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ruled experts, medical, financial, legal. All right, so I don't know how to say this without sounding like a douchebag, so I'm just going to do it anyway. It's an emergency, so you don't mind me sounding like a douchebag for now. Forgive me in advance. I operated at a pretty high level of business because I have to. The Dilbert Enterprise is a pretty big operation, and it has been, and so I make…
← Previous segment →take the lead even if you don't ask them. They just take the lead. So the best people on earth working as hard as they can to a presidential deadline, even if that deadline is not based on what the experts are telling him it should be, and it probably won't be, watch how those experts work to the deadline. You're gonna be amazed. Are you gonna be amazed?
So here are some things that we could do if we're gonna phase in the back to work. And this just to give you a flavor of that. I can't say I either thought too hard about it, but here are the different risk factors. So you can imagine some kind of phased approach in which we take into consideration that we don't have the same risk profile. Now everything kind of depends on the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin zinc combination being effective, as this one doctor with his one study, let's not call it a study, let's call it his experience, it's anecdotal. If that bears out, and we're seeing good evidence that it might, then we've got a pretty good plan.
It looks like this. People who do not have any kind of an income, they've got to be at the top of the line. All right, now some of them won't have the kind of jobs that they can go back to. Some of them have an underlying health problem, and we just got to give them money to get by. And so that's what the government is working on. Oh there will be swearing. There will be cursing. It's coming.
But there are other people such as myself, such as there might be seniors who have Social Security but they have a part-time job. And you can imagine saying okay, if you have some income you know you can at least get a check and buy some groceries. Maybe you're not the top priority. But this isn't the only factor you want to look at. People who could potentially isolate, maybe they drive to work in their car that nobody else ever gets into. They can keep a social distance depending on the kind of job. So the kind of job and whether you can isolate, it's got to be important.
If you're unhealthy you've got a better chance of not dying. If you're already recovered and tests have proven that you have it and you're done, I'm still not the expert on immunity but I have to think it gives you a better chance. Now I think we don't know enough about how much or what kind of immunity. We'll let the experts decide on that. I'm just putting it up here as the things that will be looked at.
Hospital capacity has to be important. Let's say
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you open up in a certain location and their hospital hasn't been impacted yet. Well maybe you can experiment a little bit there. Maybe you can be a little bit looser in a place that still has plenty of hospital capacity and a little bit tighter where it doesn't. It looks like outdoors is way safer than indoors. There's a body of evidence that's coming together from past pandemics as well as this…
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