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Re: ivermectin, any positive results of taking ivermectin could easily be from the placebo effect.

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> Thus I am markedly less optimistic than is Diane, not about economics—the state of economics, at least where I sit here in Berkeley, is very, very good.

Y'all can't seem to come to grips with food security as an issue. We're getting pretty close to the decade agriculture fails enough that people die in large numbers. This isn't being priced in, which in turn implies the models only see money and not the world.

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And let's not forget that having a billion or so starving people will lead to a big jump in warfare, including non-state terrorism, as refugees surge to the borders.

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