Media Reporting Coronavirus Numbers Irresponsibly

I have, as you know, have had many, many questions about this whole thing which have not been made clear to me. As for example, the constant reporting on the number of cases. Why don't they report on the number of cases of flu? Tens of thousands have died from the flu this year, or this season to be precise, since October. It is an interesting question, is it not? Why is there not a constant chart ticker giving numbers of dead from the flu each year? Tens of thousands each year. 20,000, 30,000, 40,000. Number of cases. Do you have an answer to that? I don't have an answer to that. Why we won't do it in the future? Yeah, no, no, why we haven't done it in the past. I don't know why we won't do it in the future. Because we look— yes, exactly, because we accept it. It doesn't have— as I said originally, we don't give them a name. All they had to do was give the, the, this year's flu a name And everything that has happened could have been done with regard to that, shutting down everything, the tickers with the numbers. Well, let's hope I was right, obviously, and it was another panic. Uh, my, my feeling is that if indeed it turns out to have been another panic Nothing will change. Nothing. I, I have lived through enough of these to realize that it makes no difference. There are too many people who are easily panicked. There are too many people in whose interest— whose interest it is, and in whose interest it is to have panic. I mean, the fact that the press keeps reporting the number of cases of the coronavirus, of COVID-19— who cares? The issue is, does it hurt anybody? And yes, it does. It hurts some people. That's the number I need. It's quite remarkable. It breaks my heart, the number of people losing jobs. I mean, the hotel industry is teetering. The hotel industry. There's literally no one in a hotel. Yes, there's nobody in hotels. That's correct. You can't just have giant buildings. That's right. No, this is frightening. Okay, let's— Where's the Washington State? Dave in, uh, Rootsville, Washington. Hi. Hello. Hello. The reason— you can hear me right? Not great, but I hear you. Okay. The reason I called is because— no, no, you're breaking up. You're breaking up. Oh God, it's— I don't understand it. Isn't this 2020? Why are phones an issue? I don't know what to say. I'm sorry there. What he wanted to report is Washington changed martial state provision to include global warming. I looked that up, seeing I couldn't find it on the internet. So I really wish you would send me an email with that, then I would report it as such. I have to see backup for any of these things. Anyway, you know, I, I, I, Having said this, it doesn't make any sense to me that if there is a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, they will not have— they will not institute a state of emergency over climate change. That, they believe, is an existential threat to humanity. They haven't said that about the coronavirus.