Space and technology the paris agreement was she said an incredible achievement but when pressed by committee members to explain exactly how much this treaty would reduce global temperatures she would not or could not say this combination of grand pronouncements and vague specifics is a good strategy for paris agreement fans to take
Because the agreement will cost a fortune but do little to reduce global warming consider the obama administration’s signature climate policy the clean power plan using the same climate prediction model that the un uses i found that the power plan will accomplish almost nothing even if its cuts to carbon dioxide emissions
Are fully implemented not just for the 14 years that the paris agreement lasts but for the rest of the century the clean power plan would reduce the temperature increase in 2100 by just 0.023 degrees fahrenheit the president has made further and grander promises of future u.s carbon cuts but these are only
Vaguely outlined in the unlikely event that all of these extra cuts also happen and are adhered to throughout the rest of the century the combined reduction in temperatures would be 0.057 degrees to put it another way if the us delivers for the whole century on the president’s very ambitious
Rhetoric it would postpone global warming by about eight months at the end of the century now let’s add in the rest of the world’s paris promises if we generously assume that the promised carbon cuts for 2030 are not only met which itself would be a u.n first
But sustained throughout the rest of the century temperatures in 2100 would drop by 0.3 degrees the equivalent of postponing warming by less than four years again that’s using the un’s own climate prediction model but here’s the biggest problem these minuscule benefits do not come free quite the contrary the cost of the paris
Climate pact is likely to run to one to two trillion dollars every year based on estimates produced by the stanford energy modeling forum and the asia modeling exercise in other words we will spend at least 100 trillion dollars in order to reduce the temperature by the end of the century
By a grand total of three tenths of one degree some paris agreement supporters defend it by claiming that its real impact on temperatures will be much more significant than the un model predicts but this requires mental gymnastics and heroic assumptions the climate action tracker widely cited by paris agreement fans
Predict a temperature reduction of 1.6 degrees fahrenheit by the end of the century but this prediction is based very heavily on the assumption that even stronger climate policies will be adopted in the future actually 98 of the assumed reductions will come only after 2030 which is what the current paris agreement
Covers and even such wishful thinking won’t achieve anything close to the two degrees celsius reduction that has become the somewhat arbitrary but widely adopted benchmark to avoid the worst effects of global warming the actual promised emission reductions under the paris agreement literally gets us just one percent of the way
To the two degrees target 99 of what would be required is put off until after 2030. the paris agreement is the wrong solution to a real problem the right solution will most likely be found through green energy research and development like that promoted by bill gates and the breakthrough coalition
Mr gates has announced that private investors are committing seven billion dollars for clean energy r d instead of political hot air and ever larger government subsidies of today’s inefficient green technologies those who want to combat climate change should focus on dramatically boosting green energy innovation the us already shows the way
With its pursuit of fracking making it safer and more efficient every year america has drastically reduced the cost of natural gas this momentous switch from coal to lower co2 gas as a source of energy has done far more to drive down carbon dioxide emissions than any recent government climate policy
Turns out that those politicians who gathered in paris france could learn a lot from paris texas i’m bjorn lomborg president of the copenhagen consensus center we face an existential threat life as we know it is on the line we have 12 short years to change everything or it’s game over this is the
Terrifying scenario that’s used by many leading politicians to justify a green new deal an unprecedented increase in government power focused on the energy industry the core idea of a green new deal is that government should rapidly prohibit the use of fossil fuel energy and impose 100 renewable energy
Mostly solar and wind this may sound appealing but consider what it would entail today 80 percent of the energy americans use to heat their homes farm their land run their factories and drive their cars comes from fossil fuels coal oil and natural gas only 3.4 percent comes from solar and wind
Despite decades of government subsidies and mandates to encourage their use the reason we don’t use much sunlight and wind as energy is that they are unreliable fuels that only work when the sun shines and the wind blows that’s why no town city or country has ever come close
To 100 percent or even 50 percent solar and wind and yet green new deal proponents say they can do the impossible if only we give the government control of the energy industry and control of major users of energy such as the transportation industry manufacturing and agriculture all of
This is justified by the need to do something about the existential threat of rising co2 levels we’re told on a daily basis that prestigious organizations like the united nations have predicted mass destruction and death if we don’t get off fossil fuels what we’re not told is that such predictions have a decades-long track
Record of getting it wrong and by wrong i mean completely missing the dartboard wrong for example in 1989 the associated press reported a united nations prediction that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000
We’re now two decades past 2000 we’re not missing any nations and human beings are living longer healthier and wealthier lives than ever before but aren’t things bound to get worse haven’t scientists established that co2 is a greenhouse gas with a warming influence on the planet yes
But that’s only a small part of the big picture although co2 causes some warming it’s much less significant than we’ve been told since we started using significant amounts of fossil fuels in the middle of the 19th century we’ve increased the percentage of co2 in the atmosphere from 0.03 percent to 0.04
Which correlates with an average temperature increase of about 2 degrees fahrenheit it also correlates with significant global greening because co2 is plant food all of this is far from unprecedented territory for our planet which has existed with at least 10 times today’s co2 levels and a 25 degree warmer average temperature
What is truly unprecedented though is how safe we are from climate the international disaster database a non-partisan organization that tracks deaths from climate-related causes such as extreme heat floods storms and drought shows that such deaths have been plummeting as co2 emissions have been rising how is this possible
Because of the fossil fuel energy that emitted the co2 which has empowered us to climate-proof our environment with heating air conditioning sturdy buildings mass irrigation and weather warning systems fossil fuel energy has not taken a naturally safe climate and made it unnaturally dangerous it’s taken our naturally dangerous climate
And made it unnaturally safe fossil fuels are not an existential threat they are an existential resource because they increase something much more important than the level of co2 in the atmosphere the level of human empowerment increased life expectancy income health leisure time and education are all tightly linked to increased access
To fossil fuels does this mean that we shouldn’t look for lower carbon energy alternatives of course not but the alternatives should lead us toward more abundant more reliable power not less the most promising form of alternative energy is not unreliable solar and wind but reliable carbon-free nuclear energy sweden gets
40 percent of its electricity from nuclear france over 70 while nuclear energy is smeared as unsafe it has actually been demonstrated by study after study to be the safest form of energy ever created and yet green new deal proponents who say that we have 12 years to save the planet from rising co2
Levels vigorously oppose nuclear in addition to all fossil fuel use by opposing every affordable abundant reliable form of energy the green new deal won’t protect us from an existential threat it is an existential threat i’m alex epstein author of the moral case for fossil fuels for prager university
Have you ever heard of unobtainium it’s the magical energy mineral found on the planet pandora in the movie avatar it’s a fantasy in a science fiction script but environmentalists think they found it here on earth in the form of wind and solar power they think all the energy we need can be
Supplied by building enough wind and solar farms and enough batteries the simple truth is that we can’t nor should we want to not if our goal is to be good stewards of the planet to understand why consider some simple physics realities that aren’t being talked about all sources of energy have limits that
Can’t be exceeded the maximum rate at which the sun’s photons can be converted to electrons is about 33 percent our best solar technology is at 26 efficiency for wind the maximum capture is 60 percent our best machines are at 45 percent so we’re pretty close to wind and solar limits
Despite pr claims about big gains coming there just aren’t any possible in wind and solar only work when the wind blows and the sun shines but we need energy all the time the solution we’re told is to use batteries again physics and chemistry make this very hard to do
Consider the world’s biggest battery factory the one tesla built in nevada it would take 500 years for that factory to make enough batteries to store just one day’s worth of america’s electricity needs this helps explain why wind and solar currently still supply less than 3 percent of the world’s energy after 20 years
And billions of dollars in subsidies putting aside the economics if your motive is to protect the environment you might want to rethink wind solar and batteries because like all machines they’re built from non-renewable materials consider some sobering numbers a single electric car battery weighs about a half a ton
Fabricating one requires digging up moving and processing more than 250 tons of earth somewhere on the planet building a single 100 megawatt wind farm can power 75 000 homes requires some 30 000 tons of iron ore and 50 000 tons of concrete as well as 900 tons of non-recyclable plastics for the huge
Blades to get the same power from solar the amount of cement steel and glass needed is 150 greater then there’s the other minerals needed including elements known as rare earth metals with current plans the world will need an incredible 200 to 2 000 increase in mining for elements such as
Cobalt lithium and dysprosium to name just a few where’s all the stuff going to come from massive new mining operations almost none of it in america some imported from places hostile to america in some places we all want to protect australia’s institute for sustainable futures cautions that a global gold rush for
Energy materials will take miners into remote wilderness areas that have maintained high biodiversity because they haven’t yet been disturbed and who’s doing the mining well let’s just say that they’re not all going to be union workers with union protections amnesty international paints a disturbing picture the marketing of state-of-the-art technologies are a stark
Contrast to the children carrying bags of rocks and then the mining itself requires massive amounts of conventional energy as do the energy-intensive industrial processes needed to refine the materials and then build the wind solar battery hardware then there’s the waste wind turbines solar panels and batteries have a relatively short life
About 20 years conventional energy machines like gas turbines last twice as long with current plans the international renewable energy agency calculates that by 2050 the disposal of worn out solar panels will constitute over double the tonnage of all of today’s global plastic waste worn out wind turbines and batteries
Will add millions of tons more waste it’ll be a whole new environmental challenge before we launch history’s biggest increase in mining dig up millions of acres in pristine areas encourage childhood labor and create epic waste problems we might want to reconsider our almost inexhaustible supply of hydrocarbons
The fuels that make our marvelous modern world possible and technology is making it easier to acquire and cleaner to use them every day the following comparisons are typical and instructive it costs about the same to drill one oil well as it does to build one giant wind turbine and while the
Turbine generates the energy equivalent of about one barrel of oil per hour the oil rig produces 10 barrels per hour it costs less than 50 cents store a barrel of oil or its equivalent natural gas but you need 200 worth of batteries to hold the energy contained
In one oil barrel next time someone tells you that wind solar and batteries are the magical solution for all our energy needs ask them if they have an idea of the cost to the environment unobtanium works fine in the movies but we don’t live in the movies we live in the real world
I’m mark mills senior fellow at the manhattan institute for prager university like the fair-minded progressive that i was i thought a 15 minimum wage was an absolute good then i had a head-on collision with reality it’s a funny thing about reality it just is you can’t wish it away so here is my
Cautionary tale for over three decades i had a good job working as a server i have worked in some amazing award-winning restaurants in seattle i enjoyed the work met wonderful people and i was making really good money i wasn’t making much per hour that’s true but in my business
The magic is in tips on a typical night i would make on average 25 to 50 dollars an hour believe me i earned it i took pride in my work i wanted every dining experience to be a memorable one for my guests i also loved my job for this reason i had flexibility
I could plan my work schedule that was very important to me because i had a growing son it was a good life then in 2015 the seattle city council raised the minimum wage from 9 47 to 15 an hour a 58 hike great for the working stiff right
Well hang on because here comes mr reality the business owner the person who signs the checks has to find a way to pay for this massive new expense for walmart or microsoft or a large restaurant chain this might not be a problem for a local restaurant owner it’s a nightmare
Contrary to popular opinion most restaurants don’t have big profit margins in fact most arrays are thin seattle restaurant owners faced with this shock to their bottom line raised prices reworked their menus and created new compensation models some did away with tips altogether substituting a flat service charge as a
Way of navigating the climbing wage that change in the tipping model caused a dent in my pocketbook the rise in the wage did not cover the loss of tips and of course they cut back on employee hours and support staff too but for many establishments none of these cost-saving measures
Worked restaurants some that had been in business for decades many family owned closed including the ones i worked for good servers don’t grow on trees and i was able to score an interview at another amazing restaurant then before i could even confirm the interview that one closed too same reason the 15
Minimum wage cut their profits down to nothing so let me add this up for you i make a lot less money now than i did before seattle decided to do what was supposedly in my best interest i used to be able to pay my bills as they came due
Now it’s a juggling act i used to have enough money to support my son’s extracurricular activities now i often just say no before the minimum wage increase i had one job and worked four days a week after the wage hike i had two jobs and worked
Six with my skills and a tipping culture i used to average 18 to 20 percent or more on any check now instead of tips i get a flat 14 percent part of the 20 service charge the restaurant owner tax on the bill i still pride myself in providing good
Service but the incentive to go the extra mile is gone there is no way to maximize my income and what’s seattle’s answer to my problem to raise the minimum wage again the progressive idea is that you should be able to make a fair wage but if you have no job or are working
More for less how is that fair how is it fair to my friend who worked his way up from busboy to sommelier the fancy name for the person who manages a restaurant’s wine list he lost his job when his restaurant closed due to the minimum wage increase
Or my former boss who went from a cook to an owner and couldn’t survive the double blow of the minimum wage law and the coronavirus and it’s not just a seattle problem in new york city raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour pushed the restaurant industry into a recession
To stay afloat 75 percent of owners reduced employee hours and 47 percent eliminated jobs san francisco is in the same boat mandating minimum wage laws might be a winner for progressive politicians and ivory tower economists but it’s a loser for those of us who have to live with the consequences
Unless fair-minded people speak out those consequences only figure to get worse as more states and maybe even the federal government succumb to the false promise of raising the minimum wage i’m simone barron with the full service workers alliance for prager university and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying
People the respect and the value that they are worth at minimum progressive politicians love to talk about raising the minimum wage it makes them sound caring compassionate concerned they’re on the side of the worker standing against the greedy employer the current call is for a national 15 an hour minimum wage
More than double the current federal rate of twenty five cents we have to make one fair wage and we have to raise the national minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour the left casts the minimum wage debate as a war between employee and employer servitude but most business owners pay
Their workers as much as they can finding and keeping good people is the hardest part of any employer’s job if we adopt the national minimum wage of 15 here’s what will happen a lot of people will lose their jobs or have their hours reduced according to a 2014 congressional budget office study
Just a ten dollar minimum wage would cost half a million jobs as businesses terminate employees obviously far more jobs would be lost at fifteen dollars an hour to survive employers would have to reduce hours even for workers who managed to keep their jobs that’s a pay cut it is good for business
Everywhere it’s good for small business it’s good for workers the only thing it’s not good for is the major chain corporations that depend on the exploitation of people businesses will close and the jobs they created will disappear a recent report from researchers at the harvard business school
Found that each one dollar increase in the minimum wage results in a four to ten percent increase in the likelihood of restaurants closing an over seven dollar an hour increase to fifteen dollars would be devastating not only for restaurants but for small businesses and their employees for small business it’s good for workers
Fewer people will open businesses fifteen dollars an hour is a very steep hill to climb would-be entrepreneurs will do the math on labor costs and realize it’s just not worth the risk this is a real cost to the economy that we can’t measure a company that never exists
Never employs anyone most of all i’m thankful for all of these workers for realizing that everybody here deserves dignity and everyone here deserves a beautiful life and the ability to raise your family if a fifteen dollar minimum wage doesn’t help workers and doesn’t help employers who exactly does it help
Well maybe just the progressive politicians who managed to mislead voters into believing that it’s the right thing to do sounding caring compassionate and concerned is all well and good but having a job is better i’m andy puzder for prager university the immigration battle is that boiling point over children being separated from
Parents and the current administration is using different tactics to sort of justify what’s happening family separation is perhaps the most emblematic moment of his presidency so far it was cruel sloppy needless racist and ultimately exactly what we should have expected images of families being forcibly separated at the u.s mexico border
Immigrant children laying in cages is nothing short of horrific parents and children aren’t just being separated uh at the border you know they’re being separated throughout this country by ice yes i think we need to abolish ice that seems really clear border patrol came out with stats saying
That one-third of the children that they tested that are brought to the border in family units are not biologically related to the people claiming to be their family members that is horrifying i would hands-down rather have a child separated from someone claiming to be their parent until they are biologically proved to be
Related to that person because of the fact that sex trafficking exists it is irresponsible for people to say that we need we need to reunite families because of this reasoning i cannot harp to you how dangerous it is for these kids these kids don’t choose to be in the circumstance they’re
Innocent in this but if we’re not protecting them through our legislative policies then we’re part of the problem and i will never back down from that stance every sensible immigration policy has two objectives one to regain control of our borders so that we decide who enters and two to find a humane way
To deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants who now live among us start with the second for both practical and moral reasons america cannot and will not and should not expel 11 million people that leaves us with two choices ignore them or figure out a way to legalize them ignoring them hasn’t worked
But there’s also a huge problem with legalization it creates an irresistible incentive for new illegal immigrants to come we say of course that this will be the very last very final never again we’re not kidding this time amnesty and everyone knows it’s phony that’s what was said in 1986
When we passed the simpson-mazzoli immigration reform it turned out to be the largest legalization program in american history nearly three million people got permanent residency there was no enforcement we now have 11 million new illegal immigrants in our midst the irony of this whole debate which bitterly splits the country is
That there is a silver bullet that would not just solve the problem but also create a national consensus behind it a vast number of americans who oppose legalization and fear new waves of immigration would change their minds if we could radically reduce new i.e future illegal immigration
And we can first build a barrier call it a wall call it a fence call it what you will add cameras and sensors add drones beef up the patrols all that matters is that we regain control of the border fences work the triple fence outside san diego led to a 90
Reduction in infiltration israel’s border fence with the west bank produced a similar decline even holier than now europeans have conceded the point hungary macedonia bulgaria austria greece spain why even norway have all started building border fences to stem the tide of middle eastern refugees then enforce two other measures
A national e-verify system that makes it just about impossible to work if you’re here illegally and a functioning visa tracking system since 40 of illegal immigrants are visa overstays the wall fence will of course be ugly so are the concrete barriers to keep truck bombs from driving into the white house sometimes
Function has to supersede form and don’t tell me that this is our berlin wall when you build a wall to keep people in that’s a prison when you build a wall to keep people out that’s an expression of sovereignty of course no barrier will be foolproof but it doesn’t have to be
It simply has to reduce the river to a manageable trickle once we do everything becomes possible including dealing with our 11 million illegal immigrants so let’s fix that track the visas do we verify bill the damn barrier it’s ridiculous to say that it can’t be done
And who would certify that the border is back in our control i would have a neutral party perhaps a commission of retired jurists issue the judgment once they do we legalize the 11 million granting them the right to stay and work here we can’t give them citizenship that’s a bridge too far
You don’t get to join the political destiny of the country by entering it illegally but any children born here would be american which means that over time the issue resolves itself the american people are legitimately angry at the price american society has paid due to illegal immigration but they are
Also a generous people once they’re assured that we do indeed control our borders that anger will abate a national consensus will emerge radical border control followed by radical legalization no mushy compromise a solution requires two acts of national will putting up a wall along with e-verify and visa tracking
And absorbing those who broke our laws to come to america this is not a compromise meant to appease both sides without achieving anything it’s not some piece of hybrid legislation that arbitrarily divides illegals into those with five-year-old roots in america and those without or some such mischief-making nonsense
If we do it right not only will we solve the problem we will get it done as one nation i’m charles krauthammer for prager university we will keep this promise to the american people if you like your doctor you will be able to keep your doctor
Period if you like your health care plan you will be able to keep your health care plan period we weren’t as clear as we needed to be in terms of the changes that were taking place and i am sorry that they you know are finding themselves in this situation based on
Assurances they got for me it’s very easy for a politician to stand up before voters and say health care is a right and then passionately advocate for single-payer or free health care or medicare for all whatever term they might use but before we consider the merits of the government managing your health care
And that’s what this all boils down to maybe we should ask a more basic question what do we mean by health care because if you get sick and here we’re talking major illness or you’re in serious pain you don’t just want health care you want quality health care
And where is your best chance of finding that the answer is right here in america for skilled doctors cutting edge medical treatments and care without long delays no other country rivals the united states not even close nobody from texas is going to canada for medical treatment it’s almost always the other way around
Sure our health care system has lots of issues and we should address them but do we really want to upend all the advantages that we do have and start from scratch because that’s what would have to happen if we completely turn health care over to the government
So let’s imagine we make the change we hear a lot about how great free health care would be but it’s only fair we look at the downside the first is that government-run health care takes medical decisions away from patients that means you and puts them in the hands of bureaucrats
They decide for example how many mri machines are going to be available or under what conditions you can get back surgery or a bypass or even whether you qualify for cancer treatment that’s how it works in the united kingdom under its single-payer system because it has finite resources the national health
Service or nhs sharply restricts access to treatments like hip and knee replacements cataract surgery and even prescription drugs to deal with common conditions like arthritis and diabetes if you suffer from any of these ailments and many others in the uk you may just have to live with the pain
And let’s hope you don’t have a medical emergency in a january 2018 article in the new york times patients in emergency rooms around london are described as having to wait 12 hours before they are tended to corridors are jammed with beds carrying the frail and elderly to deal with the situation hospitals
Were ordered to postpone non-urgent surgeries until the end of the month that hardly seems like an improvement over what we have in the u.s a second big problem with single-payer systems is that they are expensive really expensive a recent study by the mercado center at george mason university
Found that a bernie sanders style medicare for all health system would cost a tidy 32.6 trillion dollars over 10 years that’s on top of what the federal government spends on health care today and this is not a new number other studies have found the cost to be roughly in the same range
So how would we pay for it kenneth thorpe a professor at emory university and health policy official in the clinton administration spells it out if you are going to go in this direction medicare for all the tax increases are going to be enormous not just for the rich thorpe estimates
But for working americans and the poor too charles blahaus the author of the mercatus study puts it this way even a doubling of all projected individual and corporate income taxes would be insufficient to finance these added federal costs and he considers that a conservative estimate canada knows all about exploding health care costs
In ontario the country’s biggest province those costs took up 46 percent of its entire budget in 2010. by 2030 that number is projected to be 80 in other words in a few years ontario will have little money to pay for anything except health care finally and perhaps most importantly government-run systems depress the
Search for new cures biomedical research spending in the u.s far outpaces that of any country with nationalized health care even when you account for differences in population or size of economies that’s one reason medical breakthroughs rarely come from countries where the government controls health care they come from the united states where
The government doesn’t the lion’s share of biomedical research and development spending in the u.s over 70 billion dollars in 2012 comes from the private sector discovering new medical cures and technology is a profitable business and thank goodness it is those profits drive innovation take away the profits and you will
Surely take away the innovation single single-payer free health care medicare for all they might sound great but like all visions of utopia they ultimately produce a lot more harm than good i’m lon hee chen fellow at the hoover institution at stanford for prager university there’s two arguments right the one
Argument is we need to keep going protect the weak protect the sick but let’s open up the economy the other argument is stop placing money over human lives and let’s shelter in place until we come up with some sort of a decision and let’s figure out some way to develop
Some sort of a universal income universal basic income plan or something like that to feed people during the during this time the this notion though that uh you know you can just sort of send checks out everybody and and things will be fine it’s not true obviously uh the there’s some people
Have this absurd like uh view that the economy is like some magic horn of plenty like it just makes stuff stuff you know whatever it just there’s a magic word of plenty and the goods and services they just come from this magic corner plenty and then if like if somebody has more
Stuff than somebody else’s because they took more from this magic corner plenty now let me uh just break it to uh the fools out there if you don’t make stuff there’s no stuff you can’t just legislate money and solve these things if you don’t make stuff there is no stuff
Now los angeles i mean we have over 50 percent of the people live here are now unemployed over 50 unemployment i mean that is ridiculous how do we how do we fix that well there’s no way to fix it by the government uh doing another round of stimulus the only
Way to fix it is getting people back working again our economy our modern day economy with the amount of leverage we have in the system that means the amount of debt that we have in our country can’t absorb just everybody sitting idly and it’s very hard just to flip the switch
Back on and have everything resume like it was prior we have to get back to work we have to get our economy going thank you all for being here today i’m dr bob hamilton i’m a pediatrician from santa monica california i’ve been in private practice there for 36 years
And today i have good news for you the good news is that children as a general rule are taking this virus very very well fewer getting infected those who are getting infected are being hospitalized in low numbers and fortunately the mortality rate of uh children is about one-fifth of one percent
So kids are tolerating the infection very frequently they’re actually asymptomatic i also want to say that children on are not the drivers of the of this pandemic people who are worried about initially if children were going to actually be the ones to push the infection along the very opposite opposite is happening
Kids are being are tolerating it very well they’re not passing it on to their parents they’re not passing it on to their teachers dr mark woolhouse from from scotland who is a pediatric infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist said the following he said there has not been one documented case of covid being
Transferred from a student to a teacher in the world in the world i think that is important that all of us who are here today realize that our kids are not really the ones who are driving the infection it is being driven by older individuals
And yes we can send the kids back to school i think without fear and this is the big issue right now is as congressman norman alluded to this is the really important thing we need to do we need to normalize the lives of our children
How do we do that we do that by getting them back in the classroom and the good news is they’re not driving this infection at all yes we can use security measures yes we can be careful i’m all for that we all are but i think
The important thing is we need to not act out of fear we need to act out of science we need to do it we need to get it done what’s up guys this is willow with prageru back on the streets on hollywood boulevard today talking to people about coronavirus deaths
And what they actually know about it let’s do it there are 350 million people in america right what percentage would you say of those people have died of coven 19. 14 to 21 14 to 21 i was going to say 15. 1 if i told you it was point zero five six
Percent really wow these are from the cdc yeah that’s the shock you know i mean that number’s a lot smaller than i thought you know how many children in california have died from covid to guess um probably a couple of thousands uh maybe a couple hundred i don’t think
That many how many people do you think under the age of 25 have died from covet in america total number of people forty thousand ten thousand ten thousand is 360 people under the age of 25 have died from coronavirus two children all of california damn that’s yeah i mean how many do you
Think is the percentage of people who have died from kova that are above 55 years old 30 percent i would say between 20 25 92 of all coveted deaths are over the age of 55. oh no oh damn see what i’m saying though elderly people where are you nurse
In indiana okay yeah are you seeing a lot of covet patients come in there um somewhat our numbers are spiking back up but the icu beds aren’t full so we’re happy and we’re not seeing as many deaths so yeah are they ever full uh no they were never full is that surprising
I wasn’t surprised now i feel like it’s can be over exaggerated a little bit only six percent of kova deaths were actually caused by kovid just alone that all the other 94 of people had pre-existing conditions before um yeah i didn’t know that but i did read some
Article that hospitals have an incentive to call it a covenant death so they get more funding from like the states and the federal government yes they do and any death of anyone is said right but we’re closing down all the schools in california because of you know two
Deaths of children in the state do you think that that’s a fair thing to do hell no no i don’t me i don’t think and i say it in my state too that we should necessarily shut down the schools because i feel like that the more kids are exposed to the virus
The better their chances are it helps boost the immune system so for me that’s a plus for them to go to school why do you think people don’t hear about these kind of things media hype you know media these days fake news whatever they want to you know scare
People you know who knows over a 99 survival rate of the virus so yeah i’m more worried about the flu you know i mean or being run over by a bus crossing hollywood boulevard you know i mean being struck by lightning to be honest yeah and we don’t
Get much lightning out here yeah you know of course any deaths are sad but the way that the media is portraying in the politicians are makes it seem like this is the end of the world for us which i think is a bad precedent to set for americans today and that’s where i
Think the control thing comes in i think they’re setting us up for a big failure later on saying lock it down again just uh conditioning us for something i don’t know what it is but i think there’s just more behind it the next thing you know
Your gun rights are gone you can’t leave the house without an okay you’re waiting in a red line you know what i mean why do you think things are still continuing to be shut down and schools closing and things like that i think it’s a political ploy for power
To keep us in line i’m just tired of getting told to have to wear a mask everywhere we go obviously me wearing a mask for three feet isn’t going to stop the spread as soon as i get to the table i’m going to take it off
It just makes no sense to me i get some regulations you know washing your hands doing this keeping your distance whatever i’ll do that but i just think that’s overboard you’re not doing anything but causing inconvenience at this point it’s destroying small businesses in this country i mean the big corporations like
Target and walmart like they’re fine small businesses they’re all shutting down and that’s because of these these elitists who are doing this yeah so i was actually pretty surprised at the answers we got today it turns out not everyone is a sheep not everyone listens to the mainstream
Media and what the left has to say of course all the deaths from covert are sad and terrible deaths but we should not keep our country locked down we need to open things back up thank you guys so much for watching this video there’s been will with prageru
Make sure you share this video comment your thoughts down below see in the next one peace like coronavirus i have no idea what coronavirus is you just wear the mask for fun no because i need braces you need braces oh fair enough they have no facts they don’t do any research they don’t
Learn to do any type of higher learning when it comes to what they believe all they know is what the the media narrative tells them to believe and that’s all they care about organization is fake that’s right i believe i personally believe that the blm movement is fake
It has nothing to do with advancing the lives of black people their main uh goal is to break up the patriarchal like nuclear family they want the men removed out of the family which is what democrats want also exactly if if blm really cared about black lives why would it be solely
Isolated to incidents where a black life is taken at the hands of a white cop that happens less than one percent no way now i like to like equate this to it’s the same as if i was in a horrific accident i have a a massive head wound i have a
Leg fracture and a scratch on my finger and here come the uh first responders and they want to attend to the scratch of my fingers and i’m telling you what about the wound on my head what about my fractured leg that’s what the blm movement is they’re
Tending to the scratch on my finger and that’s not even what it’s about if you want to help us let us tell you how you can help us don’t come in and tell us how you want to help us and don’t tell me that i’m oppressed because i’m not oppressed i’m a black
American i’m a proud black american i am not oppressed i am not oppressed i’m one of the freest persons on this world for no man i only kneel to god as you can see exactly as you can see as you can see black conservatism is the new punk rock
You know what i mean we’re the rebels you want to be cool come join our calls man what are the five biggest issues facing blacks in america here’s my list problem number five the victim mentality nothing holds someone back more than seeing himself as a victim why because the victim is not
Responsible for his situation everything is someone else’s fault and the victim sees little chance of improving his life how can he get ahead if someone is holding them back all this makes the victim unhappy frustrated and angry this is how too many blacks see themselves as victims so much so that their victim
Status becomes their primary identity and their ruling ideology i call it victimology unfortunately many black churches preach this victimology many black parents pass it on to their children inner city schools teach it to their students and the black media reinforce it meanwhile the naacp and other black grievance groups
Fundraise on it problem number four lack of diversity blacks repeatedly demand an honest dialogue or debate about race but how can there ever be an honest dialogue about race between blacks and whites when there is virtually no honest dialogue between blacks and blacks it’s hypocritical and if a black doesn’t
Think whites are ultimately responsible for black people’s problems they’re labeled a sellout uncle tom or race trader as long as this type of group think exists race reverence of the al sharpton jesse jackson type will continue to be celebrated while independent black thinkers such as professors thomas soule
And walter williams will be shunned the honest race dialogue and debate that first has to happen is not between blacks and whites but between blacks and blacks we demand diversity from others but need to practice it ourselves where it really matters and thought opinion and even political affiliation
Problem number three urban terrorism as just about everyone knows but too few talk about publicly and majority black cities violent black on black crime is rampant a department of justice study from 1980 through 2008 revealed that blacks accounted for almost half of the nation’s homicide victims
47.4 percent and more than half of the offenders 52.4 percent all while being 13 of america’s population the tuskegee institute conducted a study of all known lynchings of blacks that occurred between 1882 through 1968. during this 86-year span which is essentially the post-civil war era up to the civil rights era 3446 blacks
Were reportedly lynched presently black on black murder eclipses the number of blacks lynched over the course of 80 years roughly every six months unbelievably the culpability for this disproportionate amount of mayhem actually lies with the menacing two to three percent minority within the black populace i call them urban terrorists
And since they are literally spawned from problem number two the black community protects them problem number two proliferation of baby mamas the disintegration of the nuclear family has led to an astronomical increase of single mother households according to the moynihan report in 1965 nearly 25 percent of black children were
Born to unwed mothers the report’s author daniel patrick moynihan said this was a disaster in the making he was of course vilified by so-called black leaders and their progressive allies but he was right today the outer wedlock birth rate is nearly 75 percent and even higher in some urban areas to be clear
Baby daddy share this responsibility with baby mamas yet while baby daddies are blamed and rarely shown compassion baby mamas are rarely blamed and receive both compassion and support this lopsided dynamic and the previously listed pathology stem directly from the number one problem facing the black community problem number one unquestioning
Allegiance to so-called progressive policies unwavering loyalty to progressive liberal policies is the primary reason these dire conditions persist it both makes them possible and perpetuates them it’s no coincidence that progressivism is the common thread that binds predominantly black cities where single parent homes failing schools rampant poverty and crime predominant look at cities
Like detroit philadelphia and baltimore they’ve been run by progressive democrats for decades if their liberal policies were at all effective these cities should have become models of economic growth and prosperity instead they’re models of dysfunction by fostering and exploiting the victim mentality discouraging self-examination subsidizing baby mamas and making excuses for black thugs
So-called progressive policies don’t alleviate the problems that afflict the black community they aggravate those problems you may have noticed that racism did not make the list why not it’s simple there will be no solution to the problems afflicting black america until more blacks recognize that the issues plaguing our community
Are ultimately self-inflicted does racism exist sure but there are other problems far more serious and waiting until there are no more races will mean waiting and making excuses forever i’m talib starks for prager university thank you for watching this video to help keep prageru videos free please consider making a tax deductible donation
