Is Covet Better Than the Flue or Should You Get Vaccinated?

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I think a maniac like alex jones and any one who would listen to him is capable of being just as crazy in the presence of the bubonic plague. And some of it is, as you said, like we don't have a good understanding of society as some of something. We are painfully unprepared for the real thing, because we have botched this so fully. It's a very confused lesson in the lesson that many of us have drawn asto what to do with our lives. I i wish i felt more confident in that than i now. You know, if there were bodies being piled in the streets, you know, an order of magnitude worse lethality, you wouldn't

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