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\"I basically want to address the idiots out there, and you know who you are ... you're going out, I don't know what you're doing, you're socializing too close,\" David griped.

\"You’re hurting old people like me. Well, not me, I have nothing to do with you, I’ll never see you. But other, let’s say, other old people who might be your relatives, who the hell knows?\"

David, 72, said those who aren't, are missing out on, \"a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stay in the house, sit on the couch and watch TV. I don't know how you're passing that up. I guess you’re not that bright.\"

\"Go home and watch TV, that's my advice to you. If you've seen my show, nothing good ever happens going out of the house, you know that,\" he continued. \"It's just trouble out there. It's not a good place to be. Stay home and don’t see anyone.\"

He adds the caveat, \"Unless maybe if you have a plumbing emergency. You can let the plumber in, and then, you know, wipe everything down when he leaves.\"

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