Here's why I had you
back on this coronavirus,
nothing has really changed.
It's still out there.
I see people in my neighborhood walking
around and they don't feel they need to
wear a mask.
Let me tell you the science.
It takes about a thousand particles
of virus for me to spread it to you.
Every time I speak or breathe,
I breathe out 30 or 40
particles if I'm positive.
Most of those particles hit
the ground from gravity.
If I wear a mask,
I can block probably
90% of those particles.
So if you do the math,
I have to speak to you at a
close distance for 10 hours,
for me to spread the virus to you.
If I'm wearing a mask
that's not going to happen.
So you basically can eliminate spread of
the virus by blocking particles wearing
a mask.
And then when friends say,
Hey,
I'm having a dinner party,
we're having 10 to 12 people.
We're going to social distance.
How can you social distance?
If you look outdoors,
there's almost no spread of the virus,
right?
You have remarkable ventilation outdoors.
If it's during the day,
the UV light can degrade the virus.
So the notion of getting
a few couples together,
outdoors,
sitting at tables that
are socially distance,
where the waitstaff will wear masks,
I think is very safe.
If someone said to you,
there's going to be a
gathering of 10 people.
It's going to be a socially distant party.
You would go to that?
Well,
you know,
it depends who the people are.
You know,
some of your friends are going to parties
with a hundred people and you know,
other ones of your friends
are acting like you.
You want to be around people who you trust
their risk tolerance and it fits your
profile.
Would you take an Uber right now?
I would not.
I don't think the ventilation
in cars is good enough.
If you had somebody come
into your house to clean,
would you trust that?
There need to be rules.
The way we do it is,
uh,
there's a room.
And if someone is going
to clean that room,
we don't go in that room for several
hours and we leave the windows open.
What about a simple thing like a haircut?
If he did it outdoors,
much safer.
Going indoors to a barbershop
I would not do right now.
You're a cancer specialists.
Most of your patients,
they need to go to the doctor,
but you wouldn't go to the
dermatologist to get your checkup.
No,
I can delay that,
I mean,
to get a regular checkup
with bloods and other things,
to make sure all your
medications are working.
That's a very cogent thing.
The doctor is not going
to be on top of you.
Listen,
we're delaying cancer
diagnosis in a lot of people.
Cause they're not going in with the small
symptoms they would have gone before.
We know the earlier you
diagnose the better the outcome,
the national cancer estimated,
there could be tens of thousands of
deaths over the next decade from people
diagnosed later than they
would have pre COVID.
And that's not good.
What about this second
wave they're talking about?
Well,
first of all,
we have to get rid of the first wave.
It hasn't gone away.
We're still at a thousand deaths a day.
That first wave is ongoing
at the present time.
So anybody who says there will be a
second wave in the fall has no idea what
they're talking about.
We cannot predict this virus.
It is new.
We don't know its behavior.
And the predictions in
general are not accurate.
I thank Dr. Agus for coming on today.
And here's what I got out of
it and correct me if I'm wrong,
I am going to wear my mask.
I am going to,
to social distance,
spread the word to people.
Don't spread the virus,
spread the word to people,
just put on your mask,
do me a favor,
be a human being.
Let's do what our parents
did in World War II.
Let's sacrifice for the good of everyone.
It's not that big a
sacrifice to wear a mask.
I got it right,
Dr. Agus?.
Yes.
And pray for science.
Scientists across the globe.
Many of them are working 24/7 to
develop treatments and vaccines that
we're all going to benefit from.
And listened to the scientists.
