Well, welcome back to the Bill Bennett show. It's the podcast that translates

Donald Trump. We take a look at the current administration and we address the

existential threats to America. Trump's not one of them. Neither is COVID-19.

It's serious and that people die from it. We've got to take it seriously, but it is not a national catastrophe or a deadly pandemic of any dimension.

Joining me today, Brian Kennedy, president of the American Strategy Group.

I'm a fellow of the American Strategy Group here in Washington.

Brian is also the chairman of the Committee on the present danger, China.

Few things I'd like to discuss. let me get them off my chest.

I just saw a feature on the news blasting across children at risk from COVID-19.

Do you know how many children have died from COVID-19 in America, long? Four. Sadness, incredible sadness

for every one of them in their families, but four. How many kids do you think die going

to school or coming home from school every month in America?

10, 20, 30? I mean, you know, again, one regrets these things, but let's not make it the end of the world.

I want to talk some more length. Maybe next time we do a

podcast about education, just education in this COVID-19. I think there's some real question

about the effectiveness of lockdown rates.

Let me put it simply, if you look at the states that had early lockdown and the states that had later lockdown,

not much difference if you do it per capita, not much difference. If you do it per capita, not much difference. I'm not a

skeptic about social distancing or those things I find be careful, wear a

mask if you're worried about things. But these lockdown orders just sort of

of generally applied across the country, made some sense somewhere, but a lot of nonsense

in other places. We started this show with a cut from Billy Joel's New York State of Mind,

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