[L.A.Justice]

I am not a big fan of Dr. Phil...

But, I do agree with Dr. Phil that we cannot live without taking any risk...

[Gene Eric]

Too bad he didn’t mention abortions — that would have been good.

[irishjuggler]

Okay, but if you go on TV and say 360,000 people die in swimming pools annually when the real number is more like 3,500... you gotta apologize. He wasn’t even close.

[datura]

But I want to chose the risks that I live with, not have them chosen for me by someone else.

[noiseman]

You all realize what’s going on here, right? While he made an error or two, if he had done this interview on any network other than FoxNews, no one would have complained. The critics are just trying to punish him for appearing on Fox.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

He apologizes for this...meanwhile other station’s guests are calling Trump a murderer.

[alexander_busek]

"Last night, I said we as a society have chosen to live with certain controllable deadly risk every day: smoking, auto crashes, swimming," he said. "And yes, I know that those are not contagious. So probably bad examples. Probably bad examples. ... I probably could have used better examples about that."

Actually, auto crashes are "contagious" - from certain point of view.

Someone innocently sitting in his parked vehicle or innocently walking across a pedestrian crossing or etc. can be killed by, e.g., a drunk driver.

And passive smoking is a danger.

Regards,

[Yaelle]

I’m with Dr. Phil. Due to the intense contagion of this new virus, and not to overwhelm our medical system, I have been ok with this month or so long quarantine. Now that we have treatments that work, we need to slowly open everything back up. The risk of the virus and being sick with a flu like illness is bad but so are a million other things we Americans have the freedom to do in our desire to pursue happiness.

We can weigh 500 lbs and buy whole pizzas and down them. We can rock climb without ropes. We can smoke 3 packs a day. We can drink a 5th of vodka. We can head to the gay bar or deep into the park and have unprotected anal sex with dozens of strangers. All legal and risky. Freedom is more important than perfect safety. Insert Ben Franklin quote here.

[McGruff]

[Moonman62]

People with false beliefs are enraged by facts.

[MuttTheHoople]

So, I can’t compare Chicom virus deaths to deaths from autoerotic asphyxiation?

[zeestephen]

How come we did not shut down the country for seasonal influenza?

At least 40 states have more seasonal flu deaths than COVID deaths - including California, Texas, and Florida, the three largest states in the USA.

Also - if we counted up influenza deaths the same way we count up COVID deaths, the flu death total would be higher than COVID in all 50 states!