Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, April 1, 2020

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

Trump warns America of a ‘Very Painful Month’ ahead, the Coronavirus affecting Americans’ religious behavior, Walmart requires daily temperature checks for all employees, the sale of Alcoholic beverages spikes 55-percent in one week, stocks finish their worst month since the Great Depression. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day: polling the plague... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here, Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. President Trump warns of a very painful month ahead. The virus affecting the country's religious behavior. Walmart requires daily temperature checks for all employees. Sale of alcohol spikes 55% in one week. Stocks finished their worst months since the Great Depression. Also ahead, do you, do Americans trust the government during this pandemic? But first, the president telling Americans the country must prepare for a, quote, painful period in the next few weeks. New predictions from the White House placed a potential death rate from the contagion at up to 250,000, said Mr. Trump, the surge is coming, and it's coming strong.

The global pandemic impacting our religious habits, 55% of U.S. adults say they have prayed for an end to the outbreak. That includes 49% of those who rarely worship or go to church or synagogue. Most prayer is in private, six and ten, currently avoiding religious services to slow the infection. Walmart, instituting new rules requiring daily temperature tests for all 1.5 million workers. The nationwide chain is deploying thousands of infrared scanners to stores where employees will be checked before entering the building. Company also delivering gloves and face masks to those who request them. Fearful Americans are turning to the bottle as well as prayer to cope with the contagion. Sales of alcoholic beverages jump 55% since the middle of March.

Most popular during the plague, tequila, gin, beer, and wine. Online purchases of spirits up a whopping 243% in the last seven days. The stock market finishing its worst. months since the height of the Great Depression. The biggest first quarter decline in American history. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 each down 13% since the end of February. Major corporations like Macy's, The Gap, and other retailers, massive layoffs. They've already furloughed more than 300,000 workers in all 50 states. In a moment, a provocative question, do we the people trust those we have elected to beat the virus.

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About half of Americans believe the government has done a good job in preventing the spread, which is about the same as the 49% who said so in early March. About as many, 47%, now say the federal government has done a poor job, an increase of four points in three weeks, so the nation is divided, according to CNN. 77% of Republicans believe the federal government is doing a good job against the virus, versus 27% of Democrats, and that, of course, is purely a play on President Trump. About three quarters of Americans say they feel at least somewhat prepared to deal with an infection if they or someone in their family were to contract one.

As for President Trump's handling of the pandemic, according to a Harvard poll, 50% approve, 45% do not. ABC News poll, 50% approve, disapproved, disapproved, 50%. Gallup poll, 60% approved, disapproved 38. Harris poll, 56% approved, 44% disapproved. Now, since most of those polls ask more Democrats than Republicans to question, it is fairly good news for President Trump, at least now. That could change very quickly, of course. The media is doing everything it can to damage the president, generally speaking. Listen to this headline this morning in the Hill newspaper. Trump administration ignored pandemic warning from White House economists.

Let me repeat that. Trump administration ignored pandemic warning from White House economists. This is in the Hill newspaper. First paragraph of the story, quote, The Trump administration ignored a pandemic warning from White House economists who published a study estimating possible effects of a pandemic last September, according to a New York Times report. Wow, that's pretty bad, is it not? Well, five paragraphs later, this is what it says. the study, which did not predict the coronavirus specifically, modeled a pandemic involving a virus similar to the 1918 Spanish flu, or the swine flu of 2009, hitting the country. The model flu in the study, however, was less contagious and less deadly than public health

officials say the coronavirus could be, unquote. So this is a bogus story. And let me tell you why. There have been studies on World War II, Pearl Harbor hit, nobody knew. Studies on terrorism, Al-Qaeda hit, nobody knew. No one acts unless hard facts are presented to them. I'm Bill O'Reilly, and I approve that message by actually writing it. In a moment, something you might. Not know.

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Some villagers who didn't get the memo still celebrated New Year's on April 1st. The educated mocked the serfs as foolish. In France, the educated would leave paper figurines of fish on doorsteps as a joke, suggesting the residents inside were dumb. Fast forward a few hundred years. April 1st has created some pretty incredible pranks. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop. Camer crews even filmed the locals harvesting noodles from trees across the Alps. Many believed it. In 1992, National Public Radio claimed Richard Nixon was considering another run for the White House.

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