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There is a very interesting hypothesis floating around. It's brand new. Do you like your brand new hypotheses? That's why you come here for the brand new hypotheses. You know what the old ones are. So I will not present this with confidence. So there would be some things that you hear first in my Periscopes that might turn out to be kind of important. But there might be other things you hear that…
← Previous segment →Let's see what else we got going on. Boris Johnson apparently is pretty sick with the coronavirus and that is terrible. But it makes me ask this question and maybe in the comments you can tell me. Has there been any celebrity, let's say famous person, so not a celebrity just a famous person, has there been the first famous person to die of the coronavirus? And I'm not saying this for sensationalist reason. There's going to be an actual point to this.
Because I believe there have been relatives of famous people. Am I right? Relatives of famous people and people who had some status but I've never heard of them. In other words somebody had been famous 90 years ago and stuff. And here's the question. How many famous people die every year of regular flu? Of which we now all know there could be you know 50,000, 100,000, 150,000. So does the regular flu kill celebrities every year? Because that's a lot of people.
People are saying Joe Diffie and I think, oh Joe Diffie the country singer does he die? Bill Withers, celebrity, he died. Okay so now we still have the problem of if they had died of the regular flu would it be reported as they died of the flu? Probably not right? And if they had died of something just because it was time to die but they also had a little coronavirus in them they would be reported as dying of the coronavirus.
So here's just a question. I'm not even sure I can make a point out of this yet. I see the name John Prine go by but I don't know. Ellis Marsalis, yeah his father right. So there were some relatives and stuff. But keep an eye on this. If it turns out that you keep hearing of celebrities dying from this but we never hear of celebrities dying from the regular flu even though we know that the regular flu, if you were just compare the beginning of this one to a full flu that's going a full season, the full flu would have a much higher body count in its fullness than we have seen in this early stage of this one. So it's just something to keep an eye on.
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All right. Apparently analysts at UBS say that the bookings for cruises next year, what do you guess is the booking rate for cruises next year? So cruise ships of course are scarier because everybody's afraid to get the coronavirus on a cruise ship. But what do you think the bookings look like for 2021? Way up or way down? Turns out they're up sharply. They're up 9 percent compared to last year. S…
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