Joey Chestnut, the defending world champion, broke his own world record last Sunday by devouring 76 hotdogs and buns in just 10 minutes during Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. This is the 14th edition Chestnut won in a row. Chestnut ate one more hotdog than he managed last year, whilst completely leaving second place Geoffrey Esper in the dust as he skipped him with a whopping 26 more hotdogs.
Michelle Lesco, who ranked ninth overall, picking up her first women’s championship victory following the consumption of 30 and 3/4 hot dogs and buns. This is 6 and 3/4 more than her runner up Sarah Rodriguez. The women’s record was set in 2020 by Mike Sudo when she ate 48.5 hot dogs and buns. Sudo did not compete this year as she’s expecting her first child later this month.
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More prominently however, he points out how lockdowns do not save lives and masks are useless in the open. He stated that some lockdown measures in fact increase daily numbers. ‘Lockdowns, travel restrictions, border closures and contact tracing are useless with an endemic virus, as the WHO found in their review of the evidence in preparing their epidemic and pandemic guidelines in 2019.’
With widespread vaccination, these measures need to go ‘forever’, says Soler. As for masks, Soler states that they cause carbon dioxide retention and have significant harmful effects with no demonstrable benefits. He encouraged those over 65-70 who have not had COVID-19 to take their vaccine.
He stated that social distancing is a reasonable precaution but there is no need to be afraid of people who are not sick as they cannot transmit COVID-19 without symptoms. He concluded that if one is already immune to COVID-19, they do not need vaccination. The vaccines are still only approved for emergency use, Soler states.
