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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 du…
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So yes Mark's point is good and you should all be aware of it. That's why I say it all the time. If everybody's vaccinated then those are the only people dying. It doesn't mean the vaccination doesn't work.
So tell me how many are unvaccinated or don't imagine that I care.
Kira — how do you pronounce K-I-R-A? Kira or Kyra? Anyway sorry I'm mispronouncing your name Kira. But she tweeted I'd frankly also like to see stats for the different vaccines administered. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you like to see that? And why haven't you? Because it does seem like a reasonable question.
I would think that every person who gets hospitalized with COVID should be asked are you vaccinated and which one and how recently. You know those are the things we should be asking. I'm guessing we asked that but is it a federal regulation? It should be. There should be some federal regulation that says you have to ask that and report it.
Now I would say that maybe there was a reason we didn't report that before. Because remember you only get — in terms of managing you only get what you measure. Suppose we had measured that from the start, the differences in vaccination results. What would that have done? Because that's what you're measuring and what you measure causes you to act differently.
I think it would have caused fewer vaccinations in the beginning because there was an availability problem. So if you could get any one of the vaccinations you'd get it. You didn't want people shopping, which is sort of what I was doing. I was kind of shopping. That's why I waited so long. I was waiting to see if any of the vaccinations were duds or if there's any surprises. So I waited as long as I could to get as much information, you know, a few months.
But at this point now that anybody can get a vaccination you could probably shop, couldn't you? Don't you think that maybe you'd get a few more people vaccinated if that was your goal by telling them okay we've got different vaccinations. We did find this one's 5% better. And maybe some people would say oh okay I feel like I know more about the vaccinations so I'll give it a shot. I'll give it a shot.
Dr. Eli David — not a medical doctor but another kind of smart doctor — was tweeting there's a new peer-reviewed paper showing the aerosols play a major role in COVID transmission and fine aerosols constitute 85% of viral load detected. And he says that masks can block droplets not aerosols. So it's time to abolish all non-scientific mask mandates.
To which I say the same things I always said. If you have data from a laboratory experiment — which is what this is I believe — and you also have data from the field, which one do you look at? You got two sets of data. In the laboratory they say huh we're not sure these masks are working. But in the real world they'r
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e working. In other words where there are masks you can measure that there's more of a benefit. Now is any of that data accurate? Who knows? We're in a world where you can't trust anything. You can't trust that the masks work. You can't trust that they don't work. You definitely can't trust a laboratory study. So here's what I would tell you. I would never look at a peer-reviewed — which is diff…
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