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ly one saying it I'm pretty sure. Now that doesn't mean he didn't come up with the idea on his own because it's sort of obvious. I mean it's the question you would ask. And by the way one of the reasons I could never be president is because I could never survive the brainstorming conversations taken out of context. Because I would do exactly what Trump is getting in trouble for all the time. I th…
← Previous segment →dditional boosters. I got the first one because that was part of the first set but I didn't get any additional boosters. Don't plan to. So I determined that the reason that people think that I was pro mask and pro vaccine is one tweet. Because when I challenge people that why they think my view was the opposite of what it was they produced one tweet. And the tweet was this. It was after I got vaccinated. I said that if you're vaccinated — no I said if you're not vaccinated you're in a pandemic and if you are vaccinated it's just Tuesday. And apparently people interpreted that as a pro-vaccination stand. Was it?
Let me say it again. So the tweet was if you're unvaccinated you're in a pandemic and if you're vaccinated it's just Tuesday. Is that pro-vaccine? What do you think? I'm seeing guesses. Some knows but I think I primed you too much for that. I think yes would be a reasonable answer but it wasn't what I was thinking.
So do you enjoy it when I admit I was wrong? Anybody? Does anybody enjoy it when I confess completely that I was wrong? You like it right? So the tweet didn't say what I hoped it didn't. It didn't communicate what I hoped it would communicate and therefore it was a very bad tweet. So that's on me. So I'm going to say that the public's interpretation of my opinion was polluted by me. So I did that myself.
Let me tell you what the tweet was supposed to say. It was supposed to say how I felt. That's it. And I assumed other people felt the same. So what I really meant was the day that I got vaccinated — and remember this was before things picked up and we went back to some masking. So the masks were off and then once I got vaccinated there wasn't anything else I had to do. So I could fly and I didn't have to wear a mask. So for me I no longer had to think about the pandemic because I didn't have to put on a mask and I didn't have any restrictions of where I traveled. So for me it was over. But that's not a statement about the vaccination. That's a statement about I don't have to do anything about the pandemic anymore. This doesn't need to be part of my mental process right now.
You can see how I came up with the tweet right? Does everybody agree that the tweet was a mistake? You see that right? Because we were in such a partisan situation that what I was blind to — and this is completely my mistake so I'm not trying to hedge this at all. I'm taking full responsibility — in the context of people taking sides that tweet was very poor because it looked like I was taking sides. Now I wasn't telling you what to do. I was just telling you hey I'll bet a lot of people feel like I do. Once you do this you're done.
Somebody says stop apologizing. You stop apologizing. Did that sound like an apology? That was a statement of clarification. Stop apologizing. You really just —
All right. That ladies and gentlemen consult your physician. Somebody says yes. If you're really sorry you look at Peter McCullough in all caps. Eddie says how many of you think that I need to go read the warnings of the rogue doctors? I'm watching the stats and those rogue doctors will be proven right or wrong. And if they're right I'll definitely be talking about that. But do you believe that the rogue doctors have been proven right? Do you think that the current data at least that's publicly available, do you think that the rogue doctors have been proven right? I'm seeing not yet. Not yet right. Somebody says not yet. Not yet. That's interesting. I thought a lot of you would say yes. I'm not getting the answers I expected.
So it's funny on there. There's definitely a difference between the Locals platform audience and YouTube. The Locals platform audience are far more likely to be analytically correct and it's not an accident because it's people who largely followed me on that platform because they like the analytic
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al part. Like how to look at it you know. Not my opinion of what's true or not but how to look at it. That's what they tend to like which is a good thing to like. All right. Somebody says Locals is an echo chamber. Well you know that has more to do with the business model. It's meant to be a community of people built around a certain set of ideas. So yeah I mean calling it an echo chamber is sort…
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