Forget it, Lyman. It's China.

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Through the magic of the internet, AEI's Lyman Stone joins The Remnant all the way from Hong Kong to talk all things coronavirus: how we got here, the numbers, China's role in the outbreak, and where we go from here. Show Notes: -Lyman’s work at AEI -Hong Kong’s relative laxity during the pandemic -Problems with getting an accurate coronavirus death count -Siddhartha Sanghi retracts his claim about reduced deaths from social distancing -Chinese doctors disappearing -Jim Geraghty’s reporting on the Wuhan virology lab -Fauci Truthers -NY churches being “converted,” if you will, to field hospitals -Taiwan’s coronavirus travel ban policy -John Barry’s book on the 1918 flu -DrinkHydrant.com, promo code “dingo” at checkout

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0:00.0	Greetings, dear listeners. This is another exciting episode of the Remnant Podcast.
0:29.8	I am recording today from my sister-in-law's house because my house is full of human
0:37.9	oids again and I cannot rely on them not to leech off my Wi-Fi or create ambient noise and I can't
0:44.3	tell my wife not to. Today's episode is brought to you by Hydrint. We'll talk more about that in a
0:52.1	little bit and we have a very special guest, a very popular guest, among particularly an intensely
1:00.5	wonky subset or I should say vast majority of my podcast live censorship. And this is our first
1:07.6	international conversation. We have Limonstone, my colleague from the American Enterprise Institute. He's
1:16.5	in Addrink Fellow there and but he lives in Hong Kong. Limon, welcome back. I think this is your
1:22.9	third time. It is. I'm glad to be back. That's in a very elite club. I am honored to be in that
1:33.0	noble number. We have acquired a lot of new listeners, handsome listeners, since the last time you
1:45.2	were on. Before we get started, why do you explain to people just a little bit how long you've been in
1:50.5	Hong Kong while you're there, all that kind of stuff? Sure. I've been in Hong Kong now
1:57.8	coming up on two years this summer. We're here because my wife actually teaches English and
2:08.0	Bible in a Lutheran school here. I of course do the remote work thing that now 40% of America is
2:16.0	doing where I write and research for a variety of organizations and for a consulting company that I
2:22.0	own in the US. But yeah, so living kind of this double life sort of my Clark Kent personality,
2:34.2	I guess, is A.I. researcher and my Superman personality is like children's song leader in a
2:44.2	fucking school here. So what's life like in Hong Kong right now? Right now in Hong Kong, life is
2:55.5	pretty normal as long as there's less than four, less than five people gather together at a time.
3:00.6	But stores are open and stuff? Yeah, this is interesting, you know, local cultural things. In
3:09.7	Hong Kong, you have lots of small apartments that often have little or no kitchen, which means like
3:15.7	shutting down restaurants is not really like this is not an option. So what they do is you can't
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