The world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. As bad as things may seem right now, its important to remember that the world hasnt technically ended yet. I mean its going to happen but you have to figure we have at least a few weeks left. So in the mean time lets think positive with a little ray of sunshine. Lets kick it off with a story that will make everyone smile, well, everyone except the coronavirus. This lady has seen a lot in her life. She survived the spanish flu, early in the last century and now at 101 she has just beaten covid19 it. Call her supergranny. Angelina friedman proudly shares i am 101 years old and i beat covid19. The westchester, new york woman, not only beat the coronavirus at her nursing home but plifd through the 1918 spanish fluvment her family says she possesses superhuman dna. Do you feel good. Yes, i do. Thank you. Good. Damn, this woman lived through the spanish flu and beat coronavirus . Not to mention that in 2010 she also beat bieber fever, she was one of the lucky once. Coronavirus must be embarrassed. You got beaten by a 101 year old woman. I bit coronavirus is there like she didnt beat me, i let her win. One thing is clear, if you have ever given your grandmother a worlds greatest grandmother mug, confiscate it immediately, sorry mee maw, turns out you aint shit. And por good nurks in the last few weeks some countries have slowly been emerging from their corona hibernation, and now even italy hardest hit countries is starting to open up. After eight weeks of silence, today the streets of italy are slowly coming back to life. Construction sites, factories and parks reopening. Italians will be able to travel locally and order takeout. Joggers allowed once again to run in parks long off limits. In romes form flower market the florists have returned. Cafes like the cafe greco, the oldest in rome can once again serve coffee. In 260 years has this cafe ever been closed . Never, never closed. Not even during world war ii. No. Trevor it italy is getting back to worka. That is such great news, man. Because there is a lot of work to be done in italy. Corona really messed up that whole country. The towers were falling over, streets were flooded, the ruins, its a mess over there right now. I do worry about italy because italians are all about kition and hugging. But with coronavirus, still out there, they cant do all of that. How are they going to show affection, huh . Because i mean we can replace handshakes with elbows, but that doesnt work forth italian kiss. Good to see you gee vane. Basically what i am saying is post coronavirus, every country is going to have to become russia. We do not touch. We do not kiss. When i make love i just stare so hard at them that they can feel it. Another fun story, every day were hearing how animals are thriving without us. But in japan, it turns out that there are some animals that just miss our face. A japanese aquarium is asking people to make video calls to their eels, why . To remind the sensitive creatures humans exist and dont pose a threat. With a largely humanfree environment the last couple months aquarium staff say when keepers try to check on the garden eels they hide in the sand, in a bid to reacquaint them with humans they are setting up tablets and asking eel enthusiasts to connect with fies thyme. Trevor because, the zoo wants people to video chat with the eels so that they remember humans and dont view them as a threat when people come back. Although if you ask me, reminding the eels about humans will have the opposite effect. Why is the ocean so small . Oh, right, the humans put us in a water tank. You know what the good news is, eels are perfectly designed to video chat. Because if anyone tries to flash their penis, the eels are not going to be phased. They will just be like oh, look at that, another eel on the call. Very strange eel. So small and so pale. You must be sick. All right, that is it for ray of sunshine. Lets get straight into the headlines. All right, as the coronavirus is, lets start with china. Since covid19 emerged from wuhan suspicions about the origins have been rampant. And today the u. S. Department of Homeland Security leaked a report that when the outbreak started, the klein ease government hid the severity of the problem in order to hoard medical supplies before other countries could stock up. I should have known that china was up to no good. My Fortune Cookie tried to warn me. They always seem vein. I just see signs every where you know what china is accused of is doing that friend your shitty friend does when they call you from a party like hey, dont bother Come Together Party no one is here and late you are you see a selfie where they poohed themselve sitting at a table with rihanna and you are like what the hell. Oh, it just happened and i forgot to call, there was nobody, and then there was everybody. Ha ha, i wish were there. In other news one of the biggest winners of the coronavirus pandemic has been am glofnlt the Worlds Largest online retailer and the only store where you can get baby food and a dildo in the same order. The net worth has gone up billions but people on the ground are having a terrible time with infections spreading through amazon warehouses faster than prime delivery employees are demanding more protective equipment and sanitizer as well as hazard pay and paid sick leave. Which seems fair. And now one prominent amazon vieses president has quit in disgust. Saying that the company has created a climate of fear by firing protesting workers instead of addressing their concerns. A move that he describes as quote chicken sthit. Mi not going lie, he has balls because most of us wouldnt call amazon chicken shit. They have your home address and can leak your shipping history. I would never mess because everybody would know i bought a dildo and baby food, it sem bar rasing because i dont have a baby, i just like the texture. A great insult and something you can also buy on am gloorntion they really do sell everything. If you have been getting board with coronavirus and you wish there was anything else going on to think about, well, be careful what you wish. Killer hornets invading the u. S. And canada. Asian giant hornets also known as murder hor nets spotted spotn Washington State and they prey on honeybees that pollinate much of our food. These hornets grow up to two inches long, roughly five times the size of a bee and in japan where they originate they reportedly kill up to 50 people each year. Their giant stingers capable of piersing a beekeepers suit. The manned i believes, there you request sort of see them are pretty large. They are very, very sharp, and that is what they use to de cap date decapitate bees and mash up the thorax into a meatball they call it and fly it back to feed to their larvae. What . Telephone stand actual [bleep] telephone murder hornet, murder hornet. I want to go back to the days when the craze yeses animals were keyboard cats. It was actually pretty good because right now 2020 Mother Nature is out of control. A killer virus is one thing. But murder hornets . Sounds like someone is combining the scariest words what is next, nunchuck wolfs, okay, i was picturing wolves holding nunchucks but i guess that would be weird too. Murder hornet just sounds like psychos. They cut off the heads of bees and mash up the thorax into meatballs and if fly back to feed their larvae. I thought only Rudy Giuliani fed his family that way. If you ask me, these hornets are just being unnecessarily petty. Going around decapitating bees. How about get it, z, day 49, guys. Im strilging. And finally over the past few weeks, rumors have been swirling over the health of kim jungun, north korean dictator and disgraced former member of the teletubies. Well now after tons of speculation about whether he was dead or sick or in a medically induced food comma the dear leader has reemerged. The are for 20 days the world wondered where is kim jungun. Now north korea state media appearing to show the countrys mysterious leader visiting a newly completed fertilizer plant. Joined by his trusted sister. President trump appears to have confirmed that kim jungun is indeed alive and well. The president saying i for one am glad to see he is back and well. Yes, of course trump is happy kim jungun is back. Thank god, im no longer definitely the worst person on earth. Now it is debatable again. By the way, if you ever have to use a phrase i for one, it means you are about to give some messed up shit. It is never something good strks always like i for one think we should leave the dead prostitute in the trunk and go to the casino as we planned. But yeah, according to north korean media kim jungun is alive and well and didnt have any type of surgery. And personally, i dont know why i wouldnt believe thevment he looks like the same old kim to me. Now i know that some people are saying that north korea could have aired old footage of him but the truth is that north korea, there is no way to tell. That country is 30 years behind the rest of the world. Kim jungun could come outlining if i werent alive right now, how could i be holding this brand new vhs of terminator 2, so it looks like that is the end of the death speculation for now. I will be honest, i almost feel bad for the guy. Imagine your health was so bad that every time you stayed in the house to chill, people were like oh, he dead. That is it forth headlines. When we come back well see how america is reopening is going. And why the grim reaper went to the beach. Stick around. This is not a time for business as usual. Unless your business as usual has always been about putting people first. Find out how your lexus dealer can service your individual needs. Distancing show. While nations like new zealand and south korea seem to have kroarvetion the situation in america isnt clear. On the one hand the number of infections in new york have been dropping steadily by is great. But what is alarming is the opposite has been happening in many states around the u. S when you look across the country its really a mixed bag. There are certainly cases falling in the tri state regionaround new york city. Around the nation, hospitalizations and new cases continue to rise, there are about 20 states where we see a rising number of new case, illinois s maryland, indiana, virginia, north carolina, tennessee, a lot of new cases on a daily basis, while mitigation didnt fail. I think st fair to say it didnt work as well as we expected. Trevor yeah, it turns out coronavirus is a lot like a broadway musical. Starts out big in new york and months later, a much worse version pops up in peoria. I dont even understand how these mid western states are failing at social distancing. The whole state is already social distancing. Everything is spread out. You have to get in a truck and drive 17 miles just to infeblght someone. A bit of a sneeze coming on, we should head to the hendersons, make this count. It goes to show that the spike in coronavirus in america was not a unified a proavment i get it, america is a big country and a country that likes to argue. It is hard to get everybody on the same page, you know. Forget coronavirus. Imagine if america tried to order a pizza together. Some people would want topping, some no topping, some people say pizza is a hoax and some is say you would think an increase in cases would mean that now is maybe not the perfect time to open everything up. But many states in america are saying hey, man, summer is not going to enjoy itself. With the start of a new month comes a wave of caw sthus reopenings nationwide. Some states now opening gym, hair salons, retail stores. Others offering malls, theaters and golf kowrgses. Im at miramar beach, and today say pretty big day. The beaches are fully reopened for the first time in more than a month and while some are happy, some are not. One of those people is florida lawyer daniel. Down here today to try to make a point that we need to i think it is premature that we open our beaches. Trevor wow. Walking around florida as the grim reaper. That must have freaked people out. Because you know there had to be some 90 year old grandma who saw him like im ready, grim reaper. Take me. All i have is my grandkids and i hate them. What . You can all see him too . Oh, that was just nanas medication talking. Now look, i appreciate the effort this guy is making but at the same time, i dont think the grim reap certificate going to scare that many people. This is florida it god sent alligators to make people stay out of the water and they responded by wrestling them. But it turns out people on the beach might be the least of americas worries. Because there are other groups doing much crazier things. Tonight across the country outrage, protestors demanding States Reopen their economies in maine, oregon and kentucky. The passion protestors gathering tightly by the hundreds, freakily without masks. On friday, californias capitol approximate, 30 arrests as protestors face off with police. Protestors armed with assault rifles storming the capitol in michigan. Trevor damn, only in america. Do protests start by storming the capitol with assault rifles. I mean you try calling, writing a letter, using armed rebellion is the last step. It which way to the suggestion box, i feel bad for all the governors trying to enforce the shutdowns stvment like herding cats but more difficult because some of those cats have i know a lot of people probably saw this and said man, if black people were holding guns and shouting at police, that protest would end badly. But guys, please, that is not true. Protest wouldnt have ended badly, there wouldnt be a protest. The black people would have been pulled over on the way there. Now were not denying trump has encouraged these, he tweeted the states need to be liberated. He said the protesters were good people and the governor was wrong and should negotiate. And even as americas coronavirus death toll has zoomed past trumps predictions of what the total death toll would be, trump hasnt changed his mind. The only thing he has done is move the goal post. That is. That is one of the reasons were successful, if you call losing 80 or 90,000 people successful. But it is one of the reasons that were not at that high end of the blame as opposed to the low end. That number has changed. You said. Its going up, i know. I used to say 65,000. And now im saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly. But it is still going to be, no matter how you look at t at the lower end of the plane, if we did the shutdown. Trevor you see guys p this is the art of the deal. You start by saying 60,000 americans will dierks coronavirus counters with everyone, and then trump moves it up to 90,000. Who needs a vaccine when you have a deal make ther good in the white house, am i right . Im not right. This is what happened, trump got his numbers super wrong. And instead of just admitting it he picked a new set of numbers to try and seem right. And i hope that trump doesnt say that must suck for people that work at powerball. I won the lottery. No, sir, you actually picked the wrong numbers. Well, i want to change them to the right numbers. You guys do this every time a try to claism you treat me worse than. In isnt the first time trump has shifted his predictions. In in fact the only thing we have been able to rely on trump for is throwing out estimates that keep on changing. If we didnt do it, you would have had a Million People, a million and a half people, maybe two Million People dead. But were going towards 50 or 60,000 people. It looks like well be at about a 60,000 mark. 60, maybe 65,000. 65,000 people, 70,000, 75, 80, 80 or 90,000 people. Minimum numbers of 100,000. And i think were going to beat that. If we could hold that down as we are saying to 100,000. We have between 100 and 200,000, we all together have done a very good job. Trevor and that z is why donald trump will always be in the top five president of all time. Maybe top ten, you know what, possibly top 30rbgs he is in the top 45. Thefn i would say he has done a very good job. Dont go away, because after the break, jab oukee young white examine the cham engs gay young men have in donating blood and i men have in donating blood and i will talk with dr. Fauci from [anthony] hey mama, whats up . [mama] im confused. Confused about what, everything ok . Yeah, i only see one price on my phone bill. That doesnt sound confusing mama. Youre on tmobile, taxes and fees are included. Oh come on, theres always extra fees not on tmobile mama. Why cant all my bills be like this . I dont know mama. Bye mama, love you. Anthony . Umph at tmobile, taxes and fees are included. And right now, when you switch your family, get 4 lines of unlimited for just 35 a line. With a delivery kitchen inry at chipalmost every restaurant, real food comes straight to your door. Its chipotle, delivered fast, fresh, and personalized just for you. Order in the app for free delivery. Shining through i see your true colors. Thats why i love you daily social distancing show. During this pandemic, there have been a lot of people who have gone above and beyond. Donating their money, their time and even their blood. But as our own jaboukie youngwhite reports, for some people its not that easy to be a hero. With a vaccine still about a year away, medical experts are looking at other ways to treat covid19 patients and there is one thing right now that seems to be working. Con val esence plasma. Con val es ent plasma. Plasma. Actually the plasma of recovered Covid Patients is the one thing right now more valuable than. If you have recovered from covid19, doctors want your blood. So i sat down with two people who might be able to help. Do you still have covid or how does that work . N im good. I was cleared. I have been without symptoms for about 30 or 30 some days now. So i have been symptomfree for coronavirus for about three weeks, i am basically recovered. You can explain what con val es ent plasma is. Where people donate plasma to get other people better. Right, right. That is the therapy that madonna uses on her face where she takes the blood of her 20 year old to look younger. So it is not exactly that. But what happens is people who have coronavirus, their immune systems develop antibodies against the virus and the treatment gives those antibodies to people dying from the disease so that the antibodies can fight the virus for them so they can recover. Wow wow, that is really dope that you donated plasma and took time to think about other people during a pandemic. Thats pretty laudable. We didnt. Its not quite that easy. Well, why is thap. Im gay. Fda says that we art allowed to donate blood. So you cant donate blood because you are gay. Pretty much. Oh, here we go. Back in 1983. Fda banned gay men from donating blood, during the aids crisis which was another disease that the government didnt do anything about until it was in 2015 the ban was lifted but if a gay man wanted to donate blood he couldnt have sex for 12 month. But now in the middle of this pandemic, the fda relaxed the policy o just three month of abstinence. Like where are you going to have a man who hasnt had sex in three months. So i am actually eligible to donate for the First Time Since i was 18. Oh, boo. So after a few rounds of screening i was given an appointment to donate. So what are gay blood drives like, like is everybody on molly and listening to the new dua lipa album. It wasnt quite like that. After i arrived and was preparing to donate through the new York Blood Center they asked me why i hadnt donated since i was 18. I volunteered i was gay and that is when they told me they are not yet recognizing the new relaxed definitely, and so they werent willing to accept my donation. Wowvment they are making it really hard for you guys. You know, if you want nem to take your blood, you cant just reveal that you are gay. You are going to have to with a straight guy. What do straight people look like. So first lets take a look at your outfit. I will need to you stand up and twirl around, not twirl, spin, spin around. Okay. So ive got this. Okay. Is this your straightest outfit right now. I you are trying to say im looking for a girlfriend. Also you have any clothes that your mom bought you . No, no i dont. No . Plaid, do you have any plaid, more plaid, no plaid. Yeah, but its really cute. Its like exactly. No, no. How about any boot cut jeans. No straight cut. Do you have any shoes that look like theyre too casual for formal events and too formal for casual events and scufd up and they look like they are the only shoes that you have owned for the past decade. Never mind, you can have a seat, have a seat. Let me hear you say, just say bro. Like if i say take my it blood bra. There it s mi there, so call, recall skater, 90s, im there and im sold. I believe you. Yeah, the thing is we shouldnt have to pass as straight. Straight. What do you mean. So being gay or bisexual isnt a real risk factor for hiv. Say you have a straight man who has had sex with a hundred women in the past month, and never used a condom, that person can still donate blood but if thereg sex with his husband and wearing condoms, that person cant. Yeah, i think at the end of the day we need science and not stigma to make decisions about donor he linl desh lige ability. Fda is telling us if you are gay, the only way you can be a good, clean, charitable person who donates blood, is if you dont have sex. So until the fda comes around, we just have to keep our fine, fabulous blood all to ourselves. Trevor thank you so much more that. And in some good new, one of the men jaboukie interviewed has since been able to donate his plasma to a private hospital. Hope fleef the federal guide lines will change soon to make that more common. When we come back, my gels will be dr. Anders tegnell, swedens chief epidimiologist, stick around, well be right back. [alarm bell rings] bang bang, there goes my bang bang, i want my bang bang, i want my bang bang go bang bang there goes my bang bang, go bang bang, there goes my bazooka go bang bang, there goes my bang bang, i want my mind blown, i want my mind blown go bang bang, there goes my bazooka when youre like enjoying a classic. With a classic. Miller lite. Great taste and only 96 calories. 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Sofi has brought me peace of mind. Truly thank you for helping me prepare for whatever the future has in store. Daily social distancing shoarks earlier today i got the chance to speak to dr. Anders tegnell, the chief epidimiologist for the country of sweden. We talked about how they have taken a different approach in swend. They havent imposed lockdowns and they havent imposed any quarantine it but it is working, well, there is only one man we could ask to find out. Dr. Tegnell, thank you so much for joining us on the daily social distancing show. You are chatting to us from a train station right now s that correct. A train station in sweden. Trevor are you commuting, are you out and about. Yes, im comeulting from my home, sh. Trevor okay. Sweat enis an interesting outliar in the world. Where most countries in the world have decided to completely lock everything down, keep people indoors and shut down the country, sweden has gone for a different approach. Sweden has decided to keep the country fairly open, but require citizens to social distance themselves to remain responsible to limit gathering totion below 50 people and i think you know like older people are meant to stay at home, et cetera. Tell me about what swi enis doing and then would you mind explaining to me how sweden came to that decision differently than everyone else in the world. Instead of closing it down completely, we tried to look at different situations where we know that it is most dapg rouse like in restaurants. Then regulated restaurants to have seating so are you not crowds. You need to have social distance between people so one and a half meters between people sitting down and a lot of responsibilities on the restaurant owners. Another is told everybody to stay home from stadiums, even if someone is slightly ill, stay home and because financially trmingz now adays you get paid even if you stay home when are you sick from the first day. It the government comanged quickly. So it is great incentive for people staying home if they feel ill. We have done a lot of things to limit social contact among the elderly, giving advice to them to stay home and stuff like that. So instead of closing down the whole society, we looked at society and closed down the aspectses of society where we think and know from other diseases, i think thats had a great affect in many ways because it enables Health Systems it has other feshts for people travel only 60 pergs of the normal travel, a lot of change. Yearly epidemic of flu suddenly stopped when we did these measure, in the middle of the normalway. In that way, it is smart and we had used what we normally use, it is really telling people to take responsibility and sort of do the things to keep them safe in diminishing there this threat. I think that is historically worked. Tell me about what is happening in sweden. What have you seen from the numbers in and around the coronavirus. Do you think sweden has it under control. Do you think sweden has seen the worst of it. I think in sweden, tho fp in the surrounding area, being half the population of sweden we have had quite a big number of people being ill in the last two months. While many other parts of sweden including the big cities on the west coast and south have had not very many cases at all. But in stockholm and surrounding area we have had a fair amount of cases. We think we are up to about a quarter of the population have been infected so far. Deaths have been down in a fairly slow manner. But the number of cases has been fairly constant for at least one month by now which means the health care, it is very different from today than it used to but they have kept on working. Everybody is treating the needs, the hospitals kept on working and in terms of care, have at least 20 of the beds free at any given time. So in that respect, it has been successful. We managed to keep the level of spread on a level below the threshhold of the outbreaker which is important. Trevor people look at the numbers of countries around sweden and they go, theyre death rate is far lower in terms of coronavirus. Swedens numbers are higher but if you look at other countries like italy and spain, et cetera, they have higher numbers than sweden so when you say swed sen successful, how do you measure that success. Are you just looking at the numbers of deaths or looking at it holisticically what does that mean . I think were trying to look at it holisticically. It is something we worry a lot about and it is very much related to give people hope. People extremely susceptible to it, we know there are a number of things we are working with a lot of agencies involved and have seen some improvement. But it has very much to do with. I think the good thing is telephone it is very important. We objection genated, to keep people work, reducing. Ve v been trying to take a more holistic approach to this. There have been reports coming out saying that there will be herd immunity achieved in stockholm over the coming weeks. What does that mean for you and what are you hoping herd immunity will achieve for sweden . I think we are not sure any country will ever achieve because that z i some of immunity in the population like 20, 25 perption which we are reaching will have a great effect. Sol i think there say possibility of easing some of the restrictions. The immunity level of the population has such a slow spread. Some elderly people many things we can then ease up a bit on. Trevor if somebody said dr. Tegnell, you know, your numbers we understand your methodology, we understand everything you are trying to do but having triple the death rate of countries like no end denmark means that you put some lives above other lives, do you think that the that is a decision epidimiologists splash governments need to make, is it an easy decision to make. Because i dont think anybody has the right answer in this regards but i would like to know how you got, how you and your team is got to that place where you said you know what, it is worth the risk. We want preem to still be working and we understand that that might lead us to have a higher death toll i initially. We never calculated that deaths tomorrow. We calculate more people beingic sick. Many countries obviously not enough, so we are not pushing anybodys living above nibbles. That is not the way we are working, we are trying to as soon as possible in this troublesome time. Trevor that is really interesting because that is not how it is being reported. Im glad you said that, it is interesting to hear it from somebody in sweden. Because telephone swed sen doing something differently, because populations around the world are getting age state agitated because people are growing in unrest, protest, people want to go back outside, they wants to work, et cetera, et cetera, people are now using swedens the example. If somebody said to you, dr. Tegnell, people want to it take swedens model and apply it to a country like america, would you have an opinion on that. Not really. I mean im sure there is something from sweden that can be, and some things are not. I think some things would increasingly clear. We are more it is not something that is very effective. It needs to be very much remote some things definitely, building up trust between the agency and population is something that takes a long time to trust level has always been high. We are 70, 08 pergs of the population thinks they are doing a great job. Only 5, 10 doubt what they are doing. And we find people have more better and better more and more people are keeping social distance and this kind of thing swit opposite of what you are seeing in other country, people are revolting, people are more and more in line. Trevor well, doctor, thank you very much for your time. I hope you catch that train and good luck with the rest of your fight against the virus. Good luck to you. Trevor thank you for your time, dr. Tegnell that is our show for tonight. Before we go, please remember its covid pandemic has devastated communities around the world but the International Medical corps is helping those communities rebuild and recover. And if you are able to, and would like to help them in their global outreach, please donate whatever you can. 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