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s together. I don't know if this is practical. This is just brainstorming, so don't be too critical. Take this as what I call the bad idea or the bad version. The bad version just makes you maybe think of a better version, right? So I'm just stimulating your thinking process. It goes like this: How could we manufacture things in the United States cheaply enough that we could compete with whatever…
← Previous segment →'re definitely surveying vaccinated and unvaccinated people. That's definitely happening. They're just not counting every single person, but statistically they just do a sample, and that's all they need.
All right, so the fake news is this: being twice as likely to get reinfected. So they've compared if you had natural immunity—you've already been infected—compared to only vaccinated but you've never had it. All right, so those are the comparisons: natural immunity to vaccinated. And the claim here on CNN is that you're more than twice as likely to get reinfected if you've only been infected as opposed to been vaccinated. Is that real news or fake news? That's fake news. That's true. It's fake news. That's 100 percent true. Is that a possibility? Can you have fake news that's 100 percent true at the same time? Because this—I believe the statistics are true, but why is it fake the way it's presented?
Let's say your risk of getting a deadly disease—something besides COVID. God, my nose always itches when I'm in public. This is like—it's a psychological thing. So half the time when I'm doing this, it's not because of my allergies. It's because I get this psychological itch on my nose when I'm in public. Here's why it's fake news. Let's say—take the example of your risk of being killed by a terrorist. Let's say your personal risk of being killed by a terrorist is one in 100 million. I don't know what the real number is, but let's say it's 100 million. That's your risk. And then you double it. You double it. Is that a story? Your risk of being killed by a terrorist just doubled. It's not a story, because your risk was so low that doubling it didn't make really any difference at all.
So when CNN says your risk of getting reinfected if you've got natural immunity, how many people is that like, and how big of a difference is that? Is this really a difference we have to care about? Because when they report "doubled," if you hear that something involving your health has a double risk, you should act upon that immediately, right? You don't want to double your risk of anything. So immediately take action. But what if the doubling didn't make any difference? Like it still rounds to zero. Then take action and the other doesn't. And they're both true. If the risk is so small, doubling doesn't matter, so you don't take action. So they're trying to make you take action by reporting the doubling without telling you what the absolute difference is, right? That's fake news that just happens to be completely accurate. Just fake.
Apparently there's some big healthcare shortage, a healthcare worker shortage that's not directly related to COVID. Did you know that? This came as a surprise to me. So apparently even before the pandemic there was this sort of a crisis for healthcare employees. And at least based on the reporting, it's not clear why. We don't know exactly why. We've had nursing shortages for ages. Yeah. And here's what I don't understand about it. Nursing is a pretty good job, isn't it? Did that change? I always thought that these healthcare jobs were good jobs. Somebody says OnlyFans pays better. Working conditions.
Here's my guess. I believe that there's a culture within the medical community for self-abuse which turns into systemic abuse for all healthcare workers. Am I wrong? No, I'm not directly involved in that world, but what I observe is the hours are just crazy. I mean, lots of you work long hours. I do that myself. But I feel like the healthcare workers are in a whole different level of abuse. And I think that abuse comes from having a lot of doctors in charge who are used to the crazy hours. And if I did it, you have to do it.
Let me tell you a conversation I had years ago with a chef for my restaurant. So I had a restaurant years ago, and the chef was just a bastard. He was just a jerk to all the other employees. Just a serious, serious bad personality and made everybody want to quit. So I had lunch with him, and I said, why are you acting like the biggest jerk in the world when obviously you could just not do it? Like, what is motivating you? And he told me this. It was intentional. It wasn't baked into his personality at birth or anything. He was intentionally being the worst person he could be on the job. Why? Why? Why did the chef tell me directly—all right, I'm not reading between the lines. Told me directly why he was a jerk and a horrible person to all the employees. Why?
I'm looking at your comments. Weed out the weak. Unites the employees to make them work harder. Motivate them. None of this is right, by the way. Because they're immigrants. He's racist. He was Black, by the way, so he wasn't racist. Well, I mean, not in the usual way anyway. He wouldn't be asked to help them move. That's the bes
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t answer. He was a jerk to the employees so he wouldn't be asked to help them move someday. Maintaining pressure. Boom. Somebody got it. Not very stacked. Somebody got it. The answer is that's how he learned it. He was brought up by chefs that abused him. And then he said, so that's why I do it. And then I said, but you know it's not a good idea. You don't think it's a good idea, do you? You don'…
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