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88-9-14-9-9-14-9. Now, you know, regardless of what your position is on things like COVID, vaccinations,

masks, social distancing, all of the above. We've been living with this

endless cascade of friction over these issues for the last two years. And you don't need me

to explain to you anymore because, I mean, you've lived it. Interesting, though, the New York

Times has got an article talking about how there's,

what they're describing as a schism among Democrats. So the people on the left, they go into

the fact that, well, for the last couple of years now, there's been, of course, a real divide

ideologically, a divide between conservative Americans and liberal Americans,

people on the left who are much more adamant about taking COVID seriously, some on the right,

much more adamant about not taking it as seriously, divisions over masks, et cetera.

Well, what they've identified and what they talk about in this article is how the same thing

is now happening among people on the left.

So how there are now key divisions appearing within the left, so predominantly Democrats,

and how Democrats are now having this kind of mini-war among themselves

as things start to get back to normal. So as you go into a restaurant or to a store,

in some parts of the country, this has been true for, gosh, easily six months or so. Florida, Arizona, Ohio, a number of other states where you just, you don't really see anyone wearing masks or it's very rare now that you see people wearing masks.

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