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Speaker 1: Very early on it seemed reasonable to me. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: knowledgeable about what was happening. I live right outside New
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Speaker 1: York City. Okay, the schools are closed, everything shut down.
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Speaker 1: But very quickly after that, I watched my kids just
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Speaker 1: wilting away in the kind of the gray light of
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Speaker 1: their chromebooks, sitting alone in their bedrooms, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: this isn't going to work for a long period of
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Speaker 1: time like this, How can this be? And from there
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Speaker 1: I just started kind of researching and digging in. I
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Speaker 1: was in the middle of writing a book and a
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Speaker 1: totally different topic at the time, but this was just
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Speaker 1: so crazy what was happening. I wanted to learn more
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Speaker 1: about what was going on, and very quickly I started
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Speaker 1: to speak with experts in Europe and elsewhere, because you
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Speaker 1: couldn't speak to them in the United States. And it
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Speaker 1: was very obvious that there was no reason for the
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Speaker 1: schools to remain closed. This very much was what was
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Speaker 1: termed a contrarian view against the establishment.