are putting up with this. This is pure incompetence because the people making the decision, they don't know if $15 an hour is a good idea.

Do you think there's anybody in Congress who knows more than I do? And I don't know much. That's the whole point. I don't know much about whether a $15 minimum wage is a good idea. I don't think so. And when I say good idea I mean good overall in the long run, right? All things considered. It's obviously good for the people who get the raise, most of them, if they keep their job. So I don't think we can be happy with any opinion on this. And I would tell you that if you have a firm opinion either yes or no on the minimum wage, you shouldn't. If you have a firm opinion on this you shouldn't, because smart people don't know. Like really well-informed smart people don't really know. They might lean one direction but without a test nobody knows.

All right. I've come to a potential decision about what's the biggest factor or factors in COVID infections. And it goes like this. I feel as if there are two things. And some of this is just speculation and a little bit of what I'm reading. But here's some things we've learned about the COVID infections.

We think number one in the UK, surprisingly they say there's no real difference in minority outcomes for coronavirus except that they get infected more often. But haven't we all been under the impression that your genetic makeup would probably make a difference in your outcomes? But it might be that that's true but that genetic difference is not necessarily ethnically related. In other words if you read between the lines here, the UK outcome, if let's say the data holds, you know any preliminary study like this you can't assume is right, but let's say it is, it would be saying that genetically there wouldn't be much difference across ethnicities but there might be a big difference in terms of lifestyle and economic situation. And that might be what's driving more infections. For example at the lower economic end of things there might be more people living per house. It could be that. It could be they have less health care resources. Could be that.

So this may be really important information if it's true. I'd still wait to get a confirmation of this. All right. So that's the first new piece of information. There might not be that much difference ethnically even though the outcomes are very different. Might be lifestyle not genetics. Although there could still be and probably is a gigantic genetic difference across individuals but not necessarily across ethnicities, which seems unlikely to me frankly. But doesn't seem unlikely to you that there's no difference in ethnicity? It feels unlikely but that's what we have here.

All right. Then we also have an HSE university research study. This says that, oh I'm sorry that was the genetic difference study, but there's an additional study that says that 63 percent of U.S. hospitalizations for COVID could have been prevented if we were not so darn fat. So obesity according to this one study is responsible for 30 percent of the excess hospitalizations. In the same sentence it says 63 percent. So it's written very poorly so I don't know exactly which of those numbers to look at because it looks like it's two different numbers saying the same thing but there's a gigantic difference. Now we all knew that, right? We all knew that.

But there's some kind of word that I didn't write down that says that sometimes it's the combination of two things. You know you need the comorbidity plus the virus. One by itself doesn't kill you. Now why do we call this simply a virus pandemic when it's clearly an obesity pandemic at the same time? It's two pandemics if you call obesity a pandemic. But we sort of ignore one of them and pay all of our attention to the other one when they're clearly both gigantic variables.

Now I agree the virus itself is a bigger variable than obesity but the obesity thing is so big it's like you should talk about them in the same sentence every time. We've got a big problem with the virus killing our fat people right now. I don't do fat shaming so I'm just using fat in a casual way, not to mean an insult. You know I myself have been a few pounds overweight at various times in my life and so I don't do fat shaming. But it's just simply a fact that Americans are overweight. So I feel as if the fact that we don't talk about that more is for what? Social reasons? Wokeness? Is there some reason we can't talk about people's health because they'll feel bad? It'll be racist somehow? Sure.

Here's the most predictable thing. What was the most predictable thing that would come out of the Tiger Woods thing? And by the way I don't mean to make fun of anything that happens to Tiger Woods. We all hope that he recovers and it is a tragedy so I'm not going to take anything away from how bad this is. But the most predictable thing, and I wish I'd said it in public because it was so predictable, today we learn that Tiger Woods does not remember the crash. Was that predictable?

As soon as I heard that he was awake when they found him and he was coherent and all that but that the actual cause of the crash was unknown, as soon as I heard that I said to myself he's going to say he doesn't remember the crash. He's going to say he doesn't remember what happened. What would you do in that situation? What would you do in that situation if that were me? I would say I didn't remember the crash because he might have been texting. I'm not saying he was. He might have had something in his system. Apparently he was not tested for any drugs. Now I don't know if the rules are different in the U.S. but because there were no overt signs of drug use or inebriation, in other words there was nothing in his car that suggested he had taken something and nobody had, there were no eyewitnesses and said we saw him put something in his mouth or anything like that. So if you don't have any cause it's just an accident I guess they can't check.

So Tiger Woods can just say I don't remember. They won't ever check his blood to find out if he was inebriated and it looks like he can just go with that story that he doesn't remember and he'll be fine from any kind of repercussions. So I don't think anything was more predictable than he would say he doesn't remember. Do you believe it? Do you believe he doesn't remember? I'm going to go on record as saying no I don't believe it. It's not impossible. It's traumatic, very traumatic. Could be that the cause of the accident was that he blacked out. So then of course he wouldn't remember it. It certainly looks like he blacked out, doesn't it? Wouldn't you say that the odds are based on how far the car went etc. you'd have to think he wasn't conscious, wouldn't you?

And so to me the texting or the cell phone or even if an animal ran in the road, I don't feel like they completely would describe what happened. It feels like he was unconscious but that's just speculation. No, no. All right.

Amy, do you know who Amy Siskind is or Siskind? But she's one of the more ridiculous characters on Twitter I think. She's blocked me and vice versa eventually. But she was like a crazy anti-Trump person and she tweeted after Biden bombed Syria. She tweeted, so different having military action under Biden. No middle school level threats on Twitter. Trust Biden and his team's competence. A tear is coming to my eye because Biden, he knows how to bomb Syria in a responsible way, not the way Trump did it with his irresponsible taunts. No, Trump bombed Syria the wrong way whereas Biden, he's bombing Syria in a responsible way. So big difference there according to Amy.

So China apparently did some COVID tests on some U.S. diplomats and decided to go with the anal test instead of the cheek swab. That's right. Instead of the nasal swab with the cheek swab, China decided to shove something up our diplomats' asses. They complained. The diplomats complained about China shoving things up their asses and China said oh it was an error. It was a mistake. Sorry. Didn't mean it. Sorry.

And what will the United States do? Will we turn the other cheek? Will we note that although America went to Mars, China went to Uranus? I would like to give this opportunity for all of you to add your own jokes about China shoving a COVID test up the ass of our diplomats. What would Trump have done if China shoved things up the ass of our diplomats and then said whoops, whoops, sorry? What would Trump have done? Would he do what Biden is likely to do? Complain? I don't know what he would have done but he should have closed the embassies. Should just close the embassies. Like I don't know how you protect your diplomats but do you want to be a diplomat that was not protected the way these guys were not protected? These guys and women and genders of all types, they were not protected.

Now I think they probably had a choice of saying no but then they probably couldn't travel or I don't know. There's probably some repercussion. So I don't feel this can go unaddressed. Do you? This should not be unaddressed. I think Trump would have addressed it. I don't know if Biden will.

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