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... I am a compassionate enough person to wear a mask, social distance, and reschedule plans, even when it's an inconvenience to me, in the hopes of keeping others safe. Yet, I have to admit that there is nothing in this world that could have convinced me to cancel or postpone our wedding or even wear a mask on that particular day. No amount of threatening me with fines or jail time or warning me about the risks to my and others' safety would have dissuaded me from wanting to fully experience THE most important day of my life the way I truly wanted. I don't mean to downplay the risks of COVID-19. I simply believe that some things are worth the risk. I can't think of anything more special, sacred, and worthy of such a risk than a wedding! For those of you being bullied into second- guessing yourselves and the plans you've made for your wedding, I feel for you. And if you decide to go forward with your special day regardless of the risks and warnings and consequences then know that I am with you 100%! 28 19 Comments honestly cannot imagine prioritizing my wedding over people's lives.

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Sam Harris Q D A Gift a subscription 3. Elon and I didn't converge on a common view of epidemiology over the course of those two hours, but we hit upon a fun compromise: A wager. Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity) against a bottle of fancy tequila ($1000) that we wouldn't see as many as 35,000 cases of Covid in the United States (cases, not deaths). The terms of the bet reflected what was, in his estimation, the near certainty (1000 to 1) that he was right. Having already heard credible estimates that there could be 1 million deaths from Covid in the U.S. over the next 12-18 months (these estimates proved fairly accurate), I thought the terms of the bet ridiculous and quite unfair to Elon. I offered to spot him two orders of magnitude: I was confident that we'd soon have 3.5 million cases of Covid in the U.S. Elon accused me of having lost my mind and insisted that we stick with a ceiling of 35,000. 4. We communicated sporadically by text over the next couple of weeks, while the number of reported cases grew. Ominously, Elon dismissed the next batch of data reported by the CDC as merely presumptive while confirmed cases of Covid, on his account, remained elusive. 5. A few weeks later, when the CDC website finally reported 35,000 deaths from Covid in the U.S. and 600,000 cases, I sent Elon the following text: Is (35,000 deaths + 600,000 cases) > 35,000 cases? 6. This text appears to have ended our friendship. Elon never responded, and it was not long before he began maligning me on Twitter for a variety of imaginary offenses. For my part, I eventually started complaining about the startling erosion of his integrity on my podcast, without providing any detail about what had transpired between us.
I guess we should retire the expression "avoid it like the plague given how little effort people put into avoiding an actual plague
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