Zuby: "This is a Moral Panic"
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1 hour and 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Trigonometry, Francis and Constantine are joined by author, rapper, podcaster, and friend of the show, Zuby, to discuss the growing crisis of mass psychosis and mental health across the globe. They discuss the dangers of mass lockdowns, and the pros and cons behind them.
Transcript
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I think we're living through a period of moral panic,
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mass psychosis, mass formation, and overall confusion.
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is that this is happening pretty much on a global scale.
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And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations
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Doesn't get any better than who we have for you today.
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He's an author, rapper, and podcaster, and a friend of the show.
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We sort of feel like we have to get you in to give us...
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You've been commenting on the COVID thing extensively
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I think we're living through a period of moral panic,
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is that this is happening pretty much on a global scale.
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As you guys saw, I went to 10 different states.
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Beyond that, I've been to Turkey, Mexico, Portugal,
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This might be the first time in history, actually,
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than it's either directly or indirectly killed,
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depending on which countries you're looking at,
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which all implemented different lockdown policies.
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Even if you were to look at a country like Sweden
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the only reason you need the authoritarianism is
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is the thing two years in again I give people a
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very early I saw stuff being weird earlier than
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it is which is really interesting people want it
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to be worse than it is because that would confirm
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brain where they are acting as if they're living
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we don't actually know the long-term effects of
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don't know the long-term effects here's my thing
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the very beginning it's a coronavirus it's like
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trying to live your entire life never getting a
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the reality of it and so that's why I think with
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what they're doing in places like Australia and
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New Zealand is particularly nearsighted because
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right now sure maybe their their COVID death numbers
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natural immunity right well I guess their argument
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everybody's got some immunity against COVID and
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that way you reduce the deaths from COVID maybe you
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especially with more and more variants coming out
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etc but again it comes back to our point of like okay
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well what are what about all the other damage caused by it
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right so so so so that's the thing and you know it's a
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balance and again throughout all of this thing one
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one thing that I've been very in favor of is simply
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scientists that have been silenced or censored or
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pushed to the side or just everyday people all of
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this all this conversation we're having some of these
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questions we're asking I don't know the answer to
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questions and coming up with ideas and someone might
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say oh well what about this what about that this this
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should have just been how it was all the way through
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from the beginning because again you have to remember
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the models that they started how many deaths did they
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predict in the UK was it half a million it was hard if
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if if nothing was done if no restrictions were put in half
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a million was gonna die yeah half a million to a million
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US they predicted three to four million okay um that was
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off right that was that was off and you know someone might
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say oh well it's because it's because we did the
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measures you don't know it's always hard to you know we
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don't we don't really have the counter I mean I personally
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would argue the vaccines have definitely reduced the
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number of people have died I'm look I'm I think I'm not I'm
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not against I'm not against any vaccination right I think
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having as many options as possible vaccinations various
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types of treatments etc it should all be it should all be
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available right I don't I don't have the arrogance to
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assume that I know the best thing for absolutely everyone or
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that I know everyone's medical history and all these
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details about them again like I'm I'm 35 years years old I'm
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in great shape I've already had COVID I've got strong uh I've
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got strong natural naturally acquired immunity my position is
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not the same as an 80 year old who hasn't had COVID and
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perhaps has one or two comorbidities and it's not the same
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as a 10 year old child who's just perfectly healthy and
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bouncing around and happy so to treat all of these people with
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the one size fits all is is crazy I mean you know I like I
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like peanut butter but if I were to mandate peanut butter
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that's genocide look at it look at his face he hates it okay yeah
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but it won't kill you no but I hate it but but there are there are
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millions of people that you can could be killed by a couple of
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peanuts or peanut but so that that's just an example of you know the
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human body is complicated man penicillin has saved tons of lives there's
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people you can kill with penicillin absolutely right all different people
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respond differently to different medicines different foods we've known
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this forever that's not that's nothing controversial so that's again why when
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it comes to things like mandates I'm like this is that's psychotic right
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you're going to kill some people you are if you take a billion people and you
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mandate anything any medical injury you you are going to kill some people and
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that is why it must always remain a choice right that's why it must always
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remain a choice I think that there are segments of the population and
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demographics where totally totally makes sense for them it's reasonable even if I
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don't think it makes sense for them or whatever if you're an adult hey that
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that's that's your choice and then you assume the risk on both sides right there is
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risk on both sides you assume it and that equation is not the same for
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everybody my personal view I think that giving these injections to children is
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psychotic I think I think it's reckless right because the risk of the disease is
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close to zero in terms of severe disease let alone death it's close to zero we
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know that we've got data from every country in the world for two years we know
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that okay the effect of the of the jabs on them we don't we do not know we do not
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know they're still in trial even for healthy adults up until 2022 2023 but for
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kids we we simply do not know so for me in my personal opinion that doesn't not
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make sense again they do not block the transmission so you can't even make the
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argument that okay give it to kids to protect you shouldn't be using kids to
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protect adults anyway well well exactly like we'll have to wrap up but the very
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basic point you've made is there's risks to everything yes and if you're
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mandating vaccines for children statistically speaking that is going to
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have a negative impact and I'm just gonna I'm not going to go into the details of
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it for YouTube purposes but it's going to have a negative impact on some of those
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kids statistically speaking that's a fact yes if you mandated peanut butter for all
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the children in the world some of them would die yes what do you think about it like I'm not
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going to get into the details but that's a fact right so you how many it's that
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philosophical question that we always talk about if you could save a million
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people by killing one innocent child would you um that's that's that's the
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conversation right I don't think that's the conversation don't you no no I think
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that's a false analogy why because you're talking about a mandate but that's
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exactly what I'm saying but what yeah yeah it is mandate will kill someone no but
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what I'm saying is that without the mandate yeah look everyone who wanted the jab took
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it without a mandate yeah fact yeah right everyone who wanted it took it beyond any
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mandate or bizarre incentives or whatever and that's that's it that should be the
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finish line everyone who wants it has had a chance to get it yeah what I'm saying is
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I'm agreeing with you I think we're mishearing each other is if you mandate a vaccine for
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children or if you mandate peanut butter for children if you mandate whatever for
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children in order to protect other people because as you say we know children are not
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vulnerable to the virus gotcha gotcha right if you are doing that you are in you are knowingly
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saying we are going to hurt some some kids in order to protect some other people to me
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that's immoral yeah that's immoral agreed and also it's and also it's not correct in this
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case right because it's not a sterilizing vaccine yeah yeah before we do our last question
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I want to ask you this question I know what the answer is going to be but I want to ask
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you anyway Zuby do you think we're going to go back to and I hate this term inverted commas
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the old normal yes but I think it depends on the people I think it's this ends when this
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ends when people decide it does for individual both on an individual and a societal level it
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ends when you end it and do you think we're going to end it depends on the country okay some
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places never started some places I don't have much hope for okay so let's see what places do
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you have hope for and which places do I hope hope for I have hope for virtually every republican
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led state in the USA I have hope for much of Africa I have hope for much of South America
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Europe has certain pockets which I have hope for but overall you many parts of Western Europe
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Canada Australia and New Zealand I think people are have I think too many people are welcoming in the
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new regime I think that if you are a liberty-minded person you should be doing your best to get out
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of those countries that's my personal view it's actually been my view of the past year
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Zuby we've got last question for you as always which is what's the one thing no one's talking about
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oh yeah uh I think I went real controversial on the last one so funnily enough I think it's health
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I think actual health I'm not just talking about masks and jabs I mean actual health I think it's been
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a catastrophe that this time period has not been used to really talk about the obesity epidemic
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and all of the health problems which have merely been magnified by the COVID situation
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I think this would have been the perfect time to really sound this message especially in countries
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like the UK and USA where obesity rates have just been been skyrocketing
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I think that the lack of conversation about nutrition about exercise lifestyle changes
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generally living a healthy life and looking after your own body and taking that individual
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personal responsibility I think that's really been lacking I think it's been lacking for several
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decades and yeah this would have been the perfect opportunity so I think not enough as much as people
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are talking about health not enough people are truly talking about the full scope of health
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all right Zuby we're going to ask you questions from our local supporters which are separate but for now
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thanks so much for coming on where can people find you online sure I'm on all social media
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at Zuby music that is Z-U-B-Y music I'm on Instagram Facebook Twitter YouTube minds.com
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and you can find me at Zuby music.com where I've got links to my podcast my merchandise everything else
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okay so uh this is from resin pez why do nigerians seldom very rarely uh have a victim chip on the
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shoulder and often refer to themselves as the americans of africa wow i'm not familiar with the
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americans of africa part i'm not familiar with that term um in terms of absence of victim mindset i
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i think number one i don't think there's any reason why we should specifically um and i mean that in in the truest sense as in
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nigerians are not a group of people who specifically in history have been targeted or discriminated against or segregated say in the way the black americans absolutely were right just historical fact i think that's a factor and then i think beyond that i think the um
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the um religiosity strong family ties um lots of focus around responsibility and education those things just being present in the culture and pretty well embedded from young people i think that's um i think that's the second main factor that makes sense and we'll go one more
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um this is this is from rob and mike hawk uh who say what was the one thing or what were the incidents that made you think no that's not right and speak out as much as you do which i love by the way he says or she says
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um just broadly generally speaking i think about this particular issue about the covid thing okay um i think i saw from early
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uh i think it was the fact it was how unprecedented everything was right i mean diseases are not new viruses are not new we've even had some scares in our lifetime
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uh mad cow disease bird flu um swine flu ebola zika virus there have been things that have sars hiv aids yes um i'm a little bit young for that but
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i remember it vaguely so but what was different was the response we'd never had the masking policies and
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everyone stay at home and everyone did like that to me was just set off alarm bells at the very beginning
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and so i also saw down the line i practice a lot of you know second third fourth order thinking so i realized
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the way if you if people give up these freedoms then it's really hard to get freedom back if you give
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it up and i'm just aware of that so i thought from early we have to be very careful that the response
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is not more deadly and harmful than the actual threat so i think that's why from the from very early on i
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can just see the potential catastrophe just just like i think some people thought okay if this virus truly
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does have a four percent mortality rate like they were suggesting in the beginning then you're
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looking downstream and thinking whoa this is the catastrophe that could result thank god it was much
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lower than that um and i believe that was the case from early so i thought wait this overreaction
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is potentially going to cause more damage so that's why i started speaking out and kind of warning people
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i guess of just where this could lead if people you know get get scared out of their wits rather than
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