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hat happened. Somebody said — I'm looking in the comments. Oh, okay, well never mind. I thought it was a different comment. Question. Well before we get to that, I love watching Fox News and CNN fight. I don't know, it's one of the most amusing things. I think I was probably an outlier in the sense that I liked watching Chris Cuomo and his brother do their little show on CNN. If you don't take it…

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Hannity had a brother who was a governor or if Tucker Carlson had a brother who was a governor, I think they would call them the disgraced anchor. Disgraced. So this is a little persuasion trick for you. Just insert "disgraced" in front of anybody you don't like. Let me give you an example. Disgraced President Biden talked about the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. Pretty good.

It looks like I'm already getting some help connecting on Rumble. Thank you Amanda. Back to the news. Can we all get doctor's notes to wear no masks? And if we can't, why not? Why can't you go to the doctor and say — let's say I'll use myself as an example — doctor, I'm fit and healthy and I've been vaccinated recently so it hasn't even worn off. And I find it very disturbing to wear masks and it itches my face and makes me psychologically unhappy, etc. Can I get my doctor to write me a note and say, oh yeah, okay, you don't need a mask because yes it would help. Perhaps it would help. But all things considered you've looked at your risks and rewards. And as your doctor I certify your choice. Yes there's some extra risk of not wearing the mask, would say my doctor. I imagine my doctor would say that. But it's a low risk and I signed your note saying that you can take that risk. It's a reasonable risk. Why can't I do that? And if I did do that, who's going to fight with my doctor? Let's say you go into your employer and your employer says you have to wear a mask, you can't come in. You say, oh yes I know that. Here's my note from my doctor. Can your employer override your doctor? I mean they can, right, because if it's a private company they make their own rules. They can. But would they?

Turley says no. Oh, interesting. I'm seeing in the comments that Jonathan Turley says no. Now the reason I stopped is because there are just a few people in the world who if they have an opinion I just stop and say okay, they're probably right. So if Turley says that a doctor's note would be good enough not to wear a mask, and I think he's right, how do you overrule a doctor's note? What employer is going to overrule a doctor's note? I just don't see it happening. So I feel as if we could all get a doctor's note.

Now have you ever tried to get a doctor's prescription for weed? If you live in a state where you need a doctor to get weed you probably already know this. There are specialists. That's right, there are weed doctors, at least in California, probably other places. So a weed doctor basically just does one thing and you just go in, hey I need some weed. They do a brief question about your health and look at your health records and then they say yes or no. Now why couldn't we have mask specialist doctors? Let's say a retired doctor who just wants to put in an 800 number, do telehealth, do it by phone. And you call your doctor and you say hey here's my situation, can I get a note? Why not? Would we see that popping up? I mean it would be short-term business we hope, but you would exp

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ect the market to respond to that. I looked at the headlines today. I was looking at all the — looking for all the deaths. How many of you can answer the following questions? How many people on average — so in the comments I want to see how informed you are. In the comments tell me how many people per day die in the United States from all causes. So we're not talking about the pandemic yet, but f…

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