my hypothesis with no proof for any of that. So the official story is that we don't know. We don't know why it seems that, I'll say seems officially, nobody there really knows why this stuff's happened.

All right. So I saw a complaint that I think it was CNN. They were saying that the emergency relief bill had a gift in it for rich people. And I thought to myself, well that probably didn't happen. Yeah, that was my first impression when I saw the headline. It's like, really? Really? Somebody's gonna stick in a gift for the top 1 percent, a tax break for the top 1 percent? Somebody put that into this relief bill? Seriously? And so I thought, okay, fake news. I'll read this and it won't, just the headline won't even match the content, which is what we're getting used to. And I read the content and I thought, oh my God, this is true. You know, you can't believe anything's true. But here's the claim. That there was a substantial change in the tax code so that real estate moguls can write off some capital gains losses in a way more favorable way than before. To which I say to myself, what does that have to do with the recovery? What did that have to do with the recovery? What a pathetic performance by our Congress.

I mean I think I'm beyond hate. You know it starts with, well I'm not, I don't have a lot of confidence in Congress. Then there's some point where you just hate them. And I think I passed through hate. I'm at this is pathetic. They should just be embarrassed every day. I mean first, like I guess we have to fact check whether this real estate depreciation slash write-off tax break for the rich, I guess we have to see if it's true. Because just because it's reported doesn't mean it's true, unfortunately. But if it's true that's just pathetic. Just pathetic. And I would say that nobody in Congress should be reelected, be they Republican, be they independent, be they Democratic. So you know in case you're wondering if I'm being partisan, I don't care if every Republican in the Congress and the Senate loses their job in the next election. That'd be fine with me. And moreover I don't even care what the mix is when it's done. I don't care if there are more Democrats or more Republicans or more anything. I don't care. I think at this point they all need to lose their job. Because if they, if that's true, is that true? I mean first of all I need to know if it's true. But if it is they all need to be fired.

I've seen two completely different medical opinions on how this coronavirus gets transmitted. I will tell you the two opinions I've heard and then I will tell you that I don't know how to know which one's right. But I'll just pass along. So both of these are not scientific studies. These are based on doctors who are working on the front lines and they're reporting. So some of this is anecdotal but it's the people who were in the fight. So it's not people watching the fight. These are doctors who were actually intubating people and putting them on ventilators. You know they're right in it in New York City. One of them said here's the good news that if you're really good about washing your hands and social distancing and not touching your face, so if you do those three things, this one doctor said, you know, wash your hands like crazy, wear a mask mostly to prevent you from touching your own face, it's just good, and do your social distancing. This doctor says the odds of getting it if you do just those three things are basically vanishingly small. Now that's based on his experience, not based on studies, okay? Because and the idea is I guess he wasn't seeing people who had it unless they also had a story of close contact. Meaning, and he defined it as, you know, maybe it could be a handshake but also it could be, you know, spouses hugging or something. So then another doctor had a very different story. He said that he's hearing from people who had no known contact with someone who had it but they had been to the grocery store and that was their only exposure.

So the idea is that people who went shopping were also turning up in emergency rooms and that was the only known exposure they had to the public. They just had to go buy food and come home. Now that's still anecdotal. It doesn't mean that they got it from buying groceries. It still allows. And by the way the first doctor who said your odds of getting it are very low did not say go shopping. So I think they're both on the same page that if you can avoid physically going to a store, especially if you're, you know, if you're in a danger zone or you're older or something, you should do it. So I think they're both consistent on that. But one is saying that, you know, the grocery store is a source if you go in person. And then the other doctor was saying that food that is delivered to your house, so long as you, you know, wear gloves when you're opening it up or at least you're washing hands after you've just exposed, after you've disposed of the outer bag, this one doctor said probably by the time you get to the food your odds of getting something are very low. So he's suggesting getting delivery if you can.

All right. Here's apparently President Trump has a 49 percent approval rating which approaches a career high. And 60 percent of Americans now approve of his handling, including more than a quarter of Democrats, handling of the crisis. Now you might say to yourself, you may say to yourself, but what about all the things he should have done differently? How could even Democrats be happy with the president when it's reported on CNN every day that he's getting his facts wrong in public and that he should have done whatever sooner? But why is the public not responding to that the way they normally do? Why is the public saying, no, he's doing a good job even when the enemy press is telling the public that he's not? He should have done things sooner, should have done things differently, should have talked about it differently, should have, you know, not had those facts wrong. So why is the public seeing past the reporting this time when normally they don't? It's not everybody but a lot of them are seeing past the reporting.

And I hope it's this. I hope it's this. One of them is we've learned that nobody knew how much inventory we needed or why we needed it or who had it. So I think we've learned that nobody had the basic knowledge that we weren't prepared and therefore didn't know we needed to prepare. Because nobody even knew we were not prepared, probably in the government anyway. I mean I'm, I feel confident in saying that before this started probably nobody ever told President Trump directly or Pence, hey, if we have a pandemic we're gonna run out of all these supplies. I doubt anybody told them that, right? So is it the president's fault that we got caught unprepared? Well look at every other country. Every other country got unprepared. Was China ready? In the hell was South Korea ready? No. Was Japan ready? No. A hundred percent of countries weren't ready. So is the public saying, okay, I get what you're saying CNN and MSNBC, but you realize there are a lot of countries and none of them were ready. Maybe that context sort of changes that you feel out.

Secondly a lot of, a lot of people are making hay out of something that should have been done sooner. And this is one of those topics. So somebody who I was writing said they think that, you know, Trump should have acted sooner to either close the airports or close travel. He should have acted sooner to do social distancing. He should have acted sooner to get supplies that are in shortages. Now is it true, just objectively speaking, that we would be better off if he had acted sooner? Yes. Yes, we can all agree with that, right? No matter what political side you're on we would all agree that things would be better if we had acted sooner.

But I would like to make this standard. So here's a standard I would like to suggest. There was one smart person in the world and all the rest of us are okay. That's the frame you should put on that. Because we don't know who it was. Like we can't put a name to the one person who's not an idiot. But we can