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r. So if Chauvin and his lawyers can demonstrate that a reasonable person wouldn't have known this could kill somebody no crime is committed. There has to be something in the officer's head that gets to either intention. And by the way he's not even being charged with intentionally killing him. Did you know that? The charge does not include any thought that he did it intentionally. It's just not e…

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data and the politics than most people. Yeah here's what he tweeted and this I laughed for like a long time over this. He goes 54 percent of people who have already been vaccinated are still very or somewhat worried about catching COVID and but only 29 percent of people who refuse to get vaccinated are very or somewhat worried about catching COVID. And then here's his punchline. Great job everyone. That's like a perfect punchline. Great job everyone. It's so droll. Basically it doesn't matter what you do you're going to be unhappy I guess one way or another you'll be unhappy.

All right there's a video that I think YouTube took down but I saw it. I don't know I'm not sure how it took down it is since I saw it but there's this Dr. Cole who's made a couple of claims and I want to run them by you because I don't know that they're true. And he said the following. So fact check me on this. He said all super spreader events have been indoors. Can somebody fact check that first of all? I'm not sure we know where all the super spreader events have been because I'm not sure you'd know there was a super spreader event. You just know a lot of people are infected. But is that true that all super spreader events have been indoors? Because that would be a pretty big deal. Yeah all known. So the problem is whether that's just the ones that are known.

Here's the other thing he said which I have much lower opinion of its credibility. He said there's no such thing as flu and cold season there's only low vitamin D season. In other words he's saying that in some seasons your vitamin D is low and that's why you catch things that you wouldn't normally catch otherwise. Do you buy that?

Here's the problem with the vitamin D thing and you might remember that you know a year ago I was making all kinds of noise about the fact that it looked like vitamin D was the big correlation here. It just seemed to be that where there was lots of vitamin D people had better results. And I didn't know that that was anything but a coincidence but it was worth looking at. And I still think that you have to be careful about that correlation because people who are old and sick have low vitamin D. It could be just another way to know you're old and sick. It doesn't have to necessarily yeah it doesn't necessarily have to be the vitamin D works. It could just be a correlation that sick people don't have much vitamin D. But that said I'm still going to keep my vitamin D up because it's good for you in general.

Here's my next speculative question. We've all been told that herd immunity is when you get to 70 80 percent or whatever. I think this virus they're thinking is higher because it's so spready. But does the herd immunity number in that 70 range does that make sense when your virus attacks certain parts of the population and leaves others largely unhurt? And when only the only people who are super spreaders are the people who are pretty sick and obese and they're the ones who are getting vaccinated first. It seems to me that the idea of herd immunity that made sense for all other things doesn't make sense in this case.

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what I'm saying is that and this is just speculation right so don't take this as anything you should believe. More of a question I guess. Even question if you were to let's say hypothetically you vaccinated everybody over 70 and everybody over 50 who's obese and I think we could do that right? That or at least you get almost all of them. Everybody else could still get the virus and it could rage t…

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