Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News, May 7, 2020

Episode Date: May 7, 2020

The crisis in nursing homes; The truth about Sweden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly.com, premium members, welcome to the no-spin news. For Thursday, May 7th, 2020, fight for your freedom and for your health. Happy birthday to my late mother, she would have been 97 years old today. Angela Drake, born in Northern New Jersey and died six years ago. I had a good life, except for me. I think I was the challenge, but I wanted to acknowledge my late mother, who was a fantastic mother. She really was.

Okay, I've got a lot to tell you about. So while we're on a subject of elderly, and my mother, you know, lived into her 90s and she had a good life. She had a good life, as I mentioned. So in the COVID saga, it is the older people that are getting hammered. I mean, really hammered. And I want to give you one statistic up top because it's just stunning. There have been 75,000 Americans killed so far by COVID, all right?

35,000, almost half, are over the age, or we're over the age of 65. So it is an amazing situation. 5,000 between the ages of 55 and 64. So once you get to 65, the leap, and that's because your system, your immune system, doesn't fight off the infection as you get older. If you have other conditions, and many people do, you're in bad shape. All right, so this information comes from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Take a look at all the elder people and COVID.

More than 10,000 elderly Americans have died from COVID in nursing homes, or they contracted it there and then died in the hospital. 10,000. And that's because many of these homes are poorly run. And we Americans have never respected, ever in our history, older people, not like the Japanese. The Japanese of the best society on earth for senior citizens. They are taken care of, duty-bound by their families. Nursing homes are a few, not many, and the older people are revered in Japan, not here.

They're dumped, all right? And we visit Mom maybe Sunday, it's Mother's Day. visit Dad on Father's Day, maybe Christmas, maybe Easter, but they're dumped. And down in Florida, places like that, vast retirement communities, a lot of kids, they don't care. They don't care about their parents, especially if they're struggling and they have families of their own and, you know, we don't want to deal with it. And that's what you're seeing here. All right, you're seeing a very, very intense situation, particularly in New York city, we have a lot of poverty. All right, everybody thinks the skyscrapers in this. New York is

50% foreign born. There's an enormous amount of poverty. And older, poor people, they get dumped into these facilities. And the state of New York ordered COVID patients that came out of the nursing homes, had the disease, were treated back into the nursing homes. Confronted with that and confronted with more than 10,000 deaths, Andrew Cuomo said this about the nursing homes. Go. They have to know who they can care for and who they can't care for. If they can't care for them, for any reason, my staff is out sick. I don't have the PPE. I can't quarantine. I can't isolate. For whatever reason, they have an obligation to call the State Department of Health and say, I have to transfer this person. And we have to have to transfer this person. And we have to have

existing facilities and beds for them. But nobody knew that until a few weeks ago. No one knew that, wasn't publicized, and the state certainly didn't anticipate this. 1,700 dead in New York, 1,700 in nursing homes. 10,000 nation. All right, so that's what's going on there, and you got to protect the elder. That's one of the the reasons that we got to wear the masks and all of that so we don't spread it to them. You are listening to a free excerpt from Bill O'Reilly.com's No Spin News broadcast, where you can actually see me. We'll be right back after this message. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking

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bill to 99-88-99. Again, that's 866-3-2-6-5-7576 or text bill to 9988-99. Harvard. Study. It says that only nine states have met the criteria for reopening the economy. The criteria, according to Harvard, the Harvard Global Health Institute, is testing, and I'll get to that in a moment. First, the nine states, Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. All those states have enough testing to meet the Harvard Global Health Institute's Litness Test. Now, the testing is basically a trace. So if you have it, then the authorities trace back where you got it, if they can.

That's fine, and I support that. But the testing doesn't mean the human being tested is free of contagion. He may be, or she may be on Sunday, but next Wednesday they may get it. You see, that doesn't tell you what it's going to be. So this is a false premise, what they call. If I were back at Harvard at the Kennedy School, I'd raise my hand. Of course, the professor would tremble. And I'd say, Professor, this is a false premise.

You're telling people that testing is going to be able to stop the contagion. That's not true. It will help in tracing, which, if you can trace enough, could stop some of it, but not all. Hang tough, and here's an announcement. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't.

So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast, day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, let's get to the mail. Mark Thornton writes, just listen to you regarding Sweden and the infection rate there. But then I saw Tucker Carlson interview Sweden's ambassador to the U.S. They both touted Sweden's infection rate being no different than its neighbors. What Gives? Well, Mark, I looked at the transcript of that interview. Actually, my producers did and related it to me.

And Carlson didn't ask the ambassador about the comparison of rates of contagion. And he didn't address it. The ambassador didn't address it. So you got that wrong. Here is the truth about Sweden. Okay? The only comparison that can be valid. is between Sweden, its Norway neighbor, and its Finland neighbor.

Sweden's population is 10 million. Norway 5.5. Finland, 5.5. Deaths per 1 million people in Sweden. 300. 300 deaths per 1 million. Deaths in Norway from COVID-41. Deaths in Finland.

Deaths in Finland, 46, as compared to 300. Sweden kept its economy open, didn't shut down. Norway and Finland did. There are the stats, that's the truth. Now, you can make up your own mind. Perhaps it's worth it to have more deaths to keep the economy rolling. I mean, that's an opinion question.

But it's my job to give you the facts so you can base your opinion. on facts. D.D. Rannion, Killeen, Texas. I knew about Adams, John Adams, and the Alien Sedition Act. I knew about Abraham Lincoln suspending habeas corpus. I did not know until listening to the May 5-no-spin news about Lincoln and his attitude toward newspapers and editors. I'm so glad I became a concierge member for life on May 4th, and I am really glad you did, Didi. Thank you for pointing that out. Richard, how did you get connected with Brett Talman? Do you have a favorite guest of all time? I don't have favorite guests. The

presidential interviews, I interviewed six presidents, were the most challenging and interesting for me. Brett Talman is a man who is honest and who is articulate. That's what I look for in a guest. I scout all over the world for people like that. all right and i saw brett in a forum and now he's a regular on the no spin news christopher mears greensboro georgia just read your book the united states of trump outstanding love your writing style quick to the point also just upgraded to lifetime concierge membership during this crisis i listened to the podcast on my hour and a half walks every day chris we're happy to have you as a concierge member for life we hope other people will consider that and i'm glad you're

the information you need about the virus. I'll be checking in on the weekend on the website and we'll see you Monday.