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t effective. But then you would also have to factor in what happens to the school they left behind. Did it get worse? What happened to the average? So I don't think things like this can be studied actually. So I wouldn't totally trust this number. But it does, but at the very least it can help you size things. So I think this at least is evidence that charter schools are not worse. But I don't thi…
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Let me tell you how to judge that argument. If there were just as many coronavirus deaths as the regular flu, early on, pretty good argument. Pretty good argument. It doesn't mean it's true but you'd have to take it seriously. Suppose the corona deaths were 20 percent more than the regular flu deaths in a year. Ah, then you'd have to take that argument pretty seriously because like I said you incentivize anything and it wouldn't be surprising to get 20 percent more of something that had a financial incentive. You'd all agree with that, right? Getting 20 percent more, that wouldn't be surprising.
But that's not where we are. We're at 10 times more deaths from coronavirus. It's real. This argument used to make sense. I've said it myself. If you incentivize something you get more of it. But you don't get 10 times more without somebody noticing that there's somet
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hing up. Right? We are way beyond the point where questioning whether coronavirus deaths are real is a rational opinion. It used to be. It used to be a rational opinion which I think time has shown us did not hold up. But you are not being rational today if you think that the issue is miscounting. We're not even close to that being a reasonable hypothesis. But it was. It was at one point. So I thi…
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