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You know, I actually thought it would be a lot worse than it is. But largely because I decided that part of my objective for the lockdown is that I would work on my fitness. And that's been really good. I feel healthier than I think I've felt in years. And it's because I've made my fitness my job. It's one thing to say, well, you know, I've got my priorities and I'm gonna try to work in a little e…

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So anyway, somebody says I missed the stores and restaurants and bars. You know, there's never been anything quite like what we're experiencing. Just nothing like it. Certainly if you lived through 9/11 you saw the country come together as one. But the weird part about that is that by the time we came together, the damage was done. There was still a war that we can debate forever, two wars that we can debate forever. But it wasn't quite this. We've never seen the problem coming toward us. Well, now it's a close quarters fight at this point. But we've never all focused on solving this problem, the entire world simultaneously at once. And no matter how many times I say that, I feel like I need to keep pointing that out because this is one of the most remarkable experiences in humanity.

I mean, there's a nonzero chance that on the other end of this we can turn the next pandemic into two weeks of home vacation. Because think about how much we are learning from this pandemic. Let me really think about it. All the things we've learned. Because a lot of these meds have such high chances of working that even if one of the ones that they're talking about isn't the one, you still got several of them that look pretty promising. And several vaccinations. And we've got detection kits. A year from now our ability to instantly ramp up ventilators and detection kits and set up roadblocks and shut down the public and say, what, two week vacation everybody, send out some checks. We're gonna have a little framework built after this so that the next pandemic, and apparently the experts say you're always gonna get one, the next one could turn out to be a lot closer to the common cold if we're as smart as we can be about detecting and nipping it in the bud. So that's good news.

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I'll tell you one thing that I'm feeling at this point. In the optimistic case, our government and our public can keep our small businesses hanging on. And it's really a case of hanging on. Because I'm pretty committed, and I'm sure there are other people who didn't lose their income during this time. There are a number of people who won't lose their income. And for them they have a lot of pent up…

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