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[00:00.800 --> 00:05.040]  I'm Dave Champion. A couple of days ago, I released a presentation in which I looked at
[00:05.040 --> 00:10.320]  a dozen randomly selected states to see what their SARS-CoV-2 numbers are doing as far as
[00:10.320 --> 00:16.720]  new daily infections. And just like the rest of the nation, the numbers have plummeted.
[00:16.720 --> 00:21.760]  So every morning, because I do things like this, I get up and I look and see what's going on with
[00:21.760 --> 00:28.240]  the SARS-CoV-2 numbers, educate myself, stay informed. This morning, I just randomly said,
[00:28.800 --> 00:34.400]  let me look at Minnesota. I had no idea what Minnesota's numbers were. And the numbers are
[00:34.400 --> 00:41.760]  since November 18th, they're down 93% in new daily infections. And that's the story across
[00:41.760 --> 00:51.200]  the entire country. So it got me thinking about acid testing, statewide reopening.
[00:58.960 --> 01:04.560]  Before I get to the issue of reopening a state, let's take a look at some of the fundamentals
[01:04.560 --> 01:10.240]  that we've been living with for the last 14 months. Let's start with wearing masks. And I
[01:10.240 --> 01:17.840]  want to start with the basic premise that research concerning the wearing of masks conducted over the
[01:17.840 --> 01:24.320]  last hundred years, not a single study, I think that's very important to understand, not one
[01:24.960 --> 01:31.600]  in a hundred years has ever concluded that having a population wear a mask will slow
[01:31.600 --> 01:37.040]  or stop the spread of a virus. I think that's so important for us to understand
[01:37.040 --> 01:43.440]  that there's this narrative that's going on that is completely unsupported by a hundred years of
[01:43.440 --> 01:50.480]  research. But since the narrative is what it is, let's look at what that narrative has been.
[01:50.640 --> 01:55.760]  It started, before this all got politicized, the recommendations by virtually every health
[01:55.760 --> 02:00.800]  organization in the world, most especially here in the United States, was wear a mask
[02:01.680 --> 02:11.040]  if social distancing is not feasible. That's an entirely different message than I think most
[02:11.040 --> 02:15.600]  Americans perceive the narrative to be today, which is step out of your house and wear a mask.
[02:16.560 --> 02:22.560]  Where did that narrative come from? It's always been, or before it was politicized, it always
[02:22.560 --> 02:30.160]  was by every reputable health organization, wear a mask when social distancing is not feasible.
[02:30.160 --> 02:35.680]  So why has it always been if social distancing is not feasible? Okay, so you've all heard the
[02:35.680 --> 02:42.800]  argument made by pro-maskers that will the mask stop the droplets? And that's true. Who could
[02:42.800 --> 02:48.640]  argue against that? If you've got effluvient coming out of your nose or spittle coming out
[02:48.640 --> 02:54.000]  of your mouth and you've got a mask, it's dramatically less likely to get on somebody
[02:54.000 --> 02:59.280]  else if you're wearing a mask, right? That's just common sense. But I want to use myself as
[02:59.280 --> 03:05.200]  an example. You can then look at it from your own perspective. Probably for my entire life,
[03:05.200 --> 03:09.920]  but I'm going to limit this conversation to the 14 months of the epidemic here in the United States.
[03:10.800 --> 03:21.200]  In those 14 months, I have never once sneezed on anyone. Sneezed in such a way that mucus from my
[03:21.200 --> 03:33.520]  nose got on anyone. Zero. I have not coughed on anyone. So whatever liquid might be in my mouth,
[03:34.480 --> 03:44.880]  has never spewed out onto anybody else. Not once. I have never spoken in such a way that
[03:44.880 --> 03:54.560]  spittle has flown out of my mouth onto somebody else's face. Never once. Those are the droplets.
[03:54.560 --> 03:58.720]  When you hear the mask stop the droplets, that's what people are talking about. It's not like
[03:58.720 --> 04:04.160]  droplets of sweat out of your armpit or you're passing gas. That's not what they're talking
[04:04.160 --> 04:09.120]  about. It's sneezing, coughing and talking in such a way that spittle leaves your mouth and gets on
[04:09.120 --> 04:14.960]  somebody else's face. That is what the droplet dialogue has been about. So I'm just going to
[04:14.960 --> 04:21.360]  use myself as the example. Since I've never done that in 14 months, what would a mask have accomplished?
[04:21.360 --> 04:27.440]  Because the mask is intended to stop something I'm not doing anyway. So that I think illustrates
[04:27.760 --> 04:34.880]  the societal programming. It doesn't matter what you're doing or not doing. Masks have become an
[04:34.880 --> 04:39.760]  article of allegiance. And of course, masks have become an issue of social programming,
[04:39.760 --> 04:44.160]  behavioral programming. Just a couple days ago, I had to go into Vegas for business and my
[04:44.160 --> 04:47.520]  significant other went with me. And as we're driving down the road, we had a bunch of things
[04:47.520 --> 04:53.280]  we had to get to. As we're driving down the road, she starts counting people walking down the sidewalk
[04:53.680 --> 04:57.440]  with masks. Now, I want to be very clear. It wasn't a cold day. They weren't keeping their face warm.
[04:57.440 --> 05:04.320]  It was 70 degrees, sunny, no wind, absolutely amazingly gorgeous, especially for February,
[05:04.320 --> 05:10.000]  the dead of winter, right? So she's counting people. By the time we were done running around,
[05:10.560 --> 05:18.240]  she was well over 60 people walking down the sidewalk by themselves on a beautiful day with
[05:19.120 --> 05:27.120]  amazing fresh air and sunshine. Muzzled. Social distancing. Scientists and researchers actually
[05:27.120 --> 05:32.960]  refer to it as physical distancing. To put out to the public, they call it social distancing. I guess
[05:32.960 --> 05:36.800]  they think that the public's going to be more receptive to that. But when you read research
[05:36.800 --> 05:43.040]  documents, they refer to it as physical distancing. And again, it's like if you're wearing a mask and
[05:43.040 --> 05:49.280]  you snot out of your nose, it's not going to get on somebody else. Social distancing, just like the
[05:49.280 --> 05:55.200]  mask scenario, is common sense. But just like the mask scenario that I discussed, if you're not,
[05:55.200 --> 05:58.400]  if spittle isn't coming out of your mouth, you're not sneezing on people, you're not coughing on
[05:58.400 --> 06:03.360]  people, then the mask is meaningless if you're not doing those things to begin with. Okay,
[06:03.360 --> 06:07.840]  so social distancing. Does it make sense? Sure. We're back to the droplet issue, right? That's
[06:07.840 --> 06:12.320]  what this all comes down to whenever you're talking about a contagious virus that causes
[06:12.320 --> 06:18.480]  an upper respiratory infection. It's all about the droplet. So the concept of physical distancing is
[06:18.480 --> 06:23.360]  if you have SARS-CoV-2, maybe you have COVID-19, which is the part where you start to get symptoms
[06:23.360 --> 06:29.840]  and you might tend to sneeze or cough on somebody, then if I stand, just to throw out an arbitrary
[06:29.840 --> 06:37.440]  number of feet, if I stand 12 feet from you, I'm not going to get whatever it is you're,
[06:37.440 --> 06:41.920]  whatever effluviate you're putting out, it's not going to get on me. Carry on, have a nice day.
[06:42.000 --> 06:49.920]  So physical distancing in that regard makes sense. However, with this whole physical distancing thing,
[06:49.920 --> 06:53.600]  everybody just listening to the media, they don't actually read the research. Okay, so here's
[06:54.160 --> 07:00.160]  the CDC, not the most reliable source of information. Nevertheless, the CDC initially said
[07:00.160 --> 07:07.200]  that you should not be within six feet. Okay, so you're not six feet, just they threw a dart
[07:07.200 --> 07:13.680]  at the dartboard instead of six feet. Okay, so you should not be within six feet of anyone
[07:13.680 --> 07:21.280]  during a pandemic for more than 15 minutes. That was their original thing, that your odds
[07:21.280 --> 07:27.040]  of getting SARS-CoV-2, if you're within six feet of an infected person for 15 minutes,
[07:27.040 --> 07:30.800]  your odds go up. Okay, now they're talking about face to face, having a conversation. They don't
[07:30.800 --> 07:36.880]  meet two people with their backs to one another. Okay, so within six feet, face to face for 15
[07:36.880 --> 07:43.440]  minutes. Then the next iteration is they said, well, it's not 15 minutes straight. If you talk
[07:43.440 --> 07:50.480]  to that person for three, five minute periods face to face, your odds are considerably higher
[07:50.480 --> 07:57.600]  of contracting SARS-CoV-2. But we're still back to the droplets thing. If I'm standing literally
[07:58.160 --> 08:06.080]  20, my face to face, 24 inches from you, and you have SARS-CoV-2 in you, and you don't cough on me,
[08:06.080 --> 08:10.960]  you don't sneeze on me, and you don't talk in such a way that spittle flies out of your mouth onto my
[08:10.960 --> 08:21.760]  face, it doesn't matter if I'm 24 inches away from you for five hours, because the virus doesn't just
[08:21.760 --> 08:27.360]  float around in the air. Okay, that was mythology at the beginning, that was a lot of click bait
[08:27.360 --> 08:32.640]  stuff. Viruses don't just float around in here. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. I love the whole
[08:32.640 --> 08:37.760]  social distancing in places like Home Depot and grocery stores, because remember, the masks are
[08:37.760 --> 08:41.920]  meant to stop the droplets. So we have to presume that somebody in some place like Home Depot,
[08:41.920 --> 08:46.320]  Walmart, the grocery store is going to be sneezing on you, coughing on you, or talking in such a way
[08:46.320 --> 08:50.320]  the spittle flies out of their mouth onto your face, right? Okay, so you're supposed to wear a
[08:50.320 --> 08:55.840]  mask if you can't social distance. But now we take the CDC advice concerning social distancing,
[08:55.840 --> 09:03.600]  and the problem, the threat, the risk is being face to face less than six feet with an infected
[09:03.600 --> 09:11.360]  person for five minutes, three different occasions. Okay, so does that ever happen in the grocery
[09:11.360 --> 09:15.360]  store? Okay, I'm a social guy, it might happen for me, but for the vast majority of people,
[09:15.360 --> 09:18.960]  it's not happening at Home Depot, it's not happening at the grocery store. So yeah,
[09:18.960 --> 09:25.040]  this whole construct is just so ridiculous when you know what the research actually indicates.
[09:25.840 --> 09:32.960]  Alright, so having reviewed the rules, the principles behind mask wearing and
[09:32.960 --> 09:40.800]  physical distancing, now let's get on to reopening the states. And I want to be the first one to say
[09:40.800 --> 09:46.640]  what I'm about to suggest is absolutely not going to happen, because there are idiots in charge of
[09:46.640 --> 09:51.120]  a whole bunch of states. So we take a state like South Dakota, where you, Christine Ohm is the
[09:51.120 --> 09:57.360]  governor, she's been a shining light for liberty throughout this whole thing. And her state had,
[09:57.360 --> 10:02.640]  I think the last time I looked, which was four or five days ago, a 98% reduction in new daily
[10:02.640 --> 10:08.400]  infections, they're almost down to zero. So somebody like Christine Ohm, who gets it,
[10:08.400 --> 10:15.120]  would probably do what I'm about to suggest. But she never locked her state down, she never
[10:15.120 --> 10:20.560]  imposed draconian measures in the first place, so there's nothing for a rational person with
[10:20.560 --> 10:25.120]  common sense like Christine Ohm to do, because she never did the bad stuff in the first place.
[10:25.120 --> 10:29.600]  So now we have to look at places like New York with Cuomo, and California with Newsom,
[10:29.600 --> 10:36.400]  and my home state here in Nevada with the Idiot Sisolak. So are these guys going to be the ones
[10:37.760 --> 10:44.720]  to acid test reopening? Alright, so let me tell you what I mean by acid testing reopening.
[10:45.680 --> 10:52.640]  New daily infections are in freefall in every state of the union. The United States has reached
[10:52.640 --> 11:00.640]  comprehensive natural herd immunity and the cases are freefalling. So once your population has hit
[11:00.640 --> 11:07.520]  herd immunity, there's a very rare circumstance in which cases can go back up just a little bit,
[11:07.520 --> 11:11.760]  just a wee bit. But that's not what we're talking about here. I want to be very clear about that.
[11:12.320 --> 11:17.360]  That's something that's going to come into play come spring. We'll see a little uptick,
[11:17.360 --> 11:20.640]  but that's a different discussion than we're having now. I want to be clear though that there
[11:20.640 --> 11:26.320]  is that going to happen. So right now with the nation in herd immunity in cases across the
[11:26.320 --> 11:35.760]  country in freefall, the numbers cannot go back up. That's what herd immunity is all about.
[11:35.760 --> 11:40.800]  Once a community has hit this gigantic pool of people who've been infected already,
[11:40.800 --> 11:43.600]  whether or not they got the disease is a whole other issue. They've been infected,
[11:43.600 --> 11:48.160]  they have the antibodies, and so your pool of susceptible people getting smaller and smaller
[11:48.160 --> 11:53.600]  and smaller, the cases are never going to rise because this is the population that would be
[11:53.600 --> 11:57.280]  required to get it for the numbers to rise and they've already had it and have antibodies and
[11:57.280 --> 12:05.520]  are immune. So once you've hit herd immunity, cases cannot rise. The only place cases can rise
[12:05.520 --> 12:10.960]  is in this small percentage of people who are still susceptible. And that brings us back to
[12:10.960 --> 12:14.240]  the spring thing, which I'm not going to get into today. I'll probably make a video on that here in
[12:14.240 --> 12:19.920]  the coming future. So now let me wrap this all up. We've talked about the silliness of masks.
[12:20.480 --> 12:25.840]  We've talked about the fact that the reality of what physical distancing is, how it's supposed
[12:25.840 --> 12:31.680]  to work if you actually follow the research rather than the government and media dogma.
[12:32.160 --> 12:39.840]  So we wrap all that up with the fact that we're in herd immunity already. When I say acid test,
[12:39.840 --> 12:48.560]  I would love to see a governor simply say, you know what, we did all of these draconian things
[12:49.360 --> 12:54.720]  because numbers were going up. We'll leave aside whether or not all those things matter.
[12:56.320 --> 13:00.320]  We did all those things because the numbers were going up. But now that the numbers are
[13:00.320 --> 13:07.840]  in free fall, let's stop. Let's open our society back up. Now, the reason I say it's an acid test
[13:07.840 --> 13:12.400]  is if we could get one of these lame ass governors to do this, here's what you would see. The
[13:12.400 --> 13:18.960]  governor would say, wave his magic wand and say, I'm no longer exercising emergency powers. There's
[13:18.960 --> 13:25.680]  no mandate in the state anymore. There's no social distancing mandate. Every single business can
[13:25.680 --> 13:30.880]  reopen to full capacity. We're not screwing with you anymore. All of the measures that we took are
[13:30.880 --> 13:41.680]  now gone, zero. We're back to normal. The reason I say that's acid testing is because the cases
[13:42.480 --> 13:49.600]  would continue to plummet. But the mindset that they have is going to prevent them from doing
[13:49.600 --> 13:54.960]  what I just suggested, which would prove that we're in herd immunity. It would prove those
[13:54.960 --> 13:59.600]  measures were worthless in the first place, which they would never do in a million years.
[13:59.600 --> 14:04.000]  If they were smart, they'd take the heat for that and say, hey, look, we were learning on the fly.
[14:04.000 --> 14:09.040]  We were doing what we thought was right. It may have turned out that it wasn't the best or the
[14:09.040 --> 14:15.520]  smartest or the most productive, but we did it with good intent. We were looking out for you,
[14:15.520 --> 14:18.640]  even if that wasn't true. That's the way they should play this, right? Then they should say,
[14:18.640 --> 14:24.160]  but as soon as we realized that the cases weren't freefall, we'd hit herd immunity,
[14:24.720 --> 14:31.440]  I opened it back up immediately so our economy could get back in shape. People could get the
[14:31.440 --> 14:34.800]  surgeries they need. They could be diagnosed with the illnesses that they haven't treated
[14:34.800 --> 14:38.800]  by their doctors rather than staying away from the hospitals out of fear of being infected.
[14:38.800 --> 14:43.680]  Suicides would drop down. We could open schools. We'd have no more youth suicide. We'd have a lot
[14:43.680 --> 14:47.520]  fewer youth suicides because we'd have people back in a communal environment where they feel
[14:47.520 --> 14:54.640]  healthier. And on and on, these governors could own this. They could make this the most positive
[14:54.640 --> 15:08.240]  thing they've done in the last 14 months. But yeah, that's not who they are.