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ctual useful thing. Who told you that first? Who's the first person who told you that the regular annual flu shot was... well I've been saying it. I've been saying it since the beginning of the pandemic because I never believed that people were dying from regular flu at least 50,000 a year. Yeah, whoever believed that 30,000 or 50,000 people a year were dying from the regular flu and then therefo…

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g that this could even be. Florida took up the slack but there must have been something that happened. What was it that we slowly adjusted and moved back to normal as I see the comments there? Or was it that we did something clever and that made a difference? Or was it never real? I have no idea. Isn't that weird?

Did you even notice that in my opinion that was the biggest story in the world? Because the supply chain problem could have crashed a lot of stuff and might still. So I asked people and so I tweeted that and a number of people said no we still have big problems getting stuff. It takes a long time and a lot of stuff they're getting seems to be important for the infrastructure and the power grid and all that stuff.

Now I've also noticed that if I'm buying something sometimes it takes longer to get here but it hasn't been a big deal in my life. I haven't really noticed any big deal and I've bought a reasonable number of things recently. They all seem to come. Maybe I just got used to waiting for two months because there's a lot of stuff that I buy now that I wait two months for and that no longer seems like a long time to me. Specific firearms or six months I can see that but you know it was always the case. It was always the case there's some things took months even in the best of times. You know if you buy a high-end car and let's say a BMW with certain features you're going to wait months for that because they have to build it for you and ship it over here.

You've been waiting a month and a half for some bowling shirts from China? Yeah I did have one small item that took a few months but I feel as if maybe just we all got used to it and it was never going to kill us.

I know the FDA is considering whether to make Narcan easier to purchase and I guess if they do this you won't need a prescription. You can just buy it from Amazon or anywhere else I guess. Now I love this. I think this is the right thing to do but I can't not notice that the only time we do something that looks right is if a pharmaceutical company can make more money. Why is that always the case?

Oh there's only one thing you can do about fentanyl. There's only one thing. Just one thing you can do. Coincidentally it requires giving a lot more money to a pharmaceutical company that makes the Narcan. Why is that? Is that a coincidence? It doesn't feel like a coincidence does it? It feels like unless somebody who is a big corporate entity can make money the government won't do a damn thing. It's just like, oh this drug company can make money, let's do this. Now I'm in favor of it so I don't want to poo-poo it. We should all have Narcan handy and it does work. It does work well.

The EU is effectively banning gas cars by 2035. So the emission requirements have been lowered to the point where no gas car could ever meet the requirement. So 2035. You think that's too far away or too soon? So I think it's all going to be electric cars or something now. Of course they could always revise that in five years if it looks like it's not going to happen but I don't know. I guess my biggest concern would be that they wouldn't have enough electricity. I'm not, I don't hate the fact that we're moving probably to electric.

There's a clarification that I was not aware of that if the EU votes for it it doesn't mean anything unless the individual countries say yes. That makes sense. Is that right? The individual countries still have to say yes or what happens if most of them say yes and some say no? They still get to do their own thing or does the EU have some kind of control over individual nations? I don't know the answer to that question.

All right. Well anyway that's developing. Let's talk about that Ohio explosion. How many of you believe that there are dead fish and dead birds all over the place in Palestine, Ohio and that that's caused by the chemical leak? Yeah I've seen news reports both ways. I've seen news reports that they were coincidentally dead fish and probably wasn't caused by that. I would say I don't believe those stories. I'm not saying they're false but they don't feel believable to me. Could be. Yeah it's

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a distinct possibility but it doesn't feel... And here's the part I'm trying to understand. Why would anybody in the government, any government, local or any other, why would any government official want people to go back to their homes prematurely? Because remember government officials, they're not the ones suffering. Yeah they're the ones who give you mandates. I think I feel like the governmen…

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