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e world and the desperation somebody would have actually solved their entire country's problem with ivermectin if it worked. Am I wrong? You don't think that one country somewhere would have totally solved their pandemic? Or how about this: If ivermectin worked as well as the anecdotal reports, you don't think that a hospital would have noticed by now? A hospital that does nothing but COVID patie…

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yourself oh I'll just work less on the first thousand so I'll have enough for the extra thousands of them. Is that the way the FDA decided to manage that?

Now hiring help wouldn't be fast enough. I have to admit that staffing up probably would be hard. They should do that too but probably that wouldn't be a magic bullet. It just feels like it would but it would take a while to staff up. I'm no management expert but here's what I would have done. I would look at those three thousand applications and I would say which ones are the biggest companies that are likely to be able to produce this in volume? Oh there are only three of them. And then I would evaluate those three and I would tell all the other thousands sorry you have to wait because it's a pandemic. We can't be fair about this. We just have to hope we pick some winners. We'll pick the big companies that say they can put the resources together to produce. They've got a track record of producing.

Do you think these three thousand applications were all equal? Do you think that anybody looked at these and said yeah these look all about the same? No, no. There were some that obviously looked better than the others. Obviously this CNN report is complete — they did not have a problem because too many people wanted to make the rapid tests. They didn't do it because they're corrupt. We don't know exactly how. I mean the details are unknown but this is pure corruption and CNN is part of it.

Now when I asked you can you Google which pharma companies advertise on CNN I was looking for Abbott Labs because I don't know if they do but look for it. Is Abbott Labs — do they ever advertise on CNN? I think they do one hundred million a year in advertising maybe more lately. Is any of it on CNN? I don't remember seeing an ad from them so maybe not. We know Pfizer does. We know big pharma does all the time, right? But take a look at that and tell me if CNN is just in on the corruption and is trying to develop a cover story for why Abbott Labs had a monopoly for so long.

All right that's all for now on that topic anyway. Have you listened to Dark Horse podcast with Bret Weinstein and Heather? So Bret Weinstein and I guess one of the evidences he showed about ivermectin working is that when it was widely available in Slovakia they basically crushed the virus. So that was one of the evidences for that. But Andres Backhouse made a sarcastic tweet about that and Twitter b

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anned him because it couldn't tell his parody from his actual opinion. In 2021 you've got to be careful about your parody because people can't tell. I mean they actually legitimately can't tell when you're joking these days because everything is so ridiculous that a joke looks like reality. There's no difference anymore. So Andres got temporarily locked down for making a joke about it. But Slovak…

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