right now just yesterday in the news 76% of Americans report having gained at least 16 pounds or 7 kilograms over the course of the lockdown.

Hang on a second.

Do you have any idea what the social cost of that's going to be? Do you have any idea what the suffering that that's going to lead to is going to be? It's not a trivial thing. Do you understand? You're talking about bigger than a carry-on bag. That's an

amount of weight substantially bigger than a reasonable carry-on bag and 76% of

Americans are now carrying that around.

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I want to talk a little bit about COVID and start with a little joke that I saw. It's a little joke, it's a little risky, it's a little political,

but the joke went like this, Doctor, how long will this pandemic last? And the doctor says,

I don't know, I'm a a doctor you should probably ask a politician and that's the state of the world at the moment we don't know how to listen to we just we don't know who to listen to one doctor is telling us we should wear a mask and the other one's telling us that our oxygen levels will go down if we wear the mask and then the left says this and the right says that and at the end of the day I think we're a whole lot more confused and we think we know fact, I've seen friends who used to love each other,

hate each other over mask wearing. I'm serious and I just, I want to move past that for a minute. Here's what I want to suggest to you is, of all there are some conventional ideas about how you can slow down viral infections and that kind of stuff.

The conventional ideas like we've heard them from the WHO, we've heard them from the CDC, we've been hearing them for a long time. You remember, right? You can wear your

mask, you can use your social distancing, make sure you wash your hands. And do you remember

this one? Don't touch your face. Long time since we've heard that one, right?

But here's the thing. All of those

conventional methods, they annoy me. And I don't mean they annoy me because I

don't think they're a good idea. I think they're a great idea, but I think that

the WHO and the CBC and all of the other incredibly responsible

organizations and by responsible I don't mean that they're being

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