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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 be the first 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 this is where you can't give it to each other more.

Right.

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?

Or will he revive himself?

Find out on the next.

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.

Isn't that a bizarre shrine?

Is it weird?

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

I'm not licking your shrine.

I don't care.

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.

Yeah.

Really?

You're not doing it.

Wow.

No.

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

I'm not going to die.

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 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

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 and doing a surgery we haven't figured out how to put people under yet no it's probably jack daniels jack daniels will be the way to do it will be the way to do it but 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 i don't really know uh here are the really bad stories uh out of the coronavirus baby yoda is being delayed no no no may not make it because.

No, it's not.

Don't you do it.

Till 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.

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

Yeah, and now they move it in 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.

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.

Better than Timothy Dalton.

Should we talk George Lasimby here for a second?

Who?

Lazenby.

Isn't that the name of the name?

Yeah.

Yeah, George.

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

he did two or three.

Yeah, but Lazenby only did one, if I remember.

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 that.

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 had 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.

Well, great.

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

And 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.

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

especially one who has turned darn about five people to the Blaze Network.

All right.

Well, good.

I appreciate it.

I appreciate that, Adam.

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 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 $17 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 PRL 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.

Like 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 PRL.

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 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 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 so

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.

I think that's part of it.

But

do you know the thing is here

is that all

you know king five como seven and thirteen are just whipping the people into frantic every day that the whole hour in the hour and a half is just coronavirus coronavirus coronavirus and um

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

Yeah.

He said, don't worry.

He says,

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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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 you, Gorsuch,

I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.

You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.

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, 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,

they're talking about the Supreme Court.

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 in the speaking before Chuck Schumer.

Listen.

Where are the abortion providers at?

We're the future abortion providers at.

Woo!

Awesome.

And a special shout-out to where my people who had abortions.

We're y'all at.

Nothing about this work is going to be without us.

Woo!

Awesome.

Yeah, awesome.

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

It was honestly one of the best decisions of my life.

I was simply not ready to become a parent, and that's really all you need to know.

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.

I'm not here to judge anyone.

I am going to judge you if you're 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.

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So I want to start here.

I want to start with Joe in Florida, who works at a local hospital.

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

all the employees knew.

Now, none of the public was told, the TV stations, radio, none of this information was let out.

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 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 is, Joe, is we don't like junior, but

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 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, you know, Quest Diagnostics, you know, 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 be a hero.

Donald Trump gives two and a half times that amount

before anyone 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 the 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, then that's what it looks like

to be true,

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 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.

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, you know, 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 uh 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 the response i think has been correct for trump and he's put i think a lot of uh weight on it and it's not his area of expertise but he's put his best people on it and that's what you do but like

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've 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.

Okay, so Stu is going to do this.

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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.

Did you see this?

Cats are going out at night and intentionally

been hired by the Democrats to scratch people.

Corona

starts with a C.

Cats start with a C.

There's a C at the end of DNC.

What do you think is going on?

Don't spread that stuff.

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

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Time for a 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.

This is the Glembeck program.

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Our coronavirus stats now from John Hopkins.

As of 5:30 in the morning Central Time, 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 have 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 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 thing, 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

is 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 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.

Remember, 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 at 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 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 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 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 was 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 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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Because

there's a a couple of things that I think is really, really important

that our government is doing, and there's, and the banking sector, but there's also something that just bothers me a great deal, and I can't put my finger on it yet.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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 would 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

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 is in serious trouble.

This has gone out of control fast.

We talked to you 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.

So 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 I'm 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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