Coronavirus spreads as the stock market tanks, the Trump administration calls for calm as panic accelerates, and Bernie Sanders struggles to stop Joe Biden's momentum.

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market took an absolute beating, an absolute pounding. It's been taking up pounding for the last

week over coronavirus, over Saudi oil war. We'll get to all of that in a second. But this might

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And this is leading people, I think, reasonably, to be very afraid.

Now, I think that panic and doing things that make no sense,

like stocking up on vast quantities of toilet paper or going out and buying medical masks,

like stuff that's ineffective, going out and buying water bottles. Guys, there's not going to be a cutoff in your water supply. You're going to be able to turn on your tap, water's going to come out. That kind of stuff is very silly. With that said, a discombobulated global response in a patchwork response from various local communities. I mean, L.A. had an L.A. marathon yesterday. At the same same time, you're seeing Democrats in the United States claim that President Trump is botching the response, and he should be doing more. You have Democrat cities like Seattle. Seattle had Comic Con, like, last weekend with 100,000 people in an outbreak center. The L.A. Marathon took place yesterday in Los Angeles with like tens of thousands of people running around together.

Okay, so there's been no coordinated response.

People don't know what the rules of the road are.

People don't know how dangerous coronavirus actually is.

We don't know how many people are dying.

I've suggested that we can kind of look at the stats and determine that it's not a grave threat to people particularly who are very young.

There have been no reported deaths of kids under the age of nine. The death rates tend to go up fairly precipitously once you hit the age of 60. Once you hit the age of 80, they go really precipitously. If you have a secondary health condition or if you are elderly, then coronavirus is a real threat. This is particularly true if you're in a nursing home where it's very easy to transmit coronavirus and where again you have a very vulnerable patient population. But because we are watching these very

outsized responses, which may or may not be a good idea in places like Italy, in places like China,

in places like Israel, we look at other countries and we see that they're taking these very

outsized responses.

It's difficult to make the claim that a global panic over coronavirus is driven by President Trump.

So the media today are trying to blame President Trump for everything that is going on.

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