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own drug. I think there's probably been more information coming out since February so this might be a little dated but they haven't updated it yet. So they say about their own drug no scientific basis for it as a therapeutic against COVID from what they call preclinical studies. So they say there's no scientific basis from preclinical studies. I guess that means the observational stuff. So the peo…
← Previous segment →ot of other self-help books, you'll see its influence has gotten into a lot of other books at this point. I won't name names but you can figure out which ones there. So I would take a look at that if you want to know what makes a book more popular eight years after it's written and growing in popularity. Actually it may have, it's so this is one of its biggest years.
I told you I was having this weird, I don't know if it's a debate but conversation about masks usefulness versus social distancing. And I was talking with Donald Luskin who I only know from Twitter but apparently he has some data analysis skills. And he says that his analysis shows that masks definitely work. The numbers seem to show that. I don't know if I can get Christina on here. Michael, she's not crazy about this kind of stuff.
And I was trying to figure out why Donald was saying that according to his numbers it's very clear that social distancing doesn't work. Now what do you do when your obvious common sense differs from the data? Which would you believe? Certainly there's no, I don't think any of you would argue that if you're standing on one side of the world and I'm standing on the other side of the world and you've got the virus and I don't, you can't really give it to me because the virus can't travel that far. It probably can't travel too well more than six feet, right? Maybe even just three.
But how could it be possible that staying away from each other physically doesn't work? Does that make sense to you? Is there anybody here who thinks it could make sense that social distancing doesn't work?
And I was kind of going back and forth thinking am I crazy? Because it's obvious it works. It couldn't not work. There's no mechanism by which this doesn't work. Now you might say you tried to do social distancing and everybody cheated. If that's what you're saying, oh okay that's not really social distancing. That's people pretending to social distance. Of course that doesn't work.
But here's, I believe I solved the my
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stery. I believe that lockdowns and social distancing were being used as a similar thing. I don't believe there's evidence that lockdowns work but I do believe that distance works. Because you could have lockdowns or no lockdowns and still do plenty of social distancing. So I think the problem is that Donald was probably, and I think this is true, he was looking at lockdowns not working. Which I t…
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