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We have all had time to think about what we will do (and won’t) when we finally open up as many States are doing in the US.\u00a0 Panama is still under strict quarantine rules and our efforts have paid off.<\/p>\n

That said, Coronovirus in some shape or form will always be with us, it is not going away and a vaccine for Covid – 19\u00a0 is still years away. Let me begin this post with a proverb and my thinking:<\/p>\n

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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.<\/em>
\nProverb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We find ourselves in a metamorphosis of sorts. Every crisis provides the culture for one. \u00a0A lot of us are feeling isolated, cut off from our loved ones, and terribly uncomfortable with the uncertainty of what is to come. A darkness of fear and anxiety closes in on us periodically or incessantly. \u00a0We might be mourning the loss of a job or worse, someone we love.\u00a0 Life as we knew it before this pandemic is over. \u00a0We ask the leaders, how long is this going to last? How is the economy going to recover? When will there be a cure? What is the real mortality rate? Why weren\u2019t we better prepared? Why don\u2019t we have more testing available? And their answer continues to be, \u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d\u00a0 I say just prepare yourself with the best means available!<\/p>\n

When I was young, I grew up scuba diving around the world that I traveled.\u00a0 I did some outrageous cave diving in Florida near Gainesville where I went to college.\u00a0 I took many trips to the Bahamas where we camped on the beach and went out diving each day for our food.\u00a0 I was almost food for several hungry Mako sharks that decided to steal our catch!!\u00a0 I dove in Cenotes in the Yucatan and sink holes that led out to sea.\u00a0 Was I crazy, no. Was I safe, no.\u00a0 I grew up and can thank the Lord, my life was very full.\u00a0 So when people ask me aren’t you afraid to die, I tell them no for I have had a full life.\u00a0 That does not mean that I will go out bar hopping and I must give consideration on where I stay when we go back to the beach\u00a0but we will, God that will be glorious!!<\/p>\n

Here is a post I saw with a video that elaborates on my message.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0recent \u201cFireside Chat,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0my weekly talk show on the PragerU platform, I commented on society\u2019s increasing fixation on being \u201csafe<\/a>.\u201d The following is a condensed version of what I said:<\/p>\n

We have a meme up at PragerU: \u201c\u2018Until it\u2019s safe\u2019 means \u2018never.\u2019\u201c<\/p>\n

The pursuit of \u201csafe\u201d over virtually all other considerations is life-suppressing. This is true for your own individual life, and it is true for the life of a society.<\/p>\n

I always give the following example: I have been taking visitors to Israel for decades, and for all those decades, people have called my radio show to say, \u201cDennis, I would so love to visit Israel, but I\u2019m just going to wait until it\u2019s safe.\u201d And I\u2019ve always told these people, \u201cThen you\u2019ll never go.\u201d And sure enough, I\u2019ve gone there over 20 times, and they never went.<\/p>\n

I have never led my life on the basis of \u201cuntil it\u2019s safe.\u201d I do not take ridiculous risks. I wear a seatbelt whenever I\u2019m in a car because the chances are overwhelming that in a bad accident, a seatbelt can save my life. But I get into the car, which is not 100 percent safe.<\/p>\n

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You are not on earth to be safe. You are on earth to lead a full life. I don\u2019t want my epitaph to be, \u201cHe led a safe life.\u201d It\u2019s like another epitaph I don\u2019t want: \u201cHe experienced as little pain as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nature of this world is such that if you aim for 100 percent safety and no pain, you don\u2019t live. I have visited 130 countries, some of which were not particularly safe. Safe, as in \u201cno risk,\u201d doesn\u2019t exist. Accepting there are degrees of safety and balancing risk with reward are part of the reason I\u2019ve led a rich life.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give a personal example. I started teaching myself to conduct an orchestra when I was in my teens. I have conducted orchestras periodically for much of my adult life. As a guest conductor, I raise funds for orchestras, as I did two years ago at the Disney Concert Hall, where I conducted a Haydn symphony with the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Now, I rarely get nervous. But the first time I conducted, I was so nervous I was actually dripping sweat onto the score\u2014and it was only a rehearsal.<\/p>\n

What I did was not play it safe. Playing it safe would have meant I wouldn\u2019t have accepted the invitation to conduct.<\/p>\n

All of life confronts you with this question: Are you going to take risks or play it safe? If you play it safe, you don\u2019t get married. If you play it safe, you don\u2019t have kids. There are real risks in getting married; there are real risks in having children.<\/p>\n

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Take the issue of the word \u201csafe\u201d on campuses. \u201cSafe\u201d is used to suppress freedom of thought: \u201cIf we have a conservative speaker on campus, we need a \u2018safe space\u2019 where we can avoid feeling discomfort from exposure to ideas we don\u2019t like.\u201d A conservative speaker comes to campus and some students go to a \u201csafe space\u201d where they\u2019re given Play-Doh, hot chocolate and stuffed animals. I\u2019m not joking. That\u2019s what they do at some colleges\u2014for people who are 18 and older.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why Adam Carolla and I named our movie about free speech \u201cNo Safe Spaces\u201d (which you can and should watch at\u00a0NoSafeSpaces.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of episode 132, “‘Until It’s Safe’ Means Never,” of Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager. (Screenshot)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In a\u00a0recent \u201cFireside Chat,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0my weekly talk show on the PragerU platform, I commented on society\u2019s increasing fixation on being \u201csafe<\/a>.\u201d The following is a condensed version of what I said:<\/p>\n

We have a meme up at PragerU: \u201c\u2018Until it\u2019s safe\u2019 means \u2018never.\u2019\u201c<\/p>\n

The pursuit of \u201csafe\u201d over virtually all other considerations is life-suppressing. This is true for your own individual life, and it is true for the life of a society.<\/p>\n

I always give the following example: I have been taking visitors to Israel for decades, and for all those decades, people have called my radio show to say, \u201cDennis, I would so love to visit Israel, but I\u2019m just going to wait until it\u2019s safe.\u201d And I\u2019ve always told these people, \u201cThen you\u2019ll never go.\u201d And sure enough, I\u2019ve gone there over 20 times, and they never went.<\/p>\n

I have never led my life on the basis of \u201cuntil it\u2019s safe.\u201d I do not take ridiculous risks. I wear a seatbelt whenever I\u2019m in a car because the chances are overwhelming that in a bad accident, a seatbelt can save my life. But I get into the car, which is not 100 percent safe.<\/p>\n

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You are not on earth to be safe. You are on earth to lead a full life. I don\u2019t want my epitaph to be, \u201cHe led a safe life.\u201d It\u2019s like another epitaph I don\u2019t want: \u201cHe experienced as little pain as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nature of this world is such that if you aim for 100 percent safety and no pain, you don\u2019t live. I have visited 130 countries, some of which were not particularly safe. Safe, as in \u201cno risk,\u201d doesn\u2019t exist. Accepting there are degrees of safety and balancing risk with reward are part of the reason I\u2019ve led a rich life.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give a personal example. I started teaching myself to conduct an orchestra when I was in my teens. I have conducted orchestras periodically for much of my adult life. As a guest conductor, I raise funds for orchestras, as I did two years ago at the Disney Concert Hall, where I conducted a Haydn symphony with the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Now, I rarely get nervous. But the first time I conducted, I was so nervous I was actually dripping sweat onto the score\u2014and it was only a rehearsal.<\/p>\n

What I did was not play it safe. Playing it safe would have meant I wouldn\u2019t have accepted the invitation to conduct.<\/p>\n

All of life confronts you with this question: Are you going to take risks or play it safe? If you play it safe, you don\u2019t get married. If you play it safe, you don\u2019t have kids. There are real risks in getting married; there are real risks in having children.<\/p>\n

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Take the issue of the word \u201csafe\u201d on campuses. \u201cSafe\u201d is used to suppress freedom of thought: \u201cIf we have a conservative speaker on campus, we need a \u2018safe space\u2019 where we can avoid feeling discomfort from exposure to ideas we don\u2019t like.\u201d A conservative speaker comes to campus and some students go to a \u201csafe space\u201d where they\u2019re given Play-Doh, hot chocolate and stuffed animals. I\u2019m not joking. That\u2019s what they do at some colleges\u2014for people who are 18 and older.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Adam Carolla and I named our movie about free speech \u201cNo Safe Spaces\u201d (which you can and should watch at\u00a0NoSafeSpaces.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cSafe\u201d has become a dirty word. I rarely use it in the context of living life. It\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m a happy person and have led a full life. I\u2019m thinking of a trivial example, but life is filled with trivial examples. Most of life is not major moments. If I am at a restaurant and my fork or knife falls, I pick it up and use it. They rush over to give me a new one, like I am flirting with death if I take the fork from the floor. My view is there\u2019s no reason to come over. The fork fell on the floor. What did it pick up\u2014diphtheria? Am I going to get pancreatic cancer from a fork that fell? I\u2019m not troubled by these things.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafe\u201d is going to suppress your joy of life.<\/p>\n

When I was 21 years old, I was sent to the Soviet Union to smuggle in religious items for Soviet Jews and to smuggle out names of Jews who wanted to escape the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t safe. I was in a totalitarian state, smuggling things in and out. But it was one of the most important things I\u2019ve done in my life. Not to mention a life-transforming experience.<\/p>\n

Before I went, I told my father about my plans. We both knew it wasn\u2019t safe. I\u2019ll never forget what my father said: \u201cDennis, I spent two and a half years on a Navy ship in World War II, fighting in the Pacific. So, you can take risks for a month.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, he was worried. But this was a man who, despite having a wife and child, enlisted in the U.S. Navy to fight in World War II. He was an officer on a troop transport ship, a prime target of the Japanese. He wasn\u2019t safe. The World War II generation has been dubbed \u201cthe greatest generation.\u201d Part of what made them great was the last thing they would ever ask was, \u201cIs it safe?\u201d<\/p>\n

If you want to lead a good and full life, you cannot keep asking, \u201cIs it safe?\u201d Those at college promoting \u201csafe spaces\u201d are afraid of life, and they want to make you afraid of life.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going crazy on the safe issue. It is making police states. That\u2019s my worry: In the name of safety, many Americans are dropping all other considerations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it safe?\u201d shouldn\u2019t be the overarching element in your life. Pick the fork up. Wipe it off. And use it.<\/p>\n

Postscript: Some left-wing media cited the remarks about picking up a fork (transcribed above word-for-word) in order to smear me and the message. The Daily Beast led with this mendacious headline: \u201cDennis Prager Licks Dirty Forks To Show COVID Who\u2019s Boss.\u201d And the Daily Mail offered its attack with this headline: \u201cRight-Wing Radio Host Dennis Prager Boasts About Using Dirty Forks From Restaurant Floors in His Latest Rambling Message Downplaying Dangers of Coronavirus That Has Now Killed 88,000 Americans.\u201d As is obvious, my talk was about \u201cbeing safe,\u201d not the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>. Please read\u00a0my last column<\/a>\u00a0about truth and the left.<\/p>\n

Stay Safe!!<\/p>\n\n

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