w that's in the way. It's goodbye. It's gone.

I don't believe for a second that Trump was affected by big pharma wanting not to have therapeutics look good. I just don't think for a minute that affected him. If it had been a different president, maybe. Maybe. But I just don't see it affecting Trump. He's the guy who just blows through rules. He doesn't care.

Trump screwed the pharma companies during his presidency in a variety of ways and he did it right in their face. So I don't think he was going to do it because they wanted it. That's for sure.

Here's one of those rules that I'll say a million times because it's so important. You only manage the things you track. This is one of the biggest deals in all of management. In fact there's no such thing as management if you're not tracking. Because otherwise you're just flailing around. You don't know if the things you do are working or not working. It's not management unless you can track. Oh we did this and I got this result so we should do more of it or less of it based on the result.

So at this point the way we track the COVID stuff will determine what we do about it. Let me say that again. You don't decide what to do about it and then figure out how to track it. Ideally I suppose you do it that way. You end up tracking whatever you can track and then whatever it was that you could track works backwards and then that's what you managed. Which is a bad way to do business. You don't want to manage to what you can measure because it's the only thing you can measure.

Now in our case we're reporting — I saw this again. California had 13 deaths yesterday from COVID allegedly. They did not report at the same time how many of the 13 were vaccinated. Don't you want to know that? Like if the public is part of this process and should be — I mean I don't think the government should be making decisions alone. The public opinion and the public feedback is part of the whole process, right? That's the way we run this stuff.

And if the public doesn't get good information or let's say information that they can act on productively, then you're not managing. It's not that you're doing it right or wrong. You're not doing it. Let me say that again. I'm not saying that the government is managing COVID right or wrong. I'm saying they're not managing it. There's no stated strategy and we're not even tracking the right stuff.

Because if you tracked how many people died who were vaccinated versus unvaccinated that would tell you something. If most of the people dying are unvaccinated, why do I care? In terms of living in a free society of course I care about people. It would be individual tragedies of course. But why would I care from a policy perspective if these people had access to the vaccinations, chose not to take them, got the result that you get if things go wrong under that consideration? Why do I care? I'm vaccinated. I had access to it. They had access to it. As long as they have access to vaccinations I need to know how many died vaccinated.

Now Mark Cuban — you all know Mark — tweeted at me. He said, Scott, period. You do realize that if say we got to 90% of people vaccinated that it's likely that around 90% of the hospitalizations and deaths would be vaccinated. But the total number of hospitalizations and deaths would be about 90% lower than had people not been vaxxed. So he said do you realize this?

Yes, yes, yes I realize that. I say it all the time. And that doesn't change the request to have accurate numbers, right? So you all understand that if 100% of people were vaccinated then every person who died from COVID after that point would be a vaccinated person. And you would not conclude from that the vaccinations don't work. You would say thank goodness it was only five people. It could have been thousands, right?

So Mark, your point is good but of course I say this all the time. However if you had all of these numbers you'd be in good shape. If you knew how many were vaccina