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But you should watch it. If you watched it once for the content, you might, if you're just interested in technique, especially if you've read Win Bigly, if you're a friend of Win Bigly, look at the persuasion technique that I used throughout. And especially look at this one variable, which I actually talked about in the video, which is curiosity.

Watch from the very beginning how I tweaked your curiosity to keep you for what is a pretty long video. And then ask yourself if you can feel it as it's happening. So that's the fun part. So see if you could feel yourself getting curious and actually feel the persuasion trapping you to watch the rest of it. Just interesting to see if you felt it.

All right. The biggest fake news of the day is about testing. This is, I will call this a double fake news. So basically it's fake news on Fox News. It's fake news on CNN. It's just all fake news.

Here's what I think is happening. So this is my best interpretation of what's happening. I won't give this a hundred percent, but it feels like this is what's happening. When the administration says that, and the president says specifically anyone who wants a test can get one, is that true? Because he says that multiple times. So yesterday, anyone who wants a test for the coronavirus can get one. Or is it true, as CNN is reporting consistently, it's not just not true. Bill Gates would say it's not true that we don't have enough. You can't get a test just because you want one, and we don't have enough.

So they can't both be true, right? Can it be true that everyone who wants one can go get one at the same time that we don't have enough? Can they both be true? So one of them is true and one of them is a lie, right? Which one is it? Both lies? Both lies.

Here's the answer. I think I'll give you my theory. I think that when the president says anyone who wants a test can get one, he's talking mafia talk. Here's what I mean.

Hey, doc, can I get a test? Why do you want a test? I just want a test. I mean, I think I might have it, you know, it'd be nice to know if I had it. Maybe I want to be around old people or something, but I want a test.

And then the doctor, who also in my example happens to be a member of the mafia just to make it interesting, the doctor says, you don't want that test. And then the patient says, no, I do want the test. I'm just curious. I'd like to see if I have it. It could mean a big difference to me.

And the doctor says, these tests, you only want these if you've got symptoms. And the patient says, no, I want it. I don't have any symptoms. I just want it. And the doctor says, you don't want that. You don't want that. You only want that if you have symptoms or if you're being contact traced because you had contact with somebody else or you're part of our random selection for testing the antibodies. Those are the three times you want it. The other times you don't want it.

Oh, so I can get a test if I want it, but you're telling me that I don't want it. Now you got it. You got it. You can get it if you want it, but you don't want it in those other situations, right? Oh yeah, I guess that was my Dr. Fauci impression. It wasn't supposed to be Dr. Fauci. Let's not make this ethnic. That's my generic mafia impression from The Godfather. Could you recognize it? I thought it was spot-on.

So I would say that both sides are lying by omission. The Trump administration is lying that anybody can get one. And you know, of course if you're talking about 50 states, there's some little anecdote about Ohio doesn't have enough of whatever. I'm sure it's true that in some places they're struggling to get enough, because that would just be normal, right? 50 states, they're not all going to be equally ready. That wouldn't even make sense.

But it can't be true that anybody can get a test just because they want one. All right. The president is sort of talking mafia talk, because remember the suit. And I'm not guessing on this, because his expert, the second-in-command at Health and Human Services, says it directly. And by the way, he's really good. I forget his name. Giroir or something. But I thought he was excellent when he broke down that the tests are for if you have symptoms, if you're part of contact tracing, or you've been selected by whoever for asymptomatic testing just to see what's in the atmosphere.

And I thought that's actually a really good answer. And that would be a way better answer than the way the president is doing it, because he's too easily taken as saying it literally. I guess. And I don't think that the president is speaking literally. But when you're talking about health-related objects or situations, you really need to talk literally. You know, that's where he gets in trouble.

So I thought Giroir did a really good job of just setting it up: three reasons that you need testing. We do have enough testing for those three reasons. Our focus on opening the economy is that testing we have enough for that. I think that's fair. But they don't say that. They say everybody can get a test. That's just technically not true.

Here's what enough tests look like. So over in China, they've decided that they're going to do some more testing in Wuhan because I guess they got six new cases recently. So that was a little uptick. They're concerned about that. So China is planning to do 1.1 million tests per day just in Wuhan for ten days in a row. 1.1 million per day in one city, ten days in a row. So it's not spread over ten days. They're doing 1.1 million a day for ten days, one city.

How close are we to being able to do that? Not even close, right? No. Maybe we can get there by, say, end of the year or something, but we're not there. So when somebody like Bill Gates or apparently China says enough tests is what it looks like for Wuhan, that's what it means to have enough tests. All right.

You know, if you want to do enough testing to actually stamp it down and eradicate it, you're looking at that level of testing, and we're not close to that. We're at the yeah, you could have a test if you want it. You don't want it. You don't want that. That's what we have.

I do think it is true, however, that probably amazing and heroic things are happening in terms of ramping up. So I think when Giroir talks about how amazing our testing is increasing, you know, it's like a hundredfold since thirty days ago or something and some number like that, I think that's real. And that should be loud, and we should be pretty darn happy about that.

But I think that we all have to be a little bit grown-up about what is possible to scale up to that level of testing that we would need. And to do that in two months is really sort of unprecedented. I mean, to expect that it would have gone smoothly is asking a lot of a country that doesn't do anything smoothly.

So anyway, I think it is entirely possible that you could do a great job of getting testing together from wherever it was to whe