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r door with three IDs and made us scream its name while asking us for its home address. I'll just let that sit there for a moment. Now here's a humor writing lesson. You ready? Humor writing lesson. What makes this sentence funny? We wouldn't recognize good science and good data if it showed up at our door with three IDs and made us scream its name while asking us for its home address. What make…

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e valuable just the way they are, you don't need to do anything? Or would it be the group that's told they're worthless unless they do something, succeed? So which ones do better?

Well as I've said before, women are biologically more valuable just by existing because they can have babies and men can't. And you only need one man to impregnate lots of women. So we're not very valuable, men, from a biological standpoint, unless we do stuff.

And Mark Schneider, who had this very interesting tweet, I'm just going to read it to you. He said the fact is that as men we are expendable until we can prove we are not. My father, stepfather and grandfathers instilled this in me. And I thought to myself that sounds about right. I remember being told quite explicitly that I had to like do something, you know, I had to succeed by doing something. I'm not exactly sure my sister got the same message. I'd love to ask her that. I don't know that she did because I was told explicitly that you know success was my goal. I had to succeed. I don't know if my sister was told that. I mean not in direct language. I mean she did succeed, you know. She put together a very successful life. But I don't know. Could be different.

I'm a middle child by the way. And so I wonder if that's a part of the difference in outcomes. You know obviously there could be biological differences, a million other social differences, but I would think that this would be at least one of them. That if you don't think that your human value is much affected by accomplishment, why would you try? I mean there's got to be a factor, right?

All right. China, they've got this 21-day extreme quarantine situation they use. So if you've been exposed or if you came from another country back into China, you'd have 14 days of compulsory hotel quarantine. You'd have another seven days in some kind of centralized quarantine at designated locations. And then before returning home you'd be health monitored. And then I think you have to, and you've got all kinds of testing even before that stuff happens. And still an infection got into the country.

So they think they know who it was. I don't think so. It doesn't sound like they know who it was to me. But they think they know it was. And they say that this fellow had come in from, I don't know, Malaysia or Indonesia or someplace. And he tested negative for the virus nine times during 21 days of quarantine before testing positive on Friday, 37 days after entering China. He tested positive. What's going on? It doesn't sound like they know exactly what's going on. It sounds like there's still myst

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ery here. But here's my question. Is any country intentionally infecting any other country? Do you think that's a thing? Because it would be horrible of course. But are you telling me that there's no natural enemy countries that haven't thought, you know it would be kind of evil but if our rival were more infected than we were that might be good for us? Does anybody think that way? I wonder. Beca…

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