Episode 1651 Scott Adams: Fake News, Mandate Rebellion, And a Hypnotist's Diet Plan
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, I give you some advice that will change some of your world forever. It s based on my personal experience and experience with addiction, and I think it s a great piece for anyone who is struggling with an addiction.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of your entire existence.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and as luck would have it, that's who I am, so no
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And all you need is a cup or mug or glass or tank or chalice or stein a canteen, jug or
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flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite beverage I like, coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here of the day, the thing
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I'm going to start with some advice that will change some of your worlds forever.
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And when I say that, that's actually not hyperbole.
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I'm going to say something right now that for some of you, and this is just a law of
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numbers, some small number of you, it will completely change your life.
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You don't have a choice of what, of being addicted or not.
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You only have a choice of what you're addicted to.
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So if you manage your addictions, to create an addiction, let's say to fitness, or an addiction
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to even healthy food, an addiction to just doing good things for your lifestyle, taking
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a walk in nature, maybe you're going to be addicted to a substance.
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I'm not going to recommend any particular substance, but if the thing you decided to
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use was, let's say, heroin, you probably made a wrong choice.
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But look to get addicted to something, but choose carefully.
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You probably don't have an option of avoiding addiction, because the people who addict you
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are part of the capitalist market system, and they keep getting better, and you keep
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You're exactly the same as, at least DNA-wise, you're pretty much the same as when you were
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But the technology for getting you addicted to stuff, such as video games, such as your
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phone, such as drugs, they're all getting way better.
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There probably was a time it was a fair fight, because you didn't really have access to addicting
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And, you know, if you did, maybe it wasn't that addictive.
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If you were not, let's say, if you were not genetically inclined toward alcoholism, and
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there wasn't much of it around anyway, well, you're probably safe.
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But what happens if you grow up in a world in which addiction is the texture of your reality?
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So, for some of you, this will be an insight that changes the direction of your life forever.
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You can only choose which addictions you get addicted to.
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And you can hope that those fill up your shelf space and make you happy enough that when
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somebody offers you some heroin, you say to yourself, you know, I'm happy enough without
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And then you don't have to worry about that one.
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At the, toward the end of this, I'm going to give you a hypnotist dot plan, which will
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not require you to be hypnotized, nor will it require you to hypnotize yourself.
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It's simply something that hypnotists know and other people don't know.
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And it basically is starting with the mental game and working from there.
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Normally, I would save that content for what I call a micro lesson for my subscribers on
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But if there's anything I've learned about my subscribers on Locals, that when I do something
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that has that, let's say, that much potential benefit to people in general, they usually prefer
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Usually I ask first, but I'm sure that I know the answer on this one.
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So you wouldn't want me to keep this to myself.
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But first, update on the mandate rebellion, as I call it, the Greg Clawback, where we're
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trying to get our freedoms back as quickly as possible.
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We save them last, according to the guidelines.
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So here's what I don't think that the kids have quite understood, or I'm sorry, the officials
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And by the way, this is in the context of the CDC saying that the seven-day average of
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daily new infections is 42% down, almost 43% down from last week.
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Remember, we were hoping that that big Omicron spike would be just as sharp on the way down.
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So remember, all of us who were saying, it's time, it's time, you know, I'd rather go a
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little early than waiting too late on this stuff because the mandates are so oppressive.
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The winter thing should be sort of at the worst.
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And so we should be, you know, just crashing the number of infections.
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Now, let me tell you just one of the many reasons this is ridiculous.
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You know, forget about the fact kids don't have the same risk profile, all the special
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risks that a kid has when they're developing, et cetera.
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And if there are any parents watching this, can you back me up on this?
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If you're in a kids-wear-masks-in-school state, back me up on this.
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As soon as they walk out of school, they take their masks off.
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And then they don't usually go home alone, do they?
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The same ones they were hanging out with without masks.
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Now, when they're in school, they're separated by their little desks with their masks on.
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The moment they walk out, they take their masks off and they start hugging.
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Because kids are very huggy these days, the teenagers especially.
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They're wrestling, they're hugging, they're having sleepovers.
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Kids are literally all over each other, you know, in innocent ways, mostly.
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There's literally, once the kids walk out the door, they're not only not separated by desks,
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And I mean, this is one of those times when literally comes close to working.
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surely you could not imagine it makes sense in a world in which only a little part of your day,
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you wear them and then you're surrounded by the same people plus your family without them.
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Who would think that that little bit of masking in school is that that's what's making the difference?
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I believe that the, let me say it in a more clear way,
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because maybe somebody can take this argument forward.
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In order to think that masking in school makes sense,
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you would have to be completely blind to the fact that the kids take them off as soon as they walk out.
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Like, no, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, you know, like fingers in your ears.
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You couldn't possibly, with a straight face, in person.
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Nobody could stand in front of you in person and say,
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It makes perfect sense to mask the kids in school, despite knowing that on weekends and evenings, they're completely unmasked and slobbering their spittle all over each other in an unstoppable way, just like always.
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Do you think somebody could say that to your face?
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They could say masks work, you would argue maybe, but they could say that.
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They say infections are still high, masks work, schools are a place where there's a lot of congregating, so it makes sense.
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If that's all they said, well, then maybe it's a stalemate.
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But once you say, but you do understand that the moment they walk out, the masks come off and they're drooling all over each other, right?
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Under those conditions, which, correct me if I'm wrong, was not the same as the beginning of the pandemic.
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In the beginning of the pandemic, there was still more mingling after school than during, but it was Zoom school.
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And I think that was actually closer to real social distancing, wasn't it?
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You know, a lot of the kids actually did not mingle with their friends for months.
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But I don't know anybody who's not letting their kids mingle.
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I mean, there might be somebody who's super afraid or might have a grandparent in the house or something.
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But wouldn't you say that 80% are in full mingle mode after school?
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Your kill shot is that the kids aren't doing it after school, so whatever sense it ever made doesn't make sense now.
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I don't know if you heard about this, but they're using a different technology this time.
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So the new vaccine is made entirely from the tears of masked schoolchildren.
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But the big question you're asking is, how do we get enough of that?
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You know, how are you going to get enough tiers of masked schoolchildren?
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And the experts assure us that there will be no problem with the supply.
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So if you're not vaccinated yet, you might want to wait,
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because this is a more natural way to go than the mRNA platform.
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So the new vaccine made entirely from the tiers of masked schoolchildren.
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Yesterday, I had one maskless encounter at a local coffee shop,
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I did, because it was a small business at a local one.
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And I did it not because my state requires mandates,
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but because I only had to keep it on for 60 seconds while I ordered,
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Basically, then they handed me a coffee, and then I took it off.
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But to me, that was a courtesy to the employee.
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If they were asked to say that, they said that.
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You know, I generally don't bother working people.
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In the same way that I was talking about this the other day,
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Like, if you have any kind of ambiguous situation,
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if they're a working person, even if you're in a hurry,
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I always think if you're working, I give you, you know,
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I always give you the right-of-way, if it's ambiguous.
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And where I live, the mandates are going away in just a few days.
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So it's not really worth a fight to get something
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that's going to happen on its own if you just wait.
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But in Safeway, I was the lone, unmasked shopper.
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I interacted with the staff, you know, the bagger, the, you know, everything.
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And yet I was literally the only unmasked person in the store.
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So I assume that the big corporations probably have told the employees,
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Do you think that's, do you think I'm making too much of an assumption?
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I think the small business doesn't want to take chances
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because, you know, they don't want to lawyer up.
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But the big companies, I think, have, you know,
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run it through all the simulations and said, you know,
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it's just better if we don't get in the business of enforcing.
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So if they're not enforcing shoplifting, and they're not,
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the same company that doesn't enforce shoplifting,
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they're not going to chase you, they're not going to try to stop you,
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Anyway, I was wondering if I had been challenged,
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if I said I had a medical exemption for the masks,
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Suppose somebody came up to you in a store and said,
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And you said, oh, yeah, I have a medical exemption.
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I don't think they would know what to do, would they?
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It's just one of those things people automatically defer to.
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You know, you're so, we're so trained that if somebody has a medical exemption,
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It's like if a high school girl is missing some classes and says she has cramps.
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So I'm just curious whether that would work as easily as I think it would.
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I saw Thomas Massey, Representative Massey, tweeting that he quit flying planes in July because of the mandates.
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And he's been driving back and forth to Congress every session week for the past six months.
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I have decided to join him in the most minor way, which is I'm also not going to fly until the mask mandates come off.
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I think March 15th or something is when they're thinking of reconsidering that, if I'm right.
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So I'm definitely not going to take an early March vacation if I have to wear a mask on a plane.
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If I only have to wait two weeks and then I don't, you know.
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So I think a little creative economic pressure on the airline industry, they can handle it.
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I would just not book any flight within that time frame unless it's work and you just have to.
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If it's death in the family, you've got to do what you've got to do.
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But I think we could knock their revenue down 25% and get them to be more of an advocate for ending the mandates.
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Because they would try harder if the revenue were down sharply.
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On other issues, there's a story about that the CIA may or may not be doing something that we may or may not dislike.
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And I think we should all be concerned about that.
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The details are that there was a secret program at the CIA that relied on a form of mass surveillance activity
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that involved the collection of an unknown data set.
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So we don't know what they were looking at because it was highly redacted information.
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But some senators looking into it, a couple of Democrat senators, good for them.
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And we don't know what they gathered or why they were doing it.
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So it's a very sketchy story, but all of it is bad.
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All right, the CDC has changed the definition of a vaccine,
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And other people say, vaccines have never been 100%.
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And then you'll each claim victory, which I call word thinking.
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Everybody gets to define words the way they want to and then declare victory.
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But the CDC change, I think, was reasonable under the circumstance.
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But basically, they're not saying that it's going to prevent infection.
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So I think they got rid of the prevent infection part
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and turned it into boosting your immune system.
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Vaccines always used to be about preventing infections.
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And so you lied to us when you said this was a vaccine.
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If you believed that it was a lie that it was a vaccine
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because they knew it wouldn't stop transmission,
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the data shows it has an effect, but it doesn't stop it.
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So what was your opinion of the normal seasonal flu vaccine?
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For those of you who knew there was a thing called a regular flu shot,
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now you knew that was only like 25% effective, right?
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You knew that the regular seasonal flu shot is a vaccine,
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It was only advertised as being like 25% effective
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because they can't really guess what the actual flu is going to be
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probably one of the most common parts of our entire medical system
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is that people routinely get seasonal flu vaccinations
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that don't come anywhere near close to stopping transmission.
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They simply reduce it or might help a little bit, right?
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the definition of vaccine has for a long time been
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but it's definitely not going to stop all transmission.
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Choose your own definition, and you'll be happy.
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some kind of police officer type person goes to the door,
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and they've been looking at your social media speech,
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and if you said some stuff about the mandate they didn't like,
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This is one of those differences between Canada and America,
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would such an officer of the law receive from me?
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I think we would be so viciously verbally abusive