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at Mount Rushmore, so the media simply lie about it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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slash panel. I hope that you had a wonderful and relaxing July 4th weekend.

We did.

It was really, really nice.

And, you know, we socially distanced and we heard the fireworks that people were firing

off illegally.

And it was a party.

It was great.

Also, worth noting, hospitalizations are rising around the country from COVID-19.

That is not a shock because we've seen an increased number of cases. The death rates continue to be

incredibly low. So we are hoping and praying and crossing our fingers that we don't see a spike in

the death rates. If the rates of infection continue to rise and the death rates continue to plateau,

that's actually really good news. And the media seem not to be hoping for that. The media seem to be hoping at any moment will be overwhelmed. Now, the reality is that most hospitals are not overwhelmed at this point. Even the hospitals they're talking about, quote unquote, being overwhelmed are hospitals where the ICUs are now using some flex capacity. But the fact is, that's because they had not been barring the elective surgeries up until the last week or so. So there are a lot of patients who are left over from elective surgeries. As of Houston, in Houston hospitals, as of last week, only about 25% of the beds were taken up in the ICU's by COVID-19 patients. Apparently, in some hospitals that is now up to about 50% of the ICU beds. What that means is that they're going to cancel the

elective surgeries again. In fact, they've already done this in certain parts of Florida, in certain

parts of Arizona, in certain parts of California. So the hospital, the sort of hospital resources are

not threatened yet at this point. Plus, we now know how to deal with this thing a lot better,

which is really good. In certain steps that have been taken by hospitals are significantly stronger in terms of fighting COVID-19 than they were even a few months ago. So anybody telling you we're in the same position that we wore back in March is lying to you. It's just not true. Statistically speaking, it is not true. medically speaking. We now knows things we didn't know back then, like for example, tried to keep people off the ventilators. Using ventilators was sort of a first line of attack at the very beginning. It turns out that that was counterproductive. Flipping people on their stomach has become a very effective practice, apparently. So his steroid use, there are a couple of therapeutic drugs that are now being used far more widely. The rates of death in hospitals, in other words, have gone down fairly radically. So I think we can all hope and pray together as Americans that even as the cases increase, we continue to see this plateauing of death because we are at the, yesterday on Sunday, we had the lowest level of death in the United States that we had since about mid-March, since like March 23rd or something. So that is actually very, very good news. Okay, but that's not

the big story of the day across America. The big story of the day across America continues to be

the cultural revolution we are currently experiencing. Now, I have never seen, I will say this.

I've seen the media gaslight a lot about President Trump. Gaslighting, for those who don't know,

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