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o. Okay well that's what I learned today. I don't know if I got that right but look how much smarter you are. And let's talk teachers unions, how we can break them and solve systemic racism. Well I'll tell you if somebody wanted to run against Trump, a Republican, and they ran on trying to bring in Black voters to solve systemic racism via the school system, they could win I think. I think a Repu…
← Previous segment →hink that's a true statement? Well one that you can confirm is true. Yeah unknown is the correct answer but just look at the comments. Yeah no we don't know which of the many things that Joe Rogan did made a difference. We don't know if any of it made a difference on one person. I mean look at Joe Rogan. Doesn't he look healthy? He looks like he could beat COVID without drugs now. It would be silly to try under a current condition but if you could pick anybody in the world who could beat COVID without drugs I mean he'd be on the top of my list. I mean I suppose he could be younger but I mean he's about as healthy as you can possibly get. Yeah so anybody who thinks that ivermectin cured Joe Rogan or anybody else I can't rule it out but it would be the worst take of all time because there's no evidence that it worked and there's lots of evidence that the other stuff does work like the monoclonals for example.
Somebody says I have some ivermectin and we'll definitely take it if infected. Personal choice. Personal choice. I would neither talk you into that or out of that. I would just say I don't have any evidence that it would help you but I don't have any evidence it'll hurt you. Personal choice.
Less than one percent of those that catch COVID will be hospitalized. That is a shitty data point. Here's why you should — here's the data you should never give anybody if you want to be credible. Only one percent of people are getting hospitalized now or less than one percent. The number is probably right but there's a pretty big difference between a 12 year old and an 80 year old. And if you average the 80 year old's risk of hospitalization with a 12 year old's risk of hospitalization and you get a number that's under 1 percent you have misled people. So don't do that. That under one percent is a propaganda number. It's not a useful number. Anybody who tells you the odds of hospitalization are under one percent, they're part of the propaganda process not part of the information process. It's true but you've averaged things together that
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only an idiot would average together. Like what's the average age of a frog plus an elephant and then we'll come up with the average age of creatures. It's not a thing. It's not useful. You know, average things like that and think you learn something. So don't give me the average of people go to the hospital. That's a misleading propaganda number. If you want to tell me the kids have almost no cha…
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