Recent debate swirling over the pandemic has many confused. New discoveries, scientists at odds, Governors abusing power, economic distress and the escalating use of COVID as a political weapon – what is going on here? Brad Johnson, retired Senior CIA Operative and President for Intelligence Reform, applies his experience in an analysis of current events.
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Brad Johnson it is May 24 of 2020 and we
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are all being so brutally fire-hosed by
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so much information contradictory
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information on the whole Kovach thing
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and for that matter the hydroxyl
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chloroquine issue which has become
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entirely political and not medical it
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seems to me anyway that the only thing
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it looks like is you can know
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definitively is that the initial model
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which led to all of these policies was
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grotesquely wrong by three orders of
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magnitude and they haven’t changed those
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policies in the wake of real data this
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looks more like a threat to freedom than
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a medical safety issue what do you think
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at this point excuse me yeah it’s this
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weird conglomeration of all of these
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things that you’ve kind of mentioned and
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just kind of to lay out some of the
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background on these things and kind of
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what’s going on and what I find
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interesting and kind of bring to bear
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based on my background and intelligence
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and overseas information those sorts of
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things but just for example I mean the
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the two main people that are out there
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that have been speaking about this that
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are supposed to be representing the US
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government are the scarf lady and doctor
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pouchy and it was interesting that they
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were both speaking with National
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Institute of Health NIH well you know
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maybe ten days ago two weeks ago
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something along those lines now and the
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scarf lady was speaking to him earlier
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in the morning and made some comment to
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the effect of your guys’s numbers are
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off by about 25% she said they’re too
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high you’re you’re overestimating
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overstating the number of people that
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have been killed by a coma in nineteen
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by about 25% then bizarre later that
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afternoon doctor foul she’s talking to
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those same guys and these are public
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discussions going on so there’s records
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of all of this
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doctor foul she says he agrees you know
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you guys are off by 25% but he disagrees
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in which direction he says you’re under
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estimating the number of people that are
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actually killed by 25%
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so even between the two top experts that
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we’re supposed to have they’re in
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disagreement by
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50% of how many deaths are actually
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supposed to be out there related to Cove
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in nineteen so we all agree on one thing
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the information that we’re getting isn’t
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right and you although would be lied to
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by China the problem is that here and I
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would say this this is a shared problem
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that we have in the United States and
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Canada and the EU and that is is
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precisely what you just stated that this
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has become so political that you can’t
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trust what you’re told
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we have even there’s even information
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out there that Bill Gates and dr. pouchy
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somehow are connected through ownership
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of some of these medicines for that our
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treatment out there and one of the
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reasons they’re pushing for this so much
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is that they’re going to benefit
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financially from it now I don’t know if
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that’s true but there’s that information
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out there that’s been talked about by a
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lot of people in the blogosphere can it
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not my area so I haven’t really tried to
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delve into it but it is an interesting
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line of thought in questioning and on
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the other hand you have a lot of people
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that are clearly trying to take
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advantage of it politically so you have
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this full range of people that are maybe
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just some are just trying to honestly do
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what they think is best and have a hard
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time deciding based on their just
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scattered information it’s out there I
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would put President Donald Trump in that
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category he’s trying to do what’s best
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doing the best he can and he’s got a lot
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of conflicting stories and conflicting
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information and you know and you’ve got
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people at the other end like the
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governor of New York and the governor of
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Virginia for example that are really
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politically motivated and how they’re
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handing all of this and you’ve got a few
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Democratic governors like in Michigan
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those people clearly politically
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motivated and what they want to do is
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keep everything under check as long as
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they can to damage the economy as much
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as they can because they hate Trump so
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for them their priority is get Trump
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versus protect the people and in
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Virginia for example something we’ve
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talked about before the governor here
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one of his big Bugaboos has been guns
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he’s very anti Second Amendment and
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doesn’t care what the Constitution says
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doesn’t care about any of that and what
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he’s done is used Co mid-nineteen to
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target guns ad Cuomo in New York I mean
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I’m not sure that guy may end up getting
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charged with manslaughter out of this we
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just saw it was a fairly big news item
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here in the United States
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Janice Dean who’s the weather woman the
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meteorologist on Fox News in the
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mornings I don’t know if she’s on all
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day or what but she’s in on at least in
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the mornings her parents were in one of
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the senior homes and for older people in
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New York and those are one of the places
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where Governor Cuomo forced them to take
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Kovac patients and all of those places
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resisted greatly and they were at public
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with this this was all over the news
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saying we can’t handle it we’re not set
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up for it we can’t protect our senior
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citizens that are here we cannot do it
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the governor said don’t care what you
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think or want you’re doing it anyway so
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he forced those people in there were
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most of the people that have died the
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the largest center of people dying out
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of kovat in New York are out of those
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places and so I mean there’s direct
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cause and effect of his decisions killed
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those people which seems to me to be
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fairly good definition of manslaughter I
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mean and he did it knowing there was
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risk because all of these instance they
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the places where the old people were
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being kept that were forced to take the
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coated patients all said so publicly so
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I mean I don’t remember it so and I’m
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not you know I’m not that close to New
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York so the governor can’t you know say
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oh gee I even didn’t know so I
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he’s got some problems coming out of
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this politically but you can see his
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daily briefings and all of us were
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designed to you know bring publicity to
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himself and if you look at how he
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handled everything I think was clearly
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grandstanding whereas you have other
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people like the governor of Florida
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who’s actually done a good job and if
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you look at sort of what is the the
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disparity between a Republican and a
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Democrat on there
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I love it and I think there’s a clear
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pattern of Democrats taking advantage of
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it to damage the economy economy to
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attack Trump and I think you have the
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Republicans who are under that political
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pressure to do something for their party
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and our sis just trying to do the right
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thing so de Santos basically opened up a
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lot of stuff including beaches in
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Florida and one of the things that
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nobody but nobody talks about and
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probably everyone who watches this video
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will learn something right now and that
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is that a virus is not a living entity
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it’s not like a germ that if you put it
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on the right places it grows and spreads
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and procreates and creates new baby
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little germs that rub and create more
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baby little germs and it it goes out and
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out and on and on and just grows and
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grows and grows a virus is basically
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chemistry that takes place not a living
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entity so if you have the Canadian virus
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or a virus out there someplace that’s a
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chemistry thing and so if UV rays hit it
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it it damages it it does it it destroys
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it
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I wouldn’t say kills it because that’s
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what everybody out there in the press is
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saying they say oh you got to do this to
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kill it you under that to kill it well
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it’s not a living thing it cannot
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recreate itself by itself and it’s just
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it’s just not a living thing it requires
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host cells and it invades and changes
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those host cells and those host cells
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then are duplicating themselves and
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through that means the virus is spread
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because once that that virus invades
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those cells those cells are the ones
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that are doing all of the procreation
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and spreading of the virus to put it
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back out there and that’s why people
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when they cough that that puts that
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virus back out into the environment and
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but it’s not a living thing it’s not so
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one of the very best things one of the
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quickest ways to damage it is to be out
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in UV rays to be outside and yet what
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are all the recommendations in New York
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stay inside and it’ll hide in place and
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for example these masks too in
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Eastern Europe in the places like I said
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now politically here in the EU Canada in
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the United States it’s clearly all
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political so we just don’t know we’re
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not getting the facts laid out there
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bare bones for us to just look at as a
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as a people in Eastern Europe they don’t
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have that axe to grind so you don’t see
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those maneuverings going on so for
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example guidelines there are don’t wear
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those masks more than two hours because
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what does that do it stops the UV rays
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to heating you and so it creates an
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environment for that virus to continue
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undamaged or undestroyed that’s that’s
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that what they’re suggesting out there
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and let me just take a little snapshot
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example Serbia now this is again as I
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say I followed a lot of news they have a
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lot of English news reporting all over
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the world but many many countries have
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English newspapers and things where you
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can kind of follow what’s going on even
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outside of the general in
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english-speaking countries in Serbia for
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example they have not had a single new
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case for 11 days and look at their
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policies are in line with what was done
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in Florida and for example now most a
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lot of stuff is open now they’ve had
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some social distancing and they do all
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that but it’s like get outside when you
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can in the Sun because ultraviolet rays
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destroy the cove at 19:00 virus and so
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they encourage that sort of thing so if
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you’re out of the beach and there’s any
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space between you it only takes seconds
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for the UV rays to damaging and destroy
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coating 19 so one of the safest places
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to be is outside on the beach and so
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we’ve seen places like Florida that
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never really got hit that hard and New
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York would stay inside and shelter where
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you’re under perfect circumstances
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there’s no UV rate not as many UV rays
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that can get inside
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so those things continue to exist and
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those masks that you put on if you’re
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wearing them for more than two hours
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that’s the perfect spot to maintain Cove
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in 19 as viable
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whereas if you had it off you’d actually
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be safer after a period of time now yes
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it contains somebody you know from
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coughing but if that person were to go
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outside the first thing they need to do
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is take that mask off throw it away and
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then
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go back inside someplace put it back on
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but that’s not what anybody’s saying and
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in the hospitals and stuff those gloves
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they they all know that so those they
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take off after every time they use it
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we’ve all seen doctors after they see
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one patient they take off those clothes
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and throw them away why well one of the
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reasons is there’s always been viruses
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and they know that those will stay on
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those plastic gloves perfectly well so
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they take them off and throw them away
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to get them out of the way now as far as
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I can tell
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99% of everything I see around me with
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masks and gloves is pure medical theater
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I agree but I wouldn’t say it’s medical
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theater I would say it’s political
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theater
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they’re doing that because one of the
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best ways to use propaganda is to use it
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as a way to force people to take actions
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in line with your political motives you
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know make them you know clap their hands
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out in public at 10 o’clock or whatever
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it is that you make them do it’s it
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shows that active support for what
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they’re doing and that’s what those max
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masks are and you now see that being
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used the masks and the gloves and things
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like that
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are political in downtown DC which I
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don’t know of that often but in downtown
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DC you now which is very very very
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liberal very leftist you see people
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wandering neighborhoods looking for
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children out playing without a mask and
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they call authorities on so I mean this
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is a political tool being used and being
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used by people against other people and
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being used by politicians to control
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people and to make them fall in line so
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it’s clearly being a a political tool
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one of the other things I want to
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mention for example in Serbia just
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because I was using them as the as an
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example for this you see for example
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what they would do is the those people
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on the older people especially if
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they’ve you know obesity and kidney
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disease and all of these things that
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where there is clear information that
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those are the greatest asks at-risk
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people and those are the ones dying for
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the most part in any large numbers those
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are the target audience if you will of
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this virus those guys have been given
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special hours at night so the grocery
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stores are all open for example in the
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pharmacies and all these things are all
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up
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the general public can go there during
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the day is normal but it’s the 65 and up
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crowd at 1 a.m. for 3 or 4 hours or 2
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hours whatever it is I’m not sure but
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for multiple hour period those people
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who are generally speaking the retired
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crowd that’s all open only for them to
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keep them separate from the general
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population and as I said they’re down
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where there’s been not a single new case
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in that entire country for 11 days now
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and it’s just working you know that’s
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what works and yet that’s what’s you
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know being discouraged here in the
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United States and the EU and Canada for
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political motives and it just goes to
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show it’s one of the things I say quite
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often you cannot trust leftist socialist
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the Liberals in the United States but
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the leftist socialists in any of these
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countries on national security issues or
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economic issues because that is not
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their view of the world they don’t make
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economic decisions based on economic
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factors they make economic decisions
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based on political factors they make
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national security decisions based on
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political factors not national security
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factors so they cannot be trusted and
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should never be in these positions of
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authority for exactly the reasons we’re
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seeing now one other thing too one of
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the big deals was that President Trump
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has been taking this chloroquine
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medicine which is is a malaria pill and
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all the people the next day on the press
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here the United States I mean the the
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the left-wing media CNN ABC MSNBC those
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guys they’re all out there saying oh
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this is crazy this is a death wish that
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can kill him they even went so far to
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say he’s lying to us because of this
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it’s not even true that he’s taking him
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because it would kill him immediately so
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therefore he’s lying
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so they were going I would just like I
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would just like to mention that if all
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of the left-wing press and all of these
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leftist anti Trump people if they really
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believed that chloroquine was bad and
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was lethal they’d be thrilled Trump was
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– yeah that’s a good point a very solid
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point yeah very true
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well one final thing on that
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to say I mean this medicine is not new
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it’s been around for decades and decades
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I have many times taking this pill
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personally it is standard-issue stuff
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for all of the federal government if you
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travel to areas where malaria is
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prevalent and I’ve taken it many times I
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never kept track because it was just so
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standard SOP to take this stuff but
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everybody in State Department military
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CIA FBI
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it doesn’t matter whoever they are if
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they were even traveling for a short
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period of time to these countries are
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going to stay PCs for a full tour they
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were issued that medicine to take and
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you had to state start taking it I I’ve
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kind of forgotten like I said that I you
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know it was one of those things I didn’t
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pay any attention to you know go you go
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get your yellow fever shot updated and
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you’re all these shots that you have to
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go to these countries you get them
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updated and one of the things is you
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were issued this medicine so I don’t
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really remember but something like a
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week or two before you go before you
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travel to X country you had to start
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taking those pills and there was periods
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of time where you had to take him daily
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and then it got better and you would
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take in weekly and things like that so
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they’ve evolved and improved these
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medicines but I’ve been on it lots of
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times I know maybe a dozen times in my
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life I’ve been on that medicine and I
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know hundreds of people if not thousands
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that have been on this medicine as well
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because like I said standard-issue stuff
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everybody takes it it’s been and it’s
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been for decades and I’m not talking 20
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years it’s 49 oh 40 years something
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along those lines where people have been
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taking this stuff and nobody’s been
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dropping over dead out of all those
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people I know nobody ever had any sort
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of side effect or problem I mean it and
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just you know granted it’s anecdotal but
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over you know there’s hundreds maybe
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thousands of people that I know and have
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not on one of them have I ever heard of
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anybody having a problem and it was all
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the doctor said no no you’ve got to take
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this so you know I just don’t understand
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how we’ve led in our society this sort
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of wacky craziness come out of the media
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that’s just black and white lies and
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they criticized Trump for line and
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therefore you know what comes out of the
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the the south end of a northbound bow on
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this stuff and and yet they get away
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with it it’s just wacky just add one
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data point to your earlier thesis the
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Canadian province of New Brunswick has
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enjoyed zero deaths from Kovac 19 and
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was through just two methods one was
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early lockdown of the province and
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second was early treatment of all cases
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with high drops of chloroquine and zinc
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and they the premiere of that province
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is a small C and capital C conservative
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and just did things rationally and yes
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zero and this is the thing where this is
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actually pure science in France they had
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a very large not a very large study they
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had a relatively small study but it was
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a a couple of score of people perhaps
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something along those lines who had
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coded nineteen were given those precise
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medicines just as you say was done in
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Brunswick and had another percent cure
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rate now that seems like data to me you
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know okay granted I’m not a doctor or
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researcher but when you’re starting 100
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percent cure rate for things you know
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you ought to stay up and pay attention
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but again is there are there elements
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here like doctor
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ouchy and others that are making money
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off of this and so they want the
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treatment to go the way that they want
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not off of this old medicine the
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chloroquine medicine I mean there’s just
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so much out there but clearly the left
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in the United States is anti science
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they say there the pro science people
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but they’re the anti science and I don’t
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care what your politics are you cannot
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look at this and be confused as to who
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is trying to cover up the real science
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and it’s the left and who is trying to
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get to the real side
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and have it published and made public
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for all of us to look at and that’s the
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conservatives so it just it’s black and
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white here that is again I repeat the
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left and the Socialists cannot be
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trusted in positions of responsibility
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and authority anywhere it’s too
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dangerous
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it just gets too many people killed Brad
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Johnson thank you very much for that
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update it is so refreshing to hear
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something which has you know gluten
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solid chunks of reason built into it on
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this issue thank you
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you
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