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ese use of inefficient real estate in a non-free market, wouldn't it make more sense for the government to get out of the way? If the government just said, "How about we don't do anything? We won't have any regulations or rules you have to follow." I mean, I'm exaggerating just to make the point. You'd want some. It just got out of the way. Don't you think the free market would provide more housin…

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So while I'm waiting for your messages to appear because I'm wondering who believes that. How if you did believe that, how would you explain that RFK Jr., who's probably the most famous anti-vaccination person, but that's really not fair. I wouldn't call him anti-vax, but you know what I mean, right? He would be the strongest skeptic. It's not anti because he's in favor of some kind of vaccinations. He's just wants more science. So if RFK Jr. is now in charge of deciding whether the COVID vaccination is going to kill you or not. I mean whether it's safe enough to be available. He seems to at the moment not see enough science to say that people over 60 over 65 I guess who have a comorbidity he doesn't have evidence to say that they would be worse off getting vaccinated.

Now, does that surprise you? Because remember, he would be the one guy who if that evidence existed that everybody over 65 with a comorbidity probably would have been on average would have been better off if they hadn't been vaccinated. If that existed, don't you thi

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nk we'd know about it by now? Because Kennedy would say, "All right, I looked at the science. It's very clear that there is no group that can be benefited by it more than they might be hurt." Wouldn't you know that by now? And so I'm wondering cuz I'm coming from a point of ignorance, not from a point of if it sounds like I'm trying to win an argument here, that's not what's happening. I'm trying…

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