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gone. You don't have an ethical or moral obligation to obey any government rule that's unreasonable. You don't. I mean there's a risk, so I'm not suggesting that you disobey any rules or regulations, but you have no moral or ethical responsibility to obey unreasonable authority. That alone will guarantee that things will fix themselves pretty quickly. When you combine that with the fact that ther…
← Previous segment →store here that said you had to wear a mask if you're fully vaccinated, and then there's one right next to it selling similar products but you know one has a mask requirement and one doesn't. There's no competition. The moment the competitive difference becomes obvious, which will be in the first week of sales, right? The very first day one grocery store requires a mask and the other one doesn't, the sales are going to reflect that immediately, right?
How long do stockholders put up with somebody not obeying the federal government's guidelines, the CDC, and it's lowering their profits? How long do the stockholders put up with that? "Wait a minute, you're not following the CDC standard and it's lowering your profit, and all you have to do is say stop doing that." You don't have to build something. You don't need to invest in something. You don't need to move anything or change anything. You just need to put out a thing that says we'll just stop requiring that, and then your profits will go up. There isn't any chance that you're going to have a long-term situation where there's a competitive business that requires a mask, right, as long as their competitors are not. And of course that's going to happen. So I wouldn't worry about this all working itself out in the next, I don't know, 30 days or so. But it's taking longer than it
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should. Alec Baldwin is in the news complaining about cancel culture. It's like a forest fire that just needs more fuel. Now when Alec Baldwin is complaining about cancel culture, which could also be described as completely agreeing with President Trump, cancel culture's in trouble, isn't it? Because I think cancel culture has now clearly jumped the shark when Alec Baldwin is complaining about ca…
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