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ong with azithromycin, the news we're getting seems to be from sketchy sources and foreign studies and, you know, a doctor who just says I tried it once, a patient who tried it and it seems to have worked. But it's not a scientific study. So it's beginning to be obvious to me that there's, I won't call it a cover-up. Oh okay, I'll call it a cover-up. All right. Let me give you an example. The New…
← Previous segment →You know this is as bad as the government telling you that masks don't work even a little bit. And you just look at it and you say well that's not just a lie. That's a lie like you think I'm really stupid. That's the sort of, what do you think of me that you would tell me the fabric doesn't slow down air and you would expect me to believe it? Well like how dumb do you think I am? And then you see a feature story about Germany without mentioning this drug positively or negatively. And I look at that and I go like how dumb do you think I am? How dumb do you think I am that I would believe that's anything like news? That is just propaganda or something. I don't know. It looks like the government have probably ordered them not to report on that is my guess. Or they voluntarily decided to because, you know, they may be part of reducing the hoarding of it. Maybe that's good.
All right. Here's some bad thinking I've been seeing. People have been saying to me why is it that you don't see any celebrities and or athletes dying? And of course the conspiracy thinking is well they must be getting the good drugs, you know, because they're not dying. Well maybe. But how about there's a more likely explanation. The more likely explanation is that your celebrities and athletes are all in really good shape. And the one thing we know is that if you're youngish and or you're in good shape you do better. Now Tom Hanks is I think right around my age. Yes. But he's clearly in better shape than other 60 year olds, wouldn't you agree? I mean you just look at Tom Hanks you say okay he works out, you know, he watches what he eats. It's pretty obvious. So he's not the kind you'd expect to have a bad outcome. Now on top of that they also probably got the hydroxychloroquine and the best possible treatment. But you know especially if you see like an NBA player and he doesn't die, well there's a reason for that. He's an NBA player. He's an elite athlete. His body is a sports car. Of course he can beat a virus. So it doesn't mean that there's some kind of special treatment although that probably is. It just could be that they're healthier and younger and they take better care of themselves. And they haven't been, that many, and 80 percent of people get over it anyway. And so far none of the celebrities have been, you know, obese and elderly. So maybe there's very low death rate.
Somebody in the comments says that Japanese girls have cute feet. Thank you for noting that. I think that fit the topic perfectly. Trump's body motto is money over morals. Like you know those are like the lowest level of political comment. Yeah, a person who with no profile picture comes in, Trump has an inner thought that he likes money more than humanity. It's like, you did you animate a fish? I mean what kind of brain does it take to think well this is, I think this can add to the public discourse. I'll just pretend I can hallucinate what a stranger is thinking. That should be good.
People are noting that Tom Hanks has diabetes. Yeah, you know you've heard that diabetes is a risk factor. But I'm just gonna put this out there as a hypothesis. The people who have diabetes tend not to look like Tom Hanks. I'm all right. Now I don't know percentage-wise how many are, you know, still can maintain their weight and be healthy and also have diabetes. But I've known a lot of people with diabetes. They don't look like Tom Hanks if you know what I'm talking about, right? People with diabetes have a tough time generally keeping their weight down. They tend to have other issues that compound. You know you get the diabetes and it's one thing after another. So you know if you're on top of it as successfully as I'm guessing somebody like Tom Hanks would be, meaning keeping yourself healthy in general etc., it's probably not the same risk as somebody who's 400 pounds and has diabetes.
All right. Let's see what else people are saying. Harvey Weinstein is in trouble though. Yeah, you know you c
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an't believe anything about any Harvey Weinstein stories. Who knows what's happening in there. But certainly he would be the target for that virus. Are you working out more often now that you stopped going to the gym? The answer is yes. Well you know I always worked out every day that I could and I'm still doing that. But I think I'm working out better. So what I changed was it wouldn't be unusua…
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