four bioweapons lab.

There's only a few of them there.

We apparently said to them, don't, don't, don't.

You should probably shut that one down because it's right.

It would be like us having it in Los Angeles, right in the center of Los Angeles, right?

Right.

Which is not where you put bioweapons in.

No.

Have you ever been to a bioweapons lab?

Yes, I have.

Scary?

Scary, but you're right.

They're not usually in the middle of densely populated areas.

Right.

I mean, I read, I don't know if you know who Keith Albeck is.

He was the head of the bioweapons lab.

It was Ken.

Ken Albeck.

Bioweapons lab and research in the Soviet Union and defected as soon as the wall came down.

The stories he tells about the difference between us,

we look at something and and say,

can we cure it?

And then, and then, can it be used as a weapon?

Yes.

They do the opposite.

I totally agree with you.

Yeah, they think that if it has a cure, it's not a good weapon, which is insane.

That's the way at least the Soviet Union was.

I don't know about that.

I feel like that's the way a lot of countries sort of look at it more so than us.

You know, we look at whether or not we can cure things, and that's a good thing.

We should.

But I do,

I feel we're not doing enough in terms of being more aggressive about how these things are weaponized and how to keep ourselves safe.

So, when you went to the FBI, why'd you make the transition from CIA to FBI?

So, that's a good question.

I loved my time at the CIA.

I left under great terms and still friendly with a lot of people there.

But one thing that was never going to change about the CIA was their mission abroad.

And I think, you know, at the ripe old age of 26, I realized I wanted a little more stability in my life.

I knew eventually I'd want more stability in my life.

But I was really passionate about the counterterrorism mission.

So I thought, you know, why don't I become a special agent now at the FBI?

And hopefully I could work stateside, you know, in one office.

How do you feel about the FBI and its credibility now?

And, and I don't even mean about the, I don't even mean the agents per se, but the way things have been dealt with recently, it just, it doesn't, I've always been very, very pro law enforcement, FBI.

I think these guys are amazing.

But the people up at top have really, there seems to be a culture where they're burying a lot of stuff that must eat at FBI local agents that

may be afraid of retaliation for saying anything.

Do you, how do you view what's happening at the FBI now?

So I obviously have a lot of respect for law enforcement as well.

I always have.

I think it's a difficult, it's a difficult question for me because part of my judgment, you know, of the FBI is a little bit clouded by the pretty terrible way that I was treated when I was there.

So sometimes it's hard for me to sort of separate the two and look at it objectively.

What was the pretty terrible way you were treated?

I was severely sexually harassed.

At the FBI.

I am sorry I missed that part of your story.

I don't even know how I missed that part of your story.

What happened?

It was a culture shock for me because I had come from the agency,

been overseas a lot, worked with many men, members of SEAL teams, and had never experienced any negative treatment whatsoever.

So it was quite a shock for me, you know, really from my first day of Quantico on.

It just didn't stop ever.

And from what I understand, it hasn't changed.

There's an EEO lawsuit right now, 17 women, about gender discrimination.

What's happening there?

I mean, do we have a chance of cleaning this out?

If you asked me that before I found out about this new lawsuit, I would have probably said yes.

But it's disturbing to me that in 2020, we are still having this issue.

I would have thought that perhaps things would have changed.

When the police become the bad guys,

you're in trouble because there's no who do you go to?

Who do you go to?

When that's what had happened, my instructors at Quantico were terrible to me too.

It really was kind of all the way up the chain.

It didn't stop.

I don't want any of the tales because I don't

care.

You know, I mean, out of respect.

It's in the book.

Yeah,

I just don't need to hear somebody to recant or

regale all of their worst nightmares.

How bad was the sexual

trouble?

What were they doing?

I would say it was more verbal than anything else.

And I know you don't want stories.

I'll just give you one anecdote.

I don't like pressing people on stuff like that.

No, I can give you one small anecdote that will sort of set the stage, I guess, for everything else.

And you'll, I guess, gain an understanding of how it proceeded.

One of the very first things that you do at Quantico, and I'm not sure that we still do that there, is interview.

You learn, you know, how to conduct interviews.

And so you have to wear a suit instead of your uniform to do that.

Fine.

And it was the same suit I had worn for five years at the CIA never had.

experienced any pushback about it.

I did my interview, did fine.

But my head instructor called me into her office afterwards and said that I needed to write a letter of apology to my interview instructor because my suit made him uncomfortable and that I needed to go buy new suits.

And,

you know, I'm sort of

embarrassed to say that I did do it.

I probably should have quit, you know, right there.

I'm not really a quitter and I wanted to finish almost despite these people, I think.

I did buy new suits and I was digging through old pictures recently and I found my graduation picture from Quantico.

My mom was like, the crotch of your suit is down to your knees because I had purchased such large suits to sort of overcompensate for that.

Wow.

The name of the book is The Unexpected Spy, Tracy Walder.

And I have not had a chance, obviously, to read it yet.

I want to read it.

I want to have you back and talk

and do a podcast with you because your story, what you've done, what you've accomplished is pretty remarkable.

And now that I know the rest of the story, it's even more so.

So thank you for coming by.

Thank you for having me so much.

And I want to hear how the transition, now you're a teacher at an old girls' school.

I mean, you've led quite a life.

Yes.

Tracy Welder is the author, and the name of the book is The Unexpected Spy.

We return to the program in just a minute.

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Wow, there are some major things happening politically that you should know about.

First of all, Warren has just dropped out of the presidential race.

So that means it is now officially Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Tulsi Gabbard.

Tulsi's moving up to third.

She is right behind you guys.

Yeah, she's there.

I think it'll be great.

Like, maybe they'll both drop out and she'll just win.

That would be an interesting turn.

So, what does this mean?

Who does this benefit?

Yeah, and by the way, we should point out that I don't think she's said it herself yet.

There are reports that it is happening as we speak.

However,

you know, here is a, what does it mean?

I mean, it helps Bernie, clearly, though it's not

entirely clear that her votes would go to Bernie, and it's not entirely clear that she would endorse Bernie.

She did endorse Hillary in 2016.

She's much more of an establishment creature than Bernie.

And I think people look at her.

as much more of an establishment creature.

You could also make the argument she goes out and she

endorses Biden.

It might be the type of thing where he would consider her for VP or something else big because that would, you would think, completely close the door on Bernie.

Bernie's in serious trouble.

This has gone out of control fast.

We talked to you about this poll a little bit earlier in the program.

New poll out of Florida taken yesterday with Bloomberg still included in the race.

And Warren.

And Warren as well.

Biden 61, Sanders 12.

This is like the,

I've never seen a jolt of caffeine into a campaign like this in history.

Well, I've never seen this happen in my lifetime.

I mean, every day I come in and are like, I got to report on something I've never seen happen in my lifetime.

Amazing times.

Every single day, these are historic times.

You should be keeping a diary.

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Welcome to the program.

Time for our coronavirus update.

You get it every day at this time.

We've gone over a lot of stuff today, but there are some really important things that we haven't hit yet.

And we'll do them in our coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins, all of the stats,

and so much more coming up in a second.

Also, it looks like Warren has dropped out of the presidential race.

We'll give you the latest on that.

The amazing polling that is coming out.

I've never seen anything like this,

but I feel like I say that every day.

All of this and so much more begins in one minute.

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Total confirmed cases now are 96,286.

That is up about 2,000 from yesterday at this time.

With that being said, you're going to see this case number start to rise because America is going to start doing extensive tests.

You know, just a week ago, there only been about 400 people that had had a coronavirus test.

Now they're starting to enter into the thousands, so we will see that number go up.

And the percentage of the death rate, that death rate is really important.

You'll start to see that come down.

Total confirmed deaths is up about 100 people globally.

86 countries have now confirmed cases.

That is an addition of five new countries overnight.

Seven more now have suspected cases.

17% of active cases are now considered serious.

Now, that number is important.

That number is dropping.

Just at the beginning of last week, that number was 19% of all active cases were serious, meaning they required hospitalization or

the 5% that require ICU.

The United States now has 160 confirmed cases, now 11 deaths, 10 in Washington State, and one in California.

We're going to give you the details on what's happening in Washington State because it's a little crazy in Washington.

The confirmed cases in the U.S.

now include Washington State, Oregon, California, Arizona, Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, with an additional suspected case in Missouri and Colorado.

California and Washington have the highest number of infections with 40-plus cases in each state.

That makes sense.

Those are huge Asian population centers and the closest to Asia.

In Washington, King County is now asking all 2.2 million residents of King County, that's the Seattle area county,

all 2.2 million residents to work from home if possible.

County officials are asking employers to move from work to a home basis for all office and administrative workers if possible.

The request also includes recommendations to avoid any large gatherings of more than 10 people, especially in confined indoor spaces.

Officials in Seattle and King County also recommend that any person over the age of 60 or with underlying health issues stay home, avoid going to public places, or having physical contact with others, just as a precaution.

The reason why they're doing this is the fatality rate for 60 plus is estimated at this point, but these numbers will come down to be about 5%.

So the median age of those who are getting it

is 60.

The median age for those who are dying is 80.

So

it is really dependent on age.

That's why so many are getting sick in nursing homes.

All Washington residents are being asked not to lick envelopes if they are voting by mail in the state's March 10th primary.

I don't think I've licked an envelope in a long time, and I'm glad we're past that.

Stu's looking at me, giving me a weird look.

Yeah, because you do now, if you ever do send out an envelope, which even that I feel like is relatively rare at this point, they've got the little peel off there, right?

Right?

That's how that works.

It's been a while.

Yeah.

Hospital officials are asking any person coming into a hospital who suspects

that maybe they have COVID-19

to call ahead and wear a surgical mask to prevent the spread.

However, how are you getting a surgical mask?

That's the problem.

Surgical masks are in high, high demand.

But this is really important for everyone to understand.

If you think you have the COVID virus, it is really important to call ahead because you don't want to walk into an emergency room where a bunch of people are that don't have it and then sit in the waiting room.

Call ahead and they will make arrangements for you to come.

King County has also bought a motel to house COVID-19 patients.

Now, the Board of Supervisors purchased the 24-room Kent Motel to house patients who don't require ICU treatment.

They say the old motel is ideal because it has hard surfaces which can be disinfected and independent heating and cooling units in each room.

There's no shared ventilation just in case COVID-19 is airborne, which we don't know yet.

So they bought this old hotel.

The problem is

they didn't let the mayor or anybody else in the area know that that's what they were planning.

The move is designed to ensure hospital beds are reserved for those requiring ICU and other life-saving medical procedures.

We are going to see this more and more because our hospital staffs are going to be overworked.

This could be a real nightmare.

I would hope that there are those Florence Nightingale types that are thinking now that they want to volunteer their time because I think we're going to need volunteers in the future.

Counties, the King County is also using 18 mobile homes originally planned for homeless shelters in a secondary location near the motel.

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has also designated modular homeless shelters as potential COVID-19 quarantine facilities for the homeless or other patients.

California has set up 18 FEMA-provided modular home homeless shelters in January of 2020, which now could be used as quarantine centers.

The WHO, the WHO, and the CDC are now saying, please,

please stop comparing COVID-19 to the seasonal flu.

Now, this is where it gets dicey.

Because right now, you need to understand the most important thing we can do is contain this.

We don't know what this will turn into.

We think that the death rate, we think we have a handle on that.

We think the death rate

a lot lower.

It's going to start falling.

And as it starts to fall,

you will see that

people will not panic so much.

The reason why I think people are panicking is they don't know what this is.

This is the unknown and the

lack of known unknowns.

Do you know what I mean?

The old Rumsfeld thing.

Right.

We don't know what we don't know yet.

And I think because this is so new, people are freaking out about it.

So they're saying, don't say this is just like the flu because then people won't take it seriously.

Which they should.

The flu kills a lot of freaking people.

600,000 people worldwide every year.

It's a a big deal.

It's not something

you should be able to just dismiss.

They're thinking this is 10 times deadlier and two times more contagious.

They think that

if it mutates or if the numbers stay the way they are, which no one thinks except currently the press because of Donald Trump,

that it could kill 20 times or 30 times more than the average flu.

But we don't have treatments yet, too.

It's another big part of this.

The reason why the flu rate is so low at 0.1%, right?

It's not because if you left it completely untreated, it wouldn't be a 0.1%.

It's at 0.1% because we've developed a really good defense against it.

Half the population takes the vaccine every year.

There are four approved medications to treat it.

These are all big things that help get that rate lower.

We haven't done any of that stuff yet with COVID.

That's why they're so scared of it, especially this year.

We don't even know if it's going to be a seasonal thing.

If we go into, you know, May and this is not dying out, that doesn't give us a break.

Right now, we're hoping that this is a seasonal style flu that will hide itself again until fall.

And when it hides itself, we'll have time to really stock up, really prepare, really get up on our feet.

So we're trying to play catch-up now because, and it's not that anyone is behind, it's just that this was an unknown.

It is a brand new virus, the likes of which we've never seen before.

They're saying that the concerns, the reason why they say don't say this is like the flu, is because people won't, they think, won't take the necessary precautions to prevent and slow the spread as much as possible.

Their real concern here is that hospitals are going to be overwhelmed.

My real concern is if you're in Oklahoma or Kansas or,

heck, even Idaho, any place

where you have

a regional hospital and then you're looking at a very, very small hospital where we only have a couple of doctors.

When that doctor gets sick, and they will if they are treating everybody in town, when that doctor gets sick, who's going to replace that doctor?

How does that doctor get sleep so they don't get

sick?

So they're really concerned about just our resources being overrun.

Right now, up in

Washington State, the fire department, the ambulance, anybody who has called on that first death now is in quarantine.

So now all of those firefighters and paramedics can't go out and help people.

That's why they want you to call in advance.

Hey, I think we need to get you to to the hospital.

Okay,

call the ambulance, tell them this is COVID-19.

They may be asking that now,

but in Seattle on that first death, they didn't ask that question.

Nobody informed them.

When they got there, it was too late.

The other thing, the reason why this is being taken so seriously, is not because of what it is today, but what it could continue to become.

If it mutates into something more dangerous.

It is already split once from an original S strain to the L strain.

And I said earlier today that the L strain is actually less deadly.

That's not true.

It's actually the reverse of that.

The L strain is more deadly.

So it's already beginning to mutate.

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All right, I want to go back to something that we talked about earlier today,

and that is what's happening with the banking sector.

The Dow is down how much?

I know it opened

about 700 points down today

and

down 540 currently.

So it was way up yesterday, way down the day before, way up before that.

This is going to be an unstable ride.

Anywhere from

give me 20% off the high, Stu.

What would that be?

It's 29, so it's like 24.

Yeah, I mean, you know, about that.

Obviously, that's kind of the technical recession term, about 23, 2.

So I think that anything that we see around 20%

doesn't really concern me.

It is not good, but it's also the world hasn't seen something like this.

When it starts to go down, you know,

closer to 30%, when it starts to get down to, you know, Dow 20,000,

then we're talking about some real trouble.

And I think we might hit those things because

airlines are starting to have to

take losses.

The cruise industry is going to take huge losses.

All of these things, they just moved the

Bond movie because that movie, they think the theaters are going to be empty this spring, and they probably will be.

So all of the industry that requires you to go out, all restaurants, everything else, they're going to take a real hard hit.

Anything that you can get delivered to your house will be better.

But

we're going to change the economy.

If this continues to go for a long time, we're going to change the economy into a very isolated style economy.

Now, the IMF chief yesterday called for a, quote, all-outs, no regrets response to the epidemic, which poses, quote, a serious threat to the global economy.

At a time of uncertainty,

quoting, it's better to do more than to do not enough.

All right, this is good, but here's the problem:

what is it that this is going to do right now except use all of the bullets you have in your gun?

You know, that was the problem with the Fed.

The Fed started to use all of the bullets in their gun,

and

there's not going to be anything left

afterwards.

We're already moving the Fed rate down.

They're asking for more

in Fed cuts and more for the central banks.

At some point,

nothing's going to have an effect anymore.

It's like an overuse of antibiotics.

The central bank cuts are like antibiotics to the economy.

And after a while, they just don't work anymore.

It's going to be interesting to see.

Now, a way the Fed cut might be useful is for companies that need to keep keep their doors open.

And

if they can borrow money at almost 0%

interest rates, they can keep their doors open and just hope to make it up later.

But I'm concerned that the IMF and the Fed are just opening up the floodgates at this point.

That just doesn't seem logical to me or the right move to me.

What do you think the percentage, 0 to 100?

What percent of the panic that's going on now is just a result of the way these various governments are handling this?

And they may be doing it appropriately, but they are signaling to us, hey, we're closing down all schools in the country of Italy.

Like these are situations you wouldn't.

So I think these are two competing things.

I think they are.

You have to do what I think the world is reacting to this in a very positive way.

An An appropriate way.

Yes.

And I think for medical issues, I think they're doing the right thing.

I think by saying, stay at home, work from home, blah, blah, blah.

I think those are all really good things to do.

However, if I'm the economist in the room and I'm only worried about that because that's my job, I'm like, okay,

you're going to

save this, but you're going to kill this.

And what point, you know, we might be saving in the short term, for instance, the overwhelm of the system, which is, it has to be done, an overwhelming of the medical system.

But at the same time, while you're saving the medical system, you may be killing the economy, which drives the medical system.

You know what I mean?

How do you buy anything when nobody has any money?

So I think they're just walking this line that has not been walked ever before.

I'm concerned that the Fed moves as quickly

as the medical people are moving because the medical people have more bullets in their gun than the Fed does.

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It is Thursday, and what a week it's been.

We've had Super Tuesday, changed the world.

Looks like Elizabeth Warren has just dropped out.

We saw the latest poll in Florida.

This is with Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg still in the race.

Those two are both gone.

It shows Biden winning

with, I think, 61% of the vote.

61% of the vote.

And Bernie came in two

with 12%.

I will say, actually, Bernie came in third place behind Bloomberg.

So Bloomberg now not in the race.

Warren not in the race.

In my entire life watching politics, I have never seen a bigger turnaround in a campaign than this one.

You've seen stuff like, you know, there were issues like John McCain, for example, had to fire all of his advisors.

Yeah.

But that was like 2007.

Yeah.

And then he turned it around before people started voting.

So this is after the voting started.

It's incredible.

I want you to realize that this is the time I warned you about.

I mean, I just met with my producers yesterday and said, hey, we need to go through everything because this is like Glenn Beck prediction central right now.

Everything that is happening, so much of it we talked about 10 years ago.

And the biggest one is

there's going to come a day when you don't recognize the country, when everything you thought was solid will be liquid, and everything liquid will be solid.

You will not be able to predict it, and you will be overwhelmed by the events of the day.

I want you to get used to saying this:

I've never seen this before in my lifetime.

It is going to get worse and worse, and every day you will say that, both good and bad.

Let me give you a good from yesterday.

We didn't even have chance to talk about this.

We did a podcast

a few months ago

with a, what's his name, Brown.

He's a futurist.

And he was talking about CRISPR

and how medicine is going to change overnight.

And I brought up that, you know, socialized medicine is a thing of the past.

And because of technology, you're not going to have to worry about all of the high cost of things or going to the doctor because they will be able to

diagnose you from home.

And you're going to want to have AI over a real doctor.

So Jeff Brown said,

well, it's like CRISPR right now with eyes.

I said, what?

He said, we're about a year away from announcing that we can cure blindness.

Well, yesterday, that test was done on the first patient.

And what they did is the doctor made a little teeny slit in

the eye of one patient who has been blind,

put three drops of, you know, a CRISPR-made,

you know, some sort of, I don't even know how this works, but it's, it's, it, it.

if you knew how it worked, you would have invented it already.

I know, I don't even know how it works, but the CRISPR takes, and instead of taking genes and things out of a body and then trying to fix them, it just goes in, you just put a little bit of this liquid in, and it goes and seeks out the problem in your brain and or in your body, and it fixes any of the cells or anything that are broken, and it kills the problem and fixes it.

So

they just put three drops of this stuff in the guy's eye, and they believe that in the next few weeks, he will have sight,

that we will have cured, in his case, one kind of blindness.

Jeff Brown was saying, we're probably going to cure blindness in the next year or two, almost all blindness.

So I've never seen that before in my lifetime.

There's a lot of good things that are happening.

And it will seem incredible that we ever let it happen.

Yeah.

Right?

Like, you know, it's like when everyone looks back at that story of the doctor who was like, hey, guys, you know how everyone's dying here, but they're not dying in that other hospital?

And they're washing their hands over there.

We're not here.

What do you think we wash our hands in between surgeries?

That's crazy.

The cadavers and dealing with the cadavers.

What do you think?

And they're like, oh, that's crazy.

And we look back at that and just mock it.

Right.

How in 10, 15 years, we're going to look back at the time where these things like blindness or the idea that even a global pandemic could occur may very well seem ridiculous to us.

Kind of like how it, you know, in a way the Spanish flu does, right?

From, you know, 1918, you're wiping out like huge percentages of the population.

It doesn't seem possible now in some ways.

Well, this would, can you imagine how much worse this would be if we didn't have the communication that we have now?

You know, we would have had ship after ship, plane after plane after plane come in, and we'd all be sick before we'd even realize it because we just didn't have the connections that we do today and be able to track things and figure out, wait a minute, why is everybody getting sick?

And wait, everybody's getting sick over in China first.

It would have been, you know, witchcraft almost compared to where we are today.

But that's one of the things that I think you really have to understand is

you are seeing things today that you've never seen before on this,

and dare I say it, pandemic.

We're not, by the way, my gut is they're not calling this a pandemic because that triggers all kinds of legal things.

And nobody wants to make the call on,

okay, well, pandemic means this legally, and so all the insurance companies and everybody else, you're screwed.

So I think that's why this is not being called a pandemic, even though this has met every single, uh

every single mark for a global pandemic at this point.

But you're going to see things that you don't understand, and you have to put them into context.

Yeah, contextually is, I think, where

a lot of people's fear is coming from, right?

Where you might say, okay, well, we've heard these things before, SARS and mirrors, and we've heard all of these bird flu and swine flu.

And, you know, they're scary and everything, but like, what are you going to do?

You normally just kind of step back and say, you throw your hands up and you don't worry about it.

What's interesting about this one, I think, that's different than all of those, is the way governments and companies are reacting to it, right?

Where first we saw this in China, where they're, you know, they're welding people inside of apartment buildings.

Like, we, but this is China, it's a communist country.

They shut down a city of how many 11 million people?

That's really strange, but still, okay.

It's China, they do really crazy things.

And they got a little bit of criticism from the SARS thing where they didn't, you know, clamp down on it fast enough.

So maybe they were overreacting.

When you see a country like Italy say all of our schools are closed in the entire country,

that is like that that hits you at a totally different level.

We're seeing now, is it King County in Seattle?

Yeah.

Is basically telling everyone in the county.

Now, this is this is the King County is the Seattle County.

Seattle County.

Yeah.

You know what?

Don't go anywhere.

Stay inside.

2.2 million people that are being asked by King County.

They're not requiring it.

Right, they're just asking.

They're asking all 2.2 million residents, don't leave your house.

Now,

when is the last time you remember a request like that?

Well, I don't remember it being a request.

The only time I can think of that I heard a city,

and it wasn't a city that size in America being told, do not leave your house, was the Boston shooters.

The Boston bombing, yeah.

Sarnovs.

Yeah, the right.

And why?

Because you had active terrorists driving around the city, setting things on fire, letting off bombs, and shooting people.

And so, and I believe it was actually technically legally still a request.

But everyone kind of listened because we really don't want to be outside with the terrorists.

We want the cops to be able to find these guys, and they did.

Okay, so if you're comparing it to that, I can see why you panic.

And that is normal to panic when it's like that because you're like, uh-oh, there's something outside that can kill me, right?

Right.

All right.

So that's not what they're actually doing.

What they're actually doing is

if this,

if everybody goes outside and everybody starts to get sick because they're passing it around, if you get sick, what are you going to do?

Go to the doctors.

Go to the doctor.

Go to the hospital.

The doctor right now, there's nothing the doctor can tell you.

Your average doc can't tell you anything except, you know what, stay at home.

Stay at home.

It doesn't matter.

I don't think it's the coronavirus, but I can't test you for it because we don't have that.

If it's really bad, you know, you got to go to the hospital and they can test you for it.

Okay.

So, if you're if you are 60 plus and you're having real problems or if you have you know any kind of complex complications,

you should go to the hospital, call in advance, and your doctor will do that.

Well, now that you've gone to the doctor, if you do have coronavirus, you now have risked everyone in the waiting room who is there for another reason, plus the nurses, plus the doctor.

And if we're all doing that with our doctors,

the doctors are getting sick.

The ambulance drivers are getting sick.

The firemen, the police, all of the people that make all of our health system work are going to get sick.

All right?

You can't have them sick and you can't overwhelm the system.

And so for your long-term protection, they're saying there is something out here that will kill us.

And that is all of our emergency people being overwhelmed and sick.

So please stay at home.

It's why they are putting, why these cities are saying, you know what?

Let's buy an old motel.

Seattle just bought an old motel, two of them, I think, and said, we're going to put people in there that we think have the coronavirus.

We're going to isolate them there.

Why?

So they're not in the hospital.

Well, they should be in the hospital.

No, if they need to be in ICU, yes.

Unfortunately, if they go to the hospital, they can get somebody who just is on kidney dialysis sick.

Right, because they're also surrounded by everybody else who is in the most vulnerable position to digest

the virus.

Remember, you have a good chance of dying if you have another complication.

So, if you're already in the hospital because of something that is not related to coronavirus, if that patient gets it, they're going to die.

So, what you're seeing here is the protection of the system.

And I think that's really important.

It is.

Yeah.

So, you're saying, in a way, it's almost like they are incentivized to heighten your worry a little bit, right?

Because

if they were to downplay it, right, that would be bad because then people wouldn't care and they wouldn't take any precautions.

But I don't think that they're heightening it at all.

I think they're telling you the truth.

Nobody is saying, oh my gosh, there's a killer pandemic out there and we're all going to die.

What they're saying is this.

We need the masks.

So

they're telling you, on one hand, they're telling you,

you know, the masks don't work.

Well, yes, they do.

And how do I know?

Because by the next sentence, we need the masks at the hospital.

Okay.

So if they don't work, why do the hospital need them?

That's a good point.

Okay.

But what they're saying to you, they're using this language because they know a lot of dummies

will say, Well, I need that mask.

I got to have that mask because I'm going to work and I've got to have that mask.

I'm going to travel on a plane.

They're telling you instead, don't travel on the plane.

Don't go to work.

Don't use the mask.

You probably don't even know how to use it.

And if you're walking around and you don't know how to use it, it's not going to help you anyway.

But the people who are on the front lines because of you, dummy, hoarding the masks, those people people have to have a mask because they have people like you will be, because you didn't know how to use the mask, coming in and going, Doc,

I think I'm sick.

They have to have a mask because you are going to go in and cough on their face.

And then when they're gone, who replaces them?

If 30% of our medical and emergency personnel are sick, Do you know what that does to America?

Do you know what that does to you and your family?

This is why they're saying stay home.

It's not a panic, we're all going to die.

They're trying to protect the system

so we don't all die because we were all stupid, not because of the coronavirus.

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Good golly.

Welcome to the program.

I'm glad you're here.

We have

has it been a marathon?

Doesn't it seem like it's a marathon in the last couple of weeks?

I mean, I mean, go back to, yeah, you know, all of the huge developments that have happened.

I mean, the last two days, two presidential candidates have dropped out.

You had one of the biggest political

except for Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden.

Well, and Tulsi Gay.

Tulsi makes her move now.

She's already climbed up the ladder to third place.

She's in striking distance now.

Right.

And this is when she turns it on and takes a

surprise.

It's true, but

it is crazy.

The poll, the latest poll from Florida, just listen to this.

Remember, what, a week and a half ago, Joe Biden was done.

He was done.

Listen to this poll in Florida.

Joe Biden, 61.

Second place, Michael Bloomberg, who dropped out on the day they took the poll.

Wait, wait.

He's at 14%.

Then Bernie Sanders at 12 and Elizabeth Warren at 5.

So Bloomberg is out and Warren is out.

And

Sanders was at 12.

This is remarkable.

Totally remarkable.

Again,

not something I've seen in my lifetime.

Get used to saying that because we are in a whole new

world.

All right, we'll see you tomorrow.

Same time,

same stations.

Unless aliens kidnap me tonight.

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