Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 862 Scott Adams： Goodnight Vibes. Forget Your Cares

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00:00:07.280 Hey everybody. I've got an invention I'd like to show you. Hold on.

00:00:21.940 You know when it comes to these pandemics everybody's got to jump in, do their part.

00:00:30.000 And you've already seen a lot of inventions.

00:00:32.700 I just saw another video of another hospital that turned, I don't know, two ventilators into nine or something with some creative tubing.

00:00:44.360 So you're seeing inventions just all over the place.

00:00:47.160 And I didn't want to be left out because I'm kind of inventive myself.

00:00:53.060 So I thought I would invent something that you can all use.

00:00:57.260 Now, first you have to start with a problem, right?

00:01:00.500 And the problem is people were touching their face with their hands.

00:01:04.720 Now, it's hard to avoid.

00:01:06.200 What if you have an itch?

00:01:07.860 What are you going to do?

00:01:09.420 So I took, I started with this ordinary back scratcher.

00:01:14.600 And I did some modifications.

00:01:17.600 It's a little more aerodynamic.

00:01:19.420 Took a little weight off it.

00:01:21.660 You see.

00:01:21.980 And now, should I have an itch, let's say, on my nose?

00:01:26.880 In the old days, I would go scratch, scratch, scratch, and then die, you know, most likely.

00:01:33.740 So since I don't want to die just because I have an itch on my nose, I've repurposed the back scratcher.

00:01:39.680 Now, watch this.

00:01:41.600 Oh, forehead.

00:01:44.780 Oh, that's so good.

00:01:48.920 Oh, my God.

00:01:50.120 I've been so needing to scratch my head.

00:01:53.760 Wow.

00:01:57.600 Now, of course, you have to immediately burn the stick.

00:02:00.640 So these are disposable.

00:02:02.120 That's how I make my money.

00:02:03.300 Because if I were just to sell you one of them and it just lasted forever, well, how do you make money on that?

00:02:10.540 So this is sort of like, you know, giving away the razor and selling the blades.

00:02:16.580 You have to throw it away after one use.

00:02:18.820 So get that over there. 1.00

00:02:22.780 All right.

00:02:24.180 Make it longer.

00:02:26.520 Needs to be six feet long.

00:02:28.660 So I have my guest mode on.

00:02:34.260 And that means you get to ask me a question before you get to go to bed.

00:02:38.720 And I'm going to see if anybody is queuing up to ask any questions.

00:02:43.660 Oh, Carpe.

00:02:45.920 Let's see if you're still on there.

00:02:50.460 Carpe, can you hear me?

00:02:52.600 Oh, that didn't work.

00:02:53.900 We'll see if our technology is working today.

00:02:55.720 Let's go to Lynn.

00:03:00.920 Lynn.

00:03:01.800 Lynn, can you hear me?

00:03:06.020 Lynn, can you hear me?

00:03:09.240 Can you hear me?

00:03:11.080 Well, just barely.

00:03:12.520 Let me see if I can turn up my volume.

00:03:18.200 Maybe I can't.

00:03:19.760 Let's see if I can.

00:03:24.200 Lynn, speak again.

00:03:26.180 Can you hear me now?

00:03:27.820 I can hear you well enough.

00:03:28.980 Just so speak loudly.

00:03:30.560 What is your question for me?

00:03:32.540 All right.

00:03:32.960 So I want to call this Blanket Time with Scott.

00:03:37.800 All right.

00:03:38.980 A little branding.

00:03:40.600 You know, I don't know if anybody tried this technique.

00:03:44.880 Good.

00:03:47.560 Blanket Time at Night.

00:03:50.020 All right.

00:03:50.460 Blanket Time at Night it is.

00:03:54.060 Thank you for that suggestion.

00:03:55.720 All right.

00:03:57.040 All right.

00:03:57.600 Bye-bye.

00:04:00.880 All right.

00:04:01.620 I am having a little bit of sound issues.

00:04:03.720 So if I choose you, speak loudly.

00:04:10.600 Charlie?

00:04:12.180 Charlie, can you hear me?

00:04:14.220 Charlie?

00:04:17.360 Hey, Charlie.

00:04:18.360 Do you have a question for me?

00:04:19.420 Can you hear me?

00:04:22.440 Yes.

00:04:22.820 Well enough.

00:04:24.980 Okay.

00:04:25.480 Nice.

00:04:26.280 Yeah, no, I just, I don't, I actually just joined.

00:04:28.740 I just, I'm so happy that you're doing what you're doing.

00:04:31.600 And, you know, I've been, I've spoken to you a couple times.

00:04:35.780 I'm a huge fan of yours.

00:04:37.060 And you're doing such a wonderful thing for the entire fan base, the people that log in

00:04:43.320 to see you.

00:04:44.220 And it's just wonderful.

00:04:45.640 And thanks so much for the positive energy.

00:04:48.880 I've been taking that energy and, and, and bringing it to my team at work and I'm trying

00:04:55.160 my best to keep the morale up and it's awesome.

00:04:58.740 So thank you so much.

00:04:59.960 And like, this is tough time, but we're going to get through it.

00:05:02.940 I really believe it.

00:05:04.420 Oh yeah.

00:05:04.700 We're definitely good.

00:05:05.460 The only thing that I'm not worried about in the least is that we'll get through it.

00:05:10.140 There's a timing question, but yeah, we'll, we will certainly get through it.

00:05:13.780 That part is, that part is not in question.

00:05:16.560 All right.

00:05:16.720 Thank you, Charlie.

00:05:17.260 Thanks a lot.

00:05:19.040 Have a great evening.

00:05:20.000 You too.

00:05:22.360 All right.

00:05:22.880 Let's see what else is on here.

00:05:24.760 All these good vibes today.

00:05:26.780 People got good vibes.

00:05:30.020 Let's see if Annalisa wants to ask me a question.

00:05:34.000 Annalisa, are you there?

00:05:36.500 Hi.

00:05:37.060 Do you have a question for me?

00:05:39.400 So I'm in the oil and gas industry and I'm here in Houston and it's kind of, I want to keep

00:05:46.660 a positive attitude.

00:05:48.140 However, it's really, I don't think we've ever been in a place like this before.

00:05:53.780 So it's kind of, it's a little bit scary.

00:05:57.980 So.

00:05:58.640 Well, you know, it is a little bit scary.

00:06:01.400 You know, fear of the unknown, but here are the things that I think you don't have to

00:06:05.660 be afraid of.

00:06:06.880 There's zero chance of running out of food if, if only because you can't hoard fresh food.

00:06:13.180 You know, if you took home a whole bunch of broccoli, it just wouldn't last long.

00:06:17.180 So there'll always be fresh food and, and the pipeline is, you know, flexing its muscles.

00:06:23.180 It's the best pipeline in the world.

00:06:24.680 So you always have food.

00:06:26.440 The, my prediction for what's going to happen with our infection and death rate in this country

00:06:31.960 is based on the fact that we're getting really close to just, you know, putting these therapeutics

00:06:39.060 that seem to work really well, the, the, uh, chloroquine in particular and some other

00:06:44.640 ones, resverzarin, however you say that.

00:06:47.300 So I think what you're going to see in this country, because we had enough time to prepare

00:06:51.940 and we slowed it down enough, I think you're going to see that the infection rate will continue

00:06:56.400 to just explode because there's just nothing you can do about it.

00:07:00.360 But I think the death rate will start to approach zero with the exception of people who have

00:07:05.380 underlying issues.

00:07:06.760 You know, if, if somebody's, you know, unhealthy overall, then, then anything can take them

00:07:11.860 out.

00:07:12.420 But I think you're going to see the combination of more infection and less deaths.

00:07:17.280 And that might fairly quickly get us to a point where we can, where we can open stuff.

00:07:21.660 And I think the economy is pretty resilient.

00:07:23.780 You know, it's nothing got broken.

00:07:25.980 It's not like we got bombed.

00:07:27.440 People can just walk right back to their offices whenever it's time.

00:07:31.880 So I think we'll be fine.

00:07:34.080 Well, I don't think we'll be fine.

00:07:35.480 We'll be fine.

00:07:36.120 There isn't any really doubt about it.

00:07:38.740 The question is, you know, is it inconvenient and a real pain for, you know, a month?

00:07:45.200 You know, is it two months?

00:07:46.580 Is it, is it six months?

00:07:47.840 Who knows?

00:07:48.900 But definitely something we can do, you know, standing on our heads.

00:07:53.280 We are, we are America.

00:07:55.460 And the last thing we're going to do is, you know, let each other starve.

00:07:58.540 So thanks for the question, but you should feel better.

00:08:01.280 We got this.

00:08:02.980 All right.

00:08:03.500 Let's see what else we got going here.

00:08:06.640 Let's talk to Jennifer. 0.96

00:08:11.100 Let's see if Jennifer has a question for me. 0.70

00:08:16.700 Jennifer, can you hear me?

00:08:20.120 I'm good.

00:08:20.920 How are you?

00:08:21.520 Do you have a question for me?

00:08:22.360 I'm Dr. Shiva.

00:08:30.720 Yes.

00:08:31.040 And he, he's, he's someone who just seems so knowledgeable, but he was bringing up some really

00:08:37.280 serious questions, concerns about Dr. Fauci, and I'm, I'm just struggling with trying to

00:08:44.220 figure out who to trust, who to listen to.

00:08:48.680 Maybe I shouldn't listen to so many of these, but I'm just kind of, what's your advice to

00:08:54.060 those of us who are, who are.

00:08:56.160 Well, what, why don't you give me a specific, what would be a specific thing that not, that's

00:09:01.820 not just a general criticism of how things are being approached, but what's a, what's

00:09:06.400 a very specific thing that Fauci should be doing, according to Dr. Shiva, that he's not

00:09:12.780 already doing.

00:09:14.000 Well, it's, it's not so much that, it's his past associations with people, you know, I

00:09:22.620 guess deep state or whatever, you know, that he's, that he is part of that group and has

00:09:28.380 been for years.

00:09:29.700 And so.

00:09:31.000 Well, you know, that's very close to the bottom of the list of things I'm going to worry about.

00:09:36.400 I think the mental community, medical community has a very high opinion of him.

00:09:40.820 And, you know, one of the things that you can guarantee about any of these, you know,

00:09:45.560 Washington critters or anybody who's just operating at a very high level, they all have

00:09:50.420 all these weird connections to other people.

00:09:53.500 So it's sort of just built into being, you know, successful and prominent and in being

00:10:00.160 in that part of the world, they all, they all know each other.

00:10:02.140 They got connections.

00:10:03.180 They did things that you wish they hadn't, you know, back in the day, they had different

00:10:06.740 opinions.

00:10:07.520 I wouldn't worry about any of that.

00:10:08.880 The medical people have great confidence in him and that's all I'd worry about.

00:10:14.380 So yeah, I would relax about that.

00:10:16.480 Thank you for the question.

00:10:19.120 All right.

00:10:19.640 Let's see if we can bring on Brian.

00:10:27.880 Brian.

00:10:28.600 Brian, can you hear me?

00:10:32.400 I can.

00:10:33.260 Do you have a question?

00:10:34.540 Yeah.

00:10:34.860 I was wondering, why don't you think we hear more cases out of Russia of this coronavirus

00:10:40.060 if it's such a big deal and they share such a big border with China?

00:10:42.920 Well, that is a really good question.

00:10:45.840 So why don't we hear more cases out of Russia?

00:10:48.640 Well, you know, the obvious explanations would be that, you know, maybe they're not testing.

00:10:55.200 They don't have a, you know, it's just a, could be a, you know, a measurement problem.

00:11:00.760 It could be that Russia is concealing information.

00:11:03.900 And it could be that just by luck, there wasn't a lot of travel across the border.

00:11:11.500 I don't know how much travel there is across the border, really.

00:11:14.800 I would have to, that's something I'd have to ask.

00:11:17.640 But is there, is there a robust China-Russia back and forth travel?

00:11:23.880 I just don't know the answer to that question.

00:11:25.460 Well, I guess I just presumed, I guess I just presumed that there would be a robust China-Russia 0.98

00:11:29.280 travel connection because their political systems are both communists and they seem like natural

00:11:35.540 allies.

00:11:36.880 So you'd think they do a lot of trade and have a lot of back and forth.

00:11:40.720 Well, I'm not sure how natural allies they are, but they have to share a border so they're

00:11:44.820 doing the best they can.

00:11:45.880 I mean, I guess they're natural in the sense that it wouldn't make any sense for them to

00:11:49.500 ever fight.

00:11:50.100 So yeah, natural allies in that sense, for sure.

00:11:52.000 Yeah.

00:11:53.660 But, you know, it's a good question.

00:11:56.340 And we're also not seeing a lot from Africa.

00:12:00.920 And so one of the questions you'd have to ask yourself is, will there be a strong genetic

00:12:06.460 indicator?

00:12:08.840 And not necessarily something that's limited to some ethnicity, but it could be something

00:12:14.260 that just some people have in any group.

00:12:17.540 And maybe, you know, maybe Russians on average, you know, are less susceptible.

00:12:22.680 That's entirely possible.

00:12:24.060 So that would be just speculation.

00:12:25.260 But, you know, if you had to guess, is it just we don't have good information, or is

00:12:31.440 there something genetically protecting them?

00:12:35.360 My guess would be the lack of information, personally.

00:12:37.920 Yeah.

00:12:38.400 It feels like information, right?

00:12:40.760 It feels like that would be the big explanation.

00:12:43.000 All right.

00:12:43.180 Thanks for the question.

00:12:44.100 Thank you.

00:12:45.840 All right.

00:12:46.580 Let's see who else we got here.

00:12:47.880 Oh, I think I feel like I can know what you're going to ask by looking at your little icons.

00:12:59.300 All right.

00:13:01.120 Caller, can you hear me?

00:13:05.100 Caller, caller.

00:13:06.880 Hello.

00:13:07.220 Can you hear me?

00:13:07.720 Yes, I can.

00:13:10.660 Do you have a question?

00:13:12.140 You chose me.

00:13:13.900 You know, I'm surprised it doesn't exist.

00:13:16.320 Think about all these older people that are in their houses in quarantine with this whole 1.00

00:13:21.840 scary thing and the mob at the store.

00:13:24.400 What if they need stuff?

00:13:25.440 And how do they let someone know that if they need to leave, they call 911, but how do we

00:13:32.420 find these people if they need help?

00:13:34.800 There's no hotline numbers on TNC?

00:13:39.000 Yeah, that's a real good question.

00:13:40.900 And everything has to do with their capability and, you know, just how capable are they?

00:13:47.540 You know, if somebody is capable but older, they would do what I did today, which is a neighborhood

00:13:54.920 you know, young person was willing to do some shopping for me just for some fresh food,

00:14:01.540 you know, some fresh goods and, you know, left them outside and I, you know, cleaned the

00:14:08.940 bag and everything.

00:14:09.840 So we're doing all the right stuff.

00:14:11.900 But, so that's what I did.

00:14:14.100 But I also have, you know, some resources and some capacity.

00:14:19.000 I'm not so old I can't take care of stuff.

00:14:20.660 So I think it's up to people who know them.

00:14:25.920 I think you have a lot of people knocking on neighbors' doors.

00:14:29.280 Of course, all the relatives are checking with the older relatives.

00:14:32.300 But there's still going to be some people that slip through the cracks.

00:14:36.500 So I don't know exactly how they get help.

00:14:39.140 But, you know, I hope everybody is at least somebody who's young and capable that they

00:14:43.840 can call and say, what should I do?

00:14:45.980 But, yeah, it's a big problem.

00:14:48.700 But it's in the category of things that I think we can rise to that occasion.

00:14:53.540 So it's really just – yeah.

00:14:59.540 And we've got an app here called Nextdoor, which I always recommend.

00:15:05.460 Because the Nextdoor app, if I put, you know, that I've got a chair I want to sell,

00:15:10.020 if in five minutes, you know, ten people said, hey, I'll take a chair.

00:15:15.500 And, you know, if you say you need a babysitter or something like that,

00:15:18.160 you just get immediate responses from your local area.

00:15:21.960 So that would be a great way.

00:15:23.260 But then again, you'd have to be, you know, clever enough to load an app

00:15:27.620 and know how to use it.

00:15:28.580 So that eliminates a lot of people.

00:15:30.900 All right.

00:15:31.480 Good question.

00:15:32.220 Thanks.

00:15:32.520 Let me take another caller here.

00:15:35.600 We're going to go for Pedro.

00:15:39.700 Pedro has been patiently waiting.

00:15:43.500 Pedro, can you hear me?

00:15:46.520 Pedro disappeared.

00:15:49.120 He was not as patient as I hoped.

00:15:51.740 All right.

00:15:52.240 How about Joyce?

00:15:56.320 Joyce.

00:15:57.340 Let's see if you can hear me.

00:15:58.780 Joyce, can you hear me?

00:16:01.820 Good, good.

00:16:02.740 How are you?

00:16:03.300 And do you have a question?

00:16:03.960 Yes, I just learned something tonight, and I wondered if you knew it

00:16:07.800 because I never really heard it.

00:16:09.320 The virus out there is not COVID-19.

00:16:13.660 The virus that's stalking us is a SARS virus.

00:16:18.200 Is a what?

00:16:19.540 SARS.

00:16:20.780 SARS?

00:16:21.580 Okay, go ahead.

00:16:23.400 It's SARS-CoV-2.

00:16:27.020 That's the virus that's stalking us.

00:16:29.380 COVID-19 is the disease that it causes.

00:16:32.280 That's the disease name.

00:16:34.680 Did you know that?

00:16:36.280 I knew that there was a distinction between the disease and the name vaguely,

00:16:42.340 but I wasn't paying too much attention to it.

00:16:45.780 But, yes, it's good to know.

00:16:47.340 I've seen it written as SARS-CoV-19,

00:16:50.740 so I figured that was how the scientists were talking about it.

00:16:54.840 Okay.

00:16:55.300 All right.

00:16:55.500 Thanks for that.

00:16:56.920 Thank you.

00:16:59.060 Let's see what else we can learn today.

00:17:02.520 Maybe we'll talk to, how about Perry?

00:17:12.220 Perry.

00:17:12.700 Perry.

00:17:13.040 Perry, can you hear me?

00:17:14.740 Perry?

00:17:17.480 Hi.

00:17:18.380 Do you have a question for me?

00:17:19.480 Well, I do, but also a comment on a few things that you've mentioned.

00:17:23.900 I need to exacerbate your, you know, human ingenuity,

00:17:31.440 because I'm a public health nurse in California,

00:17:34.000 and I cannot believe what our county is doing for the homeless.

00:17:38.260 Like you said, it's amazing what humans can do,

00:17:42.180 and we are popping up a tent tomorrow to isolate the homeless from the well ones 1.00

00:17:48.480 to the sick ones.

00:17:49.360 I want everybody to be reassured that you cannot even imagine what public health

00:17:54.100 has been doing behind the scenes.

00:17:56.180 So that's number one.

00:17:57.580 I mean, I'm working all day tomorrow.

00:18:00.680 I've been working all week.

00:18:01.580 Unfortunately, my kid's home alone, which stinks, but it's amazing what's happening.

00:18:08.580 I want everybody to be very reassured how incredibly safe and the extra care given to

00:18:14.800 homeless folks.

00:18:16.140 Wow, that is terrific to hear, and I had not heard that from any other source.

00:18:21.020 So thank you for that, and I think everybody here would join me in thanking you for your

00:18:25.740 public service because, you know, we're all, I think, pretty much uniformly in awe of how

00:18:33.900 brave you have to do, you have to be to run toward this thing, and all of you folks are

00:18:38.680 running toward it, and believe me, we appreciate it.

00:18:41.700 We appreciate it like crazy.

00:18:43.720 It's getting easier.

00:18:44.660 It's getting easier because of the more information we're getting, and there's hope and faith in

00:18:49.760 these medications that are coming out.

00:18:51.480 I am not nearly as worried as I was 24 hours ago or 48 hours ago, and my co-workers feel

00:19:00.560 the same.

00:19:01.860 Now, is that because you have, say, more direct information about these drugs working, or are

00:19:08.280 you working off of the news reports like the rest of us?

00:19:10.900 I, okay, both, because I also have been in close contact with our director of public health

00:19:23.100 and my supervisor who have changed their tone, whereas last Thursday was a totally different

00:19:31.680 freak-out-looking face on my supervisor versus now, today, and in the texts constantly, all

00:19:38.900 for the last 24 hours have been, the whole tone has changed.

00:19:44.020 It's completely changed.

00:19:45.880 They're not as worried.

00:19:47.900 It's more like excited to get this taking drug, and we're going to be done in, like, a month

00:19:52.900 or two.

00:19:53.840 That's what we're doing now.

00:19:55.560 Well, yeah, a month or two would be terrific.

00:19:57.740 I've been predicting that wherever the experts are in terms of how long it will take to get

00:20:04.700 back on our feet, however you want to define that, getting back on our feet, that my prediction

00:20:09.640 was going to be at the probably left of everybody's, meaning the shortest.

00:20:15.280 So I think we're going to surprise on the good side.

00:20:18.560 And one of the things that, to your point about people being more optimistic and the

00:20:23.280 attitudes change, I think that's entirely true of the people who are really paying attention,

00:20:28.060 and for the reason that you said, because the meds that we're hearing about seem pretty

00:20:32.740 good.

00:20:33.700 But it's such a different feeling to know that you have a path versus not knowing what's

00:20:41.300 going to happen.

00:20:42.280 And I think we went from not knowing what do you do, you know, how do we get to a vaccine

00:20:47.080 before, you know, the casualties are too high, to, oh, now we kind of know exactly what to

00:20:53.680 do.

00:20:54.600 The fact that it's going to be crazy hard still changes your psychology, because if

00:21:01.720 you say, I know how to get to the other side, it's going to be crazy hard, I say, when do

00:21:06.780 I start?

00:21:08.160 You know, crazy hard is not my problem.

00:21:10.800 You know, staying alive is my problem.

00:21:12.800 You know, I'll take crazy hard.

00:21:14.580 If that's all it takes, it's just crazy hard, okay.

00:21:17.720 Give me crazy hard.

00:21:18.680 So I think that that's where people are at right now, which is, yeah, we have a path.

00:21:25.140 We know what to do.

00:21:25.960 Each of us know how to do our part.

00:21:28.280 And people are being pretty darn good on the whole.

00:21:31.660 You know, you've got some bad actors, of course, who are never going to follow directions.

00:21:37.660 But overall, the public has been spectacular, I think.

00:21:41.740 And yeah, we're absolutely in the right direction now.

00:21:45.020 I feel like it turned a corner sometime yesterday, it felt like to me.

00:21:49.540 Is that what it felt like to you?

00:21:51.500 Yes, exactly.

00:21:52.760 24 to 48 hours ago.

00:21:54.520 And maybe it wasn't the medication stuff.

00:21:57.240 I think also everybody in my department and at our clinic, because we did a pop-up thing

00:22:03.080 in the front.

00:22:03.660 So we're screening everybody, including employees.

00:22:06.240 And now that we've got this plan in place for this pop-up for the homeless in the community,

00:22:11.640 which is my jurisdiction, I just, it's such a calming feeling knowing that it's getting

00:22:18.800 taken care of.

00:22:19.960 Everybody's together, and now there's a plan.

00:22:22.480 That's great.

00:22:23.540 And the unknown.

00:22:24.720 So it's great.

00:22:25.680 And then the, you know, the hidden benefit, it's too early to crow about how good this

00:22:30.860 is, but I'll do it anyway.

00:22:32.360 The stuff that we're learning from this is what's going to keep us from it being so bad

00:22:37.360 the next time.

00:22:38.060 So, you know, it's hard to feel that we're so far ahead.

00:22:42.560 But I would argue already it's inevitable that on the other end of this, we're way hardened

00:22:48.940 for the same risk.

00:22:50.940 And we'll learn a lot.

00:22:52.760 So thank you so much for that input.

00:22:54.240 I really appreciate it.

00:22:55.260 And stay safe.

00:22:57.220 Press posted.

00:22:58.920 All right.

00:22:59.460 Take care.

00:23:00.340 Bye.

00:23:02.220 That was really good input.

00:23:05.520 Let's see what Pedro has to say.

00:23:10.920 Pedro, are you there?

00:23:15.000 Hi, Pedro.

00:23:15.900 Do you have a question for me?

00:23:17.500 Yes.

00:23:18.860 Well, first of all, thank you for the, I'm here.

00:23:22.860 Can you hear me?

00:23:23.420 Yeah.

00:23:24.100 Yes.

00:23:24.460 Go ahead.

00:23:25.260 Yes.

00:23:27.780 First of all, thank you for the great broadcast.

00:23:31.520 I love your book, God's Debris.

00:23:34.580 Thank you.

00:23:35.640 Do you see any changes in geopolitical relations with this?

00:23:41.120 And specifically U.S.-China relations and other countries?

00:23:46.440 Yeah.

00:23:46.880 I think this guarantees that we're going to pull our supply chain back from China.

00:23:54.440 That was certainly at least the important stuff.

00:23:56.260 Now, we might not do it overnight, it might take a while, but I would say it's a guarantee at this point that we're going to pull back our manufacturing for strategic and other reasons, economic.

00:24:07.580 And that's gigantic.

00:24:09.580 And that's gigantic.

00:24:10.180 That's about the biggest change you could ever imagine would happen.

00:24:14.520 And so at the very least, the China situation will change substantially.

00:24:19.840 I think that's a guarantee.

00:24:20.900 Everything else could go back to something close to normal in terms of relationships.

00:24:27.720 I was surprised to see that Mexico seems to be willing to close down its border.

00:24:34.900 I don't know what that means for illegal immigration.

00:24:36.960 But, you know, you always get good and bad out of this.

00:24:41.820 People will work well together.

00:24:43.420 They will bond them.

00:24:44.860 Maybe some countries won't work well together and they'll get angry.

00:24:48.520 You know, Iran is another wild card because if Iran doesn't get on top of it, you know, they could be losing a few Ayatollahs.

00:24:58.080 And that could change what it looks like there.

00:25:00.340 So I understand that Joe Biden is essentially in seclusion and his aides are wearing gloves and masks even to come into the room.

00:25:11.460 But, you know, people are at risk and he's certainly in that age that's at extra risk.

00:25:17.900 All right.

00:25:18.280 Thanks for the questions.

00:25:19.740 Thank you.

00:25:23.260 Let's see who else looks interesting.

00:25:26.240 I think let's bring in Nils. 1.00

00:25:35.800 Nils, are you there?

00:25:38.760 No, Nils is not.

00:25:42.620 But let's pick Tyler.

00:25:46.620 Tyler, talk to me, Tyler.

00:25:49.720 Can you hear me, Tyler?

00:25:50.600 What's your question?

00:25:52.760 Yes.

00:25:53.160 Dan, when everything calms down a little bit, is the whole idea of decoupling going to become a lot easier?

00:26:02.160 Like, you've got to think people are going to be asking a lot of questions after all.

00:26:06.280 This has calmed down.

00:26:08.260 Yeah, I think the decoupling is guaranteed.

00:26:11.140 I was just telling the last caller.

00:26:12.780 So, yeah, I don't think the relationship with China and the United States will ever be the same.

00:26:18.220 And that's probably good because where it was, was not where we wanted it to be.

00:26:24.340 So, President Trump did a lot to move it.

00:26:26.400 The virus will do a lot more to move it.

00:26:28.600 Yeah, it's going to be a different world in a little while.

00:26:32.240 All right.

00:26:32.480 Thanks for the question.

00:26:36.080 Let's see who else is here.

00:26:40.900 Fernando.

00:26:44.300 Fernando.

00:26:45.900 Fernando.

00:26:46.340 Fernando, can you hear me?

00:26:52.840 I can.

00:26:53.620 Do you have a question for me?

00:26:54.880 Yeah.

00:26:56.020 I loved your book, How to Fail Almost Everything.

00:26:59.380 So, I'm wondering if at one point in your life you had to, like, start a new venture or project during a recession or a crisis.

00:27:07.260 And if you hypnotize yourself to, like, look for opportunities or stay positive or something like that.

00:27:13.420 Well, I've started businesses in good times and bad.

00:27:18.580 And usually the only thing that matters is whether the idea is good.

00:27:22.380 So, there are definitely a whole bunch of opportunities opening up right now, but they might look different from the ones from two months ago.

00:27:31.800 So, there are definitely people getting rich right now.

00:27:35.140 Some for good reasons, maybe some for not.

00:27:38.860 But I would say, you know, this is a little hiccup, so you're not going to get much done for the next month or so.

00:27:44.640 But I think everything will be fine.

00:27:47.940 And I think that good ideas will still win and bad ideas won't.

00:27:52.200 But I always recommend looking at it as a numbers game, which is that there are a certain number of things you're going to try in your life, and most of them won't work.

00:28:05.480 You know, most of the people you fall in love with won't love you back.

00:28:08.880 Most of the jobs you apply for you won't get.

00:28:11.640 I mean, some people will.

00:28:12.560 But in general, life is a big old failure machine, and every once in a while you hit it, you get that job, you find that person.

00:28:21.620 So, I don't think it's much different in good times or bad.

00:28:24.600 If you've got a good idea, it's going to work in good times or bad.

00:28:27.600 So, that's the best I can do.

00:28:29.360 I don't know if that helps, but thanks for the question.

00:28:31.800 Yeah.

00:28:32.840 All right.

00:28:34.300 Let's see.

00:28:34.980 Let's bring on Kim, who has been patiently waiting. 1.00

00:28:43.000 Kimmy, can you hear me?

00:28:46.300 I can.

00:28:47.080 Do you have a question?

00:28:48.100 Yes, I do.

00:28:49.440 Well, I don't know if it's a question, but it's kind of like I haven't seen it anywhere.

00:28:54.060 All right.

00:28:54.860 I'm a retired RN, and I've been sidelined for about 10 years because I have fibromyalgia.

00:29:01.760 I am not in a risk group or anything, but I'm 60 years old, so I'm staying at home.

00:29:09.420 Here's my question.

00:29:12.560 Out of the positives, I am not seeing anywhere what percentage of those positives are requiring hospitalization, and what percentage of people that are staying at home and self-care?

00:29:29.420 I believe I saw that statistic, and I don't want to guess in public, but I will, just between us.

00:29:41.540 Okay.

00:29:41.800 If you all promise, okay, well, I just saw the same number I was going to give.

00:29:47.060 It just went by in the comments.

00:29:49.280 Somebody said 20%.

00:29:50.400 I think I saw 16% somewhere.

00:29:53.020 Somebody say 18% to 20%, so it's in that range, but it probably also greatly depends what country, what age, and all that stuff.

00:30:02.460 Specifically speaking of the United States.

00:30:04.440 Yeah, I don't know that I've seen it for the United States.

00:30:08.500 Maybe our numbers aren't big enough.

00:30:11.140 And I would also think that the percentage of people who were hospitalized might change based on how much capacity we have.

00:30:20.960 In other words, if somebody is like, well, I don't know, maybe we hospitalize them, maybe we don't.

00:30:26.140 As long as you have capacity, you're going to hospitalize them.

00:30:28.400 But as soon as it gets constrained, that same person, you're going to be, well, maybe they could work it at a home, but we don't have any beds anyway.

00:30:37.240 Maybe we send this one home.

00:30:39.220 So that's going to play with the statistics as well, just the availability of beds.

00:30:45.540 So that's a good question.

00:30:46.880 In fact, there are a number of facts that I think the public would like to know.

00:30:54.240 For example, if I had a little dashboard where I could watch how we're doing against this thing to make myself feel better, I'd like to see how many – I'll just use one example.

00:31:04.840 How many N95 masks do we need?

00:31:08.320 How many do we have?

00:31:10.260 And how many are in the pipeline?

00:31:12.120 And how many will be in the pipeline in three weeks?

00:31:15.060 So you can sort of visually see what's happening and are there two companies that are trying to crank up to make more masks or are there 25 different companies that are making masks?

00:31:30.000 And were there five yesterday but today we've got 25 because we're just spitting them up like crazy?

00:31:36.380 I'd love to know that.

00:31:37.800 I'd love to know what the food industry thinks is the realistic time before there's enough toilet paper for all.

00:31:45.940 Oh, I'd like to know.

00:31:48.360 And even where does it come from?

00:31:50.580 Like I don't even know.

00:31:51.520 Is it all American trees?

00:31:54.080 Does – you know, is our – why don't I know this?

00:31:57.040 Is our toilet paper from China?

00:31:59.640 Our toilet paper comes from China?

00:32:01.580 No, I'm asking.

00:32:02.520 Well, it feels like that wouldn't make sense because we'd have to – wouldn't we be shipping lumber over there and – I don't know.

00:32:11.880 No, I'm just making fun.

00:32:14.360 I'm sitting here thinking, you know, I live alone.

00:32:16.580 I have two toilets.

00:32:17.760 I have six rolls of toilet paper.

00:32:19.700 I think I'm okay.

00:32:21.520 You know, and if push comes to shove, I've got washcloths and I have a washer and dryer, you know?

00:32:28.080 I don't think it's the whole hoarding toilet paper for a respiratory infection.

00:32:34.720 All right.

00:32:35.320 Well, we're all set.

00:32:36.360 So thanks for the question.

00:32:37.700 I will talk to you later.

00:32:40.800 All right.

00:32:42.080 Let's see.

00:32:43.040 Let's take at least one more.

00:32:45.460 See how we feel.

00:32:47.840 I'm going to take Prince here.

00:32:51.560 Prince.

00:32:53.360 Prince Aki, can you hear me?

00:32:56.980 Hey.

00:32:58.080 My pleasure.

00:33:01.240 Do you have any questions?

00:33:02.560 I do.

00:33:03.060 My question is we've seen kind of some really good connections from both sides across the – hello?

00:33:12.000 Yeah, go ahead.

00:33:16.860 Prince, Aki, can you –

00:33:18.500 Oh, sorry, man.

00:33:19.100 There was some lag going on.

00:33:20.500 Yeah, so basically the – Trump and the Democrats have been kind of on better terms nowadays.

00:33:28.080 And do you think it's going to be –

00:33:32.280 Well, I think I caught your question before you got disconnected there.

00:33:37.700 So, yes, it does seem like at least some of the Democrats are working well with the president, willing to praise him for his effort, et cetera.

00:33:45.660 Will it last?

00:33:47.800 Probably not.

00:33:49.300 You know, I think that it probably won't.

00:33:52.340 But I think it's really smart for Democrats to read the room properly.

00:33:57.100 And I think the smartest ones are the ones who are saying, yes, the president's doing a good job.

00:34:01.960 Now, partly, if they say he's doing a good job, he's probably going to be a little more helpful to the state that says he's doing a good job because it's human nature, right?

00:34:11.740 So they may be just playing the odds.

00:34:13.840 It's like, well, we better say this guy's doing a good job so we get his stuff.

00:34:17.940 Or it could be that they're just patriots and they know that complaining about stuff isn't going to make anything better because I'm sure they're complaining privately about anything they're not getting.

00:34:29.740 But it looks like the cooperation between the states and the federal government is excellent at the moment.

00:34:35.340 So, no, I don't think it'll last, but I think the Democrats are smart to judge the mood of the country that we're not looking for political infighting at the moment.

00:34:48.900 And so I think that they're going to be able to say, look, I'm not always political.

00:34:53.640 You saw that last time that I agreed with President Trump, and that proves that I can.

00:34:58.320 So it's not all political.

00:34:59.740 And now let me tell you all the ways that I disagree with them and why he shouldn't be president, et cetera.

00:35:03.860 So I think it's just smart politics by Ilhan Omar and anybody else who agreed with the president.

00:35:10.240 It's good for the country, and it's smart politics.

00:35:13.340 Let's take another one.

00:35:15.420 Let's see who else wants to talk to me.

00:35:20.480 Huey.

00:35:21.220 Looks like he has a question.

00:35:24.220 Huey, do you have a question?

00:35:26.540 Huey?

00:35:27.760 Question for me?

00:35:29.400 Yes, hi.

00:35:33.860 I've been in quarantine for a while now and got me thinking a lot about the topic of free will.

00:35:39.420 So the basic idea is that with the law of physics, there could only be cost and effect.

00:35:44.820 So my question is, can you imagine some sort of mechanism that would allow for free will to be a thing?

00:35:51.860 Yeah, you're saying a mechanism that would create free will?

00:35:55.260 Yeah, well, so cost and effect is why it's a thing in our cases.

00:36:02.060 So let's say they're an original species that created our simulation, for example.

00:36:06.240 So would they have a mechanism that would allow for them to have free will?

00:36:10.740 Is that possible?

00:36:11.440 Ah, so let's say we're a simulation.

00:36:16.200 Well, I guess the question is, is the simulation just simulations, or are people inhabiting the simulated creatures?

00:36:23.980 In other words, am I a simulation, but there's a real intelligence that's sort of using me like a fun ride,

00:36:31.380 and just experiencing my world through my eyes, but really somebody else is driving the car up there?

00:36:36.460 Yeah, and then what was your question was if we would have free will programmed in?

00:36:43.380 Well, free will doesn't make sense logically, so I don't think you can program something that doesn't even make sense.

00:36:51.980 So I guess that's my answer.

00:36:53.900 I could say more about that, but the bottom line is that something causes everything.

00:36:59.540 So the most you could do is build in ignorance, so people didn't know why things were happening,

00:37:04.820 but that wouldn't be free will.

00:37:06.400 You could build in randomness, you know, an actual random number generator and cause actions randomly,

00:37:13.760 but that wouldn't be free will.

00:37:15.240 That would just be randomness.

00:37:16.960 So I don't think there's anything that is free will, and therefore it can't be programmed.

00:37:22.000 It's not an even internally consistent concept that makes any sense.

00:37:27.220 Do they help?

00:37:27.580 So I would accept the idea that free will will never be a thing for a human species,

00:37:34.120 but how about the original species that created us, right?

00:37:37.900 The our creator, the simulation creator, or however we might want to call it.

00:37:43.060 So do they have free will?

00:37:44.960 Well, it's turtles all the way down, right?

00:37:47.080 Because, you know, if physics is a thing in our world, whether we're simulated or not,

00:37:54.000 we have, you know, these constraints of physics, you would expect that whoever was above us

00:37:59.340 would have some kind of physical laws.

00:38:01.180 So the only way that could not be true is if the laws of physics are different,

00:38:06.500 but I guess you couldn't rule that out.

00:38:08.020 I just don't know what it would look like logically.

00:38:10.560 If you take cause and effect out of the universe, I don't know what it looks like,

00:38:15.520 so I don't know what's left.

00:38:17.120 So I can't say, well, if you just remove this, then everything would be fine.

00:38:20.180 If you'd have free will, I just think it would just be nonsense without cause and effect.

00:38:25.140 All right.

00:38:25.380 Thanks for the question.

00:38:26.780 Thank you.

00:38:31.080 Dealing with the big questions today.

00:38:34.400 Let's talk to Kevin.

00:38:38.440 Kevin, can you hear me?

00:38:40.360 Do you have a question?

00:38:41.600 Kevin, can you hear me?

00:38:42.700 Hi, what's your question, Kevin?

00:38:48.800 I saw a tweet that was liked by Naval.

00:38:52.160 And it was some guy who was basically suggesting that there may be way more people infected by this thing

00:38:58.600 than we think because so few are being tested.

00:39:02.260 So he was like citing some data from Iceland.

00:39:04.760 I just wanted your opinion on that, if you thought that it's possible that basically this thing has a way lower percentage fatality rate

00:39:14.080 if it's already way out there in the community, but we just don't know it yet.

00:39:19.620 Yeah, I was asking this question the other day.

00:39:22.280 So this is a thought experiment.

00:39:23.580 Based on the information that we have and we can have now, how would we know the difference between a flu that was extra deadly,

00:39:33.840 meaning it killed a high percentage of people, versus a flu that was extra mild but was way more viral?

00:39:41.420 In other words, if 1,000 people get it but only 10% die, that's still more deadly, that would be a mild flu because, well, those numbers are not mild, but you know what I'm talking about.

00:39:56.480 So if it was more deadly but not many people got it, you could end up with a lower death count.

00:40:03.340 And I think that was the case with Ebola and stuff.

00:40:05.180 So I'm not a scientist and I can't answer this question. 0.89

00:40:10.080 So I'll just say that as an observer, how could you possibly rule out that it's a mild flu that just kicks some people's butts

00:40:20.040 but way more people have gotten it that didn't have any kind of reaction at all?

00:40:25.460 Now, that doesn't explain, though, why all the emergency rooms are overloaded everywhere because it just seems like the effect of this is worse than regular flus.

00:40:42.300 But we often talk about the fact that the regular flu kills lots of people and you don't hear about it.

00:40:47.940 So what if we heard about it?

00:40:50.460 What would that look like?

00:40:51.540 Now, I'm not going to make the mistake of comparing this to a regular flu.

00:40:55.140 I think that's the big mistake.

00:40:57.740 But there's certainly a lot we don't know about it.

00:41:00.080 I will agree with Naval.

00:41:03.380 I'm not sure what he said, so I'm not going to say this is agreeing.

00:41:06.240 I'll just give my opinion.

00:41:07.800 My opinion is that there's a certainty that there's way more of it than we know.

00:41:13.940 I would say that's a certainty.

00:41:15.980 I don't know how that could not be the case.

00:41:18.460 But that doesn't mean it's good news or bad news.

00:41:20.620 It just means we'll find out more and the problem is what the problem is.

00:41:25.620 Now, the other thing that I've been hearing, I don't know how reliably because, you know, I'm not a doctor, but that the viral load makes a big difference.

00:41:35.000 So if you get a whole bunch of it, and at the time of infection, you're sort of marinating it, you get a worse case of it.

00:41:43.360 So what if the nature of this thing is that it's mild, but it's also cumulative?

00:41:50.680 So that would mean that if you were just, you know, you had a grazing, if you were glanced, a glancing blow of the virus, you just got a little bit of it, your body would adapt in time before the virus got to big enough numbers.

00:42:06.380 But, you know, what if it's really subject to a ventilation problem?

00:42:15.900 You know, maybe that's its weird characteristic that if you're in a nursing home or on a ship or something that shares ventilation or just in close quarters, that's the problem.

00:42:25.220 And so it could be, and I'm not sure if this is even a thing, because would you call it a weak virus if getting a little bit of it didn't take you out, but marinating it would, you know, is deadly?

00:42:42.760 Is that a thing?

00:42:43.820 And is that different than other viruses?

00:42:45.700 Would that be true of every other virus?

00:42:48.380 Well, it probably has to do with whether it's airborne and whether it's a lung infection and stuff like that.

00:42:54.300 But anyway, there are too many variables to quite know what's going on yet, because it's probably going to be some interplay of lots of variables.

00:43:02.400 Anyway, thanks for the question.

00:43:07.480 Let's see what else we got going here.

00:43:14.900 Okay, RK, coming at you.

00:43:18.940 RK, can you hear me?

00:43:19.940 RK, can you hear me?

00:43:23.840 Do you have a question?

00:43:29.360 The brief statement as earlier, you were asking about chloroquine and prophylaxis.

00:43:35.500 The quinine only works once your immune system has triggered and started to develop antibodies for it.

00:43:42.500 That's why they don't want you taking it beforehand.

00:43:44.460 But let me ask you this question.

00:43:48.360 If you had it in your body, it would be doing nothing, nothing, nothing until you got infected, and then it would already be there, so it could jump right in.

00:43:57.320 But there are better medications that are out there, and I don't want to go too much into them.

00:44:05.640 And by the way, my background is biochemistry and physical chemistry.

00:44:09.240 Anyway, that's just a comment.

00:44:12.940 Once you've started to develop antibodies, the quinine reduces a transvigure called the interleutine series, and it reduces three of them that are all affected by corona, the disease.

00:44:27.180 And it brings them down.

00:44:29.040 So that reduces the spread, and your antibody system can wipe down.

00:44:32.740 So just to clarify, if I already had it in my body, and then I got infected, it wouldn't stop me from getting infected, but it would already be in my body, so it would more immediately address the infection.

00:44:47.960 Would that be fair to say?

00:44:49.740 Yes, but you've got to make certain that your body is actually responding to the infection.

00:44:54.280 Otherwise, your viral load will just continue to increase.

00:44:58.660 Anyway, that was my statement.

00:45:00.460 The question is this.

00:45:02.100 So it looks like the Senate plan for stimulus checks has come out, and I know that you had been arguing for everybody to go through and get a check.

00:45:12.700 It looks like it's going to be a four-tiered system.

00:45:16.000 If you didn't file in 2018, you're not going to get a check at all.

00:45:22.920 So that's people on Social Security who make less than $25,000, the homeless, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:45:31.980 If you make more than, I don't remember what the number is, $100,000 or something is the cutoff, then you won't be.

00:45:38.960 And if you make under $45,000 or something, then you're going to get a half-size check.

00:45:44.940 I just wanted to get your opinion on that and if you had seen that data that had been reported yet.

00:45:51.120 Well, you know, the suggestion that I saw somebody else make, it was Wall Street Playboys.

00:45:59.340 That's the name of the Twitter feed.

00:46:01.620 And the suggestion was so simple that I was angry at myself for not having thought of it.

00:46:07.260 Because the problem is people say, well, if you base it on last year's tax returns, that may not tell you about this year.

00:46:14.180 I might have had a different job.

00:46:15.120 I could be unemployed, you know, there could be lots of difference, so that's a terrible way to go.

00:46:21.660 But the suggestion was this, give every person the same amount of money and then when it's tax time,

00:46:28.520 the people like me who didn't deserve the money would pay 100% tax.

00:46:34.160 I'll just give it back.

00:46:35.720 In the meantime, I probably spent it, but, you know, I'll still give back that same amount when I pay the taxes because I can afford it.

00:46:42.580 And I thought to myself, that is the cleanest, simplest thing I can say.

00:46:48.320 You don't have to decide who gets it.

00:46:50.740 You just give it to everybody and then you claw it back at tax time for just the rich who are used to, you know,

00:46:57.520 used to filling out deductions.

00:46:59.400 They have long forms and stuff.

00:47:01.520 And it would be no pain.

00:47:03.020 There would be no extra work on my part.

00:47:05.600 You know, my accountant, I would hand my accountant my paperwork like always.

00:47:09.340 And then my accountant would know that she should account for that and deduct it. 0.98

00:47:14.300 And then I would get a big pile of paper and then I would sign it.

00:47:17.320 No work whatsoever.

00:47:19.160 Now, in the meantime, you know, the government's out that $1,000, but, you know, it comes back in a year.

00:47:25.080 We could probably make that work.

00:47:27.140 And I thought that is absolutely the fairest because it's based on what your actual taxes were.

00:47:33.020 And you don't have to say, yeah, but last year, this year, that's not fair.

00:47:37.440 That's about as fair as you can get.

00:47:39.180 And then if you're doing it for your taxes, you can make it infinitely, you know, infinite gradations.

00:47:47.640 You know, you could say if you make this much, you get this much.

00:47:50.160 If you make this much, you get this much.

00:47:51.600 You don't have to have just, you know, three categories.

00:47:54.300 Then people feel like they got screwed if they were, you know, I was right close to the line.

00:47:58.940 I was right on the line and then I didn't get anything.

00:48:01.260 So you don't want that.

00:48:03.160 So you just add more gradations, do it on your taxes.

00:48:06.620 It's just easy and automatic and the accountant takes care of it.

00:48:09.620 It's nothing.

00:48:10.840 One industry that people have kind of ignored is really getting hit hard, and that's the rental industry.

00:48:18.360 So, like, I had to try and rent a wheelchair while I was waiting for mine to be shipped in.

00:48:24.360 And nobody's renting wheelchairs.

00:48:26.240 Nobody's renting vehicles or anything else because, of course, they can't be sanitized.

00:48:30.720 Right.

00:48:31.780 Effectively.

00:48:32.480 So that's an industry that nobody's really talking about, but it's been a big impact.

00:48:36.620 Yeah, I worry that there are probably, you know, 200 job types in industries that are big ones that we're not talking about because, you know, you think automatically of a restaurant, for example.

00:48:49.680 So there's something you just think of.

00:48:51.480 But, like, I spent exactly zero time thinking about the rental industry, but you're right.

00:48:57.420 That's going to get whacked.

00:48:58.500 But it'll be fine as soon as we get the virus under control.

00:49:01.420 So I think that'll all snap back.

00:49:04.180 So thanks for the question.

00:49:05.120 That's it.

00:49:05.500 Appreciate it.

00:49:06.360 All right.

00:49:07.700 All right.

00:49:08.280 One more.

00:49:09.200 Then we've got to go to bed.

00:49:10.160 How about Curtis?

00:49:21.760 Curtis.

00:49:22.960 Curtis, do you have a question?

00:49:24.180 Tonight, actually, I'm a waiter in Nashville, and tonight was essentially the last night that I'll have working for a while.

00:49:37.300 And something that I like to say is that makes you, I don't know, makes you optimistic is when people are people, people being people, and the amount of generosity, the size of, you know, tips and things like that that people had and stuff was just really amazing.

00:49:57.740 And even though, you know, there's kind of worry ahead about things like that in the next coming weeks, it really gave a lot of encouragement to people that need it.

00:50:09.560 And it was really kind of an incredible night, even though it should have been sad.

00:50:13.900 It really didn't feel that way.

00:50:15.920 And –

00:50:16.340 Yeah, you know, there is something to be said about the – just the way everybody feels in the public spirit.

00:50:23.840 But I saw the caller just disappeared.

00:50:27.120 But, yeah, thanks for that story.

00:50:28.680 People are stepping up, and they're not going to stop until we get things right.

00:50:33.720 So let me see if people are asking me to add Kevin Ford.

00:50:40.120 And I don't know if Kevin is still here or if he went away.

00:50:43.780 I'm just scanning to see if I see him on the list here.

00:50:47.520 I do not see Kevin Ford on the list, so I think he went away.

00:50:52.080 Anyway, but I'm sure – oh, Kevin's back.

00:50:58.120 All right, Kevin?

00:51:01.160 Kevin, what do you got for me?

00:51:04.940 Hey, you know.

00:51:07.220 What do you got, Kevin?

00:51:08.280 Sorry, no, I'm just making sure you hear me.

00:51:10.100 All right.

00:51:12.520 All right, I don't have a major position in the hospital.

00:51:15.980 I really don't know how to begin here.

00:51:18.860 I'll just give you – from where I was, I'd say, at the beginning of last week to where I am now.

00:51:26.580 Okay.

00:51:28.080 Beginning of last week, you know, there were rumors.

00:51:31.080 Oh, you know, what's going on?

00:51:32.280 What's going to happen?

00:51:33.780 I've been watching your videos every day, and, you know, I've seen it go negative.

00:51:38.900 I've seen it go positive.

00:51:39.780 It takes me to last Friday, a week from today, last Friday, and we started a no-implement visitor policy going on, taking major precautions at our hospital.

00:51:55.820 This is northeast Massachusetts.

00:51:57.500 I work within the hospital.

00:52:01.060 I don't want to say what position, just because I don't know what sort of, you know, things I'm breaking here in terms of rules.

00:52:08.540 But over the weekend, I heard we had eight cases, supposedly.

00:52:14.420 That's what they told us.

00:52:15.760 Wait, over the weekend what?

00:52:17.180 Over the weekend, from Friday to when I came back to work on Monday, I was told on Friday we had zero cases.

00:52:26.120 On Monday we had eight.

00:52:28.180 Okay.

00:52:29.000 Okay.

00:52:31.840 By Wednesday, seven were gone home and one was left.

00:52:37.960 And then, you know, I begin to listen to your theories and your positivity.

00:52:43.340 And I have family that's also within major hospitals in Boston, and they have lower numbers than we have.

00:52:51.320 I'm at a very small hospital in terms of what we're at in Boston.

00:52:55.840 And for the most part, everybody's being pretty much sent home.

00:52:58.900 I mean, and I don't know what it means, you know, to the – sorry, I'm just – I didn't expect to really get called upon.

00:53:06.900 I thought I was going to be sent off here.

00:53:08.600 So, Kevin, I would imagine it's entirely dependent on location.

00:53:15.560 So, I heard from somebody earlier today who was waiting four hours in a line for the emergency room.

00:53:25.080 It was a four-hour wait.

00:53:27.400 And I don't know if that's typical or untypical, but I've got to imagine there's some that have no impact, you know, literally none.

00:53:35.860 And some that are already starting to strain.

00:53:40.180 So, but thank you, Kevin, for the input.

00:53:42.240 I appreciate that very much.

00:53:47.020 All right, people.

00:53:48.060 On that note, we are going to take off.

00:53:53.140 It would be easy to be fooled by any anecdotal information.

00:53:57.660 So, especially if you hear there's some young person died, I think you have to take all that with a grain of salt because I don't know how many times young people just sort of die from regular flus and other things.

00:54:11.980 So, out of context, it's not telling you as much as you think it is.

00:54:15.240 You've got to kind of wait for the pros to sum everything up and give you some statistics.

00:54:20.040 So, don't get frightened by anecdotes.

00:54:23.400 Wait for the pros to just give you the cold, hard statistics.

00:54:27.680 And I think those will improve over time as well.

00:54:30.760 Anyway, I hope you enjoy this.

00:54:33.620 And I hope it allows you to drift off to sleep.

00:54:37.760 Everything's going to be fine.

00:54:39.520 It really will.

00:54:40.340 It's just a matter of time.

00:54:42.000 Humans, we're pretty good at this stuff.

00:54:44.160 And we're going to be on top of this by the end of the week.

00:54:46.540 Talk to you later.

00:54:47.100 Talk to you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 21, 2020

Episode 862 Scott Adams： Goodnight Vibes. Forget Your Cares

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