The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Coronavirus Isolating Is About Saving The Weak and Immunocompromised #HighRiskCovid19

Episode Date: March 15, 2020

Coronavirus Isolating Is About Saving The Weak and Immunocompromised #HighRiskCovid19

Hey guys, Chris Voss here from thechrissvossshow.com, thechrissvossshow.com. Thanks for tuning in guys. We're in the midst of the coronavirus crisis right now and we're trying to stay positive and upbeat. A lot of interesting things happening and some inspiring things happening that let's talk about. So I think a lot of people have been going through the whole catharsis in their mind, their experience, because this is something we've never experienced before

really as a nation, maybe 1918 a little bit, but the way information can move and misinformation can move, it kind of throws us for a curveball. A lot of people are hoarding stuff, especially, I don't understand why people are hoarding stuff, especially, I don't understand why people are hoarding toilet paper. Well, I do understand. I read a Psychology Today paper on why people are hoarding toilet paper, which is just insanely stupid. It gives people the false effect that they feel like they're buying something that um uh you know we'll do something very large for him right now i mean there's only been 5789 deaths which is sad when anyone passes but it is a pandemic but most people are going to live

through this thing and uh out of all the cases have been confirmed so far and of course we're a little bit in the dark here in America, over 150,000 cases worldwide and 72,587 people have recovered as of today. 557,89 have unfortunately passed by the coronavirus. Now, we don't have all the accurate numbers in. This is numbers from the John Hopkins University website. They actually have a nice website that you can sit and look at what's going on around the world, see the cases and stuff like that.

Interesting thing, Apple had closed all of its stores in China when the Wuhan thing broke out. There, the coronavirus in Wuhan, city of Wuhan broke out. They are opening their offices up as they're closing them down around the rest of the world. So it's just an indication that China has gotten, they dug in hard for a month and there was a huge upscale of cases and now a downscale and they seem to have gotten it uh fairly under control as as you would um so this is really important this is a thing we

can get through we just have to get our medical things up to it but uh uh don't hoard people it's really important i've been going to the store and i'm just like trying to buy a milk and stuff and I'm not trying to, uh, cause the system to crash, but there's people that are just, they think it's funny to go buy a bunch of stuff. And, and lately we've been seeing and hearing stories of little old ladies and older people who, um, not either don't have a lot of money or they're not just, you know, running out and buying everything like a bunch of crazy stupid people. These are the people that are most vulnerable. And they're not able to find groceries. One of my friends told a story that she met a little old lady who was crying in the toilet paper aisle because she couldn't buy toilet paper.

And that little old lady, you know, is out scurrying around. She said she drove to four different stores to buy toilet paper. And that little lady is out scurrying around. She said she drove to four different stores to get toilet paper. That's just fucking sad, people, man. That's just evil, man. It's all about you. It's about the rest of the world. And if we don't take care of each other, we're all going to go down. And I think this coronavirus pandemic shows that.

We all got to work together and be good to each other because if you hoard all the shit so you can just stay at home with all your stuff, everyone else is going to be scurrying around to different stores trying to find shit. And guess what? They're going to pick up the coronavirus and you're their neighbors.

Now, we're all going to get the virus eventually. Just keep that in mind. It's not that big of a deal. We're all going to get it. But there are people in this world that have weakened immune systems that this is very dangerous to them. And that brings me to my point. You know, a lot of people have been cavalier. I've heard of people that are just like, oh, fuck, this is stupid.

Or I don't care. I i'm young i'll be fine it's just the flu um all sorts of stupid idiot thinking um and today was kind of interesting and i encourage people to go check this out you go on to twitter and hashtag high risk covid19 was trending and i've seen a lot of people talk about how scared they are. They're usually fairly healthy. But my friends, they might be a little aged or they might have some underlying health conditions. I'm in the category of group being 53 of being older. I have a little bit of high blood pressure.

I'm overweight. Not the best of my health for all the stuff I've done. I do have to tell you the coronavirus has got me, uh, walking the treadmill every day, but I'm making up for a lot of lost time and there's, you know, I'm definitely susceptible. Okay. Um, so there you go. But, uh, uh, if you go to Twitter and you see pound high-risk COVID-19, you'll see some wonderful, warm people that are posting about their autoimmune diseases. And some of them are on immunosuppressants. They have body issues like autoimmune disease. Some of them have kidney or liver or body transplants.

And they have to take drugs. And some people, uh, are taking cancer treatments. Turns out people on cancer treatments have a low immune system because they, you know, they blast it with radiation and, um, and it hurts their immunity, immune immunity. I don't know. I'm clearly not a doctor, Chris. You're not a doctor, Chris. So people are posting pictures of their family, their children. Here's a gentleman. He's 17 months in his immunotherapy treatments for his second reoccurrence of brain cancer. I've been getting these treatments every three weeks, but I cannot get them if i'm sick my bodily over also reacts to infections please stay home please social distance

hashtag high risk covet 19 so these are the people and you can see their faces um you can see their faces across this thing of all these people uh people with let's see here's someone with crohn's disease that takes an auto auto immunosuppressant meds to stop the own uh their own bodies from fighting themselves these are people that uh are in the highest danger of losing their lives. And they're young, they're old, they're children. And you may have heard that the coronavirus doesn't go after children, but these people have a, what's the right word? They have an immune system that is challenged and compromised. That's the word I was looking for. And so they were posting pictures of their family,

some of them have asthma. My husband has asthma. My children have a congenital blood disorder, and I have the same condition, but I have no spleen. Please help keep us healthy. We deserve a long happy life there's a lot of moving faces you see here when you see people's children when you see people's children that's it's just crazy and and, and their smiling faces or hope they're like, please support us, do what you can to help us live. Um, uh, so there's a lot of these people that have different things. Here's a person with heart arrhythmia, pneumonia from frequent bounce, scarring in her lungs. She is someone who can have issues. So a lot of people in the disabled community.

So realize that it's not all about you. You're not doing all this for just you. You're doing this for the rest of the people on the planet, all the people that we're in the boat with. And that it's really important that we wash our hands, that we don't get sloppy, that we don't treat this disease as something stupid, silly, or a hoax. One of my friends who delivers medications, I guess for prescription or I don't know what, but he delivers medications.

He's given me strict rules not to touch, keep your distance. And people just think it's a joke. And so if you think it's a joke or you think it's a hoax, I want you to go to poundhighriskcovid19 and look at those faces of those people and realize how scared those people must be. And I got to tell you I I thought I felt scared but I I don't really feel scared for me at all now I see what these people are going through I can't imagine the fear they're going through and the terror uh knowing that they're compromised

I'm fairly fortunate enough to know that even though I am kind of older and I have high blood pressure, um, I'm probably going to make it through. Uh, I don't know that maybe you could be listening to this someday a month from now and you'd be like that Chris thought he was going to make it. What a guy. Um, and you know, I hope you have a laugh cause it, it will be kind of funny. Maybe that will be my last act if i want to go out i do want to go out funny so that way people go the last thing chris said or did i don't know but it's really fucking funny and we laugh really hard while he was dying but please don't do that to anyone else so anyway um i advise you to if you're ever suffering

through like oh Oh God, I have to be at home and Oh God, the kids are home. Cause the thing, and my life is horrible. Hey man, you could be one of these folks with autoimmune disease or one of my listeners in the audience right now, who's really freaking out because I'm not sure how I would deal with it very well. I'd probably just start drinking, which would probably make things worse. So anyway, I want to share that tidbit with you. Make sure that you scold people that are being silly about this, that aren't holding it up. Realize that the whole nation is going on lockdown. Now, the world's not ending. We're not going to zombie apocalypse. It's going to be fine. What we're doing is we're locking down community spread that's all we're

doing there's some cities are going to be probably locked down by the national guard china did the same and if you look at the graphs they go up and they come back down as soon as they fill all the hospitals they do the testing and everything else and everyone kind of stopped the community spread that was the real key to stopping its massive growth especially where this is highly contagious one person can easily spread it to two people and that seems to be how it amplifies its spread so this is important and I if you listen to Chris Foss show we normally talk about business so I appreciate you being patient through these times. We might make two or three more episodes about our experience with coronavirus.

I don't intend to turn this into a coronavirus podcast, but if we all go deep in the hole, and this is the way we're all communicating together, is you listen to me on my podcast at your house, well, then we're going to share some personal stuff together. Not too personal, no TMI, but you know, yeah, you get it. Anyway, make sure people around you understand what this is about, how important it's about, because it's not all about us. 99% of the people, 98% of the people will survive this. Some of us may be fairly hospitalized, but over 80% of the people will survive this. Some of us may be fairly hospitalized,

but over 80% of the people that get this virus live, they just go through a nasty little flu sort of thing and they feel kind of awful just like you would with the flu. So most of us are going to make it. The concern that we have, the sacrifice that we're making in going and turning off all of these things where we get there as large crowds The sacrifice they're making is for these people for our old folks for our grandparents for our parents For our loved ones, and if you don't have those because they passed away do it for someone else's

This is the real pay it forward like you remember pay it forward like sometimes in Vegas I would pull up to the Starbucks coffee line and the the guy would go the guy before you paid for your coffee and they're just doing a pay for it line and so you'd be like okay pay for the guy behind me and just kind of you just kind of do that this is a pay it forward a moment we're all taking a break we're all taking some very painful expensive lessons i can tell you mine's pretty expensive just this week alone um but it's something we got to do because if we don't all stick together we don't all work together we don't all row the boat the same direction and if we go crazy um

we're all going down with the ship so let's all hang in there let's kind of realize what's the logic of what's going on uh i did start a facebook group i was in a facebook group on coronavirus and the leader in it was a trumper and a huge denier of what was really going on and the other news is just trying to BS you. And when people would put up logical, factual posts, he would shoot them down. And at one point, one of my friends posted and said, well, no, this is verified by Snopes.

And he goes, Snopes is a bunch of bullshit. They lie all the time. And I was like, wow. And then they had a lot of racial stuff in there where they were trying to paint the coronaviruses as a racial thing or a foreign thing you know you've heard these racist tropes coming from the administration so so I decided to form my own coronavirus group so if you want to join on Facebook contact me look it up find me on Facebook it's the name of it is going to be skewer the name the name of it is going to be or the name it is coronavirus fact

and trusted sources. And what I've done with this group is I made it to where it's just facts. It's not hyperbole. I've made sure there's no rumor. I've sourced the information as best I can. And people that are contributing, uh, anyone can contribute, but people are contributing.

Um, did you, the people that are contributing, um, are going to um you know basically um i sorry i just saw something really funny and it's inappropriate it's funny um it's somebody's coronavirus joke um so basically um if you want to join that group, Corona's facts and trusted sources, you can, uh, I believe it's under Facebook groups for it's slash Corona virus fact. Uh, and, uh, you can join it.

There's a lot of people who joined up on it and we're trying to just make sure that we keep it really rock solid with facts and not a lot of hyperbole, not a lot of people running around screaming, not any racist tropes and all that good stuff. Anyway, realize kind of what we're in for. It's probably going to take a month to get through this or a couple weeks. It depends on how we all work together. And it really comes down to us man it comes down to us and how well we make sure that we don't turn this into a giant super pandemic where everybody gets it and everybody's squashing

the hospitals like they are in italy sadly so anyway do your part be smart be wise keep your eyes open share with people don't hoard don't break the system, if you hoard, you'll break the system, and then no one will have food, including you, and then people will come kill you for your food, or something crazy like that, I don't know, man, just don't, just stop it, just calm down, there's gonna be plenty of food, there's gonna be plenty of everything, we just gotta keep on trucking, but you can't be breaking the system, We can't flood the hospitals all at once. You can't hoard the food all at once. Just take it easy.

This is not a time to freak out because if you freak out, you rock the boat, and the boat capsizes, and everybody goes in the water, including you. So don't be that asshole. Now, I understand some of these people with autoimmune disease and different other things, cancer treatments and things of that nature. If I was them, I'd be definitely worried and scared, but, uh, let's just do the right thing for these folks and make America great. And that's really what this is. This is our challenge. This is our moment to show how good of Americans we can be to each other. This is the moment that we come together or we fall apart.

So let's make the right choice here and let's everyone do their part. Anyway, guys, I want to share that with you today. Try and stay as positive as you can. Spend some time with your kids and family. I spent some more time with my dogs today. I got off the computer. I went and spent time with the most important things in my life my puppies we did some videotapes posted them online don't forget to smile don't forget to laugh it's uh it's a challenge right now but we'll get through this i got i gotta tell you i you, I felt more rest assured knowing that I got through the 2008 collapse of the housing.

And that was an economic collapse. Like the economy came to a complete fucking stop. And almost everything that was a major industry in our thing, we went to the edge of a Great Depression. But that was a very different era. This is completely different. The economy is working fine. It's probably going to go into a little bit of a Great Depression. But that was a very different era. This is completely different. The economy is working fine. It's probably going to go into a little bit of a recession dip because of what's going on.

But we'll probably come out of it. And people will probably come out of it so excited to get out of their house and go to NBA basketball games again and stuff. It'll be fine. We just got to kind of bite the bullet for a month. So hang in there. Breathe deep. Smile. Try to stay as positive as you can, educate yourself. I got to tell you, educating yourself really helps. If you want to join my Facebook group. Anyway, guys, we're

talking about maybe having some doctors on to interview them. And like I say, we're not turning this into the coronavirus pandemic podcast, but I think it's topical. So let's do that. And also I want my audience to feel educated and I also want my audience to feel calm and to feel like they're empowered with the knowledge that they need to do. So we're not turning this into the coronavirus podcast, but I do want to give you information, and I do want to make my audience entertained, smile, laugh, and hopefully be logically educated enough to get through this. We'll make it. Hang in there. I know some people are scared.

Just educate yourself. It's been going on now for three months, there's only 5,700 people that have passed away, sadly, those, I mean, we're kind of containing it as best we can, and that's what's important, any guys, thanks for tuning in, if you get scared, if you get, if you feel trapped, call and reach out to someone. Ask for help. That's what I highly recommend you do. And I can tell you, for the most part, a large amount of us are going to be okay.

We just got to clamp down on this so that the people who are weaker in our society can survive this as well. And we can all come out to the other side. And that does seem like a horrible gift. You know, we live for, what, 80 years? So we've got to take a month off and stay in our homes and kind of stay away from each other. Think of it as like a vacation from each other. Maybe we'll appreciate each other more when we come out the other side.

Anyway, guys, keep smiling, make each other laugh, maybe take this time for opportunity to get to know your family better and you better. And maybe get to know how much you really appreciate them. Because all of our days are numbers, regardless of a coronavirus or not. We are on a timeline through the sands of time, and no one knows when their time is up. So make the best of it and the most of it thanks for tuning in guys and i'm gonna see you next time