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eila Jackson Lee anyway. She got fact-checked hard and good for Representative Biggs. So this should happen every time this hoax plays. Every single time somebody should just say stop and just play the hoax. Now the fine people hoax is one of the biggest parts of the tapestry that says the world is full of white supremacists of the United States. So apophenia is what it's called. My new first cho…
← Previous segment →eople. And I know somebody here is going to say they give hydroxychloroquine. I rule that out as an explanation at this point. Hydroxychloroquine I don't think even makes sense as an explanation, right? I see it in the comments but I don't think it makes sense because it would just be too obvious if it were right. Nobody would be talking about India being a mystery if that was the answer to the mystery. It would just be really obvious if it was just hydroxychloroquine. So I think you could completely rule that out as being a big factor. I think you can still allow that it might be a small factor. I don't think that's been eliminated from the possibilities. But it's definitely not a big factor. We would know that by now absolutely. Same with ivermectin. Whatever ivermectin does or doesn't do, we would know by now if it's changing the result in some countries and not others. And I'm sure we would know that by now.
And then Sweden, the other mystery is that why did they do so well without the lockdowns? Now of course that's being presented on the internet as proof that lockdowns are not effective. But as others have pointed out — and I didn't really look into this until today — do you know the percentage of people in Sweden who live alone? One person in the household. Take a guess in the comments. Let's see your guesses. Percentage of households in Sweden that have one member. So this would include largely the seniors and young people. Somebody said 100. Don't be crazy. All right, look at your comments coming in and see how they're all over the place. 40, 66, 45, 25, 33, etc. The answer is about 50 percent. Let's make sure I'm looking at the right numbers here. Yeah. And it was uncommon in Sweden in 2019, the most recent information, for children under 25 to be with their parents. So because of the safety social safety net in Sweden, when a kid turns 18 they pretty much leave the house because they can afford to do it. In the United States you can't afford to leave the house necessarily just because you finished college or just because you're 18.
Yeah, it's 50 percent. Now what is the primary place that anybody gets an infection? In their house. That's the primary place. I think it's over 50 percent. They've narrowed it down to. And all of the other causes put together don't equal all the infections that happen in a house.
Now what is a percent for the United States? If 50 percent of the people in Sweden are living individually, how does that compare to the United States? Let's look at some specific states. California it's 25 percent. Half. So Sweden has — well no, let's not do dumb math. We'll just compare. Sweden has 50 percent of the people with one person in the household. California only has 25 percent. Now for the whole country, yeah I think it's higher. It's 30 some percent in the United States, closer to 37 percent. But look at two places that got hit hard. New York State is 30, 30.5. California is 25. That's a gigantic, gigantic difference.
Yeah this guy is hopeless. So David, you won't have to worry about me anymore. Your comment "this guy is hopeless" has banned you forever.
All right, so do you think that it's possible that the entire Sweden situation can be described just by having way more people living alone? Why wouldn't that be the whole explanation? Because they did a lot of social distancing and they did wear masks and places that made sense, etc. And how did they count the homeless? That's a good question. Somebody says they think Germany found that sharing the house did not increase it. You can do a fact check on there but I'm pretty sure I saw statistics that over 50 percent came from a household stuff.
People ask me — you don't know this but all day long people pack on me. Why I'm not saying there are two genders and trans people are bad. I'm not going to say that. You can work on me forever. That's not going to change because it's a bad frame. It doesn't matter how true it is. Doesn't matter if it's scientifically based or anything like that, which is not true. But even if it did it wouldn't matter. Here's what matters. We live in a world where kids every day make decisions that affect the rest of their life and a lot of them are permanent, right? They do drugs. Those effects can be permanent. They may not pay attention in school. Those effects are permanent. They might break the law. Those effects can be permanent. So we live in a world in which people are making choices that could permanently ruin their whole life just all the time. But we also live in a world where people make the right choices for themselves. And unfortunately, you know, people will make right choices and wrong choices on every topic.
So the frame that there are only two genders is so unproductive. I don't want to say it's true or false because that doesn't matter. What matters is, is something helpful? Is it helpful? Is it useful? Has anybody better off for this argument? No, not at all. Somebody says don't do the don't do communism kids. So here's what is useful. If you want a society in which you have fa
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irness and compassion and empathy and all that, the easiest way to think of life is everybody is infinitely different. I'm not like other white people. Sorry, sorry. I know you would like me to be like the white guy with all the white things but I'm not like anybody I've ever met whether they're white or not. I'm as different from every Black citizen in this country as I am from every white citize…
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