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e? Well it doesn't seem to come with data so I think I'd have to see the data because cancer is the number one or number two killer so and I think I saw a number that half of all people get cancer. Have you ever heard that? That half of adults will get cancer. Now a lot of it is treatable so they're not necessarily dying from it but half of them would get cancer. So if half of people normally get…

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t so I'm not making that claim. I'm not your doctor don't take my word for anything. It is true that there are an increasing number of anecdotal claims of somebody who was in stage four stage five had tried all the regular things none of them worked went on ivermectin or there's another one like it has some other name that's similar to it and there are anecdotal cases of people who are still around who shouldn't be around. So wouldn't that be the weirdest most perfect simulation that ivermectin of all the things in the world of all the things how could it be possible that that might be the solution to the extra or even any cancers? That would be weird. But since you live in some kind of a weird simulation obviously maybe you know one of the things that makes me think I live in a simulation is that I see people who appear to be living a purchased experience. If you look at Trump's life doesn't he look like the life that somebody signed up and they paid a lot of money to experience what

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it would be like to be Trump for eighty years or however long he lives? And Elon Musk doesn't Elon Musk's life look like literally an adventure he signed up for? All right here's your adventure. You're going to be the richest man on earth. You're going to build electric cars batteries. You're going to be helping the president. Yeah you'll be hanging out with the president pretty much every day. He…

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