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Back to episode — Episode 2752 CWSA 02/16/25

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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 asbe…

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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 while the government gets one right but no. And the same people are now going to say oh Scott says you should do whatever the government says because their reasoning is so bad that they have to distort what I say to disagree with it. If you actually agreed with what or if you had a reason you'd give a reason but usually oh he's so dumb he just believes whatever he's told. The opposite of the risk management lesson I give you. All right yes my critics are experiencing severe cognitive dissonance. Now you can decide if I'm the one. You can just listen to the video and you would very quickly detect if I had cognitive dissonance because I make a bunch of claims and you can just look at them all. It either fits together or it doesn't. And if you don't think it fits together somebody says my risk management was better than yours. Well not your reasoning. Yeah not your reasoning. Just trying to help.

All right so again nobody cares about the pandemic. It's old news. But it might help you understand how risk management works. For those of you who want to stick around on Locals I'm going to say

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hi to you. The rest of you have a great Sunday. I'll see you tomorrow same time same place but local supporters only. I will be private with you in 30 seconds.

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