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Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Don't let others track what you do. Keep yourself safe at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Go check them out. ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. All righty. So we bring you all of the updates. The biggest update, of course, is that the U.S. now leads the world in confirmed to coronavirus cases. And members of the media are going nuts over this. The United States were number one. That was trending on Twitter yesterday. Wow, we're number one. People suggesting that this shows that America really is a third world country. Julia Jaffe, the excruble columnist for GQ, she actually tweeted out, who's the bleephole country now? Who's the bleeple? That, of course, supposed to be making fun of President Trump, who suggested he didn't want people immigrating from bleephole countries because they might not actually be the best American citizens, depending on the culture from which they came. Again, that was a very controversial comment at the time and poorly expressed by the president, but let's just put it this way. The United States is not a bleephole country because we have a lot of tests. If you were going to identify which countries are having the hardest time with coronavirus, the United States, yes, we are having a rough time with coronavirus. It is not even close to the countries that are having the toughest time with coronavirus. How can we tell? Because what doesn't matter is the number of cases diagnosed. What does matter is the number of cases of deaths over the number of cases a country has. That would be a good measure. Truly, because

you cannot measure the ability of a country to deal with a crisis by simply the bottom line

number as to how many people have experienced the crisis. It's how those people actually

recover from the crisis, how many people die. So while it is true that the United States now has the most

cases of diagnosed coronavirus, that is largely because China has undoubtedly been lying

about the coronavirus situation in China. Supposedly, according to China, they're having like

25 new cases of coronavirus a day. Does anyone believe that? Literally the day after they

expelled American journalists, they apparently stopped testing in China. That is according to sources

inside China. Beyond that, the United States right now, as of now, has about 86,000 confirmed

cases of coronavirus in the United States without 1,300 deaths. Okay, that's not spectacular,

but that means a death rate of approximately

1.3%. Italy has 81,000 cases of coronavirus and 8,200 deaths. So, 8 times as many deaths as the

United States about, seven times, eight times about as many deaths as the United States, and fewer

diagnosed cases. Spain has 64,000 diagnosed cases, nearly 5,000 deaths. So the notion that the United States and fewer diagnosed cases. Spain has 64,000 diagnosed cases and nearly 5,000

deaths. So the notion that the United States is a bleep hole country because of the number of

coronavirus diagnoses is ridiculous. I mean, France has more deaths right now and they only have 30,000

diagnosed cases. By the way, nationalized health care systems in most of these places. So the kind of triumphalism, a very weird triumphalism you're seeing from the media, well, now that the United States has the most coronavirus cases, that demonstrates that the United States is the worst country. Or alternatively, it demonstrates that you don't understand math. So maybe we have the worst math programs in the country, because the idiots don't understand what a numerator and a denominator are in terms of determining rates. But with that said, again, the United States is dealing with this thing so far. And the big question is going to be whether coronavirus overcomes the capacity of the health care system. That has been the question for a long time. I've been talking about it on the program for weeks at this point when we talk about flattening the curve the point of flattening the curve

is not that everyone will not eventually get coronavirus. In all likelihood, everyone will eventually get coronavirus. The question is whether that swamps our capacity to deal with it. And right now, it is unclear exactly how much we are going to be swamped because we're seeing reports that suggest we're going to be swamped. The media obviously are trying to kind of get ahead of

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