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'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 n…
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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't think it works. So if you know it doesn't work, why would you do it? And he said, because that's how we learned. And then I said again, yeah, I'm hearing you. I'm hearing you about the part that that's why you learned. But as of today you can quite clearly see this is a bad idea. You know, people are quitting. I'm having this lunch with you. Everything's going to—and it's all because of your personality. Now you see that, right? And given that it's not your natural personality—it's a put-on personality you're doing intentionally—wouldn't you consider changing that? Maybe doing it differently. And he said, it's not the way I was taught. That's not the way I was taught. He didn't have any reason for it. He was just taught that way.
So now let's get back to the doctors. Do you think the doctors who often become administrators or at least have a big influence on the culture of the workplace—do you think a doctor who got terribly abused when they were going through their whatever, do you think that doctor is saying to us, you know, those long hours were so bad for me in so many ways and really unhealthy. And I am a health worker, and that was unhealthy. Clearly lack of sleep is unhealthy. Everybody understands that. So because I know I went through it and it's bad, I will now correct this as best I can and make sure all of my employees get enough sleep. Do you think that's happening? I'll bet not. I'll bet what's happening is, hey, I went through this, so you're going to go through this. I'll bet that's the problem.
Now it's speculation, right? I'm only speculating, so I can easily be wrong. I'm not committed to this opinion, but it's kind of the only thing that—not that people wouldn't talk about necessarily. Yeah, I think it's the culture. Just a guess.
All right. Apparently climate change—there's a big change in public opinion according to a new poll. For the first time, a majority of Americans now believe that the US is facing consequences of a warming world. Have you felt that change? Actually I thought—I didn't know the percentage until today—but this is the first time that a majority of Americans believe climate change is real. Does that feel right? Did you know this is the first time a majority thought that? Now that's different than thinking it's a problem that you need to solve, right? So it's slightly different to say that we should solve it or what resources you should put in to solve it. But just that it's a problem.
Now remember that people like Bjørn Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger will teach you that the warming world might help more than it hurts, and we just don't know. Definitely a risk, because we don't know. But there's no reason to think it'll be worse. The most reasonable take is probably it's going to be better than it was. Right? I don't know what that meme was supposed to apply to, but over on Locals somebody posted a meme that says "dick is everywhere, chemistry isn't." I'm like, I think that was relevant to the conversation, but I'm not going to tell you whether you should believe or not believe in climate change. But it's interesting that the world does now.
What was it that convinced people? What changed recently? What changed? Let me tell you what changed. Do you remember that—I forget how we heard it, but I think it was CNN's head saying that they were going to push climate change like crazy and that they were intentionally going to brainwash the public into making climate change a big issue. The news industry told you that directly: we're going to go persuade the public on climate change. And then
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it happened. This poll says it worked. This poll says that the news successfully convinced a big part of the public to switch over into worrying. What was it that made them switch? What persuasion got them to switch? Was it the data? Did people switch sides because of the data? Was it the argument, the facts? Was it the facts and argument and the logic and the science? Was it Greta? Nope. Nope. I…
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