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Speaker 1: to Huntington Beach. Somehow the government has decided there's a

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight. This is part of this movement

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Speaker 1: all about. Michael, you're there, Hey, John? How are you good?

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Speaker 1: To be with you again? What is the what is

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Speaker 1: have eighty one thousand dwelling units currently and that's a

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Speaker 1: That means we would have nearly a seventy thousand new units,

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Speaker 1: But as a matter of law, those exemptions and those

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Speaker 1: them exactly. The newsom has zero business stick in his

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Speaker 1: And you may not know John Tierney. It's not like

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Speaker 1: he's famous, but I keep track of his writing all

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Speaker 1: the time because Tierney constantly goes against the grain. He

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Speaker 1: you're told is just nonsense. I mean, I've been reading

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Speaker 1: him for twenty five years and I'll tell you more

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Speaker 1: Also on the COVID matter, coming up after three o'clock,

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Speaker 1: murder in Hacienda Heights of the Catholic bishop. Apparently, according

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Speaker 1: to what's leaking out, the killer was the husband of

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Speaker 1: the woman who worked in the priest's home. So we

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Speaker 1: Bishop David O'Connell killed Saturday afternoon in his bed at

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Speaker 1: one o'clock in the afternoon. There was a swat team

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Speaker 1: operation in Torrents this morning and the suspect was barricaded,

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Speaker 1: according to one report, most of the night and finally

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Speaker 1: at nine in the morning they were able to capture them.

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Speaker 1: So what motivated this exactly supposedly, Well, we'll get into

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Speaker 1: up after five o'clock. Now, last, by the way, Ken's

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Speaker 1: away today. Last segment, I told you that finally they

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Speaker 1: they're studying all the numbers now that the COVID hysteria

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Speaker 1: about one in forty five thousand, and you had to

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Speaker 1: one in forty five thousand. So all that hysteria was

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Speaker 1: all for nothing. If you were under the age of fifty,

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Speaker 1: there was absolutely no reason to fear what was going

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Speaker 1: But John Tierney, he writes for City dash Journal dot

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Speaker 1: org and he's a great writer. I first discovered him

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Speaker 1: write definitively that recycling was a complete bust. There was

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Speaker 1: no financial value in it. There was no money to

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Speaker 1: be made in recycling. There was no market for the products.

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Speaker 1: So everybody who dutifully separated their stuff at home, with

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Speaker 1: the possible exception of cardboard, you were wasting your time.

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Speaker 1: There was there was, There was just no market for

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Speaker 1: what basically was garbage, and we just had to accept

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Speaker 1: that this is garbage and the garbage has to go

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Speaker 1: to the landfill, and coming up with complicated recycling incentives

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Speaker 1: and methods was just a waste of time. The headline

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Speaker 1: of his story COVID research is approximately zero, and this

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Speaker 1: is about masks. Masks make no difference in reducing the

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Speaker 1: spread of COVID, According to extensive new review by a

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Speaker 1: group called Cochrane, Cochrane is the gold standard for evaluating

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Speaker 1: health interventions. They do what's known as meta studies. They

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Speaker 1: evidence together because you know, any particular study could have

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Speaker 1: its flaws and anomalies, but if you take many different

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Speaker 1: studies on the same subject matter, you're going to get

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Speaker 1: much closer to the truth. And he writes, we now

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Speaker 1: have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by

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Speaker 1: wearing masks during the pandemic approximately zero. Neither surgical masks

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Speaker 1: nor ND ninety five masks have been shown to make

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Speaker 1: a difference in reducing the spread of COVID nineteen and

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Speaker 1: other respiratory illnesses. And the gold standard for medical evidence

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Speaker 1: is the randomized clinical trial, and the gold standard for

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Speaker 1: analyzing the evidence is Cochrane, formerly known as the Cochland Collaboration,

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Speaker 1: the world's largest and most respected organization for evaluating health interventions,

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Speaker 1: funded by the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

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Speaker 1: The NIH was Anthony Fauci's outfit, so Fauci directed money

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Speaker 1: to the Cochrane Collaboration, which they used in part to

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Speaker 1: study the effectiveness of mask mandates. Of course, Faucci knew

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Speaker 1: this because, if you remember, in the early days, he

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Speaker 1: said that masks weren't necessary. It's an international network of

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Speaker 1: reviewers based in London. They partner with the World Health Organization.

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Speaker 1: Other medical journals have hailed Cochrane for being the single

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Speaker 1: best resource for methodologic research. It is recognized worldwide as

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Speaker 1: the highest standard in evidence based healthcare. They looked at

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Speaker 1: trials during the COVID nineteen pandemic in hospitals and community settings.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen trials they compared outcomes of wearing surgical masks to

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Speaker 1: wearing no masks versus and ninety five masks. They had

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Speaker 1: a dozen researchers from six country six different countries, and

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Speaker 1: the conclusion that wearing any kind of face covering probably

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Speaker 1: makes little or no difference in the spread of respiratory illness,

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Speaker 1: not just COVID, but everything else. It may seem intuitive

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Speaker 1: that masks must do something, but even if they do

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Speaker 1: trap droplets from costs or sneezes, which is the reason

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Speaker 1: that surgeons wear masks, they still allow tiny viruses to

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Speaker 1: spread by aerosol even when worn correctly, and it's unrealistic

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Speaker 1: to expect most people to do so. While a mask

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Speaker 1: may keep out some pathogens, its inner surface can trap

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Speaker 1: concentrations of pathogens that are then breathed back into the lungs.

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Speaker 1: Whatever theoretical benefits there might be, in clinical trials, the

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Speaker 1: benefits have turned out either to be an illusion or

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Speaker 1: offset by negative factors. Tom Jefferson, the lead author of

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Speaker 1: the review from Oxford, summed up the real science on masks. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you'll like this. There is just no evidence that they

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Speaker 1: make any difference. Full stop. We got a full stop

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Speaker 1: out of the guy Now, if you notice, this story

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Speaker 1: didn't exactly lead all the network newscast, nor was it

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Speaker 1: banner headlines in most of the major newspapers, because for

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Speaker 1: some reason, most of the media major media is now

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Speaker 1: made up of progressive people who wore att proudly as

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Speaker 1: a symbol of their political belief system. And I think

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Speaker 1: human nature is once you've publicly insisted that a certain

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Speaker 1: behavior is mandatory for two or three years, you just

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Speaker 1: can't climb down from that tree. You're you're stuck up there.

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Speaker 1: Especially when you vilified the non nask wearers as being

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Speaker 1: barbarians and Neanderthals, you know where you're going to go.

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Speaker 1: But for those people who said, well, you know, I

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Speaker 1: follow the science, so I believe the science. Looks like

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Speaker 1: the science changed on you. Are you changing too, or

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you the behavior that we experienced the last

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Speaker 1: few years has just been pure hysteria. There have been

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Speaker 1: like four hysterias going on simultaneously in this country. One

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Speaker 1: was the COVID hysteria, another was the Trump hysteria, another

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Speaker 1: was the hysteria after George Floyd. The fourth one has

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Speaker 1: been about climate change. All of them have huge progressive

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Speaker 1: political components to it forcing people to publicly believe or

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Speaker 1: say that they believe in something, or you risk being ostracized, ridiculed.

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Speaker 1: And historians years from now are going to look at

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Speaker 1: this time and be absolutely fascinated because all this will

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Speaker 1: die out eventually, human beings will revert to their default settings.

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Speaker 1: We can't stay in progressive hysteria much longer, and I

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Speaker 1: think there's already signs of a lot of cracks going on.

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Speaker 1: Tyranny also supplies a helpful chart which it's got two lines,

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Speaker 1: a black line and an orange line, and it shows

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Speaker 1: masked mandates versus no mandates daily cases for one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand people. And it shows you in graphic form the

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Speaker 1: graph the right in fall of COVID right, the lines orange, black,

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Speaker 1: zig up, they go down, they zig up, they go down,

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Speaker 1: They zig way up and go down. The worst of

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Speaker 1: it was December twenty one January twenty two, and they

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Speaker 1: counted up the number of cases where there were mask

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Speaker 1: mandates and the number of cases where there were no mandates,

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Speaker 1: and they track almost exactly. Slight variations at one point

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Speaker 1: or another, but for the most part. In fact, during

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Speaker 1: some periods, places with mask mandates had more cases than

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Speaker 1: places without mask mandates. He writes, at the end, hundreds

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Speaker 1: of millions of Americans dutifully covered their faces in the

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Speaker 1: states with the mandates, and the result was the same.

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Speaker 1: The masks made no difference. So you know, between these

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Speaker 1: two studies, it turns out that if you were under fifty,

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Speaker 1: you had practically a zero chance of dying from COVID,

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Speaker 1: and that's pre vaccine. And then the masks that everybody

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Speaker 1: wore had no effect on the spread of COVID. So

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Speaker 1: the mandates didn't work. Didn't matter. Just think about all

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Speaker 1: the heated conversations. Think about all the indignation, the anger,

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Speaker 1: the name calling, all the rules, the restrictions, the lost income,

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Speaker 1: what it did psychologically, especially to children, all the isolation.

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Speaker 1: Let's think about all that damage that this country absorbed

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Speaker 1: and we're still suffering from it too. None of it

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Speaker 1: was based in scientists science. Almost all of it was

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Speaker 1: based in hysteria, and also the desire to conform politically,

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Speaker 1: and the desire to billy people and tell them what

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Speaker 1: to do and have control over them. You know, at

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Speaker 1: the very least, at the end of this, everybody should

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Speaker 1: remember all the lessons we learned, because this will happen

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Speaker 1: again Johnny Ken Show. And when we come back, we

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Speaker 1: are eventually going to carry the the press conference about

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Speaker 1: the murder of Bishop David O'Connell in Haciana Heights. Steve

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Speaker 1: Gregor will be on the case too. That's ahead. Debra

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Speaker 1: Mark Live in the twenty four hour Cafine Newsroom