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ids. You're gonna have to lie to them. You're gonna have to lie to them and tell them it's a law otherwise there's no chance of compliance. And even then there's not much chance but it would help. So I would like my government to, assuming schools close, to do some kind of an executive order. Obviously there's no such thing as a binding order of this type. It wouldn't really be legally binding bu…

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prepared enough I guess. I mean there is obviously preparation but some deficiency in preparation, testing for example. Now I don't have any tolerance for this anymore. I have no tolerance for blaming the past. I don't have any tolerance for Trump blaming Obama but I also don't have any tolerance for anybody blaming Trump. It's just backwards thinking during an emergency. We only need to focus forward. If you're spending any of your time tweeting or you know blaming the last administration or even blaming what Trump should have done in 2017 as if we knew what to do then it's just wasted time. Please don't waste my time blaming the past. Let's look forward.

There's a weird thing happening that it's terrible to mention but I'm gonna do it anyway. That the Wuhan virus, and I don't need this to be a joke, it's just this weird element of the simulation that we live in that this could ever happen. Our biggest problem had been climate change. It looks like the war on virus is almost designed to solve it. Now I don't think it's designed. I'm not making that claim. I think it's probably natural but it does seem to really help for climate change because it slowed down the whole economy and you know I'm not sure international travel will ever be the same. But there's an even darker side to this. There's a hashtag getting trending. If you haven't heard this, this is dark. This is really dark stuff. Apparently young people who are relatively immune to the Wuhan virus have started a hashtag called boomer remover. Yeah, and you've got to really have a dark sense of humor to laugh at that and I do, happily so, even though it's about removing me because I'm at the tail end of the boomers. You can't ignore the fact that it's weird that young people were blaming a certain generation for climate change and then this virus comes. It totally removes the smog because all the industrial stuff stopped in the most polluted places, you know China in particular, and then it started killing the people that they blame for the problem. Has there ever been a virus more suited, accidentally I think, more s

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uited to solve some other problem? And so the young people are actually so cold that they're saying well you boomers ruined the world for us. Here's a virus that's going to take you out and leave us with your stuff. Maybe not so bad. Wow. Wow. I don't know what to say about that. That's just, it's just mind-boggling. Martha MacCallum on Fox News asked the CMS administrator Seema Verma if there we…

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