>> While even the Trump administration is finally taking the coronavirus seriously and
telling people to practice social distancing, it turns out that some people, spring breakers
in particular, are still not taking it seriously.
So usually, on spring break, the only disease you have to worry about is gonorrhoea, but
in this case, you do need to worry about coronavirus.
>> Nailed it, we love it in the booth.
>> All right, but look, in Clearwater, Florida, Spring Break is out with full force.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, so let's take a quick look at what the beaches look like.
A lot of people, lot of sun bathing, a lot of social interaction.
>> A lot of bodily fluids being exchanged.
>> And not a lot of social distancing, so that's a little bit of a disaster.
Now, remember, the Trump administration has said that you should limit your social interaction
to less than ten people, and you should still practice social distancing, right?
Don't be close to people, don't breathe on one another, don't touch one another.
But that's not what's going on during spring break.
We have some more images to show you what it looks like.
Now, I do wanna read you a quick quote from one spring breaker that was interviewed by
ABC action in Tampa.
She says, quote, we're definitely like still worried about it, but it's not something that
we're like letting consume our spring break, I guess.
So that's one for team >> For the team, random for the team
>> And then, one Florida man was quoted as saying, we're not real worried about it, cuz
we're on the sand, and it's an open area.
There's not a lot of doorknobs and not a lot of things you can touch.
>> Here's the thing about sand, doesn't have doorknobs, so what I always say.
>> Listen, I- >> How long does the virus last long, Sam
does a very good question.
>> We don't know.
I am from Florida.
That's my home state.
>> All right, so can you can you please answer?
>> Like what I was saying a little earlier, there's been such mixed messages from leadership
that I find it hard to blame people like, at this point, there needs to be kind of clear
directives, like, no, you have to stay home or you like.
Actual things from the government, like the way Italy has done it, or Spain has done now,
just shut down the country, I don't know how to explain it, we know what's coming.
If you don't tell people what to do, and if the political class doesn't have a clear understanding
of what to do, how are you gonna expect people to, they don't trust anyone, they don't trust
the media.
>> We don't live in China, we live in America.
>> Yeah.
>> No, but look, there is, I think that it's important to discuss cultural differences
and how America's culture just makes us, and when I say us, I don't mean us on this panel,
but Americans kind of reject those types of directives, and they start getting scared
of authoritarianism.
>> This is the same ideology that prevents us from having a robust social safety net
to deal with a pandemic like this, is that if there were police officers, or even just,
I don't know, a community dude with a badge.
>> Community dude with a badge?
>> Like stay in your house, we'd be like F you, and pull a gun on them.
Like that might actually happen.
So the idea of, like in France, they're giving out 150 euro tickets for anyone who's outdoors,
and not under their own, I like to call it house arrest, cuz I like to imagine that I'm
some amazing narco, internationally wanted, and it's house arrests.
>> You've been a bad girl.
>> Yeah I'm, anyway.
>> That's what they do to all the drug traffickers, is give them house arrest.
>> It's like Pinochet, but that's not cool to be Pinochet.
But, yeah, the idea, I think it's not in our DNA to be responsive to anyone trying to enforce
any national anything.
>> Yeah.
>> Well, it's almost as if four decades of uninterrupted neo-liberal hegemony from both
sides of the isle has created a system, in which there is a complete in total lack of
faith in institutions, because every single institution is being guided from the inside
with lowering tax rate, and defunding all social programs, so people have no faith in
their political leaders, or the media class, or anyone-
>> Bingo.
>> Really.
And- >> The distrust in government is huge.
>> It's huge, so- >> I remember, just kind of reading about
the social safety net in Denmark, and how robust it is, and how the culture there, and
the way that the citizens of Denmark view the government is so different from how we
view the government.
There's just fundamental distrust toward the government here in the United States, whereas,
in Denmark, it's different.
And that's not to say that everyone's happy with the government in Denmark.
But people see the government as something that actually looks out for them.
>> Helps them.
>> And helps them as opposed to some shadowy group of people who get together in a smoke-filled
room, and plot on ways to destroy our freedoms.
That's the way Americans think of the government.
>> Your attitude towards police officers are definitely influenced by, imagining police
officers patrolling communities now, they already patrol communities unnecessarily.
So I imagined our response to them being out even more, would be even worse, cuz they don't,
once again, arm of the state, part of the government have zero credibility in a lot
of communities.
>> When is the last time a single American has had to deal with their government in a
way that actually felt good, and that the government actually helped them with something?
Dealing with the government in a way that it wasn't, just like the most painful, frustrating,
confusing experience ever.
>> Mm-hm, Medicare.
>> Which again, the reason is, yeah.
>> Most people are like- >> And the reason it's because of that, is
because they've defunded the government so much, which then, in turn, feeds the vicious
cycle.
It makes it more unpleasant for people.
People have less faith in it.
>> Yes.
>> Which they then use to defund it further, and further, and further.
And it just creates this system in which we have a hollowed out government where we can't
even make a few masks.
You're, like, the easiest like a little thing was, how hard could it be?
>> You touched on something important, but I think that the left needs to do a better
job in communicating and messaging about how.
Yes, we all hate going to the DMV, and it feels inefficient and it feels like the workers
there aren't taking their job seriously.
But let's take a good hard look at how those workers are being treated.
>> Of course.
>> Let's take a good hard look at how much they're paid, how few employees there are
in each DMV.
>> Well, they- >> You get what I'm saying about the post
office?
>> Yeah, they don't feel empowered either.
>> Exactly.
>> You know?
>> So we need to do a better job in, every time someone communicates that frustration,
well, this is happening because of cuts.
It's not because the private sector is more efficient and does better, it's because the
private sector, aside from all the- >> When is the last time you-
>> Foodies and tax subsidies they get, it's a different animal.
>> And that's why I think that we might be beyond repair.
Yes, we have to make a lot of our systems more robust, but that's why I think that ideas
around nationalizing, like Facebook, or, I mean, nationalizing Amazon, or work having
like a public private partnership with something like Amazon, is a good conversation to be
having, because we're like the Postal Service is being ruined by Amazon, right, and so,
how do you reign that in?
Obviously, Bezos has way too much money.
Obviously, no one should have that much money.
They don't pay taxes.
So again, I think the private sector's run so amok that we need to be starting to have
conversations about, how can we bridge this discrepancy?
>> I do wanna leave this story with one more quote that ABC Action News in Tampa was able
to score, this is one other Florida team.
And this team said the following.
We have really strong immune systems, and then, at that point, all three girls start
giggling.
So I feel like we're able to battle with this virus.
>> Yeah.
>> They're just giggling about all having HPV.
Like, duh, we all do.
>> Yeah, and by the way, if you're young, and you're healthy, and you're not personally
concerned about what the virus will do to you, okay.
There has been some evidence showing, cuz it attacks your respiratory system, that it
scars your lungs, even if you're young, so maybe you should be a little more concerned.
But, more importantly, I'm sure you have elderly people in your family, right?
So we don't wanna spread this virus to people who are vulnerable, and we don't wanna overwhelm
our healthcare system.
>> That's the key, is the healthcare system.
Our health care system is nowhere near as good as Italy's, which is completely overwhelmed
right now.
>> Yeah.
>> It's like our healthcare system cannot, like it's so much worse than Italy's, to deal
with something like this.
>> And we haven't even done the widespread testing yet.
>> Of course not, not even- >> Once the widespread testing happens-
>> So even if you're young, if the healthcare system is overwhelmed, you might not be able
to get a respirator if you need it, and you might die.
That's the problem, is that the access to healthcare in these surges of usage in America,
like it's gonna completely overwhelm the system.
So even if you're young, there's a good chance nothing's gonna happen to you.
But if you do need healthcare, you might show up and they'll be like, we don't have Edie,
intubate, like the thing to intubate you, we don't have a bed to put you in.
Yeah, and if you spread it to Nana, and she needs a respirator, you have, put her in a
precarious situation.
So just, I mean, look, we're talking as if these this group of girls, spring breaking
girls are like listening to this show.
>> So funny, though, because the Spanish flu, interestingly, wiped out young people.
The Spanish flu hit people between 25 and 40.
So I like to imagine, that back in 1918, there were beaches full of and just like chilling,
sipping cocktails, being like.
>> I am Spanish, and I resent the Spanish flu-
>> Being called the Spanish flu?
>> This is anti-Spaniard racism.
It's like the Sopranos episode.
>> It's abuelos and abuelos, just all grandparents partying while their children were dying.
But interestingly, it did affect younger people, and this one is affecting older people.
In fact, babies are kind of immune.
Not immune, but it's not a big concern for toddlers and babies.
>> Yeah, it's crazy.
Everyone needs to do social distancing.
Believe me, I wanna be on a beach, too, but we need to suffer together, and be at home,
which actually sounds pretty damn good.