22 Dec 2020 Lockdown and shutdown decrees — ostensibly issued for public health purposes — are “destroying lives,” noted Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on Sunday at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, FL. Marlow invited Rubin, a Californian and Los Angelino, to compare California’s lockdown with the relative openness of Florida. Partial transcript below. MARLOW: Describe the difference [between California and Florida], because it’s not like the state of California is doing better with the virus than Florida is. RUBIN: Well, that’s the irony. I mean, if lockdowns worked, if crushing all of these businesses — making sure we didn’t go outside, as Eric Garcetti, our mayor, said, canceling everything — if any of this worked, wouldn’t we be seeing numbers dropping? Bottoming out? We’d be down here. We would have flattened that curve. Remember when we wanted to flatten the curve? That was about nine months ago. We went from two weeks to ‘flatten the curve’ to now — it’s a hundred days — maybe we’ll see what happens in a couple months. Nine months later, right?