ape out of the way. So if you got rid of all the red tape, what could the best engineers with unlimited resources of the federal government, highest priority, working day and night, how fast could we do it? And why don't we have that? Because somebody's doing it right now, right? I mean somebody is making more ventilators I think. Nobody's making new ventilators? I believe they are. And how about if you wanted people to help? Suppose it's an assembly line situation. Do you think you could find enough people to work on the assembly line temporarily to make these ventilators? Yeah, of course. Unlimited labor. You want labor to assemble ventilators, you got it. I'll do it. Yeah, I'll volunteer tomorrow. I'll make you some ventilators. It's an emergency. Of course you have all the labor you want. So you have all the money, all the labor, all the knowledge. How fast could we put them together? And why isn't the news showing us videos of the people who are actually doing that? I have a real curiosity about that because it seems like there might not be anything that's more important in the end. That's what's going to keep people alive I think.

All right, I was pretty disgusted watching the news last night. I don't know if this is the prednisone. So I'm still talking. So here's one of those points where I have to catch myself and I say, all right, is the next thing that comes out of my mouth, because I know what it is, you don't, is the next thing that comes out of my mouth, was that my normal personality? I don't really know. It doesn't feel like it. It feels a little more aggressive than normally I would be. But I'm gonna do it anyway.

I've been trying to figure out why there's so much loser think on social media more than usual and specifically around the Wuhan virus. And I thought at first, I thought to myself, oh it's just because I'm noticing it more because there's a new topic for people to be dumb about. So I'm just tuned to it so I'm just noticing it more. But there was a similarity to it that I kept saying to myself, why is there this weird similarity to the things people are saying that don't make sense? And unfortunately I found the source. I found the mothership.

Here's what I'm talking about. I keep seeing people comparing the Wuhan virus to regular flu death rates. And people will say, well a regular flu death rate is tens of thousands a year. The Wuhan virus has only killed a few relative to that. There you go. And every time somebody does that I just say to myself, stop it. Stop it. The stupidity is crowding me. Stop comparing the wrong things. Who compares a problem which by its nature is going to be logarithmically, exponentially increasing but it's just starting, who compares that to something that's already run its full course? Well not smart people. Smart people do not compare a regular virus that's already done a full year of killing people to something that just started. Because wouldn't you expect the regular flu would be a big number because it's already done and the new one is just starting? Who compares those? Who is so dumb to say that in public over and over again besides the President of the United States? Sorry, sorry, the president did the same thing. I'm not going to give him a pass on that.

And then I turn on TV last night to Fox News and I'm watching Sean Hannity say that. And I thought to myself, well Sean you're a smart guy. You know it's good context to say the regular flu kills as many. I think that's good to know. I'm happy that people are reporting that. But then he says Wuhan flu's only killed this many. And then I'm waiting for Sean to say but it's just starting so you shouldn't compare something just starting to something that's already done. So I'm waiting for Sean to say that and then he changes the topic. He keeps talking. I'm like, okay well maybe he'll circle back to it. And then he doesn't. And I'm thinking that's where this is coming from. That's where it's coming from. It's coming from Fox News.

I read an article last night. Who was it? Was it Megyn Kelly or something who said that it would save lives if Rupert Murdoch would bear down on Fox News and tell them to stop saying basically that. And when I read that I thought, come on. You know this is just inside baseball and you know it's not going to save lives if Fox News reports things differently. And then I watched Sean Hannity's show and I thought, I agree with that. I agree with that. If Rupert Murdoch wants to be responsible during this crisis he should talk to Sean Hannity and tell him to stop doing that. He should actually just say, look I'm the boss. It's an emergency. Normally I don't bother you. You know you do your show. That's our deal. It's not my opinion. That's your show. It's your opinion, Sean Hannity. But stop comparing it to the flu and then stopping. It's fine to compare it to the normal flu and say but people, we're just starting so you know this new one is ten times more dangerous we think. It could be far bigger than a regular flu. That would be great. But Sean Hannity, I think you need to raise your game a little bit for the greater good. I'm not going to put this because it's an emergency. I don't like to be hard on people. I'd rather that I would coerce people to be on the same side.

So Sean Hannity, and by the way I'm a huge admirer of Sean Hannity's talent stack. I think I've talked about that before. If you look at the number of skills that Sean Hannity puts together to do what he does, it's jaw-dropping. I mean he has a lot of skills that fit together really well. But I don't think one of them is economics as far as I know. I don't think it is. And economists and scientists are better at comparing things. And I think because it's a national emergency and people do need to take this seriously, I think that Sean Hannity, I would like to ask you directly, you can still be, obviously it's still helpful to say that normal flu kills a lot of people but put it in context please. Please. I mean it's an emergency. We need to have the best information out there we can.

All right, so here's some other, we'll talk about the president's address. Well actually let me talk about it now. So it's a political season so it's impossible to separate the politics from any of the stuff even though we should. Here was my take on the president's address. First of all it was somber but low-energy. I don't know. I heard a lot of people say they loved it because it wa