DR. STEVEN STACK: Uh, those who are spreading false and dangerous information are killing people. I don’t know how to say it any more directly. People who are going out there and saying false and demonstrably inaccurate information about the utility and value of masks, about the safety and importance of vaccinations to prevent this disease are killing people.

CLAY: Yeah. That is Kentucky Department of Health commissioner Dr. Steven Stack. I’m Clay Travis. He’s Buck Sexton. Here’s the deal, bud. Masks don’t work (laughing) and we’ve been saying that for a while, Buck. I just tweeted the data out. You know, everybody was focused on everything surrounding Texas and Florida.

Hospitalizations in Hawaii are at a new high, with an active mask mandate for 486 days, extremely high compliance and one of the highest vaccination rates in the world

So sure, masks are completely failing, but to experts and the media that’s just proof of how much we need them pic.twitter.com/yMPN4Dmb9P

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) August 18, 2021

And now that it’s starting to be the case that states like Oregon and Hawaii — deep blue states that have masked as hard as you can mask — are now setting hospitalization records, well, all of a sudden the storyline is changing. The CDC just came out and said, “Hey, these vaccines, they wane a little bit.” Hawaii, Buck, has had 486 straight days of masks that they have required people to wear; and Hawaii just hit a brand-new record for hospitalizations in their state.

BUCK: I just want to know what Ron DeSantis is doing to Hawaii, Clay.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Why is Governor DeSantis spreading covid in Hawaii?

CLAY: It’s amazing how this storyline changes as soon as red states start to wane, and, look, we told you this was gonna happen, and we’re gonna get Alex Berenson on maybe Friday again because he’s been proven right.

BUCK: Super right on this, on the vaccine waning and efficacy.

CLAY: When everybody was banning him — remember, he got banned on Twitter for saying, “Hey, the data reflects that the vaccines wane,” he was looking at Israel; Twitter shut him down for a week — we let him come in studio with us and talk to you for an hour. Last week, I was showing up at the school board arguing against kids having to wear masks ’cause they don’t work, but Hawaii and Oregon are surging now. Florida and Texas look like they may well have hit their peak and all the red states are gonna start to decline, and the storyline is changing now.

BUCK: I just want to say, how many people right now all across the country have heard anywhere other than on this show, Clay, that Oregon actually just set on August 17th an all-time high? I’m looking —

CLAY: At the chart.

BUCK: — right now at the data from the New York Times, Oregon in December 2020, 1800, January 800. Oregon just set by far its all-time case high.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Why aren’t CNN anchors badgering Governor Kate Brown of Oregon but why she wants old people to die? Why aren’t they harassing the state of Oregon about how they don’t listen to the science? The politicization of the covid situation from the Democrat-aligned corporate media is disgusting. It’s so obvious!

CLAY: And it appears, Buck, as soon as a red state goes off the stage, right? We’re talking about Hawaii and Oregon — the bluest of the blue states, governors who have been as restrictive about covid as any governors could be in the country — and they just set in Oregon and they just set in Hawaii all-time highs for covid hospitalizations, for covid infections, for covid cases. It’s not talked about. Probably everybody listening to us as just heard it for the first time.

BUCK: Hawaii, as we all know, one of the most beautiful places on earth.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: I love the people who live in Hawaii, but somehow it has among the worst state-level governments and officials.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: It gave us Mazie Hirono, for heaven’s sakes.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So that’s… Hawaii, I got a bone to pick with you. I got a bone to pick with you. But on the issue of cases, Clay, and where it’s all going now, there’s gonna be a desperation to try to convince people not to look at this data. And so that’s why they have, for example, this AP stories DeSantis or promoting a drug… It’s an AP story on DeSantis’ promotion of effective covid drug criticized as an attempted hit job.

That’s on Fox News. The Associated Press wrote a piece on this guy saying that he was promoting a drug that is effective, Regeneron, a monoclonal antibody, which remember how Alex Berenson said —

CLAY: Yes. Right.

BUCK: — why aren’t they talking about monoclonal antibodies? They work really, really well. Ron DeSantis is talking about this, getting the word out. The AP runs a piece on how, “Well, there’s some kind of a financial incentive from DeSantis!”

CLAY: The same thing that 60 Minutes tried to do. And we talked about that story and what is ultimately going on — you should pay attention here — is the Democrats are terrified of Ron DeSantis, because he calls into question their entire covid fear porn industry. And if that happens, then, as you start to look forward, if Trump tries to run again, DeSantis is a really good VP, right? Really great VP choice.

BUCK: I think Trump right now, he’s making his own Rocky montage for the comeback. Given what’s going with Biden, I think that’s what’s happening.

CLAY: Well, the data we talked about earlier from Rasmussen… I don’t think Biden would run, by the way. I don’t think Kamala would run. This is gonna be fun to watch play out as everybody is running for the hills as the Biden administration is falling apart.