Today on the Matt Walsh Show, two ER doctors committed the sin of criticizing the lockdowns and their video was removed from YouTube because of it. We’ll talk about the effort to censor anyone who doesn’t toe the party line on the coronavirus. Also, Five Headlines, including newly released footage of alien spacecraft, and the Washington Post twists itself into knots to avoid reporting on the Biden sex assault allegations. And in our Daily Cancellation, I must once again cancel someone very close to me. I hate to do it, but it must be done.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, two ER doctors committed the sin of criticizing the lockdowns and pointing out that they're counterproductive and in fact do not help with public health but actually make the situation worse.
Their video that went viral explaining all this was removed from YouTube because of it.
And so we'll talk about the effort to censor anyone who doesn't toe the party line on the coronavirus.
This is not the only example of that.
Also, five headlines including newly released footage of alien spacecraft Could be maybe something else, but we're going to go with alien spacecraft.
And the Washington Post is twisting itself into knots to avoid just honestly and directly reporting on the Biden sex assault allegations.
The story is getting big enough in spite of the mainstream media that they have to at least acknowledge it.
But the way they're going about doing that is outrageous, also hilarious.
And in our daily cancellation, I must once again cancel someone very close to me.
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Emergency room doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Masahi in California, they did a press briefing a few days ago discussing COVID-19 and making the case that the lockdowns are unnecessary, counterproductive, actually worse for public health.
So it's not just about, and this is a point that's probably not emphasized enough, You know, most of us who have criticized the lockdowns, we've been focusing on the economic damage and for good reason.
But I think sometimes we're sort of implicitly seeding the case on the health aspect of it.
And it's like we're saying that, yeah, well, the lockdowns are, they may keep you healthier, but then you got to compare that to the economic devastation.
Well, but they're actually, that's not, A point that we should surrender.
It is by no means obvious that this was the best thing to do for public health.
And that's part of the point that these doctors are making.
The video of that briefing went viral on YouTube.
And then they were on Fox News last night.
They were on with Laura Ingraham last night.
And almost immediately after that, we discovered that YouTube has removed the video.
Took it down for violating guidelines.
Now first, let me read a little bit about this video, since I can't play it.
Reading from TheDailyWire.com.
It says, During a press conference on Wednesday, California emergency room doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massahy of Accelerated Urgent Care told reporters that nationwide lockdown policies are not an appropriate reaction to what current data shows about the China-originated novel coronavirus, but are instead causing measurable public health issues.
Like spikes in domestic violence, sexual abuse, depression, spreading fear to non-COVID-19 related would-be patients that are skipping out on vital healthcare.
Dr. Erickson said, quote, we understand microbiology, we understand immunology, and we want strong immune systems.
I don't want to stay in my home and develop a weak immune system and then come out and get a disease.
Erickson noted that quarantining the healthy is like nothing he's seen before.
We decided to keep people at home and isolate them, even though everything we've studied about quarantine, typically you quarantine the sick.
When someone has measles, you quarantine them.
We've never seen the healthy, where you take those without disease and without symptoms and lock them in your home.
Some of these things come from what we've studied from immunology and microbiology, aren't really meshing with what we know as people of scientific minds who read this stuff.
He goes on and says, when I talk to ER physicians around the country, what's happening?
Well, because COVID has become the focus, people with heart disease, people with cancer, hypertension, various things that are critical are choosing not to come in based on fear.
So, what that's doing is forcing the healthcare system to focus on COVID and not focus on a myriad of other things that are critical because we don't have the staff there and the major complaint is fear.
Okay, there's a lot more to it.
But if you go to YouTube, To find this video now, this is what you're going to see instead.
The video violates community guidelines.
And YouTube is not the only website doing this kind of censoring.
Facebook has been deleting Facebook event pages for lockdown protests.
If you try to organize a protest on Facebook, they might delete it.
And a spokesman for Facebook said, when he was asked about this, said, quote, events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on Facebook.
So protests that defy the government aren't allowed.
Now, call me crazy, but I'd say that defying the government is sort of the point of a protest, isn't it?
It's sort of the whole idea.
As I've been saying for a while, we have to be prepared for this kind of thing.
There's going to be a lot more of it.
As more and more data comes out, especially these antibody tests, showing that this disease is far wider spread than what we were told, which means that it's far less deadly than we were told, and it also means that, you know, the cat was out of the bag a long time ago, and this thing had already spread through many communities, and then we locked down after the fact.
Which makes it, and that's the point that Dr. Erickson was making, that makes it worse than unnecessary.
I mean, unnecessary in and of itself is catastrophic considering you're doing something unnecessary and the price is destroying the economy and millions of lives along with it.
But it's worse than that, it's counterproductive.
So as this all becomes clear, that's gonna mean that the government officials responsible for this, it will be revealed, it will be made
clear that those officials responsible for the lockdown are therefore responsible for,
as I've been saying, and I think this is not hyperbole, possibly the worst
governmental blunder in American history.
I can't think of anything else quite like this.
A policy like this that just embraces a Great Depression, destroying your own economy on purpose in such a direct way.
Thank you.
Now, there have been huge mistakes made in the past that had devastating effects, of course.
The government's done that many times.
But there's never been anything quite like this.
To go from, what was it, 3% unemployment or something along those lines, before the lockdowns, and in the span of a month or month and a half, we're at, you know, 16, 17, 18%.
When the unemployment numbers come out on Thursday, it's going to be over 30 million unemployed.
So the government putting 30 million people out of a job in like a month.
I can't think of any other time when something like that's happened.
And it hasn't happened as Dr. Erickson pointed out.
It didn't happen back when we had other... This is not the first disease we've ever dealt with.
It is not the first pandemic we've ever dealt with.
It is the first time, though, that we decided to lock tens of millions, hundreds of millions of healthy people in their homes for weeks at a time.
And that's why using the word quarantine, that's not the right word.
It's not a quarantine, it's a house arrest.
Quarantine is what you do.
In fact, isolation is for a sick person.
Quarantine is for someone who you know has been exposed to a disease.
It is not something that you impose on entire populations of people.
If you do that, it's not a quarantine, it's house arrest.
So, what are these government officials gonna do?
Are they gonna have Moral courage to come out and admit, hey, we really botched this one.
We got it wrong.
Our bad.
Sorry about that.
No.
I mean, they're going to go down swinging.
The entire time, they're going to claim that this was the right thing.
And they're probably going to get even more aggressive in censoring and shutting down people who point out the opposite.
One thing we have to understand here about the lockdowns.
You know, there's a lot of conspiracy theories and everything.
It's not a conspiracy.
What this was, but it also wasn't about saving lives, I don't think.
But it also wasn't, you know, it's clear to me that these government officials, their primary concern was not saving lives.
I also don't think that they were all conspiring and getting together and saying, let's destroy the economy to stop Trump from being reelected.
That theory doesn't work either, and I'll tell you one of the reasons that theory doesn't work is because Trump has been on board with this himself.
So unless he was trying to destroy the economy to ruin his own election chances, to sabotage himself, then I don't see that.
No.
It was something more simple than that.
This is just one elaborate Wide-ranging CYA operation.
You know, CYA, cover your ass.
And that's what these, all these governors and politicians and people in the federal government, healthcare experts and so on, they just were covering their own asses.
They were trying to do what was safest for them.
Not for you, but for them.
They were thinking it was a political This was a political calculation made by a bunch of self-interested moral cowards.
It's as simple as that.
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All right, let's move on to headlines.
And we'll start with this, the biggest story of the century.
The United States government has announced officially Dude, that is a f***ing car bro.
and they have visited us.
Maybe not exactly, I'm paraphrasing.
They didn't announce that officially, but they did release some footage of UFOs.
These are previously top secret videos taken by Navy pilots.
And I don't know, you judge for yourself.
Look at this.
Dude, that is a f***ing drone, bro.
There's a whole fleet of them, look on the ASA.
My gosh.
I'll go against the wind.
The wind's 120 knots to the west.
That's not our L and S though, is it?
It's not our L and S, yeah.
Well, if there's a good thing... It's rotating.
Hey!
Go ahead!
Woohoo!
What the f*** is that?
There it is.
Confirmation.
Okay?
There is literally nothing else that could be except aliens.
No other explanation is possible.
At least no other explanation is as interesting and exciting as aliens.
And so I just go, you know, that's the thing.
If you're a rational person, you always choose.
And if you're someone who believes in philosophical rigor, you're always going to go with the more fascinating and interesting explanation.
All right?
Now, of course, actually, as I've said many times, I think, unfortunately, aliens do exist, but they're never going to be here.
I was talking to somebody recently.
And they were saying, hey, you know, the universe is so big, there could be a hundred billion other intelligent civilizations out there.
Yeah, there could be, but you know what?
If there was a hundred billion intelligent civilizations, guess what?
That's one per galaxy.
You know how long it would take to get from one galaxy to another?
Even if you're going at the speed of light, you're talking millions of years.
So, it's just, they're never going to be here.
Although they're out there.
You can go out at night and wave to them.
Maybe they can see you with their really fancy telescopes, but I don't think they're ever going to come here, unfortunately.
So those are probably just drones.
Hate to say.
Speaking of alien creatures, here's Joe Biden on CBS yesterday.
I would get much more engaged in the world.
We can't step back.
If, in fact, for example, we solve the problem in the United States of America, and you don't solve it in other parts of the world, you know what's going to happen.
You're going to have travel bans.
You're going to not be able to have economic intercourse around the world.
There's a lot... Look, when America goes alone, when America is first, it's America alone.
Economic intercourse, he calls it.
Economic intercourse.
The thing that Joe Biden does, and you can tell when he's speaking and giving an answer at an interview or at a debate, you can tell he's putting a lot of effort.
He's trying really hard to come across like he knows what he's talking about, and he's lucid.
He does this with his hands, and that's how you know that he's really trying to zone in and focus.
But it all comes apart.
I mean, he can't speak for more than 15 seconds.
Without devolving into incoherence.
And, you know, I play that because it's kind of funny, but I'm getting at the point where I can hardly even laugh at it anymore because it really is just sad and pitiful.
And you have to think the people closest to him, the people in his life, his wife, his family, his closest advisors, what are they doing?
Dragging this guy out on stage.
I mean, they need to sit him down and say, we got to pull the plug on this.
They have to step up.
Because the person they're supposed to care about is falling apart in front of the entire world.
Many people, if you live long enough, you're going to start to lose your mental faculties.
Everybody does.
And lots of people, when they get to Joe Biden's age, get dementia.
It's a really common thing.
In fact, this is my whole reason why I've said there needs to be an upper age limit on the presidency.
It's crazy to me that there isn't.
If there's a lower age limit, there ought to be an upper age limit.
I say 75.
You know, 35 is the lower limit, 75 is the upper limit.
That gives you a solid 40 years.
If you want to become president, you got 40 years to do it.
If you can't do it in 40 years, then I would say you had your shot and why don't you just go and sit on the rocking chair on your porch and talk to your grandkids.
So, because once you get to 80, your chance at 80, you know, your chance of developing dementia, I think is like something like 20%.
It's significant.
And of course, as you get older, it becomes even more significant.
So this is something that many people have gone through.
It's very sad.
It's just that most people don't go through it in front of the entire world on national television.
Let's see.
Number three.
Here is an incredible headline from the Washington Post.
Take a look.
It says, developments and allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior.
At first blush, that just seems like a bunch of words were thrown in a blender and then poured out onto the page.
Doesn't even seem to make sense, but you look again.
Developments and allegations against Biden amplify efforts to question his behavior.
Now, I remind you, this is A headline in the Washington Post, this is not something from a press release written by Biden's lawyers.
You would think that Biden's lawyers wrote this headline.
And maybe, in fact, they did.
And then they changed the headline on the actual article and made it even worse.
So here's the new headline on the article itself.
It says, Trump allies highlight new claims regarding allegations against Biden.
Well, I'll tell you what makes that even worse, is that they're Trump allies.
So everybody who is pointing out that Joe Biden was accused of rape, credibly, is a Trump ally now.
Even though Tara Reade herself is a Democrat, she is not a Trump ally.
And she's the one making the accusation.
Which is yet another thing.
In fact, I was listing all the differences between Tara Reade and Christine Ford yesterday and talking about how much more credible these allegations are.
Whether you think these allegations are credible or not, they're certainly much more credible than Christine Ford's allegation.
One factor I forgot to point out is that, on top of the fact that Tara Reade actually has some circumstantial evidence she can produce, whereas Christine Ford had none, also the politics of it.
Christine Ford was an open, Left-wing, liberal, you know, very much against Kavanaugh's politics or what are perceived to be his politics.
So you could see how there'd be an extra incentive there to embellish or exaggerate or lie, fabricate.
But with Tara Reade, she's a Democrat.
So there's not any immediately obvious political motivation here.
And in any case, so that's the way that Washington Post is framing it.
There's just, obviously, I don't think I have to explain what's wrong with this, and how much different this headline would be if Biden was a Republican.
But just to focus on one aspect of this, efforts to question his behavior.
What a very odd way of talking about a rape allegation.
So, if you allege that someone committed rape, you're questioning their behavior?
Yeah, that's true.
That's quite a soft pedal, though.
You know, I guess my point is, I'm not sure that I would call rape, or alleged rape, I'm not sure I would call it questionable behavior.
I think it's something quite a bit more serious than that.
Let's stay on the theme of the Washington Post being horrible.
Here's another of their headlines.
The headline is, a Virginia preacher believed God can heal anything.
Then he caught coronavirus.
Yeah, and you're seeing headlines like this all over the media, where you've got, you know, so-and-so believed in God and then they got coronavirus, or so-and-so protested the lockdowns and then got coronavirus.
So what?
First of all, to be spiking the football like this is obviously grotesque and evil.
But it's also got nothing to do with anything.
Yeah, the Virginia preacher believed that God can heal anything, then he caught coronavirus.
I'm pretty sure if you talk to the Virginia preacher, he still thinks that God can heal anything.
This is one of the problems the media has when they try to slander and defame Christians.
They don't understand Christianity, so they're not very good at doing it.
Christians who believe, as any Christian does, that God can heal anything, that's not the same thing as thinking that God will heal everything, or that we're all going to be immortal.
We don't think that.
So this is not... If you think that God can heal anything and then you get sick, it's not a reason for a crisis of faith.
Number five, let me read a little bit from a Daily Wire report, and then we'll play the video for you, but just this gives it context.
It says, on Sunday, a 93-year-old couple sitting on folding chairs they had brought to a beach in Oxnard, California, got a rude awakening to the draconian policies implemented by the state when a policeman approached them and asked them to get off the chairs and sit on the ground.
These are 93-year-old people.
Sit on the ground if they wanted to remain where they were, despite the fact that they were far from any other people.
The reasoning of the policeman was that the folding chairs indicated the couple were creating a permanent place, as opposed to the temporary nature of sitting on the sand itself.
So they were told, and I'll play the video for you now, but this is the police officer telling these elderly, this elderly couple, they have to get off their chairs and sit on the ground.
So watch this.
They're old people!
But they're old people, officer.
How old are you, man?
How old are you?
They're old people.
Hey guys, so the chairs are allowed.
I'm gonna go get a drink.
Yes, because it's much healthier and safer for 93-year-olds to not be sitting on a chair but be sitting on the ground.
I mean, the whole thing is... First of all, how are folding chairs... I mean, you don't even know where to begin with this kind of stuff.
How are folding chairs a sign of permanence?
A folding chair is permanence?
I think a folding chair is a pretty good sign that it's not permanent.
You pick up the folding chair, you sit down in it, you get up and you move.
But why does it matter how long they're on the beach?
It's a very safe place for them to be, in fact.
They're in the sun, they're in the open air.
Who cares if they're on the beach for 15 hours?
That's fine.
I mean, it might not be good for the heat and everything and the sun exposure, but in terms of the virus, it's a very safe place to be.
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Listen, I really hate to do this, but I have to for the third time, I think third time total and second time in a week, I have to cancel my wife.
And she keeps getting canceled and it hurts me.
It hurts me more than it hurts her, but I have to keep doing it.
So my wife, I think I mentioned on this show, she recently developed an ambition to become a chicken farmer.
And so she bought a bunch of chickens a few weeks ago.
And then she went out to the store yesterday and came back with more chickens.
So she just keeps buying chickens.
It's the weirdest compulsion I've ever seen in a person.
Every time she comes home now, I have to check her purse to see if she's smuggling more chickens in, because you never know.
But yesterday crossed the line because she came in with these new chickens and she brought them up to my office right here in this sacred space, right after I'd finished doing the show, actually.
And she put one of them on my desk that she had just bought.
And I want you to take a look at this.
Here's the picture.
Candid shot there, okay?
So you notice a few things happening here in this picture with that chicken.
First of all, that is the ugliest damn chicken you will ever see in your life.
It looks like it's been up all night smoking crack.
It is a crack-addicted chicken.
It looks like some sort of sea urchin mated with a camel, and then their baby mated with a chicken, and this is the chicken that came out.
Then you also notice my expression, and it looks in this picture, it looks kind of like I just had a fight with a chicken, and now the chicken isn't talking to me.
It's giving me the cold shoulder, and I'm just sitting there.
Feeling very guilty?
Or maybe someone said it looks like the chicken just gave me bad news and I'm processing it.
Like maybe the chicken is my doctor and told me I have six months to live.
Frankly, I would get a second opinion on that because, you know, he's a chicken.
And that would be very awkward going to the second doctor and having to say, yeah, I need a second opinion on this diagnosis.
Oh, why is that?
Well, because my first doctor was a crack-smoking chicken, so.
Anyway, and then to make matters worse, I'm talking to my wife last night and she told me that I should be excited about these new ugly chickens because, and these were her exact words, they can do a dance and bring you sticks.
I'm sorry, what?
We're taking care of and feeding these chickens so they can dance and bring us sticks?
Okay.
Why don't we go out next and buy a cow that can whistle the happy birthday song or like A horse that can moonwalk.
I mean, let's just fill our whole yard with useless animals that can do party tricks.
What kind of farm are we running here?
We're gonna be laughingstocks of the chicken farming community.
Everyone else is eating omelets made from the eggs from their chicken, and we're over here watching our chicken tap dance.
Every morning.
So, um, because of all these chickens that are getting progressively uglier and more useless, My wife is cancelled.
Again, I hate to do it, but... Three times.
Maybe she'll... Maybe she'll...
Catch the hint.
Let's go to emails.
And if you become a Daily Wire member, you can, of course, always email the show using the mailbag.
So, this is from Matt.
Says Matt, fellow Matt here, who also wears glasses, did you ever figure out how to use a face mask and not have your glasses completely fog up?
If you get those ones that you have the material, you can pinch at the nose.
You can kind of avoid the fogging.
But even still, It's hard to avoid.
Let me know what you found out.
Yeah, in fact, I've gotten a lot of emails on this.
Because I mentioned that this is one of the things, as a member of the glasses wearing, as a member of the visually impaired community, this is something that I deal with.
Just more persecution, really, and oppression.
Added on to all the other things that I cope with on a daily basis.
So my, you know, when you wear the mask to the store or something, it causes your glasses to fog up.
Which made me very concerned because now I'm thinking about, I never realized this was an issue, and now I'm thinking about all the surgeons and doctors out there who wear glasses and have to wear the face mask, and I'm thinking they can't see a damn thing apparently during their surgeries.
So I've gotten a lot of emails about this, and The consensus seems to be to use some tape on the inside of the mask.
Apparently it's as simple as that.
Okay.
This is from another mat.
So we've got two mats.
Dear Matt, Georgia resident here, I don't really have much of a question, so much as to inform you, your listeners and watchers, about opening day.
I know there's been a lot of hate thrown at Governor Kemp after his announcement that Georgia was opening certain aspects of the economy.
My wife and I, more out of genuine curiosity, decided to go out and see how this was working for restaurants.
As much as people want to believe that all the restaurants were just given the green light to open completely, That's just plain misinformation.
We had to go to three separate restaurants.
They were still serving curbside and delivery, but they weren't conducting dine-in service.
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Okay, a lot of detail here, a lot of tangential detail.
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If you needed salt or pepper, they'd bring you individually wrapped salt or pepper for your table.
If you want ketchup or mustard, they would get you a glass cup and the ketchup or mustard and fill the cup at your table.
I believe this is to ensure that people see that it wasn't just sitting in a refrigerator and Okay, so I was curious what the what the restaurants look like now post corona and at least in this one case That's what they're doing now, you know Yeah, I'm glad they opened up in in Georgia And many states now are supposedly starting the process of reopening I was just reading about Texas and they're gonna start opening stuff up but in Texas And it's like this in other states, too.
In Texas, in phase one of the reopening, restaurants have to operate at 25% capacity for dine-in.
And I'm just thinking something like that, you know, yes, I suppose we could say it's better than nothing, but is it really?
If you can only have 25% capacity for dine-in, I think a lot of restaurants are going to say, it's not financially worth it to do that.
Because that means we have to bring in more staff and pay them to wait the tables, and we can only have 25% of our normal amount of customers.
I just, I think what we have to watch out for is there's going to be states that supposedly are reopening, and I'm not saying this is the case with Texas, but there are going to be states that are reopening, quote unquote, but in reality are not.
They're just saying it, but the guidelines and rules put in place are so onerous that it makes it impossible for a lot of businesses to actually open.
And I think that they're going to make this way more complicated than it needs to be.
Okay, yeah, I'm not saying we go back to life completely as normal.
But we don't need to have, you don't need to have a Bible-length The book of rules, telling businesses what to do, I think most of it is pretty obvious.
Yeah, okay, wear gloves if you're in the food industry.
Maybe wear a mask, that makes sense, especially if you're in the food industry.
You don't want to put people right on top of each other.
It doesn't need to be 25% capacity.
I think just really basic common sense precautions are what's necessary.
People, for the most part, are reasonable.
You know, I've been out plenty during this whole thing.
Not that I can go to that many places, but at least to the store.
Over the weekend, we went, as a family, we went for a hike, you know, just at a local park.
And it was very busy.
You know, there was tons of people there, because everyone's itching to get out of the house, like we were.
And some of the trails we were walking on were pretty narrow.
But we didn't need a set of rules to tell us what to do.
It was just, okay, you're walking on a narrow path.
There's another group of people coming the opposite direction.
One of you just moves over and lets the other group pass.
That's the amazing thing.
We didn't need any guidelines or rules.
We didn't need the federal government to tell us what to do if we encounter people on the trail.
We already know.
Just, okay, you move over, you give them some space.
So we don't need to make it more complicated than it needs to be.
Okay, this is from Mark.
Says, Matt, I'm wondering when you will admit you were wrong about the lockdowns.
Almost 60,000 dead.
Obviously the lockdowns were and are necessary.
It's embarrassing that you still continue to downplay it.
I've lost so much respect for you.
Well, Mark, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't really care if you respect me or not.
That's of no concern to me.
I find it interesting that you assume 60,000 dead proves our mitigation strategy was successful.
That's kind of an odd assumption, isn't it?
You're saying, look at all these people who died.
Obviously, what we did to stop people from dying worked.
See, this is what you've done over on the pro-lockdown side.
You've set up a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose situation where no matter what, no matter what the data shows, no matter how many people die or don't die, it proves that the lockdowns were needed.
But I'd say the data proves the opposite.
These antibody tests indicate that the virus is, as I said at the beginning of the show, way more widely spread than we were told, which means that by the time the lockdown started, it had already made its way through many communities, which means that you were locking people who had the virus or had already been exposed to it into their homes with family members, often older family members, Who didn't have it?
Creating exactly the right kind of scenario for transmission of the virus.
Not the right scenario to avoid getting it, but the right scenario for transmitting it.
Prolonged, indoor, closed-quarters contact with family members.
That's how this thing primarily spreads.
And these lockdowns created the perfect situation for that.
And aside from all that, 30 million unemployed, 150 million globally at risk of starvation, says the UN, food supply chain catastrophically disrupted, civil liberties abolished.
You look at all of this and your conclusion is that the government did the right thing?
Really?
That's your conclusion?
You think all of this somehow proves me wrong?
No, I don't... I don't think that's... I don't think that's the case.
At all.
But I appreciate the email, and thanks everybody for watching.
We will leave it there.
God bless.
Godspeed.
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