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've got to shove it down the throats of the other people even if it's not their perfect solution. There's no other way to do it. So if you think he's being a dictator and blah blah blah well no more than Jamie Dimon. Somebody's got to be in charge and somebody's got to say this process can work. This other process where you've got 14 people deciding what works, that can never work. That can never…

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t always then I guess you wouldn't need to know anything else. You just say oh who's saying it? Oh the government's saying it. Okay well I'm not going to do that.

But then I thought to myself how many things are there that the government says you should do that are good ideas? Are there any? I see you saying seat belts and smallpox. Well doesn't the government say you probably shouldn't have asbestos in your house? They say that right? Are they wrong? Should you put some asbestos in your house? How about the food pyramid? The food pyramid used to be all wrong and maybe it's a little wrong now but would you do the opposite of the food pyramid? Would you eat a bunch of processed foods and sugar foods as much as you wanted because the government says you shouldn't?

So I guess you have to ask yourself what is the — the people who haven't seen my video they still think they know how to do risk management. So I tried to deal with those of you who really don't understand any risk management whatsoever. Those of you who just said the government said it's good for me therefore it's bad. Or related to that Pfizer said it's good for me therefore it's bad. Or we use the word experimental. They said it's experimental and therefore why would I take an experimental? Those are not reasons. If you thought that that was good risk management that you're just looking at who said it that doesn't really work. How many of you don't know that that's not really any kind of standard? That's part of reason. That's like reading chicken entrails and trying to predict the future. That's like a horoscope. It's like flipping a coin. That it's not part of the reasoning. It's not part of reason. It's just irrational. But sometimes irrational reasons can get you to the right answer. If it's a coin flip if there are only two possibilities it's good for you or it's not then any method you use is likely to have a 50% chance of working. All right I'm going to pray to the sun gods. Well you had a 50/50 chance of getting the right answer no matter how ridiculous your reasoning was to get there.

So here's what's happened. I've just got tired of stupid people. So the stupid people who are giving me stupid reasons for why they did or did not get the shot you just have to understand that you're stupid

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and just leave me alone. So if you don't want to listen to my risk analysis just leave me alone because you're not part of any helpful anything. You like to brag that you got one lucky thing right. I'm not going to put up with it anymore. So it's also good to find out who to block. So I blocked all the people who said oh I just listened to the government and did the opposite. Every once in a whil…

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