Episode 1445 Scott Adams： Biden Jokes, Long Haul and Vaccination Mysteries, Drafting Women, Genetics and COVID
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A Japanese man almost died of a stroke moments before he ejaculated. Victoria Secret is going to go all-in on scantily clothed in their new business model, and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
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I'm going to start with the most important news of the day, and then we'll work down to
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Most important news of the day, this was from the Daily Mail, and I hope you didn't miss
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Uh, there was a, according to the Daily Mail, there was a single Japanese man, age 51, who
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almost masturbated himself to death after suffering a stroke moments before he ejaculated.
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In the Daily Mail, they'll, they'll give you the headline, but between the headline and the
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They give you the, you know, the, uh, summary of the story, and in the bullet point summary
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of this, the single Japanese man almost masturbating himself to death,
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the, the, the, the, the, the, the Daily Mail, I'll be laughing about this all day, the Daily
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Mail describes the man as a, a right-handed man in Germany.
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They, they had to tell you he's right-handed because, yeah, you know, good writing, one
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of the, well, one of the elements of good writing is that, uh, you, you make the picture
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of visual, and I guess they didn't want to, they didn't want to leave it to chance that
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you would imagine the wrong hand, so they told you he was right-handed, but they should
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have gone further because if you're right-handed, this is, this is something a girlfriend told
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me when I was, I think, 19, it's, uh, she didn't make it up, but she said, use your left hand
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This is a right-handed man, almost jerks himself to death.
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All right, so, uh, uh, uh, to the Daily Mail, whoever, whoever writes their summaries, that
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was the funniest summary you'll ever see in your life, a right-handed man.
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Oh, I have to hope the rest of this is as funny as that.
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Uh, sorry, this was just about me amusing myself.
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There'll be a portion of this later where I try to entertain you two, but it won't happen
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So Victoria's Secret, uh, has announced that, uh, instead of their old business model, where
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they would have the, the angels, you remember the angels were the attractive models who would
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come out in scanty attire, but they're going to abandon that entire model maybe after this
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year, and instead of having, uh, attractive women scantily clothed to sell their, uh, scant
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clothing, uh, they're going to go with, uh, trailblazing women, trailblazing women, including,
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uh, trans, uh, women, and at least one lesbian.
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And they've sort of, uh, they've decided to drop the whole attractiveness angle.
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I think we all understand if somebody is just totally sexist and says, hey, I'm going to
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sell you some, sell you some, you know, lingerie or whatever, and we're just going to use sex
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to do it, and it's all about, you know, sexy hetero people.
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I guess they don't have to be hetero, but that part's optional.
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Like, I think we would all understand that, right?
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We'd say, okay, maybe that's not for me, or that doesn't address my community or something.
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You know, just the way you would understand it.
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If, uh, uh, if somebody said we have some other kind of theme.
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But, uh, does it make sense that you're selling sexy clothing and you've abandoned the whole
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sex appeal angle to just sort of go for a generic, uh, women are awesome and trailblazers?
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I feel like they're going to have a messaging problem here.
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Now, I'm not, I'm not saying I'm against it, because it's their business and they can do
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And being more inclusive, perfectly good impulse.
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So wouldn't you, wouldn't you like to see more people being, you know, open to all people?
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The thing is, do you take this concept which is good, you know, being, being nice to all
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Um, we have more information coming out that, uh, COVID has a genetic component.
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There are boring studies which are barely, um, understandable to people with my background.
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But it looks like some meta-analysis, uh, has determined that there are 13 genetic signatures
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that will determine whether you get a bad outcome.
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And then there was another study I saw on the same topic that seemed to show that, um,
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different, uh, ethnic groups around the world have very different outcomes.
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Now, a question I asked that I didn't see an answer to is, uh, if you saw my tweet on this
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this morning, did the, did the study say that China would have the least problem with it
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Because the, there's a gigantic problem with scientists trying to communicate.
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For whatever reason, scientists need to communicate in the way that's hardest to understand.
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Now, you can say to yourself, but Scott, that's just because you don't understand the, you know,
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the terms of art and you're not in the industry, but if you were a scientist, you could certainly
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read their writing and you would understand it because you'd know you'd have the technical
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The reason I can't understand it has nothing to do, well, has something to do with my lack
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of training in the field, but it's just bad writing.
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It doesn't have to be the way it's, it's presented in these technical publications.
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But there, there is no, there's not even a hand wave to being comprehensible.
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These are completely incomprehensible written things on top of the fact that you don't understand
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So the one thing I wonder, and if somebody could look at that, what I tweeted this morning
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and give me an opinion, if you're better at discerning what they say, can you tell me if
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that's telling me that this virus coincidentally does not affect Chinese ethnic people as much?
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I think you said that, but you just can't tell the way it's so poorly written.
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I saw a tweet by a gentleman named, well, I don't want to pronounce his first name incorrectly,
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Now, I'd like to be respectful about people's names, and a couple of ways I can think to
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But let's say that you pronounce A-N-A-S as Anas.
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Let's go with A-N-A-S, because A-N-A-S sounds wrong.
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And he noted in a tweet that under Biden, the amount of coal we're exporting to China has
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Now, I think it's probably not as high as it was under Obama, but it's way higher than
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So this green Biden administration maybe is using less coal in the United States.
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And then China's just burning it, and it gets in the same atmosphere.
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So this is yet another case where this whole green or not green situation is hard to analyze,
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So as Michael Schellenberger was tweeting that the share of renewable power in Germany's
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situation is, let's see, the renewable power is down 43% in the past year.
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So Germany was big on renewable green energy, but they got way less of it this year.
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And the reason is unfavorable wind conditions and fewer sunshine hours.
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If you know that the climate is changing, and if the climate is changing, couldn't you assume
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So that, for example, you had a place that was excellent for windmills, but what if the
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Is the place that you put all the windmills suddenly no good for windmills?
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You have to find the right, you know, wind situation.
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So could it be that climate change will make green technology less effective?
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So that wherever you put the windmills, they just stop being good places for windmills,
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and then other places become good places for windmills, but there are no windmills there.
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Because it seems to me every bit of logic about any of this stuff says nuclear energy
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Did Germany get bitten by climate change by putting in the technology that's right for
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climate change, green technology, but then the climate change made the green technology
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That's not a claim, but it looks like it might have happened.
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So Adam Dopamine on Twitter asked a good question, which is, if, as the experts say, something
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like a quarter of all people who get COVID have some kind of long-haul symptoms, shouldn't
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you and I know some people with long-haul symptoms by now?
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Because one of the bullshit filters I teach you is that if science is telling you one
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thing, but your observation, your direct observation is telling you another thing, you need to figure
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And it's at least a flag that you should maybe be a little skeptical about the science.
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Science could be right, and your direct observation could be what's the illusion.
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But if those are in conflict, then you need to ask some more questions.
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So I put down a little unscientific Twitter poll.
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And I think something like, last I checked, I think 17% of the respondents said they did
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Now, given the tens of millions of Americans who have had COVID, 30 million, I forget the
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number, but it's tens of millions who've had it.
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The question was, wouldn't you know somebody who's had long COVID by now?
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Because you'd almost certainly know somebody who had COVID, and then a quarter of them would
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But does it make sense to you that 17% of the respondents do know long COVID?
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Yeah, Dr. Drew had long COVID, as you're saying in the comments.
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So I know, I think I know three or more people who have had long COVID.
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But here's another interesting question, which came to me from a doctor, who shall remain
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But how do we, how do we get statistics for long COVID?
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Is it because you had some problems after you got the COVID?
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Because if all you're doing is looking at what happened to you after you got COVID, you
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can say that 100% of people who've had COVID will die, eventually, it might be 40 years.
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But a lot of coincidences are going to happen after any event.
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How many people got really sick after the Super Bowl, and continue to be sick for months?
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Lots, probably hundreds of thousands, just by coincidence.
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So how do you actually know if somebody has long COVID?
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In other words, you can't do a test on somebody and say, oh, yep, there you go.
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All you have is people reporting that they have symptoms.
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So do you think that people imagining symptoms could inflate that number of people who have long COVID all the way up to 25% when really, maybe it's a lot less?
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Now, speaking of that, there was a British study, which I think I wrote down, showing that the number of long COVID people, oh, here it is.
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In Great Britain, they did a study of long COVID.
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They found that 6.2% of adults may have experienced long COVID since the start of the pandemic.
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And that includes, you know, like 40% of them are only people who are unsure.
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So of the 6%, a large chunk of the 6% weren't even positive.
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They're just like, well, I think maybe I had long COVID, or maybe I just had some problems that came after the COVID.
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Do you think it's 25%, which would be, oh, God?
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Or is it 6% or really not even 6% because some of them are unsure?
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Which sounds more true to you based on your observation, just living in the world and knowing people who've had COVID, et cetera?
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I saw Karl Rove take down the Texas Democrats who left town so that they would remove the quorum
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and there couldn't be a vote about the election reforms that Texas was hoping to do, which the Democrats call voter suppression.
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And so Karl Rove challenged the Democrats, he appeared on Fox News, and he sort of challenged him on a point-by-point of the new proposed Texas law to explain to him and the world why they are voter suppression.
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And I watched Karl Rove just go through each of the Texas law proposed changes, and none of them look like voter suppression to me.
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In fact, they all look like voter protection or voter increase.
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And I thought to myself, why is it that Karl Rove has to come on Fox with his little whiteboard, and he's just a pundit, right?
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Karl Rove is somebody the news invites on to talk.
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So why does Karl Rove have to be the person to tell us what the law says and to show us that there's no correlation with voter suppression?
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If the only thing you've seen is one pundit giving you their argument, which seems pretty airtight, should you say, well, I'm done, I know everything I know now, because Karl Rove just explained it to me?
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Now, I do think that Karl Rove is probably more credible than most pundits, right?
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I think he would be toward the top of people who, if they say something on TV, it's probably true, right?
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So even though he has high credibility, in my opinion, you should never, ever believe one person giving one point of view.
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I mean, I haven't heard any complaints, so it's a question on YouTube.
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So where is the show in which you have a Karl Rove-type person saying, here are the details of the law, and you can see clearly that they do not cause any voter suppression?
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Where is the other person sitting next to him, a Democrat, let's say, who says, no, no, no, Karl Rove, I see what you're saying, but you're misinterpreting this one, or you're leaving one out, or you're not seeing the real reason behind this one.
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It's only people talking, and that's not news, because there's no context.
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So I will give a big standing ovation to Karl Rove for being the first person I've seen to even attempt to explain what the frickin' law says,
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so that we can make up our own mind if the Democrats are being reasonable.
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But someday, somebody's going to make that show, and probably it's going to be on the Internet and not on a network,
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because I don't think the networks can give you any kind of balanced anything.
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But if I had a little bit better technology than I have now, because what I'd want to do is live stream it and have multiple guests,
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and right now I'm not aware of any technology that's quite good enough to do that.
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There's technology to do it, but it's not good enough.
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As soon as we get to the point where I could just easily call people up and say,
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all right, you're a guest on this side, you're a guest on the other side, I'll be your referee, then I'll do that.
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Somebody says, just ask Viva and Barnes how they do it.
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So I would need to see a model with at least two guests.
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Apparently, we learn now that the FBI had 4,500 tips about Brett Kavanaugh and his alleged sexual improprieties for which there is no evidence whatsoever.
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And Democrats, of course, are using this as evidence that the investigation into him was not complete or even valid.
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But how many tips do you think would be the right amount you would expect of fake tips?
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Given the size of the Kavanaugh story and its importance, how many tips would you expect to get?
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I would expect to get about 5,000 tips that were just bullshit.
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So do you think the FBI is good at knowing what kind of tips look reasonable and which ones do not?
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Well, they're better than us, probably better than you and I could do.
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But I don't think the FBI looks into tips, do they?
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Do you know how many tips law enforcement gets about everything?
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What percentage of tips can any law enforcement look into?
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I don't know that anybody really looks into tips except in strange situations.
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How unusual is it that thousands of tips would be ignored by the FBI?
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I feel like it's normal because they would just look at him and say, no, I don't think so.
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I guess the Biden administration is looking at including having women sign up for the draft or register for the draft.
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Now, we don't have a draft, but the registering is just in case.
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And I guess men ages 18 through 24 have to register for the draft.
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So I know a lot of you watching this are older, and I think at some age, many of you did.
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How many of you did not register for the draft, but should have legally?
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I should have just asked how many did not, because those are the ones that are interesting.
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It's illegal, but I think the penalty is something like you can't get student loans or something like that.
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Oh, most states auto-register when you get a driver's license.
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Well, I know people who did not register for the draft and had no consequences whatsoever, but I won't name names.
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So Biden was asked on a viral video that's going around today, somebody asked him,
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are there Democrats who want to defund the police?
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Is that a reasonable question to ask Joe Biden?
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Are there any Democrats who want to defund the police?
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Because every large organization, be they Democrats or be they Republicans, have some of everything.
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Don't you think there are some Republicans who want to defund the police?
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Do you think there are any murderers, rapists, or racists who are Democrats?
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Are there any of those people who are Republicans?
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Are there any people who are, you know, pedophiles and, you know, ex-convicts who are Democrats?
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So asking Biden if there are any Democrats who want to defund the police is just a dumb question.
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So Biden's answer was, and I'm paraphrasing, are there Republicans who think Democrats want to drink the blood of children?
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Now, I saw a number of people tweeting this around like he was just sort of random and crazy, as if it were a, you know, a brain-dead response.
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I'm going to try to be objective about Biden, as I was as best I could about Trump.
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But objectively speaking, this was a great answer.
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It's just that for some reason Republicans didn't see it that way, and, you know, subjectivity is pretty strong.
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It was a good answer because he was brushing it away as ridiculous and essentially said what I did, which is you can find somebody in every group.
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Are there any Democrats who want to defund the police?
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What good would it be to have Biden answer that question?
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But he makes it ridiculous and wipes it away by saying, are there any Republicans who think Democrats want to drink the blood of children?
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So I'm going to say that the call on that that, you know, it shows that Biden has some brain damage or something, I say it's the opposite.
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I say this was a very quick and clever response.
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And it became viral, so he gets points for that, too.
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So I'm going to go against the grain there and say that was a good Biden response.
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So more and more we're hearing that people who are vaccinated can get the virus.
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And there's some thought that maybe in Israel, I think, maybe in Great Britain, I'm not sure, that we're already seeing a reduction in the effectiveness of, I think, mostly the Pfizer shot.
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Once you've accepted that people who have the vaccination can still quite easily get the virus, you know, they have lower symptoms, of course.
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Once you've accepted that, is that a vaccination?
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Because if there's a chemical you put in your body that reduces the symptoms of something but doesn't prevent you from getting it the way a normal vaccination prevents you from getting smallpox, it doesn't treat it.
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Well, I take you back, and I saw in the comments somebody got ahead of me a little bit.
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You remember that one of my predictions that I considered as semi-right and maybe a little bit more wrong than right was I said that we would develop therapeutics faster than anybody imagined.
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And I thought that vaccinations might be years off.
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So, I considered that a bad prediction because the vaccinations were not years off.
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And then the therapeutics seemed to take a while before they kicked in.
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A little slower than I thought, but still faster than maybe we would have expected.
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It seems to me that the vaccination is just a therapeutic.
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And that we did, in fact, develop an ass-kicking therapeutic.
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If you looked at the vaccinations as a therapeutic, they're great.
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If you look at it as a vaccination, I'm not even sure they qualify as a vaccination to do that.
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So, we may have to develop a new category or a new word for something that's not quite a vaccination,
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but you wouldn't quite call it a therapeutic because you take it prophylactically.
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But it gets to the question of whether a vaccine was, in fact, developed for COVID.
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I think we made a therapeutic that's just really, really good.
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And whoever said that's word-thinking, your comment is accepted because I don't think it matters.
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It is what it is, so you can call it whatever you want.
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That is pretty much what I wanted to say today.
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What happens if we all just started calling it a therapy
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which maybe you have a between 6% and 25% chance of getting.
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You know, when I see the numbers of people dying who are vaccinated
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being, like, so small that you can ignore them,
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I mean, unless it's your family, then you can't.
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I feel like other people are in a pandemic, but I'm not.
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And what's going to happen when the people who are vaccinated
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where the vaccinated and the unvaccinated have to fight to the death?
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Because if you're unvaccinated and it feels like you're the cause
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Or do I just say, well, you made your choice, I made mine.
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Because I feel like your choice is affecting my choice.
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Now, my current opinion is that it's not up to me
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Now, I mean, I have normal empathy for humans and tragedies, etc.
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Because your risk and your life are for you to manage,
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But what happens when your choice starts managing my life?
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Here I am with no real risk that doesn't round to zero,
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and my life will be completely determined in the next year
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Now, to take the leap, I'm not taking the leap.
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and therefore you need to get vaccinated like me.
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That would be unethical for me to make that claim.
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However, my choice of getting vaccinated will have no impact on you,
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It will reduce the odds of, you know, lockdowns and whatever.
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Now, I would say that if you look at the cost-benefit of something,
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and you make a personal decision about your cost-benefit,
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Because people do make cost-benefit analyses and make decisions.
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All the people who are so fucking dumb to think that.
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Because there are some things that are just opinions,
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and I don't get down on people for their opinions,
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But if you think that making a cost-benefit decision in a pandemic
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and it happens to be the same as the medical community,
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because I think that people who make different decisions
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We're just people who made a different decision than you did.
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and the vaccinated will decide the lives of the rest.
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If there were enough vaccinations, that would be true.
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Because then the vaccinated people would cause us to open up.
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Why would a vaccinated person need to wear a mask?
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Seriously, why are you still asking that question?
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at how the information about the pandemic is not universal.
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You might be required to wear a mask when you're vaccinated
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because vaccinated people do catch and do spread the virus.
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Is there somebody here who didn't know that by now?
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because your risks are so low if you're vaccinated.
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And also your risk of spreading it, I think, are low.
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You just have to decide how big that reason is.
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Is there any therapeutic that you take once and you're done?
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You probably have to take a pill every now and then