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antine starting today I believe, which is not because I have coronavirus as far as I know. I do have a test scheduled but it's not because I may or may not have coronavirus. It's because I have some minor surgeries scheduled. So the current process in case you didn't know for getting a surgery in this environment, and by the way I expect the surgery t
← Previous segment →o get cancelled. It's in two weeks and I expect it to get canceled because of capacity. But at the moment it's scheduled and that means that I have to quarantine for two weeks. And that means no Christina, right? I mean I'm talking about the serious kind of quarantine. So that starts today. I might get a little squirrely and I might do some evening podcasts just because I'll be here all alone for two weeks.
Now the process is they'd like you to quarantine yourself for two weeks before surgery but one week before surgery I'll have the actual test that takes about two days to get a result. So something like five days before surgery I'll have presumably a negative test and then I will go into my surgery. I think they test again just before you go into surgery but I'm not sure.
All right, there's a lot else going on today. I always talk about Stefan Collinson who's an opinion person for CNN. And I start to think of him as Triumph the Insult Dog. So Triumph the Insult Dog was on, what's his name, tall redheaded guy, you know the thing. Oh my god I just turned into Joe Biden. You know the thing. Tall redhead night show. Give me the name. Why the hell am I blanking on his name? You know it is. All right. Conan O'Brien, thank you. Okay I don't feel bad that I can't remember a person named Conan because that's not exactly Bob.
All right. And here's my question for CNN. What is it that the president should have done differently? Whoever asked that question, if the president is doing everything wrong and as Triumph the Insult Dog Stefan Collinson says that he's stopped trying to lead us out of the darkness and he's failed to beat back the virus, what exactly should he have done differently? Because all of the decisions about closing and opening are local, right? The president I think did all the things that a president could do. He closed international travel from China and Europe. So those are things the president can do. He made sure that we had enough ventilators, something a president could do. And he did I think a good job or the country did or somebody did in getting the PPE and the protective stuff although we may be running out soon because of the new stuff. What exactly is it that the president should have been doing?
Should he have followed the experts' advice? Well if he'd followed the experts' advice he wouldn't have done the things that were right. He wouldn't have taken the virus seriously. He wouldn't have closed travel from China. He wouldn't have done those things if he'd listened to the experts. And then what about the mask situation? Well that was complicated because there was an effort to save the masks for the healthcare professionals which I agree with. I don't know if that was the best way to do it but I'm not going to criticize Fauci or others for lying about masks if the purpose was it was just the only way to protect them for the healthcare people. And I don't know another way. If you said to me no Sco
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tt the obvious way to do that would be tell the public the truth and just ask them not to hoard these supplies. Well in the real world that doesn't work in a pandemic. People are gonna hoard. You can ask them not to hoard but people are gonna hoard. So if you can tell them they don't need to hoard there's no purpose to it. Maybe it's a better play. So did Fauci and other experts, the Surgeon Gene…
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