Mini-Episode: Grow Up, America (with Kara Swisher)

The virus doesn't care. It doesn't care that you want to see a movie. The virus just keeps on going. It doesn't care how you feel about this thing. It doesn't care that you're impatient ... It just wants to keep going, and it will keep going ... It will get you if it wants to and if you put yourself in harm's way.

You may have a different reaction to the virus than other people. You may do okay; you may not. But you certainly will put other people at risk if you're not careful, and I think if that [doesn't] stop you cold, then I don't know who you are as a person. If you're not worried about your parents, if you're not worried about people who have immune deficiencies, if you're not worried about those who have cancer, there's something wrong with you ... You should seek seek religious or psychological help.

Most governments, whether they're Republican or Democrat, tend to rise to occasions when there are wars, when there are pandemics. This one has not.

I think one of the problems is relying too much on technology will make us feel that we know what's going on when we actually don't ... We have to combine it with human intervention and human activity that will balance it out.

Look at Germany—their smartphone app that helps trace coronavirus infections was downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours.