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of these people, no matter what you want to say about Fauci, he's going to have his critics, he's going to have his supporters just like everybody, right? But he's super smart and nobody's saying he's not smart. Is it smart for Fauci to downplay it a little bit for now until we have so much of it that everybody can have as much as they want? Because that's where we're at, right? Bears that they'd…

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nd you should look at people's predictions and then see how they did and you should do it for yourself and you should say it publicly. Because if you don't say publicly here's my prediction and then publicly I got it right or publicly I got it wrong, it's too easy to forget the ones you got wrong if you know what I mean if you don't put it out there so other people could remind you.

I would like to remind you that not too many people were saying decouple from China before I was. I wasn't first by any means. You know Gordon Chang and Kyle Bass and those guys have been on it for a long time but I was early and there are going to be a lot more people who are going to be joining that. So if you're keeping score keep that in mind.

All right, isn't LA on lockdown? Well all of California is on lockdown as of yesterday I believe. So lockdown means that we can only leave the house for essential services. So banks, you can do takeout food, you can't go to a restaurant, you can have delivery, you can go to the doctor, you can get your meds. And then anybody who's working on critical infrastructure stuff they can do. So California is locked down.

How many of you, I'd like to see in the comments, I want to see if I've influenced you in this one way. How many of you have added taking a nice walk to your daily routine? And I mean daily, not just something you did once. How many of you have taken seriously going for a long walk every day? It was a little delay in the comments so I'll wait to see but just tell me how many of you are doing it because I could not recommend this more strongly. I've A/B tested at home and the one time I didn't go for my long walk, man I could feel it mentally and physically. I could really feel it.

Yeah Nikki Haley I don't know what that's all about. Doesn't trade encourage good behavior? But apparently it did not. The hope was that trading with China would cause them to be better partners but instead they used it as a weakness to take advantage. So given that that's what we know they will do it makes no sense to follow that plan still. Trump had, yeah and I think you'd have to say that Trump was early on in the China's not necessarily our frien

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d but let's not start a war with them but they're not our friend. I think Trump was early on that. I look at all the comments. They're starting to come in now. I'm very proud of you because there aren't many things you can do during the emergency that you just know it's the right thing to do but taking a long walk every day is definitely the right thing to do. Now if you're going to, somebody's…

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