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I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Today's Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Your online activity should not be public. Protect yourself at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, I want to get to everything COVID-related in just a moment. First, I do want to announce a piece of actual good news. Like, I actually think this is very good news. So NASCAR released a photo of the news that wasn't a news in Bubbo Wallace's garage. And it looks like a news. It does. I mean, there's a,

there's a picture. And I am not an expert on knots in any way. If I had seen this, I would have

thought this looks like a news. I would have. I don't know why NASCAR didn't release it in the

first place. The FBI did a full investigation. Apparently, they found that this was the only

hand-tied pull-down rope in like all of NASCAR that looked like this.

So to be immediately suspicious of this would not have been wrong. For NASCAR to be suspicious, wouldn't have been wrong. For Bubba Wallace to be suspicious of this wouldn't have been wrong. So I'm very glad about that because honestly, race hoaxes are really bad. People just making mistakes. That's like normal human life. And that's fine. And that's good. It means that everybody went into this with good intentions and it's coming out with good intentions.

And I prefer that story a lot more than some sort of nefarious race hoax happened here in order to gin up outrage or anything like that. Now, NASCAR should have gone through the full investigation before they ran with the story, obviously. But at least where it comes to Bubba Wallace, Bubba Wallace seems like he was acting in good faith throughout, and that's really good. And so any implication to the contrary, I apologize for if that implication was made. Because now that the photo is out, the photo is out, you can see why Bubba Wallace thought that this thing looked in his words like a straight up news. I totally get it. So that's good news. Again, better intentions on everybody's part is a very good thing, I think, right? I mean, good intentions is better than bad intentions. Just as I said that Bob Wallace should be happy, as he said yesterday, he was, that this wasn't a hate crime. I am very happy that nobody was trying to put anything over on anybody. It was just a good faith mistake. Like that, that's a much better story for the country all the way around. Okay. So, meanwhile, coronavirus is resurging across the United States, also in Europe. So people are neglecting that it's resurging in Europe. The reason they're neglecting that it's resurging in Europe is because there's a narrative the media have to push. The narrative of the media are pushing in the United States is that it's only happening in red states. It is not happening in blue states. Now, on its face, that is simply not true. It is resurging very, very strongly in California. Right now, L.A. County is apparently now the county with the most coronavirus cases in America. It's resurging in states like Washington State, which is where it started in terms of the Chinese strain of the virus. New York was a European

strain of the virus, meaning it had passed from China to Europe and then finally onto New York. So it's just inaccurate to suggest it's only red states that are experiencing this. But the media's new game is to pretend that blue state governors have been doing an amazing job with this. And red state governors have been doing a terrible job with this. We'll get to that in a second. and it isn't really true.

But one of the big problems with that narrative

is that this thing is researching all over the world.

It's not just resurging in the United States. It's resurging in Europe as well. According to the BBC, in 11 places, including Armenia, Sweden, Moldova and North Macedonia, accelerated transmission has led to a very significant resurgence, said regional director Dr. Hans Henry

Klub. His warnings about the risk of resurgence had become reality, he said. If left unchecked,

he warned health system would be pushed to the brink again? More than 2.6 million cases of COVID-19

and 195,000 deaths have been reported in the WHO's European region, which is expansive, covering 54

countries and seven territories

across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Almost 20,000 new cases, more than 700 new deaths

are being recorded daily. Those numbers look very much like the United States as numbers,

frankly. Not in terms of the number of cases being identified, but the number of deaths

being recorded daily. That looks very much like the United States across the who's European region. And the population of the United States, broad scale

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