point. I'm not. I'm in this point. If you let a hundred thousand addicts live every year, are you better off? Now I obviously would like my stepson to still be alive but are you better off? I hate to say it but you're not better off. I might have been better off because I love him, right? So I loved him so I might be better off because I would prefer it. But would you be better off with my stepson back in society? Not even close. Sorry. Sorry if you want to be honest you would not be better off with him in society. He was not adding. He was just purely subtracting. Sorry. People loved him. I mean he was very popular and lovable and stuff but he wasn't going to help. So you have to ask yourself if even if you could get what you wanted do you really want it? Because that's a fair question. It's a fair question.

Now I do think that some kind of ethical moral consideration suggests that keeping them alive would be the better alternative. I mean that would be a reasonable point of view. But you can't ignore the fact that keeping alive a hundred thousand liars has some impact. Because remember all addicts are liars. You know that, right? If you see somebody who's lying about everything the first question you should ask yourself is what drugs are they on? Because often people who are lying about everything are recovering a drug pattern. So always look for that. Sometimes lying about everything means you're a narcissist and sometimes it means you have a drug problem and sometimes it means you're both.

I made the point that insurance predicts all this. This is a point I've made a number of times that every time we're arguing in the political realm about what is or what isn't, what's true, what isn't, that you can ignore all of that because that's all political and just look what the insurance companies do. Because the insurance companies don't have the option of being political. They just have to look at the numbers and say well we've got a set of premiums based on this level of death and we have to adjust it based on what changes, right? So the insurance company is just coldly looking at data. And the other thing that the insurance companies have that you don't have is their internal data.

So an insurance company in 2022 can tell you the following. It can tell you which zip codes had the most vaccinations, the highest vaccination rates, and it can tell you where there was the biggest change in death rates. Now what the insurance industry is telling you is that where there were high levels of vaccinations the death rate did not go up nearly as much as where there was a low level of vaccination. Maybe there's some other factors involved but their data is very clear that vaccinations saved lives and so they're going to base their premiums on that. So if you're in a zip code where people are dying because they're unvaccinated maybe you pay more for insurance.

Now where do you find the data? They have their own data. That's the key. If you say to yourself why did the insurance companies believe that, show me the data, they're not going to do that because it's internal data. It's their own customers who are dying, right? They're literally looking at their own customer base and they're saying the ones in this zip code are suddenly dying. The ones in this zip code are also suddenly dying but at a smaller rate.

Now a number of people said to me, Scott, Scott, what you don't realize is that insurance companies are lying just like all companies and