of these people, no matter what you want to say about Fauci, he's going to have his critics, he's going to have his supporters just like everybody, right? But he's super smart and nobody's saying he's not smart. Is it smart for Fauci to downplay it a little bit for now until we have so much of it that everybody can have as much as they want? Because that's where we're at, right? Bears that they'd send us three million but do we have them? Do we have them? Probably not yet. Did they come over on the plane in the same day? I don't know. Did they give us a hundred thousand but they're cranking out the rest? I don't know. How many hospitals are there? How many people might need it? What is the projection? I don't know.

But I do know that if the supply is not directly under the control of the medical professionals we're going to have some problems. How many of you know a doctor who could write a prescription and you've contacted that doctor and said doctor can you get me some of this quick before it runs out just in case? You know, yeah I'm not your patient, I'm your best friend. Can you give me some of this? How many people have done that already? A lot. A lot. Did I try to get some of that early? Oh I did. Did I contact my doctor by email of course and asked? I said hey I'm in the danger group. They said I'm in the danger group. I'm over 60, asthma. And is there any way I could get ahold of this since it's well tolerated? I said can I get ahold of it so I can take it prophylactically, meaning to prevent getting the virus if I'm exposed.

And my doctor gave me an answer that I feel like was the responsible answer but was probably also a lie. I think it was a lie by omission. It wasn't a lie in the standard sense. And my doctor wrote back that it's we don't handle it in the pharmacy now. Here's what's wrong with that. It's not carried in the pharmacy. Here's what's wrong with that. Do you believe that? Well first of all I don't know. It's possible. But the pharmacy can order kind of anything you want and your doctor can write a prescription that you could take to some other pharmacy. So did my doctor give me a straight answer when she simply said and then just dropped it, you know we don't carry that in the pharmacy? She didn't say it was a bad idea to take it. It's conspicuously not there. She didn't say leave it for the medical professionals because then I would have been in hoarding mode for sure. No I wouldn't have but you know my mind would have gone there and you don't want to be thinking about its availability like oh what maybe if I tried harder I can get some of this.

So I think my doctor did the responsible thing by sort of taking me off the trail, just sort of nudging me off the trail. And I felt it was like a gentle nudge. It's like not now. That's what it felt like. And I think that was exactly the right play. Not good for me. What's good for me is I get an early dose of hydroxychloroquine or not, right? That's what's good for me. But what was good for the public I think is the way my doctor played it which is we don't carry that now.

What I think that might mean, and here I'm just guessing, if I had to guess the big medical entities that would already have some supply this probably some time ago got an order from the government that you can't give it out prophylactically. Guessing. I would like to think that my government was clever enough as soon as they thought this drug has some potential because they knew before we did, right? They were hearing the official news from other countries. I would like to know that they immediately went to the people who had the supply and said lock it down. It's going to be only for the essentials, only for, I mean I'd like to think that all of our first-line health care providers are getting it prophylactically by the end of the week. You know there's a timing issue of course but by the end of the week wouldn't you like to know that even if you don't have it, don't you want to know your doctor has it? You know the doctor that's working on the front line, you want them to have it first, right?

And that's probably where we're heading and there's probably a limited supply. So I'm going to be a team player for now and I'm not going to try to find some secret way to hoard it even though I think I probably could if I worked on it. All right, so I'm going to say that Fauci and the president are not really on different pages but they're trying to manage our expectations differently. I think I approve of the difference. There's a little bit of an accidental some form of a good cop bad cop. But if the president's giving us a hey there's reason for optimism story and his expert is saying well not so fast but that's sort of exactly where I want them to be. See what I'm saying? I want my leader to say things will be all right at the same time I want my expert to say you know hold on, he might be good but let's test this thing. All right, so I'm quite happy with that.

Meanwhile the least relevant person in the entire world, you may have heard of his name is Joe Biden. Have you heard that name? He's running for president or something but he's the least important person in the world right now. And he tweets this out yesterday. He tweets this out: The Obama-Biden administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense to prepare for future biopandemics like COVID-19. Wow they were smart. Donald Trump eliminated it and now we're paying the price.

Well most of you know that's just fake news. It was eliminated in the sense that there were functions that were folded into something else and the redundancy was eliminated. Yeah the redundancy was eliminated but this is just not true. Now how would you like to be in the middle of a global pandemic, the country's fighting for its economic life, and the guy who wants to be president, the only thing he added to it was fake news to make you feel bad about your president who is leading this effort? Seriously. I mean I will think you could do a worse job of being even a citizen and we forget about what it is for his campaign that's going to lose anyway. I mean he's irrelevant because he's not going to win. But that's the best you could do for the country? The best you could do for the country, Joe Biden, was to put some fake news up that makes you doubt your president during a time of crisis? That's it? But that's how you thought you could help? Disgusting.

And let me shout out some people who have been critics of the president who I think are really stepping up. I said this before. Mark Cuban, great job, leadership. You know just love to see natural leaders just stepping up. Ilhan Omar praising the president's performance. I give her credit. I think Pressley said the same thing if I'm not mistaken. Fact check me on that. And I would like to thank Bernie Sanders. So this definitely is not a Democrat versus Republican thing because I'm praising Bernie Sanders for being productive, for shouting down CNN about making this political. Andrew Yang, very productive. Thank you Andrew Yang. You know good citizen. And I think Yang really softened up the public with his UBI to make even what we're talking about possible. I mean it just makes it easier for everybody. So I think Yang has been tremendous.

And I think Dana Bash, CNN contributor, I'm not exactly sure of her job title but very positive, very constructive I think. So a big shout-out to everybody who's being constructive, be they Democrats or anything else. But Joe Biden's not. And I think that's worth mentioning.

So anybody buy stocks? Oh yeah. I believe Mike Bloomberg is donating gigantic amounts of money and at the moment I haven't heard Bloomberg complain about the president. Kasich, John Kasich, patriot exactly. Somebody says Zuckerberg went live yesterday. You know I don't know what Zuckerberg is doing but I think we can guarantee it's productive. I know Elon Musk said that Tesla could make ventilators if needed. So I don't know if that's going to happen but people are stepping up.

Somebody says maybe anti-malaria drug is a reason for fewer cases in Africa. That is possible. The other possibility is that there's a genetic marker. Well there's a genetic difference that the ACE-2 you know inhibitors or whatever the hell, receptors in the lungs. Clearly I'm not a doctor but there does seem to be some genetic difference that makes some people more susceptible. And some of it might be smoking and weight and obesity and things like that.

And here's one thing. If you're looking for the obvious, how many obese people do you ever see in Africa? And every time I hear about somebody dying, are they not, 60 percent of them obese? Maybe 60 percent of the world is obese. But if I'm asking myself why it doesn't seem to be hitting Africa as hard as you'd expect, the questions you'd ask is maybe they just don't have good testing. Maybe it is and we don't know it. Maybe there's a lung difference that some people have. Maybe they smoke less. I don't know. Do Africans smoke as many cigarettes as everybody else? You never, I can't think of a picture of an African with a cigarette in their mouth. Then they must have smokers but I don't know. Is it a big thing there? And how often do you see obese Africans in Africa? Oh it could be they could actually just be healthier. Could be that. But it also could be that some of them are already taking the malaria drug. That's possible.

I can't imagine there would be enough people taking it. Is there like a vitamin in Africa? D7? Somebody do a fact check on that right. Can somebody, here's what I want. I want somebody to do a fact check where they overlay on the global map the percentage of people who are regularly taking the malaria drug just because they're in that zone. Is that a thing? Do you take it preventively? I don't even know if that's the thing but I'd like some visibility on that.

All right somebody says are you sure you want to go down this road? I don't know why you're talking about not many obese Chinese but lots of smokers. It also could be ventilation. You know one thing I imagine that you have less of in Africa, correct me if I'm wrong, is air conditioning. Known as cities I suppose they must have some but I can't imagine there's a ton of air conditioning in just the general African public outside of the cities. So maybe that's a factor too. You know the recirculating of the air.

Yeah I saw that weird press thing where de Blasio said it's okay for him to go to the gym because he needs to stay healthy to manage the crisis. I thought that that goes in the pantheon of bad political answers. But again he's a frontline leader in an emergency and I'm not going to kneecap de Blasio for going to the gym. You can make your own judgment about that. But at the moment we just need to be on the same team.

Somebody says Italy is a skinny country. Now others have suggested that the number of young people living with grandparents probably is a big factor in the death rate. Not in the rate of people getting exposed but we're getting a pretty good idea that there are probably five or six things going on that may have a factor. Even the expats I know in Africa eventually stopped taking it. Oh is this something you take for a while and then don't take anymore? I've never heard that. It's experience from HIV, Ebola prevention. So somebody suggested in Africa some kind of experience. Maybe that's helping them but I don't know how that would translate into real-world action.

Somebody says remember you picked this road. I don't know what you're talking about. Somebody says it's summer in Africa. Could be. Could it be a factor? Somebody says 50 percent of the world lives in malaria areas. Tell your doctor says men did not do as well as women. Would that also be related to the fact that men don't live as long as women? So in other words if your problem is that old people are dying and it generally just if it attacks you sort of generally, you know it's not like, well let me say it this way. Among very old people the males are going to die at a higher rate than the women, right? So the same threat to a man or a woman at age 75 should be harder on the man no matter what it is. Is that true? You'd have to fact-check that. But it could be as simple as men have a lower life expectancy and it's just accentuated by this.

Have I heard about the Stafford Act hoax? Yeah so apparently people are getting some kind of unsolicited text message saying that there's going to be some kind of martial law lockdown or something and we think that foreign actors are behind it. We think that might be China etc. Now you're watching that China continues to push the idea with people who are clearly have been cleared by the government to blame the United States for starting it. Start again. And apparently they're going to keep pushing that button because their domestic audience, you know they can tell them anything.

And how should we process that? It seems to me that there's legislation right now to bring the supply lines at least for pharmaceuticals back and I think there's other legislation about bringing just the supply chain in general back. I don't think there's any chance going forward that decoupling is not going to happen. So if you're looking, if you're keeping track of who said what, who said the right thing first, and you should because I always recomme