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keep in mind that the links were links to drive traffic to the news site. Now that would be advertising, we call it in this country, or marketing. It's advertising or marketing when people from somewhere else are encouraged to go to your product. But now that's not going to happen. It's not illegal, but Canada decided to make it non-economic to look at the news that actually happened in the real…

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s compared to the size of the holes in the mask? No, you'll never see that. Because that is not an argument that smart people make or informed people. If you're uninformed, do you think the virus travels on its own? If the virus left your mouth on its own without any water droplet, it would just fall to the ground or be dead because it had no water droplet. It'd be dry. I don't know.

So here's the question I ask you. If you were to measure the amount of COVID on the inside of a mask for somebody who had COVID, let's say they had COVID and didn't know it, if you measure the amount of COVID on the inside of the mask, would there be any? Would you borrow a mask from somebody who had COVID if you knew they had COVID? No.

So some of it's on the mask. But clearly it doesn't seem to make any difference at a population level. And probably the reason that masking doesn't work is that we all violated it at home. Did anybody wear a mask at home even if people came over? Even if you had guests, did you wear masks at home during the pandemic? No. No. Did your kids have play dates at your house and nobody wore masks? Yes. Yes. Many play dates, no masks. Yep. No. Obviously the parents had a choice of being in a masked situation, sending their kids to a maskless situation or not. But nobody seemed to have a problem with it.

In Spain, people wear masks at home during Christmas. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. Yeah, you can require masks all you want, but we're not going to wear them at home. So good luck with that.

And that's the last time I want to talk about masks until, well, the next time I'll talk about it will be when I'm helping to organize the destruction of the first corporation that requires it. All right. I don't want to go after any healthcare organizations because that's just messed up. They got enough problems. You know, they're trying to fight through a tough situation if there is one. I don't want to go after them. And I'd rather go after people who have customers who have options, like Bud Light. You can decide not to shop at Target. But changing your whole healthcare situation, that's more trouble than the protests would be worth.

So the first time there's a public company that requires masks of the customers, at least you've got to close them down. You've got to put them right out of business. And you've got to make it fast and brutal. And you've got to make sure there's no ambiguity about it. Short of that, you deserve masks. If you want to say what would make us deserve to be masked and be slaves to our overlords, well, not fighting it. So if you don't shut down the first corporation, well, you're asking for it.

All right. There's a bunch of news that I'll call the black and white stuff, meaning black people and white people. I'm supposed to get excited about a shooter because there was a racial element

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. I'm not. I'm actually surprised that there isn't more racial violence, aren't you? I'm not recommending it, in case anybody was unclear on that. But given the media landscape, I'm surprised there isn't a lot more. And if there is a lot more, that would be kind of predictable, because the news is turning all the stories into black-white stories. What would be the most obvious outcome of stories…

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