heavily-vaxed areas are overwhelmed by Omicron, but few people are dying, and yet everyone is panicking.

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of coverage. All right. So we're all supposed to panic. Panic, panic, everybody panic. This is the tenor in the media today. The entire media are now under the impression that we are all going to die of COVID. Now, this is not a change from the entire history of the pandemic. At the beginning, we were all going to die of COVID, but we didn't know anything. Then we knew that if you were young and healthy, the chances were very, very low that you were going to die of COVID. It didn't matter. The media continued to proclaim that you were going to die of COVID because COVID was super duper, duper scary no matter the fact that if you were young, you had about 1,000 times less a chance of dying than if you were elderly in the United States or that if you were obese you got a far higher chance of dying than if you were healthy. There are very obvious striations in terms of risk when it came to COVID from the very start. And the media just fibbed about it. They would have on doctors. They'd have on Fauci or they'd have on Robert Redfield. They'd have on people who would just say things like, well, you know, you could die.

And it's like, well, that doesn't help me at all.

I need an actual risk assessment. It's true. Any possible day, I could die. Any moment I could die, right? Lightning bolt comes down from the sky, hits you, and you're dead. That could happen. But nobody lives their life in fear of the lightning bolt. So the question is whether we are talking about a lightning bolt coming down from the sky

or whether we are talking about the chances they you're going to get hit by a car or whether we're talking about the chances that you're going to die of cancer over the course of your lifetime. So what exactly are the chances here? And the media continually refuse to assess the risk. Well, now they're doing the exact same thing with Omicron, right? Omicron is supposed to be the scariest

thing ever. And the reason that Omicron is super scary is because it is evading vaccines when it comes to

preventing infection and because it is really, really transmissible. And so everybody's going to get it.

Now, your first question should be, when somebody says you are about to get hit with a virus,

your first question should be, okay, how bad is it going to be?

that would be the normal first question right you're going to get hip with the virus i want to know whether the virus is Ebola or whether the virus is the common cold which one is it and if somebody told you

you are going to get the common cold this year live in fear you'd be like uh no no i'm going to be fine

i probably won't even stay there you are going to get the common cold this year live in fear you'd be like uh no no i'm i'm gonna be

fine i probably won't even stay home from the office i'm just going to take a little day quill

and go into the office because it turns out that even if i give it to everybody else in the office

and they all get the common cold then whatever man because that's life you know we can't all live

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