Uninformed Correspondent: Bootsie Visits An Expert For Straight Talk About Coronavirus

Everyone welcome back to the bathtub chat. One of the scariest things right now is that it's so hard to know what to believe. We're getting mixed messages, conflicting information, bizarre conspiracy theories, and that's only coming from the White House. Fortunately, the Late Show has an

expert

on not doing that. understanding things her name is Bootsy Plunkett she is our

uninformed

correspondent

and the mother of my field producer Jake Plunkett here they are there they go there are boots that eat his hair there is Jake and yes, I always have his picture next to my bathtub , although this was not last week Bootsy was worried about what was happening, so Jake took her to try to get doctor and Yale public health professor James Hamblin to help her better understand the situation.

She now remembers, if you can, stay home. This segment was filmed about eight days ago back then. it was still considered medically advisable to carry your Bootsy, check it out Jim, hey guys, you know what we're

talk

ing about today, yeah okay, how can you not do well? I'm worried about this virus, yes it's pretty serious, people are shutting down and I'm not. I know I'm really worried, so you know about these quarantines, yeah, like they're saying, yeah, you know you're closed, you stay in your house for two weeks, so that could happen here, we don't know mm-hmm, are? ready for it, yeah, I don't know, it's good to see that you're at least prepared here, yeah, and look what it says, no sugar, I've learned my lesson, it's still cookies, buddy, you know what I said one day, I need nine. of them, one cookie has one hundred calories, so 900 calories, yeah, I have a lot of soup, okay, I have a lot Chef Boyardee, do you like worried chef?

I hate it, popcorn, all you know, I'm fine since it's your old pops that I have. A few wonderful nights after watching her impressive quarantine preparations, my mom and I hit the road to

talk

to

coronavirus

expert

dr. James Hamlin you touch your face just touch your face I scratched my damn head, what is it my head is my head my face is my face face head ears neck you are like a doctor I am a very intelligent lady but I get fooled too much in my Youth fooled about how much to smoke weed oh oh yeah I used to put some hair oil in it what does that mean, you know what's up?

No, okay, listen like I can't talk, why can't you? speak well, I know we are doing a second segment, we arrived at the hospital and my mother was ready to meet dr. Hamblin will receive education about the disease dr. Hanlon hello Bootsie, how are you? I am good how are you? I am good how are you? Still okay, yeah, I'm very worried myself because I'm 61 and I have a bunch of autoimmune diseases like lupus, so you heard it. grens, yeah, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, you know, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, so I'm afraid, so you have to be very careful and ask everyone around you, everyone in your life, to be very careful with everything What do they do because you don't want to have it now, my brother.

I talked to him like three weeks ago, he's coming this Saturday to visit me, um, he said I was burning up with a fever, coughing my lungs out and they told him it was just a bad cold. I have never had a fever with a cold. right, so should i have it on saturday? no, definitely, no, no, yes, people who are sick, we've been sick recently, we shouldn't be traveling right now, I don't want to die, right, I just had a new grandpa, no I don't want you to die Oh, congratulations, thanks Jake, new, oh yeah, congratulations to Jake, yeah, yeah, go ahead, you know, the virus once doesn't want to kill you, uh, what everyone does, it just overwhelms a lot, overwhelms your lungs.

You passed it on to other people, it's still alive, so I went to the supermarket just a couple of days ago and couldn't find a Santa Claus. The hand sanitizer is completely out of stock, as well as the toilet paper, yeah, no, what is toilet paper? Getting bronze, you won't get the races, but people are worried about having to stay home for too long and if you think about what are the things I need most, I guess toilet paper, yeah, you don't want to be home. without that, because you really have, you're supposed to stay home, not just not work, I don't work, so I'm lucky to be able to stay home, you, yeah, dr.

Hanson, I know damn well that's what I should call you, yes, dr. Hanson, your pretty boy, oh, I'll be fine, thanks, okay, thanks, um, yeah, you can't buy this stuff, oh, you know what I did. I bought five soaps, but I thought they were hand soap, it's his soap, there's hand sanitizer, maybe I used too much. um, I thought I bought five hand sanitizers and I bought five soaps, so I'm in my kitchen, pump, pump, pump, and there's this big foam everywhere, yeah, it was soap, yeah, you're trying to find sanitizer for hands, you can, that's all I was getting.

When I got my hair cut the other day there was a lady there and she kept saying oh this was planted, yeah, oh this was a conspiracy and I just listen well so no I don't think there's no one who did it. there is nothing to gain from this no country will gain anything there is no economic gain there is no, there is just a lot of loss in all directions, you know, the most important thing you can have during an outbreak, is just the feeling that everyone knows exactly what is happening and what. What makes people really panic is when they think that they're not acting, they're not actually getting this clear story.

I was going to say something in my mind. I just forgot hmm oh so I'm diabetic, I eat sugar free cookies, yeah, and my My son tells me they're not sugar free, they're actually sugar free, but they have flour, they have these carbs that quickly turn into sugar Oh, I was right, I'm sorry, you'll probably enjoy them, you know? you have to do things like yeah I really enjoyed them the other day nine oh well yeah okay nine it's only 12 in a pack what stopped you at nine I said enough of the hmm okay so what How serious can this

coronavirus

be for some people?

We're going to die, we just don't know, it could be a very different number depending on how we collectively respond to it. Do you think President Donald Trump has done a good job with this coronavirus? I think there's a lot of opportunity for him to I think he's delegated a lot of work to people who know what they're doing and who can hopefully be heard and can feel like they can tell the truth about what's really going on and what needs to be done. do well without needing to do it. being too obsequious or named to kiss too much, everyone will have to sacrifice something for this endeavor and there is a great time and a great way that people can come together in times like this, not unlike being at war, right? and it is a great opportunity. where strong leadership is really needed, sign up well, yes hello, I spoke to dr.

James Hamblin today and learned a lot about the corona virus. I learned that it will take down a lot of people, including me, so be prepared, okay Kirk, so I learned today from dr. James Hamlin that the corona virus is very serious take it very seriously wash your hands every day about 20 times for 20 seconds it is very important you must keep washing your hands stock up on hand sanitizer toilet paper anything because you could be stuck at home for two weeks and could become a pandemic again. Can we just laugh about it when we return with an epic interview with the great Jim Carrey?