Should I Get The Vaccine ? Travel Restrictions & New Developments For 2021 - What’s On My Mind
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ah yes the soothing sounds of yard work
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over there
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maybe a leaf blower the sun
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is peeking up there over the horizon
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here in celebration florida
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a little walking talk been doing quite a
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few of these but i have something on my
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mind
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and just wanna get it out there
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something i've been thinking about doing
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contemplating
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not 100 sure
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what my thoughts are on it but i just
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want to think out loud
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if you will and i have a little coffee
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here
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boy that is there you go you can't say i
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just procured
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you know what this is no reason to just
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state it again as i
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walk around sometimes off yeah
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it's it's it's a okay fine
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it's a piping hot caffeinated beverage i
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don't know why i always get the hot ones
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and not not iced coffees which a lot
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are very fond of i even gone through a
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point in my life where i drink a lot of
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iced coffee but i have
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have developed an affinity
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and they did not put my name on it they
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didn't even ask for money because there
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was hardly anyone there
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this early says four here
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but that's it oh for here meaning
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it was you know over there on the corner
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there's the starbucks
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it's not for here like it would be for
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adam so my name wouldn't be here but
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it'd be for here
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what are my thoughts oh yeah i'm
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inviting you turning this around
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flipping the screen up that's what that
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noise is welcome everyone
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adam wu here
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oh there look
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celebration florida 1994
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discussion that i'm inviting you to join
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me to have
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shall you
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that's warm
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the vaccine very
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it's something that's circling around
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everyone's mind
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or circling around bloodstreams of
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a lot of folks what the hell let me
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preface this by saying
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i'm not a doctor i'm not a nurse i am
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not an expert
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in fact i wouldn't even consider myself
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a moderate novice
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on anything medical these are just
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personal opinions
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and thoughts and from
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a 36 and a half
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no yeah 46 gosh 36 i wish
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46. wait a step back a decade there
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46 and a half year old
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man that goes out every
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every day more or less every day and is
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around
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large congregations of people even
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during these times
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just you know there's people everywhere
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so take everything with a grain of salt
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and these are this is what i'm thinking
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and get a little view of some
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florida wildlife this bird here
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poking around in the water trying to get
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a little a little breakfast
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hello oh i didn't mean to start again
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did i started you or did
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a fish down in there startle you get
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some fish down in there
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suit has been definitely an interesting
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year last year 2020 i went to mardi gras
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in new orleans and it was a it was a
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real beehive of activity for sure there
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were a lot of people there
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up close personal no elbow room smushed
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in with a lot of a lot of other
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bead catching folk
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including myself and shortly after that
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made it out here to central florida for
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the opening day of mickey and minnie
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runaway which was also very very busy
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saw a lot of people who knew who i was
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gave a lot of hugs get a lot of
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handshakes
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a couple days later i think maybe a day
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or two later is when
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the news really broke about what was
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going on in the world
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and it was it was scary it was very
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terrifying
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not only for me but for a lot of other
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people
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and didn't really know how to embrace i
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didn't really know how to
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wrap my head around the situation and i
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had a flight home
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to southern california was staying at my
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parents house
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i should probably walk let's walk
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there's another foul there
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oh getting a little bath hello
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oh there's another one over here well
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we're just in bird haven or bird
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heaven staying at my parents then
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because i did not have a place yet here
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in town i had not
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got my secondary homestead
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florida counterpart to my socal
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establishment it's interesting how well
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it's not interesting i mean it just
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makes sense but the
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it's very silhouetted out over there
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because the sun has not risen above
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the tree line
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and i was out here for like six weeks i
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thought when am i gonna go home i kept
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postponing flights
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i can't remember if flights were stopped
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or not
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nonetheless it was it was a frightening
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time because
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no one really knew what was happening no
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one knew what was going on
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eventually after about six weeks well
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while i was here i was still doing
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things that was going on hikes
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staying away from people doing things
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but then staying in my parents guest
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room which
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frightened me because no one really knew
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the implications
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of what was happening so i tried to stay
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away from everyone including my family
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as much as possible
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but i needed to get home so i eventually
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after about six weeks
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booked a flight completely empty flight
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there was no
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well i say empty there was maybe
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about eight to ten people i did a video
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on it empty completely empty
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airliner and on that flight
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was the first time that they said you
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didn't have to
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but they suggested they said
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it would be best not if you remove them
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don't bet let me get over here so you
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can kind of see
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best not remove them but it might be
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best
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if you put these on which i did
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that was the first time i
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was on that flight back from here too
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to california that i did that
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and it was kind of awkward i thought man
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this is weird
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i don't like this at all and i felt that
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way for a little while i got back
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i stayed at home for 14 days i did about
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six
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five or six home vlogs
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which ended up being about the only home
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vlogs
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that i ever did started going out going
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on bike rides
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walking i started doing the food series
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i think i did that for
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40 maybe 50 days
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and that kind of saved me that really
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helped that really helps save
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my mental attitude on doing things i'm
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going on
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staying moderately sane if you will
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because it gave me something to do there
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were no theme parks open there were no
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parks open
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you couldn't even with los angeles and
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orange county you couldn't even really
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go to any like normal parks you couldn't
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even do this you couldn't even walk
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walk around a lot of the hiking trails
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and the mountains
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all closed off it was a wild time
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scary time
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fast forward a couple months walt disney
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world reopened
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they announced that into early july
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2020 wow to that it's it's
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wow that is in wild to say
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that walt disney world opened in summer
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of 2020 and disneyland has not even
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opened yet they're opening in about a
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week to 10 days
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a year almost a year well not quite a
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year 10 or 11 months after
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walt disney world correlation between
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florida
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and california rules regulations
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perception
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you know just what is stated
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the vibe very interesting how states
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estates
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are and maybe i experience it a little
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more
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than some because i do have places
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and i see what it's like on each one
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going from here to there
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and then it's different there you come
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here totally different vibe
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all that aside came back out here for
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the openings reopenings
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magic kingdom was there on the very
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first annual pass holder preview day
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limited capacity 15 there was relatively
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anyone in the park
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and that is when i started to get
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these in my head now i had been wearing
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these even on going hiking
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on california doing the outdoor videos
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getting back here and i became very
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accustomed to this
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and i will go on record that i do not
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having this on at all for me
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someone who goes out every day and is
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around people
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i have not been sick knock on wood is
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there wood here
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i have not been sick in over a year
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except for the maybe a sniffle for one
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second or an allergy where i sneezed
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for two seconds that's it i haven't had
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any
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any sickness once again
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don't want to put that into the universe
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and i think a lot of it has to do with i
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have been
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sanitizing my hands more cleaning more
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society in general is following the
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guidelines staying away
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no one is doing six feet anymore well i
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say no one
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very limited percentage even at the
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theme parks even though it's stated
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you get out into the open areas people
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are just really close to you
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so i have no issue with this in fact
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i like them a lot i don't want someone
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sneezing coughing
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talking in my face i just don't like
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that i didn't like it before
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so if if anything
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positive comes out of the last year i
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would say at least
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you know there are a good percentage of
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folks who will keep their distance and
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i would like to keep it that way you
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know talking to someone
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no close talkers no this way
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no no one needs to be up here and if
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they are
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i'll get this on now these might not be
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mandated at some point
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but i feel i've talked about this with
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some of my friends i feel like for a
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while
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in massive crowds conventions
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theme parks you know obviously i'm not
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wearing one right now i have it
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when i went in to get my coffee over
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across the
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water there but when there's no one
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you know if someone walks by and they
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are a few feet away i don't really throw
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it back on but if i know i'm gonna be
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going into a congregation of folks
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then yes that's just me that's my
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personal opinion
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you can't you can dictate what you do
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you cannot dictate
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what others do and i have noticed there
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there are a lot of people who do not
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someone's laughing
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there are a lot of people who really
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don't have concern
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for others you know so you just
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you got to watch your own back and
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that's what i try to do
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you know even if i'm in a line somewhere
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and someone
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someone down the way always is coughing
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i'll give
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i give everyone a three cough rule so
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someone coughs i think okay
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maybe they drink something cold you cold
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give a little cough
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don't stomp your feet
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give a little cough or you eat something
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that went down the wrong way get a
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little cough
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a couple of you know give people a
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couple of those
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imagine it's a third or fourth cough
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especially if it's a intense cough that
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you can tell is coming from the
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the areas that are not healthy
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i will walk away i'll get out of line
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and i'll go somewhere else that also
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goes for restaurants
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if i'm eating anywhere let's say here
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one of the parks
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on the road and someone a few tables
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over
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gives more than three or four coughs in
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a one minute period if they cough
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then a minute later they cough again a
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minute later they cough again
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i'm out of there i just don't take any
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chance i don't want to get sick
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i don't want to feel bad i do not want
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to feel
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ill ill not eel i want there's any eels
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in here
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so let's talk about the vaccine i know
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nothing about this
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i don't i mean i know like what some
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friends have told me
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and i've seen a few things online but i
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don't watch the news
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i don't have social media well i do have
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some social media i don't follow anyone
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i don't have a news feed through any of
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my the platforms on social media that i
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have i don't
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see anybody's posts or feeds so i don't
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get
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perspective from a lot of others i'm not
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inundated
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with either side so this is just going
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off of the basis of what i know and
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kind of how i feel a little rambling
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here we go this is
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this is what it's kind of stirring
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around in my head
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so hypothetically
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i have not gotten i haven't gotten a
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shot in the arm
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i'm not scared of needles i have
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attaches well it's been a long time so i
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got a tattoo i have tattoos that is done
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with a needle
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i have no problems probably kind of fun
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to get a little
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little jab in the arm there i guess what
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people are calling it the jab
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it's i think do i do is it something i
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need to have yes it is said
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that you have to have it but i
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need on a personal basis has stated i
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have not been sick
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hello shaping a haircut is that what's
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called
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it is because it is starting to look as
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if there are going to be some
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regulations where i cannot travel
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without doing it if i don't do it
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there's places i'm not going to be able
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to go
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into and i'm not planning on doing any
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heavy
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well i am doing a little traveling in
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may but i wanted to do some heavy
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traveling
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into mid-july very very
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very heavy traveling i wanted to go back
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to southern california in early july i
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would like to go to disneyland at that
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time
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also side note i heard a rumor that
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california
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might let people from out of state go
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to the theme parks even though they
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probably are anyway because they're
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probably not checking but none that's
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beside the point
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it is going to be non-frowned upon
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to go if you get the you know what
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and then you have to have that little
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idea so that guy i got the the mind
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thinking now i'm not going to rush out
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there
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i have no plans to go back out there for
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two months
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but then i thought what if this is
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something also out there
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california i think some of the arenas
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some of the
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bigger events you are going to be
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required to show that id
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so then i thought wow maybe this is
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something that i have to have
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my thoughts now this is all coming from
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a
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uh not a like forrest gump i'm not a
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smart man
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at all i'm pretty good with math i'm
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good i'm good with math
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that's about it and things that i
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mention if i'm interested in something
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i'm attentive to it but everything else
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a lot of us just
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yeah i'm just in one ear and out the
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other
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just like get distracted obviously i'm
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paying more attention
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to whatever that creature is making that
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noise in the woods right over there than
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what my thoughts are
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there's probably a medical term for that
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i have been looking at some of the local
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places that i can get this done at
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so i'm not against it i'm not for it
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i don't know if it's the right decision
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but i am contemplating it
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putting my thoughts out there into the
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spewing my thoughts
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it's good to do that it's good to think
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out loud speaking of math doing the math
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on it
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so for the last solid year well let's
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say since
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july of 2020 so not not
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10 months 11 months i've been doing
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stuff
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pretty much every day around people
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every day traveling
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going to populated areas granted wearing
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the face recovering which i have in my
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back pocket right now i discuss that i
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have
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no problems wearing will continue to
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wear when i am around
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others and then larger groups or inside
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places that require no issues with that
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whatsoever out of all the people that
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i've been around
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close proximity to others when
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things were a little more
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dangerous a little more frightening when
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it was definitely a little more
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expansive
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with this all floating around
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and now it is starting to subside
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based on what i am questioning getting
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you know the numbers are dropping
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considerably there is not as much
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the people aren't scared as much there's
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not as much fear so if so
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the averages the average
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of me getting it would be less
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right now based than it was in the last
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year so if i made it through the last
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year
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is it something that i should get on a
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personal level
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see these these this is what rolls
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through my mind
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and i don't want to feel bad so getting
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this
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is going to make me feel it might not it
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might not be anything it might just be a
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quick little pain but i've heard that
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will get sick sometimes with the second
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shot
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for up to 24 to 48 hours and they will
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have some nausea
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they will have some other symptoms i
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haven't had any of that
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in over a year so i am now thinking my
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me getting something that's supposed to
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help
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it's going to make me sick for the first
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since all this began
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that's what i have a tough time wrapping
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my head around but then i also think
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what about this could help in the grand
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scheme of things this could help
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not just me but others will it help
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others or is it made just to help
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the individual so if it's made just to
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help the individual
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which would be me
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that is not a worry of mine i am not
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concerned
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i'm not worried about me i think i'll be
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okay i think i've
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passed the cusp of being worried
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for myself but i want to do what's right
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i want to help others
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and not you know if you see me see me
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out and about
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you will always realize especially for
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someone i do not know i'll always have
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the
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facial covering on i'll keep my distance
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unless i'm eating or if it's like you
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know
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walking around like that
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so it's just uh it's a it's a new thing
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for me and it seems like it would yeah
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it seems so simple just go get it out
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just go get it and maybe i will but i
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wanted to express this
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and if and when
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i choose to do that i will
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i will state that in some fashion it
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will be known
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that i have done that when that happens
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might do it later today
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might not do it at all
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but i have some questions i have
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some reservations like not reservations
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to go get it done which i can make
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easily
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and be done but with it by this
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afternoon
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or tomorrow well maybe maybe takes a
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little bit longer than that
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it's just new to me it's a new thing to
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me
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probably even not the best idea to even
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to even put this out there because
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people are going to get there
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they're going to think i'm going to one
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side or the other which rest assured
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you will find none of that with me
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everything everything has to be anytime
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anyone states anything they have to be
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on
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either side oh man that is bright
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whew look at that this brightness on his
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bright
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you know it also it's kind of
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i would think you know from those i've
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talked to
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most people that don't want to get it
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also don't want to wear the facial
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coverings i
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i'm the opposite of that as stated the
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reasons
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i just really like i like the distancing
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i like
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people you know i thought about
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handshaking giving a handshake
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which is the thing to do give a big firm
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handshake
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but then you're getting all up in and
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someone else
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you know right up there in their palm
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and all that sweatiness and all that
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you're making you know you're making a
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deal you're selling a business you're
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buying a car
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you're making a promise making a pact to
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a friend
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i get it but as i've been doing this i
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meet a lot more people than i did
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when i was younger more people start to
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kind of know who i am
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based on watching the videos so on a
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consistent basis
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i'd be shaking people's hands a lot
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someone see me hey how you doing give a
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i kind of like got accustomed to the
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fist bump i like the fist bump
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and i'm gonna i'm gonna be a fist bumper
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for a while
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but if you see me any out about anywhere
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give me a fist bump i'm all about the
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fist bump
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afterwards we can go you know you can go
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your way i'll go my way we'll have a
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little
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little hand washing extravaganza or a
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or a put put our palms underneath one of
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those
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sanitizing stations you know going our
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separate ways would be awkward if we
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met shook hands and then walked over to
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a sanitizing station together
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maybe it wouldn't be so awkward there's
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howard over there
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howard the duck
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also hugs i like giving hugs
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but sometimes giving a lot of hugs
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to people that i do not know which does
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happen
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consistently or did before all this
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started
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maybe that's part of the reason probably
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why i would occasionally get sick
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all right i pretty much stated so much
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yet said so little really did not get my
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point across
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if i did you have a
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you have a better better system of
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understanding
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myself than i do it is an interesting
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this is another development in the
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ongoing saga
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of 2020 now into 12 20 21.
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2020 had its own obstacles 2021 now has
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its own obstacles
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the biggest portion of why
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i want to do this if it is required for
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travel
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i'm gonna i'm gonna have to do it it's
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gotta be done
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if i'm gonna be hindered from doing my
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job
25:32
and going to places i'm not gonna let
25:35
that happen
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i'm gonna get it it's gonna happen i
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just wanted to put out my feelings out
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it's confusing to me
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to be told that you have to have
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something
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that doesn't work in my mind i'm very
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stubborn
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stubbornness
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but you know funny thing though i was
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not stubborn about these
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a lot of people were i'm not suffering
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about this
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i kind of like it so maybe maybe
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maybe this is the right choice could be
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the right choice
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there are there are negative aspects
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i've you know
26:24
seen some stuff that might there are
26:26
some side effects and whatnot but
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i guess you have to just embrace that as
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well
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so now i'm going going back and forth
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because i don't know the answer
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but i want to travel i want to do some
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road trips i want to get on some planes
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and go places and i don't want
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to be halted from that
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which you know is also kind of a problem
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if
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you're being told you have to do
26:57
something and then halt it from doing
26:58
that because you have not done that
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but then again
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you have to wear a seat belt you can't
27:07
walk around naked
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see this this poses both sides
27:15
you can walk around naked but it would
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be
27:18
not here and you don't want to see this
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wandering around here nude
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that's it this is gonna this is gonna
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generate a large discussion
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and i like i like i like
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hearing from others
27:43
sometimes i will be asked why do you put
27:43
that out there
27:45
why do you say certain things why are
27:47
you even giving divulging this
27:48
information
27:50
it's because i really don't know the
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answers to some things and i would like
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to know
27:54
what the consensus is not that i am
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going to
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take what everyone is saying and do that
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but we live in a world where everyone
28:04
has
28:04
different thoughts and no one
28:07
technically
28:08
is right or wrong well certain things
28:10
they are right or wrong about
28:11
but everyone lives their life their own
28:14
way and does
28:15
what they feel is right
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and based on their situation my
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situation
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as a single late 40s well 46
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year old man alone
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my situation would be different than
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someone else's who
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has a big family doesn't travel
28:38
doesn't do kind of what i'm doing and i
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always try to keep that in mind with
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with everything all walks of life
28:44
people i meet what their stance is on
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religion politics everyday life
28:53
everyone's different someone who
28:56
rents an apartment is going to think
28:58
differently than someone who owns a home
29:00
you're going to have different thoughts
29:01
on the situation you know with what goes
29:04
on in their
29:04
local area someone who works a
29:08
job punches a clock nine to five is
29:11
going to think a little bit differently
29:13
than someone who runs their own business
29:16
someone with no kids is going to think
29:18
like me is going to think
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considerably different than someone who
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four or five there's a guy over there
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with a
29:27
an axe right now i think it's a
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sledgehammer
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danny's not here mrs torrance
29:37
danny's not here mrs torrence
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this isn't on this fountain's not on
29:44
well that's a deep cut
29:45
reference when it comes to an axe i'm
29:48
sure someone will get it
29:54
okay i've said everything i need to say
29:56
i want to make my decision
29:58
soon i want to travel
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i want to do what's right but i don't
30:06
know what that
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is right squirrel
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i kind of feel like i know i kind of
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feel
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like i know
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his operation ivy says all i know is
30:28
that i don't know nothing
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truer words could not be said about me
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truer words stop ivy
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the vlog is over