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's 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

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