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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast todays.

Thursday, May 28, 2020. I am John Pothor. It's the editor of commentary with me as always,

senior editor, A. Greenwald. Hi, A. Hi, John. Senior writer, Christine Rosem. Hi, Christine.

Hi, John. An associate editor, Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John. So with the news that we finally

passed the horrible 100,000 deaths from COVID mark, I noted that the the front web page of the New

York Times said the United States has the most fatalities in the world and the most cases of COVID in the

world. Stead said flatly as though this were, you know, an unassailable fact. And it cannot be true.

I know that China claims that they've had 3,000 dead from COVID and we have 100,000. Does anybody

really believe that China, the epicenter of the virus, where the virus came from a place where they

the government locked down 100 million people, quarantined 100 million people effectively

in a in a geographical area to keep the disease from spring that they did that because a couple

hundred people had died by that point. It's not even remotely conceivable. And yet by by playing

this game of using stats from our country, which are, you know, unassailable against stats from

China and Iran, which are obviously wildly manipulable. That we are we have now placed

us. We have made ourselves some kind of a disease, locusts, which is not a staff that we deserve.

We do not deserve to be thought of as the as the coronavirus country.

No, it's kind of remarkable because, you know, it's just perusing the Wall Street Journal's

daily rundown of, you know, worldwide cases and had South Korea had 79 new cases on Thursday

for a grand total of 11,000. India reported 6,500 new cases. And China reported precisely

two new cases, both of which were imported from overseas.

I mean, yeah, I was going to say there's there's also a domestic impact on this sort of, you know,

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