San Diego County Board
of supervisors meeting featured.
That guy, whose right beside me,
who is essentially not interested
in complying with mask mandates or
getting the vaccine during this
deadly pandemic.
Unfortunately, we got to
watch this video.
So let's take a look.
>> That's the wind.
>> That's the wind of time.
That's the wind of history.
That's the wind blowing through
your ancestor's bones,
begging you to do the right thing.
>> Sir, can you please add?
>> That's Matt Baker is calling
upon from Ocean Beach
[APPLAUSE] >> Winter
is blowing through the black
people through the white people
through the Chinese people, to
the Mexican Americans to the people
that built this building with their
bare hands to raise up this nation.
They are begging you, and they
are blowing through your veins, and
they should be putting a tingle up
the spine of your back.
And they should be
begging you to do the right thing.
You're about to open a pit of hell.
You do not get a vaccine passport
on us, as the population who's
in control, that the people
who are the politicians watch.
To get a power,
you will never relinquish it.
To think that the four feet of
marble that holds you above high in
this chamber will help you from
the fate of humanity, who would
shoe >> Matt Baker, making
his voice heard during a San Diego
County Board of Supervisors meeting
where the majority of attendance
were against a masked mandate.
>> Yeah, I that was a good
first take, but maybe we can dial
it back just a little bit.
It's not quite what the director is
looking for, it's a performance.
The guy went there hoping that he
would get them all like
riled up and support him.
And they did because there's no bar
you can say anything as long as
you're against the mandates but,
but he should have scripted it
better.
It really didn't make a lot of
sense, the winds of time out there
through the bones of ancestors in
the spine of your back.
It's not great I think considering,
just based on first appearance
better than I would have expected.
But I feel bad for like these sorts
of like local governments that they
have to deal with this.
We've been seeing videos like this
throughout the pandemic.
And it's easy to speculate that, we
know that in America we have a lot
of problems with mental health that
are not treated that are not
diagnosed that no aid is given.
>> Yep, one in five Americans have
a mental health illness 60% of them
are getting no treatment have not
been diet like are not getting any
help for it because not because
they don't want help.
It's because we have a for-profit
health care system that doesn't
provide help.
>> Yeah, and then because they're,
that's one in five.
So, tens of millions are just out
there and there are cruel cowardly
grifters in media that just,
fill their heads with nonsense.
Teach them that just being really,
really mad and
talking about the Constitution
means that you're a good person,
and then they send them out there.
Local governments at their
Congress people.
And so we have chaos like this
a local government that is just
trying to do what it can with
the limited powers and resources
that it has to fight against people
like this on a daily basis.
>> Well, you wanted Matt to tone it
down a little bit, but
he wants to take it next level.
>> Now. >> Next level.
And this time, I mean,
can you blame Matt for wanting to
talk about what the real enemy is?
It's not COVID people.
It's Anthony
Fauci.
>> You are all in violation of
section one.
Yes you Dr.
Weldon, you are in violation of
the which is international law and
that the definition is.
>> Thank you sir, your time has
expired and the penalty for
violating the order in the meeting,
please take a seat.
Please take a seat.
>> So that that meeting lasted four
and a half hours.
Look, I'm not a proponent
of meetings in general.
I hate meetings.
That was literal hell on earth.
>> Yeah. >> Four and a half hours.
>> Sometimes the resume Brett will
scream like that, and it's like,
I don't need this Not in
the afternoon, man.
Yeah, and so
it's like on the surface,
I'm sure people are laughing.
It's a little bit funny.
That guy's crazy or whatever.
And then what did it take a minute
to get to the penalty is death.
So it's not against the Nuremberg
Code so ridiculous, but he doesn't
care about the Nuremberg codes.
You think this is a guy that gives
a lot of deference
to international law and
treaties and things like that.
>> I mean, he, it's the Statue of
Liberty on his shirt, so.
>> That's true.
>> I trust that.
>> I can't see anything other than
the green, though.
No, it's all just an excuse to get
to the penalty is death.
So we have a disagreement,
whatever, I'm not interested in
the disagreement, I get to kill you
now or at the very least
somebody gets to kill you now that
is the rights go to.
It is we don't just disagree.
You're all pedophiles,
you're all Satanists.
You're all illegitimate,
we get to kill you.
And unfortunately like that, that
guy is not going to sway a lot of
right-wingers, but that's the sort
of messaging that they're getting
from a lot of people with platforms
that reach millions of people.
There does not have to be any
consideration of difference.
There is no debate,
that sort of environment is
designed to allow regular citizens
to have their voices heard.
But there are not a lot of regular
citizens anymore.
There are people like that are just
desperate for someone to come
along, hand them a gun and
point them at all the bad people
that they're supposed to kill.
>> Yeah, yeah.
Okay, look, let me try to provide
a little bit of calm a little bit
of a happy side to the story
because it does in fact exist.
So as I mentioned,
this is in San Diego.
And while you hear the incredibly
noisy minority here, speaking out
against vaccine mandates and
mask mandates.
There are some pretty positive
statistics coming out of
that county.
74% of San Diegans are fully
vaccinated, 74%.
>> It's not bad.
>> It's pretty good.
>> Yeah.
>> Pretty good.
So, I don't know,
just any good news you can find.
>> Sure, and by the way, I mean we
see a lot of craziness about
mandates and masks, but Band-Aid
bands and things like that.
But we also can look at the polls.
We know that these are widely
popular things.
>> Yeah, >> Even
amongst republicans,
something like 45% are supportive
of the exact sorts of things that
that red face man is ranting about.
But there's still a lot of people
like that, and that is scary.
But if it's not a majority,
>> It is scary, mostly because it
highlights the mental health issues
in the country to be honest with
you that go undiagnosed and
untreated.
And that's an issue, but also.
There are people who believe crazy
things with no evidence, and
you can't get through to them.
And I think that it's also a little
bit of a failure of our healthcare
system in that.
Think about it, people don't trust
our institutions.
And I think that's a very
real problem that I don't blame
them for, right?
So I'm not trying to legitimize
the craziness that you guys
just saw in those videos.
But what I am trying to say is our
institutions have failed
the American people over and
over again.
And I mean,
pharmaceutical companies, for
instance, we're still dealing with
the opioid epidemic.
We're still dealing with people
dying of opioid overdoses, and
pharmaceutical companies
are behind that epidemic, right.
So I can understand why people are
not so trusting of pharmaceutical
companies and all of that.
I also understand why people are,
if you don't have a relationship,
a close relationship
with a primary care physician,
which many Americans don't.
The idea of going in and
getting a vaccine, right, like,
think about it.
I remember having a conversation
with my doctor about COVID about
the vaccine.
I asked a bunch of questions, but
I have a close relationship with
my doctor.
I've backed it before I even
had insurance.
Like I would pay out of pocket just
to like go, remember $100 I would
pay just to like get an annual
checkup because I, but
most people can't do that.
I was incredibly
privileged to do that.
But my point is throughout the
years, I built a relationship with
my doctor and I trust my doctor.
Imagine if every single American
had that kind of trusting
relationship with a primary care
physician.
Imagine if people trusted in our
institutions, I would argue that we
wouldn't find ourselves in this
giant conundrum today.
Where people just don't
trust anything regarding the data.
And the efficacy of these vaccines,
so I don't know, I feel like that
could have been, but that's
something that would take years.
That's like literally changing
a huge systemic issue that we have
in this country.
And, I mean,
we saw what it was like to promote
something like Medicare for all.
And the disinformation that was put
out there by corporate media and
by corporate politicians.
>> Yep. >> I'm not saying all of
this to discourage people.
I think that we continue fighting,
and we need to continue fighting.
But my point is this pandemic has
really crystallized, for me and for
a lot of people, just how much of
a disadvantage we're in.
Because of our healthcare system,
especially during a pandemic.
>> We could have been in a much
better place.
We could have been better prepared.
But again, the profit motive behind
our health care system,
put us at this disadvantage.
>> Yeah, and it hasn't gotten any
better since the beginning,
more than a year and a half ago.
>> Right.