that ever happened in the history of humanity if they're going to stop the thing that there's a very good chance is our only way out. It's our only way out and they're going to try to stop it. That's really happening. I'm not even making that up.

Now the part that's in question of course is whether the Omicron really would be like a vaccination and I realize I'm being too optimistic but it's starting to look that way every day. Starting to look that way. There's a new study that says it's a retrospective study so not the high quality kind but it says that asthma might reduce your COVID risk by a lot. So too allergies and eczema. So if you've got eczema, allergies or asthma, and let me tell you how lucky I am. All three. You suckers. A lot of people don't have any of these things but me, I got all three. So I'm about as safe as you can be from the COVID except for one thing. I don't believe this study is anything but it looks like to me.

However if it's not I would suggest that there's a reason why people with asthma and allergies do better. Do you know the reason? Here's the reason. People with asthma take a COVID medicine every day. One of the things they give you for asthma is this inhaler. A certain kind of inhaler. There are two of them. One's for emergencies and one's for every day. But the everyday one that you do to keep your asthma under control is also what they give you if you have COVID.

Now what is one of the biggest things that triggers asthma? Well one is exercise and one is irritants like smoke but another one is allergies. I think allergies are maybe the biggest cause. So if you have allergies there's a good chance your Venn diagram overlaps with asthma. So people with allergies are probably taking asthma meds fairly frequently because it's a trigger. So and then the eczema thing I don't know maybe that's just a general correlation with people who are allergic to stuff because it's like a skin allergy or something. Yeah I'm getting all the medicines parts wrong so don't listen to any of that. Yeah oh prednisone would be also good for COVID I understand.

Anyway so I don't believe this study. It's a retrospective study. Those are a little lower quality than say a randomized kind of thing. But I'd like it to be true. But how can asthma be a comorbidity at the same time that it prevents you from having problems? The official word is still that asthma is a comorbidity, right? If I wanted to get a vaccination ahead of the line I would just say I have asthma and I would go to the front of the line. But apparently asthmatics are safer than you are if that study is right. I don't think it's right.

In other news Corey DeAngelis who's doing an amazing job going after school boards and their silliness tweets today that 27 state school boards associations have at least distanced themselves from the national school boards association. So the whole idea that the school boards should have this much control in our lives is being rejected by 27 states so far. And 18 of those states that are purple I guess, meaning neither red nor blue, have discontinued membership, participation or dues because of the national board's actions.

And do you always worry about the slippery slope? You know I always tell you that I'm less worried about the slippery slope than most people are. This is why. Because the slippery slope created this unintended consequence which might be the greatest boon to homeschooling of all time. By the way how many of you who don't do homeschooling think that homeschooling is one kid sitting at home with one of the parents who has to stay home? How many of you think that's what homeschooling is? Because I don't think many people actually even know what it is, right? Yeah it's pods and top teachers in many cases. Not all of course.

Here's what I think the world needs right now and Corey if you're listening to me or anybody else. I was watching a tweet thread by Joshua Lysak and he was talking about how apparently he must be homeschooling. That was what I got out of it. I guess their class of home schools, their pod or whatever, visits the workplace of the various parents of the different kids so they can see different jobs and you know how different businesses work and stuff. And I thought to myself well that's probably more valuable than just about every class that a kid in public school took today. Probably more valuable than every class they took maybe you know except for reading and writing and stuff. You know some basics. But if that's the sort of thing that you can do in a homeschool, homeschooling really needs some PR.

I would love to see whatever is the smallest package to describe what homeschooling really looks like. Here's my bigger reason for that. I think homeschooling has to be the future. I mean it almost has to be. And but there'll be better versions of it, right? You know homeschooling presumably has gone from crude to fairly sophisticated I would assume, right? Somebody can confirm that. And I would imagine this started out maybe worse than public school on day one on average, not for every person, but probably at this point it has exceeded public schools in every level. Would that be true? Can somebody tell me if you have enough experience with that topic? Would you say that homeschools have already exceeded every level of social and educational safety quality like on everything? Is there anything that a homeschool doesn't do better and unambiguously better than a public school?

Is there anything? Interactions with other kids? Okay that's my next topic. I have a hypothesis that I want to run by the parents here. All right so I'm only talking about people who are parents of kids right now. So if your kid grew up in an earlier time you know just watch the comments on this one. Those of you who currently have a kid who uses social media, so not the young young ones but they use social media, have you found that the obsession with social media has spilled over into the real world where the only thing that a kid can talk about is how many friends they have and what happened with their friends and who's making fun of them and there's actually nothing else that matters to them?

And I think the social media did that and Snapchat in particular. Snapchat makes you only think all day long about how many friends you have following you and what they're saying mostly about you and about other people. Now everything I know about brains and persuasion and hypnosis etc., everything I know about that tells me this and there's no argument on the thing I'm going to say. The thing you focus on the most is what's the most important to you. But not because that's not the reason you focused on it. Sometimes it is of course. You're going to focus more on important things. But social media is an addiction so it forces you to focus on something that's not that important but the focus makes it important.

And the model of social media is friends friends friends friends friends friends. What are your friends saying about you? Friends friends friends friends friends friends. What are your friends saying about you? That's it. Complete obsession. And now here's my question for the current parents. Do you find that when they come home all they can talk about is their real life friends? Friends friends friends and who's talking about them? Just watch the comments for a minute. I want to see if this is really something or just a weird idea.

Yes I'm addicted to social media that is correct. Constantly on their phones is what's causing it but do they also talk non-stop about their friends in the real world? The real world friends. So I'm seeing some yeses but a lot of nos. Some yeses and some nos. Okay. There are pressures them into the cult. Your kids aren't on social media interesting. Nope yes real world. Okay so I'm seeing more people who disagree with my hypothesis or at least they don't observe it happening but I think it is happening because I think it can't not happen. It's just the way your brain is wired. Whatever you focus on just becomes the most important thing. There's no way around that.

So I think that homeschooling is probably the only way you can get social media away from kids and at this point I think social, I think homeschooling is approaching a crisis requirement level. I mean public school is I think a crisis level. You know the school shootings are the canary in the coal mine but it's not just because there's some crazy people who've accessed the guns. It's that the public school is destroying children's lives and some of them are acting out on it.

Let me ask you this. How long is it going to be before one of these smash and grabs happens at the same time that somebody with a high-powered weapon is in the vicinity and they just decide to kill everybody who involved in the smash and grab? That's going to happen isn't it? What do you think? I'm not, I don't hope it happens but if you could take these t