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situation. Can the numbers we see for confirmed cases be taken seriously? I don't know what seriously means but you've got to take all of the numbers you're seeing, every estimate, every ratio, every raw number. You just really have to be skeptical of it all and I don't see that changing. There's been a steady drumbeat of outrage at the restaurant minister in Florida. I don't know that story. Wa…

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mmunications and little stuff.

Will the next two weeks be as bad as Trump suggests? Well again doesn't it really depend if this hydroxychloroquine works? Because if they started giving it to people I guess three days ago and I don't know what percentage of people are getting it and then at what phase of their symptoms but if we started going a little bit more aggressively on that the next two weeks could be worse than we're seeing but maybe not a catastrophe. Maybe not. So there's I would say there's a solid 50% chance that there's, well there's no chance that the next two weeks will be good. You can rule that out. So there's no chance that you know just nobody dies but the odds of it being a you know the nightmare scenario I think no more than 50/50. And you know I told you I'm betting on the low side.

Why did you block Larry? This liberal he loves you and it's good fun in the worst of times. Larry was DMing me multiple times per day his tweets you know so that I would see them and retweet them. And I don't mind retweeting stuff but I don't like people sending me multiple tweets a day asking me to retweet stuff. So it was only because it was causing me work. So it was nothing personal. He's very funny.

All right do you see home values falling due to job loss? Yes of course yeah home values will fall. There's no doubt about that.

How should virus prediction modeling been presented? Well I think I talked about that.

Should we send billions to Israel every year when we have thousands of homeless here? You know the whole Israel question that's not a fair question. You know the money you spend on one thing isn't the money that you would have spent on another thing. It just sort of doesn't work that way. So the first part is the question is not fair. You should say should we spend any money on Israel yes or no just by itself. You don't say and we could have used that money to keep somebody alive. That doesn't work that way because you could have borrowed money to keep that other person alive if that was a priority. But to answer your question my understanding is we give them foreign aid which we force them to use to buy our military stuff. So really it's like we're giving it to our own military-industrial complex. It only seems like we're giving it to Israel.

Pros Emma says do you love trans women? Yes I do. I love all people.

Dave said should we boycott AT&T for supporting their fake news companies CNN? I'm not the boycott guy. I just you know I get why people get mad. They want to boycott but I just don't think that's, it's not the way I'd go for anything.

Flower Child 99 says what do you think of Dr. Shiva's take on the virus? He thinks Fauci's in bed with big pharma so to speak pushing vaccines over boosting our natural immune health and testing of vitamin D which should be done regularly but isn't. Well I don't know how I could weigh in on a medical question but I will say that if it's a question of things which have passed scientific muster we should look at them and if it's something that hasn't then Dr. Fauci's on strong ground. And I don't know if vitamin D has been looked at so I can't give you a good answer on it.

Talk about the infrastructure bill. You think it will really happen? You know if we were a rational species in a rational time it would happen because I don't think there's anybody on the left or the right who doesn't recognize that it's just sort of a good idea. If ever you were gonna do an infrastructure bill do it now. Couldn't be a better time because of the economic stimulus and the fact that we need it and the fact that at the moment people are willing to work together. Basically every single condition

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you would want we have. So if you can't get it done now you know when can you get it done? So but I am skeptical that you know we could create a lot of jobs that way but it might make people feel like things are going in the right direction. Yeah that whole shovel-ready thing that never seems real to me. Simulation question. Do other people exist in your simulation or are they just simulated pers…

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