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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: What Is The CDC Hiding Behind FOIA Redactions? – Ask Dr. Drew – Episode 229

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Lockdowns

"I feel like this should be the last word on lockdowns, but I'm afraid it's not going to be," he says. "When you carefully study comparing places that had the lockdown and didn't...you see basically very little difference in the spread." A lockdown forces people to take unreasonable measures they would not have taken if there was a more reasonable way of dealing with an illness such as measles or who-knows-how-many other diseases out there. He adds: "You don't want to believe that you did nothing ... You're so weird in your cognitive dissonance"

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