Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 10, 2021


Episode 1495 Scott Adams： WARNING： This Live Stream Will Change Your Opinion About Vaccination Risk. Don't Watch it.


Episode Stats

Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

136.2693

Word Count

4,399

Sentence Count

330


Summary

A woman in a gorilla mask throws an egg at a black man who is running for governor of California and he doesn t know what to do about it. I also talk about a fake news alert about the collapse of the U.S. infrastructure in Mississippi.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. It's time for the best, oh, not this time.
00:00:06.940 Sorry, don't I always tell you that this is the best part of your day?
00:00:11.620 But not today. Not for all of you.
00:00:14.640 For some of you, I'm going to blow the top off your head.
00:00:20.000 For many of you, you're going to get really pissed off if you watch this.
00:00:24.920 And some of you might die.
00:00:26.460 Let me say that again, in case you thought that was a joke.
00:00:31.880 Watching this live stream could kill you.
00:00:35.540 Literally.
00:00:36.900 Because I'm going to say some things today that I do not intend,
00:00:40.980 because it would be unethical in my opinion.
00:00:44.220 I do not intend to change your mind about any medical decisions.
00:00:49.580 But the content will do that.
00:00:52.960 It's not my intention.
00:00:54.080 It's just, I'm going to give you some truth about something that maybe you hadn't thought about.
00:00:59.640 And it will have the effect of changing some of your minds.
00:01:04.160 Don't watch this if you don't want a cartoonist to accidentally change your medical decisions.
00:01:14.800 This warning is 100% real.
00:01:20.260 It's not reverse psychology.
00:01:22.620 It's not a marketing trick.
00:01:24.560 I'm not trying to get you to watch it because it's naughty or it's provocative.
00:01:29.400 It actually could fucking kill you.
00:01:32.580 Do you hear that?
00:01:34.140 Just hear that as clearly as you can.
00:01:36.800 Watching this live stream could fucking kill you.
00:01:40.800 Now I feel like I've done my ethical duty.
00:01:42.940 None of this is a joke.
00:01:46.800 None of this is a joke.
00:01:48.260 Could fucking kill you.
00:01:50.500 I'm not trying to.
00:01:51.720 That's certainly not my intention.
00:01:54.180 But we're just going to try to talk about some truth and see what happens.
00:01:57.800 All right?
00:01:58.520 So bail out now if you don't want to be any part of the vaccination persuasion, even accidentally.
00:02:06.500 And I know a lot of you don't like that topic.
00:02:08.200 And I would invite you to come back tomorrow and I'll talk less about it.
00:02:12.800 But before that, all you need to enjoy this to the maximum extent is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or chalice or sign a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:02:24.280 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:02:27.960 I like coffee.
00:02:29.560 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day, the thing that makes everything better.
00:02:33.800 It's called the simultaneous sip.
00:02:37.140 It makes everything better except the coronavirus.
00:02:39.900 Go.
00:02:43.680 All right.
00:02:48.120 Now, I'm going to be easing into the topic.
00:02:53.080 All right?
00:02:53.500 You'll know it when it happens.
00:02:56.080 And I'm going to repeat the warning because people are joining and missed the original warning.
00:03:01.840 But I'll repeat the warning in a little bit.
00:03:03.280 But first, did you know that today Akira the Don's album dropped featuring my vocals?
00:03:14.140 And if that sounds weird, it's not.
00:03:18.060 It turns out it's a new genre of music in which Akira the Don takes samples from podcasts and uses that as the lyrical part.
00:03:28.980 And then he adds the musical stuff in the back.
00:03:30.900 And you would be amazed how well that works because the podcasts tend to be content that has some meaning because he chooses it for that purpose.
00:03:43.480 And it's not just mine.
00:03:44.400 I think Jordan Peterson's on there, some other people.
00:03:46.620 And check that out.
00:03:50.760 You will be surprised.
00:03:52.760 Right?
00:03:53.300 You will be surprised.
00:03:54.760 It's worth checking out only because, well, even if you didn't care musically, check it out because it's a new genre.
00:04:03.200 And it's worth looking at just for that alone.
00:04:05.500 Well, Larry Elder got hit by an egg by a woman in a gorilla mask when he was campaigning for the governorship of California.
00:04:16.260 And as every smart person is asking today, would this be covered by the news exactly the same if he were a Democrat?
00:04:31.840 Wouldn't all the news be, you know, it's a big racist thing.
00:04:34.760 It's a gorilla mask.
00:04:35.960 He's black.
00:04:37.300 Throws an egg at him.
00:04:38.680 Somebody's saying in the comments that the egg missed.
00:04:40.800 Well, if the egg missed, I guess the yolk is not on him.
00:04:47.720 All right.
00:04:50.920 Yeah, you know, this is one of those hypocrisy things that there's not much depth to the comment.
00:04:59.080 It's just every time you see an example where the news is clearly just propaganda because the way they treat these things is so different left and right,
00:05:08.220 then you just can't even take it seriously.
00:05:10.800 In any possible way.
00:05:13.860 All right.
00:05:15.360 Here's a fake news alert.
00:05:16.800 Fake news alert.
00:05:17.840 Fake news alert.
00:05:19.960 This comes to me via Twitter and Adam Dopamine.
00:05:24.680 Adam points out that the breathless reporting on Florida's COVID surge seamlessly shifted to stories about Mississippi and Louisiana.
00:05:34.360 Why is it that all that talk about Florida sort of just sort of softly while you weren't looking sort of just started talking about two other states?
00:05:48.060 Because the surge collapsed.
00:05:50.060 Because the surge collapsed.
00:05:55.660 That's why.
00:05:56.780 The surge collapsed.
00:05:59.660 So whatever Florida is doing, you know, they had, I guess, three surges that were pretty bad.
00:06:04.980 But at the moment, it's going pretty well.
00:06:08.420 So watch your fake news.
00:06:11.820 Try to try to miss, you know, change your direction.
00:06:15.480 It's a little case of misdirection.
00:06:17.240 Hey, look at this hand.
00:06:18.600 Look at this hand.
00:06:19.400 Ah, ah.
00:06:20.000 Forget about this one.
00:06:21.260 Ah, look at this one.
00:06:22.120 Look at this one.
00:06:22.620 All right.
00:06:27.060 University of California professor is suing the school system because he says he has natural immunity against COVID, but they're going to require him to get the vaccination anyway.
00:06:41.860 Now, how do you lose that argument?
00:06:44.960 Let's say you're smart enough to be a professor at Berkeley, right?
00:06:53.940 So it's a, you know, top university.
00:06:55.940 If you're a professor at a top university and your argument is pretty ironclad, which is that if you have natural immunity, you're, you know, you're better off than people who have two shots.
00:07:10.420 Now, how does he lose that argument?
00:07:13.340 I mean, maybe, seriously, how do you lose it?
00:07:19.640 It feels like that's the most slam dunk argument anybody ever had.
00:07:24.560 Now, maybe it has something to do with you can't verify easily whether somebody has antibodies.
00:07:30.720 I can see maybe they'd require you to have an antibody test.
00:07:34.260 Maybe that's not practical because how do you really know somebody had COVID?
00:07:38.440 They could just say they had it and not get the vaccination.
00:07:40.800 So there might be some practical reasons, but this guy's going to lose his job for not being protected against COVID when he is more protected than just about everybody on campus.
00:07:58.860 How does he lose this?
00:08:00.660 I mean, he might.
00:08:02.100 He might.
00:08:02.660 That's the scary thing, right?
00:08:04.080 He might actually lose this.
00:08:05.560 I don't know how you could lose it, but he might.
00:08:12.560 Chris Silliza over at CNN, he's an opinion guy.
00:08:16.700 And he wrote this sentence on an opinion piece.
00:08:21.440 It was kind of shocking to see it.
00:08:22.980 He said, for the last two weeks or so, I have been carrying around in anger, bordering on rage regarding the chunk of Americans eligible to receive the vaccine who continue to refuse it.
00:08:35.780 Have you seen that?
00:08:39.680 I don't think I've run into anybody who would admit to having rage about unvaccinated people.
00:08:48.400 Are you seeing that?
00:08:50.860 In your personal bubbles?
00:08:54.840 Because I think my audience doesn't really have much crossover with CNN, I don't think.
00:09:00.020 But I haven't seen anything like that.
00:09:04.900 And I'm pretty sensitive to hate.
00:09:08.620 You know, you can spot it pretty easily.
00:09:10.400 I haven't really seen it.
00:09:12.620 But I'm going to guess there's some of it out there, because I doubt Chris Silliza is the one angry person about this topic.
00:09:21.320 Somebody says, I haven't seen it in real life, but you've seen it on social media.
00:09:24.720 Yeah, social media became the place where the outrage goes to thrive, right?
00:09:32.600 All right, so there's that.
00:09:34.080 Let's talk about Biden's six-pronged plan.
00:09:36.520 I'm not going to get into the details.
00:09:37.820 You probably looked at it already.
00:09:39.280 But one of the clever things is he's using OSHA to push his mandatory vaccinations for at least people in the government, government workers.
00:09:51.380 And he's encouraging private companies to have mandates as well.
00:09:59.100 But OSHA is kind of a clever way to do it.
00:10:02.920 Would I be complaining if Trump had found this clever workaround to get something done?
00:10:10.100 Let's say it was something else, not the vaccinations, because that just becomes political as soon as you hear it.
00:10:15.260 But if I had heard that Trump used this clever workaround, and I thought it was good for the country, I don't know if I'd complain.
00:10:27.060 I probably wouldn't.
00:10:28.100 I'd probably say, well, yeah, he did what he had to do, cut through some red tape, used the workaround.
00:10:34.700 It was good for the country.
00:10:35.580 So I don't think the question about whether OSHA has or has not authority, just personally, doesn't bother me that much.
00:10:45.100 I know it should, and I get the argument that if you become a dictator and you just start making up laws and finding some rationalization for them instead of using the system, everything could go to hell.
00:10:58.000 But I don't have the same rules during a pandemic.
00:11:01.680 If it's a pandemic, I give my government a little extra power, because I want them to have it.
00:11:09.460 If this is one of their little extra powers that they took for themselves, I say that's within the scope of things I'm going to call acceptable during a pandemic.
00:11:20.940 Anything that lasts beyond the pandemic, we've got to talk about.
00:11:24.220 And if any of this happened outside the context of the pandemic, I'd be completely opposed to it, right?
00:11:29.020 But you throw in the crisis part, and you could argue whether we're still in the crisis or not.
00:11:34.440 I think that's a fair argument at this point.
00:11:37.080 But anyway, I'm just telling you it doesn't bother me, but I do see the red flags.
00:11:42.320 So if you're telling me, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're not seeing the gigantic red flag here of the precedent it sets, I do see it.
00:11:49.580 But I just don't think that crisis examples are going to be as sticky as maybe you think.
00:11:55.640 But I see the risk.
00:11:56.480 All right, I have to give you my warning once again.
00:12:02.380 I said it in the title.
00:12:04.020 If you don't want to be convinced to get vaccinated, turn this off right now.
00:12:10.640 And I mean it, and it's not reverse psychology, or it's not a trick.
00:12:15.200 If you don't want to be accidentally convinced to get vaccinated, because that might happen, I'm not going to do it intentionally, because it's unethical for me to do that, right?
00:12:28.420 Yeah, so with my blessing, those of you who don't want to be part of this, please sign off.
00:12:35.980 And come back tomorrow.
00:12:37.720 Come back tomorrow.
00:12:38.360 But for those of you who stay, I'm going to blow your head right off for some of you, okay?
00:12:46.060 Now, let me start with this.
00:12:49.220 If I ask you this question, most of you are reasonable people, and I know that you made your decisions about vaccinations or not, based on reason and risk, and you thought it through.
00:13:01.700 Would you agree that all of you, no matter which decision you came by, would you agree with the statement that you thought it through?
00:13:08.920 In the comments, can you please confirm that?
00:13:12.700 You thought it through, right?
00:13:14.040 No matter what it was you decided, you thought it through.
00:13:16.560 And some of you came to different answers.
00:13:19.360 Now, second question.
00:13:22.360 Second question.
00:13:23.940 If I were to alter, and you accepted it, one of your biggest assumptions, could it change your opinion?
00:13:34.400 Now, I haven't told you what the assumption is yet, right?
00:13:36.580 So you can hold on that.
00:13:39.480 But if I were to change your most important assumption, could it change your opinion?
00:13:48.120 Just yes or no.
00:13:49.160 If I change your assumptions, and you agree with that change, you go, oh, yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way.
00:13:54.180 If I could do that, just one assumption, I'm not going to give you any new data.
00:14:00.460 No data will be presented.
00:14:03.000 I'm just going to change one assumption.
00:14:04.760 And if that big assumption was central to your decision, could you change your mind?
00:14:12.620 Do you know what I'm doing to you right now?
00:14:15.580 All right, I just primed you.
00:14:17.720 So I made you commit to a change in assumption that would change your opinion.
00:14:23.320 If I had not done that, it probably wouldn't, because confirmation bias would kick in.
00:14:30.800 And even if I successfully changed your assumption, you would just move to a different argument.
00:14:36.100 It wouldn't change your outcome, because people don't really change their minds based on new information.
00:14:41.100 But I just primed you.
00:14:44.880 And if you said, yes, Scott, if you change my most basic assumption, I could.
00:14:50.260 I'm not guaranteeing it.
00:14:52.240 But that would be a condition which could change my decision.
00:14:56.360 Now that you're primed, let's talk about some things.
00:15:00.020 And I'm going to ease you into it, OK?
00:15:02.160 Now remember, if you're just joining us late, if you don't want to be talked into getting vaccinated, sign off now, because it might happen.
00:15:11.620 All right?
00:15:12.300 Seriously, sign off if you don't want to be talked into it.
00:15:14.900 It would be unethical for me to talk you into it without adding any new information.
00:15:20.880 But I think I will add a new understanding in a minute.
00:15:23.820 We'll get to it, OK?
00:15:24.900 I'm going to get to it.
00:15:25.680 There are a number of vaccinations that are already required, as most of you know.
00:15:30.900 If you're a kid in the United States and you want to go to school, the things you have to get would be included by seventh grade.
00:15:38.560 You've got to get tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, booster.
00:15:42.700 You've got to get your Varticella.
00:15:44.520 That's the chicken pox.
00:15:46.440 To get in kindergarten, you're required to have polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, your first doses.
00:15:52.960 Measles, mumps, and rubella, the MMR.
00:15:54.880 Hepatitis B, vaccination, and chicken pox, of course.
00:16:00.040 So those are all the ones that you're required to get.
00:16:05.460 Now, how many of you, and the requirements vary by state, so there's a big difference in, you know, how they're mandated.
00:16:16.220 So I'm not making any argument about them being similar in mandate.
00:16:21.700 So you got that?
00:16:22.340 It has nothing to do with the government mandate.
00:16:25.800 I'm just saying that they are mandated in most states to go to school.
00:16:30.300 Now, apparently there are a number of people who find workarounds that they don't have to get vaccinated.
00:16:34.920 I heard there are 800,000 unvaccinated people in the country who don't even have these vaccinations.
00:16:40.840 So I guess you can get around it, but that's the situation.
00:16:42.860 Now, here's your assumption, speaking now to the people who have decided not to get vaccinated.
00:16:51.360 Is one of your assumptions that these other vaccinations, and by the way, if you're anti-vax in general, this has nothing to do with you.
00:17:01.920 If you're anti-vax for all vaccinations, I'm not even talking to you.
00:17:07.320 Nothing I say will be relevant to you.
00:17:09.540 If you've said no vaccinations, have a nice day.
00:17:13.340 You don't want to watch the rest of this.
00:17:14.800 There's no point in it.
00:17:15.860 All right.
00:17:16.020 If you thought the childhood vaccinations are okay, because they've been around so long that the side effects are well understood, and the COVID vaccinations are newer,
00:17:31.460 so let's say your biggest reason for not getting vaccinated is that the traditional vaccinations have been around long enough that we would see all of the side effects,
00:17:40.460 and we'd have a really good understanding of the long-term risks.
00:17:43.960 Because how could you possibly know the long-term risks of a vaccination that just came out this year?
00:17:50.740 It's not possible, right?
00:17:52.340 So you've got the vaccination that comes out this year with completely unknown long-term risks.
00:17:58.600 Would you agree?
00:17:59.660 How many would agree with me with the statement that the COVID vaccinations have unknown long-term risk?
00:18:07.760 Everybody agree?
00:18:09.000 We couldn't possibly know it.
00:18:10.900 You can't know the future, right?
00:18:12.280 Now, how many would agree with the next statement, that we do know the long-term risks of the childhood vaccinations?
00:18:22.600 Agree or disagree?
00:18:23.800 We do know the long-term risks of the childhood vaccinations.
00:18:29.640 Go.
00:18:31.200 Agree.
00:18:32.280 Disagree?
00:18:33.560 Why would you disagree with that?
00:18:36.000 Not really?
00:18:37.060 Not really.
00:18:38.060 They've been around for decades.
00:18:39.520 What do you mean?
00:18:42.460 Somebody says yes, yes.
00:18:44.760 So I'm seeing your answers.
00:18:45.760 Sure, we know the risk.
00:18:47.100 Now, clearly we would recognize, if any of these long-term kid vaccinations,
00:18:53.360 if they were giving long-term problems, you'd know about it by now, right?
00:18:57.860 Because you'd look at the database of all the long-term problems.
00:19:03.160 What's the name of that database?
00:19:07.720 What's the name of the database where they collect all of the long-term problems?
00:19:13.720 Now, not the VAERS, because the VAERS is more of a short-term problem.
00:19:18.600 But what's the name of the database where they collect the problems, say, 10 years after the vaccination?
00:19:23.960 What's that called?
00:19:25.740 Now, not VAERS.
00:19:26.960 VAERS would be closer to the time you got the vaccination.
00:19:31.040 But let me give you an example.
00:19:34.640 I guess I'm being unclear.
00:19:36.220 When I was 49 years old, I got an exotic voice problem called spasmodic dysphonia.
00:19:43.720 Was my spasmodic dysphonia entered into a database such that people could look at it and say,
00:19:50.580 here's somebody who got the polio vaccination when he was 6 years old or whenever it was,
00:19:58.480 and now he got spasmodic dysphonia at age 49.
00:20:02.740 Is that in the database?
00:20:05.880 It's got to be in the database.
00:20:07.920 It's in the database.
00:20:08.880 Because how in the world could you know that my spasmodic dysphonia is completely unrelated
00:20:16.200 to the vaccinations I got as a kid?
00:20:19.980 How would you know that without a database?
00:20:22.620 There's no data.
00:20:24.340 Right?
00:20:25.100 Now, which database do they use to test the combinations of childhood vaccinations?
00:20:34.340 Because we know that they test each vaccination extensively, right?
00:20:39.500 I mean, we all know that.
00:20:40.560 They do extensive testing on vaccinations.
00:20:43.920 But which database is it where they look at not only the one vaccination, but the combination?
00:20:51.140 Where they test, what if we give you three different vaccinations that are all required,
00:20:55.480 but we give them about the same time and you're 6 years old or whatever age?
00:21:00.360 Which database is that in?
00:21:03.240 None, right?
00:21:04.340 It's not in any database.
00:21:06.880 So your biggest assumption is that we know the risks of those other vaccinations.
00:21:15.860 We don't.
00:21:17.960 And let me tell you what expertise I'm bringing to this conversation.
00:21:22.420 Medical?
00:21:23.720 Nope.
00:21:25.660 Scientific expertise?
00:21:28.160 Nope.
00:21:28.840 Am I bringing my virologist credentials?
00:21:34.340 Nope.
00:21:35.880 I'm the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
00:21:39.720 If you can find a better expert to predict the likelihood that big corporations are gathering data 40 years after they needed to?
00:21:54.560 Do you think that these big companies are really tracking this data long-term?
00:22:03.560 Come on.
00:22:05.700 All of you, all of you people who said, I don't want to get the new vaccination because it's not as known as the existing ones.
00:22:17.700 You think you think you know the risk of the existing ones?
00:22:21.160 Do you?
00:22:23.800 No, you don't.
00:22:25.660 Because nobody tracks it.
00:22:26.940 You're pretty sure somebody was tracking that, weren't you?
00:22:30.320 Try to Google it.
00:22:33.900 See if you can find any data that tells you 20 years after you got the, I don't know, chickenpox vaccination.
00:22:42.240 You show me the data that says 20 years after that, that you can tell what's happening.
00:22:48.740 Here's another problem.
00:22:52.400 Here's another problem.
00:22:54.040 What happens if almost everybody gets the same vaccination?
00:22:56.840 How do you know what trouble the vaccination caused?
00:23:03.260 Because everybody's vaccinated.
00:23:05.280 Almost everybody.
00:23:07.000 Right?
00:23:07.620 You can't tell.
00:23:09.020 Let's take an example.
00:23:10.480 And by the way, this is not, this will just be an example for conversation.
00:23:14.580 I'm not making this allegation.
00:23:16.400 We know, for example, that the average levels of testosterone in men has been falling for decades.
00:23:24.580 Right?
00:23:24.840 Has anybody studied whether the lower testosterone that seems to be all through the population could be caused by vaccinations?
00:23:37.000 I don't think that that's the cause.
00:23:39.160 Let me be very clear.
00:23:40.940 I don't think that's the cause.
00:23:43.760 But did anybody study it?
00:23:46.360 How about obesity?
00:23:48.240 We've got a crazy obesity problem.
00:23:50.760 Do we know exactly why?
00:23:52.460 Because I've heard different opinions.
00:23:54.000 It's everything from fast food to too much air conditioning to too many video games to whatever.
00:24:01.360 But has anybody studied our weight loss or weight gain and whether you got vaccinated?
00:24:10.160 No.
00:24:10.880 Now, do I think that vaccinations cause weight gain later in life?
00:24:15.700 No, I do not.
00:24:16.800 I have no reason to think that.
00:24:19.420 But did anybody study it?
00:24:22.120 How about my spasmodic dysphonia?
00:24:25.660 Probably 30,000 people got it since I've gotten it.
00:24:29.540 How many of them were asked about their childhood vaccinations?
00:24:33.100 And if they were asked, they would all have the same experience.
00:24:37.140 So you wouldn't know.
00:24:37.940 You would just say, oh, everybody got vaccinated and some subset of them got this problem.
00:24:46.680 Let me tell you what I know with complete certainty.
00:24:53.280 Nobody is studying the long-term safety of existing vaccinations.
00:24:59.500 Nobody.
00:25:02.500 So if you made your decision about this vaccination based on the fact that the other ones have been studied for a long time and this one hasn't, you need to check that assumption because it's your main assumption and it's baseless.
00:25:17.940 It's baseless.
00:25:19.140 It's baseless.
00:25:20.880 Now, I heard somebody say, but Scott, the new vaccines, at least two of them, are a different platform, different technology, and we have much more experience with the older kinds of vaccinations, and the new one just introduces this new kind of risk.
00:25:38.100 Does it?
00:25:39.680 How do you know that?
00:25:41.420 How do you know it isn't safer?
00:25:42.440 It seems to me that the experts are quite unified on the question of if there are going to be side effects, they happen quickly.
00:25:53.360 In other words, if you've watched people for a year, you pretty well have a good idea.
00:26:02.980 But what happens after a year?
00:26:06.180 Right?
00:26:06.800 So we've watched all the vaccines for a year or so.
00:26:10.220 Have you watched them longer?
00:26:13.400 I doubt it.
00:26:14.720 And if you did, did you do it right?
00:26:17.320 I mean, even if somebody did study it, would you trust the study?
00:26:21.020 And we know that half the studies are bullshit.
00:26:25.140 Somebody's saying that the mRNA vaccines are safer.
00:26:29.500 Now, if you happen to be an expert in the field, I can imagine that you would say to yourself,
00:26:34.480 well, the nature of the way we're using this should be safer because we have a pretty good idea what this vaccine grabs onto,
00:26:44.700 and it's not grabbing onto things that look dangerous.
00:26:47.020 But if you could tell just by looking at it that it's not dangerous, you wouldn't need to test it.
00:26:55.900 Right?
00:26:56.000 You don't know mRNA is safer or less safe.
00:27:02.020 It can't be known.
00:27:03.540 Right?
00:27:03.780 You don't know about looking at it, I mean.
00:27:05.660 You don't just look at it logically and say, well, logically, this should be safe.
00:27:10.860 You still have to test it because your logic can't get you safe enough.
00:27:14.620 All right?
00:27:16.460 So, now, let me do a little check on you here.
00:27:22.920 How many people, until this moment, believed that we did have pretty good information
00:27:28.360 about the long-term effects of other vaccinations?
00:27:32.480 How many of you just had an oh, shit moment and said, oh, shit, my main variable is completely just a guess?
00:27:41.480 I'm seeing no's and yes's.
00:27:46.520 I see one, oh, shit.
00:27:48.660 Not me.
00:27:49.560 Nope.
00:27:50.180 Me.
00:27:51.000 Don't be a crab.
00:27:52.120 Get the jab, Charles says.
00:27:55.220 Somebody says, but this was immaterial to my decision.
00:27:57.740 Yeah.
00:27:58.280 If, for some of you, that wasn't part of the decision.
00:28:01.760 So, this wouldn't make any difference to you.
00:28:06.600 All right.
00:28:07.180 Let me ask you one final question.
00:28:16.820 Is there anybody here who was anti-vax at the beginning of this, or at least anti-COVID vax at the beginning of this live stream,
00:28:25.880 who, when they realized that they couldn't know the difference between any of the vaccinations with long-term anything,
00:28:35.660 how many of you are reconsidering your decision not to get vaccinated based on just this?
00:28:44.700 I'm going to watch comments go by for a moment because I want to see.
00:28:48.060 Now, most of you should not be.
00:28:51.800 That would, you know, 90% should dig in.
00:29:00.520 Yes, I am.
00:29:07.780 I'm considering, let's see.
00:29:09.500 Let's see.
00:29:14.080 Just looking at your rephrase, please.
00:29:17.060 A rephrase question?
00:29:19.240 The question is, how many of you are unvaxxed and now reconsidering that because one of your biggest variables just fell apart?
00:29:32.960 All right.
00:29:34.440 A sad realization, yes.
00:29:37.300 Okay.
00:29:37.560 So, I am seeing yeses go by.
00:29:42.140 Now, remember my warning.
00:29:43.740 My warning was, don't get your medical decisions from cartoonists, right?
00:29:50.240 And I would encourage any of you to unfollow me or stop following if you didn't like this.
00:29:57.900 Because this is pretty much, you know, the kind of content that I have.
00:30:01.160 So, yeah, don't follow me if you don't like this.
00:30:03.480 And I'll say again, that if you find out my assumption is wrong, and there is some kind of magic database, I don't think so.
00:30:15.460 But if there is, then reconsider.
00:30:18.160 All right.
00:30:22.820 Now, when we're talking about vaccine persuasion, you convinced me to be more skeptical.
00:30:35.380 All right.
00:30:38.560 All right.
00:30:38.860 That's it for today.
00:30:41.040 I just wanted to see if I would change any minds.
00:30:43.800 It looks like some of you did change your minds.
00:30:46.580 Generally, persuasion does not, you know, change everybody right away.
00:30:50.500 A really, really strong persuasion would get 5% of the audience.
00:30:55.520 That would be remarkable.
00:30:58.180 If you could swing 5% of an audience with persuasion, you'd be the best persuader of all time.
00:31:09.540 All right.
00:31:14.240 Well, I'm looking at your comments, and I see them.
00:31:16.920 Now, anecdotal evidence of existing vaccines being safe isn't a thing.
00:31:26.640 There's no way you could capture problems just by looking at people and saying,
00:31:32.900 oh, this guy's got a headache, and he got vaccinated.
00:31:36.940 And this other guy doesn't have a headache.
00:31:39.120 Oh, but he got vaccinated, too.
00:31:40.720 So you really couldn't tell.
00:31:43.180 All right.
00:31:43.740 That's all for now.
00:31:44.400 So I'll talk to you tomorrow.
00:31:46.920 All right.