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don't need a meta-analysis, right? So if the signal is so strong you can just see it by looking at it, you don't need the meta-analysis. But what if it isn't? What if looking at it is like, I don't know, it's a little bit all over the map. Maybe the results are not gigantic but they might be small. We don't know. If it's unclear, then it turns out that when you do the meta-analysis what matters t…
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All right, so he's right again.
You know there was one thing that I was most worried about with this pandemic and it, you know, beyond the danger and the economics of it of course we're all worried about the deaths and the economy. But one of the things I was most worried about is that when it was done a significant number of the public would say it never happened. Because I could kind of see this coming from a mile away. And when I say it never happened I mean that there will be a substantial amount of the public who will say, as Tucker Carlson did last night, that it was just a severe seasonal flu because the death rates were so low.
How many of you would agree that now it looks like we're seeing something like the end of it? How many would you agree with this shocking statement that it was not a pandemic really, we just treated it like one, and that it was nothing more than a pretty bad seasonal flu? How many of you agree with that? I'm going to read off your statements. Agree, agree, disagree, no, no, very bad flu, I agree, I agree, yes, hyperbole but was way overhyped, not a pandemic, yes, no, disagree, don't agree, no, no, no.
All right, so you can see from that that there are plenty of people who agree with this statement that a pandemic didn't happen. It makes me a little crazy. So here's my context to help you out. Number one, it's not a bad seasonal flu because the regular seasonal flu isn't real. Meaning the numbers that we get every year about people dying from the flu probably have never been real. Meaning that the real number of people who die from the flu is probably closer to nobody. Now the real seasonal flu numbers are collected by statistics. They just say, well it looks like more people died this season than usual so that must be the flu people. They don't count flu deaths. And what about people w
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ho are old and have the flu and then die? Did they die of the flu? Well I don't know. They had the flu and they were about ready to die. So the first thing you need to know is that there was never a thing as far as I can tell. It could be wrong, right? So I'm going to allow that I could be wrong about this. But based on what I can see so far the regular flu was the hoax. The regular flu, this is…
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