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And I offer this following test so that we might all know once and for all. And again I don't care because we're past it. But do masks work? And I have a specific way to test it that I don't know has been tested but maybe you've seen it. It goes like this. In my way of thinking we all know that masks do not stop viruses from spreading. Would you all agree? Everybody on the same page? We do know the masks do not stop the spread. Everybody now we don't know if it slows it down. Some say yes some say no. But we do know it didn't really show up in the high level numbers, right? There's nobody who used masks and just masks and you know got rid of the virus. So I think you're all on the same page that especially the regular masks — no let's not talk about N95s. We're talking about the public regular masks. We all agree that regular masks allow virus to spread and you can get it. Okay everybody's on the same page on that.

But number two, this is the part that I always talk about that nobody does, which is I thought we knew that the degree of or the quantity of virus you initially get makes a difference for your survival. Am I right? Now I don't know that that's been debunked. And so my hypothesis is this. If masks worked — and I'm going to put work in quotes because I'm not talking about stopping infection because I don't think you did or at least in a significant way — but in theory you would have a high level of infections just like everybody else if you wore masks but your death rate would be noticeably lower. So if you looked at the ratio of infections to deaths it should be better where there are masks and less good where the masking compliance is less. What do you think?

Now again I'm not telling you the masks worked or didn't work. I'm suggesting a way to study it that I think would be conclusive. And I don't know that that's been studied because we keep conflating do they stop infections with do they work. And they're not the same question. Do you get that? If you say do masks stop infections? No. But that's not the same as do masks work in some functional way that you wish you had one. I don't know the answer to that.

Now to be clear because I've been misinterpreted a number of times I absolutely am against mask mandates and I can't imagine wearing one again myself. So I'm completely against it because the social cost is too high and we didn't see enough of a difference in the top level numbers. So completely against it. But wouldn't you like to know? I mean really now. Southern Cal, South Korea versus California wouldn't work and the reason is that South Korea can't be compared to anybody who didn't have a really good testing. So South Korea's secret was testing they say. You know they would also say the masks worked but really it was probably testing. And then obesity was part of the issue as well, right?

All right. Did I leave anything out? Is there any topic that you wish I had mentioned? And are you glad that as many people got infected as they did in a sense? Because I think the United States is done and other countries are because we had enough natural infection. But the countries that didn't have the natural infection might be in trouble. Although they've got Omicron now so it won't be that big a deal.

Nuclear. Yeah there's nothing new on nuclear. Is there any update on the — yes. Did you see the Rasmussen tweet that the Rasmussen Twitter account and there's some suggestion there might be some suppression going on but I retweeted it this morning so you can see it in either Rasmussen's feed or in my feed. But there is one individual who allegedly — we know his name and address — and he allegedly went to multiple drop boxes and left from multiple nonprofit agencies. So he would be an example of the very thing that *2000 Mules* wants to prove which is that they have the names of somebody who's an actual person who went to multiple boxes. And apparently the allegation is that nobody wants to talk to him. Like the press is completely uninterested. I don't know. I think I'm going to go with I don't believe anything about anything with this story. So I don't believe that we know or that we have any way to know if an election is rigged because we don't do complete audits. It's just not a thing. So if you don't do a complete audit you can't ever know. You can only know you didn't find a problem.

But I also don't believe any accusation now. Do you remember when there