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nicality that Harvey Weinstein is just like him and was falsely accused, it takes a lot of lawyer balls to make that argument. But Harvey Weinstein's lawyer is making that argument, that because this completely unrelated case where the guy is guilty as hell got off on a technicality, therefore his client, who has nothing to do with Cosby whatsoever in a completely different situation, should also…
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All right, but back to school choice. It's icky to put these topics right next to each other, but I did it anyway. See if we could deal with it. So 74 percent of those polled say that the funding should follow the student. What do I tell you about the 25 percent rule? You see it over and over again. Twenty-five percent of the public will answer the dumbest answer on any poll. The poll could be, are you in favor of oxygen? Twenty-five percent of the public would say, I don't think so. I'm not trusting that oxygen, and I don't think oxygen is real. It doesn't matter what the question is. Twenty-five percent of the public can be relied upon as idiots. And so on the school choice thing, we've hit the idiot level.
So I think I've told you before that we should consider 75 percent being on the same side as unanimous, because that is all the smart people. The other 25 percent are just the freaking morons who would vote against oxygen and clean water and anything for whatever reason. The solid 25 are against everything.
All right. So fire season is starting in California, so that's the end of my happiness. If you might remember last year, the pandemic was in place, but well, at least we could go outdoors. Not really. If you were in California and it was summer, you couldn't even go outdoors. So you couldn't go anywhere indoors, but you also couldn't go outdoors for many weeks in California. That sucks. Let me tell you, when you can't go indoors and you can't go outdoors, you've got a very small world, and it's not cool. But I'm entering that phase now.
So we had a good solid month where the coronavirus was less and the mask wearing was released if you were vaccinated and the air was clear. And now that appears to be ending, and I'm going into the long dark period of California because California is so poorly managed that we let a problem which we know to be a problem persist. Doesn't change anything. Nope. We just keep on going with the same problems.
So there was a study on masks and kids, a randomized controlled trial. Those are the good kind, right? If it's randomized and it's controlled, pretty good trial. Now that doesn't mean it's right. I think we've all learned that you can't trust any individual study. It's just not a thing you should trust. But this study said there was a problem
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with carbon dioxide and kids and masks. So if kids wore masks for any length of time, the quality of the air they were breathing went down. So less oxygen, more carbon dioxide. And apparently that has some types of health risks. And so the suggestion is that maybe masks are bad for kids. Did you need a study for that? I'm not sure you needed a study to decide not to put masks on kids, but your mi…
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