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WHAT'S AN ANTI-MASKER? I'M AN ANTI-MASKER IT'S AN IDIOT WHO THINKS DEPRIVING OTHER PÉOPLE OF LIFE IS A RIGHT. NO, IT ISN'T! 000000 SMALL PIECES OF CLOTH STOP IT PATRICK! YOU'RE SUFFOCATING HIM!

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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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What you're saying is just completely wrong. Having something in front of your mouth and nose when you cough or even just breath will ALWAYS prevent the spreading of disease. It's not rocket science, it's simple physics. Even if it's 1 ply, even if it's been month you use it.
They don't go trying to supply everyone just for fun.

Wear your masks.

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"None of what you've argued related to basically anything I actually stated in my post"

>there's no scientific evidence that those crappy 1-ply pieces of cloth lazily draped over your face have any real effect on the spreadability of diseases

>>Having something in front of your mouth and nose when you cough or even just breath will ALWAYS prevent the spreading of disease. It's not rocket science, it's simple physics.

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