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So meanwhile Dr. Burke is up laughing about that for a while. Stock market is up. So here's a question that I haven't heard anybody ask. It looks like there are three or four therapeutics for the coronavirus that look promising and I haven't heard anybody ask if we can take them all at the same time. Because I have to admit so far I'm a little bit underwhelmed by the early information we have abou…

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You've heard a lot of updates about testing and it's probably very confusing to you. And so I did the work of researching it. So I've dug down. I learned everything there is to know about testing, all the various kinds of different sciences, the kits, where they're made, the swabs, the shortages. I've summarized this for you as: testing is all bullshit. Everything you've ever been told about testing is probably just as far as I can tell — because there's certainly nothing happening, there's any correlation to what you're hearing. So as far as I can tell it's all been bullshit from the start and I don't see any reason that that will change now. Eventually it'll change but I think we're talking months. Everything suggests that that will be months. So I don't think testing was going to be the magic bullet because it's just not going to be fast enough.

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There's a new story. This is like a classic CNN story as you judge whether it's true. So apparently the president was shouting at his campaign manager Brad Parscale. You know he was on the phone and aides were in the room and I guess somebody leaked it. And he was shouting and he was shifting the blame to Parscale for the lower poll numbers he's getting recently. And reportedly Trump berated Parsc…

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