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y before me, way before anybody. And it was probably already saying, hey we better get some supplies in. Hey we better close our borders. So if you're not that person, well then you're an idiot. Because you weren't smart enough, wise enough to know we should have done it sooner. It doesn't help that you know it now. What good is that? What good is it that you know it now that we should have done t…

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ll know to wear them or we'll start to have enough. We'll have beds that we know work and we'll start to use them. We'll have ventilators that we didn't have that now we have. And I think that you'll see, here's my prediction. I think that you're gonna see one of the most amazing human feats of all time. And it's going to happen right in front of you. You know we all get, we're all in the audience for this one, right? Everybody gets to watch how the coronavirus turns out. Nobody's not paying attention.

And we're gonna watch the human species pull together into one, you know, mega creature. You know like a transformer. You know we're a bunch of individuals with something like the government. But when this coronavirus hit, the body human just suddenly formed and connected over the internet and started acting like, you know, it took a while. We're still evolving into this greater creature. But we formed like a whole different species which is whatever is the sum of us all working together. Normally we're not working together so it's not a species. It's like individual cells just doing what they do. But boy when we were threatened we just formed up into a big old, you know, global brain with lots of arms and legs and just started flailing at this virus from every possible direction. Learning what we could, taking casualties, you know, putting field hospitals in there. And we went to war and we're in it right now.

So as my estimate, I don't believe anybody who is responsible will have an estimate that low. Because if your job is to be a scientist and to keep everybody scared so they do the right thing you're gonna use big numbers. And I think I'm okay with that from a persuasion perspective. What you can't do if you're a legitimate scientist or even a politician is you can't say what I just did. You know I can say that because I'm just observing. I don't have an official job. And so I can say yeah I think you're gonna see something akin to a miracle. Not a God miracle but a human miracle where the level of ingenuity will just be, I think, historic. It'll be crazy. You see it already.

All right. Let's see what else we got going on. Those are the main things. Somebody says Styx was one of the first to call out the virus response. Well if he was the first then all of the rest of us have something to answer to. If somebody was before him, well then he's just an idiot just like you are, just like I am. We're all, if we were too late. And I don't think there's anything I'm gonna have less patience for than people on our own team, meaning human beings fighting this virus. If people on the human being team are bayoneting people on their own team during the battle while the battle is raging, I'm gonna go after the bayoneters. And I'm gonna go pretty hard at the critics who imagined that they knew what the right thing was and they knew it on time. If you can't find that first person you're an idiot. So am I.

All right. We continue to watch with great curiosity the stories and or lack of stories about the hydroxychloroquine. It feels like the only news we're getting about that drug that's being trialed al

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ong with azithromycin, the news we're getting seems to be from sketchy sources and foreign studies and, you know, a doctor who just says I tried it once, a patient who tried it and it seems to have worked. But it's not a scientific study. So it's beginning to be obvious to me that there's, I won't call it a cover-up. Oh okay, I'll call it a cover-up. All right. Let me give you an example. The New…

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