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Today, you don't want to miss a second.

We go into Bernie Sanders, the radical revolutionaries behind him.

We show you what's happening just last night in South Carolina.

The Dow is taking a hit.

That's because of the coronavirus.

Couple that with the socialists getting into office, and God help us all.

We give you some solutions, like arguing with socialists, the new book that is coming out.

We check in with Stu, who is up at

CPAC, and the very important coronavirus update.

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It's been almost three years now.

But America can never forget this day.

Somebody said he shouted out as his R's or D's, and someone shouted back, Republicans.

24 elected officials practicing baseball, for God's sakes.

The bullets are landing just a couple of feet from me.

Targeted.

One almost lost his life.

It all happened because a delusioned man so strongly supported a socialist candidate that he believed using a gun was the only way and the right way to achieve his utopian ideal.

And time after time after time throughout both history and in our current day, we've seen those who support a communist way of life resort to violence to make their point, to get their way.

They destroy or even kill anyone who stands in their way.

It's the reality those living under communism have to endure every day.

But now,

it's becoming a reality here.

The Democrats are about to nominate currently their front runner.

When Fidel Kashko came into office, you know what he did?

He had a massive literacy program.

Is that a bad thing?

A guy who has failed time and time again to speak out against the violence his supporters, his campaign workers advocate.

A candidate who supported every single violent communist regime throughout history.

American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food.

That's a good thing.

What happens to the shining city on the hill?

The beacon of freedom for the rest of the world if a candidate who supports this

becomes the most powerful man in the world

where does the world turn for help

we remember this from hong kong

a bernie sanders presidency is dangerous for far too many reasons

higher taxes medicare for all a near complete government takeover of any industry you could possibly name.

Our stock market will crash.

But this?

This is what changes us the most.

I know what Bernie's like, well, you know, hey, free education for everybody, because we're going to have to teach you not to be a f ⁇ ing Nazi.

There's a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags, right?

Over and over again, Bernie has shown he appeals to the angry left, the violent left.

And it's time the media stops excusing his apparent inability to downplay the countless examples of extremism, his rabid fan support.

New lives are actually meant for like re-education.

It's time, America, to stop ignoring the truth.

Because if we don't,

America is never the same again.

It is time you know the truth about Bernie Sanders and those he works with.

And it begins right now.

That was the opening of our special that you can now watch on demand at Blaze TV.

If you're not a subscriber, please subscribe, blazetv.com slash Glenn.

We opened the first probably 10 minutes of the special with the work of Project Veritas and tried to put that into context and perspective.

You've seen many of the campaign supporters that have been talking about guillotining the rich talking about going in and dragging the MSNBC staff out into the street by their hair and setting them on fire.

This is exactly,

I mean, almost word for word, what I warned against in 2000, was it 9 or 11 on the radio and television program?

I said, you journalist, you think you know what you're dealing with, but they will come after you, not just me, you,

because you are part of the problem.

And they will drag you out in the streets and beat you to death.

And they won't have a problem with it.

We are dealing now with people who are verbalizing that and are in the same position as the guy who

said those things before and then went out to a ballpark in Virginia and tried to kill half the Congress.

But I want you to know, this isn't about half the Congress.

This is about the media, the Democrats, and the Republicans.

They don't want any of this.

They want a completely different system.

They want socialism.

And you can call it warm and fuzzy Scandinavian socialism, but Scandinavian socialism doesn't exist anymore.

It existed in the 50s and the 60s, and by the 70s, it was going bankrupt.

And they abandoned socialism.

They abandoned it.

It didn't work.

Do they have a bigger safety net?

Yes.

But their corporations are more free than we are.

I want you to understand,

listen

to these words.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him,

but belong to society.

That the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal collective good.

If you watched Game of Thrones,

this was the philosophy.

It just wasn't socialism, it was feudalism.

The kings established the kingdom, and your life had no consequence, none.

They could do whatever they wanted to to the serfs.

They could rape your women, they could kill your family, they could take your land.

It didn't matter because it was for the good of the kingdom.

You, as an individual, did not count.

There were a group of elites, they were born into it, or had special privileges because, well, they were the elites, they were the educated, they were the priests.

The same thing, this is the same system as what Game of Thrones was like, where if you displease the king,

you're dead.

Except the king in this particular case is just a bunch of elites that think they know better than you.

I want to make this really super clear.

I was wrong about Barack Obama on one thing for sure.

And that was that he was going to usher in the revolution in his term.

I thought that's what he was going to do in the first couple of years.

And that's what I was warning about because he had people like Van Jones around him.

But Barack Obama, what I failed to see and what people like Van Jones failed to see was that Barack Obama turned to the progressive route because he had surrounded himself to be able to win the presidency.

he surrounded himself with Clinton progressives.

There's a difference between a progressive and a revolutionary.

A revolutionary believes in what's called direct action.

That's Antifa.

Direct action means I don't care what the vote says.

It's time for direct action.

It's time to go to the streets, break the windows, burn things down.

Kristallnach,

the night of broken glass in Germany, Germany.

That is direct action.

And when it is supported by those in higher office and those in power,

that's when you start to have communism

or Nazism

reign.

Remember, Kristallnach was just a bunch of rabble-rousers.

Oh my gosh, did they really do that?

That's horrible.

Well, we'll have to look into that.

But the state and the media turned a blind eye because

it was okay to do.

And it was the revolutionaries that were doing it.

Scare people into silence.

I want to show you, last night I showed you the Project Veritas in the first 10 minutes.

And when you see these people in the context that we placed it in, you know, Project Veritas has done some really, really good things.

And they went undercover and they exposed all of these people.

But I don't think people understand what they exposed.

Oh, that's just some low, you know, staffer.

Well, no.

That's that these people hold exactly the same position still in the Bernie Sanders camp, still hold the same position

that the shooter did in Virginia.

That shows me something is very, very, very wrong.

They endorse it.

They're fine with these tactics.

They're talking about burning Milwaukee to the ground.

See, the Democrats are in an impossible place.

They invited these,

and I'm going to use this word and I know it's bold, but it's true, these killers into their own camp.

And now what?

Now how do you get rid of them?

Because they're killers.

Eventually, when you have enough power,

Hitler had to kill them.

He killed his brown shirts, the people that were causing all of the problems on the street, because eventually the guy in power knows, you know, they could challenge me

and

they can't have any more power.

So once their usefulness is over, they're killed.

Because remember, it's for the good of the state.

People don't matter.

In the special last night, we then moved to who Bernie Sanders has around him as leading advisors, who is actually running his campaign.

We'll get into that and show you how these

brown shirts,

or if you want to call them Mussolini, black shirts,

or I think

they were just called Bolsheviks in Russia.

How these people are acting right now, and the press is turning a blind eye.

Ronald Reagan said in the 1960s, it's a time of choosing.

America, this may be your last call.

To Democrats, Independents, and Republicans,

I call on you to choose,

but choose

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I don't think a lot of people know who Bernie surrounds himself with.

I don't think they understand that this isn't just some old curmudgeon socialist with dumb ideas that America could just reject.

That a bunch of Democrats are helping.

Yeah.

That's not what's happening here.

That's not what's happening.

We started with

the Project Veritas of who the people are on the ground.

And you can deny,

you could say, well, we didn't know.

Well, you did know the video's out there, and you did nothing about it.

We reached out to the Sanders campaign and said, do you disavow this?

Do you disavow these people?

No response.

And they all still work for him, right?

As far as we know,

no response.

But it's beyond that.

As you go into the special,

after the first 10 minutes, you start to see who he has in his campaign.

First, there's Claire Sandberg.

She's the national organizing director, and also Winnie Wong, a senior campaign advisor.

Winnie Wong, we showed you pictures of them hanging out with Linda Sarsour and Elon Omar, et cetera, et cetera.

But when Wong isn't busy with anti-Semites, she's giving speeches at Democratic Socialists of America Convention.

Her speech, one of them was titled Revolution at the Crossroads, Igniting the Social Resistance Against Trump.

After

she was with the campaign in 2016 and after Bernie failed, she was busy traveling around the world.

She went to Europe to train leftist political groups like Podemos in Spain, that's the Communist Party in Spain, UK's Labor Party, she worked with them,

the Left,

which is the Democratic Socialist Party in Germany.

Now, here's what's crazy about this.

The left is a new name, but it's the same organization that used to be the ruling party in communist East Germany.

So they've rebranded, and

Bernie's, what is she, the campaign

camp senior campaign advisor is over-training these people.

Sandberg,

who is above her, she's the national organizing director, she went to Norway along with Wong to train leaders of the Rote Party.

Now, the Rote Party

in Norwegian is

actually translated to the Red Party.

It is the Communist Red Party.

So let it sink in.

The national organizing director in charge of his entire army of street organizations, one of his senior campaign advisors are in high demand as trainers of communist parties over in Europe.

Then,

another Bernie senior official, senior policy advisor,

Heather Gottney.

She was also an Occupy Wall Street veteran and a sociology professor at Fordham University.

You might remember her because she was the one that wrote that big article in the Washington Post about how this leaderless group is so powerful and how you do this, how you put these things together.

Well,

she had so much inside information that everybody was like, She's the leader, she's the architect of this.

She was like, No, no, no, they don't have leaders.

No, I'm just observing.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Well,

she was invited to speak at a university, and she said, She said, I felt my role was to maintain my position as representing the movement.

Unfortunately for her, the university that invited her was the University of Tehran

in Iran.

And

it was

the conference was called An American Awakening.

And it was all about the left waking up and taking over and overthrowing the United States government.

That's a senior campaign advisor for Bernie Sanders.

By the way, she also spoke in favor of Chavez in Venezuela.

While Chavez was there, she said, today's neoliberal capitalist system has become utterly

incompatible with the requisites of democratic freedom.

As it stands, U.S.

representative political and economic institutions are not structured as representative bodies in any real sort of way.

Democratic.

Once again, this is why.

I'm so sensitive to that word, because the socialists use it all the time to mask their true designs.

They make it sound like, this is totally American.

What do you mean?

This is democratic.

I'm pushing democracy.

No, no, you're not.

You're pushing socialism.

Do people just think

that Bernie Sanders has a whole bunch of just rank and file, normal, everyday, all-American Democrats working for him and around him?

Because nobody's talking about any of this.

Nobody's looking into any of this except you.

No, there's lots of people that are looking into it.

I'm just trying to.

Are they?

Because I don't hear any of it.

Project Veritas is doing a lot.

There's

Ben Shapiro, I think, is doing a lot.

They're talking about like his campaign manager.

No, but they are trying.

There are a lot of us that are trying to say, America, wake up.

This isn't happy socialism.

Happy socialism doesn't work, but this isn't about Medicare for all.

This is about an end to the capitalist system.

I mean, we have one of their campaign supporters that we showed last night

that he's saying, look, things are more important now.

U.S.

law is irrelevant because human existence is at stake.

So they're saying that because they are right,

they can break any law.

When Bernie Sanders declares

the global warming as a crisis,

as an American crisis and an American emergency, which his campaign is saying is the first thing he's going to be doing, when he does that, American laws can become irrelevant quickly.

Yeah, Stu?

No,

it's an incredible thing to watch this

happen and go down the way it is because these are people, there used to be a time where, I mean, we saw this with,

who was it just the other day?

The reporter from ABC, I think it was.

Yeah.

Where the same thing with James James O'Keeffe went in there and caught him saying these things off you know he was a socialist and stuff and they suspended him for it

usually there's at least the person who does the kind of crazy thing they'll suspend or fire or whatever and they'll just say it's not systemic it's one person he's low level blah blah blah blah blah Bernie is like the first

person that I can remember who's just like, no, we're just going to keep all these people that are saying we're going to murder people and put them in gulags.

We're just going to keep them on staff.

Is any reporter going to step up and say, hey, what about these people?

They didn't in Germany.

They didn't in communist Russia in 1919.

They didn't.

This is the way it happens.

The press is infiltrated.

The press will be fine with it until they start coming after the press.

And then it's too late.

I mean, if you think that the democratic institutions are going to stop this, it's not going to.

The democratic institutions that we have have been infiltrated and are

toothless at this point.

The media, the Democrats, it's too late.

And they're all focused on beating Donald Trump.

Look, you want to throw somebody like

even Elizabeth Warren.

She's not a revolutionary that hates America.

She just sees it in a very different way.

Bloomberg doesn't hate America.

I think the guy is really, really bad for the country.

I think this guy is an autocrat.

He's Woodrow Wilson.

But he's not a revolutionary that hates America.

Yeah, you know, people aren't excited about the country when they continually talk about transforming it.

You don't transform something you love.

It doesn't need transformation.

And this is the same thing, the same problem we had with Obama, who started this process.

And now the plan is for Bernie Sanders to finish the process.

You know what's amazing?

I've been thinking the last few weeks.

First of all, I want to go over all the things that we predicted because I think now is the reaping.

Yeah.

Right now is the reaping.

I said they would take their mask offs.

I said they wanted to tell you.

They wanted you to know that they were revolutionaries, that they were socialists.

They wanted you to know.

They want this fight.

We're all there.

The one thing that

keeps coming to mind is

how I said during Obama: if you allow this now,

imagine what is going to happen with the next president or the president after that.

Last night in a really chilling piece of video, one of the Bernie Sanders people said, look at where we are.

Four years ago in 2016, we didn't win.

We couldn't have won.

If you would have told us four years ago that America would be on the precipice of embracing socialism, we wouldn't have believed it.

And then,

if we're here now,

can you even imagine where we'll be in four years?

America, it is the time of choosing.

You must choose now.

It's a really great point made by that Bernie follower.

It is.

Because, yeah, look how far we've come since the last Bernie campaign.

Nobody was on board even with Medicare for all.

all.

No Democrats wanted that, or at least they didn't admit to wanting it.

And now here we are with them all embracing it.

It's fascinating, too, to watch, I think, because you have a situation where 40% of Democratic primary voters in 2016 already cast a vote for this guy.

So it's been normalized in a way.

That back and forth of a two-person race sort of normalized him as a regular candidate.

And now they're like, well, we voted for him last time.

Why not go out there and vote for him again?

Well, last time you basically did it because it was an anti-Clinton vote.

Here, this guy's now winning.

This is not a protest vote anymore.

This is a guy who could actually get your nomination.

Regular Democrats need to think about that really seriously before they look at the city.

See, here's the problem.

Regular Democrats who are in the party, I mean, the ones who are, you know,

part of the political system, they're not listening.

to their own constituents who are tired of this.

They're tired of the corruption and the campaigns and the, they're just tired of it, just like the Republicans were tired of it and they elected Donald Trump.

This has to end.

This has to end.

If they take Bernie and somehow or another force him out, it's only going to empower him and make his message even stronger

because people will go, look at how corrupt the Democratic Party is.

The Democrats will.

And they'll have another bad candidate, and it'll be bad, and they'll all just say, you know what?

At least this guy wants to burn the system down.

That's where we're headed.

And that is their stated intention.

The stated intention of Russia, the stated intention of Antifa and the weather underground, all the way back.

Get people to not believe in any of the institutions because once you do, you just want anybody to fix it.

Gosh, do you remember me saying that?

You'll make, you'll take

anyone to make the pain stop.

Yep.

America.

Wow.

Wake up on Bernie Sanders.

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Election by numbers.

Welcome to the program.

We're glad that you're here.

We're watching the Dow.

It's now almost 1,000 points down.

We're at 11% loss just this week because of coronavirus, and we will tell you all you need to know on the coronavirus coming up in just a second.

I wanted to look at the numbers and see if there's been any shift of any of the numbers since the last debate.

We're going into South Carolina this weekend, and then Bernie Sanders dominated everywhere except for two states on Super Tuesday.

How are things shaping up today, Stu?

Well, it's interesting in that there was

movement towards Sanders in South Carolina that had been developing over the past couple of weeks with all of the wins.

He, you know, basically won Iowa, then won New Hampshire in a close race, then had a blowout win in Nevada.

And so the thought was he was going to gain some steam.

It was going to be a close race in South Carolina.

You know, Joe Biden has never trailed in a poll of the South Carolina primary.

None.

He's never trailed in any of them.

So this is why they always talk about this being his firewall, because he has a lot of African-American African-American voters that he does very well with.

So

the movement was obviously against Biden, and this was sort of his last stand,

as it was seen.

A couple things have happened, though, since in the last week or so.

Biden finished second in Nevada, and that was seen as a positive, despite the fact that he lost by 26 points.

I mean, if you're the vice president for eight years under a popular Democratic president, you probably shouldn't lose by 26 to anybody.

But for him, it looked really good.

And this is the thing.

The Joe Biden scale is in effect right now.

We've got the curve because you have a 26-point loss that's seen as a positive because he came in second.

Then you have a debate performance, which he's been giving so many ones and zeros on 1 to 10 scales that the fact that he put up like a five was like incredible to people.

I've never been more he was inspired.

I've never been more sad for an elderly person

really, in public.

I've never, I mean, I couldn't be more sad than that performance.

I thought that was, that was my grandpa when they were, you know, saying, hey, we have to take the keys of the car away and you can't drive anymore.

And he was trying to make the case that he was perfectly fine, but every time he was speaking, it kind of made the case that, no, grandpa, you're not fine.

And it just kind of really, it was sad.

And I felt that was his performance last night.

If I was in his family, I would say, stop.

Dad, it's time to stop.

Got to stop.

You probably should have said that before the primary started, I would say.

But the fact that he did uncover 150 million gun murders that we did not know about, and that's pretty impressive.

Right, it is.

It just says from a detective standpoint.

I thought that was impressive.

So, what that's happened in the past couple of weeks

is increased scrutiny of Sanders.

Obviously, you talked about it.

You did the big special, Wednesday night special.

You can get it at blazetv.com/slash Glenn and watch the whole thing.

But not only just you,

from people like Buttigej and Klobuchar and the Democrats were exposed to a lot of this, hey, he really seems to like Cuba stuff for the first time.

It's not stuff that's normally criticized on the left, right?

Because the moderate candidates actually brought it up, people started seeing that a little bit potentially as a

they sort of saw Donald Trump with that material in hand and what that looks like in a general election.

And so it's interesting in that the past few days, after a big tightening in the polls in South Carolina, that really has reversed.

There was the last four polls that have come out have Biden up 15, 7,

18, and today from a top-ranked pollster at Monmouth, a 20-point lead in South Carolina.

He's going to 16 in South Carolina.

So, I mean, if he's able to pull up anything even remotely close to that, that is going to rejuvenate his campaign and potentially make him the alternative.

The way I've been looking at this race, Glenn, has been South Carolina's kind of Biden's last firewall.

One more chance and get last stand.

If he doesn't win there, it's probably either Bloomberg or nothing in the way of Sanders.

And Bloomberg, obviously, is a terrible choice and has a million problems of his own, but he does have the resources in that he doesn't have to necessarily win instantly to stay in the race.

You know, Steyer fits that profile as well, but he is expected to probably finish third or fourth in South Carolina, and I don't know how he's going to be able to do that.

So nobody cares about it.

What about Super Tuesday?

Are there any polls between now and then that are going to be coming out to see if because Sanders was dominating?

I mean, if Sanders,

even if Biden wins in South Carolina, if Sanders does what he was predicted to do at the beginning of the week all across America for Super Tuesday, he is

40%

there.

Yeah, he really is a long way there because he was,

all but two states he was projected to win.

And I believe that's still the case, though a big Biden win in South Carolina, I think, would change some of that.

California is going to be almost definitely

Sanders, which is a huge deal because that's, you know,

he's projected to win 222 delegates right now, only 84 for Biden.

So,

you know, could that get closer if there's a big win?

Very, you know, possibly, but still, that's a big, big gap.

He's going to pick up a lot of delegates there.

The other one that's big is Texas.

Now, Texas.

I can't believe this.

I just can't believe this.

It is shocking to see, I guess, that Texas has right now

Sanders as the favorite, but that's tightening.

These latest polls are tightening.

I think if Biden can win in South Carolina, he's got a shot at picking up Texas as well.

The issue there, though, is the way they do these delegates, and it's a ridiculously complicated system, but the bottom line is if you don't get 15% in a particular district,

you automatically get zero delegates.

So it winds up being that anyone who gets over 15%, they give it away proportionally.

So if it's a 40, you know, a 60-40 election, the delegate count isn't that much different.

You're only going to pick up a few delegates here and there.

And if other, the more candidates that get across that threshold, the lower the stakes get in a way.

It's a weird system.

I don't think it works very well.

The Republicans do, if you remember this, Glenn, from 2016, do a lot of winner-take-all states where the win is a lot more important because you're picking up this, you know, 60 delegates versus zero.

That's not what happens in the Democratic side.

When you win, you might win, you know, 43 to 37.

And so you're plus six in the delegate count.

It's hard to make up differences if you get way behind.

But, you know, if you can keep it close, you have a chance to be able to do that.

And right now, it's still relatively close.

I mean, you know, Biden, for all of his failures, he's failed in really low delegate states.

What does 538 say about the odds of

nobody

going into the convention and

with a clear mandate?

It's interesting because Sanders after Nevada had picked up and gone above, it had outpaced no one.

Contesting convention is essentially no one.

No one gets more than half of the delegates.

But that's reversed now.

I think these latest polls in South Carolina has been a big factor in that.

No one, again, is in first place.

Now, again, I think that is where most people

say say it that way.

Because I think that's where most people are.

They're like, no one, no one.

I don't want any of these guys.

Yeah, I mean,

that's not what they're saying, actually.

I mean, it's just a matter of they can't decide, right?

There's not enough

momentum behind one candidate to

get Sanders particularly above the 50% threshold.

And if they don't get to 50%, you're in a contested convention.

Right now, 48% chance of contested convention, 37% chance of Bernie Sanders.

Biden is next with 13% chance.

Bloomberg at 2, and everyone else is below that.

I will say, though, probably the more interesting way of looking at this is looking at it as the plurality of delegates.

So, who's in the lead?

You might only have 48% of the delegates, so you don't get the automatic win.

But if Bernie Sanders gets to 48% of the delegates, it's almost definite that he's going to be able to get the nomination if he can get that close.

The plurality rating for him is 6.

Right.

Yeah, and then

goodbye.

I hope you sold your house already in Milwaukee.

But 65% chance of Sanders winning the plurality of votes.

Biden at 26, Bloomberg at 8%, and Warren at 1%.

So basically, you have a Sanders.

Sanders, Biden, and Bloomberg, I think, are the only three that have a legitimate argument at this point.

It's kind of surprising that Butige showed no strength coming out of those first two states.

I mean, he really is just dissolved and has disappeared.

But he does not seem to be part of the picture.

Thank you very much, Stu from Washington.

He's up there for CPAC.

I'll be up there on Saturday.

Also, he'll be doing his show.

Stu does America, lots of guests from CPAC.

You can watch that every night on Blazetv.com.

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The Chinese government has come out and they are proposing, they haven't done it yet, but they are proposing a ban

on eating dogs.

And

all dogs.

All dogs.

All dogs.

They're saying don't eat a dog.

And now it's not official, but I've already got this down.

I mean, I am

the

prepper general for the United States, if that's the standard.

I've never eaten a dog.

I've never even had a desire to eat a dog.

I would tell you before the coronavirus, don't eat a dog.

So, wow, that is really prepared.

Now, they mean everything like, is it like dog broth?

You can have dog broth.

No, no dog, nothing dog.

No, if it's got dog in the title, if it's got dog in the title, don't eat it.

Hot dog?

Well, that's not technically a dog.

So, and I see what you're saying.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

Well, in China, no, maybe not.

Now, the ban.

Now, tell me if you notice something here.

The ban also

could,

they haven't finalized it yet.

They're proposing it, could

also extend to snakes, frogs, and turtle meat.

Is there anything left?

What are you supposed to eat?

You notice that?

It's like, oh, that's the four food groups.

Dog,

you know, dog turtle meat, frogs, snakes.

I mean, what else is there left?

Here's what's left.

Bats.

They don't include in the band freaking bats.

How is that possible?

I'm reading this and I'm like, okay, they're going to get to bats.

They're going to get, they didn't get to bats.

They didn't get to bats.

What does that mean?

I mean, because I know you had said at one point the initial diagnosis that this came from bat soup made from that particular market looks like it was not.

It had been ruled out as the actual cause of this thing, right?

Yeah, it did not come from that market.

Somebody brought it into that market, so it didn't come from a bat.

At least

it could have been from bat soup.

Right.

Okay, okay.

So someone could have made bat soup at home previously, then brought it to the market after they caught it.

Right.

And then infected other people who were just like, I don't know.

I'm just, I've sworn off bat for a long time.

I just want turtle soup.

Okay.

So

we don't know exactly.

You know, it's so weird.

It's so weird.

You know what's really frightening is I was doing an interview with a guy who was over in China.

And I asked him, I said, so, I mean, what's it going to take to shut down these markets where they're selling bats?

And he said, you know, it's not the bat.

The bat's getting a very bad name.

And I'm like, when did bats have a good name?

But he said, it's not.

They literally are vampires that have turned into

like they're normally sucking blood.

I don't know when they turn into these bats.

I don't know anybody that likes bats.

I mean,

I'm up at my ranch and I have a bat problem, okay?

Which is not really a problem.

I just don't want them around me, but they eat mosquitoes.

They're an important part of the circle of life they eat mosquitoes eat bugs and so it's really good i just don't want them nesting in my in my house so they go up in between the the boards of my house and you know we heard

and i'm like what what what what the hell is that i don't

i don't know but i don't like it okay we took off the you know the cladding of the house and just took off just a little bit just to peek in

It was a sea of thousands of bats.

Thousands of them.

I should post the video of it.

They flew out like it was a scene from Batman.

You know, remember when he's in the well at the very beginning, and the bats are like,

it was like that.

And I'm there with guys who are, you know, you know, 60 years hard living on the farm and guys who flew helicopters in the Gulf War, and they're just like, men.

We all were screaming like 12-year-old girls,

bats.

I mean, they've never had a good name.

Never.

Was your mouth just watering when you saw those bats?

Oh,

just so hungry.

Soup is going to be.

So, anyway, I'm talking to this guy about bats, and I'm like, when, you know, what's the deal with the bad soup?

And he's like, bats get a bad name and it shouldn't have a bad name.

It's not the bat.

It's these markets.

I'm like, what do you mean it's these markets?

He said, have you ever been?

No, I've never been to a chinese market where they're selling bats you don't even you do

that should automatically be something that says to you don't go in here

so he said these markets are crazy he said they they'll have camels and bats and and lizards that you've never seen before and all these different animals and they're all on cages on top of each other so like they're all pooping on each other and they're all pooping in each other's food.

And so that's how these things are mixed.

And he's like, they got to do something about these.

And I'm like, yeah, they should.

They probably should.

You know, they probably should close those down.

And he said, well, you know, we have those in America.

What?

Where?

What?

What?

Where do we?

We don't have those in America.

He's like, oh, yeah, we've got them in Florida.

You know, I expect in New Orleans.

I mean, if you're going to find something creepy, of course it's in New Orleans, right?

Okay.

He didn't tell me that they were in New Orleans, but I'm expecting that they would be in New Orleans.

That's one reason why you don't go to New Orleans.

You know, they've got some weird, creepy thing, and probably a person in the cage underneath the camel, you know, eating its food with camel poop.

But you don't know it's creepy.

It's New Orleans.

But we have them in like normal non-New Orleans style cities.

Really?

Yeah.

Because don't they have like in New York, don't they have that kind of section where they're called Chinatown?

Is it Chinatown?

And they have like

animals kind of just like hanging in the windows and stuff.

I don't know.

Okay, so they walk down the streets.

Yeah, it's weird.

It's really Chinatown is really weird.

Chinatown, if you're ever on a diet, just go to Chinatown.

You're like, I'm never going to eat again.

Nope, not going to eat now because it's creepy.

But those animals are all dead.

Where do we have these, these

i don't know weird markets with weird monkey bat kind of cages all stacked on top of each other in america we need to find them and suggest that we shut them down that's a really kind of you know i don't know 12th century idea Yeah, and they actually call them wet markets too, which is just a terrible name for what you've just described.

Like, I just.

Because they're

think it's just like, it's like, yeah, you know, again, when I say a 12th century idea, I don't mean the cages.

I mean in the 12th century, somebody went around and went, okay, all right, enough.

This is unhealthy.

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

Our coronavirus update for Thursday.

All of these stats are as of 5:30 a.m.

Central Time.

Total confirmed cases: 82,585.

That's up 1,322 from the 8,100 yesterday, or 81,000 yesterday.

Total deaths are up 114 to 2,814.

51 countries now have confirmed cases.

That's up from 43 yesterday.

Another 13 countries have suspected cases.

18% of the active confirmed cases are considered serious or critical, requiring hospitalization or ICU.

That is down one percentage point.

And there are 60 confirmed cases in the U.S.

and zero deaths.

Now, as of this morning, we do have 60 confirmed cases here within our own borders.

Reports from NBC and other sources indicate tens of thousands of Americans, though, are in self-quarantine at the suggestion or request of local governments.

These are all volunteers that are self-sequestering themselves.

According to the CDC's own website, however, we have actually only tested 445 people for COVID-19.

That's SARS-CoV

number two, with the 16 confirmed to have it.

So let me say that again.

So far, we have only used the test on 445 people.

16 have confirmed to have had it.

South Korea has tested 37,000 citizens and found 1,766 cases, including 505 new cases since yesterday.

It seems the more people they test, the more cases they discover.

Italy has tested 22,350 and have found 528 cases.

According to the CDC's website and confirmed by NBC News today, the U.S.

has only actually tested those 445 people.

So about 5%

of Americans,

if actually tested, may have

may get a confirmation that they have COVID-19.

As of this morning, however, only 12 labs in the U.S.

are capable of performing positive tests for COVID-19.

Now, two days ago, that number was only five.

So that's why we're testing so few people.

Now, here's the good news.

The good news is the government is on it and shipping these tests out and major hospitals have the ability to make their own tests for it.

Just nobody has had it yet.

The CDC now admits that 47 states and 30 overseas embassies and military bases were sent 55,000 test kits over the last two weeks, but they were all recalled because they were faulty.

New kits have been sent and should arrive in all of the U.S.

labs and hospitals today or tomorrow, upping testing capacity to over 20 states by this time tomorrow.

Other experts are concerned that the CDC's policy has been to only test people who both had risk of exposure, travel to Korea or China, and were showing symptoms, despite the fact that the disease has a 14-plus-day incubation period and is contagious even without the symptoms.

President Trump yesterday insisted in his press conference that we are testing everyone who needs to be tested.

When asked about the low rate of testing, he said not all experts agree.

Now we have the first community case of coronavirus,

meaning one that is

does not have any connection or known connection to China-related exposure.

They've been in the hospital nine days before they were tested.

UC Davis Hospital requested a COVID-19 testing kit on 219, but it was declined by the CDC.

Virologists indicate this makes it virtually impossible now to determine the spread risk because without knowing who is infected, we can't determine who's come into contact with the virus.

It's like trying to solve a mystery without having access to any of the clues.

Local governments now are monitoring hundreds of suspected cases that have not been formally tested due to the lack of testing kits.

Again, those testing kits should be available in 20 states by this time tomorrow and all of the states by next week.

Now, there's some very risky misconceptions about the coronavirus that we just don't know yet.

Scientists are now warning that there is a very strong misconception because this is the way the flu usually is,

but it is not this way in coronavirus.

And that serious misconception is that once you've been given the viral infection, you're immune.

It's called the chickenpox myth.

It used to, you know, give people a little bit of the chickenpox, the kids, and it makes you immune.

It's why we can create some sort of a

shot for a flu shot.

Did you get your flu shot?

Did you get immunized yet for your flu?

Well, we can only create that because once you have it, your antibodies start to grow and then you have real resistance post-infection.

Unfortunately, that is not true with, what is that?

How do you pronounce it?

Is it MERS, the M-E-R-S?

MARES, yeah.

Yeah, MARS disease or SARS-1, where most recovered patients show little antibody response post-infection, and therefore reinfection is, the risk of that is really high.

Early studies indicate that reinfection risk with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is also very high, and the mortality rate for reinfection is as high as 30%.

So if you get it once, and you're reinfected,

your mortality rate can go from 1%

to 30%.

China and Japan today have just confirmed recovered patients are becoming reinfected with COVID-19.

The body cannot fight it.

Another misconception that since the risk appears to be relatively low for younger people, you shouldn't worry about any kind of preventive measures.

I have always been someone that has spoken up against antibacterial soap, you know, as as a regular run a course of events in your life it just weakens your system putting antibacterial soap into your body because most of the germs you can handle so everything generally speaking that you touch every day

you your body should be strong enough to fight it and by using antibacterial soap it makes the bacteria even stronger and your body weaker.

However, with that being said, everyone should have antibacterial soap with them in their purse, in their pocket, on their desk.

You should constantly, when you touch something, shake somebody's hands.

You should be using antibacterial soap.

You should be washing your hands a lot now.

This dismisses

if you are looking and saying, well, this is just, you know, this is fine for younger people, and I've only got young kids, etc., etc.

You have to take the precautions because you will be a carrier of this.

You can pass this disease to higher risk people, the elderly.

It also ignores the risk that this virus will mutate inside of your body.

And the more infected people there are, the overall chances go way up that the virus will mutate into something even more deadly.

With all of this being said, I want you to remember that this is a flu.

We are still fighting the Spanish flu.

Every single year, the flu season, you get your flu shot.

That is the remnant of the Spanish flu that was introduced in 1918.

That was the last pandemic.

We hope that this spring things will start to calm down, but I have news on that coming in just a second.

The travel restrictions now, now.

And I urge you, don't cancel your plans until the last minute.

I know somebody that was going to Disney World today, they canceled their trip yesterday.

You don't know this could get much better in the weeks to come.

It could be much worse in the weeks to come.

But if you're canceling now,

I just give you the example.

People who canceled their trip to Italy on

what, Monday,

they paid a penalty.

By the next day,

what's the name of the airline?

Italia Airlines decided that they were going to remove all restrictions.

So there are penalties and everything else that will apply now.

Wait before you have to go, before you make any decisions.

Travel restrictions now.

More than 50 countries have active travel restrictions or warnings to China.

More than 20 countries have travel restrictions or warnings to Korea, Japan, Italy, and Iran.

Now, there goes my Iran trip.

Over 60% of confirmed cases in Europe involve travel to Italy.

Eight countries now have closed their borders with Italy.

Now, the summer.

Summer tends to make the flu season stop.

Summer also tends to reduce people clustering indoors

out of the cold weather, which likely increases the rate of the spread of viruses and colds.

However, scientists warn on this one we don't know yet.

With mares, another coronavirus, that occurred in August and September in the Middle East.

That's very hot and very dry then.

The swine flu of 2009, another novel virus inf viral infection, another cautionary tale.

It spread during summer months because there was no herd immunity.

Herd immunity.

It's generally the combination of herd immunity, a virus we've faced before and have developed some immunity to, which we don't have, plus summer conditions that slow seasonal flu.

Summer conditions, we're not gathering indoors

the

virus here

this one when it is exposed to chlorine or bleach it takes 24 seconds to kill covid 19

UV rays it takes two seconds so sunlight is the best disinfection disinfectant on this but we don't have we don't believe any herd immunity so we don't know what is going to happen.

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