Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is my home, my office, my dog. I don't even

have to introduce him anymore. Everybody knows he's auto. Auto knows that when

the camera arrives, he goes into position. It's a very funny thing to see

actually. We should try to actually video auto getting into position at one

time. It's very funny. Anyway, welcome. This is my fireside chat and it's a

chance for me to just talk to you completely spontaneously. It's not scripted.

There's no teleprompter. It's a chance for you to know me better and ultimately

through your questions for me to know you better as well. But obviously for you

to know me as a person and not just as person offering ideas. Obviously, I offer

ideas, but it's it's it's very real. I love real. And that's what this is about.

So I'm going to talk to you about something happening at this very moment.

Normally, I don't address immediate issues because I want every one of the

fireside chats to be important five years from now, 10 years from now. That's

actually something that is important to me. These things I want to have a life

of their own. By the way, in this instance, it should have a life of its own

because I'm going to talk to you philosophically about an issue that's

happening at this moment, specifically COVID-19. And that is the coronavirus. So

there's a massive amount of panic going on. I'll talk about America right now

because I want to address specific countries that have been more affected than

the United States, but the United States has been affected about 30 people. They

say have died from from the coronavirus. And I don't agree, for example, about

closing down schools, universities, all public events. I don't I don't support

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