- Tonight, I can report the sky is absolutely falling,
we are all doomed, the end is near,
the apocalypse is immanent, and you're going to all die.
Or at least that's what the media mob
would like you to think.
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- I'm dead right on this.
The coronavirus is the common cold, folks,
the type of this thing as a pandemic,
as the Andromeda strain,
as, "Oh my God, if you get it, you're dead."
- This is one of those cases where,
the more I learn about coronavirus,
the less concerned I am.
There's a lot of hyperbole.
- The national left-wing media
playing up fears of the coronavirus.
- The sky is falling because we have a few dozen cases
of coronavirus on a cruise ship?
I am far more concerned with stepping
on a used heroin needle than I am
getting the coronavirus, but maybe that's just me.
- It's a virus!
Like the flu.
All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly
doesn't reflect reality.
- This virus should be compared to the flu,
'cause at worst, at worst, worst-case scenario,
it could be the flu.
- The far more deadly, more lethal threat right now
is not the coronavirus; it's the ordinary old flu.
People are dying right now. - The flu is here, everywhere.
- Nobody has died yet in the United States,
as far as we know, from this disease.
- That's right.
- And the facts are actually pretty reassuring,
but you'd never know it, watchin' all this stuff.
- You wanna know how I really feel
about the coronavirus, Juan?
If I get it, I'll beat it.
I'm not afraid of the coronavirus,
and no one else should be that afraid either.
- It is very, very difficult to contract this virus.
- It's milder than we thought.
The fatality rate is gonna drop.
- So when you hear the context, it's not quite as scary.
- It's actually the safest time to fly.
Everyone I know that's flying right now,
terminals are pretty much dead.
And then the planes--
Remember back in the day when you had a seat next to you
possibly empty, you could stretch out a little more?
It's like that on every flight now.
- One of the things you can do, if you're healthy,
you and your family, it's a great time
to just go out and go to a local restaurant.
Likely you can get in easily.
- [Reporter] Republican congressman Matt Gaetz
mocked concerns about the spread of the virus
by wearing a gas mask on Capitol Hill.
- [Reporter] When a reporter in the Capitol
asked Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, 85,
what precautions he was taking,
he extended his arm with confidence: "Wanna shake hands?"
- In our line of work, you shake hands.
I expect the President will continue to do that.
I'll continue to do it.
- We have contained this.
We have contained this.
I won't say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.
- It is being contained.
And do you not think it's being contained?
- Zero people in the United States of America
have died from the coronavirus.
Zero.
- This is a flu.
This is like a flu.
It's going to disappear one day.
It's like a miracle, it will disappear.
I felt it was pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.
I took it very seriously.
- By the way, this program has always taken
the coronavirus seriously.
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