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00:02:42.000And the reason that I'm taking this rather lightly at this point is because I have no evidence that we should be taking this super seriously.
00:02:47.000When I say that, what I mean is, since Delta, I have been of the opinion that you are going to get immunity one of two ways.
00:03:23.000And I'm not that freaked out by a new variant that is more transmissible.
00:03:26.000Again, the reason being, there is no evidence whatsoever that the T-cell and B-cell immunity that has been created by the vaccine and by previous natural immunity Is completely ineffective against the new variant.
00:03:40.000If I'm just worried about people getting infected by a new variant, I'm not that worried because that's been true since Delta.
00:03:46.000So there's been a lot of data out there about the fact that, for example, the Biden administration, under Joe Biden, more people have died in the United States of COVID than died under Trump.
00:03:54.000And using Joe Biden's stupid math, which is the president is always responsible for anything bad that happens, that means that Joe Biden really is solely responsible.
00:04:02.000I don't think Trump was responsible for the deaths last year because no one did great against COVID unless you were a tiny island nation that literally sealed your borders like New Zealand or like Taiwan or something.
00:04:12.000Or Unless you basically... There is no or.
00:04:31.000So this year, A lot of people died, not because, again, not because of Joe Biden.
00:04:37.000OK, I'm just going to put it out there.
00:04:39.000A lot of people this year did not die because of Joe Biden.
00:04:41.000A lot of people died this year because Delta was very transmissible and a lot of people were not vaccinated.
00:04:46.000I can say that Joe Biden's language with regard to science was super counterproductive with regard to the vaccines, because it was.
00:04:52.000I can say that he sent mixed messages throughout the pandemic, which he did.
00:04:55.000But in the end, every person has to make their own decision as to whether they get vaccinated or not.
00:04:59.000And Delta changed the game as far as the number of people who actually got the disease.
00:05:03.000So, I've said since the vaccines were available, effectively speaking, from a public policy perspective, the pandemic is now over.
00:05:09.000The reason that I've been saying that is not because the pandemic is over, okay?
00:05:12.000The pandemic is not over, people are still dying of COVID.
00:05:15.000The question is, from a public policy perspective, what can government do and what can government not do?
00:05:20.000Now that you've had the choice to get vaccinated and the vaccines, again, they remain durable, not against infection, they're not, but they remain very durable.
00:05:27.000against hospitalization and death by all available data so far. And I only care about hospitalizations and death because my kids all have colds this week. I do not care about how many people in the United States get a cold this year. I don't care. No one knows. No one cares. Why? Because my kids are going to be fine. COVID is the only disease I've ever heard of in my entire life, but we care deeply about how many people get it and don't get hospitalized and die.
00:05:49.000I don't know why. The only thing I can think is that there are a lot of people who have gotten in the headspace of We Have to Panic.
00:05:56.000And if the stats on hospitalizations and deaths are not sufficient to cause panic, well, then we'll just go to the number of people who are infected.
00:06:02.000Even the Biden administration has said we shouldn't be paying attention to the infection numbers.
00:06:06.000We should only be paying attention to the hospitalization and death numbers.
00:06:10.000Okay, so I'm not particularly freaked out by Omicron at this point because there is no evidence, none, zero, zip, zilch, that it is deadlier and more likely to affect hospitalization than Delta or than the original.
00:06:23.000Delta was much more transmissible, not more deadly.
00:06:26.000Delta was more transmissible, not more likely to get you hospitalized if you got it.
00:06:29.000It's just more likely to give it to you.
00:06:32.000As far as Omicron, so far as I'm aware, there is no data whatsoever That it is more that is more deadly or that you're more likely to go to the hospital if you get it than if you get Delta or if you get the original variant.
00:06:44.000And yet everybody is going nuts about this, which leads me to suggest that I think the entire world has gone crazy and people are now mentally and emotionally fragile and something in the in the human psyche has cracked over the amount of media attention and governmental attention that has been placed on a disease that at this point Thanks to therapeutics is rather treatable and thanks to vaccines is not nearly as deadly as we thought it was going to be at the beginning.
00:07:11.000Remember at the beginning they were saying that this thing was going to kill 3-4% of the people who got it.
00:07:15.000Unless you're over the age of 75 and have a pre-existing condition, it ain't.
00:07:19.000We'll get to more on Omicron and what we know and what we don't in just one second.
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00:08:41.000Everybody is going crazy over Omicron, according to the Associated Press, quote.
00:08:45.000The new, potentially more contagious Omicron variants of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
00:09:29.000Unless this thing is more deadly, in which case, unless this is like super deadly, in which case, You have to ramp up the mRNA vaccines because they can, right?
00:09:37.000They're actually talking about doing that right now.
00:09:39.000Now that they know that these mRNA vaccines are highly effective, if this thing affects the cells in a different way, if it has different spike proteins, for example, they can actually tailor a new vaccine and have that thing rolling off the lines in the next couple of months.
00:10:29.000You can slow it temporarily for a small period of time, and then all you're going to have done is destroyed your economy, prevented people from living free lives, and that's it.
00:10:36.000Those are all the things you have accomplished.
00:10:38.000Because it will eventually wash through the population as it has every single place.
00:10:49.000New Zealand tried this routine where they shut all their borders, and it turns out it got in there anyway, and then they tried to do lockdowns, and then eventually they're like, oh yeah, we probably should vaccinate everybody.
00:10:58.000I'm bewildered by the fact that we're now a year and a half into this thing, more than a year and a half, and we know what we are going to know about COVID.
00:11:07.000There is no mystery left when it comes to COVID, really.
00:11:12.000We know that if you're in close contact with other people in indoor spaces, you are likely going to get it.
00:11:17.000We also know it does not have to be deadly for you if you get vaccinated.
00:11:21.000We also know that if you are young and healthy, it's not going to be deadly for you if you are young and healthy.
00:11:26.000When I say it's not going to be, I mean like the number of people who are healthy and 30 years old who have died from COVID is vanishingly small.
00:11:55.000And on testing of international arrivals after finding two cases.
00:11:58.000New cases were confirmed Saturday in Germany and Italy with Belgium, Israel, and Hong Kong also reporting that the variant has been found in travelers.
00:12:04.000Okay, so are we just gonna do this forever?
00:12:29.000Okay, now the reason, again, that I'm focused in on the deadliness is because who cares if it's more transmissible if there aren't more people getting hospitalized and dying?
00:14:36.000But no, we're supposed to listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who again has pretzeled himself into a human Ouroboros by shoving his head so far up his ass it's coming out his head again.
00:14:45.000We're supposed to listen to him, who's been wrong every single step of the pandemic, but not the lady who discovered Omicron.
00:14:52.000You can't listen to her because she's saying it's a mild disease.
00:14:57.000Over in the UK, they're going to boost mask wearing.
00:15:00.000They said that anyone arriving in England must take a PCR test for COVID-19 on the second day after the arrival and self-isolate until they provide a negative test.
00:15:07.000If someone tests positive for the Omicron variant, he said their close contacts will also have to self-isolate for 10 days regardless of vaccination status.
00:15:16.000Okay, regardless of vaccination status.
00:15:18.000So before, if somebody was a close contact, got COVID, and you were vaccinated, you didn't have to isolate.
00:15:24.000Now, because of Omicron, they have to isolate.
00:15:26.000Okay, meanwhile, many countries have slapped restrictions on various Southern African countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, the EU, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, and the United States.
00:15:37.000Also, I should note here that Israel actually shut its borders to all travelers again.
00:16:14.000The markets are dumping because the markets recognize that a bunch of political leaders who are stupider than your typical kitchen sink are running the place.
00:16:23.000By the way, how dumb are our political leaders?
00:16:25.000How politically motivated are our political leaders?
00:16:28.000All you have to do to understand the answer to that question is notice That the reason that we named this thing Omicron is because of politics.
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00:18:16.000The reason why is because they didn't want to name it new.
00:18:18.000Okay, new was the next one in the Greek alphabet.
00:18:21.000And they were afraid that people are stupid enough to think that if it was called the new variant, they'd be like, oh, you mean the new variant, like N-E-W.
00:19:32.000I'm noticing that your sudden shyness about using the Greek alphabet started right about the time that your Chinese paymasters got uptight.
00:19:42.000Maybe we should call it the Winnie-the-Pooh variant in order to make sure that we are not targeting Xi Jinping, who definitely, definitely does not look like Winnie-the-Pooh.
00:19:51.000100% does not look like Winnie-the-Pooh.
00:19:53.000So we don't know anything about this virus.
00:19:56.000The only thing that we know about Omicron is that it has more spike proteins, which means that it is more transmissible and may evade whatever vaccine immunity was provided for that spike protein.
00:20:07.000By the way, what the studies tend to show is that natural immunity has a broader spectrum of disease prevention than does vaccine immunity, according to the Israeli studies, specifically because the vaccines really target only one spike protein, whereas natural immunity can cover more than one.
00:20:52.000And, by the way, Pfizer has already come out and they said, oh yeah, by the way, we can rework the vaccines pretty quickly.
00:20:57.000So if it turns out that this does evade immunity in some severe way, within 100 days, we can rework the Pfizer vaccine in order to generate new immunity.
00:21:10.000Anyway, here is Anthony Fauci trying to freak you out about the transmissibility of this disease.
00:21:15.000It has the molecular characteristics that would strongly suggest that it would be more transmissible.
00:21:21.000It has a bunch of mutations, a disturbingly large number of mutations in the spike protein, which is the business end of the virus, which really binds, particularly in one particular component of that spike that binds to the receptors in your body, in your nose, in your nasopharynx and in your lung.
00:21:40.000The mutations would strongly suggest That it would be more transmissible and that it might evade some of the protection of monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma and perhaps even antibodies that are induced by vaccine.
00:21:58.000If you evade the antibodies that are induced by the vaccine, that doesn't mean that you don't have T-cell and B-cell memory that can still help you, your body, know how to fight this thing.
00:22:06.000Also, again, we have therapeutics coming online.
00:22:08.000We have... So here's the question for Anthony Fauci.
00:22:10.000There he is scaring the crap out of everybody, scaring the pants out of everybody, right?
00:22:14.000Wow, you know, they might evade the vaccines.
00:22:18.000Are we talking about evading the vaccines so far as infection?
00:22:20.000Or are we talking about evading the vaccines so far as the hospitalization and death rate?
00:22:25.000Again, the only person I have heard who knows anything about the hospitalizations and deaths is the South African doctor who discovered this thing, who said it's causing mild disease, why is everyone freaking out?
00:22:35.000But I'm going to listen to Anthony Fauci.
00:22:37.000Okay, so, then Anthony Fauci is asked, does this cause more severe disease?
00:22:43.000I don't know is not good enough for you to lock down the entire society again, especially because it didn't work the first time.
00:22:49.000Even, by the way, if it did cause higher rates of hospitalization and death, you would have to explain why lockdowns are the solution to that.
00:23:05.000Sweden did better than most of y'all, all y'all.
00:23:07.000Here's Anthony Fauci again, admitting he doesn't know if this causes more death.
00:23:12.000Do we know if it causes more severe disease?
00:23:16.000Great question, George, and we don't know that.
00:23:19.000In fact, we were on the phone with our South African colleagues who have been incredibly good about being so transparent about what's going on there on Friday, and we're meeting with them again today, a little bit later on in a couple of hours, to try and find out if the cases that they've identified that clearly are caused by this variant, what is the level of severity in that?
00:23:40.000Hopefully it will be light, but you know, South Africa has a relatively small proportion of the population That's vaccinated.
00:23:48.000So you got to take that into the equation when you're trying to figure out where this virus is really going and what its impact is going to be.
00:23:57.000Okay, so in other words, you have given us like the wrong information.
00:24:00.000You just want to scare the living daylights out of us.
00:24:02.000In a second, we'll get to more of this because it's the markets are reacting.
00:24:06.000Everybody is reacting, not to the virus.
00:24:08.000They're reacting to the insanity and stupidity of our public health officials.
00:24:11.000We'll get to more on this in one second.
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00:25:25.000Okay, so all of our public health officials right now should be focused on one question and one question alone.
00:25:31.000And that is, is this thing more deadly?
00:25:33.000And yet that seems to be the thing that people are worried about the least.
00:25:38.000Okay, so there is no evidence at this point that Omicron is more deadly.
00:25:43.000And in fact, it would sort of belie the history of viral transmissibility that there would be a new variant.
00:25:50.000of an old virus that somehow has become more deadly.
00:25:53.000Usually, the virus has become more transmissible, but not as deadly.
00:25:56.000That's typically the way that these viruses work.
00:25:58.000The reason being, viruses want hosts that replicate.
00:26:00.000They don't want to kill off the hosts.
00:26:03.000They typically want to be able to breed and then move on to the next person.
00:26:06.000And if you kill the host, the person doesn't seed it in as many people.
00:26:11.000But our public health officials are operating from the abundance of caution model.
00:26:16.000Here's the abundance of caution model.
00:26:57.000What you normally do with a disease is you wait until the disease demonstrates signs of deadliness before you start to treat people with radioactivity.
00:27:06.000If you went to the doctor and the doctor was like, listen, we've got some cells over here.
00:27:09.000We're not sure what they are, but you know, like they could be benign.
00:27:14.000They could be, they could be not benign.
00:27:19.000So we have decided that we are going to zap you.
00:27:21.000We're going to, we're going to give you, we're going to give you All of the chemotherapy you could possibly want.
00:27:26.000We're just going to fill your body with the chemo.
00:27:29.000You'd be like, um, no, I'm going to go get a second opinion because before you do all this damage to my body, I would like to know what it is that I am looking at.
00:27:36.000Because it's possible that the treatment is worse than the disease.
00:27:39.000And when it comes to how we as a society have dealt with with COVID, I think it is fair to say at this point that the treatment has been worse than the disease because the treatment didn't even stop the disease.
00:27:48.000The treatment, in many cases, facilitated the disease.
00:27:52.000Got countries locked down that were not islands, major countries that were locked down after the virus was widely seeded, everyone went home and infected family members, many of those people died, and you destroyed the economy, and you made people dependent on the government, and you prepared a western population for the possibility of authoritarian rule from above.
00:28:10.000And so now, all those same authoritarians are like, well, you know what, maybe we should just continue doing this forever.
00:28:17.000Listen, if you're 75 years old and immunocompromised, maybe you should live your life under the abundance of caution rule because pretty much anything can kill you.
00:28:25.000If you're 80 years old and you are suffering from some sort of lymphatic cancer, probably you should be super careful no matter what you do.
00:28:33.000But if you're 30 years old and you're healthy, you cannot live under the abundance of caution regime.
00:28:38.000And by the way, neither can any whole economy.
00:29:01.000Parents will continue schooling their kids.
00:29:04.000All that's going to happen is you're going to facilitate the vast flow of people from blue states to red states in the United States and the flow from public schools to private schools.
00:29:13.000And you're going to see people just start to dismiss the regime entirely.
00:29:17.000America's already breaking down into two groups of people, the compliance and the noncompliance.
00:29:21.000Now, when I say noncompliance, I don't mean people who are refusing to get vaxxed.
00:29:24.000I mean people who just don't believe that the government ought to have the authority to shut down your entire life because they feel like abundance of caution is their duty.
00:29:32.000Versus people who are like, well, if the government tells me so, then it's almost in a religious, pagan obsession with the idea that these jackasses wearing white robes know more than anyone else, including the people who discovered the disease.
00:29:44.000So the stock market has been tanking over the last couple of days.
00:29:48.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:29:49.000companies responded to the new COVID-19 variant with a mix of both concern and confusion.
00:29:53.000Some executives scheduled calls with internal teams to assess the threat or peppered health advisors with questions, while many cautioned they would hold off on making changes to operations until more is known.
00:30:02.000The fast-spreading Omicron variant is pushing companies in a range of industries to consider how safety measures and new workflows created during the peak of the pandemic could be reinstated.
00:30:12.000It also served as a reminder executives say that navigating through unknowns of COVID-19 is a new reality of corporate management.
00:30:18.000Okay, um... Or, alternatively, they're just waiting to see what the government forces them to do.
00:30:24.000Brian Fialco, chief executive of Jetco Delivery, a Houston trucking and logistics company, said, Fialco said he would watch for guidance from U.S.
00:30:30.000of just jump to the worst. You have to take it as a real threat. It's a risk. How severe is the risk? We don't know. Fialco said he would watch for guidance from U.S. health authorities.
00:30:53.000Without that, what would I have done today without that?
00:30:55.000That godlike guidance from Tusayan's, from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors, except for Dr. Jill Biden and Dr. J.
00:31:04.000I mean, what would I have done without the wisdom of a man who tells me that he doesn't know anything, but we should prepare for the worst?
00:33:25.000When he separates families at the border, it's good.
00:33:27.000When he has ICE out there rounding people up and keeping them under bridges, that's good, because he's a nice guy, because he's Joe Biden, because he's old and stupid.
00:33:37.000Donald Trump is a malevolent evil force in the universe.
00:33:40.000And so when Donald Trump does it, it's xenophobic.
00:33:41.000When Joe Biden does it, it's just wonder and joy.
00:33:45.000So Joe Biden announced that there would be a travel ban put in place on some of these African countries.
00:34:14.000Have you noticed there's a weird tendency in this administration to declare things emergency and then sort of amble on down, taking their time to do them?
00:34:23.000And we need a vaccine mandate today, vaccine mandate now, today, four months from now.
00:35:11.000He walks up to the media, takes off the mask to talk to the media, coughs into his hand, and you get the impression these folks aren't actually taking this as seriously as they want you to take it.
00:35:21.000You must obey them, but they must obey no one.
00:35:45.000Yep, by the way, he was also shopping maskless.
00:35:47.000So literally, he was in Nantucket, staying with a donor friend, by the way, because he's super not corrupt in any way.
00:35:53.000He literally is in a store, there's a giant sign on the front of the store that says, required face covering, and you can see him through the window with no mask on.
00:36:02.000All your leaders are taking Omicron super seriously.
00:36:04.000They should set the standards for which businesses should be open.
00:36:07.000They should mandate that businesses force their customers to mask.
00:36:11.000Or Vax, except for Joe Biden, who is apparently immune to the disease.
00:36:23.000He's the only person on Earth who is completely safe from the virus.
00:36:27.000Okay, in one second, we will get to the ineffectiveness of the travel ban, because at this point, it's kind of a little late, is the truth, once it's already seeded places.
00:36:33.000It's not going to make all that much of a difference, but we'll get to that in a moment.
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00:38:59.000We are currently embroiled in a lawsuit with the Biden administration directly over their garbage vax mandate.
00:39:37.000And the reason it's not going to work is because it's already seeded here.
00:39:40.000So the Biden administration is trying to double down on boosters at this point.
00:39:45.000Again, the data on Omicron is not sufficient to say that a 30-year-old needs a booster shot at this point.
00:39:52.000Fauci said it is conceivable, if not likely, that booster shots will provide at least a partial shield of protection against the new variant.
00:39:58.000He did not cite any data to explain why he said that that is the case.
00:40:03.000Also, the experts are saying, yeah, by the way, these travel Bans are not really going to do anything.
00:40:11.000Fauci has said it is highly unlikely the vaccines offer no protection against the new variant.
00:40:15.000The WHO says it's working with a large number of researchers around the world to understand the impact Omicron would have on existing vaccines and antivirals.
00:40:24.000So they don't even know what this thing does to the vaccine at this point.
00:40:28.000And they're like, well, what if we just keep shooting you full of more vaccine?
00:40:32.000How about we find out what it does first?
00:40:34.000I know it's kind of crazy to suggest that maybe we should be guided by data as opposed to just like randomly jabbing people at this point.
00:40:40.000Again, I'm very pro vaccine, but I like data also, and you've provided me no data, sir.
00:40:45.000So this is unhelpful as far as the travel bans.
00:40:47.000So Joe Biden, remember, not a xenophobe.
00:41:13.000There were some cases that originated in South Africa and that went to Botswana and people who traveled And found out they were infected, and one that had gone actually to Hong Kong.
00:41:25.000So there's a lot of travel, you never know exactly where it are, and that's the reason why we're getting together to them to try and get the precise molecular makeup of it, so you could actually test for it.
00:41:37.000Okay, meanwhile, Fauci is trying to- so he's saying it's probably already here?
00:41:42.000And then he's like, oh yeah, but maybe the- maybe the travel bans will buy us some time.
00:42:02.000But what you can do is you can delay it enough to get us better prepared.
00:42:08.000And that's the thing that people need to understand.
00:42:10.000If you're going to do the travel ban the way we've done now and that we're implementing right now, utilize the time that you're buying to fill in the gaps.
00:42:21.000Okay, so maybe that's true and maybe it's not.
00:42:24.000I will say that a travel ban that is geared towards South Africa alone and not toward anybody who has traveled to South Africa or from South Africa and people who have been with those people, like once it's already widely seeded, it's a little bit late for that.
00:42:36.000But again, it's not xenophobia unless Donald Trump does it, is the rule.
00:42:40.000Fauci, by the way, again, he just keeps throwing out all of these maybes.
00:42:43.000And the maybes are designed to scare the crap out of you.
00:42:45.000So now he's saying, well, maybe we'll do a VAX mandate to just travel, to get on a plane.
00:42:57.000Planes have not been a central vehicle for transmission of the virus throughout the entire pandemic, which was counter to what a lot of people thought.
00:43:05.000No evidence was ever provided that if you were on a plane with a lot of other people, that you were more likely to get this than if you were at a crowded grocery store, for example.
00:43:13.000But Anthony Fauci is now saying maybe we'll force you to get the vax so that you will get on a plane.
00:43:20.000Right now, we hope that people who get vaccinated and who follow the appropriate recommendations, that air travel will continue to be safe.
00:43:31.000When you say travel in general causes a risk of increased transmission, it's the whole process of traveling, going to the airport, being in an airport in congregate setting, people taking their masks off.
00:43:44.000That's the issue that we've got to make sure that we adhere to more closely and more firmly.
00:43:51.000Okay, so in other words, it's not the planes.
00:43:52.000But we might force you to vax anyway to get on a plane.
00:43:55.000Because, you know, it's the whole process of travel.
00:44:01.000Like, life is a process in which travel is a part.
00:44:04.000He's like, well, it's not just the travel.
00:44:05.000It's, you know, you're at the airport and then you're in the car before you go to the airport and then go to Marshall's to pick up a suitcase in order so you can go to the airport.
00:44:11.000And then when you get off the plane at the airport, you might be hungry.
00:44:14.000So you go to a restaurant, you pick up some chop suey.
00:44:31.000These are always the questions he's asked by our legacy media.
00:44:34.000Instead of being asked, why do you shift your opinion every five seconds?
00:44:37.000Why do you seem to do the bidding of the Biden administration while rolling your eyes during Trump press conferences?
00:44:42.000Why is it that you're willing to trot out whatever propagandistic line Joe Biden is trotting out today?
00:44:46.000And why is it that we should listen to you after you've gotten every element of this wrong at some point during the pandemic?
00:44:51.000You've provided no forecasting ability whatsoever.
00:44:54.000You haven't even provided diagnostic ability throughout this pandemic.
00:44:58.000The data you've provided have been counterproductive.
00:45:01.000You've lost the trust of the American people.
00:45:03.000Instead of asking actual tough questions, the legacy media are like, why are people so mean to you, Dr. Fauci?
00:45:07.000Can we make another fawning documentary that shows a picture of you in your home on your computer with a giant poster of you next to you?
00:45:15.000By the way, that is one I'm never gonna understand.
00:45:18.000Dead giveaway that somebody is a douchebag is if there is a picture of them in their house with a giant picture of them right next to them.
00:45:51.000If they get up and criticize science, nobody's gonna know what they're talking about.
00:45:55.000But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there, so it's easy to criticize.
00:46:04.000But they're really criticizing science, because I represent science.
00:46:17.000When you criticize Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, when you criticize Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins University, when you criticize Scott Atlas from Stanford, when you criticize all those people, are you attacking the science?
00:46:29.000Or are you just attacking a particular scientific perspective on the data?
00:46:32.000Why is it that only Anthony Fauci is the science?
00:46:38.000Okay, and then he's asked specifically about the idea of being prosecutor.
00:46:42.000Okay, so there have been a lot of Republicans, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, who've suggested that Anthony Fauci lied to them about gain-of-function research in Wuhan, which he kind of did.
00:46:50.000The way that he has avoided the actual perjury question is by redefining gain-of-function.
00:46:56.000Okay, gain-of-function typically means, according to Anthony Fauci, that you increase the transmissibility of a virus within a species.
00:47:02.000It doesn't mean that you make a virus transmissible across species.
00:47:05.000And that is a really formal definition of gain-of-function research.
00:48:04.000Also, my favorite is humorless laughs.
00:48:06.000Humorless laughs are some of my favorites.
00:48:07.000So when you're asked a question, and you don't like the question, and so you just sort of laugh, but there's no laughter in the eyes, that's my favorite kind of political laughter.
00:48:50.000The vaccines don't stand up to Omicron.
00:48:52.000They've provided no data whatsoever that natural immunity doesn't provide any protection against hospitalization or death from Omicron.
00:48:58.000But listen to them, because they will laugh at you if not, and they are the science.
00:49:02.000If you fall for this one, honestly, we're a civilization that gets what we deserve if we have decided to worship at the altar of idols like Anthony Fauci rather than looking at actual hard data that they refuse to provide.