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We got two pandemics going on in this country right now. That much should be clear. We have

this terrible COVID-19 pandemic that has now killed a few hundred thousand Americans. December,

I'm sorry, January of 2021, the worst month yet for deaths over 90,000 Americans died

in that month according to the latest CDC numbers. But there's also an encouraging trend

on the other side of the equation of cases going down pretty substantially about in the

20 to 30% range for the last over the last two weeks. Hospitalizations also down. See,

the 14 day change in cases according to the New York Times, 32% hospitalizations, 19%.

So hospitalizations even more important than cases. We know we're most concerned about

severe disease here. I'm not the spread of this to people who are essentially going

to have almost no symptoms or problem with whatsoever. But what I think everyone's

starting to figure out now, I mean, if you're paying attention to this, and certainly if

you listen to this show, you know that we got a really big problem here with how we're

going to get out of this mess because it's increasingly clear that no matter how many

people get vaccinated and no matter how low hospitalizations and deaths may fall, there's

a large segment of the US population that will demand masking and social distancing for

the rest of 2021 at least because we have, as I said, two pandemics or you could say this

way, we have a mass hysteria disorder as well as a viral pandemic. Got two things happening

here simultaneously. The American people have been so conditioned by a media that exploits

and mobilizes fear for its own purposes that the American people are now by and large

incapable in many places and many states and many cities of having a rational, reasonable

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