Coronavirus starts to dip in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, while members of government

consider new lockdowns, anarchists finally begin burning books in Portland, and President Trump

goes after TikTok. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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expressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, I have to note that there's something that's very weird going on

in this country and in media. And that is the sense that things are constantly getting worse with

regard to COVID when the evidence that things are getting worse with regard to COVID really

is not spectacular.

And what I mean by that is obviously we've seen more deaths over the past month. There's just no question. I mean, we've seen more infections over the past month. But as a percentage of infection,

deaths continue to decline. As a running tab in terms of hospitalizations, deaths continue to

decline. Hospitalizations have started to decline in places like

Arizona, Florida, and Texas. And it is also worthy of note that other countries are now experiencing

unrest in the streets over lockdown. So all of the talk about how in the United States, it's all red

state, blue state kind of stuff, only these evil conservatives want to stop the lockdowns and reopen

the economy. They are literally having mass

protests in the streets of Berlin over the lockdown. In Israel, they've had mass protests in the

streets over everything from unemployment to lockdown, specifically targeted lockdown

against religious communities is one of the implications. This sort of stuff has been happening

all over the world because it turns out that when you lock hundreds of millions of people indoor for months on end and tell them that in order to be safe from a virus that largely kills people who are above the age of 80, most people who are young are not going to abide by that. And most people who are young are going to start going out again. They're going to start participating in everyday life again. And let's be real about this, they probably should. If you're 20 years old, there is no reason for you to stay home other than

you're afraid that. They're going to start participating in everyday life again. And let's be real about this, they probably should.

If you're 20 years old, there is no reason for you to stay home other than you're afraid that you're going to infect grandma. That's pretty much it. And that means that when you visit grandma, grandma should wear a mask and you should wear a mask and you should socially distance. And that's all. The notion that large numbers of young people are in danger from this or dying from this, it is not statistically true. And I get the sense that there is this real gap in the American level of panic about this thing and the actual fact on the ground about how deadly this thing is. I think that if you ask regular everyday Americans, how many people out of 1,000 who get COVID, do you think are going to die of this thing? The average American would probably tell you out of 100 people, 10 will die. Out of 1,000 people, 50 to 100 will die.

And that's not true. That is not true. If you are under the age of 25, you're not dying from this, statistically speaking. If you are under the age of 55, you are almost certainly not dying of this,

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