to believe it would have none. Even if the only thing it did is affect somehow the way we acted because you know that you're drawn toward things you think about a lot. Your behavior is attracted to whatever you're thinking about the most just somewhat automatically and subconsciously.

So could we just think our way into problems? I don't know. But I'd like to at least give consideration to thinking our way out of it instead. And maybe focus a little more on February 1 being over now. You see the real power of that? What happens when everybody says February 1 is the day we stop, or at least with mandates in the United States? Could it have the opposite effect? Could it have an effect that doesn't seem to be directly related to the public rising up? In other words could the virus just burn out as if by magic because everybody was focusing on the same time to make it burn out?

I don't know but I'll tell you that I have this one observation. There's no scientific backing right so this is not science but maybe you could compare it to your own situation. I find that the more clearly I can visualize something potentially happening the more likely it'll happen in my actual life. If I can see it as clear as I can see a photograph in front of me sometimes I can, then it just always happens even if it's unlikely.

I use my example all the time of becoming a best-selling author or becoming a cartoonist, you know famous cartoonist, or visiting the White House and talking to a president. These are things which I visualized really specifically and there are other things that I just sort of want but I don't really visualize them and they don't happen. But the things that I think about specifically, oh my god do they happen on a regular basis in a weird way.

So I just want to put it out there that if you all focus on hashtag February 1 for dropping mandates which is similar to saying that the pandemic itself, the crisis has abated, I'm not going to tell you it'll make it happen but if you want to play it safe, if you want to play it safe I'd rather think about stopping it than having it forever.

All right. Here's a bombshell that's gonna scramble your brain. I saw this on a tweet by a Twitter user called Logic. Bombshell reports from Australia. Australia media places the blame for the pandemic on Fauci, in other words the United States. So there's at least one person, I don't know how many more believe this, but talk about a reframe that made my brain hurt as soon as I heard it.

From somebody else's point of view we just spent two years blaming China. We just spent two years blaming China which you know I'm all on board with that because you know I'm no lover of the Chinese government. But at the same time we were slowly learning Fauci's involvement and somehow it never occurred to me, and I would wonder if this is blowing your mind as well, why had it never occurred to me that the United States is responsible for the pandemic?

I'm not saying we are. I'm not saying we are. I'm saying here's the part. I'm only saying why didn't it occur to me until now? Why did that literally not occur to me? I had only thought of it as a Fauci problem. Did the same thing happen to you? Did you think oh there's a Fauci problem? I never once said to myself this is the United States. We unleashed this pandemic by our actions.

Now does China have some culpability? Probably. Probably. I'm not going to let China off the hook. But why did I never once think of it this way? And I'm going to introduce a new phrase for you and this new phrase is going to act like an antivirus. So it's a phrase that if it catches on would act like an antivirus so that the problem I just described which is my own cognitive blindness, which some of you shared, so I was cognitively blind to America's culpability or potential culpability because you know nothing's proven in this world.

And it's because of what I'm going to call a diversion narrative. A diversion narrative. Watch what happens when you start looking for them and you see how many times there's a narrative about what's true that's really designed primarily as a diversion. What would it do to your brain if you found out that the China is to blame narrative was always a diversion narrative? What if someone in the government or someone always knew that this could come around and become a blame America problem because they knew that chain of events from Fauci to funding to Wuhan to maybe a mistake? We don't know for sure.

What if somebody cooked up the diversion narrative to say it was China so that we would in America be cognitively blind to our own culpability? Have you ever seen anybody cook up a diversion