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seen a lot of colds in your house since the coronavirus started? I believe I haven't seen any. I've seen some allergies. Yeah, somebody says you got it from sniffing hair. In the big news, you may have heard that Pornhub is deleting all of its unverified content. I think the idea there is that they're cracking down on sex trafficking and underage stuff, so there's probably a good basis for that.…

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e answer is it's over the biggest issue seems to be the question of whether businesses would receive some protection from being sued should they not do things right with coronavirus. The Democrats want to change nothing and allow people to be sued. The Republicans say you can't ask people to open up business in a pandemic at the same time they can be sued if anybody gets a virus.

So here's what's missing. Where are the news programs where people who understand both sides of that issue, just the liability issue, where are the news programs where those people are on and they're being interviewed? And the person interviewing them, let's say on CNN or even Fox, here's the argument. Because I keep waiting to hear the argument. I have a bias because I used to own small businesses, so my bias is I'd like to see protection so they can't get sued. To me it makes perfect sense. But if there's some gigantic problem with that that's holding things up, my question is this: why are we not seeing that debate? Why are we just saying it exists? Well that's what's happening. Congress is having that debate. It exists that they disagree.

I feel like we need to get involved with this, right? Are you telling me that the public should not be pushing Congress for this? Because here's the problem. I don't think Congress is the right entity to make that decision. Congress is the right entity to make lots of decisions. It's designed that way. But when it comes down to this question of personal risk, I just don't know that Congress can do it because they don't want to make a mistake, right?

So it's a situation where whichever way you go it's going to be a mistake. If you say that the small businesses are protected, it's going to look like a mistake because sooner or later somebody's going to do something so egregious that you wish they had been sued. But if you go the other way and say all right you can sue, it's gonna happen and then small businesses will be put out of business for largely things that they probably couldn't control. So you've got two ways to lose and there are only two options.

So how can we expect Congress, who needs to get reelected, to sign up for either thing? Either to keep it the way it is or to sign up and put their name on changing it? Because both of those things could cost them their job. So it turns out that Congress is just the worst tool for this deci

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sion. But the public isn't. The public, if we had a let's say a 75% opinion that businesses should be held faultless, I think Congress would have to do it, right? So have you seen any polls on whether Congress should go with the limiting the liability or not? Have you seen a poll on that? I don't know if there have been polls on that but I haven't seen one. Wouldn't you like to know if 75% of the…

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