ter than mine. If I seem a little down, I'm not having the best week, to say the least. But I'm going to try to raise my spirits for you.

So there's a story that there's a filter that's made for astronaut urine that could soon be providing drinking water to Earth. That was the headline in CNN. So it's some kind of amazing filter that you can put urine into. Astronauts have been using it and it just turns it into clean drinking water. But I have some questions. When it rains, will you be able to tell how much is the regular rain and how much is coming from the International Space Station, if you know what I mean? I feel like we need to know that.

Sweden has disappointed us quite a bit. Poor little Sweden. Early on in the coronavirus, it seemed to be some kind of a weird exception that made it look as though all of our worst fears were exaggerated because Sweden didn't lock down as aggressively as other places. And even though their death rate was high, they seemed to have gotten through the first wave not too badly. But it turns out that the second wave, not so good. And Sweden is getting crushed in terms of rate of infections compared to Europe. So can we say now that Sweden was a mistake? Are we at a point where even the skeptics will say, okay, lockdowns work, and okay, I guess the social distancing and the masks might make a difference?

I'm looking at the comments. Not yet. We're not ready to cave on that yet. Well, how about the fact that nearly 300,000 Americans will die from coronavirus? Are you willing to give me that it's not just the flu? Anybody who thought it was just the flu, any revised opinions after 300,000 people dead? Or are you still on the view that they were all misdiagnosed and they died of something else?

Well, we know that if you've seen around on Twitter there were some tweets going around saying that the net death rate was actually down. And it turns out that the way you arrive at that conclusion that the net death rate is down is by using the wrong data in the wrong way. But if you don't do that, the death rate's way up and it's coronavirus. But you've probably seen that tweet. It did not pass the fact-checking. Took about a minute to get debunked.

President-elect Joe Biden gave a speech. Was there anybody dumb enough to watch it? Imagine the last time you heard, you know, President Trump was going to give a speech. Didn't you automatically say to yourself, oh, I wonder where I'll be. Maybe I'll listen to that. It could be interesting. But what did you say when you heard that Biden was going to give a speech? Did you say to yourself, well that's appointment TV. I'd better set my alarm. I better get over there and listen to that.

Well, I do this every day, talk about politics, and even I couldn't get interested in his speech. I thought, well, if anything happens I'll see it on the highlight clip. But apparently one of the things that happened is he was clearing his throat a lot and he said that he's battling a slight cold. Now does that sound true in the age of coronavirus and in the age of everything else? Well let me ask you this. Joe Biden has been socially distancing and wearing masks. How did he get a cold? Where'd the cold come from?

I might — I mean I'm just kidding — but if he was really socially distancing, does Jill Biden have a cold? Because if he didn't get it from Jill Biden, what's he doing when we're not watching? Maybe he only goes down into the basement for his videos. I don't know. But I'm glad he doesn't have coronavirus. But how do you catch anything if you're socially distancing? You'd have to work at it, I think. But he pulled it off.

And when I say that Joe Biden has a bit of a cold, I mean possibly dying. Same thing. You give a guy that age a bit of a cold, you know, start writing the obituary because he's at that age where he could be taken out by normal respiratory problems. But we hope it's just a cold. Quite a coincidence he has a raspy throat during a coronavirus situation. I gotta say, I don't know. I've met anybody who's had a cold since the coronavirus started. Let me ask you, have you