Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 11, 2020


Episode 847 Scott Adams： Bernie's Great Week (He Doesn't Know it Yet), Coronavirus Loserthink


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Scott Adams talks about the coronavirus crisis, Jeopardy! and why the president is not the right person to have a virus like this, and why Bernie Sanders is going to win the 2020 Democratic primary.

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00:00:00.000 Bum bum bum bum bum bum boom bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody come on in here 0.99
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00:01:02.080 Good morning from Seattle, Sanctuary Seattle.
00:01:06.560 Sounds like you're locked in.
00:01:09.800 If you go out in the streets, Antifa will beat you up.
00:01:15.080 And you'll get the coronavirus.
00:01:16.540 So stay down.
00:01:19.400 Hunker down.
00:01:20.740 Let's talk about some coronavirus stuff and some politics stuff, etc.
00:01:24.900 I've come to a conclusion that President Trump's tool set is best used against people.
00:01:33.860 In other words, if you say, hey, Donald Trump, President Trump, I've got a person that you need to defeat
00:01:42.380 or you need to negotiate with them or you need to win them over.
00:01:46.640 And then the president says, ah, a person.
00:01:50.320 I know how to deal with people.
00:01:52.680 And then he goes and he does it and he does it very well.
00:01:56.000 The president is really, really, really good at getting a result with people.
00:02:02.900 But I don't know that he's exactly the right person to have a battle with a virus.
00:02:10.720 Because you can't really insult a virus.
00:02:13.800 You can't beat a virus with, you know, getting more attention on TV.
00:02:19.440 You can't reframe a virus.
00:02:21.420 Because pretty much the president's entire tool set is people-oriented.
00:02:27.460 So he's struggling on this.
00:02:29.620 If we're being honest, I mean, I wouldn't expect you to believe anything I say good about the president
00:02:35.320 if I can't also say, well, in this area, this area is not ideal.
00:02:41.480 And I don't think he's nailing it on the coronavirus.
00:02:46.940 But as I've said, I don't think it'll make any difference.
00:02:50.840 Because it's a weird kind of crisis in which the president's involvement is the least important part.
00:02:59.840 I mean, if you think about it, the president always has to be the one in charge
00:03:04.360 and takes the blame and gets the credit.
00:03:07.620 But how much is the president actually doing?
00:03:11.560 Really, the only thing the president is doing is he assigned the right people.
00:03:16.940 He's done.
00:03:18.000 He closed the airports early.
00:03:20.300 Pretty good.
00:03:21.720 You know, no question about that.
00:03:24.200 Closing the airports early.
00:03:26.400 Good move by the president.
00:03:28.480 But once he's got Pence on board, you know, I'm sure he gets briefed a lot.
00:03:32.960 But mostly his job is just talking to the public.
00:03:37.440 And this isn't his best topic.
00:03:39.500 Anyway, I was watching Jeopardy! last night.
00:03:42.540 And apparently I was one of the questions.
00:03:47.200 Jeopardy! has had me as or one of the answers or questions, whichever it is.
00:03:52.440 So I can't tell you how weird my life is to turn on television and watch a Jeopardy! question about myself.
00:04:00.480 But that was fun.
00:04:01.440 So, Van Jones is warning that, because of the primary last night, and it looks like Biden's got a commanding lead,
00:04:10.940 that if and when Bernie fails, there are going to be a lot of people who are really wound up who lost their champion.
00:04:19.340 And I like the way he put it.
00:04:21.380 They're losing their champion, meaning that they have an emotional connection to this thing.
00:04:26.040 And that's really unpredictable.
00:04:28.620 And as he points out, there's a lot of energy there in their emotions, and you don't know where that's going to go.
00:04:36.360 So it's very dangerous for the Democrats.
00:04:37.960 Somebody is reminding me in the comments.
00:04:43.400 I was saying yesterday that whoever canceled, well, I was saying yesterday that the big rallies should be canceled.
00:04:50.880 Now, apparently the president doesn't have any scheduled.
00:04:54.220 So the president didn't have anything to cancel.
00:04:57.080 He was just obviously smart enough not to schedule anything.
00:05:01.140 Whereas Bernie had to actually cancel something, and then I think Biden followed on and canceled some other thing.
00:05:07.960 And I thought to myself, oh, man, the president missed this, too.
00:05:13.580 He's so good at picking up free money.
00:05:16.820 You know, I say this all the time.
00:05:18.620 If the president walks by a table and there's some money laying there, and he looks around and it doesn't seem to belong to anybody,
00:05:24.780 he's usually the smartest one.
00:05:26.940 And he says, does anybody have this money?
00:05:29.200 Does this belong to anybody?
00:05:31.160 No? Nobody?
00:05:32.840 Well, I guess I'll pick up this free money.
00:05:35.060 And he does it in lots of different situations.
00:05:37.100 And he had free money sitting on the table for this situation of canceling big events.
00:05:43.540 Because whoever went first looks like the leader.
00:05:48.500 And whoever goes second looks like a follower.
00:05:52.740 So the free money is if you know you're going to cancel your events anyway, you might as well announce it.
00:06:00.140 Go first and be a leader.
00:06:01.660 It forces everybody else to be a Me Too player who doesn't get as much attention.
00:06:07.140 And when they do, it's for being a follower.
00:06:08.980 So the president should have very early said, I'm canceling all my events, even if he didn't have any scheduled.
00:06:17.860 He should have just said, you know, I'm not going to have any more rallies.
00:06:21.660 I'll go first.
00:06:23.200 It would have immediately forced Sanders and Biden to do the same.
00:06:28.100 But it was going to happen anyway.
00:06:31.460 Didn't everybody know that the rallies were eventually going to get canceled?
00:06:35.520 If it's going to happen anyway, take the free money.
00:06:38.280 Go first.
00:06:39.420 Again, the president missed this opportunity, I think.
00:06:44.860 But Bernie took it.
00:06:46.000 Now, I've said, provocatively, that Bernie is having one of his best weeks.
00:06:56.800 Now, you say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott.
00:07:00.220 Why do you say that when he just got hammered in this latest series of primaries?
00:07:07.100 So Biden took the lead.
00:07:09.280 He's got a commanding lead.
00:07:10.800 It looks like the states that are upcoming are favorable to Biden.
00:07:13.900 And all the smart people are saying Biden's just going to lock it down.
00:07:19.520 But.
00:07:21.860 But.
00:07:23.260 Here's the thing.
00:07:24.860 There's sort of a contest going on.
00:07:27.060 There's a race within the race.
00:07:29.300 There's one race that's the candidates against the other candidates.
00:07:33.700 That's the one we talk about.
00:07:35.520 But there's another race that's happening right under our eyes. 0.95
00:07:38.700 And we all see it.
00:07:40.260 But we haven't talked about it this way.
00:07:42.220 And it's the race to get Biden nominated before his mental decline becomes so obvious that it can't happen.
00:07:52.500 And if you've been watching the clips lately of Biden, it's looking like he's fading fast.
00:07:59.760 And that's confirmed by the fact that his campaign is keeping him away from the stage.
00:08:05.600 You don't put your candidate on the stage for only seven minutes if you think he's he's got the goods.
00:08:13.740 Right.
00:08:13.900 Nobody would do that.
00:08:14.800 So it's obvious that the campaign knows he's failing and failing fast.
00:08:19.380 And it's probably to me, to my eyes, to my non-medical eyes.
00:08:24.760 And I'll put the caution on that everybody should put on this, which is we're not doctors.
00:08:29.120 We can't diagnose things by looking at people on TV.
00:08:32.340 Unless it's so obvious that even a non-doctor could see it.
00:08:39.420 And I think we're at that point.
00:08:41.500 I think we're well beyond the point where you'd have to have a medical degree to look at Joe Biden and say there's something wrong.
00:08:48.140 Now, I don't know specifically what's wrong.
00:08:50.740 I don't know how to treat it.
00:08:52.560 I mean, I'm not a doctor.
00:08:53.700 But I'm not blind.
00:08:56.740 I have eyes.
00:08:57.940 I have a brain.
00:08:58.680 I can see what's happening.
00:09:00.300 You know, anybody can see it.
00:09:01.580 If it were your relative, you could see it easily.
00:09:04.280 So here's the real contest.
00:09:07.560 The real contest is that Biden's support is growing while his mental acuity is declining.
00:09:16.180 If that crossover happens before the convention, and it looks like there's a good chance that could happen.
00:09:24.680 There's a good chance that could happen.
00:09:26.360 Because there's nobody who doesn't see it at this point.
00:09:29.400 Anybody who says they don't is sort of lying.
00:09:32.260 I think it was, was it from FRUM?
00:09:35.780 I forget his first name.
00:09:36.900 David?
00:09:37.180 Who tweeted that, you know, people pretending they can see Biden's mental problems are, you know, are kidding themselves.
00:09:48.520 But that's sort of a desperate, you know, last move.
00:09:52.420 It's pretty clear that the Democrats can see it at this point.
00:09:55.120 So, if Biden crashes and burns before the convention just because of his own, you know, decline, do you look at Bernie?
00:10:05.180 What if Bernie is still in the race, still has the most votes without being Biden, and Biden's mental faculties decline to the point where the Democrats say, okay, okay, we've got to stop this.
00:10:21.320 It's going to be really close, isn't it?
00:10:25.100 Am I wrong that, so what day is the convention exactly?
00:10:29.580 But it looks like it's going to be close.
00:10:31.380 Because he might completely fall apart before he actually gets on the convention stage.
00:10:36.700 Now, if he gets to the convention, I think he'll get nominated.
00:10:41.120 And then it's all about the vice president.
00:10:45.380 So we'll see.
00:10:48.840 All right.
00:10:50.880 President Trump keeps being asked whether he's going to be tested for the virus because he shook hands at CPAC or something.
00:10:58.080 And his answer is just the worst answer.
00:11:03.820 I mean, he's just not performing at his usual level for this crisis.
00:11:10.400 And Trump answers that he feels fine.
00:11:14.320 And I just cringed.
00:11:16.180 I was like, oh.
00:11:19.060 That's not why you get tested.
00:11:21.380 You don't get tested just because you're not feeling fine.
00:11:24.320 You get tested because you're the commander-in-chief and you've been exposed.
00:11:29.960 And it's just a test.
00:11:32.160 Do you think somebody in the country could maybe give up a test so the president could get tested?
00:11:37.400 I think that would be a worthy trade-off.
00:11:40.560 We do put resources into protecting our leader greater than the resources we put into protecting any individual.
00:11:47.780 And most of us think that's a good idea because the leader influences all of us.
00:11:52.360 So here's what the president should say instead of that terrible, terrible answer that he feels good.
00:12:00.940 Oh, my God.
00:12:02.720 That's just so bad.
00:12:05.200 Here's what he should say.
00:12:07.200 He should say, I delegate that decision to my doctor, you know, the White House physician.
00:12:13.180 If he wants me to get tested, I will.
00:12:16.340 But I'm not the expert.
00:12:18.240 So I'm not a doctor.
00:12:19.460 I'm going to let the expert tell me when to be tested.
00:12:22.240 He hasn't told me to do that.
00:12:24.740 Now, if he said that, wouldn't you feel a little bit more comfortable?
00:12:28.540 But when he comes out and says, I'm not getting tested and I feel great, that makes you feel like he doesn't understand the problem.
00:12:37.680 Because there are a lot of people without symptoms.
00:12:40.420 And that's really the biggest part of the problem.
00:12:43.180 If the only people who could spread it were people who showed symptoms, we'd be in good shape.
00:12:49.440 Because we'd just say, ah, symptoms.
00:12:51.660 Stay away from that one. 0.66
00:12:53.700 So, I don't know.
00:12:55.800 I don't think the president could have done much worse in answering that question.
00:12:59.420 But he should just defer to his physician next time.
00:13:02.160 So, let's see.
00:13:06.380 What else is going on?
00:13:10.240 I feel as if people don't quite understand the strategy for dealing with the coronavirus.
00:13:16.360 And here's the main thing you need to know.
00:13:21.760 That if we can slow it down enough, it won't overwhelm our systems.
00:13:27.100 And that we're not exactly trying to save lives compared to other flus or other problems.
00:13:34.000 And if we're doing that too, you would, of course, try to save lives.
00:13:37.360 But that's not the strategy.
00:13:39.840 Saving lives is just sort of what you do.
00:13:42.500 You always try to save lives.
00:13:43.780 But the strategy is to spread out the impact.
00:13:48.220 So, we're trying to do our social distancing and hand washing and closing events and stuff.
00:13:54.660 That's not supposed to stop it.
00:13:57.880 We don't have a problem we can stop.
00:14:00.680 We do have a problem that we, with great confidence, we know we can flatten out the problem.
00:14:06.180 And if we flatten it out and spread it out enough, then the hospitals will not be overrun.
00:14:11.360 The businesses could potentially stay open.
00:14:13.780 And we can get through it with some predictable amount of pain.
00:14:19.720 So, it's all about the flattening of it.
00:14:22.400 And, you know, I didn't want to do what I'm going to do now.
00:14:26.360 But I feel like it's a public service.
00:14:28.600 So, I'm going to do it.
00:14:29.400 I've been watching Bill Mitchell tweeting all week, various different ways.
00:14:36.740 He's saying some form of the, that the panic is overdone on this virus.
00:14:43.780 And that really the panic is indicative of a political process, not scientific or medical.
00:14:51.080 So, here's one of his tweets today.
00:14:55.860 So, this is Bill Mitchell.
00:14:57.900 He says, H1N1, I guess that was, was that the swine flu?
00:15:01.260 It's a fancy name.
00:15:02.200 In 2009, infected 61 million Americans.
00:15:07.020 61 freaking million.
00:15:09.660 COVID-19, he goes on, has infected 1,000.
00:15:16.300 COVID-19 has received 10,000 times the media coverage that H1N1 received.
00:15:22.260 And then Bill Mitchell concludes, he says, yes, folks, it's all political.
00:15:27.920 Now, I ignored the first few times he did this.
00:15:32.860 Because I like him.
00:15:34.140 You know, I've been on his show and stuff.
00:15:36.320 And, but at this point, it's sort of a public service that I stop this right now.
00:15:43.780 Don't you agree?
00:15:45.500 Because the problem here, and I think most of you can tell,
00:15:48.540 is that he's comparing an apple to an orange.
00:15:52.280 During an emergency.
00:15:54.600 And if you compare an apple to an orange during an emergency,
00:15:57.660 what are the odds you're going to make the right decisions?
00:16:00.300 None, right?
00:16:01.480 It's just a faulty comparison.
00:16:02.980 And the reason that you can't compare this coronavirus to any prior flu
00:16:08.080 is that the experts have told you unambiguously,
00:16:11.960 it doesn't act like those other ones.
00:16:14.880 So, those other ones were plenty scary,
00:16:17.340 and it was with great effort that we got them under control.
00:16:20.400 But the experts, Bill Mitchell, do not say this one is like those other ones,
00:16:27.000 except in name.
00:16:28.120 You know, they're viruses, I guess.
00:16:30.280 But otherwise, the curve and what it does to you is different.
00:16:33.860 For example, the other ones affected children.
00:16:36.420 This one affects children far less.
00:16:39.300 This one is far more deadly to old people, 1.00
00:16:42.460 and maybe more viral as well.
00:16:47.040 Well, I think some of the differences are,
00:16:49.160 like if you're looking at Ebola, for example,
00:16:50.960 people died pretty quickly, so they couldn't spread it.
00:16:53.280 So, these are just completely different problems.
00:16:57.900 So, when Bill Mitchell compares coronavirus,
00:17:01.340 which with all of the effort of the United States
00:17:03.780 has been so far in the earliest stages held to a thousand people,
00:17:09.240 he's comparing a full national effort
00:17:12.220 in the very beginning of a problem
00:17:14.780 to a mature problem that's a different problem
00:17:17.840 that happened some other time.
00:17:19.680 That's not a good comparison.
00:17:22.100 Right?
00:17:22.320 It's just not a good comparison.
00:17:24.260 And if you try to draw a conclusion from that comparison,
00:17:27.520 that therefore it's all political,
00:17:29.880 you are really damaging the country, in my opinion.
00:17:32.600 Because the country needs to know
00:17:34.300 that this isn't like the other ones.
00:17:36.560 Because knowing that is what causes you to modify your behavior.
00:17:40.580 If you don't modify your behavior,
00:17:43.360 this is going to be like Italy.
00:17:45.420 So, I use the example of Italy and Iran 0.81
00:17:47.740 because their hospitals are already overrun.
00:17:51.620 So, we've got some social media reports
00:17:53.720 from doctors in Italian hospitals
00:17:55.680 to say that they're already canceling optional surgeries.
00:18:01.320 And if it continues to get worse,
00:18:03.420 they're going to be canceling mandatory surgeries
00:18:07.300 because they only have so much resources
00:18:09.780 and they're filled up.
00:18:12.220 So, we don't have to wonder
00:18:14.000 if this virus has the potential
00:18:16.700 to overwhelm our healthcare system
00:18:19.580 because we can watch it.
00:18:21.380 We watch it happen in other countries
00:18:22.900 who are not doing as good a job.
00:18:25.020 Now, the fact that we're doing a better job
00:18:27.940 than, say, maybe Italy was in the United States
00:18:31.220 might have to do with the fact
00:18:33.220 that we got an earlier start.
00:18:35.720 Maybe they got infected
00:18:37.300 before they knew as much as we did.
00:18:40.120 There are a lot of differences.
00:18:41.500 They have older people.
00:18:42.520 Maybe there's more smoking.
00:18:43.660 There could be lots of things that are different.
00:18:46.080 But when you're watching that,
00:18:47.920 the one thing you do know
00:18:49.220 is that it can kill enough people
00:18:51.400 to overwhelm your medical resources.
00:18:53.980 That's not in question anymore.
00:18:55.480 We don't have to question
00:18:58.720 whether this virus, if we let it,
00:19:02.260 would kill more people
00:19:03.400 than our healthcare system can handle.
00:19:05.220 We don't have to wonder.
00:19:06.860 That's an answered question
00:19:08.140 because Italy has already demonstrated that.
00:19:11.080 And I think Iran, too,
00:19:11.960 but we have less information.
00:19:14.040 So, Bill Mitchell,
00:19:16.100 please stop comparing this
00:19:17.700 to any other flu
00:19:19.860 because while we don't want to panic,
00:19:22.680 we do want people to know
00:19:23.900 that if they don't modify their behavior,
00:19:26.720 this one is not going to be
00:19:28.520 as kind as the other ones.
00:19:30.980 That's a known fact.
00:19:34.760 All right.
00:19:35.040 And I don't really see this politically being a...
00:19:42.680 I just don't see it a political thing.
00:19:45.940 All right.
00:19:47.440 What else we got going on here?
00:19:49.900 I think...
00:19:51.320 I'm going to recant
00:19:53.320 and take back everything I said
00:19:55.020 about Russia and oil prices
00:19:57.580 and Saudi Arabia.
00:19:59.640 So, you all know the story
00:20:02.580 that Russia lowered prices
00:20:04.000 and Saudi Arabia lowered prices
00:20:05.720 and there's an oil price war
00:20:07.700 that could drive
00:20:09.200 our American shale business
00:20:11.820 into bankruptcy
00:20:12.900 because shale costs more to produce
00:20:15.920 than both Saudi Arabia
00:20:17.980 and Russia can produce.
00:20:19.960 So, if they pump more oil,
00:20:21.480 nobody buys our shale oil
00:20:22.860 because there's plenty of cheaper oil
00:20:24.940 to buy instead.
00:20:26.640 So, what I said was that
00:20:28.200 Russia was attacking
00:20:29.380 basically Saudi Arabia
00:20:31.920 and the United States
00:20:32.940 to take out our shale business.
00:20:34.820 But I read another opinion
00:20:36.700 from somebody who seemed pretty smart
00:20:38.240 who said that's backwards.
00:20:41.640 It's actually Saudi Arabia
00:20:42.920 who's taking out Russia 0.91
00:20:44.340 and the U.S. shale business.
00:20:47.160 And I think,
00:20:48.720 well,
00:20:50.160 maybe both are true.
00:20:52.980 So,
00:20:53.920 whatever's happening there
00:20:55.520 is a little bit opaque,
00:20:58.040 at least to me.
00:20:58.980 maybe somebody understands
00:21:01.000 what's going on.
00:21:02.240 But I think the U.S. shale business
00:21:03.860 is in a lot of trouble.
00:21:11.540 Somebody says,
00:21:12.700 every flu,
00:21:13.700 you hear the same thing.
00:21:16.000 So,
00:21:17.660 apparently there's somebody
00:21:19.320 who's still not convinced
00:21:20.440 that this flu is different.
00:21:22.540 Let me just take it down
00:21:23.920 to one element
00:21:25.860 for you to check.
00:21:27.220 If you think this flu
00:21:28.640 is not as scary
00:21:30.580 as the media is telling you,
00:21:32.880 then you'd have to
00:21:33.640 explain why Italy
00:21:35.600 is having so much trouble.
00:21:38.920 Now, sure,
00:21:39.560 I get it.
00:21:39.960 Italy has fewer hospital beds
00:21:42.360 and they don't have
00:21:43.640 the facilities
00:21:44.460 of South Korea
00:21:45.560 or even maybe China,
00:21:47.680 I don't know,
00:21:48.480 or the United States.
00:21:51.120 But Italy did not have
00:21:52.700 their healthcare system
00:21:53.740 crash with prior flus.
00:21:55.860 So,
00:21:56.700 you have to explain
00:21:57.440 why it did.
00:21:59.060 If you can't explain that,
00:22:00.980 you have to stop saying
00:22:02.120 it's the same
00:22:02.780 as prior flus.
00:22:04.320 If you can explain it,
00:22:05.760 please tell the rest of us
00:22:08.100 because nobody else
00:22:08.840 can explain it
00:22:09.660 except that the flu
00:22:10.580 has a nastier nature
00:22:12.980 for extra old people.
00:22:15.600 All right.
00:22:15.900 just an update on me
00:22:23.580 because it ties into
00:22:25.220 this COVID stuff.
00:22:26.100 I've got some medical
00:22:27.280 procedures upcoming
00:22:29.800 and I'm really concerned
00:22:32.120 because I don't want
00:22:34.300 to be into a situation
00:22:35.400 where I've got
00:22:36.260 a surgery scheduled
00:22:37.700 and I don't know
00:22:38.940 if our healthcare system
00:22:40.020 is still working.
00:22:40.720 But today I'm going
00:22:42.100 to go get my head examined
00:22:43.560 literally with an MRI
00:22:44.880 to see if my sinuses
00:22:46.820 can be operated on.
00:22:49.260 And I don't know
00:22:51.400 about scheduling
00:22:52.160 the surgery now.
00:22:53.400 It seems like a dicey time
00:22:54.720 to even have something
00:22:55.520 scheduled.
00:22:56.960 I suppose if I get
00:22:57.800 through the surgery
00:22:58.600 and I get my pain meds,
00:23:01.760 I'll be okay
00:23:02.540 because I just have
00:23:03.460 to recover.
00:23:04.660 But it's just
00:23:06.060 a terrible time
00:23:06.820 to have some
00:23:07.300 unrelated medical problem
00:23:08.960 that you need
00:23:09.540 the healthcare system
00:23:10.720 to deal with
00:23:11.820 because you just don't know
00:23:13.200 if it'll be there
00:23:13.800 in a month.
00:23:16.420 It'll at least be there
00:23:17.620 and available to you.
00:23:18.740 It might be
00:23:19.240 crashed by then.
00:23:22.220 Will coronavirus
00:23:24.160 kill the job market?
00:23:25.540 Well, the entire economy
00:23:26.940 is getting depressed
00:23:29.760 because anything
00:23:31.240 that requires people
00:23:32.260 to leave their house
00:23:33.360 and spend money
00:23:34.940 is at risk.
00:23:38.260 So there are tons
00:23:39.840 of people who are going
00:23:40.540 to lose a lot of
00:23:41.340 income on this.
00:23:42.800 I don't know
00:23:43.140 what's going to happen.
00:23:44.800 But it's a weird
00:23:45.480 kind of crisis
00:23:48.280 because there are
00:23:49.200 a whole bunch of
00:23:50.100 businesses that
00:23:51.500 will do better.
00:23:53.800 I mean, certainly
00:23:54.340 the grocery
00:23:55.040 and the toilet paper
00:23:57.260 business are just
00:23:58.040 doing better, right?
00:23:59.080 They're not doing worse.
00:24:00.060 So it's a weird
00:24:03.780 crisis in that
00:24:04.720 some things
00:24:05.240 will do better
00:24:05.840 while some things
00:24:06.620 will be completely
00:24:07.400 whacked.
00:24:14.320 Somebody says
00:24:14.960 have them test
00:24:15.620 for TDS
00:24:16.380 while in there.
00:24:17.340 Looking in my head,
00:24:18.240 that's a good idea.
00:24:19.080 We'll see if there's
00:24:19.620 any in there.
00:24:20.120 They'll have it removed.
00:24:23.640 Yeah, somebody says
00:24:24.520 is it possible
00:24:25.180 for you to wait
00:24:25.860 or is it better
00:24:26.820 to get on with it.
00:24:28.640 I'll make that
00:24:29.460 decision pretty soon.
00:24:32.160 But it's going
00:24:32.840 to be close.
00:24:33.680 The last thing
00:24:34.400 I want to do
00:24:34.960 is walk into
00:24:35.560 a medical facility
00:24:36.600 because at some point
00:24:39.480 there's going to be
00:24:39.980 a crossover
00:24:40.700 where going to
00:24:42.340 the medical facility
00:24:43.400 to get something
00:24:44.160 fixed that was
00:24:45.580 dangerous,
00:24:46.400 so you've got
00:24:46.700 to get it fixed,
00:24:48.580 might be more
00:24:49.440 dangerous than
00:24:50.360 staying away from
00:24:51.200 it might be more
00:24:52.140 dangerous to go
00:24:53.800 to a health care
00:24:54.600 facility and be
00:24:55.680 exposed to God
00:24:56.580 knows what
00:24:57.160 because it isn't
00:24:59.040 yet.
00:24:59.940 I mean, at the
00:25:00.340 moment, I wouldn't
00:25:01.220 worry about it,
00:25:02.100 but we're getting
00:25:02.880 close.
00:25:04.100 A month from now,
00:25:05.160 do you think you
00:25:05.720 would go to a
00:25:06.320 hospital for a
00:25:07.400 regular problem?
00:25:08.880 Maybe not.
00:25:10.360 Maybe not.
00:25:14.360 All right.
00:25:18.960 People who have
00:25:19.820 cabin fever after
00:25:20.860 this.
00:25:21.660 Yeah, I'm starting
00:25:23.860 to get a little
00:25:24.500 squirrely myself.
00:25:25.680 because I keep
00:25:27.240 forgetting that I'm
00:25:28.300 not supposed to
00:25:28.920 leave the house.
00:25:30.400 And I find that
00:25:32.140 I'm keeping score.
00:25:34.400 I don't know if
00:25:35.200 you're doing that
00:25:35.800 yet, but I'm
00:25:36.960 keeping score of
00:25:38.100 how many social
00:25:40.440 contacts I have.
00:25:42.100 So if in a
00:25:43.520 normal world I
00:25:44.540 would have, you
00:25:45.360 know, ten social
00:25:46.500 contacts, I'm
00:25:47.320 trying to cut that
00:25:47.960 down to, you
00:25:49.040 know, two or
00:25:49.480 three, because I
00:25:51.280 don't have to
00:25:51.680 eliminate my social
00:25:52.580 contact.
00:25:52.980 contact, I just
00:25:53.400 have to get it
00:25:53.960 down to a
00:25:54.940 number where the
00:25:55.760 coronavirus can't
00:25:56.840 spread as quickly
00:25:57.620 as it would.
00:25:58.240 So, so I've, here's
00:26:06.460 my count.
00:26:07.600 I've, I've shaken
00:26:08.780 one hand in total
00:26:11.360 since the coronavirus
00:26:12.620 started, or two,
00:26:14.800 maybe two.
00:26:15.920 I'm going to go to
00:26:16.680 zero.
00:26:18.580 Both of those cases
00:26:19.780 were, I wasn't
00:26:22.760 thinking, but in other
00:26:24.800 cases where people have
00:26:25.860 offered to shake
00:26:26.580 hands, I've, I've
00:26:27.980 refused.
00:26:29.180 And even walking
00:26:30.340 down the sidewalk, I
00:26:31.340 took a walk yesterday
00:26:32.300 and somebody was just
00:26:33.260 walking on the sidewalk
00:26:34.340 in the other direction.
00:26:35.920 And we, we, we did
00:26:37.100 this like really wide
00:26:38.560 passing.
00:26:41.660 So, um, I would
00:26:44.060 think I've got my
00:26:44.960 social contacts down.
00:26:46.660 If I had to guess, I
00:26:48.440 think I've reduced my
00:26:49.980 social interactions by
00:26:51.400 80%, the personal
00:26:52.780 ones.
00:26:55.860 Somebody says
00:26:57.260 their FedEx guy has
00:26:58.440 coronavirus.
00:26:59.920 Well, that's not
00:27:00.900 good.
00:27:04.920 Somebody says
00:27:05.720 there's going to be a
00:27:06.260 baby boom in nine
00:27:07.140 months.
00:27:07.800 Maybe.
00:27:11.000 All right.
00:27:12.300 Um, all the
00:27:12.980 bleach was caught at
00:27:13.840 the market.
00:27:14.640 Well, my, my
00:27:15.820 supermarket, uh, my
00:27:17.360 store is to have
00:27:18.120 everything except
00:27:19.080 cleaning supplies.
00:27:20.320 So, all of the, uh,
00:27:22.980 all of the Clorox
00:27:24.580 wipes and stuff, they
00:27:25.460 all disappear pretty
00:27:26.260 quickly.
00:27:27.100 But plenty of food.
00:27:28.720 I don't sacramural
00:27:29.140 I don't think we're
00:27:29.580 going to run out of
00:27:30.160 food.
00:27:32.200 All right.
00:27:32.820 That's all I got for
00:27:33.400 now.
00:27:33.780 I will go get my MRI
00:27:35.500 and I'll tell you
00:27:37.000 tomorrow if there's
00:27:37.640 anything in my head.