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> I hate to be so blunt, but 50% of the population has IQ below 100. Nothing to me has demonstrated this more than the reaction to the pandemic. When you are so uneducated that you think a mask won’t help prevent a disease that is spread via respiratory droplets, that is a big problem and unfortunately those people are all sitting ducks. Of course many won’t believe the doctors when they don’t have the capacity to understand even the basic concept?

Maybe the problem is they spent too much time listening to the apparently sub-100 IQ public health establishment in March?



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No, of course not. I'm just pointing out that the issue is not simply "stupid people exist."




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