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Yeah, just as good as I told you, right? Yeah, you were thinking it's not going to be that good, is it? But it was. Once again, how about that?

Well, let me start by telling you how hard it is to travel during the age of coronavirus. Most of you know I was just on my coronavirus-delayed honeymoon. It took us months to figure out how we could do this safely and make it work. And thanks to my wonderful wife Christina, who is a genius at making stuff work, she figured out how to get us to the other side of the world safely and back. It was kind of amazing.

The basic thing you need to know is that it's masks all the way. We went to Bora Bora, which is in French Polynesia by Tahiti. Just sort of leave California and head toward New Zealand, but before you get to New Zealand you stop, and that's where Bora Bora is. And so we spent a week there. It was the most amazing week.

So here are the things you need to know, the highlights. It was a high-end resort. It was the Four Seasons in Bora Bora. Could not have been better. Just, it's impossible. There isn't any possible way this trip could have been better. Once you get there, getting there is hard, but once you get there it's amazing. Best scenery, feeling, service you've ever seen.

The other thing that's amazing is that the resort, I don't know if they're going to last, because their business was no more than, I don't think there were more than 30 people at the entire resort, which is built to handle hundreds. I don't know how many hundreds, but I think 300 or so. And there were maybe 30 of us there. So entire swimming pools, beaches with zero people except us. So as a honeymoon it couldn't have been better. Like, I'll never experience anything like this in my life again, because it was a top-level experience with no other people for all practical purposes.

So I worry a great deal about the future of their business, but man, it could not have been better. If you get a chance to go before the crowds pick up.

Here's the risk profile. We got tested once before we flew, so we had to have a result. Now I suppose we had a little bit of exposure theoretically before we flew, but once on the plane, at least I've seen studies that say that the planes are so good with their filtration these days that your odds of getting it on a plane are actually really, really low. People wear masks, but of course they fall asleep and their masks fall off them. So I would say masking is pretty good on the plane if you think that makes any difference. I'll talk about that in a minute.

So I wasn't worried about the plane. And once you get there there are no people, and the staff is all masked and they do good social distancing, etc. So they won't even clean your room if they think you're going to be around it for a while. So everything was done really, really well. I think the Four Seasons did everything that they could possibly do.

And then you get another test while you're there. So you have to do one before you fly there, once a few days after you've been there, and then once right before you come back. And we did that the same day. Now you've got to coordinate all this in a foreign country, right? So you've got to find a place in Tahiti that will give you a test that you'll get a result the same day so you can fly later that day.

Do you know how worried I was that that wasn't going to work? And you know, you've got four hours to get your test and it doesn't come, and you think to yourself, I'm in a foreign country and I can't fly home without this test. And they said it'd be here by now and it's not. You know, you're checking your email, you're thinking they wrote down a code wrong or something. You'll never get home.

Now of course these are silly traveler worries, because it's not likely that a place that's a tourist destination has not figured out how to get the tourist home. That's the part I always forget, is that I'm not the first person who ever had to figure this out. Obviously they have a system. So the hotel works with you, and the hotel will tell you where to get the test, and they'll make sure that you can get a cab there and back, and it's all very civilized and easy.

But boy, I'll tell you that the distance they push that swab down your nose in Tahiti, that set a record. I mean, the American tests were bad enough, but the Tahiti test, they really went for some spelunking for depth there. I think they tickled my brain a little bit.

But the bottom line is, if I had to judge how safe I was, and this is the bottom line of this, how safe I was traveling from the coronavirus versus how safe I would have been just staying home and socially distancing the normal but imperfect amount that we all do, I feel like I was safer on the road. I don't know if you could measure that in any way, but if I looked at all the testing that I did and all the other people did, I ended up on an island in the middle of the Pacific without anybody who had either not been there two weeks without an infection already, or they got tested within the day that they arrived. So it actually probably safer than just normal life and probably a lot safer. It probably wasn't even close.

Without an actual scientific way to measure that I can't be sure, so I'm only giving you a sense of it. I'm not giving you a scientific opinion. It felt way safer than just staying home. And that's a big credit to the system that has adjusted that much to make that possible.

So the traveling, I would say traveling with a mask is hard, especially if you have to try to sleep on the plane, because it's a long flight. We had a four-hour delay followed by a seven-hour flight on the way there. If you had in the travel time and the taxi time and everything else, you know, 12 hours in a mask, it's a long day. But a lot of people who have just regular jobs are doing that every day, so I'm not going to complain about it. So it was all good.

So here's a question that people keep asking me. I have apparently spoken differently about how we should look at business closures, the lockdowns, versus wearing masks. And it's actually a fair question. In one case I say that the business closures, the forced closures, do not have scientific backing to suggest that they work. Would you agree with that? That we don't really have scientific backing to suggest that closing businesses as opposed to keeping them open with all the right restrictions, we don't have evidence which one of those makes a difference.

Now I just told you I did a very complicated, extensive travel, and I did feel safer. I don't know, but it felt safer than normal life because it was so designed t