e working. In other words where there are masks you can measure that there's more of a benefit.

Now is any of that data accurate? Who knows? We're in a world where you can't trust anything. You can't trust that the masks work. You can't trust that they don't work. You definitely can't trust a laboratory study.

So here's what I would tell you. I would never look at a peer-reviewed — which is different than a randomized controlled trial — I would never look at just a peer-reviewed paper that said that we tested something in a laboratory and found out that there's a lot of aerosols that matter. We kind of already knew that the aerosols matter. And we also knew that the masks were never intended to stop 100% of anything. They were supposed to stop some amount of it during the worst of the pandemic.

Now I'm anti-mask mandate just to be clear because it sounds like I'm being pro-mask. But I think you can have the nuanced opinion. The masks make some difference but overall they're not worth it because your lifestyle would be so affected by it. So that's my point of view.

I believe that masks almost certainly make some difference. Let me put it this way. If you knew you were in a room with people who had COVID — let's say you knew there was one person in the room and you're going to talk to all of them one by one — would you want the person who is talking to you from three feet away and facing you to be wearing a mask or not? Yeah, right.

How often before the masks were a big thing were you talking to somebody and you could feel their spittle in your face? You know what I'm talking about. You can feel the spittle hitting you in the face. I feel like if somebody has COVID I don't want their spittle hitting my face and the mask would make some difference, right?

So I think you can be scientific enough to say masks do make a difference. At the same time you can say maybe we've reached the point where if unvaccinated people want to take the chance let them do it. And vaccinated people too. So remember vaccinated people are getting the virus now so don't forget that.

Barnes posted a link on a randomized control trial that should statistically prove that ivermectin was effective at treating COVID. Interesting. So somebody's saying that Barnes has posted — and you can see Viva and Barnes. Their podcast is great by the way. It's one of the best ones. You should watch on YouTube and/or Locals. I think you can see it on both platforms. Twitch too maybe.

But this is