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couldn't practice telehealth across state lines? Was there ever a reason for that? Was there ever a good reason doctors couldn't make a phone call across state lines? No, there was never a reason for that. So that rule just went away. Will it stay away? Don't know. I think there's a good chance of it. But if it did, it could completely transform healthcare. You know, why would you go to a doctor…
← Previous segment →ach but you can't sit on the beach. And Fox News acts like they don't understand why that would be different. Let me explain it to you. If you're walking on the beach, you almost certainly are keeping social distance except for the person you're with who probably came from your house, right?
If you sit on the beach, imagine a bunch of teenagers sitting on the beach. Are they going to socially distance? No, no they're not. So it's perfectly reasonable to assume that if you let people sit on the beach they're not going to be so good. But if you let them walk, just the natural way people react, they're not gonna walk right next to other people so they get the social distance.
Now is that smart or not smart? I don't know. I don't know. It's not crazy. To act like that's crazy, it just bothers me. It's like you might think that doesn't help make that much difference and you could argue that freedom should allow you to be on the beach anyway. That would be a good argument. A good argument would be just let people do whatever they want and we'll work it out. You can agree with that or disagree with it. That's a good argument.
But let freedom be free. Let them collect on the beach anyway. They won't. Well, I'm not sure I would even disagree with that argument. But I'm only calling out the fact that there's a totally a difference between walking, which is probably entirely safe, and collecting in groups no matter where you're collecting, on a group beach or otherwise. We don't know that to be true. I've got a feeling this sitting on the beach outdoors is about as much risk as nothing. But it's not crazy to imagine there might be something there.
All right. They're told they can sit on sand but not chairs. I don't know about that. Yeah, I'm definitely of the camp that you need to make your own decisions about which of these rules to obey. I do think that the wearing masks in businesses that require them, I feel like that's one you should take seriously if not for yourself, for your fellow citizens.
There are other things. I saw today that teenagers who have boyfriends and girlfriends, they're not being allowed to see them. Yeah, so they're doing weird Zoom meetings and they see each other six feet away and stuff. And here's a question I want to ask you. Do any of you have teenagers in your house? I want to ask this question. How many of you have a teenager in the house who is not hanging around with friends and boyfriends and girlfriends? Are all of your teenagers finding a way to hang out with other teenagers?
And I'm just, wait a second, see your comments. My assumption is that the amount of cheating on these guidelines is massive and that people are just sort of doing it on the down-low. That's my assumption.
All right. Ilan mask instead of Elon Musk. What, shouldn't Elon Musk make us a mask? I'll tell you that. H
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ere's the mask I want. I want the mask that has a built-in far UV light so that it's killing whatever's behind my mask all the time. It's just odd. Yeah, it's just a little UV light shooting at my lips is just killing anything that gets near. Why can't I have that? Why can't I have the Tesla of masks? All right, that's all for now. I will talk to you later.
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