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predicted coronavirus deaths, and China continues to silence its whistleblowers. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro

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about the models and the models revising fairly radically upward

the number of expected deaths. That is not a great shock given the fact that the lockdowns

are in fact being mitigated. It's also not a great shock given the fact that the tail end of the

bell curve doesn't actually look like a bell curve so much as it does a plateau in places like

New York. We'll talk about strategy and what exactly we're aiming for here because because it seems like once again, politicians are lying to you. They don't want to openly

acknowledge the tradeoffs that are inherent in any policy decision. Instead, they simply

want to maintain that there are no tradeoffs at all. We'll get to all that in just a moment,

but I want to begin today with an issue that I think is incredibly important and undercover, and that is the

divisions in America over the issue of history. So I have a new book coming out July 21st.

It's called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps. One of those steps is to destroy our common

image of what America is. So my book basically suggests that America needs to share a basic philosophy

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