#118 Postmodern Mask Mandates (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

In this 118th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss mask mandates, which end today on most of the West coast of the U.S. We discuss our approach to masks (and other things) two years ago, in March of 2020. We talk briefly about detransitioning, and its relationship to the public health response to Covid. We discuss Orwell’s position on socialism (and fruit-juice drinkers, and feminists). And we discuss why the origin of SARS-CoV2, and its likely development and evolution through serial passaging, makes a difference in how the virus behaves in humans.

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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/MQV8uGfKM-g

Mentioned in this episode:

The liberal case for gun ownership. By Bret, published in Unherd in Nov 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-liberal-case-for-gun-ownership/

Qian et al 2020. Indoor transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2. Indoor Air, 31(3): 639-645. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.12766

Detransition Awareness Day (tweet thread): https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1502512695773319169?s=20&t=gMdRKbDEdmj9zygKqWH0RQ

What If We’re Wrong, by Heather: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/whatifwerewrong?r=83qgf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Orwell 1937. The Road to Wigan Pier. Full text: https://libcom.org/files/wiganpier.pdf

Why we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis, by Bret, published in UnHerd in June 2021: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-

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