Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain updates you on the latest news on this radical new health threat.

Is it time to panic?

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Sources: https://www.freedomain.com/2020/03/13/coronavirus-update-with-stefan-molyneux-march-13-2020/

President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency on Friday over the coronavirus outbreak, invoking the Stafford Act to open the door to more federal aid for states and municipalities, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The president said he will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. in Washington. Trump spoke Friday with Emmanuel Macron, the French president tweeted, about the pandemic, and agreed to organize a video conference with world leaders on Monday to coordinate research efforts on a vaccine and treatments and work on how to respond to the economic fallout.

Trump is under increasing pressure to act as governors and mayors nationwide step up actions to mitigate the spread, closing schools and canceling public events. Declaring a national emergency would allow the government to marshal additional resources to combat the virus, and also marks a symbolic turning point for the president, who has repeatedly compared the coronavirus to the seasonal flu and insisted that his administration had the outbreak under control.

"The number of people that are infected with the new coronavirus is entirely dependent on how America responds to the outbreak, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"If we are complacent and don't do really aggressive containment and mitigation, the number could go way up and be involved in many, many millions," Fauci told members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday.

"The community of Chinese people in Italy has grown rapidly in the past ten years. Official statistics indicate there are at least 320,794 Chinese citizens in Italy, although these figures do not account for illegal immigration, former Chinese citizens who have acquired Italian nationality or Italian-born people of Chinese descent."

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While President Donald Trump and elements of the mainstream media describe a strong United States economy - America's economic future has significant problems on the horizon. Peter Schiff joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the United States's $22-plus trillion-dollar national debt, coronavirus, skyrocketing unfunded liabilities, federal deficits of $100 billion per month, the end of retirement, coming Corporate bankruptcies, the myth of a strong stock market, the subprime auto loan bubble, the role of China, upcoming inflation, flooding the market with treasury bonds, the day of reckoning for the Federal Reserve - and the end of the second-longest economic recovery in history.

Peter Schiff is an economist, financial broker/dealer, author, frequent guest on national news, the host of the Peter Schiff Show Podcast, the President and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and the Chairmain of Schiff Gold.

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Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain updates you on the latest news on this radical new health threat.

Is it time to panic?

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Sources: https://www.freedomain.com/2020/03/11/coronavirus-update-mar-10-2020/

The case for a real, but temporary decline:

- quarantine is not normal circumstances
- virus is highly contagious
- as soon as people return to daily life, R0 rises

If this happens, we're in for a long fight till we can get antivirals or vaccines. And production will be hard.

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The case for a fake decline:

- Censorship of Li Wenliang and bearers of bad news
- A history of manipulated stats in other contexts
- WHO may have seen Potemkin villages

If this happens, will be a battle between censorship and on-the-ground reality.

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@BernieSanders comms director says they are CANCELLING their rally tonight in Cleveland, saying in part, "Out of concern for public health and safety, we are canceling tonight’s rally in Cleveland."

"All future Bernie 2020 events will be evaluated on a case by case basis"

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“The so-called outbreak is under control is a joke."

A man from #Wuhan reveals hospitals there are kicking out cancer patients to make room for people with the #coronavirus.

15 of his friends and relatives in Wuhan are confirmed to have coronavirus. 3 of them have passed.

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This is a novel virus - we have no innate immunity. Antivirals don't work against it. There is no vaccine. Mortality rate is 10 to 20 times higher than influenza. Data sources: WHO, CDC, Washington State Department of Health. - RN in King County, Washington.

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USING YOUR OWN STATS:

40 million people caught the flu in 2018/19. So 37,000 deaths would be a less than 0.1% mortality rate.

22 deaths out of 546 detected cases of coronavirus is a 4% mortality rate.

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Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain joins master comedian Dick Masterson and Sean Jacobson for a wild conversation about men, women, eggs, Trump, rage and how being cornered can make you a WAY better person!

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/stefan-molyneux/check-out-the-dick-on-molyneux-show

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Stefan Molyneux engages in a savage debate with Marxist Zero Books publisher Douglas Lain.

No prisoners are taken this night.

0:00 Pre-debate, laying out assorted fallacies
3:38 Debate about debating feat. 'appeal to hypocrisy fallacy'
7:05 Further talk about Ad Hominem Fallacy
8:05 Doug lays out various topics of debate
8:59 The death toll of communism, how Douglas deals with that
17:35 Waffles on to defining and debating the Free Market Economy
25:53 Discussion over German economy around the time of WWII (with some context)
32:16 Doug claims "That's not an argument". Context begins @ 27:50
38:33 Doug strawmans, then "it doesn't matter"
42:15 Doug asks the difference between taxed and printed money
43:19 What's worth more, 100 gold coins, or it's equivalent value in silver?
46:28 Doug asks why the economy works the way it does in regards to inflation and the value of items
52:12 Stefan talks about the rising prices of candy bars
54:11 Doug's ad hominem about Stefan's theater major
56:52 Further discussion on the effects of inflation on the value of items
1:03:06 Would you spend more if you won a million dollars?
1:09:05 Doug brings up 'the nature of freedom' and why he still believes in socialism
1:10:56 Discussion over private property being essential to freedom of expression, chaos ensues
1:13:26 Why should your private property be yours?
1:17:09 Discussion about what rights are and what system does it best
1:25:30 Discussion on how to get through the 'transitional phase' of socialism
1:30:24 Stefan quotes Karl Marx
1:31:45 Doug tries to argue that if the majority is on the socialists side, it justifies taking someones private property by force
1:34:57 Stefan quotes Friedrich Engels
1:35:50 Stefan points out how serious the divide in ideology is between himself and Doug
1:38:31 Doug claims Stefan's point about the ideological divide is an 'appeal to pity' fallacy
1:41:01 "They put 100 million people [like me] into the ground"
1:43:02 Doug asks if Stefan condemns the French revolution, makes comparisons to American revolution
1:45:48 Another ad hominem from Doug
1:48:17 "You know that we were dragged out and shot, right?"
1:53:41 Further discussion on the violent nature of communism
1:55:56 Closing arguments

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Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain updates you on the latest news on this radical new health threat.

Is it time to panic?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236095180459003909.html:

I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math.

Let’s conservatively assume that there are 2,000 current cases in the US today, March 6th. This is about 8x the number of confirmed (lab-diagnosed) cases. We know there is substantial under-Dx due to lack of test kits; I’ll address implications later of under-/over-estimate.

We can expect that we’ll continue to see a doubling of cases every 6 days (this is a typical doubling time across several epidemiological studies). Here I mean *actual* cases. Confirmed cases may appear to rise faster in the short term due to new test kit rollouts.

We’re looking at about 1M US cases by the end of April, 2M by ~May 5, 4M by ~May 11, and so on. Exponentials are hard to grasp, but this is how they go.

As the healthcare system begins to saturate under this case load, it will become increasingly hard to detect, track, and contain new transmission chains. In absence of extreme interventions, this likely won’t slow significantly until hitting more than 1% of susceptible population.

What does a case load of this size mean for healthcare system? We’ll examine just two factors — hospital beds and masks — among many, many other things that will be impacted.

The US has about 2.8 hospital beds per 1000 people. With a population of 330M, this is ~1M beds. At any given time, 65% of those beds are already occupied. That leaves about 330k beds available nationwide (perhaps a bit fewer this time of year with regular flu season, etc).

Let’s trust Italy’s numbers and assume that about 10% of cases are serious enough to require hospitalization. (Keep in mind that for many patients, hospitalization lasts for *weeks* — in other words, turnover will be *very* slow as beds fill with COVID19 patients).

By this estimate, by about May 8th, all open hospital beds in the US will be filled. (This says nothing, of course, about whether these beds are suitable for isolation of patients with a highly infectious virus.)

If we’re wrong by a factor of two regarding the fraction of severe cases, that only changes the timeline of bed saturation by 6 days in either direction. If 20% of cases require hospitalization, we run out of beds by ~May 2nd.

If only 5% of cases require it, we can make it until ~May 14th. 2.5% gets us to May 20th. This, of course, assumes that there is no uptick in demand for beds from *other* (non-COVID19) causes, which seems like a dubious assumption.

As healthcare system becomes increasingly burdened, Rx shortages, etc, people w/ chronic conditions that are normally well-managed may find themselves slipping into severe states of medical distress requiring intensive care & hospitalization. But let’s ignore that for now. 12/n
Alright, so that’s beds. Now masks. Feds say we have a national stockpile of 12M N95 masks and 30M surgical masks (which are not ideal, but better than nothing).

There are about 18M healthcare workers in the US. Let’s assume only 6M HCW are working on any given day. (This is likely an underestimate as most people work most days of the week, but again, I’m playing conservative at every turn.)...

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What can be learned from the rise and fall of Dr Jordan Peterson?

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain breaks down all the good, the bad and the ugly of Canada's genius Icarus...

"The Rise of Jordan Peterson" Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEhVTY_qJio

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Stefan Molyneux breaks down the main "arguments" used against the free market by Vaush - fascinating!

Debate: https://youtu.be/VW25QZs5AoU

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- GREECE CLOSES BORDERS, DEPLOYS ARMY, HELICOPTERS, AND NAVAL WARSHIPS TO DEFEND EUROPE FROM FOREIGN INVADERS SENT BY TURKISH REGIME
- Following the military escalation between the Russian-backed Syrian army and the Turkish regime, combined with announcements from Turkey that it would be making good on previous threats to flood Europe with migrants, Greece has completely sealed off its border with Turkey.
- THE GREEK GOVERNMENT HAS DEPLOYED FIFTY NAVY WARSHIPS TO PROTECT THE GREEK ISLANDS AND TEN HELICOPTERS TO GUARD LAND BORDERS AGAINST FOREIGN INVADERS SENT BY THE ERDOGAN REGIME, GERMAN DAILY TABLOID BILD REPORTS. THE ARMY HAS BEEN CALLED TO THE NORTHERN BORDER.
- The seemingly drastic moves come after a veiled threat made by the spokesperson for Turkey’s ruling AKP party, who earlier had alluded to the fact that Turkey’s borders to Europe could be opened.
- “Our refugee policy remains the same, but here we have a situation. We can no longer keep the refugees,” he said.
- Although the Turkish government hasn’t made an official statement announcing that the border has been opened, a source told journalists from the news agency Reuters that all Turkish border guards, coast guard officers, and police had all been ordered to stand down, Voice of Europe reported.
- Turkish journalist wrote on Twitter that the Turkish border would be open for the next 72 hours to any and all migrants who would like to make their way to continental Europe.

Turkey
- “Turkey said more than 100,000 people have left, but visits to both sides of the border show it’s unclear how many have crossed into Europe or got stuck in no man’s land along the frontiers with Greece and Bulgaria, and how many of them are actually from Syria. Athens said it stopped mass crossings, while the International Organization for Migration said a much smaller number than what Turkey claims has been trying to cross.”
- “Since Turkey suffered its biggest single-day loss of troops in decades in Syria against Russian-backed forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the northwestern region of Idlib, Erdogan has threatened to unleash another flood of Syrian refugees in Europe.”
- “Turkey is the world’s biggest host of migrants with more than 3.5 million Syrians on its soil. Erdogan has said hundreds of thousands of people are already on the move from Idlib toward Turkey and the total number could exceed 2 million.”
- …the UN Human Rights Council said Greece had no legal justification for suspending asylum procedures.

2016 EU-Turkey deal
- It was proposed as a solution to the migrant crisis in which almost one million refugees and migrants arrived in the EU in 2015 and thousands died in mass drownings
- On 20 March 2016 the EU and Turkey made a deal that saw Syrian refugees who arrived on Greek islands sent back to Turkey. In return Turkey received €6bn (£5.2bn; $6.7bn) in EU aid for migrants and refugees
- For every Syrian person removed from Greece to Turkey, another would be resettled from Turkey to the EU
- The EU agreed to work towards lifting visa requirements for Turkish citizens by the end of June 2016
- After the deal was agreed, the number of migrants arriving in Greece declined sharply

Sources: https://www.freedomain.com/2020/03/03/turkey-vs-greece-war/

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