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🗓️ 12 June 2022
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0:00.0 | At the beginning of the pandemic, obviously we are seeing people, those crazy videos out |
0:04.9 | of Wuhan, of people falling over and we are hearing hospitals were overrun and we knew |
0:09.0 | people in nursing homes that were having problems breathing and these symptoms were obviously |
0:13.8 | a big deal, symptomatic COVID. |
0:16.1 | But all of a sudden, when that started to go down a little bit, we heard these, we heard |
0:19.8 | these rumblings of this asymptomatic super spreader, this person is, you know, in the shadows |
0:24.6 | and you don't even know if this person's sick, but they be coughing over your kids in |
0:28.3 | the classroom, so we got to put the masks on the kids in the classroom. |
0:30.9 | So here's some of those headlines from that time. |
0:32.9 | This was CNN, March 19, 2020. |
0:35.7 | Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than |
0:39.3 | we realized. |
0:40.3 | Here's another headline, January 7, 2021, people without symptoms spread virus in more than |
0:44.2 | half of cases CDC model finds. |
0:46.6 | Again, CDC model, boom, look at that. |
0:49.3 | I mean, just fear porn, as we call it, right? |
0:52.3 | Fear it, fear it. |
0:53.3 | And this was the first we'd ever heard of it. |
0:55.1 | This makes totally healthy people walking past you your enemy. |
0:59.1 | And by doing that, then everyone's going to have to wear masks and lock themselves down |
1:02.1 | because God, we don't know where it's coming from. |
1:03.6 | It's not the person actually sick. |
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