February 18, 2025 • 7 mins
PT2 Journey of Discovery: COVID 5 years later
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning Show with Michael Del Chono.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Part two now of our Journey of Discovery, we were
looking at COVID through the lens of looking back five
years later, and where we left off was the differences
partisan differences in our view. So the first thing that
(00:25):
if you're going to study this Pew research number numbers
depending on which aspect, you had three societal trends that
were happening when COVID hit a growing political divide between
the left and the right, and then how COVID played that.
(00:45):
That's why you had two completely. That's when we officially
became a matrix. You had one America believing one thing
about COVID, another America believing something completely different, one doing
and accepting no matter what the government said to do,
and resistance. So that was the way COVID met that
growing partisan divide of left and right and the matrix
(01:06):
in America. You also had a decreasing trust in many institutions,
as we talked about in the part one, not just governmental, economic, education,
cultural beyond medical to CDC World Health organization, right down
to your primary doctor or your local school board. Based
(01:28):
on some of the decisions that were made and So
now five years later, some who still have that trust,
and I don't know how because most of what was
considered a conspiracy is now truth. And then those who
have a great mistrust. So understanding COVID five years later
is important understanding America today. And then a massive splintering
(01:50):
in the information environment. So went through a lot of
the numbers, and what you see is how the left
viewed doctors, how the left viewed politicians and government, how
the left viewed essential workers, how the left viewed social
distancing and masks versus the right. Now we get to
the point when it comes to education, because I think
(02:11):
that was one of the greatest betrayal I would have
to give to the elderly, they were the most If
you understood COVID, not narratives, the actual virus, it's a
whole different world. Why were you doing that gain of function?
How did that gain of function get leaked? Did it
get leaked accidentally or on purpose? Why was China so purposeful?
(02:34):
And how they protected the spread in their country and
so reckless with how they allowed to spread outside of
their country. But then you get to betrayals, and you
would have to go to the most vulnerable the elderly,
and then the young. So when it comes to K
through twelve, fifty five percent of Republicans say schools in
their area stayed closed too long, while just seventeen percent
(02:58):
of Democrats.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Agreed, you're in the may again.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Close the economy, close the schools, stay home, stay safe.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
This is the new normal. We're all gonna die. The
left believed all the fear. The right not so much.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
About half of Democrats, forty nine percent say schools in
their area were closed for about the right amount of time. No,
I don't think there's anybody. It was funny our tour
guide at the University of Oklahoma. I asked him, I said, well,
you know, how tough is it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh? You scholastically.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And he talked about how you know you're going to
be challenged, and then he quickly said, now you know,
I went through COVID in high school. And then he
immediately talked about how behind he was, and so when
he got to basic courses that he should have had
in high school, he was behind and he had to
really buckle up. It's like he had to learn what
he should have known getting there and then pick it
(03:52):
up from there.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Is what he was trying to describe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
In other words, this senior at the University of Oklahoma
is still feeling the effects of COVID and how it
impacted his high school. Anybody that knows anything about SATs
and acts know how colleges had to change everything. We
have a whole generation that I always use this analogy
because I lived it back when I had a hernia surgery. Well,
(04:14):
you were out of school six weeks, you were in
the hospital two weeks, and in my case it was
third grade.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't think I ever caught up.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
In fact, my mom should have probably just left me
out of school the rest of the year and just
repeated third grade.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
The next year. She'd have done me a bigger favor.
But who knew.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But I don't have to tell you. COVID had a
much bigger effect than six weeks. I can only fathom.
And then lost in all. This is our view of
the education system, fight after fight with local school boards.
What we witnessed on our kids' computers at home, This
is what school looks like now.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
COVID's effect on our view of education.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, a lot of it is decisions that were made,
decisions that were followed, But a lot of it just
was revealed. Remember what we keep saying with COVID, it
revealed more than it did about education, about our government,
about our media, the information environment. This was a great
section in the pure research. I know it's seventeen after
trust me, I'm aware of trying to get through this.
(05:23):
As Red said, we could have probably spread this out
one section a day. That might have been the wiser
way to do it. We're going to do more of
this with David Zanati tomorrow. The information environment. Many say
the media exaggerated the risks of COVID nineteen. That shouldn't
be an opinion, that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I know. I was in the media.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I know what the companies were saying you had to
say or you'd be fired, versus what the truth was revealing.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But let's see how much America caught on.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Overall, fifty four percent of Americans say the news media
exaggerated the risks of COVID at least slightly. This includes
eight and ten Republicans who say the media greatly sixty
five percent or slightly fifteen percent exaggerated risk. Now compare
that to three and ten Democrats who expressed similar views.
(06:16):
It was all a fear game for the purposes of control.
If you haven't figured out what they were trying to
control yet, I could break that down politically, medically, societally, culturally,
but there's no question one side bought the fear lived in,
the fear obeyed the fear hell they're still obeying it.
(06:39):
But it's a matrix that pre existed. There are similar
patterns in views towards public health officials like those at
the CDC, Joe Biden his administration, state officials. In each case,
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say these sources
exaggerated the risks.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Bottom line, and how do I do this in fifteen seconds?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Remember these three big cultural societal realities that were in
place when COVID hit were just strengthened by COVID, And
that's the growing divide between partisans of the left and
the right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
The matrix.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A decreasing trust in institutions, from your primary physician to
the CDC, to the Office of the Presidency to your
government and state officials. A decreasing trust in those institutions,
and a massive splintering or the official call it death
of journalism, time of death. That's COVID life should be
(07:40):
better understood looking back than looking forward. Half of America
still can't look back and see the truth. That's the
power of the matrix, and that's our journey of discovery.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
will miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.
Previously on your Morning Show with Michael Del Chono.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Part two now of our Journey of Discovery, we were
looking at COVID through the lens of looking back five
years later, and where we left off was the differences
partisan differences in our view. So the first thing that
(00:25):
if you're going to study this Pew research number numbers
depending on which aspect, you had three societal trends that
were happening when COVID hit a growing political divide between
the left and the right, and then how COVID played that.
(00:45):
That's why you had two completely. That's when we officially
became a matrix. You had one America believing one thing
about COVID, another America believing something completely different, one doing
and accepting no matter what the government said to do,
and resistance. So that was the way COVID met that
growing partisan divide of left and right and the matrix
(01:06):
in America. You also had a decreasing trust in many institutions,
as we talked about in the part one, not just governmental, economic, education,
cultural beyond medical to CDC World Health organization, right down
to your primary doctor or your local school board. Based
(01:28):
on some of the decisions that were made and So
now five years later, some who still have that trust,
and I don't know how because most of what was
considered a conspiracy is now truth. And then those who
have a great mistrust. So understanding COVID five years later
is important understanding America today. And then a massive splintering
(01:50):
in the information environment. So went through a lot of
the numbers, and what you see is how the left
viewed doctors, how the left viewed politicians and government, how
the left viewed essential workers, how the left viewed social
distancing and masks versus the right. Now we get to
the point when it comes to education, because I think
(02:11):
that was one of the greatest betrayal I would have
to give to the elderly, they were the most If
you understood COVID, not narratives, the actual virus, it's a
whole different world. Why were you doing that gain of function?
How did that gain of function get leaked? Did it
get leaked accidentally or on purpose? Why was China so purposeful?
(02:34):
And how they protected the spread in their country and
so reckless with how they allowed to spread outside of
their country. But then you get to betrayals, and you
would have to go to the most vulnerable the elderly,
and then the young. So when it comes to K
through twelve, fifty five percent of Republicans say schools in
their area stayed closed too long, while just seventeen percent
(02:58):
of Democrats.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Agreed, you're in the may again.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Close the economy, close the schools, stay home, stay safe.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
This is the new normal. We're all gonna die. The
left believed all the fear. The right not so much.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
About half of Democrats, forty nine percent say schools in
their area were closed for about the right amount of time. No,
I don't think there's anybody. It was funny our tour
guide at the University of Oklahoma. I asked him, I said, well,
you know, how tough is it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh? You scholastically.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And he talked about how you know you're going to
be challenged, and then he quickly said, now you know,
I went through COVID in high school. And then he
immediately talked about how behind he was, and so when
he got to basic courses that he should have had
in high school, he was behind and he had to
really buckle up. It's like he had to learn what
he should have known getting there and then pick it
(03:52):
up from there.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Is what he was trying to describe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
In other words, this senior at the University of Oklahoma
is still feeling the effects of COVID and how it
impacted his high school. Anybody that knows anything about SATs
and acts know how colleges had to change everything. We
have a whole generation that I always use this analogy
because I lived it back when I had a hernia surgery. Well,
(04:14):
you were out of school six weeks, you were in
the hospital two weeks, and in my case it was
third grade.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't think I ever caught up.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
In fact, my mom should have probably just left me
out of school the rest of the year and just
repeated third grade.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
The next year. She'd have done me a bigger favor.
But who knew.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But I don't have to tell you. COVID had a
much bigger effect than six weeks. I can only fathom.
And then lost in all. This is our view of
the education system, fight after fight with local school boards.
What we witnessed on our kids' computers at home, This
is what school looks like now.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
COVID's effect on our view of education.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, a lot of it is decisions that were made,
decisions that were followed, But a lot of it just
was revealed. Remember what we keep saying with COVID, it
revealed more than it did about education, about our government,
about our media, the information environment. This was a great
section in the pure research. I know it's seventeen after
trust me, I'm aware of trying to get through this.
(05:23):
As Red said, we could have probably spread this out
one section a day. That might have been the wiser
way to do it. We're going to do more of
this with David Zanati tomorrow. The information environment. Many say
the media exaggerated the risks of COVID nineteen. That shouldn't
be an opinion, that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I know. I was in the media.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I know what the companies were saying you had to
say or you'd be fired, versus what the truth was revealing.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But let's see how much America caught on.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Overall, fifty four percent of Americans say the news media
exaggerated the risks of COVID at least slightly. This includes
eight and ten Republicans who say the media greatly sixty
five percent or slightly fifteen percent exaggerated risk. Now compare
that to three and ten Democrats who expressed similar views.
(06:16):
It was all a fear game for the purposes of control.
If you haven't figured out what they were trying to
control yet, I could break that down politically, medically, societally, culturally,
but there's no question one side bought the fear lived in,
the fear obeyed the fear hell they're still obeying it.
(06:39):
But it's a matrix that pre existed. There are similar
patterns in views towards public health officials like those at
the CDC, Joe Biden his administration, state officials. In each case,
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say these sources
exaggerated the risks.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Bottom line, and how do I do this in fifteen seconds?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Remember these three big cultural societal realities that were in
place when COVID hit were just strengthened by COVID, And
that's the growing divide between partisans of the left and
the right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
The matrix.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A decreasing trust in institutions, from your primary physician to
the CDC, to the Office of the Presidency to your
government and state officials. A decreasing trust in those institutions,
and a massive splintering or the official call it death
of journalism, time of death. That's COVID life should be
(07:40):
better understood looking back than looking forward. Half of America
still can't look back and see the truth. That's the
power of the matrix, and that's our journey of discovery.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
will miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.
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