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[00:00.000 --> 00:06.040]  I'm Dave Champion, and you are weak.
[00:06.040 --> 00:09.000]  So your government would have you believe.
[00:09.000 --> 00:16.400]  We're seeing all over the media today headlines about COVID fatigue and pandemic fatigue.
[00:16.400 --> 00:19.880]  Here's an example just from the Washington Post concerning Thanksgiving.
[00:20.440 --> 00:24.880]  Clearly, according to the government, you just can't hang.
[00:32.600 --> 00:38.000]  OK, so pandemic fatigue is the latest PR stunt by the government and the media.
[00:38.000 --> 00:46.240]  And the implication is that you are too mentally weak to stay focused on what is important,
[00:46.240 --> 00:48.160]  that you are failing.
[00:48.160 --> 00:50.440]  The government is doing everything they can.
[00:50.440 --> 00:51.280]  They're doing it right.
[00:51.280 --> 00:57.080]  And you, you irresponsible people, you citizens of this country, you are failing.
[00:57.080 --> 01:00.240]  That's the message, the implied message.
[01:00.240 --> 01:03.640]  This whole pandemic fatigue is communicating.
[01:03.640 --> 01:06.280]  Yes, that's not at all what's happening.
[01:06.280 --> 01:13.560]  As we're headed almost 10 months into this thing, what's really happening is millions
[01:13.560 --> 01:18.560]  upon millions upon millions of Americans are starting to understand,
[01:18.560 --> 01:22.360]  if they didn't already understand, they are coming to an understanding
[01:22.360 --> 01:29.440]  that the government's response to SARS-CoV-2 has been dramatically over the top.
[01:29.440 --> 01:33.960]  A lot of people suspect political or totalitarian reasons for that.
[01:33.960 --> 01:37.680]  I'm not going to go there today, but yeah, I'm one of these people who agree
[01:37.680 --> 01:41.400]  that this perhaps should have been the government's response,
[01:41.440 --> 01:44.840]  and this is what the government's response was to SARS-CoV-2?
[01:44.840 --> 01:47.680]  Yeah, it's insane, and people are waking up to that.
[01:47.680 --> 01:51.520]  The second thing people are waking up to is that the government cannot stop the spread
[01:51.520 --> 01:52.440]  of the virus.
[01:52.440 --> 01:59.200]  If the government could have stopped the spread of a virus, it would be stopped.
[01:59.200 --> 02:05.120]  There is no case, there is no circumstance anywhere when you have a readily contagious
[02:05.120 --> 02:09.240]  disease, which is something distinct from things like HIV that require exchange
[02:09.240 --> 02:13.360]  of intimate bodily fluids, something that's readily communicable.
[02:13.360 --> 02:17.520]  There is not a single case in world history where government action has ever stopped it,
[02:17.520 --> 02:22.360]  and people in the United States are finally realizing, wait,
[02:22.360 --> 02:27.320]  I thought the government was telling the truth when they said that if they mandated all
[02:27.320 --> 02:32.120]  this stuff, they could stop it, but it's not stopping.
[02:32.120 --> 02:36.320]  And number three, in the final analysis, no matter what government mandates,
[02:36.360 --> 02:41.920]  it's not government that would, in theory, according to government, be stopping SARS-CoV-2.
[02:41.920 --> 02:46.120]  It's the public, and the public is waking up to the fact that there's nothing they can do.
[02:46.120 --> 02:51.360]  It doesn't matter how much the government oppresses them in an effort to stop the virus.
[02:51.360 --> 03:00.440]  It's society, you and me, the people of this country are powerless, 100% powerless to stop
[03:00.440 --> 03:03.800]  the spread of the virus, and I think people are finally figuring that out.
[03:03.800 --> 03:07.960]  And it's a lot less scary now that they can look back over the last 10 months and see,
[03:07.960 --> 03:12.400]  yeah, OK, a lot of people have died, you know, more than 200,000 people, and that's bad.
[03:12.400 --> 03:15.840]  But it's not like the government and the media have been telling us.
[03:15.840 --> 03:21.720]  If this virus were as bad as the government and the media were trying to make the American
[03:21.720 --> 03:25.920]  public believe it is, there would be no mandates needed.
[03:25.920 --> 03:31.560]  You wouldn't have to mandate social distancing because the public would be like, stay away,
[03:31.640 --> 03:35.440]  and I'm staying away from you because I don't want to get really, really, really sick, and
[03:35.440 --> 03:37.000]  I don't want to die.
[03:37.000 --> 03:39.360]  You would not have to mandate masks.
[03:39.360 --> 03:44.040]  People would be wearing the full face mask because they don't want to get really sick
[03:44.040 --> 03:45.420]  and they don't want to die.
[03:45.420 --> 03:48.680]  The technology is out there if people wanted to go there.
[03:48.680 --> 03:55.480]  No one's going there because everybody's aware this is not that kind of virus.
[03:55.480 --> 04:00.320]  So again, my point is, if it was really as bad as government and media are trying to
[04:00.320 --> 04:05.280]  brainwash the American people to believe it is, mandates would be unnecessary.
[04:05.280 --> 04:08.360]  All you'd have to do is do a public service announcement, here's what you need to do,
[04:08.360 --> 04:12.480]  and people would be doing that and more if it was really as horrendous as government
[04:12.480 --> 04:14.480]  and media want the American people to believe.
[04:14.480 --> 04:19.480]  And of course, as more and more Americans are waking up to the truth that it's not
[04:19.480 --> 04:24.480]  anywhere near as bad as government and media want the public to believe, I want to give
[04:24.480 --> 04:31.440]  you some examples of exactly how badly the government is acting, like just horrifically
[04:31.440 --> 04:32.440]  irresponsible.
[04:32.440 --> 04:36.540]  Okay, so here in my state of Nevada, and I know you all have your own stories about your
[04:36.540 --> 04:41.160]  own crazy governors, but here in Nevada, just I don't know, maybe 48 hours ago, Governor
[04:41.160 --> 04:47.440]  Sisolak held a press conference where he talked about this pandemic fatigue and he basically
[04:47.440 --> 04:52.920]  pleaded with the people of Nevada to please do the right thing, be responsible.
[04:52.920 --> 04:56.720]  So are new infections in the state of Nevada increasing?
[04:56.720 --> 05:00.920]  So let's, as always with me, let's look at the data from the graphs.
[05:00.920 --> 05:07.240]  So yeah, as you can see, looking at this graph, new daily infections are rising considerably.
[05:07.240 --> 05:09.320]  I don't think anybody would argue that.
[05:09.320 --> 05:15.520]  However, in contrast to that, what's happening to daily deaths?
[05:15.520 --> 05:22.560]  Yeah, as you can see right here, they are utterly collapsing.
[05:23.000 --> 05:27.680]  I believe it was September 18th, so we're probably talking six weeks now.
[05:27.680 --> 05:33.240]  Most of these days in the entire state of Nevada, the daily deaths have been single
[05:33.240 --> 05:38.980]  digits, six or seven, occasionally they'll get to be like 11 or 14.
[05:38.980 --> 05:42.480]  But here's the point I want to make about how irresponsible government is, and I'm using
[05:42.480 --> 05:45.480]  Sisolak as an example, and I've got a few more for you, okay.
[05:45.480 --> 05:54.160]  So Governor Sisolak thinks this is big news that everyone needs to know and hear about.
[05:54.160 --> 06:01.440]  But he thinks this doesn't merit a single comment.
[06:01.440 --> 06:02.440]  That's right.
[06:02.440 --> 06:08.560]  At his press conference, he never mentioned the collapsing death toll in the state of
[06:08.560 --> 06:09.560]  Nevada.
[06:09.560 --> 06:11.240]  Now I'm just going to posit a question here.
[06:11.240 --> 06:18.560]  If infections are going up but deaths are plummeting, first of all, wouldn't that
[06:18.560 --> 06:21.160]  be an important thing to acknowledge?
[06:21.160 --> 06:30.800]  Second of all, if you're having infections that don't result in deaths, why do you care?
[06:30.800 --> 06:36.420]  Switching to the state of Utah, the government now has this thing called wireless emergency
[06:36.420 --> 06:37.420]  alert.
[06:37.420 --> 06:41.080]  You're probably familiar with it in terms of like an amber alert where your phone makes
[06:41.080 --> 06:45.880]  this incredibly loud screeching noise and you look and there's a message from the government
[06:45.880 --> 06:49.320]  telling you in the case of amber alerts about a missing child, right.
[06:49.320 --> 07:00.400]  Okay, so now the state of Utah sent out to every cell phone in the state an emergency
[07:00.400 --> 07:05.240]  message, not about a missing child, about SARS-CoV-2.
[07:05.240 --> 07:08.920]  Let me read you what the message said.
[07:08.920 --> 07:15.560]  State of Utah, COVID-19 is spreading rapidly, record cases, almost every county is a high
[07:15.560 --> 07:19.960]  transmission area, hospitals are nearly overwhelmed.
[07:19.960 --> 07:27.400]  Okay, so first of all, the obvious, COVID-19 is not spreading, COVID-19 is a disease.
[07:27.400 --> 07:33.320]  The allegation should be that the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 is spreading, the disease is
[07:33.320 --> 07:34.320]  not spreading.
[07:34.320 --> 07:37.560]  And then there's the part about hospitals nearly being overwhelmed.
[07:37.680 --> 07:44.760]  Okay, so first of all, nearly, okay, yeah, that's government for you and overwhelmed.
[07:44.760 --> 07:47.520]  Overwhelming would be bad, right.
[07:47.520 --> 07:53.560]  So what happened was this, after this message went out throughout all of Utah, some activists
[07:53.560 --> 07:59.920]  got on the phone and called hospitals in their community and said, I want to know if you
[07:59.920 --> 08:04.240]  are, as per the message, overwhelmed.
[08:04.320 --> 08:09.960]  None of these activists all across Utah, none of them found a single hospital that said,
[08:09.960 --> 08:11.720]  yeah, we're overwhelmed.
[08:11.720 --> 08:15.400]  The typical response was, yeah, we're seeing a bit of an uptick and we're shifting some
[08:15.400 --> 08:19.680]  people around, but we're not a capacity or anything like that.
[08:19.680 --> 08:24.240]  So that reality is why the state of Utah needed to scam every single person with a cell phone
[08:24.240 --> 08:27.400]  in Utah by including the word nearly.
[08:27.400 --> 08:32.320]  So they can say, we didn't say they were overwhelmed, we said nearly.
[08:32.320 --> 08:35.280]  Well, the scam is worse than that because I talked about this months and months and
[08:35.280 --> 08:39.680]  months and months and months ago when the media was doing all of this about hospitals
[08:39.680 --> 08:42.600]  being overwhelmed back then, okay.
[08:42.600 --> 08:49.560]  So shortly after the virus kicked in, the initial round in February and March and going
[08:49.560 --> 08:56.080]  into late March and early April, every single hospital that handled COVID cases, they create
[08:56.120 --> 09:02.560]  or they initiated, long since been in existence, but they initiated the pod format.
[09:02.560 --> 09:07.000]  So whether we're talking about ICU to handle COVID, whether we're talking about just a
[09:07.000 --> 09:10.600]  COVID ward, the hospitals have a pod system.
[09:10.600 --> 09:12.680]  So I'll give you an example of what that means.
[09:12.680 --> 09:15.400]  A pod might be 20 beds.
[09:15.400 --> 09:20.240]  So if they've got eight beds occupied, no sweat, right?
[09:20.240 --> 09:23.800]  12 beds occupied, no sweat.
[09:23.840 --> 09:25.640]  16 beds occupied.
[09:25.640 --> 09:27.640]  Hmm, okay, that means we have four beds.
[09:27.640 --> 09:32.320]  So we better take a look and see how frequently we're getting new people into the COVID ICU
[09:32.320 --> 09:33.920]  or the COVID ward.
[09:33.920 --> 09:39.600]  If they determine that the time is right, they open another pod.
[09:39.600 --> 09:43.520]  They open another ward or another ICU with another 20 beds.
[09:43.520 --> 09:47.200]  It's usually the ICU has fewer beds than the wards do.
[09:47.200 --> 09:50.680]  Ward might have 20 or 25 beds, the ICU might have eight, right?
[09:51.320 --> 09:57.360]  Whether we're talking about ICU or we're talking about a ward, they open another pod.
[09:57.360 --> 10:01.720]  That's been going on since the beginning of the outbreak and the media knows this.
[10:01.720 --> 10:05.640]  And whoever this moron was who lied in the state of Utah, who pressed the trigger on
[10:05.640 --> 10:08.400]  that lie that went out, they know it too.
[10:08.400 --> 10:14.080]  So when they say they're nearly overwhelmed, in reality, what they're saying is, hey man,
[10:14.080 --> 10:21.760]  we might have to open another pod, which clearly takes away the whole concept of overwhelmed,
[10:21.760 --> 10:26.400]  unless you're government and media just trying to lie to the American people and panic them.
[10:26.400 --> 10:30.520]  Can you imagine if a government official, not just in Utah, any state, sent out saying
[10:30.520 --> 10:38.120]  amber alert that was false, the girl was not missing or had not been kidnapped?
[10:38.120 --> 10:40.280]  And they knew that and they just sent the message out.
[10:40.440 --> 10:44.120]  First of all, the media would absolutely crucify the person.
[10:44.120 --> 10:48.160]  And then the person would very likely face termination.
[10:48.160 --> 10:51.920]  That's the same thing, whoever this individual is, in the state of Utah.
[10:51.920 --> 10:56.520]  Whoever put this message together and sent it out should be crucified by the media,
[10:56.520 --> 11:00.920]  but won't be, and should be terminated, but won't be.
[11:00.920 --> 11:07.120]  For me, one of the most disturbing things about the last nine months has not been
[11:07.120 --> 11:10.000]  government action because I have no faith or confidence in government.
[11:10.040 --> 11:14.680]  I don't believe the government is there doing the right thing for us or any of that nonsense.
[11:14.680 --> 11:16.160]  Governments are there to perpetuate more.
[11:16.160 --> 11:19.200]  Government politicians are there to get re-elected, not to serve the people.
[11:19.200 --> 11:26.320]  Anything they do for the people is only in pursuance of their goal of getting re-elected.
[11:26.320 --> 11:31.520]  So I'm not really, I mean, yeah, I'd like to see the government not doing the incredible
[11:31.520 --> 11:36.840]  overreach, the incredible over-the-top response, the lies, and I would love for the government
[11:36.840 --> 11:37.840]  not to do that.
[11:38.000 --> 11:40.120]  But that isn't the most disturbing part to me.
[11:40.120 --> 11:44.320]  What has been the most disturbing to me over the last nine months has been the conduct
[11:44.320 --> 11:46.520]  of my fellow Americans.
[11:46.520 --> 11:51.880]  Clearly, intelligence is lacking, common sense is lacking.
[11:51.880 --> 11:57.360]  I would say courage is lacking, but once you show common sense and intelligence, you don't
[11:57.360 --> 11:59.120]  even need much courage to face this.
[11:59.120 --> 12:02.240]  I guess maybe we could say you need the courage to face the truth that this really isn't
[12:02.240 --> 12:04.760]  what the government and the media is communicating.
[12:04.760 --> 12:17.680]  But oh my God, the submissiveness, the obedience, the whatever-you-say-government, man, talk
[12:17.680 --> 12:20.960]  about un-American conduct.
[12:20.960 --> 12:21.960]  But that is the backdrop.
[12:21.960 --> 12:26.760]  Let me share with you the story of something that just happened to a friend of mine this
[12:26.760 --> 12:27.760]  morning.
[12:27.760 --> 12:31.920]  He lives in California and he went to a Skechers outlet store.
[12:31.920 --> 12:36.960]  He's in the store and he's looking around and an employee walks up and says, you're
[12:36.960 --> 12:40.280]  going to need to put a mask on to be in the store.
[12:40.280 --> 12:42.360]  My buddy, he doesn't wear a mask.
[12:42.360 --> 12:45.760]  So he says to the guy, okay, I'll tell you what, I'll be happy to put a mask on.
[12:45.760 --> 12:49.240]  As soon as you get your corporate office on the phone, and the corporate office verifies
[12:49.240 --> 12:53.080]  that every single customer has to be wearing a mask in order to be in your store.
[12:53.080 --> 12:56.280]  So run along, go get the corporate office on the phone.
[12:56.280 --> 12:58.400]  That's what they say, then I'll put a mask on.
[12:58.400 --> 13:00.520]  But the employee, of course, doesn't do that.
[13:00.960 --> 13:07.440]  What the employee did next, by any measure, is incredibly shocking.
[13:07.440 --> 13:12.120]  There were about two dozen other customers in the store, other than my friend, who conveyed
[13:12.120 --> 13:14.560]  the story to me of what happened.
[13:14.560 --> 13:22.400]  The employee goes to the other two dozen customers in the store and herds them all to the back
[13:22.400 --> 13:23.400]  of the store.
[13:23.400 --> 13:24.400]  You have to go to the back of the store.
[13:24.400 --> 13:25.720]  Please go to the back of the store right now.
[13:25.720 --> 13:33.000]  She herds them all to the back of the store so that they're safe from that customer
[13:33.000 --> 13:35.840]  who won't put a mask on.
[13:35.840 --> 13:41.480]  Now, the employee's conduct in and of itself is appalling.
[13:41.480 --> 13:45.040]  But back to the original premise of this, just the part that has really disturbed me
[13:45.040 --> 13:51.760]  about the response of the American public, those two dozen people allowed themselves
[13:51.760 --> 13:58.440]  to be herded into a group in the back of the store by some snot-nosed kid, minimum-wage
[13:58.440 --> 14:02.080]  retail employee.
[14:02.080 --> 14:08.280]  Some punk kid told them, oh, you have to go to the back of the store because I say so.
[14:08.280 --> 14:10.520]  And they did.
[14:10.520 --> 14:15.080]  One might imagine I have some big punchline to that story.
[14:15.080 --> 14:17.320]  I don't.
[14:17.320 --> 14:24.600]  The story is the punchline to the entire last nine months.
[14:24.600 --> 14:31.080]  The story illustrates, I don't even know what to call it.
[14:31.080 --> 14:34.440]  I'm not going to call it cowardice because I don't know that any of those people felt
[14:34.440 --> 14:40.960]  cowardly at that moment, fearful, I probably weren't fearful of anything, submissiveness
[14:41.960 --> 14:47.960]  certainly, obedience even to a snot-nosed kid working in a retail store.
[14:47.960 --> 14:53.840]  Americans are willing to be submissive and obedient to some minimum-wage retail worker
[14:53.840 --> 14:57.880]  who tells them get to the back of the store.
[14:57.880 --> 15:04.600]  Not one, this is the important part, I suppose, not one of them said, are you fucking kidding
[15:04.600 --> 15:05.600]  me?
[15:05.600 --> 15:08.800]  Shut the fuck up, you little punk, and went about what they were doing.
[15:08.800 --> 15:12.840]  Because I would have done, I'm not saying it's polite or appropriate, but are you trying
[15:12.840 --> 15:13.840]  to hurt me?
[15:13.840 --> 15:14.840]  I would have said, shut the fuck up.
[15:14.840 --> 15:18.280]  I came here to shop not to listen to your dumb ass tell me what I have to do.
[15:18.280 --> 15:20.240]  Get the fuck away from me.
[15:20.240 --> 15:24.960]  That's almost certainly how I would have responded because I don't cotton well to being herded
[15:24.960 --> 15:31.960]  by little punks with some virtue signaling agenda.
[15:31.960 --> 15:33.440]  That's not who I am.
[15:33.440 --> 15:40.520]  But it is, apparently, who the vast, vast majority of Americans are now, today.