is case they're treating Islam that way, but I think they do the same with the Falun Gong and I think they would do the same with any Christian sect in China if there was such a thing. So it has more to do with religion than it has to do with Islam. But it's an interesting approach, as immoral as it is.

Here's something we learned from the coronavirus. That the regular flu was always... I saw the president say this in an interview. I didn't see it when it went live. It was from not too long ago. He did an interview in which he was pointing out that he personally, the president, knew several people who had died from the coronavirus. So personally he knew several people who died from coronavirus. But as Trump said, and I've said a number of times as well, how is it that we've gone our entire lives and never heard of anybody dying from the regular flu? Your whole life. Because even if you say to yourself, but Scott, this coronavirus killed way more people, so it's obvious that you would be aware of more of them. To which I say no, no. Let me do the math for you. I've been alive, let's say let's round it off, from the moment, let's say 50 years or so of my life I've been old enough that I would have noticed if anybody died for a specific reason. So let's take 50 years of my life and multiply it by the 50,000 people that supposedly died. Alexa, what is fifty times fifty thousand? Fifty times fifty thousand is two point five million. So that would be 2.5 million people who would have died just in the United States of the regular flu during my, let's say that 50-year period where I was old enough to know if somebody died and why they died. Over two million people, and I don't know any of them. None of them. That's ten times as many as have died from the coronavirus in the United States, and I don't know anybody who's died of the regular flu.

Now Trump called this out in the interview, and I've never heard anybody else say it who was a public figure. And he just raised the question, why have I never heard of anybody dying of the regular flu? Now he was using it more to make the point that the coronavirus was bad stuff, which was a really good way to make the point. I'm making a slightly different point, which is I think we've been lied to for my whole life. I don't think the regular flu is all that dangerous compared to what we've been told. I do think the coronavirus is dangerous. But part of what made people say the coronavirus is not that dangerous is the belief that 50,000 people a year were dying from regular flu. I don't think that ever has happened. I think it was always exaggerated and that the coronavirus is special. That's what I think. But I could be wrong.

It's always a good thing to say after everything you assert. If I could give you one good habit for open-mindedness, it would be this. We know from the study of influence and persuasion we know that if people simply make a statement or write down a statement, especially if they say it in public, they come to believe the thing they said even if they didn't believe it in the first place.