Oh, Macron is now the dominant strain of COVID in the United States.

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nose. This is the only way to prevent you from getting COVID. And even if there's a little hole by your mouth in your nose, that's exactly how COVID gets in. So the best thing you could possibly do is then duct tape those holes closed. You won't die of COVID. You might die of something. You won't die of COVID. And that's the important thing. Okay, here's the thing. Omicron is now the dominant variants in the United States.

The hospitals are not being overwhelmed. the important thing. Okay, here's the thing. Omicron is now the dominant variance in the United

States. The hospitals are not being overwhelmed. We are not seeing mass carnage. We're not seeing

mass death. We've not seen mass death in the UK. We've not seen mass death in South Africa.

The evidence that Omicron is anywhere near as deadly as Delta is non-existent because it is not.

The lab studies demonstrate that Omicron tends to stay around your nose and around your throat and it does not go down into your lungs, which means that essentially for the vast majority of people, it is going to be a cold. Maybe a slightly bad cold, but a cold. It is not going to be the cause of death for the vast, fast, fast, fast, fast,

vast, vast, vast, that's a vast majority of people who get it. In fact, the statistics right now

tend to show that it is less deadly than the flu. And like significantly less deadly than the

flu, according to the stats that we have from South Africa now. Could those stats change

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