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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…
← Previous segment →ou don't want lying to be approved. I just don't know that there are too many cases like this one where unfortunately lying was maybe the only good play for the benefit of the country. I hate it. I mean you can hate it but if you don't have a better idea just keep that in mind.
All right. And was there some expert who knew all the right answers and didn't tell the president? Was there some smart thing that smart experts knew that if they'd only told the president then he would have maybe implemented? I haven't heard of any. Have you? So when they say the president is failing don't you have to ask yourself aren't other countries also having problems? And is the president to blame for what happened with nursing homes? Not really.
Now where you could have room for disagreement would be the president advocating going back to school at the same time that others would say that's a bad idea because it will increase infections. I am solidly on the president's side on going back to school. But here's the thing. We live in a world where you're not allowed to tell the truth in public. But I can. Watch this. I'm going to tell the truth in public. Ask me and ask yourself if you've ever heard this. Going back to school will kill teachers and it will kill kids. I'm in favor of it. Okay that's the first honest opinion you've ever heard in public. Going back to school will kill teachers. Some of them will kill some students, probably not too many as a percentage, will spread the infection, will kill grandma when the kid comes home. All of that's going to happen and it's almost certainly better than the alternatives because we don't have a better alternative. We just don't.
So I think our best play is to do the best we can of protecting the teachers, etc. Here's my suggestion. I understand that teachers are far less enthusiastic about opening schools than parents are. Big surprise, right? Who is surprised that the teachers, many of them older, many of them susceptible, who is surprised that they wouldn't want to go to work in a crowd even with some social distancing? It's kids so they're not going to be that disciplined. Who would be surprised the teacher doesn't want to go back to that environment? You shouldn't be too surprised, right?
And I don't think that we should abuse one professional class, teachers, who did not sign up for danger duty. Right? People who decided to be teachers did not wake up one day and say I think I'd like to be on the front line of a dangerous situation. No. I have a different opinion about the military and about health care professionals because they did sign u
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p for that. They did say I am going to intentionally put myself into infectious and or dangerous situations. This is the career I choose. There's a bigger benefit. I take the risk. If that's what we were talking about I'd say all right, you know we'll send the kids back to school and you've signed up for it. But teachers did not sign up for that risk. It is completely unreasonable, completely unfa…
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