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0 years that I thought I'd hold it, which was the Turkish cell phone company. Now the company itself is doing great except that the foreign exchange, you know the Turkish currency just went to hell. So anything you invest there is a loser. So it's way underwater. But at this point I feel like now that the United States has recognized the Armenian genocide and that Turkey is still denying it, I fee…

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r vaccinations and you can take your mask off, it's simple. Right now is it true that we know for sure that taking your mask off would be okay or okay enough? The answer is there's a little bit of uncertainty but we do know that the risk would be smallish. And so as Dr. Saphier says, and I agree, if you're trying to get people to take the vaccination and that's the most important thing, let's say from the perspective of our government, percentage of people getting vaccinated is the most important thing. You can disagree about vaccinations but just follow along with the point. If it's the most important thing you don't want to work against yourself by saying you still have to wear masks when you're done, even if that would be a little bit better we think, maybe not so sure a little bit. You're way better letting people die to that tiny little risk because the greater benefit of getting more vaccinations according to the government would be much better.

Somebody says Matthew says I'm spitting facts. I don't know what that means. Sixty percent of new cases had the vaccination. I doubt that's true. But there is a period between the vaccination and when you're covered so that might be part of any data problems there. Somebody says all the evidence shows the COVID shots are dangerous. Now this is that two worlds thing. You can live on Twitter in a certain world in which all of the information says that the shots are more bad than good. But you can live in a different world in which it's unambiguously true that the vaccinations are good for you. Those worlds are completely, you can just go into either of those worlds and live in it like the other one doesn't even exist.

So if there's somebody on here who says all of the data says that the shots are dangerous you're in a bubble. Maybe you picked the right bubble. That would be lucky. But just be aware that the smartest people in the world disagree with you. Sorry that's just the fact. The smartest, most well-informed people in the world are overwhelmingly pro-vaccination. Overwhelmingly. Not even close. So if you're living in a little Twitter social media world in which it seems that vaccinations are a bad idea you're not seeing the smart people. You seem to have found a bubble in which there are some smart people but they would be in the skeptical camp.

All right, it's like wearing a helmet in a car or somebody says yeah. So the point is whether or not being vaccinated is a complete reduction of risk or not you should still simplify and act like it is because that's how to get to the finish line better. All right somebody says the smartest people want to enslave us. Well it's still optional right? If the smartest people say you know X has a risk so far we still have some options about it right now. Shots won't prevent. So there's somebody here saying that the shots won't prevent COVID-19.

You really have a data problem. All right if you believe that shots, oh in fact I was seeing this morning one of the people that I had to block was presenting graphs that show that the number of infections skyrockets after the vaccines roll out. Now I don't know of anything that is less likely to be true than that now. And they have official sources, official sources that show a whole different world than the rest of the world is seeing. The rest of the world sees that when the shots roll out the number of infections plunges. United States, Israel, etc. But there's a whole other world where they're seeing

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exactly the opposite graphs that as soon as you get a vaccination you get the disease and the number of infections skyrockets. They can't both be true. And I feel very confident in saying that vaccinations are not causing more COVID. And I feel very confident in saying that we do know by now that they work. Now if you're worried about long-term complications that's something we don't know about r…

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