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fee when the temperature is just right? It's perfect. Really. Let's talk about all the things that are coming. So I watch with fascination as the evolution toward self-driving cars. And thank you everybody for the birthday wishes. So there's a company called Cruise that is pretty far along as a subsidiary of General Motors. They've got a self-driving car that has just got permitted to operate in…
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You know, I mentioned this the other day, but it's becoming more and more hardened as a reality. There will be two histories of the pandemic. One history will say, hey, there was a big old pandemic. The other history is what some members of the right are forming into their own reality, which is the pandemic didn't happen. There was none. It was just an illusion. That actually nothing happened.
There was a virus, and the virus was real, and people got it, and people died. So that part is not in question. What's in question is, did anything unusual happen in terms of viruses, or was the unusual thing only the way we reacted to this one? And we're just going to have to live with two realities. We will have two completely different histories. One in which the virus never happened as a pandemic, but it happened as a normal little extra aggressive seasonal virus that we overreacted to.
How many of you buy into the opinion that the pandemic was largely an illusion and not really much worse than a normal flu? How many of you buy into that? I just want to see in your comments if that's becoming a popular view or not. I'm seeing a yes, thumbs up. I see scam. No. Overreacted. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Me, me, me. No, no, no, no.
Well, so you see there it is. There are roughly as many people who think the pandemic didn't exist as there are who think they lived through one. How do you reconcile two histories that are opposites, and we both lived through it, right? It's not like we're talking about something that was hypothetical and it's in our history books. You and I and everyone watching this right now, we just, we're in it still. We're living through it in real time. And still a large segment of the population thinks it isn't real, didn't happen.
Well, I'm in the camp that says something happened and some people were dying. And whether we overcounted them or not, it's still in the millions. Yeah, I'm fairly certain it's in the millions. Was it worth it? Well, we'll figure that out as we go.
There's a survey, a study, I don't know if you call this a study. Let's call this a survey because that's what it is. A survey about whether more people got COVID when they were wearing masks or not wearing masks. This is from an Axios Ipsos poll. And what do you think? If you haven't seen it yet, so don't ruin it yet. So many of you have not seen the results.
So they did a poll and they said how much did you wear masks and then did you g
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et coronavirus. And they determined, and I won't tell you the answer yet, but what do you think? What do you think was the result? Did the people who wore the masks more often get fewer infections or more of them or the same? In the comments, tell me what you think. It turned out, I see somebody says the same. No difference. No effect. No less likely to get sick. Same. No difference. So most of y…
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