 So, I have a very simple question that probably requires a complex answer. What's your personal prediction, expectation about this winter, the next few months when it comes to coronavirus, when it comes to both, you're your best guess of how hard it's going to hit us and what the political ramifications are going to be in the short term. Well, I mean, in terms of cases, it's already hitting hard. So, we're already seeing that. I don't see any reason why it gets better. Winter months are good for viruses. That's why we get the flu in the winter. It just makes sense that this is going to keep going through the winter. I think that once you start vaccinating, things will get significantly better. And I will also note that death rates are not spiking. I mean, they're up, but they're not spiking. So, death rates are quite significantly lower than what they were in March and April. And it does seem like doctors know how to treat this better, medication is better, just a whole way of handling it once you get into hospital. So, the hospitals are full right now, but I'm not seeing the spike in deaths that you would expect if you extrapolate from the spring, but it would be a mistake to extrapolate from the spring because we know a lot more about the virus now. You know, LA is shutting down. You know, there's a, I hear this, they're talking about stay-at-home orders in LA. I mean, no, I don't, you know, like Pasadena, which is part of LA County is like, no, we're not going to, we're not going to pay any attention to that. And Pasadena City Council said, no, we're still doing dining and everything. So, there's definitely a backlash, but some places are going to shut down, some places are going to close down, other places will be open. And, you know, the general trend is not good. The general trend is because the lessons learned are not good. The lessons are, you know, mistakenly, people are learning from it. Oh, we need more state intervention. We need more state control. You know, capitalism can deal with these things. Freedom can deal with these things. Individuals are irresponsible. They can't deal with these things. So, we need more, you know, authoritarian control of our lives, not less. So, that's my fears that that is growing. I do think once we get the vaccines out and people start getting vaccinated, there'll be a significant decline because, you know, if you vaccinate susceptible people, then fewer people go to the hospitals, fewer people end up in ICUs. And that will relieve the pressure on the hospitals. And then you start vaccinating other people and then you get just the numbers, right? So, if you vaccinate even 10% of the population, well, that's 10% that are not going to get it. So, just the numbers start shrinking as you vaccinate more people. So, I think the turnaround could be fairly quick if they can vaccinate quickly. And you have to admire kind of the logistic challenge of doing all these vaccinations. And, you know, people like Pfizer rising to the challenge. So, what you're seeing is Pfizer's basically leasing all of United's airplanes for cargo shipments of dry ice. You know, their thing has to be kept at minus 80 degrees Celsius. So, it's very difficult to transport. UPS has invested heavily in dry ice. And so, there's going to be this big logistical push to get these out. To pharmacies, they're going to have to vaccinate quickly because it can only be away from freezing cold like that for a few days or like three days, I think. Still has to be frozen, but not at those levels. So, they're going to have to vaccinate quickly. It'll be interesting to see where the vaccination happens, who does them. But hopefully they can use the infrastructure built for flu vaccines to get this done. Doctors offices, CVSs, Walgreens and places like that. So, once the vaccine's out, I'm fairly optimistic. That is a big cat. Is that not a big cat? Or is that just the distortion of the camera? For a second, they looked like a mountain lion was walking into Jennifer's room. All right, that's my take. You know, I don't know, I'm constantly overly optimistic about these things. I never thought we'd get this third wave because I thought suddenly they'd get the act together by now. There was an interesting article today in the Boston Globe actually about universities in Massachusetts. So, university in Massachusetts are open. And guess what universities in Massachusetts are doing? They've hooked up with some local labs. And what they're doing is, you know, brace yourselves. They're testing, tracing, isolating. Basically, students are getting tested every week. They get results within 24 hours. They isolate the people who are infected. They trace who they've been with and try to isolate or test them. But they're testing huge quantities. So while Massachusetts cases are spiking, the cases within the universities are pretty low. Everything's fine. And whereas the other universities are seeing cases spiked because people are partying and there's no testing and everything. Again, Massachusetts in the Boston area, things are very stable. So I would have thought months ago that state governments would have figured out and built up the infrastructure to test, trace, isolate. But never underestimate the incompetence and stupidity of government. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. 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