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99 plus percent are Omicron. All right so who is the better decision maker? The tweeter who seems to be criticizing it or DeSantis himself? So here's the argument on one hand. On one hand does it make sense to use a drug that you know is 99 percent going to be useless? That's the point. And not only 99 but that 99 is going to go to 100 like by the time we're done talking right. So the usefulness…
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All right so I don't know if February 1st is, we're going to hit it but let's talk about some more thinking. One of the things I see a lot is why did we shut down the world for something that has a 99.9 chance of survival? Most of you think that way right? Why did we shut everything down if there was a 99 whatever percent chance of survival?
Well first of all that's an average. So the chance of survival if you were over 70 was not so good. I mean that was a few percentages more than one percent. But still you know they didn't have long to live. You could protect them etc. So it's a perfectly reasonable point. Why would you shut things down if there was a 99.9 chance of surviving it? And I say that's a good point.
And here is an additional point. So this additional point does not refute the first point. It's just additional. It goes like this. Do you want a 50 percent chance of ruining one year of your life? Because if you get COVID there's about a 50 percent chance you'll have long haul which could take you out for six months. N
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ow if you get taken out for six months it kind of screws up your whole year. I had that experience of you know I had my prednisone experience. It took me out for about six months. Like for six months I struggled but it kind of ruins your whole year right? So would you do extreme things to stop half of the public from losing a year of quality life? Now if you say no to that that's a reasonable ans…
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