As coronavirus numbers spike across America, California announces an across-the-board shelter-in-place order,

the Republican Congress pursues a bizarre bailout policy, and senators fall under scrutiny for some rather conveniently timed stock sales.

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

All righty, so, as you can tell, we are now broadcasting from the Shapiro Hostel.

I mean, it is, it is, what a beautiful, beautiful place.

We now have shelter and order place here in California.

That means that people are working from home as much as possible.

And so we have transferred this show to the bunker.

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updates, where everything stands. As we say, we'll get to the California lockdown in just a second.

It is a statewide lockdown. It is enforceable by law, so people presumably will be pulled over and asked where they are going if they're not going to the grocery store or if they're not going to the pharmacy, then presumably they'll be given some sort of ticket. It is hard to imagine exactly how that's enforced on 40 million citizens across the state of California. We'll get to that in just a second. First, we begin with your updated numbers as of this morning. Right now, there are 14,250 diagnosed cases of coronavirus

across America. Suffice to say those numbers are way too low. The reason they are way too low is

because tests are still not available. It takes a while for the test to finally come back,

anywhere from 24 to 72 hours. And lack of testing is making everybody's life miserable. It is.

This stuff matters. Why? Well, if you're single,

and let's say that you have the symptoms for COVID-19, and they say, okay, go home, go home, just go home. The answer is, okay, I could do that. But let's say that you're a member of a family. Let's say that you have, as I do, three children. And let's say that maybe you think that somebody has the symptoms for COVID-19 in your house.

And let's say that you have child care helping out

because you have a newborn, for example. And let's say that maybe you think that somebody has the symptoms for COVID-19 in your house.

And let's say that you have child care helping out because you have a newborn, for example.

And let's say that you want to go get a test.

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