Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 852 Scott Adams： Afternoon #WuFlu Chat

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00:00:08.800 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time for a special afternoon woo-flu chat with Scott Adams.

00:00:18.880 Now I do this partly because I love you, partly because sports got cancelled, and what are you going to do?

00:00:27.640 How many of you are sitting at home thinking, what are we going to do for the next, however long this is?

00:00:35.700 We're a little bit bored.

00:00:37.600 Well, luckily, luckily you have me.

00:00:41.360 Now, I was going to skip the simultaneous sip, but I can tell you need it.

00:00:47.500 You do. You need it.

00:00:49.940 I don't have any coffee with me, so we will be substituting the delicious aqua.

00:00:57.640 Aqua is some other language for water.

00:01:03.680 Latin? I don't know.

00:01:05.740 Doesn't matter, does it?

00:01:07.700 Well, if you'd like to join me for the simultaneous sip, really the second one of the day, this one's the bonus one.

00:01:13.480 This is just, you know, almost too much.

00:01:16.260 All you need is a cup or a mug, a glass, a tank or a chalice or a cyan, a canteen, a jug or a glass, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:20.780 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:22.740 I'm liking water at the moment.

00:01:23.920 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, actually the second dopamine hit of the day.

00:01:31.100 The thing that's going to make everything a little bit better, still, it's a simultaneous sip.

00:01:37.360 Go.

00:01:37.600 Well, I think it's up to me to give you the good news.

00:01:49.100 You've been watching the bad news on all those other channels.

00:01:54.440 And I'll have some tips for you to manage your stress here in a moment.

00:02:00.220 At some point, I might have to hypnotize you directly.

00:02:05.460 Not every one of you.

00:02:06.940 You know, you can always turn it off.

00:02:08.840 But at some point, you might want that.

00:02:12.660 You might want a little hypnosis for stress relief or even just entertainment.

00:02:18.460 Oh, you know what I just thought?

00:02:19.800 I bet I could use this time to develop like a class on persuasion or something.

00:02:28.260 And then you'd have something that was, you know, dependable.

00:02:31.240 It'll be like every time, every day at this time, we'll talk about a lesson or something.

00:02:35.680 Let me think about that.

00:02:36.960 Looks like we're all going to have a little extra time on our hands starting today.

00:02:40.940 First, a little update from my area of the world.

00:02:46.380 Our grocery stores are pretty wiped out at this point.

00:02:51.860 And what's interesting about where I live is I live in the same town as the executives

00:02:58.140 and the headquarters for Safeway, the biggest supermarket.

00:03:03.240 Now, if I had to guess, I think I'm in the, just by luck,

00:03:08.620 I'm in one of the safest places in the world in terms of being sure there'll be stuff on the shelves.

00:03:15.260 Because I think Safeway will make sure its own executives are somewhere near the beginning of the pile.

00:03:21.420 But here's the thing that you need to know if you're worried about running out of stuff.

00:03:27.260 Are you ready?

00:03:28.360 Because if you see people, you know, hoarding and you haven't hoarded enough,

00:03:33.100 you might say, oh, no, it's the end of the world, but it isn't.

00:03:36.340 It is not.

00:03:37.180 It is not.

00:03:39.160 Because this is a weird kind of crisis.

00:03:41.620 It's not like any others.

00:03:42.660 And if you compare it to anything, you're going to get the wrong answer.

00:03:46.080 The only thing you should compare the Wuhan flu to is itself.

00:03:52.120 You know, don't compare it to anything else.

00:03:54.800 So here's why you should not worry in the long run.

00:03:57.460 In the short run, there's going to be some hiccups and you'll get scared

00:04:00.180 because there's, I don't know, not enough of this or that.

00:04:03.300 But grocery stores make a lot of different kinds of food.

00:04:08.860 And if I had to guess, I don't think that, well, I do have to guess.

00:04:14.380 We're really good at making stuff and putting it where it belongs.

00:04:20.440 And we can still do all of that with, you know, 20% of the people hiding

00:04:25.000 and the other 80% of the people working, but staying six feet away from the other people.

00:04:30.300 Here's what you need to know about people.

00:04:34.740 Let's say there's a loud explosion in your block and you think it's a, whatever,

00:04:40.100 terrorist attack or something.

00:04:41.880 Watch what happens to the crowd.

00:04:44.280 For every person who runs away thinking,

00:04:47.540 ah, there's some unknown danger.

00:04:50.640 I run from unknown danger.

00:04:52.100 You watch, and there's some number of human beings who run toward it every time,

00:04:59.000 every single time.

00:05:01.320 Human beings, most of us will run away from danger, you know,

00:05:05.780 depending if we have the capability to do anything and what we know and who we are, etc.

00:05:10.460 But we are, we are a species that is full of people who are way braver than I am,

00:05:19.300 who will run directly at danger.

00:05:22.140 A lot of them.

00:05:23.200 It's not even rare.

00:05:25.060 Let's call them in the context of this, you know, this coronavirus thing.

00:05:30.240 Let's call them ordinary heroes.

00:05:32.760 People who do not possess, you know, some special superpower,

00:05:36.640 but they're going to be taking more risks than the rest of us.

00:05:43.020 There are some people who will step into the breach and say,

00:05:47.200 you know, I could get killed, but I'm going to do it anyway.

00:05:51.340 Because that's what we do.

00:05:53.260 People do that.

00:05:54.980 I'd love to say someday that I could be one of those people,

00:05:57.840 but the good news is there are plenty of them.

00:06:01.080 So for every, you know, idiot who's overhoarding toilet paper,

00:06:04.760 we have just as many people who will say, you know,

00:06:10.160 hey, if you can't deliver bread in that truck, hand me the keys.

00:06:14.520 Am I right?

00:06:15.820 If there's a truck that can't get to a supermarket,

00:06:19.440 you think nobody's going to step in?

00:06:21.900 Of course they will.

00:06:23.180 If there's something in the field that needs to get picked,

00:06:26.900 do you think we can't find some people to pick it?

00:06:29.240 Yeah, we can.

00:06:30.380 Yeah, they might need to stay away from each other and wash their hands and stuff.

00:06:33.140 Well, yeah, they'll get picked.

00:06:34.760 If it needs to be stocked on the shelves of Safeway,

00:06:38.300 and, you know, the person who does the stocking is sick that day,

00:06:41.740 is it going to get stocked?

00:06:43.080 Yeah, sure.

00:06:44.380 Because people are just going to step in.

00:06:46.320 The thing with the food supply chain,

00:06:50.100 and really it's true from the paper of goods and every other part of that,

00:06:54.400 is that it's all easy stuff.

00:06:57.080 Meaning each individual little slice of it, it's pretty easy.

00:07:00.360 So if you get sick, I could do your job probably tomorrow.

00:07:04.880 Carrying, driving, cash register, I could do that.

00:07:08.240 So you're not going to run out of people,

00:07:11.960 and therefore you're not going to run out of food

00:07:14.260 as long as people have money to buy it.

00:07:16.060 So the people who are maybe losing their income

00:07:20.660 have a, you know, a bigger short-term problem than the rest of us.

00:07:24.980 But they will also be surrounded by people who did not lose their income

00:07:29.400 and for whom, you know, feeding one extra mouth is not a big deal.

00:07:35.960 So, Wallet, you know, I would never advise you not to take precautions

00:07:41.300 because you should just be ready for any kind of emergency.

00:07:45.020 I think the thing you should worry least about while also preparing,

00:07:49.200 I'm not talking you out of preparing, I hope you don't hear that,

00:07:53.780 preparing is good, if for no other reason than it has stimulated the economy.

00:07:58.700 Do you know how much the grocery store and, you know,

00:08:02.000 maybe even, you know, other businesses like Costco and drugstores and everything,

00:08:08.040 do you know how much they got stimulated this month?

00:08:12.520 Oh, somebody asked about hard cash.

00:08:14.200 I think there's another good example.

00:08:16.860 The odds of the banks being closed, minimal.

00:08:23.160 There's a good chance that you won't be able to go into the lobby of a bank,

00:08:27.020 you know, without certain precautions or something, but it'll get done.

00:08:30.580 You know, most of that stuff is telephone stuff anyway.

00:08:33.660 ATMs should probably work fine.

00:08:35.720 I imagine that there'll be people standing outside with, you know, cleansers 1.00

00:08:40.260 or they'll tell you to use your elbow or a pencil to push the buttons or something.

00:08:44.700 That might be a good idea.

00:08:46.360 But, no, I don't think there's really any real risk of running out of banks,

00:08:51.920 cash, food, electricity, gas, both, you know,

00:08:58.840 both the liquid kind and the gas your stove runs on.

00:09:03.680 I don't think there's any chance of those things being impacted in any long-term way.

00:09:11.440 So, on any given day, you might be inconvenienced, but you'll be fine.

00:09:17.600 So, what's different about this, and if you're saying to yourself,

00:09:20.660 yeah, Scott, but I see pictures of emergencies in other countries

00:09:24.440 and they don't recover that fast.

00:09:26.680 Well, what's different about this is that we're not running out of anything.

00:09:30.620 We actually have so much extra in terms of extra labor, you know,

00:09:37.300 if we need it, and extra everything.

00:09:42.000 So, we mostly need to make sure that the people who are not getting a paycheck

00:09:46.040 get some kind of compensation.

00:09:48.200 And I would say, again, and I'll probably do this on the next day or so,

00:09:52.220 but I'm planning to just buy gift certificates at all the local restaurants, you know,

00:09:57.500 and that's just a good idea.

00:09:59.440 And then later, you can use it.

00:10:01.620 So, all it does is, you know, shift your spending,

00:10:05.120 because the moment I can go back to restaurants,

00:10:08.820 man, am I going back to restaurants.

00:10:11.520 You know, I guess I'm pent-up traveling and some pent-up buying

00:10:14.820 and some pent-up a lot of stuff.

00:10:17.720 So, I'll say it again.

00:10:19.160 When the economy comes back, it's going to come back faster than you expect.

00:10:22.980 So, whatever you thought was the long-term implication,

00:10:27.300 if you were to take the average of all the experts, put me at the fastest.

00:10:33.000 You know, I would be the public figure saying that once we get a handle on the virus,

00:10:39.540 which we don't have yet, but once we get it, the recovery is going to be, frankly, astounding.

00:10:44.860 I think it will be just breathtaking.

00:10:49.660 Scott, do you think we have a diplomacy opportunity with Iran?

00:10:53.320 Nope, I do not.

00:10:55.680 And that's very low on my list of things to worry about this week.

00:10:59.460 But I don't think Iran is going to budge. 1.00

00:11:02.020 I think they're just going to deal with their problems.

00:11:03.560 We'll deal with ours, and then we'll get back to things.

00:11:06.420 Here's what I found worked with kids.

00:11:13.820 All of you who are adults are having a problem right now telling your kids

00:11:18.180 that their time with their friends is going to be shut off.

00:11:24.480 I did a little A-B testing,

00:11:27.940 and the A-B testing determined that there was one thing I said

00:11:33.540 that seemed to be completely effective.

00:11:36.420 So here it is.

00:11:37.880 The one thing I said was,

00:11:40.400 the government says you've got to stay six feet away from your friends,

00:11:44.540 which is true.

00:11:46.700 So it has the advantage of being true.

00:11:49.620 It's not a law per se, but I don't want to say it's a law.

00:11:52.820 I just say the government says you need to stay six feet away from your friends.

00:11:56.360 Now, let me explain why that works and everything else doesn't.

00:12:02.220 And it goes like this.

00:12:04.360 Hey, Mom or Dad,

00:12:06.420 can I go to a sleepover?

00:12:09.280 No.

00:12:10.420 Can I just go over to one friend's house?

00:12:13.880 No.

00:12:14.580 Can one friend come over here?

00:12:16.760 No.

00:12:17.140 So the point is you'll get negotiated to death.

00:12:21.740 But if you say the government says you have to stay six feet apart,

00:12:26.640 that hits hard.

00:12:29.740 Because that's serious business.

00:12:32.020 That's not a, well, is three friends better than four friends?

00:12:35.840 Should I stick with two?

00:12:37.280 Should I phase it down to one?

00:12:38.400 Well, as soon as you get into anything that can be negotiated,

00:12:41.760 you're going to end up negotiating, and you shouldn't.

00:12:45.120 So try it at home.

00:12:46.320 See if it works.

00:12:47.040 And give me some feedback.

00:12:48.160 If you say, yeah, we just got to stay six feet apart.

00:12:51.580 Because the kids wouldn't want to play with their friends if they had to stay six feet apart anyway.

00:12:55.820 There is some good news coming.

00:13:03.620 And it's pretty big.

00:13:05.660 It's pretty big.

00:13:07.280 This virus thing affects every part of our human experience.

00:13:13.200 And one of the things it affects the most is our psychology.

00:13:17.620 So the way we think about things just got changed.

00:13:21.460 And we don't know exactly how that will play out.

00:13:25.180 But let me tell you, I'll just give you a small example.

00:13:29.160 How good are you going to feel when this is over?

00:13:33.140 Now, I don't know if it'll be over like, you know, there'll be one day where they say,

00:13:36.540 hey, everything's good.

00:13:37.960 Probably it will phase back to normal slowly the way it sort of, you know,

00:13:42.900 phased into where it is.

00:13:45.700 But it's going to feel great.

00:13:47.660 And here's the other thing.

00:13:48.800 Like, you're going to appreciate your normal life like you have never appreciated it before.

00:13:56.440 Because, man, do we take for granted everything, really.

00:14:00.780 But it's not your fault.

00:14:02.540 It's not your fault that you take for granted, you know, that things work around you.

00:14:06.900 It's not your fault at all.

00:14:08.020 Because the way your brain is designed,

00:14:10.900 you're supposed to stop paying attention to the things that are not a problem.

00:14:14.800 You wouldn't be able to live your life if you put as much attention on the things that are not a problem

00:14:20.320 as the things that you need to solve.

00:14:22.800 So, of course, we take it for granted.

00:14:25.060 But, man, is it going to feel good when it's over?

00:14:27.440 Like, seriously good, and it's going to last.

00:14:29.960 I'll give you an example, two examples, actually.

00:14:33.380 There was one time way back in my past when I couldn't eat for, I don't know, a week or something

00:14:38.820 because of some dental issues.

00:14:40.740 All I could have was, you know, gruel.

00:14:43.400 And the first time I had a solid meal, after not eating regular food for a week,

00:14:50.700 you cannot believe, people, you cannot believe how good that food felt.

00:14:58.760 Likewise, some of you know I had a problem where I lost my ability to speak for a few years.

00:15:03.480 Because when it came back, you have no idea how happy I am and continually grateful all day long.

00:15:13.020 I'm grateful all day long that that old problem was solved, and I don't have that anymore.

00:15:20.560 So it's going to feel good, and it's going to be a very connected feeling

00:15:25.640 because you're all going to feel good at the same time.

00:15:28.580 So look forward to that.

00:15:29.860 But, all right, so here's some other good news coming.

00:15:32.060 And it all has to do with the same point, that our psychology just changed.

00:15:37.460 The psychology changed.

00:15:39.580 But we've never had a time in human history.

00:15:44.200 So 15 billion years, yeah, 15 billion years have transpired since the Big Bang,

00:15:51.460 give or take 2 or 3 billion.

00:15:52.860 And we have never, ever had all the smartest people on the planet, the galaxy if you like,

00:16:03.140 the smartest people in the galaxy, focused on the same problem at the same time.

00:16:09.260 There's nothing like this.

00:16:11.000 You know, you could go back to, well, what about the Manhattan Project?

00:16:13.920 Nope.

00:16:14.960 Nope.

00:16:15.260 Because in the Manhattan Project, communication was kind of bad,

00:16:19.040 and we just had to use the scientists that we had who happened to be here.

00:16:23.480 You know?

00:16:24.300 But on this problem, the entire world, the smartest, most capable people,

00:16:30.240 are all immediately engaged.

00:16:33.000 And they're working hard, and they're putting in the serious time and effort.

00:16:38.440 Now, here's what you need to know.

00:16:41.920 Do you ever wonder what your dog or your cat thinks of you?

00:16:46.600 Because your dog or your cat looks at you,

00:16:48.800 and it knows that you can do some things that they can't do.

00:16:52.880 But on the other end, the dog and the cat can do some things you can't do.

00:16:57.020 So I don't know if your dog or your cat recognize how smart you are.

00:17:01.880 Because it's a curious thing that if you're the smart one in the room,

00:17:05.720 you can tell how dumb the dumb one is.

00:17:08.440 But the dumb one can't tell how smart the smart one is.

00:17:11.680 Right?

00:17:12.440 Because you can only understand things up to the level of your own intelligence.

00:17:16.200 If somebody's above that, you don't know how much more above that they are,

00:17:20.900 because it all doesn't make sense to you.

00:17:22.820 So they could be twice as smart, 10% smarter, and it's all just confusing to you.

00:17:27.480 Just like your dog looks at you,

00:17:30.300 this is sort of how you and I are looking at the geniuses,

00:17:35.380 literally geniuses, around the world,

00:17:37.380 MIT, you know, basically every, you know,

00:17:41.120 Sloan, Kettering, basically everywhere that you've got geniuses,

00:17:43.940 they're all working on this.

00:17:45.460 You got your Silicon Valley geniuses,

00:17:47.540 you got people building apps,

00:17:48.920 you got a lot.

00:17:51.080 Now, our government is not really staffed with the same level of genius,

00:17:55.000 if we could be honest.

00:17:58.280 But they don't need to be,

00:17:59.740 because their job is to get us focused,

00:18:02.840 moving in the right direction,

00:18:04.020 close airports,

00:18:05.420 get rid of regulations,

00:18:06.580 stuff like that,

00:18:08.120 and they're doing it well.

00:18:09.920 So,

00:18:10.680 there are two types of jobs in this crisis.

00:18:14.420 There's the everyday hero job,

00:18:17.200 where anybody can do it,

00:18:18.740 you know,

00:18:19.020 if you need somebody to finish driving that bread truck to the supermarket,

00:18:23.400 so we don't run out,

00:18:24.460 I can do that.

00:18:25.780 Give me the keys.

00:18:27.240 I can't,

00:18:27.800 I can't invent a new vaccine,

00:18:29.560 but luckily we have people who can.

00:18:31.900 Geniuses.

00:18:32.800 And we have politicians who are closer to the everyday hero type of person than the genius,

00:18:37.680 but they're doing their job too.

00:18:39.760 Do I care that they've made mistakes?

00:18:42.740 Not right now.

00:18:45.920 Not right now.

00:18:47.660 Later,

00:18:48.520 when this is all over,

00:18:50.720 I'm going to be one of many people saying,

00:18:53.120 hey,

00:18:53.260 we better look at what we did here to,

00:18:54.860 you know,

00:18:55.180 see what we can learn,

00:18:57.000 find out what went well and what didn't.

00:18:59.240 Not so much for blaming people,

00:19:01.120 but you need to know what worked and what didn't.

00:19:03.540 So I'm all for that.

00:19:05.260 Later.

00:19:06.480 At the moment,

00:19:08.140 blaming each other for doing things wrong is sort of not the right vibe,

00:19:12.500 for an emergency because our president does not operate in our government at the moment.

00:19:18.920 Anyway,

00:19:19.440 in 2020,

00:19:20.680 it doesn't operate as some kind of independent machine that's off there making decisions.

00:19:25.760 That's not what's happening.

00:19:27.700 That machine is wholly dependent on the public and the experts feeding it what works.

00:19:35.980 And I have heard nobody say,

00:19:38.500 and correct me if I'm wrong,

00:19:39.840 here's the point where you would lose confidence.

00:19:43.140 And I don't think this has happened.

00:19:44.920 Where somebody very smart,

00:19:46.400 or ideally more people than one,

00:19:48.800 say,

00:19:49.220 hey,

00:19:49.480 we,

00:19:49.780 we,

00:19:50.460 we made this presentation to the president.

00:19:53.860 We said,

00:19:54.740 we think you should do X.

00:19:56.940 And then he used his lack of expertise to override us.

00:20:01.460 If you hear that,

00:20:03.600 you have a right to be worried.

00:20:05.720 If what you hear,

00:20:06.940 and so far,

00:20:07.520 this is all we've heard.

00:20:08.440 We've heard it even from political enemies of the president,

00:20:11.480 that people are bringing him ideas,

00:20:13.760 fully formed.

00:20:14.640 That's the kind of idea you want,

00:20:16.180 you know,

00:20:16.340 a fully formed idea.

00:20:18.100 And they say,

00:20:19.060 can we do this?

00:20:19.860 And the president say,

00:20:20.940 yes.

00:20:22.020 What help do you need?

00:20:23.200 You know,

00:20:23.460 what,

00:20:23.620 what can they do to make that happen better?

00:20:25.740 So everything's working quite,

00:20:28.420 quite well.

00:20:29.360 The problem is gigantic.

00:20:31.480 I mean,

00:20:31.880 gigantic.

00:20:33.380 We haven't seen anything quite like this recently.

00:20:37.380 So it's gigantic,

00:20:38.520 but we've never had this kind of capability focused on it.

00:20:42.960 So what I would expect,

00:20:44.200 somebody says the Fed got reached to 0%.

00:20:46.520 Well,

00:20:47.180 there again.

00:20:47.900 So you've got your financial experts jumping into the,

00:20:51.480 into the fight.

00:20:52.820 What could we do?

00:20:53.880 And then they did it.

00:20:54.680 Now,

00:20:55.380 if I feel as these little tweaks to the economy are primarily for our

00:21:00.520 psychology,

00:21:01.080 every time,

00:21:02.460 every time the government tweaks some little thing or the Fed tweaks some

00:21:05.460 little thing,

00:21:06.200 you say to yourself,

00:21:07.520 Oh,

00:21:08.480 smart people are watching.

00:21:10.240 They're reacting.

00:21:11.320 They're paying attention.

00:21:12.260 I'm part of,

00:21:13.260 I'm part of a big enterprise here where the right people are making the

00:21:16.920 right decisions.

00:21:17.880 So when I see the Fed cut its rates,

00:21:20.560 I don't know that it makes any difference economically,

00:21:23.180 except that the economy is a psychology machine.

00:21:28.020 And if you think it makes a difference,

00:21:29.960 if you think it mattered,

00:21:32.700 it did.

00:21:33.660 It did.

00:21:34.260 Because that translates into people acting rationally in a way that capitalism

00:21:38.320 likes.

00:21:39.780 Here are some things that may end up way better after this crisis passes.

00:21:45.920 And other people have said this,

00:21:48.600 but it's worth seeing them in a list.

00:21:50.340 Online education.

00:21:52.360 Do you think,

00:21:53.180 do you think education in person will ever be the same?

00:21:56.120 Because if you get enough people to try enough online education,

00:22:00.980 you're going to get a lot of people saying,

00:22:03.020 first of all,

00:22:03.720 I kind of like this.

00:22:04.700 It's a little bit better.

00:22:07.060 And the other thing you're going to get is a lot of people being exposed to

00:22:10.360 it.

00:22:11.040 And then people say,

00:22:11.980 you know,

00:22:12.800 maybe I want to work on this.

00:22:14.540 Maybe I want to make this online education thing better.

00:22:17.900 Maybe that's the industry that's going to be growing like crazy.

00:22:21.080 Because I think it is.

00:22:23.300 So online education might have gotten this huge,

00:22:28.840 you know,

00:22:29.600 unexpected boost.

00:22:32.740 I think you're going to see a bunch of inventions come out of this.

00:22:36.800 Whenever there's a war,

00:22:38.680 people invent stuff.

00:22:39.780 Because you always need to invent stuff to get an edge on the enemy.

00:22:43.840 I don't know my history very well,

00:22:45.520 but I think radar would be an example.

00:22:48.200 Correct me if I'm wrong,

00:22:49.100 but I think radar was invented for war purposes.

00:22:52.380 And then look how useful it is.

00:22:54.280 So we're going to see a bunch of inventions.

00:22:57.660 And these inventions might be the type that really make a difference.

00:23:02.140 Now,

00:23:02.720 I mentioned this thing called the far UV light.

00:23:06.240 I don't know if that's real.

00:23:07.900 Meaning there's a type of light with a certain frequency.

00:23:11.320 It's not regular UV.

00:23:12.900 It's far UV.

00:23:14.960 And allegedly it can knock viruses out of the air,

00:23:18.060 basically and kill them on surfaces and things.

00:23:21.040 Now,

00:23:21.540 I don't know if that's true or if it works well enough or it only works in some

00:23:25.220 cases or whatever,

00:23:26.340 but you're going to see stuff like that,

00:23:29.280 that maybe you just wouldn't have been invented so quickly before.

00:23:32.980 You know,

00:23:33.800 anybody who's got an idea for something that would help in a pandemic,

00:23:38.460 well,

00:23:39.020 they're going to get funded,

00:23:40.460 right?

00:23:41.340 So you're going to see a bunch of businesses jump up about this.

00:23:44.200 You're going to see the door dashing world take off.

00:23:49.920 You know,

00:23:50.820 I've said for a long time that restaurants will probably,

00:23:54.300 you've seen it a little bit already,

00:23:56.220 sort of transmogrify into takeout or delivery only.

00:24:02.180 So I think some restaurants are going to survive by being super proactive in takeout,

00:24:08.620 you know,

00:24:08.820 as long as they can get their kitchen staff there.

00:24:11.080 So that might be a difference.

00:24:12.400 You know,

00:24:12.980 you might,

00:24:13.420 you might see the cost and,

00:24:15.060 and,

00:24:15.680 and convenience and availability of home delivery of warm food.

00:24:21.420 Just go through the roof.

00:24:23.280 The other thing is people are designing all kinds of systems to live better.

00:24:29.940 I've told you my system for decreasing any unnecessary stress is,

00:24:35.840 you know,

00:24:36.000 exercise and staying busy and having a purpose and all that stuff.

00:24:41.040 I won't go through the list.

00:24:42.020 You've already heard it,

00:24:43.220 but I think a lot of people,

00:24:45.360 and I'm hearing it already have already implemented systems for the,

00:24:49.340 for their own world.

00:24:50.760 So your system might not include taking walks every day like mine,

00:24:54.660 but you probably,

00:24:55.760 probably will find some kind of system for exercise and eating and fitness,

00:25:00.720 and they might stick.

00:25:03.060 Healthcare will never be the same.

00:25:05.760 The president,

00:25:07.160 I guess the federal government said it would be okay for doctors to practice

00:25:11.040 across state lines for telemedicine for the,

00:25:14.200 the length of the crisis.

00:25:15.960 But apparently there's still state restrictions.

00:25:18.280 And I thought,

00:25:19.760 Oh wow.

00:25:21.960 I thought to myself,

00:25:23.160 Oh wow.

00:25:23.940 State restrictions.

00:25:26.240 That means 50,

00:25:27.720 50 different entities have to say yes before you've got full practicing cross state boundaries.

00:25:33.420 But I'm expecting that thing to get solved.

00:25:38.400 I hope it does.

00:25:40.080 And if that got solved,

00:25:41.160 that would be gigantic.

00:25:43.280 That would,

00:25:43.620 that would affect,

00:25:44.520 that would affect the,

00:25:49.560 the cost of healthcare in general.

00:25:53.100 So,

00:25:54.380 that might be some good stuff coming out of that.

00:25:57.000 I told you that South Korea has these portable CT machines.

00:26:00.440 So they can,

00:26:01.800 they can actually test people with a portable machine.

00:26:08.180 So,

00:26:08.840 why can't we have those?

00:26:11.360 I'm,

00:26:11.580 I'm sure we will.

00:26:12.320 Let me turn it off my phone.

00:26:15.740 Have you noticed that the,

00:26:17.100 the messaging from people is going up pretty bit,

00:26:20.780 pretty much.

00:26:23.060 Yeah.

00:26:23.540 Grocery stores are also helping with delivery.

00:26:25.480 You'll see young people helping old people.

00:26:27.320 You can see all kinds of stuff.

00:26:28.740 The other thing that might change is immigration.

00:26:32.580 And,

00:26:33.080 and here's the,

00:26:33.960 the psychology part of that.

00:26:38.580 Oh,

00:26:38.980 actually I'll,

00:26:39.620 I'll be on,

00:26:40.200 I'll be on Dr.

00:26:42.240 Drew's later.

00:26:42.960 So I'm going to,

00:26:43.480 I'll get off so you can watch him.

00:26:46.060 If Dr.

00:26:46.820 Drew's on Periscope,

00:26:47.680 I don't want to compete with that.

00:26:49.380 So,

00:26:49.900 let me just say that,

00:26:51.360 stay six feet apart.

00:26:55.560 And I think that immigration, 1.00

00:26:57.440 people may have a different opinion of it after this,

00:26:59.880 because it's one thing to say,

00:27:02.040 yes,

00:27:02.260 we should let people come across our open border.

00:27:04.840 You know,

00:27:05.040 people on the left saying that,

00:27:06.140 but it's another thing when you've just put in your emergency supply of food and people are still coming across the border.

00:27:13.780 You're going to think of it differently because there's nothing to stop people from walking up and taking your food.

00:27:20.240 And it's,

00:27:20.760 you know,

00:27:20.980 people are going to figure that out.

00:27:22.100 So I think the psychology of an open border may be dead now.

00:27:26.720 So I think open borders is a dead idea,

00:27:29.040 but I'm going to get off.

00:27:30.080 And I think I'll watch Dr.

00:27:31.400 Drew's Periscope as well.

00:27:33.220 And join me later.

00:27:34.740 I think I'll be on at California time,

00:27:38.020 three 30 ish.

00:27:39.740 So add three hours for the East coast.

00:27:42.420 And I'll talk to you later.

00:27:43.100 And I'll talk to you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 15, 2020

Episode 852 Scott Adams： Afternoon #WuFlu Chat

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