Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 868 Scott Adams： Grab a Soft Blanket and Get Ready to Relax Before Bed

00:00:00.000 hey everybody come on in just checking my Twitter to see if anybody's put any

00:00:13.880 questions there for me oh it looks like there are all right do you have your

00:00:24.880 blanket on if you think that this isn't better with a blanket on oh I feel sorry for you sorry

00:00:33.940 I just covered up my sound so did you all see the the Biden deep fake so evidently Joe Biden has

00:00:44.740 been replaced by a digital reproduction a deep fake and it made its debut today I'd call it version

00:00:52.480 1.0 they had they got all of his flaws and you know speaking imperfections in there so I thought

00:01:00.540 that was really good for version one but you could tell by his hand motions too robotic all right the

00:01:08.880 president should do this right right so we don't know what they did with the real Joe Biden but

00:01:15.840 maybe he'll come back I have to assume that he's being kept alive in some kind of a coma like a state

00:01:24.880 somewhere deep below a mountain or not possibly here's the idea for you

00:01:34.320 don't you think that there's a high likelihood there's some genetic propensity to all of this

00:01:44.440 and I don't I don't mean necessarily ethnic I mean that there must be something about some people's

00:01:51.100 bodies that make them a little extra susceptible so what would you think of the idea just put this

00:01:57.900 out there of rapidly testing the DNA do a full sequence I don't know all the right words but you

00:02:05.260 test the DNA of all the people who died from the coronavirus and maybe you don't bother testing the

00:02:13.680 ones that are over 80 because you kind of you kind of know that anything would have taken them out

00:02:18.340 but the people who are let's say under 60 who also died what do you want to know if their DNA has

00:02:27.440 anything in common might be something about their lung receptor or something like that

00:02:31.780 so given that DNA testing is fairly easy and we could test I don't think it would be that hard to

00:02:42.720 test the DNA of people either have already died or start collecting it now and wouldn't we know

00:02:49.080 fairly quickly if there was anything anything they had in common so that's one way we could get back to

00:02:57.420 work we could identify the people who are relatively uh invulnerable nobody's invulnerable but the

00:03:06.060 people who are less the least likely to have problems and say well maybe you guys go back you guys and

00:03:12.860 gals go back first 1.00

00:03:13.860 now um if you're watching if you're having this experience of flipping back between CNN and Fox

00:03:24.000 um there's there's the two movies forming and it's a really funny one this time except you know we

00:03:32.940 might all die if they get the wrong answer that's not funny but uh if you turn on CNN you'll find out

00:03:40.240 that the I'm going to call it the Trump pills so that the pills that Trump keeps talking about as

00:03:49.100 having great promise um if you turn on CNN they don't just that's just not true and they've got a

00:03:59.680 study that says that the Trump pills don't work it's a brand new study then you turn on Fox

00:04:07.360 and expert after expert they'll say oh yeah those Trump pills that work and then you go to NBC

00:04:16.440 and the headline is two people tried to uh take the Trump pill and died from an overdose

00:04:25.140 so maybe it'll kill you there's something wrong with all of these stories and I don't know I don't

00:04:34.500 think I've decoded it at all but here here are a few things first of all the study the study that

00:04:41.360 CNN is saying shows that the Trump pills don't work are different pills so that's the first thing

00:04:50.240 so the thing that CNN says you know is what the president is referring to and then they say here's the

00:04:58.060 study and it doesn't work but wasn't exactly what the president was referring to so I think what they

00:05:05.520 studied and I need a fact check on this but this is just my quick read on this is that the study was

00:05:12.440 for chloroquine but I believe that the one that is presumed to be the good one is a version of that

00:05:19.760 hydroxychloroquine and then there's a second difference which is even the study that said the

00:05:26.440 chloroquine didn't seem to make a difference said only by itself but when uh paired with the

00:05:33.720 azithromycin even the chloroquine and the azithromycin package did seem promising and they said that should

00:05:42.680 be immediately studied some more but the actual thing that is I believe fact check me on this but I

00:05:51.160 believe the thing that they're going to study in New York the thing that's you know far more

00:05:55.420 effective and promising than the chloroquine the CNN says sort of doesn't work based on that one

00:06:03.800 study um it's not really the one that's the different drug so here's here's the challenge

00:06:10.360 when the media is talking about the pills that Trump is talking about you got to be careful which

00:06:18.680 ones they're talking about because apparently there's something that makes a difference when you

00:06:22.580 use them together and it's the hydroxychloroquine not the simple chloroquine that's the one that's

00:06:31.800 a good one apparently now what about NBC running this the story that somebody took chloroquine and uh

00:06:39.700 and died you know there's nothing funny about that a couple took it and died

00:06:44.420 but then you go to the first paragraph and it's actually it was some kind of cleaner for uh for

00:06:52.800 fish tanks it wasn't even a pharmaceutical drug they took a pharmacy they took a different drug that just had a

00:07:02.380 similar first name that was used for cleaning your fish tank and they died now I think the headline should

00:07:10.880 have been a couple mistakes real drugs you know mistakes uh aquarium cleaner for drugs and and dies from

00:07:21.940 taking it I mean I feel like that should have been the headline right that they took the wrong thing

00:07:27.880 not that they took something that's like the right thing and died that was pretty bad all right um

00:07:34.940 there's something very interesting about to happen that I think is going to make you glad

00:07:43.300 that you have a president who has his experience see Trump's specific experience and here's the way it

00:07:51.960 is I'll give it I'll start by you know a related or unrelated story but I'll tie it in if you hire a

00:08:00.440 lawyer and it's something you don't know anything about and you're just a normal person you hire a lawyer

00:08:07.660 and it's some topic you just don't know anything about you just need the lawyer's help should you take

00:08:12.920 the lawyer's advice well on day one yeah yeah the lawyer knows about it and you don't that's why you got

00:08:23.640 the lawyer so yeah on day one you're going to take the lawyer's advice but here's the secret

00:08:29.560 if you work with enough lawyers in in the business setting the corporate setting you still have to

00:08:37.880 incorporate more variables than your lawyer will so your lawyer is going to say what's legal there's a

00:08:43.240 risk here should I do it well there's a risk but should I do it well you know I maybe say no because

00:08:51.260 there's a risk but the legal risk isn't the only risk in the world there's the risk of losing money

00:08:58.000 the risk of reputation the you know all kinds of risks the risks of how do the employees take it

00:09:03.280 whatever so the boss in these cases has to get the input but knowing that the input is not all the

00:09:11.460 variables so the boss still has to make the adult decision which often can be counter to you know one

00:09:18.060 or more of the experts because that expert is in a domain and let's let's take this to the current

00:09:24.900 situation so if we have a situation where dr fauci says yes keep everything closed for a longer time

00:09:34.460 that's really a medical judgment and the president is balancing other considerations one of them is

00:09:45.680 psychological there's a pretty big psychological cost to this the other of course is just raw lives

00:09:53.500 and sometimes you don't know you know are is there anybody who's smart enough to know if you if you

00:10:00.720 take it this many days the economic impact will be a crossover with more people dying from bad the bad

00:10:08.780 economy than they would have died from the you know there's actually nobody who can do that calculation

00:10:14.140 so the first thing you need to realize if you want to be an adult in the conversation is that nobody

00:10:21.460 knows and if fauci and trump have a different opinion about which of the paths is going to save the

00:10:29.380 most lives or kill the most that's a pretty fair fair difference because neither of them know

00:10:35.660 you really it really is going to come down to this this weird indefinable uh business judgment

00:10:46.340 experience hunch gut feeling instinct you know put it put any kind of words on it but these are

00:10:56.280 decisions that would be made without the benefit of the very information that would allow you to do it

00:11:02.540 rationally so can you know who do you trust in a in a vague situation where there's a big economic

00:11:12.500 cost there's a psychological cost there's a you know medical cost who you know what kind of person do you

00:11:20.560 trust in that situation and i gotta say trump's got a pretty good skill set for exactly this you know

00:11:30.580 generic situation where the the economics and the psychology and the and the experts you know they may

00:11:39.080 be pointing different directions and you just have to make a decision somebody's going to make a decision

00:11:44.540 it's going to be right it's going to be wrong you know we'll fix it as quickly as we can if it's the wrong

00:11:50.640 one but it's a really really adult decision and this is sort of the this is sort of the reason you don't let

00:11:58.740 anybody be president because we're we're going to be asking trump this will be one of the great

00:12:07.720 decisions of all presidential history if you think about it you know you could say decision to go to

00:12:14.200 war in world war ii but weren't we going to do that anyway you know so you can think of a lot of

00:12:20.340 decisions there were big ones you know the civil war freeing the slaves and um you know civil rights

00:12:29.000 lots of big decisions but i'm not sure if any of those decisions were as uh murky and immediately

00:12:37.880 high stakes as this i feel like the decision to go to war in a world war situation was actually

00:12:45.780 sort of a no-brainer you just it was a matter of when but you kind of knew you were going to get

00:12:51.120 sucked into it um and you know other decisions are a little more obvious that that you're picking the

00:13:00.440 right side but this one is not like that i i don't think that there's anybody who can honestly say

00:13:07.040 oh yeah i'm smart enough to know that you know we gotta end this on tuesday because that's the

00:13:13.120 crossover when it's worse to wait than it is to to go back to work um yeah dropping the atomic bomb

00:13:22.800 that was a pretty big decision and certainly in terms of uh life and death potential anyway this

00:13:31.080 might be in that same category it might actually be that big you know in the worst case scenario now

00:13:37.260 i'm still very much in the camp that the only statistic that matters you're going to see lots of numbers

00:13:48.560 and the only one that matters is the death rate of people under 60 who got the combination of hydra

00:13:58.380 chloroquine and azithromycin so it's all of those combinations so they got to be under 60

00:14:06.960 have no preconditions you know health health problems and also get the drug relatively soon

00:14:14.580 after it was obvious that they had some symptoms if those people are still dying next week

00:14:21.120 uh we got to rethink everything and you know hope that there's another drug behind it that's better

00:14:28.940 etc but if we find that it's either so low that it rounds to zero or it's zero

00:14:34.920 all the weight of all the weight is toward going back to work in a week or so you know what it's a

00:14:44.600 little bit negotiable but we're not talking a month i don't think it's going to happen the other

00:14:49.540 thing is that you can't underestimate the degree to which people will adapt so if you just imagine

00:14:57.680 that you say hey go back to work and everybody acts the same way at work i don't think that's the case

00:15:02.440 do you i think there's going to be a lot of scrubbing down i think there's got to be a lot of

00:15:07.800 wearing face masks you know social distancing within the business you know even if you have to go to

00:15:14.960 work maybe you still make a phone call instead of being in the same room so you can't really

00:15:20.880 put any kind of an estimate of how much a difference that makes the fact that going back to work is not

00:15:27.300 really going back to work the normal way it's a whole different way um so there's that i don't know

00:15:36.200 what they're going to do with travel but let me let me just throw out some possibilities it would be

00:15:41.460 easy to imagine that uh the hotels would be allowed to maybe have people in i don't know

00:15:49.780 half capacity or something so maybe maybe a half capacity and then nobody can you know be in the

00:15:57.860 same space in the lobby or something i don't know maybe there's a way to to get there maybe only for

00:16:03.580 the younger first but i think we'll be able to phase things in and it looks like that's where it's

00:16:07.700 setting now i would like to suggest some apps so i told you about uh project m95.com where if you're

00:16:20.600 looking to get medical equipment or your supplier that's looking to provide it you can you can find

00:16:27.020 each other on there so that's one i told you about the next door app and if you're um over 60

00:16:34.760 and you think you might need a little help somebody picking something up from the store

00:16:39.560 and groceries or whatever the next door app will let you look at your neighborhood and see anybody

00:16:45.060 who signed up to do that you can see exactly where they are in the neighborhood just go oh

00:16:49.300 it's my uh my neighbor bob and you know his his uh 19 year old daughter is home from college or

00:16:55.320 whatever and so in my neighborhood there are a few people who signed up for that and there was

00:17:00.020 somebody i knew and so i'm i actually uh again had some groceries delivered um by somebody who was uh

00:17:07.600 was a much better immune system than i do so that that's working very well now i i don't this is

00:17:15.600 awkward but i'm going to put it out there anyway for some reason this pandemic has allowed people to

00:17:24.160 say yes it's okay to be a capitalist so you can be a capitalist and you can even make money let's

00:17:31.580 say you're making face masks or you know you're converted your factory to make a you know hand

00:17:37.280 sanitizer nobody's telling them they can't make money right they just can't price gouge so in that

00:17:44.060 spirit so that apparently that is acceptable behavior so long as the behavior is good for the public

00:17:50.300 i will remind you again that my startup has two apps which are just by coincidence perfectly suited

00:17:57.540 for the situation so one of them is called approach and allows you just to track track any two or more

00:18:06.560 people on a map temporarily the same way you if you have food delivered let's say doordash your your

00:18:13.460 app will show the doordash are coming to your house well you can use my app for free it's a free

00:18:19.640 download doesn't cost you anything to use it the only people who ever pay or if they want to brand

00:18:25.000 it and put the name on it that's optional and so anybody who's just wants to be delivering food to an

00:18:31.420 old person checking on an old person or just knowing where each other are just use the app and the beauty

00:18:39.440 of it is it's a it's got a timer on it so you set a whole low on how long you want to watch each other

00:18:44.820 so you just set it for half an hour you don't have to worry that you're you're giving away your privacy

00:18:50.120 it's just just for the transaction and then it times out so it's called approach and it's in all

00:18:57.100 the app stores the other one is called interface that's also in the app stores it allows you to

00:19:04.380 make a video call to an expert in anything now originally months ago we thought oh this might

00:19:12.240 be good for doctors but we had a problem which is to make it really useful for doctors you need to

00:19:20.040 practice across state lines because you can't you couldn't rely on the fact that the one doctor who was

00:19:25.800 available at that moment was also in your stage or practice for yours or license for your state

00:19:31.380 but because of the emergency the that restriction has been dropped at least temporarily so temporarily

00:19:38.340 the app is ideal for that so if there's anybody who's let's say quarantined at home and i apparently

00:19:46.140 there are some medical professionals who are self-quarantined because they had some exposures

00:19:51.940 so if you wanted to uh help out you could set the price to zero so let me be clear about that

00:19:59.720 nobody has to charge for anything you can just say your price to zero it's an emergency if you just

00:20:05.700 want to help you want to give advice maybe your resource maybe you want to find out how to find

00:20:11.340 a buyer for your mask you know any kind of thing like that anything that would connect a

00:20:15.840 an expert with somebody who needs it in the face of the crisis you can use the app set your price to

00:20:23.780 zero um you don't have to but you know if you've lost your job and you have something to add that

00:20:33.140 you think people would pay for i don't think it's immoral to charge for your time if you lost your job

00:20:39.300 and you're trying to pay the bills so but make your own decisions about what is right you can set the

00:20:44.600 price as you like so it's called approach for seeing each other on the map temporarily

00:20:50.240 and interface to have a video call with with an expert and and uh and find them whether you know i

00:20:58.580 have the beauty is you don't have to know their contact information you just find them and set up a

00:21:04.540 call and the the app does all that for you all right um what would you use approach for uh you would

00:21:14.520 use it if let's say you were a neighborhood um young person and you were going to deliver groceries

00:21:21.500 for some elderly people uh as as i did tonight and um i was out of the house taking a walk not with

00:21:33.480 other people taking a walk and it was handy for me to know when i needed to get back to the house

00:21:40.000 because i could see you know in theory uh she she didn't click on the link but in theory we could

00:21:45.580 have seen each other and made sure that i was there when the groceries came which were left at the

00:21:50.960 doorstep and i washed my hands thoroughly so taking all the precautions i can all right um i'm going to

00:22:00.900 see if you get any questions here on twitter as i asked uh here's the question how many people have to

00:22:07.060 die of the coronavirus before you will start wearing gloves and makeshift face masks i don't know i guess

00:22:15.920 that's an individual choice um is april 1st a good target for restarting i i think we'll know a whole

00:22:25.480 bunch more in another week especially about the meds so every estimate about when things will get better

00:22:34.480 really depend on getting more visibility in the next week so we're in a information war and we are

00:22:41.580 just absorbing information like crazy um okay can i use a bike pump as a ventilator

00:22:50.600 uh any chance of manual ventilators operated by younger volunteers i don't know um you've seen a whole

00:23:02.000 bunch of people who have had ventilator inventions um i i tweeted one around where somebody made a very

00:23:10.120 cheap one because if you get rid of all the extraneous features the things that you you might need but you

00:23:16.260 probably don't and you just make the cheapest possible ventilator it's only just a few parts

00:23:21.880 so you just need a little logic board and and a motor and then you know the device that goes in

00:23:28.740 uh that was a little bit of an oversimplification but apparently you could bring the price way down

00:23:34.560 and start cranking them out if you wanted to uh will this outbreak make the national debt a bigger

00:23:42.320 focus in the future i don't know if anything can make that if we it's the national debt is the

00:23:48.260 weirdest thing because everybody's sure it's important but they're not sure how important or when or what

00:23:54.900 you do about it so we all just sort of act like act like it's not important while we all say it's

00:24:02.300 important it's the weirdest um you know disconnect because there's nobody who doesn't think it's

00:24:10.260 important and yet there's nobody who treats it as it's important it's a complete opposite of how we

00:24:16.620 think about it and what we do um all right let's see

00:24:22.840 uh how about a phone app that listens for sneezes and coughers and then warns you when your phone

00:24:33.680 maybe needs a cleaning well what about the idea of having your phone listened for a coughing

00:24:41.040 because don't you think that the government can listen to your phone if they want to

00:24:45.780 would it would it be the worst violation if you know just just imagine that it's just a computer

00:24:54.600 that's listening so there's no human who's you know listening in your phone it's just a computer

00:24:59.680 and if the computer uh hears in your household through your phone the sound that it identifies as a

00:25:06.800 cough maybe it sends you a text message and says you know hey do you have a cough you know if you do

00:25:16.360 check out this link it'll tell you what to do you could it's not the craziest idea because remember

00:25:23.840 we're in we're in total emergency mode and again no human would be hearing you talk it would literally

00:25:31.940 just be the computer listening for the sound of a cough and that's it it wouldn't be listening for

00:25:36.680 anything else now of course you don't trust it because once it's listening it could do anything

00:25:41.100 but in theory you could actually build that out right uh when will congress move the stimulus forward

00:25:49.380 you know i'm i'm almost too amazed to be angry about the stimulus package are you having the same

00:26:00.600 the same reaction i am because you know again it's the the two movies uh problem because if you go to cnn

00:26:10.020 they were trying to stop a corporate giveaway and they've got a pretty good point and then you go to

00:26:17.020 fox news and the democrats put in a bunch of silly pork then nobody would nobody wants to consider now

00:26:25.480 you know independent of whether they're good or bad ideas they have nothing to do with the

00:26:29.060 the topic at hand and so the republicans are like ah not that so um the fact that our leaders can't make

00:26:41.560 that happen i mean i feel actually somewhat insulted by the the things that were added in so from the

00:26:53.640 democrats i feel it you know from the perspective of the democrats i literally just feel insulted

00:26:59.400 um

00:27:02.280 because right in front of our faces as if we're not watching or we don't care or even after as if it

00:27:12.620 makes sense or it's the right priority they just stick a bunch of unrelated things in the bill and it just

00:27:17.980 kills it now don't you feel just literally insulted by that because they're treating us

00:27:28.940 like garbage basically like we're not even part we're not the important part of the equation

00:27:34.940 it's like oh getting in my little pet funding thing is the important part no it's not really 0.91

00:27:40.620 it's not really i think the important part is the people so from the democrats perspective

00:27:49.980 it's embarrassing and it's um just insulting but i don't think the republicans got it right

00:27:58.140 did they because they had this this big sloppy bill with not enough controls on it for what they're

00:28:05.100 going to do for the the big corporations and i agree that you know it's a serious seriously you

00:28:13.260 know we should consider doing things for big companies if they're employers and and we can make a profit

00:28:18.940 off it because remember what the republican plan if i understand it correctly is it's not just giving money

00:28:25.260 money to uh big companies i believe we take stock can somebody

00:28:33.580 somebody's lighting up my phone right now um

00:28:39.900 why isn't that turning off sorry i got too many devices in here they're not all turned off

00:28:45.660 um

00:28:48.460 but the republicans i don't think are doing much better

00:28:50.620 because their bill's kind of sloppy and doesn't seem to have the right controls and it makes

00:28:55.900 people suspicious that it's going to go to the wrong place i'm not happy about that i mean i can't

00:29:01.100 even take sides on this one it looks like both sides just screwed the approach am i wrong doesn't it look

00:29:08.140 like neither side really really did the job of the american people i can't even pick sides on this one it

00:29:15.260 just looks like a ranking competence um but it's not even the normal kind where maybe we don't notice

00:29:22.460 it or they hide it a little bit if they were trying to hide it better i'd have a little bit of respect

00:29:29.500 but neither the republicans nor the democrats seem to be hiding the fact that we're not the top priority

00:29:37.980 am i wrong about that it does there's there's no pretense anymore we're just not the top priority

00:29:44.460 i don't even know what to say about it is it it's so mind-boggling i don't even know how to get mad

00:29:50.300 about it because it's i almost can't believe it i guess uh they said it was step one

00:30:00.220 step one is it

00:30:03.660 yeah and is it impossible to simplify it just seems to me like we ought to find a way to simplify

00:30:10.860 let me let me say again something i said earlier but i'll say it better there are a whole bunch of

00:30:15.980 bills that we pay that are uh you can't avoid paying for example if you if you live you're paying either

00:30:24.860 rent or mortgage you're paying some kinds of insurance and you know energy and phone and stuff

00:30:30.940 so those are bills that you're not going to ever walk away from in other words you're never going to have

00:30:37.740 a time in your life when you say you know i don't need electricity and gas i don't need it so that's

00:30:43.340 not going to happen right so all those companies that charges every month for either a standard amount

00:30:50.220 or how much we use they have our names and they kind of own us because they know who you are and they

00:30:59.740 know where you live and they know what you owe them so here's where i'm going with this suppose we said

00:31:05.180 that all of those people who who bill you every month from rent to mortgage to electricity to

00:31:12.460 you know cable etc that they all just have to forgive your bills for two months they just can't

00:31:19.980 collect anything but because these companies have a hook in you they know where you are they bill you

00:31:28.940 you know if you want to have electricity in california there's nowhere else you're going to go

00:31:33.180 you know if you want to get a walk away from your loan well good luck you can't get another loan if

00:31:39.580 you're a deadbeat on the other loan so you're kind of a little trapped with these companies and that

00:31:44.860 means that they could just forgive your costs and tack it on in the future in other words pgd the power

00:31:53.420 company here could say nobody has to pay us for two months just don't pass but at the end of two months we

00:32:01.740 know where you are and even if you move we still we're still going to connect to you and we'll just

00:32:07.580 add ten percent to your bill once the economy gets going it'll just be a little little extra it'll be

00:32:14.380 as if we gave you a loan right so it'll be as if we gave you a loan because you're gonna pay us back

00:32:22.140 because we got our hooks in you you know the bank can always find you the insurance company can find you

00:32:26.940 your energy company can find you now the thing the area where you can't do that where you just have

00:32:32.060 to give people money is buying goods you know physical things like a loaf of bread and a new iphone

00:32:39.180 for that people just got to pay and maybe we got to give them money for that but i could see a

00:32:45.340 situation where the government just says all right you just got to suspend payment you know maybe there's

00:32:51.660 some means test where you have to prove you're out of work maybe you have to prove that you you've

00:32:57.260 applied for unemployment something like that so people like me i still pay my bills so pgd would

00:33:03.740 still have i don't know 80 of its revenue could my power company stay in business if for two months

00:33:13.580 it only made 80 of its revenue and then it made up the difference later because it's tacking it on to

00:33:19.420 catch up well it might have a shortfall too but yeah then maybe the government can handle that so

00:33:26.380 the point is there probably are some really clever ways to get where we need to get that's all i'm saying

00:33:39.500 the dangers of virus to everyone not just not just the people with those incomes yes

00:33:45.180 did the golden age jinx us oh i think you're going to be surprised the golden age

00:33:54.540 apparently had a third act and we're in it this is the third act this is the problem that looks

00:34:02.300 unsolvable until you do that's what makes it a good movie there's no doubt we're gonna we're gonna

00:34:09.260 get on the other side of this and we're gonna do it without destroying the economy i i will rest

00:34:15.660 my entire reputation on the following prediction we're not going to wreck the economy and the reason

00:34:23.580 you can be sure of it is that wrecking the economy would definitely be worse than even the number of

00:34:29.420 people that would get the coronavirus i mean everybody sort of agrees with that we're going to

00:34:34.220 know when we've gone too far you know not exactly but we're gonna know we're in the range of oh we

00:34:41.100 this is as far as we can go so don't worry that the shutdown lasts forever all the way to destruction

00:34:50.620 no chance no chance there's there's actually no chance of that at all it will last until it's painful

00:34:58.300 because the more pain that we can reasonably take the better shape we're going to be there's some magic

00:35:04.220 zone where we've taken a little bit of pain and the economy has taken a pretty big hit but not enough

00:35:10.540 that we can't climb out of in a year so there's we're entering the goldilocks zone now the the area

00:35:17.340 in which well that's as good as we can do for protecting people and also protect the economy it's

00:35:23.740 it's in the next you know maybe the week after this you're really into the crossover zone i think

00:35:31.660 and you also have to read the room right you know it doesn't matter what the government wants the public

00:35:37.500 to do if if the government loses our trust people are going to just do whatever the hell they want

00:35:44.460 and there's not enough government in the world that will stop them so they need the people to think

00:35:49.900 that what they're doing is reasonable and they see the same thing we do they they see the the amount

00:35:56.460 of pain and suffering that this coming week is going to have so don't let anybody kid you this coming

00:36:02.940 week it's going to be rough in a lot of different ways but it is the week that we will complete our

00:36:11.500 weapons i believe or be close to it we'll know what works and what doesn't we'll have much better

00:36:17.260 visibility and then we go on offense because in this war so far we have cleverly done a strategic

00:36:25.020 retreat to our homes we've divided so that we can conquer we have built our weapons factories are

00:36:33.820 going up all over the place we've tested our weapons testing them this week we're loading up we are we're

00:36:41.020 stocking up our ammo you know big shipments of these drugs just in case coming our way and we're just about

00:36:49.100 ready to go to war we need test kits we need soldiers we need tents and they're coming it's all coming

00:36:58.460 so you don't have to wonder how it ends you can you can wonder when it ends that's the right question

00:37:05.500 but it ends with us winning and getting back to where we were and better so this is the third act

00:37:13.340 but like every other third act like every other third act it will be solved so um i'm quite proud of

00:37:22.620 the country um i'm quite disappointed with congress at the moment but i think that the force of public

00:37:29.980 opinion will force them to get something done pretty quickly all right that's all i got for now and i will

00:37:36.780 talk to you later

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 24, 2020

Episode 868 Scott Adams： Grab a Soft Blanket and Get Ready to Relax Before Bed

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