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Welcome friends to the Buck Sexton Show. It is dawning upon more people than ever that the mass hysteria aided and abetted if not created by the mass media around COVID-19 has a lot of really negative consequences.

We've known about the pain and frustration for a while, but all along you've been told that it was because you were making a necessary trade-off.

The overreach, the tyrannical mandates, all of these things that I've been complaining about from the very beginning, they told you the consensus opinion that was forced upon you was that all of this is fine because it's necessary because you're getting more than you give in this process.

It's about protecting your very life, they say. But if that's really the approach someone takes, if they say that whatever their mandates are, whatever the rules are, they're coming up with on the fly, whatever the ad hoc regulations are that they create out of thin air, it is saving not just your life, but the lives of those around you and therefore you're not even allowed to say I'm willing to take risks that these regulations are meant to protect me from.

You're never able to stop them. You can't push back effectively. What can you do? If you look, I mean you'll see the insanity is on display. I mean, you can actually find things in the mainstream press that really go down, really go down into the depths of a form of mass hysteria and mental illness.

I mean, the COVID lockdown or mentality is a form of mass hysteria for sure and it can quickly transform into mental illness that Detroit free press has a piece here.

COVID has turned breathing into a deadly event and all of us into potential serial killers. That's the Detroit free press. Now that's a relatively serious publication that's taking the position that by breathing you could be murdering people.

Now this is insane and it's time that we tell everybody's going, I'm so terrified I can't handle anybody breathing. Stop it. Enough.

We all live with uncertainty. We all live with the constant risk of disease. You can cut yourself shaving and dive a staff infection, but it doesn't mean that you refuse to get out of your bed in the morning.

There are reasonable changes we make to behavior. There are reasonable trade-offs and then there are unreasonable ones.

And what we see with COVID-19 policy in this country is a lot of unreasonable mandates. A lot of choices that are made for us that do not bring the promised benefits.

An excellent example of this. Shutting down schools. There was never. There was never region based on the numbers and the data to believe that shutting down schools was necessary.

And yet during an election year we all know that this was fraught with politics all along infused with partisanship. During an election year we were told that it was necessary to protect our children. Nancy Pelosi last summer.

Hi, it's by the children. No, it wasn't. This for the teachers unions. It was so that people who are adults could stay at home and receive paychecks.

And the union could say, see what we did for you guys. Now we're going to keep taking those union dues and you're going to be even happier about it. Or less angry about it.

There was never a basis for this. There was never data to show. And this is what I want to start with that issue. There are others as well. There was never data to show that children were at risk from this disease.

There was never data to show that they were likely to spread it to adults didn't exist. It was all just a fear and panic response. Where was the great sainted doctor Fauci during all of this?

Well, sometimes you wanted schools to close maybe. Sometimes you wasn't sure. Look at the data. Look at the data. The data was obvious. But he didn't want the worship of Fauci to change.

And he's one of many of these public health experts who have completely failed us. I mean, they are the equivalent now of the democracy spreaders in the in the Middle East.

The think tank armchair warriors who thought, oh, if we invade Iraq, then there'll be a flowering of democracy throughout the region. And it's going to be this whole great new future.

It wasn't true, catastrophically wrong. Our public health class in this country who are really bureaucrats, many of whom barely even practice medicine anymore and having for decades.

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