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the experts do? Just sort of keep a running tally so you know when to be skeptical or not. Let me give you some examples. Who was the first expert who said we should close the airports, the flights from China? Was it the virologist or was it me? It was me. It was me. So I was way before the experts saying we should close flights from China. Right? I mean, you could check that. January 24th. But w…
← Previous segment →nother one. How much DNA testing is being done of the people who have the worst outcomes versus the ones who do not? Is anybody doing that? Which expert is telling you yeah, we better start testing DNA and get ahead of this and find out if there's anything about some people that makes them more susceptible? I'm not aware of any. Are you? Do you think a month from now that nobody will be testing DNA to do exactly what I just said, find out who's most susceptible? I guarantee it. In a month your experts will be saying, hey, I got an idea. Why don't we test for DNA?
Now again this isn't like my original idea. I got this from people who are smarter and work in this field. But you probably heard it from me. Right? So here's my point. Even though I'm not, you know, I'm not the original creator of any of the stuff I told you except, you know, the mask stuff was obvious, I'm not the creator of it. So I'm not the original expert for it. But where are you hearing it from? If your experts have a lot of knowledge but they're not telling you that knowledge or they're telling you the opposite of that knowledge, it doesn't really help you that they have that knowledge. You also need to be communicating it accurately.
So I would say if you're looking at this whole situation and you were being
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even a little bit objective and you said who gave you better information about this medical situation, it would be me. I'm not even a little bit unconfident about that opinion. Right? I think you'd agree. All right. I've come up with an idea that's a little half-baked and maybe somebody can help me with this. You know that my startup created its own crypto token. Lots of people did this in the pa…
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