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ety is doing anything but collapsing. It's evolving, and it hurts, but you know, sometimes the growth does, right? Sometimes it's hard to do the thing you need to do. But society is not collapsing. Society is evolving and is hardening and it's getting smarter and it's getting more connected. What you don't notice is that you don't notice that, but I'll talk about that. So first of all, your food…
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So food, don't worry about it. And I would say the same with paper goods and stuff. There's just some temporary craziness, but the pipeline has plenty of paper. You know, nobody stopped cutting down trees as far as the mills.
You should be aware that in this time of great uncertainty, etc., and when the news is, you know, we're in this continuous fog of our situation, you should expect a lot of disinformation. Some of it will be just dumb people saying dumb stuff. That's bad enough. But you should expect that countries which do not love us are going to be spreading some disinformation, and there's reason to believe we've already seen it.
So there's a rumor going around that the government has already talked about or decided to do some kind of martial law situation with a total lockdown where you can't leave your house. That's not true, but apparently people are getting texts, strings of text messages about it. So here's my suggestion: don't believe anything you hear from an anonymous source during this situation. It's true all the time. You should never believe it from an anonymous source. But just know that we're in a situation where we're perceived to be vulnerable by our enemies, and if they're on their game, they should be seeding us with bad terror stories so that our civilization will be destroyed. So just don't b
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elieve anything on its face value that looks like it's coming from some unknown source about somebody who talked to somebody. So that's a caution, which is really important. I saw some photos that Disneyland was packed this weekend. Is that real? Because again, fake news is going to be so prevalent now that you just have to distrust every photograph, every tweet. I'm also seeing tweets from what…
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