You're in the freedom hot. Thanks for listening to the Bucksexton show podcast. Get the latest

from Buck at Bucksexton.com. We got two pandemics going on in this country right now. That

much should be clear. We have this terrible COVID-19 pandemic that has now killed a few

hundred thousand Americans. December, I'm sorry, January of 2021, the worst month yet for

deaths over 90,000 Americans died in that month, according to the latest CDC numbers. But there's

also an encouraging trend on the other side of the equation of cases going down pretty substantially,

about in the 20 to 30 percent range for the last over the last two weeks. Hospitalizations also

also down. See, the 14 day change in cases according to the New York Times, 32 percent

hospitalizations, 19 percent. So hospitalizations even more important than cases, as we know,

we're most concerned about severe disease here. I'm not the spread of this to people who are

essentially going to have almost no symptoms or problem with whatsoever. But what I think everyone

starting to figure out now, I mean, if you're paying attention to this, and certainly if you listen

to this show, you know that we got a really big problem here with how we're going to get out of this

mess. Because it's increasingly clear that no matter how many people get vaccinated, and no matter

how low hospitalizations and deaths may fall, there's a large segment of the US population that will

demand masking and social distancing for the rest of 2021, at least, because we have, as I said,

two pandemics, or you could say this way, we have a mass hysteria disorder as well as a viral pandemic.

Got two things happening here simultaneously. The American people have been so conditioned

by a media that exploits and mobilizes fear for its own purposes that the American people are now

by and large, incapable in many places and many states and many cities of having a rational,

reasonable conversation about what society, well, what risks society can take, what they can accept.

We're being set up for this absurd, absolutely absurd, standard of essentially no risk whatsoever

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