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o get cancelled. It's in two weeks and I expect it to get canceled because of capacity. But at the moment it's scheduled and that means that I have to quarantine for two weeks. And that means no Christina, right? I mean I'm talking about the serious kind of quarantine. So that starts today. I might get a little squirrely and I might do some evening podcasts just because I'll be here all alone for…
← Previous segment →tt the obvious way to do that would be tell the public the truth and just ask them not to hoard these supplies. Well in the real world that doesn't work in a pandemic. People are gonna hoard. You can ask them not to hoard but people are gonna hoard. So if you can tell them they don't need to hoard there's no purpose to it. Maybe it's a better play.
So did Fauci and other experts, the Surgeon General for example, did they intentionally lie to us about the value of masks? I don't know if all of them did. Some of them might have believed the other experts and just parroted them. But if they did lie to us but the purpose of it was for our own good I'm actually okay with that. I don't know if you are but I do not mind my leaders lying to me under the very unique circumstances that is in my best interest. Now usually that's not the case so y
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ou don't want lying to be approved. I just don't know that there are too many cases like this one where unfortunately lying was maybe the only good play for the benefit of the country. I hate it. I mean you can hate it but if you don't have a better idea just keep that in mind. All right. And was there some expert who knew all the right answers and didn't tell the president? Was there some smart…
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