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Ep. 1152: Jeffrey Tucker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

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Trump's Fear of the Flu

A lot of it traces to the March 8 testimony by Fauci and some subcommittee of the Senate in which Fauci was throwing around the possibility of a 10% mortality. The New York Times as a major contributor to this, became such a hot house of this unified opinion that disaster was on its way. This whole idea of lockdowns to deal with a new pathogen traces to about 2005. At least I feel like this was just the second round of getting an entire population deathly afraid of a virus where the people in the know knew there were particular high risk groups but didn't care because they needed to get everybody scared to get whatever solution they wanted.

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