Restrictions ease across the globe as the world holds its breath. The media remain as frivolous

and ever, and so to our politicians. And we examine what it's like to have a baby in a time of

coronavirus. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN.

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474747 for more information. Okay, so the world is beginning to unlock. The lockdowns are starting

to end, not just in the United States, but everywhere. And one of the things that's always been very weird about how the media have treated the situation in the United States is that they're treating the situation in the United States as though the United States exists in a vacuum. It doesn't. Other places in the world saw deaths arising about the same time as the United States, and many of them are starting to relieve lockdowns at the same time as the United States, countries that were much harder hit than the United States. Here is the reality of the situation, by the way. The United States was really hard hit in one place, New York. Every other place in the United States, we had some places that were sort of moderately hit. But in terms of broad span United States, if you took New York out of the calculations, meaning its population, as well as the number of deaths from coronavirus, the United States has the same about number of deaths per 100,000 residents from coronavirus as Germany does.

And Germany is leading the pack right now in terms of Western European countries and how they are doing with this thing.

So it really is New York centric. New York is an oddity because New York is so crowded, because the rates of transmission are higher in New York simply because people are right on top of each other taking the subway. That doesn't really exist anywhere else in the United States in the same way that it does in New York, which is why New York City has seen 12,000 or so deaths. And those are just the ones that have been counted. The truth is it's probably a little bit higher. Other places in the world that have been harder hit, places like Spain, places like Italy, these are places that are starting to relieve their lockdowns right now. According to the AP, Spain let children go outside and play Sunday for the first time in six weeks as European countries methodically work to ease their lockdowns and reopen their economies, while governors in the United States moved at differing speeds, some more aggressive, others more cautious. Around the world, China's state-run media, said that hospitals in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the disaster, no longer have any COVID-19 patients after a crisis in which the city recorded nearly 4,000 deaths. Now, do we believe China on that? Probably not. They've actually locked down movie theaters again in Beijing. So that suggests that this thing is not, in fact, dead. So anything that comes out of Beijing cannot be trusted. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Britain is planning to be back at his desk Monday at 10 Downing Street after he had coronavirus. Governors in states like New York and Michigan are keeping stay-at-home restrictions in place until at least mid-May. But even those governors are starting to figure out exactly how they transition back to regular

life, especially for people who are not in major urban areas, major cities with heavy population

densities. Their counterparts in places like Georgia, Oklahoma, Alaska are starting to allow

certain businesses to reopen. Churches in Montana began holding in-person services again on Sunday,

and that does make some sense because, again, a lot of these states have not been heavily damaged.

A lot of these states never went into lockdown in the first place, and were still not heavily

damaged. And it is important to recognize that it was failures in specifically high population

places that led to certain things getting out of control.

New York City did not lock down until very late. Bill de Blasio did not lock down New York City until nearly the end of March, like a full week after the entire state of California locked

down. Andrew Cuomo still had a rule in place for weeks that if you were infected with coronavirus

and you were elderly, they had to accept you back at your nursing home, which is like the worst idea ever. They did the same thing in California, by the way.

In Italy, one of the big reasons that things when it raged out of control in Italy is specifically

because it was high population density and also because of the demographics and health care

deficiencies, according to the Associated Press. Firologists and epidemiologists say what went wrong in Lombardi will be studied for years, given how the outbreak overwhelmed the medical system long considered to be one of Europe's best, while in the neighboring Veneto region, the impact was significantly more controlled. Lombardy's frontline doctors and nurses are being hailed as heroes for risking their lives to treat the sick under extraordinary levels of stress, exhaustion, isolation, and fear. What exactly happened? Well, Italy was the first European country to halt to all air traffic with China on January 31st, even put scanners and airports to check arrivals for fever. But by January 31st, it was already too late. Epidemiologists now say the virus had been circulating widely in Lombardy since early January, if not before. And that is at least partly the fault of China, which was still lying to the World Health Organization and saying there was no human to human transmission. Doctors treating pneumonia in January and February didn't know it was the coronavirus because the symptoms were so similar and the virus was still believed to be largely confined to China. Even after Italy registered a February 21st case, which was its first death,

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