California shuts down again.

Governor Andrew Cole makes a fool of himself over a weird poster

and virtue signaling on racial issues continues to matter more than saving lives.

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Visit ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Okay, so we begin at this hour with your latest COVID-19 update.

So the continued increase in caseload is indeed continuing. We are seeing an increased caseload in places

like California, in places like Florida.

We're seeing increased test positives.

But there is a simple reality, which is that we are not seeing this thing spike the way that it did in New York. In New York, the curve looked extremely steep on one end, and then it came down extremely steeply on the other end of the curve. The reason for that is because it burned through the entire city. In fact, there are precincts in New York where some 50 to 60 percent of all the people in these particular precincts already have antibodies. So that is the reason why you have seen this thing come down so quickly. It's not because of masterful leadership in New York and crappy leadership elsewhere. In fact, it's precisely the reverse. It is decent leadership elsewhere in a variety of different parties, right? From Colorado to Georgia, and then the crappy leadership over in New York City. So what most of these states have done is indeed flatten the

curve. In fact, there is a doctor from the University of Southern Florida who was talking

about this on CNN yesterday, talking about the issues over in Florida with regard to the increased caseload.

And he pointed out that this is a different epidemic than hit New York.

In fact, he pointed out that Florida's emergency department visits from COVID actually

peaked last week and the test positive rate actually peaked last week.

So when you look at all of the headlines coming out of Florida, it's doom disaster about

to hit Florida.

Listen, things are not going to be great in Florida for a couple of weeks because death, as always, is a lagging indicator. But the idea that they're going to see Florida-type numbers, that is so far unsupportable by the data. The only people who have seen New York-type numbers are the New Yorkers. And the reason they saw New York type numbers is because Andrew Cuomo decided to do all the things wrong. He shut down late. When he did shut down, he didn't clean any of the subways,

when he did shut down, he didn't clean any of the subways. When he did shut down, he then proceeded to ship all of the COVID-positive nursing home patients back into the nursing homes. And there are some people out there who are literally attempting to pretend that Andrew Cuomo did a wonderful job here. I mean, I'm not kidding about this. There are a bunch of people on the left who keep saying this. Andy Slavitt, the former Obama era official from, I believe, the FDA under Obama. Andy Slavitt actually tweeted out that New York had done an incredible, incredible job. Why? Because Cuomo, he actually talked to the people. He talked to the... You know who else thinks he did a wonderful job?

Is Andrew Cuomo himself. And so I have to begin today with this insane poster that Andrew Cuomo put out. Now, imagine if President Trump put out a poster showing the curve for COVID in the United States, the number of COVID deaths in the United States, which has declined by some 30 to 40% in the United States over the period of time, actually more than that, about 60% since the height of COVID.

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