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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

Fireside Chat Ep. 130 — Has the Lockdown Worked?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Yet again, predictive computer models fail to predict. The coronavirus variance from region to region appears to contradict those models—and the quarantine and lockdown strategies recommended by experts do as well. What to make of it all? Dennis offers his thoughts. Dennis's column referenced: https://l.prageru.com/34IO2Sz 0:00 Stuffed Version Of Your Dog? 1:06 What “The Economy” Actually Means 3:24 Experts Influencing Policy 5:37 Knowledge Vs. Wisdom 7:41 Good Intentions Without Wisdom 8:51 Lockdown Affecting The World 11:08 Are Fewer Deaths Due To Lockdown? 14:06 Otto Interruption 14:35 What About Florida? 16:25 Terrible Prices Being Paid 18:24 Why Do We Raise The Speed Limit? 19:08 Approach To Stimulus Checks 21:09 Debt Due To Government Help 23:50 Prayer: God Is Not Our Butler 26:23 Success And Character 27:50 Bigger Government, Smaller Citizen 30:17 Dog Chaos Builds, See You Next Week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is the Fireside Chat, the Fireside, the Chat, the

0:05.5

Dologato. Otto's excited tonight and I don't know exactly why. No, I really don't

0:14.6

know exactly why. You're really a full of life today Otto. That's the man. He's very

0:22.1

popular at O for good reason. By the way, somebody sent me an ad, some company put

0:28.3

out where they will make a stuffed version of your dog. It was a debate between my wife

0:35.3

and me as as to whether or not one would want that. She thought it was a lot of fun and

0:44.2

cute and I thought, I don't know, it's sort of like demeans Otto. I mean, would I like a

0:52.4

stuffed example of me or one of my kids? But I don't want to answer from a morphicized

1:01.8

animal so maybe it's fine. It was just an interesting thought. Anyway, great to be with

1:06.5

you in this difficult time of the lockdown on much of the earth. It's hurting some people

1:13.6

horribly and that drives me crazy because I'm not sure that this was necessary and my

1:21.3

column this week, which I really, I don't normally make reference to but I hope you will

1:25.8

read. It's titled is this has the lockdown worked. I guess, yeah, I guess it could have

1:37.7

been cold as the lockdown necessary but has the lockdown worked and there's no, there's

1:44.1

no perfect way to know you'd have to ask some omniscient God, the omniscient God. You

1:50.8

know, has it worked? We were told that millions would die just in the United States alone, half

1:56.9

a million in Britain, for example, and was on the basis of that that the entire economy has been

2:03.7

ruined. But and you know, when you say the economy has been ruined, it sounds cold like

2:10.3

economy versus lives. Hey, come on, give me a break. But I'm not thinking economy. I'm thinking

2:16.8

of the devastation in people's lives. My life is not being devastated economically. I'm losing

2:23.2

money, but I'm in a wonderful position. And I don't mean losing money in stocks. I'm not an

2:28.7

investor. Just an income. I speak a great deal around the world and it's a factor in my life

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