Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 887 Scott Adams： Grab Your Beverage and Get in Here!

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00:00:59.420 Okay. Well, first, an update on my presidency, my candidacy. As you know, I announced my run for president, but I'm running as an emergency backup spare.

00:01:13.940 Just in case, Joe Biden is the nominee and he's not capable of being president, but just in case something happens to President Trump.

00:01:22.240 Let's say he decides to retire before November. Don't you want an emergency backup? Well, I'll be your emergency backup.

00:01:29.420 Do not vote for me if President Trump is still in the election and still looking healthy. Vote for him instead if you're a Trump supporter.

00:01:42.260 But if anything happens and your only other choice is Joe Biden, I'm your emergency backup.

00:01:47.820 All right. The unemployment numbers around today, 6.6 million people filed for unemployment.

00:01:57.140 Now, according to my digital devices, the number of people who work in the United States is about 139 million, or at least recently, that was the number.

00:02:09.480 So 6.6 million are unemployed, or maybe additionally unemployed, but that's out of 139 people who are 139 million who are still working.

00:02:21.720 It's about 5%. So today it was about 5% out of work. I thought it was going to be a lot more. Didn't you?

00:02:30.120 Didn't you think the unemployment would be like 30% or something like that? I feel like most people can't go to work, but I guess people are getting paid, people are telecommuting, and maybe we'll see that double next month. I don't know.

00:02:46.180 But if it stayed that, if 6.6 million ended up being the worst of it, I don't think it will. It seems like it would have to go up in the next couple of weeks.

00:02:56.860 But if it were, we could get past that pretty easily. The problem is that it could get worse.

00:03:03.920 But I don't think you should be too afraid of today's number, because as a percentage, it's manageable, unless it doubles and triples in the coming weeks.

00:03:19.040 Here's my grade for the task force working on the coronavirus. I'm going to give it an F, an F grade.

00:03:28.540 Now, they may be doing good things that we can't see. I assume they are, right? I assume that they're doing great work behind the scenes, working hard.

00:03:38.120 I think it's all the right people working on it and everything. And I think that they're moving heaven and earth and doing what they can.

00:03:43.920 I give them a failing grade, because now it's been weeks, and I can't answer this question.

00:03:50.740 I watch every one of the press conferences, and I can't answer the question, when will we have enough masks?

00:04:01.480 Seriously? I can't answer that question yet? How about this one?

00:04:07.160 When will we have enough tests, test kits, both for testing people that may or may not have it and for testing the public in general?

00:04:15.920 When? Is that next week? Is it in four months? You don't know. I don't know. It's the most basic thing you'd have to know

00:04:26.620 in order to judge that your task force was competent, and we don't know. We don't even have a guess.

00:04:32.680 I don't know if it's a month or a year. I don't know if we could ever get there.

00:04:35.920 How about the results of the hydroxychloroquine?

00:04:39.760 Are you feeling like you're getting good information about how that's going? No. No, you're not.

00:04:46.300 It might be the most important thing that's going on, and your task force is intentionally not talking about it.

00:04:54.320 And when they talked about masks, they gave you the wrong information. Don't wear them.

00:04:58.520 So that was misinformation.

00:04:59.480 So of the two most important things, where are we on tests? Well, three, really.

00:05:06.620 Where are we on tests, masks, and knowledge about and supply of hydroxychloroquine?

00:05:14.100 The three things that I think are the most important, you have no visibility on after weeks.

00:05:20.360 Now, do you think that it's impossible to know those numbers?

00:05:25.580 Or even sort of directionally, you know, we think we can have it done in two weeks, but it might take a month?

00:05:33.520 That would tell you something.

00:05:36.000 But I hate to be grading harshly, but it's an emergency.

00:05:41.280 I think in normal times, I might be a little more flexible.

00:05:45.060 But you have the entire psychology of the country, which is the thing upon which your economy depends,

00:05:53.460 or the way we think about the economy, is going to be the thing that makes it recover or not.

00:06:01.380 And the way we're thinking about it is completely crippled by the fact that the three most important pieces of information,

00:06:09.580 in my opinion, which is, you know, the availability of supplies generally,

00:06:14.720 but I would say masks is going to be a more important hydroxychloroquine supply.

00:06:20.380 And, you know, and also I'd like to know how many people are being hospitalized

00:06:24.740 that are having the hydroxychloroquine early.

00:06:29.120 There was one doctor that was on Laura Engram's show last night

00:06:33.500 saying that it was a game changer, the hydroxychloroquine was,

00:06:37.240 and that none of the people he gave it to for five days,

00:06:42.080 in other words, the people who got it early enough in their symptoms,

00:06:45.740 none of them ended up being intubated and on ventilators.

00:06:49.440 None.

00:06:50.480 So, you know, it wasn't a controlled test,

00:06:55.740 but the doctor was saying that the odds of that happening,

00:06:58.880 given all the other groups and what percentage of them get on ventilators,

00:07:03.000 he said that the odds of the hydroxychloroquine not being the thing that made the difference

00:07:09.780 are just vanishingly small at this point.

00:07:12.540 Could be wrong, but that's what it looks like at this point.

00:07:16.200 All right, so I give the task force a failing grade for communication

00:07:20.720 because their communication has an impact on our morale and our psychology.

00:07:27.400 The psychology has an impact on the economy.

00:07:30.300 And if we break that, you can't put it back together again too easily, right?

00:07:36.000 Right now, the economy is not broken.

00:07:38.840 It's just sort of on a timeout, which is very different.

00:07:41.820 It's not broken.

00:07:42.960 It's just paused.

00:07:43.960 And if we don't get this information pretty soon,

00:07:51.660 I don't know how much longer the country can hold that together

00:07:55.140 because we're literally holding the economy together by will.

00:08:00.220 I mean, that's not an exaggeration.

00:08:03.240 The entire economy of the world is being held together by our minds.

00:08:10.260 That's not an exaggeration

00:08:11.680 because what we think of it is what it becomes and what it will be.

00:08:16.520 Because if you think it's good, you invest.

00:08:19.000 If you think it's going to be bad, you fire your staff and you don't invest.

00:08:22.600 It's a completely different direction.

00:08:25.240 So task force, please, even if you have to lie to us

00:08:30.520 and then correct it as you get better information,

00:08:33.560 when are we going to have enough masks?

00:08:35.540 When are we going to have this hydroxychloroquine

00:08:38.220 that we could take early on, enough of it?

00:08:42.340 You know, and when are we going to have enough test kits?

00:08:46.960 You know, here's what I don't want to say.

00:08:49.120 I'm trying not to swear because I'm getting really mad.

00:08:52.900 So I'll try to take it down a little level.

00:08:56.180 Maybe I'll go a whole day without swearing.

00:08:58.660 Who knows?

00:08:59.040 It's deeply irresponsible to watch these experts up there

00:09:07.520 and our president simply spouting raw numbers.

00:09:12.400 Here's what I...

00:09:13.420 I'm just going to swear, okay?

00:09:15.260 I'm just going to warn you, I can't get past this next section

00:09:20.020 without using a curse word.

00:09:23.180 So send the kids away, turn down the volume, whatever you want.

00:09:29.260 Here's what I don't want to see today.

00:09:33.060 So I assume there'll be another coronavirus task force.

00:09:36.300 I don't fucking want to see them spouting raw numbers again.

00:09:40.740 Oh, we got 4,000 ventilators, and I sent 20,000 over here,

00:09:44.480 and 6,000 gloves, and I sent 4,000 masks.

00:09:47.840 Fuck you.

00:09:49.340 Fuck you.

00:09:51.100 Don't give us raw numbers.

00:09:53.100 Tell us how many you need.

00:09:55.340 How close are you to that?

00:09:57.740 How many are in the pipeline?

00:09:59.920 That'd be good.

00:10:00.820 Don't give us fucking raw numbers like we're fucking idiots.

00:10:04.860 All right?

00:10:05.520 You have been wrong, you, the professionals,

00:10:09.720 both the politicians and the experts,

00:10:12.340 you've been fucking wrong about everything. 0.96

00:10:14.540 You've been wrong about the fucking mask.

00:10:16.420 You've been wrong about the hydrochloroquine.

00:10:18.020 You've been wrong about the China numbers.

00:10:19.440 You've been probably wrong about the models.

00:10:21.540 You've been fucking wrong about everything.

00:10:24.480 And you stand in front of us,

00:10:26.040 and you fucking say these raw numbers like that 0.81

00:10:29.100 is supposed to make us fucking happy.

00:10:31.820 You're blowing this fucking smoke up our asses

00:10:34.960 in the middle of a goddamn emergency

00:10:37.320 while the economy is melting down,

00:10:39.580 and you're giving us these fucking raw numbers 0.96

00:10:41.760 like we're fucking idiots. 0.98

00:10:43.740 Like we're idiots.

00:10:45.120 Oh, it's 4,000.

00:10:47.040 Oh, I guess that's good.

00:10:48.380 Oh, I'll go back to work, male.

00:10:50.400 Got 4,000 dental ears.

00:10:52.340 Is that a lot?

00:10:54.120 Is that too much?

00:10:55.840 Give us a fucking piece of information,

00:10:58.600 you goddamn incompetent motherfuckers. 0.99

00:11:02.240 I'm not going to go one more day being okay with this.

00:11:05.740 It's a fucking emergency.

00:11:07.860 Give us some fucking useful numbers for once.

00:11:11.420 How about not fucking lying to us and we know it?

00:11:14.760 How about that?

00:11:16.420 If you don't know the numbers,

00:11:18.240 just say you're incompetent. 0.70

00:11:20.540 Just tell us.

00:11:22.020 And maybe we can do something about it.

00:11:24.460 But please, stop fucking lying to us

00:11:27.960 about the numbers.

00:11:31.040 The raw numbers don't help us at all.

00:11:36.380 Not even a little bit.

00:11:37.380 If you can't put them in context,

00:11:40.360 don't fucking even talk. 0.73

00:11:43.260 Just let somebody else talk.

00:11:45.800 This is for you, Mr. President.

00:11:47.880 I love you, Mr. President.

00:11:49.540 But we can't have another day

00:11:51.040 of these fucking raw numbers out of context. 0.93

00:11:54.480 It was way too long.

00:11:56.820 I was a little bit patient for a while.

00:11:58.780 But now, I'm fucking mad.

00:12:02.500 All right?

00:12:03.280 You've got to fix this today.

00:12:05.340 You've got a few hours.

00:12:06.980 Make up some fucking numbers

00:12:08.660 if you don't have good numbers.

00:12:09.820 Just make up some fucking numbers.

00:12:11.900 Jesus fucking Christ.

00:12:16.000 Whew.

00:12:19.000 All right.

00:12:23.540 Here's something interesting or not.

00:12:26.140 I got a message on LinkedIn.

00:12:27.640 A lot of people are sending me

00:12:29.240 useful information

00:12:31.680 that I can send around to somebody.

00:12:35.500 And apparently, there's a company,

00:12:36.940 I won't name the company,

00:12:37.900 that can make 70 million test kits

00:12:40.840 for the coronavirus in two weeks.

00:12:43.900 So they're capable of making

00:12:45.480 70 million tests in two weeks,

00:12:48.900 but they're not doing it

00:12:49.980 because they need a big check.

00:12:52.780 So right now, they don't know how to

00:12:54.640 sell it to individual hospitals and stuff.

00:12:57.300 They don't really,

00:12:57.940 they're not set up for that.

00:12:59.520 They're more set up for, you know,

00:13:01.480 selling big bunches.

00:13:04.140 So I've passed that along to, you know,

00:13:06.660 my most helpful contacts in the government.

00:13:11.340 And, you know, maybe this is a real company

00:13:14.360 and maybe they can really do that.

00:13:16.220 Maybe it makes a difference.

00:13:17.740 But I was kind of shocked

00:13:19.140 that at this point in the process,

00:13:21.220 there would be a company

00:13:22.040 that makes test kits.

00:13:24.540 I think they need to be validated

00:13:26.420 and approved or something too.

00:13:28.360 But there would be a company

00:13:29.640 that could make this many test kits.

00:13:31.440 It's in another country.

00:13:32.420 It's not an American kind of company.

00:13:34.540 And we haven't already

00:13:36.000 climbed down their pants

00:13:38.500 to figure out what they can do

00:13:39.700 and how quickly they can do it.

00:13:41.260 So I'm a little skeptical

00:13:42.600 that as of today,

00:13:45.520 there would be a company

00:13:46.220 that can make 70 million test kits

00:13:48.560 and yet hasn't got a productive contact

00:13:51.940 in some government

00:13:52.740 to send them a check.

00:13:54.920 I'm a little skeptical,

00:13:56.520 but I passed it along anyway.

00:14:00.380 If you're following along on Zoom,

00:14:03.360 the application that lets you

00:14:05.360 make a video call with your teammates,

00:14:08.440 you probably know that there's

00:14:09.440 a little bit of a problem there

00:14:11.000 that's becoming more of a problem,

00:14:13.360 I think, as time goes by,

00:14:14.520 that a lot of their engineers

00:14:16.620 live and work in China

00:14:18.260 and some of the traffic

00:14:20.300 goes through servers in China.

00:14:23.160 So if you're doing

00:14:23.860 a top-secret business meeting

00:14:27.060 about your technology

00:14:28.260 and you're using Zoom,

00:14:29.720 which is the most popular software

00:14:32.240 for doing this,

00:14:33.620 probably, I don't know,

00:14:34.880 eight out of ten businesses

00:14:36.580 are using it routinely,

00:14:38.860 especially now,

00:14:40.880 your secrets are actually

00:14:42.380 going through a server in China.

00:14:43.720 when you know that China

00:14:45.380 is stealing our secrets,

00:14:46.720 it's not like you worry

00:14:49.120 that they might.

00:14:51.640 It's way past worrying

00:14:55.020 that they might steal your secret IP.

00:14:58.040 They are.

00:14:59.500 It's just the most confirmed,

00:15:01.300 documented thing in the world.

00:15:03.480 So Zoom has a problem.

00:15:05.560 Now,

00:15:06.940 I will just tell you

00:15:10.900 that there is a Zoom alternative,

00:15:14.060 which is,

00:15:15.720 which can be packaged up.

00:15:18.420 Right now,

00:15:18.960 it wouldn't work for everybody

00:15:20.320 because you'd have to scale it up.

00:15:22.320 But if there's anybody out there

00:15:23.720 who would like to invest

00:15:25.340 in a Zoom alternative

00:15:27.880 that does not go through China,

00:15:31.700 contact me.

00:15:33.600 So I'm looking for somebody

00:15:34.920 who's a billionaire

00:15:35.480 who can write a big check.

00:15:37.580 I'm not going to be doing

00:15:38.720 like fundraising or anything.

00:15:40.420 But if you're a billionaire

00:15:41.240 or you're in the government

00:15:43.720 and you can write a check

00:15:44.880 for a million and a half

00:15:46.260 to, you know,

00:15:47.740 just develop it

00:15:48.500 to the point of feasibility,

00:15:50.200 it's mostly already written.

00:15:51.920 So the actual code

00:15:55.200 is mostly done

00:15:56.400 and I've actually used it

00:15:57.960 and you can make a call

00:15:58.960 and it looks just like Zoom.

00:16:00.640 But it would need to be packaged up

00:16:02.580 in a company form

00:16:03.580 and you'd have to have

00:16:05.540 enough servers online

00:16:06.580 to handle the volume,

00:16:09.120 et cetera.

00:16:10.160 So it would be a big job

00:16:11.400 to productize it.

00:16:13.100 But if anybody's interested in that,

00:16:15.980 just tweet at me

00:16:17.200 and I'll hook you up.

00:16:19.380 And I am connected

00:16:20.340 to that,

00:16:20.960 just full disclosure,

00:16:23.640 I am connected

00:16:24.620 to that effort.

00:16:25.960 So just so you heard that.

00:16:27.980 Okay.

00:16:28.120 Let's see.

00:16:33.120 I have a question.

00:16:34.940 Does China's death tolls,

00:16:36.840 which we know are all bogus,

00:16:39.200 but I wonder if it includes

00:16:40.540 the political prisoners

00:16:42.080 that they carve up for parts.

00:16:45.600 Now, if you didn't know that,

00:16:46.840 apparently it's well documented

00:16:48.820 to the point of no doubt about it.

00:16:51.660 So China is using political prisoners

00:16:53.900 for parts.

00:16:56.300 They're actually keeping them alive.

00:16:59.180 I assume that they have anesthesia.

00:17:01.260 But in order to transfer organs

00:17:03.980 from someone to someone else,

00:17:05.800 you need the donor to be alive.

00:17:08.720 China can deliver 0.96

00:17:10.240 a heart and lung transplant

00:17:12.060 on demand

00:17:13.120 on the hour that you want it.

00:17:16.880 Now, you don't have to be

00:17:18.480 much of a transplant expert

00:17:19.920 to know

00:17:20.460 that if you can deliver

00:17:22.680 a specific organ

00:17:23.880 on a specific date,

00:17:26.300 it's because you killed somebody.

00:17:29.280 There's no mathematically,

00:17:31.520 statistically,

00:17:32.680 there's just no way

00:17:33.740 that somebody would coincidentally

00:17:35.980 be a donor

00:17:37.300 within driving distance

00:17:39.360 and within an hour

00:17:41.080 of when you needed the surgery.

00:17:42.240 So the experts

00:17:44.140 know for sure

00:17:45.580 and they know

00:17:47.560 that the operations

00:17:48.200 are happening

00:17:48.780 because Westerners

00:17:49.900 sometimes go over there

00:17:50.840 and get the operation

00:17:51.900 because they can't get

00:17:53.400 a heart and lung

00:17:54.200 on demand anywhere else

00:17:55.400 because nobody else

00:17:56.600 is killing people

00:17:57.360 for hearts and lungs.

00:17:59.220 So I'm wondering

00:18:00.680 if it's true

00:18:02.100 the high numbers,

00:18:03.540 I saw some numbers

00:18:04.260 like over 300,000 people

00:18:06.560 might have died

00:18:07.280 from the coronavirus

00:18:08.200 in China.

00:18:10.900 Now imagine if 300,000 died,

00:18:13.640 most of them

00:18:14.740 are probably elderly

00:18:15.620 and would not qualify

00:18:17.020 for any kind of a transplant,

00:18:18.760 but how many people

00:18:19.740 who were, let's say,

00:18:21.400 Chinese Party officials

00:18:23.500 who could be saved

00:18:27.260 with, let's say,

00:18:28.040 a lung transplant

00:18:28.940 because, you know,

00:18:29.820 lungs go bad

00:18:30.700 with the coronavirus.

00:18:32.280 How many,

00:18:32.860 how many Communist Party

00:18:35.660 members in China,

00:18:37.300 you know,

00:18:37.580 people who are rich

00:18:38.420 or connected,

00:18:39.380 how many of them

00:18:40.360 are alive

00:18:41.020 because they killed

00:18:43.200 a political prisoner

00:18:44.280 and took that person's

00:18:46.400 heart and lungs

00:18:47.400 and put it into

00:18:48.460 the Chinese official?

00:18:51.700 Probably more than one.

00:18:53.500 Yeah, I don't know.

00:18:54.840 Could be a few.

00:18:56.620 Just put that out there.

00:19:00.440 All right.

00:19:02.420 I suggested,

00:19:03.620 I put this idea out there.

00:19:04.760 I was just seeing

00:19:05.580 what kind of appetite

00:19:06.880 there was for this.

00:19:08.440 But I want to tell you

00:19:09.220 how clever this is.

00:19:10.300 So on the surface,

00:19:11.800 it doesn't sound clever,

00:19:13.560 but then I'll tell you

00:19:14.220 what the clever thing is.

00:19:15.360 All right.

00:19:16.420 So I tweeted,

00:19:17.680 let's start expelling

00:19:18.980 the kids of Chinese elites 0.96

00:19:20.760 who are going to college

00:19:22.240 in the United States.

00:19:23.500 in alphabetical order,

00:19:25.400 one for every death

00:19:26.420 from fentanyl

00:19:27.460 or coronavirus.

00:19:29.120 Now, of course,

00:19:29.520 it wouldn't take long

00:19:30.380 before they were all gone,

00:19:31.820 but there are quite a few

00:19:32.920 children of the rich people,

00:19:36.340 the elites,

00:19:36.960 the connected people

00:19:37.760 in China

00:19:38.260 who, as a status symbol,

00:19:41.880 go to college

00:19:42.820 in the United States.

00:19:44.080 Because if you're

00:19:44.800 a Chinese official,

00:19:46.600 you'd like to say

00:19:47.360 that your kid

00:19:48.640 went to Harvard

00:19:49.300 or Stanford

00:19:50.120 or some good

00:19:51.300 American college.

00:19:53.320 And of course,

00:19:53.860 they take this training

00:19:55.200 back to China 0.83

00:19:56.000 where China,

00:19:57.860 you know,

00:19:58.660 in most cases,

00:20:00.100 and China,

00:20:01.220 of course,

00:20:02.620 tries to destroy

00:20:03.380 the United States

00:20:04.220 with this newly learned

00:20:05.440 knowledge.

00:20:06.940 And so,

00:20:07.720 now,

00:20:08.260 the colleges,

00:20:09.420 of course,

00:20:09.900 the universities,

00:20:10.460 they make a lot of money

00:20:11.540 from the foreign students

00:20:12.620 because they can charge them

00:20:13.660 the full price.

00:20:15.140 You know,

00:20:15.300 the foreign students

00:20:16.300 are not necessarily

00:20:17.060 getting scholarships.

00:20:20.120 So,

00:20:20.800 it's profitable

00:20:21.600 for the colleges.

00:20:22.500 That's why they do it a lot.

00:20:24.160 But,

00:20:24.820 here's the strength

00:20:27.420 of the idea.

00:20:28.820 If you just said today,

00:20:31.760 you know,

00:20:32.100 just today,

00:20:33.020 all kids

00:20:34.180 of Chinese

00:20:35.380 elites

00:20:37.060 go home today.

00:20:39.680 Now,

00:20:40.240 that would make

00:20:40.620 a big statement,

00:20:41.780 but it wouldn't be

00:20:42.880 nearly as good

00:20:44.160 as my idea

00:20:46.300 of doing it

00:20:46.920 in alphabetical order.

00:20:49.160 Now,

00:20:49.700 I don't know

00:20:50.160 if you ever saw

00:20:50.700 Schindler's List,

00:20:51.940 but this is a

00:20:54.500 persuasion

00:20:55.760 technique

00:20:56.820 I learned

00:20:57.440 from a scene

00:20:58.120 in Schindler's List,

00:20:59.560 meaning that,

00:21:01.740 you know,

00:21:02.320 without going

00:21:03.160 into details,

00:21:04.060 a bad guy

00:21:04.600 was executing

00:21:05.620 prisoners

00:21:06.960 somewhat randomly,

00:21:09.920 and the prisoners

00:21:10.940 had to wait

00:21:11.700 and wonder

00:21:12.220 if they were next.

00:21:14.160 Now,

00:21:14.580 as bad

00:21:15.000 as it is

00:21:15.460 to be executed,

00:21:17.100 that happens

00:21:18.060 kind of quickly,

00:21:19.160 right?

00:21:19.500 You get shot

00:21:20.060 in the head,

00:21:20.420 you're kind of

00:21:20.800 dead quickly,

00:21:21.380 as bad as that is.

00:21:23.180 But not knowing

00:21:24.340 if in the next

00:21:25.840 five minutes

00:21:26.500 you're going to be

00:21:27.020 shot in the head

00:21:27.660 because you're

00:21:29.060 watching other people

00:21:29.780 get shot in the head

00:21:30.480 right in front of you

00:21:31.300 has got to be

00:21:32.880 far more

00:21:34.300 psychologically

00:21:34.980 devastating,

00:21:36.160 right?

00:21:36.620 stands to reason.

00:21:39.540 So here's the idea.

00:21:40.480 Instead of just saying

00:21:41.300 all Chinese children

00:21:42.880 of elites

00:21:44.180 have to leave

00:21:45.060 their colleges

00:21:45.520 and go home,

00:21:47.340 that would be like

00:21:48.080 pulling the band-aid

00:21:48.920 off all at once.

00:21:49.840 It would be bad.

00:21:50.980 It would get their

00:21:51.560 attention.

00:21:52.000 They wouldn't like it

00:21:52.600 at all.

00:21:53.300 But it would also be

00:21:54.260 over really quickly.

00:21:56.320 So it's not nearly

00:21:57.280 as good.

00:21:58.740 What you want to do

00:21:59.580 is say,

00:21:59.960 it's nothing personal.

00:22:01.400 We're not even going

00:22:02.120 to decide

00:22:03.160 who goes first.

00:22:04.040 We'll just do it

00:22:04.560 in alphabetical order.

00:22:06.380 And then on day one

00:22:07.240 you say,

00:22:07.680 looks like we've got

00:22:08.580 a week of fentanyl

00:22:09.740 overdoses

00:22:10.340 and this many

00:22:12.420 corona deaths.

00:22:13.760 Okay,

00:22:14.080 that's 175.

00:22:16.820 So we'll just

00:22:17.540 go down the alphabet

00:22:18.720 until you get

00:22:19.480 175 kids

00:22:20.700 and you just

00:22:21.060 send them home.

00:22:22.600 Just send them home.

00:22:23.700 You've got to be

00:22:24.000 gone by tomorrow.

00:22:25.780 And then

00:22:26.200 the next day

00:22:28.260 the elites

00:22:29.700 in China

00:22:30.400 say,

00:22:30.900 what the heck

00:22:31.680 just happened?

00:22:32.960 Wait a minute,

00:22:33.540 what's our last name?

00:22:35.220 My last name

00:22:35.920 starts with F?

00:22:37.760 Oh,

00:22:39.040 maybe we should

00:22:40.160 do something

00:22:40.560 about this.

00:22:42.060 So if it doesn't

00:22:43.320 hurt the elites,

00:22:44.340 it doesn't count

00:22:45.120 because they're

00:22:45.580 the only ones

00:22:46.060 who get a vote.

00:22:47.560 So I would say

00:22:48.380 let's just

00:22:49.580 send them home

00:22:50.400 in alphabetical order.

00:22:52.420 You don't have

00:22:52.900 to do it right away.

00:22:54.340 Just start

00:22:55.040 the process

00:22:56.140 in alphabetical order

00:22:57.200 and make it

00:22:58.980 just mechanical.

00:23:00.680 No human

00:23:01.700 decision involved.

00:23:03.200 We'll just

00:23:03.480 get a statistic,

00:23:05.120 go down

00:23:05.580 the alphabetical

00:23:06.360 list,

00:23:07.380 send them an email,

00:23:09.200 say,

00:23:09.640 be gone by Tuesday.

00:23:11.320 And you don't

00:23:11.700 even have to

00:23:12.080 negotiate about it.

00:23:13.480 You don't even

00:23:13.980 have to ask

00:23:14.740 China for anything 0.95

00:23:15.760 in return.

00:23:17.520 There's no

00:23:18.100 negotiating here.

00:23:19.560 You're just saying,

00:23:21.100 it's just the way

00:23:22.020 we want to run

00:23:22.560 things.

00:23:22.900 This is our system.

00:23:25.100 Don't even

00:23:25.700 argue it.

00:23:26.600 All right.

00:23:29.220 Here's a new

00:23:29.920 rule.

00:23:31.540 I'm stealing

00:23:32.240 this from

00:23:32.840 Bill Maher.

00:23:33.760 He always

00:23:34.000 says,

00:23:34.300 new rules,

00:23:35.200 which is a

00:23:35.680 good structure

00:23:36.260 for jokes,

00:23:37.220 by the way.

00:23:38.820 If you're

00:23:39.460 criticizing the

00:23:40.220 president's timing

00:23:41.280 of decisions

00:23:42.060 for this

00:23:42.700 coronavirus stuff,

00:23:44.300 you have to

00:23:45.080 produce a witness

00:23:45.760 who was in

00:23:46.320 the room

00:23:46.860 and watched

00:23:49.080 the president

00:23:50.160 ignore advice

00:23:51.280 from experts

00:23:52.080 at the

00:23:52.620 time.

00:23:54.280 Because

00:23:54.780 otherwise,

00:23:55.880 what exactly

00:23:57.020 are you

00:23:57.380 criticizing?

00:23:59.060 Now,

00:23:59.680 if the

00:24:00.060 president

00:24:00.440 was surrounded

00:24:01.660 by experts

00:24:02.460 who said,

00:24:03.000 you must do

00:24:03.640 X,

00:24:04.580 and the

00:24:05.180 president

00:24:05.560 ignored all

00:24:06.220 the experts

00:24:06.720 and said,

00:24:07.120 eh,

00:24:07.480 I think I'll

00:24:07.960 do Y.

00:24:09.360 Well,

00:24:09.580 that would

00:24:10.220 be a

00:24:10.760 legitimate

00:24:11.120 story.

00:24:12.660 That's

00:24:13.160 something I'd

00:24:13.660 want to

00:24:13.920 know.

00:24:14.940 Right?

00:24:16.180 But,

00:24:16.940 if all we

00:24:18.420 know is it

00:24:19.180 would have

00:24:19.540 been better

00:24:20.200 to do

00:24:21.300 something

00:24:21.660 earlier

00:24:22.080 or different,

00:24:23.700 does that

00:24:24.280 tell you

00:24:24.680 anything?

00:24:25.680 Because,

00:24:26.220 again,

00:24:26.560 everything good

00:24:27.280 should have

00:24:27.700 been done

00:24:28.020 earlier.

00:24:28.440 There's no

00:24:28.740 exception to

00:24:29.320 that.

00:24:29.960 So,

00:24:30.240 simply saying

00:24:31.120 it should

00:24:31.380 have been

00:24:31.580 done earlier

00:24:32.340 has no

00:24:34.140 meaning at

00:24:34.600 all,

00:24:34.920 except TV

00:24:36.440 idiots will

00:24:37.240 talk about

00:24:37.800 it forever.

00:24:39.040 But,

00:24:39.660 unless you

00:24:40.120 have a

00:24:40.400 witness that

00:24:41.500 actually watched

00:24:42.380 him listen

00:24:43.120 to experts

00:24:43.840 and decide

00:24:44.420 not to

00:24:44.840 follow their

00:24:45.260 advice,

00:24:46.880 you don't

00:24:47.260 really have

00:24:47.680 anything.

00:24:49.340 Because,

00:24:49.820 without that,

00:24:50.600 there's no

00:24:51.040 context.

00:24:51.760 It wouldn't

00:24:52.160 mean anything.

00:24:53.580 The leaders

00:24:54.280 of other

00:24:54.660 countries didn't

00:24:55.420 seem to do

00:24:55.920 much better.

00:24:57.120 Now,

00:24:57.320 I know some

00:24:58.260 people are

00:24:58.580 going to

00:24:58.680 say,

00:24:58.920 but,

00:24:59.600 Scott,

00:25:00.720 why were

00:25:01.540 we not

00:25:02.000 ready with

00:25:02.540 all the

00:25:02.860 ventilators

00:25:03.520 and the

00:25:04.420 test kits?

00:25:07.600 The answer

00:25:08.320 is,

00:25:09.100 nobody was.

00:25:10.320 Nobody was

00:25:10.920 ready with

00:25:11.500 that.

00:25:11.940 I mean,

00:25:12.140 South Korea

00:25:12.620 is a smaller

00:25:13.220 place.

00:25:13.820 Maybe they're

00:25:14.200 a little more

00:25:14.600 efficient.

00:25:15.560 Maybe they

00:25:15.900 got there

00:25:16.360 quicker.

00:25:17.380 But,

00:25:17.800 nobody was

00:25:18.300 ready.

00:25:18.700 of all

00:25:20.460 the nations

00:25:21.020 in the

00:25:21.320 world,

00:25:21.640 nobody was

00:25:22.120 ready.

00:25:23.340 And how

00:25:24.080 many

00:25:24.280 ventilators

00:25:24.800 did we

00:25:25.140 think we

00:25:25.520 needed?

00:25:26.480 How many

00:25:27.060 did we

00:25:27.360 think we

00:25:27.700 have?

00:25:28.020 We still

00:25:28.400 don't know.

00:25:29.440 We don't

00:25:29.780 know how

00:25:30.040 many we

00:25:30.320 had,

00:25:30.700 how many

00:25:30.980 we needed.

00:25:31.840 Do you

00:25:32.080 think that

00:25:32.420 the President

00:25:32.880 of the United

00:25:33.340 States was

00:25:34.940 ever aware

00:25:35.760 that we had

00:25:37.020 a ventilator

00:25:37.660 shortage?

00:25:39.260 Was he

00:25:39.800 even ever

00:25:40.160 aware of

00:25:40.660 that?

00:25:41.440 Do you

00:25:41.660 think the

00:25:41.960 President,

00:25:42.860 and you can

00:25:43.340 say this for

00:25:43.880 every leader

00:25:44.580 of every

00:25:44.940 other country,

00:25:45.380 Do you

00:25:46.000 think the

00:25:46.300 President of

00:25:46.820 the United

00:25:47.080 States was

00:25:47.560 aware that

00:25:48.900 we didn't

00:25:49.280 have the

00:25:49.720 right kind

00:25:50.240 of test

00:25:50.640 kits?

00:25:52.180 No.

00:25:53.460 I doubt

00:25:54.260 it.

00:25:55.200 That's kind

00:25:55.800 of down in

00:25:56.300 the details.

00:26:00.080 Anyway,

00:26:00.720 that's enough

00:26:01.080 about that.

00:26:04.840 I'm

00:26:05.360 watching the

00:26:05.860 most interesting

00:26:06.820 intellectual,

00:26:08.600 let's say,

00:26:10.720 difference of

00:26:11.320 opinion.

00:26:11.780 opinion.

00:26:12.900 What's

00:26:13.240 interesting

00:26:13.640 about it

00:26:14.200 is that

00:26:14.620 the two

00:26:15.100 people who

00:26:15.600 are on

00:26:15.880 opposite

00:26:16.220 sides of

00:26:16.860 this are

00:26:18.340 so smart.

00:26:20.180 Normally,

00:26:20.840 you see a

00:26:22.220 smart person

00:26:22.800 arguing with

00:26:23.340 a dumb

00:26:23.640 person.

00:26:24.660 Of course,

00:26:25.160 you always

00:26:25.480 agree with

00:26:25.920 the one

00:26:26.140 you think

00:26:26.460 is the

00:26:26.780 smart one.

00:26:27.920 But it's

00:26:28.360 unusual to

00:26:29.080 see somebody

00:26:29.580 who are

00:26:29.800 equally smart

00:26:30.760 at the

00:26:32.100 highest level

00:26:32.820 smart,

00:26:34.120 and also

00:26:35.080 deeply

00:26:35.620 disagreeing

00:26:36.320 while looking

00:26:36.780 at exactly

00:26:37.360 the same

00:26:37.780 facts.

00:26:39.140 To me,

00:26:39.660 that's just

00:26:40.460 so fascinating.

00:26:42.400 So here's

00:26:42.760 what's

00:26:42.940 happening.

00:26:43.680 So you

00:26:45.160 may be

00:26:45.520 familiar with

00:26:46.120 these names

00:26:46.600 from Twitter

00:26:47.180 or otherwise.

00:26:48.460 But Balaji

00:26:49.340 Srinivasan

00:26:50.280 has been

00:26:50.800 tweeting about

00:26:51.580 the dangers

00:26:52.140 of the

00:26:52.440 coronavirus

00:26:52.920 extensively

00:26:54.580 and in

00:26:55.540 detail,

00:26:56.260 tons of

00:26:57.020 good sources

00:26:57.620 and great

00:26:58.940 thinking about

00:26:59.640 it,

00:26:59.840 etc.

00:27:00.280 And he

00:27:00.740 would be

00:27:01.060 on the

00:27:01.520 side saying

00:27:03.060 it's as

00:27:04.600 big a

00:27:04.920 problem as

00:27:05.420 the experts

00:27:05.780 say it

00:27:06.140 is,

00:27:06.400 maybe even

00:27:06.820 bigger.

00:27:07.240 It's going

00:27:07.580 to be big.

00:27:08.540 It's a

00:27:08.960 big,

00:27:09.320 big deal.

00:27:09.800 And then

00:27:11.940 it's special.

00:27:13.660 Now,

00:27:14.180 to Balaji's

00:27:15.480 point,

00:27:16.500 you could

00:27:16.840 look at

00:27:17.200 China.

00:27:18.520 They had

00:27:19.120 more deaths

00:27:19.620 than they

00:27:19.900 say,

00:27:20.200 probably.

00:27:21.120 You could

00:27:21.420 look at

00:27:21.660 Italy and

00:27:22.120 Iran,

00:27:22.460 and you

00:27:22.620 could say,

00:27:22.880 oh,

00:27:23.340 well,

00:27:23.680 already we're

00:27:24.260 seeing that

00:27:24.700 there are

00:27:25.000 major

00:27:25.260 problems.

00:27:26.420 And then

00:27:26.740 we also

00:27:27.060 look at

00:27:27.440 what the

00:27:27.720 ER doctors

00:27:28.440 are saying.

00:27:29.560 And I

00:27:30.040 don't believe

00:27:30.540 you'll see

00:27:30.900 any ER

00:27:31.620 doctors who

00:27:32.400 say,

00:27:32.700 you know,

00:27:33.360 I'm working

00:27:34.080 ER,

00:27:34.860 and it's

00:27:35.260 basically just

00:27:36.040 the flu.

00:27:37.120 Have you

00:27:37.460 heard anybody

00:27:38.060 say that?

00:27:39.280 Have you

00:27:39.740 heard any

00:27:40.120 doctor who's

00:27:40.760 actually working

00:27:41.520 at the

00:27:42.140 front lines,

00:27:43.020 who agrees

00:27:44.220 with the

00:27:44.620 notion,

00:27:45.020 you know,

00:27:45.300 this is sort

00:27:46.540 of just like

00:27:47.020 more flu?

00:27:48.500 It's sort

00:27:48.940 of more like

00:27:49.500 that.

00:27:49.720 No,

00:27:49.940 not even

00:27:50.260 close.

00:27:50.740 Every

00:27:52.300 doctor who's

00:27:53.020 working on

00:27:53.540 it says

00:27:54.140 as clearly

00:27:54.900 as possible,

00:27:56.380 this is

00:27:57.400 not the

00:27:57.780 flu.

00:27:59.140 One of the

00:27:59.780 doctors said

00:28:00.340 that you

00:28:00.980 can even

00:28:01.600 tell the

00:28:02.120 people who

00:28:02.480 have it

00:28:02.820 by their

00:28:03.580 eyes get

00:28:04.100 red in

00:28:04.540 a very

00:28:04.860 specific

00:28:06.320 way,

00:28:06.900 and they

00:28:07.020 have a

00:28:07.200 very specific

00:28:07.960 cough and

00:28:09.820 bronchial

00:28:10.640 situation.

00:28:12.360 But anyway,

00:28:13.460 so Balaji

00:28:14.240 has on his

00:28:14.800 side that

00:28:15.960 the deaths

00:28:16.980 have gone

00:28:17.400 from 100

00:28:18.040 deaths a

00:28:18.460 day to

00:28:18.840 1,000 in

00:28:19.720 I don't

00:28:20.300 know,

00:28:20.460 a week,

00:28:20.740 or something

00:28:21.200 as you

00:28:23.140 would expect

00:28:23.600 if it's

00:28:23.960 really bad.

00:28:25.120 You've got

00:28:25.500 other countries

00:28:26.120 that are

00:28:26.440 already suffering

00:28:27.120 it sooner

00:28:28.320 that things

00:28:29.300 are really

00:28:29.600 bad there,

00:28:30.220 that sides

00:28:31.160 with him,

00:28:31.960 and then

00:28:32.380 the ER

00:28:32.700 doctors.

00:28:33.820 So he's

00:28:34.240 got quite

00:28:34.980 a bit of

00:28:36.300 scientific

00:28:37.560 and anecdotal

00:28:38.800 information

00:28:39.500 that is

00:28:40.400 compatible with

00:28:41.180 his view

00:28:41.600 that this

00:28:42.040 is really

00:28:42.500 a big,

00:28:43.300 big problem.

00:28:44.480 On the

00:28:44.940 other hand,

00:28:45.820 we have

00:28:46.540 equally

00:28:47.620 smart and

00:28:49.020 well-informed

00:28:49.700 Adam

00:28:50.220 Townsend.

00:28:51.680 One of the

00:28:52.520 people that

00:28:53.000 I look to

00:28:53.580 to make

00:28:54.980 sure my

00:28:55.400 opinion makes

00:28:56.660 sense,

00:28:57.440 and Balaji

00:28:58.820 as well.

00:28:59.940 So there are

00:29:00.720 people who

00:29:01.280 will instantly

00:29:02.460 modify my

00:29:03.440 opinion just

00:29:05.140 because they're

00:29:05.660 smarter,

00:29:06.280 and I just

00:29:07.200 change my

00:29:07.660 opinion sometimes

00:29:08.460 when smart

00:29:08.980 people say

00:29:09.560 something else.

00:29:12.500 But Adam

00:29:12.980 says,

00:29:14.080 and I think

00:29:14.700 it would be

00:29:15.460 really easy for

00:29:16.140 me to

00:29:16.640 mischaracterize

00:29:17.820 the nuance

00:29:18.480 of his

00:29:18.880 argument,

00:29:19.560 so I

00:29:20.040 apologize in

00:29:20.760 advance to

00:29:21.420 Adam if

00:29:22.000 I'm doing

00:29:22.320 that.

00:29:22.560 But I'll

00:29:22.720 try my

00:29:23.320 best to

00:29:24.820 capture it

00:29:25.420 right.

00:29:27.680 And I

00:29:28.380 think the

00:29:28.680 feeling is

00:29:29.140 that maybe

00:29:29.580 closing the

00:29:30.240 economy was

00:29:31.040 an overreaction

00:29:32.040 based on

00:29:34.020 what we're

00:29:34.340 seeing.

00:29:35.640 So,

00:29:36.640 and some

00:29:37.620 of the

00:29:37.960 sub-arguments

00:29:39.180 there are

00:29:39.600 that we're

00:29:40.540 probably

00:29:41.040 over-counting

00:29:42.020 the number

00:29:42.420 of deaths

00:29:42.820 in New York.

00:29:43.460 So,

00:29:45.620 does that

00:29:46.160 sound right

00:29:46.800 that we're

00:29:47.160 probably

00:29:47.460 over-counting

00:29:48.480 the number

00:29:49.080 of people

00:29:49.420 dying from

00:29:49.960 coronavirus?

00:29:50.940 Now,

00:29:51.260 the argument

00:29:51.600 here is

00:29:52.560 that,

00:29:53.160 especially for

00:29:53.860 older patients

00:29:54.760 who are

00:29:55.160 the majority

00:29:56.740 of the ones

00:29:57.200 who are

00:29:57.400 having the

00:29:57.740 bad problems,

00:29:59.040 older patients

00:29:59.920 almost always

00:30:00.760 have an

00:30:02.220 underlying

00:30:02.680 health condition.

00:30:04.620 Almost always.

00:30:05.620 You know,

00:30:05.780 if you're 70

00:30:06.400 plus,

00:30:07.500 you've got

00:30:08.000 something wrong

00:30:08.740 with you.

00:30:09.600 You know,

00:30:09.880 a little

00:30:10.160 hypertension,

00:30:11.320 got some

00:30:11.920 COPD,

00:30:13.460 maybe you've

00:30:15.500 got a

00:30:15.780 heart murmur,

00:30:16.740 maybe you've

00:30:17.140 got something.

00:30:19.720 So,

00:30:21.100 but every

00:30:22.360 time one

00:30:22.720 of those

00:30:22.960 people who

00:30:23.320 has some

00:30:23.700 other condition

00:30:24.540 also has

00:30:26.060 coronavirus,

00:30:28.040 you know,

00:30:28.460 are they

00:30:28.720 being recorded

00:30:30.760 correctly?

00:30:32.200 So,

00:30:32.440 in other

00:30:32.640 words,

00:30:32.940 is it the

00:30:33.340 coronavirus

00:30:33.700 that really

00:30:34.500 killed them?

00:30:35.340 Or did

00:30:35.900 they have

00:30:36.220 things that

00:30:36.660 were going

00:30:36.880 to kill

00:30:37.140 them anyway?

00:30:38.680 And so

00:30:38.940 the coronavirus

00:30:39.480 was,

00:30:40.240 you know,

00:30:40.940 just coincidentally

00:30:42.020 in their

00:30:42.440 body too.

00:30:44.020 I don't

00:30:44.380 know how

00:30:44.680 you'd get

00:30:45.000 to the

00:30:45.220 bottom of

00:30:45.520 that,

00:30:45.780 but I'm

00:30:45.980 just pointing

00:30:46.360 out that

00:30:47.140 that's an

00:30:47.940 argument.

00:30:50.020 Likewise,

00:30:51.380 the New York

00:30:52.640 data shows

00:30:53.320 that almost

00:30:54.260 nobody is

00:30:55.160 dying unless

00:30:56.960 they have an

00:30:57.580 underlying

00:30:57.880 condition,

00:30:59.260 which would

00:30:59.980 suggest,

00:31:01.300 well,

00:31:01.560 maybe it's

00:31:01.940 not that

00:31:02.420 bad for

00:31:02.980 regular people.

00:31:04.620 Except that

00:31:05.420 most of us

00:31:07.320 have some

00:31:07.640 kind of

00:31:07.920 underlying

00:31:08.320 condition.

00:31:08.760 if you

00:31:10.100 count

00:31:10.340 overweight

00:31:11.040 and asthma

00:31:12.580 and everything

00:31:13.080 else,

00:31:14.120 a lot of

00:31:14.700 us have

00:31:15.020 an underlying

00:31:15.500 condition,

00:31:16.520 including

00:31:16.860 me.

00:31:20.040 And then

00:31:20.740 also,

00:31:21.520 Adam has

00:31:22.540 correctly

00:31:23.400 pointed out

00:31:24.000 that I

00:31:24.320 believe the

00:31:24.980 models for

00:31:26.500 how many

00:31:26.820 people were

00:31:27.440 already supposed

00:31:28.380 to be dead

00:31:28.980 were not

00:31:30.220 even close.

00:31:30.780 So in

00:31:31.800 other words,

00:31:32.340 apparently

00:31:32.680 we're way

00:31:33.280 less in

00:31:34.260 deaths,

00:31:34.780 way under

00:31:35.760 than the

00:31:37.160 models at

00:31:38.040 one time

00:31:38.540 predicted.

00:31:39.620 Now,

00:31:40.880 let's pull

00:31:41.380 apart these

00:31:41.820 two arguments

00:31:42.380 because they're

00:31:42.920 not exactly

00:31:44.120 opposites.

00:31:45.460 I would say

00:31:46.040 that Adam

00:31:46.520 is more

00:31:47.740 skeptical of

00:31:49.680 the data,

00:31:50.640 which is

00:31:52.100 different from

00:31:52.600 saying the

00:31:53.960 data is

00:31:54.300 wrong.

00:31:55.180 I think

00:31:56.320 he's pointing

00:31:56.980 out that

00:31:58.240 you can't

00:31:58.660 really rely

00:31:59.500 on these

00:32:00.540 numbers and

00:32:01.300 therefore you

00:32:01.940 don't quite

00:32:02.480 know what

00:32:02.820 you're dealing

00:32:03.220 with and

00:32:04.720 you don't

00:32:05.120 necessarily

00:32:05.720 know that

00:32:06.300 it's so

00:32:06.660 bad you

00:32:07.060 should close

00:32:07.600 the entire

00:32:08.040 economy.

00:32:08.860 Here's what's

00:32:09.520 interesting about

00:32:10.160 this, besides

00:32:11.560 the fact that

00:32:12.060 they're both

00:32:12.420 smart and

00:32:12.960 they're looking

00:32:13.280 at the same

00:32:13.740 information.

00:32:15.320 We are so

00:32:16.380 close to

00:32:18.040 knowing who's

00:32:18.680 right and

00:32:20.000 neither of

00:32:20.480 them are

00:32:20.740 backing down.

00:32:22.620 We're so

00:32:23.320 close because

00:32:24.240 in two weeks

00:32:25.080 you're going to

00:32:26.620 know with a

00:32:27.160 fair degree of

00:32:27.920 certainty,

00:32:28.520 right?

00:32:29.280 Was this as

00:32:30.020 bad as

00:32:30.520 the expert

00:32:30.940 said?

00:32:32.200 Or did

00:32:32.680 we just

00:32:34.180 panic and

00:32:34.740 it was more

00:32:35.100 of a

00:32:35.340 hysteria

00:32:35.820 situation?

00:32:37.220 It was the

00:32:37.700 way we

00:32:37.980 were coding

00:32:38.460 the deaths.

00:32:40.520 One of

00:32:41.020 those two

00:32:41.420 positions is

00:32:42.080 going to be

00:32:42.400 right.

00:32:43.920 And we're

00:32:44.280 going to

00:32:44.460 know in

00:32:44.780 two weeks.

00:32:45.380 And the

00:32:45.560 fact that

00:32:45.940 they're both

00:32:46.420 pretty firm

00:32:48.780 in their

00:32:49.120 opposite

00:32:49.540 opinions just

00:32:50.720 fascinates

00:32:51.280 me.

00:32:51.600 It's the

00:32:51.800 two movies

00:32:52.800 on one

00:32:53.180 screen.

00:32:54.220 All right.

00:32:55.520 What will

00:32:56.100 be the impact

00:32:57.860 on climate

00:32:58.940 change

00:32:59.460 politics

00:33:00.580 after all

00:33:02.440 this is

00:33:02.760 done?

00:33:04.140 Because I've

00:33:04.940 never seen

00:33:05.640 experts take a

00:33:06.920 beating like

00:33:07.500 this.

00:33:07.820 Have you?

00:33:09.040 Can you

00:33:09.580 think of any

00:33:10.080 time in your

00:33:10.540 life that the

00:33:12.120 experts were

00:33:13.400 so thoroughly

00:33:15.120 discredited?

00:33:16.600 Not all the

00:33:17.780 experts and not

00:33:18.740 on all the

00:33:19.420 facts.

00:33:19.760 facts.

00:33:21.040 But the

00:33:21.760 whole don't

00:33:22.480 wear it,

00:33:22.920 you don't

00:33:23.180 need a

00:33:24.580 face mask

00:33:25.160 thing, that

00:33:26.880 felt like

00:33:27.400 some kind of

00:33:28.020 a final

00:33:28.500 straw.

00:33:29.880 Because it

00:33:30.500 was just

00:33:30.780 such a

00:33:31.140 blatant lie.

00:33:32.900 And maybe

00:33:33.560 they had

00:33:33.840 good intentions,

00:33:34.660 but it was

00:33:34.860 such a

00:33:35.440 blatant lie

00:33:36.260 that I

00:33:38.260 think experts

00:33:39.400 are forever

00:33:40.100 damaged.

00:33:41.240 At least

00:33:41.700 for those of

00:33:42.800 us who

00:33:43.040 lived through

00:33:43.460 this.

00:33:44.400 I've got a

00:33:45.000 feeling that

00:33:45.380 climate change

00:33:45.980 was going to

00:33:46.420 look different.

00:33:47.720 Now, I

00:33:49.060 tweeted a

00:33:49.560 page from

00:33:50.000 my book

00:33:51.020 Loser

00:33:51.440 Think, in

00:33:52.240 which I

00:33:52.560 was talking

00:33:53.000 about, so

00:33:54.220 before the

00:33:54.900 pandemic

00:33:55.380 happened, I

00:33:56.620 was saying

00:33:57.060 one argument

00:33:58.100 against spending

00:33:59.320 all your money

00:33:59.840 on climate

00:34:00.280 change is

00:34:00.880 it's not

00:34:01.560 the only

00:34:01.980 big threat.

00:34:03.480 And I

00:34:03.720 listed

00:34:04.060 pandemics

00:34:04.900 and asteroids

00:34:05.920 and cyber

00:34:07.440 attacks and

00:34:10.240 those sort

00:34:11.040 of things as

00:34:12.160 the other

00:34:12.540 risks.

00:34:14.040 Now, look

00:34:15.140 what this

00:34:15.720 pandemic did

00:34:16.620 to our

00:34:17.080 economies.

00:34:19.060 Now, just

00:34:19.960 imagine if

00:34:21.600 this had

00:34:22.000 happened, say,

00:34:22.780 two years

00:34:23.320 from now, and

00:34:25.060 you had a

00:34:26.080 president, Bernie

00:34:26.760 Sanders, just

00:34:28.480 hypothetically.

00:34:30.180 If socialism had

00:34:32.540 been in the

00:34:33.260 process of

00:34:34.180 revamping our

00:34:35.360 economy, transitioning

00:34:37.180 to it, let's

00:34:38.560 say the AOCs got

00:34:40.420 their way and

00:34:41.000 won, what kind

00:34:42.440 of shape would

00:34:43.020 we be in

00:34:43.540 now if we'd

00:34:45.320 spent that

00:34:46.000 much money on

00:34:47.260 Green New

00:34:47.700 Deal, could

00:34:49.060 we still do

00:34:49.720 as much as

00:34:50.320 we are, even

00:34:50.880 though we're

00:34:51.300 basically broke

00:34:52.540 already, could

00:34:53.680 we do as

00:34:54.100 much as we're

00:34:54.620 doing against

00:34:55.360 the pandemic?

00:34:56.500 So I don't

00:34:57.080 know the

00:34:57.320 answer to the

00:34:57.640 question, but

00:34:58.200 everybody who

00:35:00.840 thought they

00:35:01.320 were smart,

00:35:04.540 Nassim Taleb,

00:35:07.200 would say you

00:35:10.100 have to spend

00:35:10.780 as much as it

00:35:12.100 takes to fix

00:35:13.000 climate change

00:35:13.820 because it's

00:35:14.400 something that

00:35:15.320 could be a

00:35:16.140 gigantic

00:35:16.580 catastrophe.

00:35:19.120 And I

00:35:20.100 would say that

00:35:21.060 only makes

00:35:21.620 sense if you

00:35:22.140 only have one

00:35:22.680 problem, one

00:35:24.540 problem that

00:35:25.140 could end you,

00:35:25.920 then of course

00:35:26.420 you should

00:35:26.940 overspend to

00:35:27.780 drive that down

00:35:28.700 to zero, even

00:35:29.980 if you thought

00:35:30.460 it was a 1%

00:35:31.280 chance it would

00:35:31.960 take out the

00:35:32.440 planet, you

00:35:32.820 still want to

00:35:33.240 drive that to

00:35:33.780 zero.

00:35:34.760 But if you

00:35:35.300 have multiple

00:35:35.860 risks, you

00:35:37.980 just can't take

00:35:38.600 the same strategy

00:35:39.360 because you

00:35:39.860 don't have

00:35:40.240 infinite money to

00:35:41.240 do everything.

00:35:41.660 So as

00:35:46.060 somebody on

00:35:46.600 Twitter said

00:35:47.120 and some of

00:35:47.580 you have

00:35:47.860 said, I

00:35:48.240 think the

00:35:50.400 way out

00:35:51.100 looks like

00:35:52.020 this.

00:35:53.660 Once we

00:35:54.360 have enough

00:35:54.800 test kits

00:35:55.520 and we're

00:35:57.060 also giving

00:35:57.720 the, we

00:35:58.500 have enough

00:35:58.860 of the

00:35:59.140 hydroxychloroquine

00:36:00.240 and we're

00:36:00.600 giving it to

00:36:01.100 people early,

00:36:02.600 those two

00:36:03.400 things, plus

00:36:05.580 wearing masks,

00:36:06.760 plus keeping

00:36:07.620 grandma socially

00:36:08.600 isolated for a

00:36:09.460 while, probably

00:36:10.620 those things

00:36:11.400 might be

00:36:11.840 enough to

00:36:12.240 get us

00:36:12.480 back to

00:36:12.860 work.

00:36:13.700 Because if

00:36:14.360 it's true

00:36:14.820 that the

00:36:16.420 people who

00:36:17.440 are working

00:36:18.100 age, let's

00:36:18.900 say people

00:36:19.320 under 65,

00:36:21.340 if people

00:36:22.200 under 65

00:36:23.040 get the

00:36:24.560 hydroxychloroquine

00:36:25.640 early and

00:36:26.580 almost never

00:36:27.480 need a

00:36:27.840 ventilator,

00:36:29.280 then all of

00:36:30.060 your health

00:36:30.440 care problems

00:36:31.100 are largely

00:36:32.000 solved, because

00:36:32.800 it's really

00:36:33.140 the ventilator

00:36:34.220 stage where

00:36:34.860 all the

00:36:35.220 problems come,

00:36:36.780 and then the

00:36:37.800 rest of us

00:36:38.260 could test

00:36:38.740 like crazy,

00:36:39.340 keep grandma

00:36:41.080 locked up,

00:36:41.900 wear your

00:36:42.480 face masks

00:36:43.120 for a few

00:36:43.660 months until

00:36:44.200 you feel like

00:36:44.760 you're over

00:36:45.140 it, and

00:36:46.340 maybe you

00:36:46.780 can make it

00:36:48.180 to the point

00:36:48.600 where we

00:36:48.960 can get

00:36:49.360 the blood

00:36:51.820 antibodies in

00:36:52.860 us, and

00:36:53.780 some people

00:36:54.400 have a

00:36:54.940 natural

00:36:55.240 immunity, and

00:36:57.040 then you get

00:36:57.700 to the

00:36:58.120 vaccines.

00:36:59.120 So we do

00:36:59.800 have a way

00:37:00.260 out, but

00:37:01.680 the way out

00:37:02.380 depends on

00:37:03.120 knowing when

00:37:03.620 we'll have

00:37:03.940 enough test

00:37:04.940 kits, when

00:37:06.960 we'll have

00:37:07.260 enough masks,

00:37:08.640 and when

00:37:08.960 we'll have

00:37:09.280 enough hydroxychloroquine,

00:37:11.200 and the FDA

00:37:12.200 is still happy

00:37:12.960 with it, which

00:37:13.540 I think is a

00:37:14.360 given.

00:37:15.460 So we're

00:37:16.480 kind of close

00:37:17.240 to at least

00:37:18.580 knowing what

00:37:19.300 we need, but

00:37:20.860 as I

00:37:21.320 mentioned,

00:37:22.900 as I

00:37:23.440 mentioned,

00:37:24.220 our government,

00:37:25.820 the task

00:37:26.360 force, is

00:37:26.940 not telling

00:37:27.660 us how

00:37:28.760 long any

00:37:29.320 of those

00:37:29.620 things will

00:37:30.060 be.

00:37:30.680 When will

00:37:31.460 we have

00:37:31.760 enough tests?

00:37:32.480 When will

00:37:33.600 we have

00:37:33.900 enough drugs

00:37:34.380 and masks

00:37:34.940 and stuff?

00:37:36.800 There's no

00:37:37.460 excuse for

00:37:38.100 it anymore.

00:37:39.180 There's just

00:37:39.520 no excuse

00:37:40.120 for them

00:37:40.800 not giving

00:37:41.260 us that

00:37:41.620 kind of

00:37:42.040 visibility on

00:37:42.760 this.

00:37:43.020 Just no

00:37:43.340 excuse.

00:37:44.360 I could

00:37:44.720 not be

00:37:45.300 more angry

00:37:46.060 about that.

00:37:48.860 Is China 0.70

00:37:49.400 using the

00:37:50.560 sickened

00:37:51.480 bodies?

00:37:52.120 Using them

00:37:52.620 for what?

00:37:55.160 I mean,

00:37:55.780 is China

00:37:56.180 using the

00:37:56.800 blood serum

00:37:57.560 thing?

00:37:58.140 I believe

00:37:58.540 that they

00:37:58.980 did try it.

00:37:59.820 I think

00:38:00.080 others are

00:38:01.140 trying it

00:38:01.500 too.

00:38:02.480 big pharma

00:38:04.960 doesn't

00:38:05.360 want a

00:38:05.740 $20

00:38:06.080 cure.

00:38:07.280 That

00:38:07.580 might be

00:38:07.960 part of

00:38:08.300 the

00:38:08.400 problem.

00:38:11.320 Might

00:38:11.800 be.

00:38:13.520 Why

00:38:14.000 hasn't

00:38:14.360 the

00:38:14.560 Trump

00:38:14.840 administration

00:38:15.320 hired you

00:38:16.580 as a

00:38:16.920 consultant?

00:38:18.140 Well,

00:38:18.600 why would

00:38:18.980 they hire

00:38:19.340 me?

00:38:19.560 They get

00:38:19.800 it for

00:38:20.040 free.

00:38:24.360 About

00:38:24.840 pneumonia

00:38:25.320 vaccines,

00:38:26.000 I was

00:38:26.260 wondering

00:38:26.560 about that,

00:38:27.120 you know?

00:38:28.280 That's a

00:38:28.880 good question.

00:38:30.620 Does the

00:38:31.240 pneumonia

00:38:31.680 vaccine

00:38:32.620 protect you

00:38:34.560 from

00:38:35.000 coronavirus

00:38:35.820 since

00:38:36.300 coronavirus,

00:38:37.540 the risk

00:38:37.980 is that it

00:38:38.360 gives you

00:38:38.660 pneumonia?

00:38:39.140 That's a

00:38:39.380 good question.

00:38:40.560 Why has

00:38:41.920 nobody asked

00:38:42.620 that question

00:38:43.220 in public?

00:38:44.720 I have to

00:38:45.280 see it on

00:38:45.740 a comment

00:38:46.520 here.

00:38:47.340 I'd love to

00:38:47.720 see the

00:38:47.980 answer to

00:38:48.300 that.

00:38:51.000 China

00:38:51.620 sent

00:38:51.960 spreaders,

00:38:52.700 you think?

00:38:53.580 Yeah.

00:38:54.940 You know,

00:38:55.460 I don't know

00:38:57.160 about the

00:38:57.820 I don't

00:39:00.040 believe that

00:39:00.620 China did 0.99

00:39:02.320 this

00:39:02.600 intentionally,

00:39:04.100 but there's

00:39:06.240 a difference

00:39:06.640 of opinion

00:39:07.280 about whether

00:39:08.060 you could

00:39:08.500 tell if

00:39:09.360 a virus

00:39:10.780 was engineered.

00:39:12.500 So I've

00:39:13.180 heard smart

00:39:13.680 people say,

00:39:14.340 oh, you

00:39:14.700 could certainly

00:39:15.200 tell if it

00:39:15.700 was engineered,

00:39:16.880 to which I

00:39:18.140 say, well,

00:39:19.600 if the only

00:39:20.440 thing you

00:39:20.820 engineered was

00:39:22.220 combining parts

00:39:23.440 from existing

00:39:24.240 viruses,

00:39:24.740 you really

00:39:26.500 think you

00:39:26.860 could tell?

00:39:28.040 Because wouldn't

00:39:28.640 it look like

00:39:29.280 a virus like

00:39:30.720 every other

00:39:31.160 virus?

00:39:31.700 They all have

00:39:32.080 the same

00:39:32.520 kind of parts,

00:39:33.840 but they're in

00:39:34.280 different order,

00:39:34.940 basically.

00:39:36.300 I feel like

00:39:37.240 you could

00:39:37.560 engineer a

00:39:38.200 virus that

00:39:38.760 nobody would

00:39:39.280 know was

00:39:39.660 engineered,

00:39:40.440 as long as

00:39:40.900 you used

00:39:41.360 parts from

00:39:42.360 existing viruses

00:39:43.280 to give you

00:39:43.880 what you

00:39:44.140 wanted.

00:39:44.940 But I don't

00:39:45.420 think it

00:39:45.660 happened.

00:39:46.240 I think it's

00:39:46.700 more likely,

00:39:47.860 I do think

00:39:48.640 it's more

00:39:48.940 likely it came

00:39:49.580 from some

00:39:50.200 kind of a

00:39:50.680 lab, but

00:39:51.940 probably

00:39:52.240 accidentally.

00:39:54.740 All right.

00:39:56.900 Was Venezuela

00:39:57.900 a drug move,

00:39:58.760 a message to

00:39:59.580 China? 0.73

00:40:00.620 I believe so.

00:40:01.880 Yeah, let's

00:40:02.260 talk about that.

00:40:03.500 So I talked

00:40:03.880 about it a

00:40:04.220 little last

00:40:04.880 night.

00:40:06.640 Anything big

00:40:07.680 that's happening

00:40:08.240 in the world

00:40:08.840 at the moment,

00:40:10.240 you almost have

00:40:11.380 to always ask

00:40:12.060 yourself,

00:40:12.940 eh, what's

00:40:13.660 that got to

00:40:14.060 do with

00:40:14.340 China? 0.73

00:40:15.100 Because it

00:40:15.500 feels like

00:40:16.160 that's the

00:40:17.720 backdrop to

00:40:18.340 everything.

00:40:19.340 So when the

00:40:19.820 president announced

00:40:20.560 he was going

00:40:21.020 to do more

00:40:21.440 naval

00:40:22.000 interdicting,

00:40:26.320 mostly between

00:40:28.120 South America

00:40:30.380 and Central

00:40:31.240 America.

00:40:32.520 So it

00:40:32.920 wasn't really

00:40:33.460 the Mexican

00:40:34.480 cartels that

00:40:35.220 were going

00:40:35.540 after, well,

00:40:36.440 I don't know,

00:40:37.000 I'm not sure

00:40:37.460 which cartels

00:40:38.100 were involved,

00:40:39.040 but they were

00:40:39.420 going after the

00:40:40.220 routes between

00:40:41.280 South America

00:40:42.100 and Central

00:40:42.820 America that

00:40:43.400 would go over

00:40:43.880 water, mostly.

00:40:45.420 And I don't

00:40:46.320 know what that

00:40:46.700 means.

00:40:48.560 So here's my

00:40:49.520 question.

00:40:50.560 Are we so

00:40:51.180 good at

00:40:51.780 recognizing a

00:40:53.820 smuggling boat

00:40:54.780 that we can

00:40:56.480 identify them

00:40:57.480 and stop them?

00:40:58.680 I mean, it's a

00:40:59.100 big ocean.

00:41:00.500 Can we do

00:41:00.980 that?

00:41:01.680 Can we tell

00:41:02.240 every boat

00:41:02.940 and what they're

00:41:03.460 up to?

00:41:04.080 I mean, I

00:41:04.380 just don't

00:41:04.760 know if you

00:41:05.920 can interdict

00:41:07.380 anything.

00:41:08.700 So that's my

00:41:09.660 first question is,

00:41:10.560 does it really

00:41:11.040 even make any

00:41:11.640 difference if we

00:41:12.300 send our entire

00:41:13.000 Navy there?

00:41:14.240 Are we going

00:41:14.800 to even know

00:41:15.220 who to stop

00:41:15.820 and search?

00:41:16.720 I don't know.

00:41:17.900 But maybe we

00:41:18.700 do, or at

00:41:19.340 least it makes

00:41:19.740 some difference.

00:41:20.280 But here's

00:41:21.100 what I

00:41:21.360 think.

00:41:21.780 I think it

00:41:22.180 has more

00:41:22.540 to do with

00:41:23.060 moving our

00:41:23.700 naval assets

00:41:24.480 into the

00:41:25.060 area, if

00:41:26.520 you know

00:41:26.760 what I

00:41:27.000 mean.

00:41:27.880 Because Maduro

00:41:28.660 is still

00:41:29.160 there, and

00:41:29.640 we've now

00:41:30.020 put a price

00:41:30.600 on his

00:41:30.920 head, which

00:41:31.660 allows us,

00:41:33.040 I think he's

00:41:33.520 been determined

00:41:34.460 to be some

00:41:35.000 kind of a

00:41:35.560 criminal, which

00:41:36.720 allows us

00:41:37.260 basically to

00:41:38.040 kill him.

00:41:39.560 So we just

00:41:40.500 put a bounty

00:41:41.040 on his head,

00:41:42.700 essentially told

00:41:43.620 the world that

00:41:44.380 from our

00:41:45.220 perspective it's

00:41:45.980 okay to kill 0.97

00:41:46.640 him, and

00:41:47.740 then we just

00:41:48.140 moved all of

00:41:48.740 our military

00:41:50.060 assets into

00:41:50.980 his backyard,

00:41:52.560 but it's for

00:41:53.760 allegedly a

00:41:54.580 different reason.

00:41:57.400 Maybe.

00:41:58.620 Maybe the

00:41:59.540 only reason we're

00:42:00.560 moving our

00:42:01.260 military assets

00:42:02.180 there is to

00:42:03.300 take care of

00:42:03.760 this little

00:42:04.100 smuggling problem,

00:42:05.560 because apparently

00:42:06.260 Venezuela is

00:42:07.380 using the

00:42:08.040 drug money to

00:42:09.740 replace money

00:42:10.420 they're losing

00:42:10.920 on oil and

00:42:11.700 other stuff.

00:42:12.620 So it could

00:42:13.320 be they're just

00:42:13.840 starving the

00:42:14.400 Maduro regime,

00:42:15.700 and it's

00:42:16.100 exactly what

00:42:16.760 the president

00:42:17.160 says.

00:42:17.880 We're just

00:42:18.720 going to stop

00:42:19.140 the drug

00:42:19.500 trade so

00:42:20.980 that Maduro

00:42:21.480 doesn't get

00:42:22.000 this illegal

00:42:22.640 drug money.

00:42:23.220 Could be

00:42:23.460 just that.

00:42:24.880 Or it

00:42:26.560 could be an

00:42:27.120 excuse to

00:42:27.740 move our

00:42:28.100 assets into

00:42:28.940 the area

00:42:29.480 without people

00:42:30.920 thinking it's

00:42:31.920 an invasion.

00:42:33.720 Just in

00:42:34.380 case, we

00:42:35.980 need to do

00:42:36.380 a little

00:42:36.640 invading.

00:42:37.640 Now I

00:42:37.880 don't know

00:42:38.220 that we

00:42:38.500 would put

00:42:38.820 boots on

00:42:39.260 the ground.

00:42:40.840 I don't

00:42:41.240 know, I'm

00:42:41.640 not a military

00:42:42.380 strategist, but

00:42:43.780 if it all

00:42:44.140 comes down

00:42:44.600 to basically

00:42:45.800 killing one

00:42:46.580 guy, and

00:42:48.000 you've just

00:42:48.500 socialized it

00:42:49.800 with the

00:42:50.080 world, because

00:42:51.060 when the

00:42:51.340 president put

00:42:51.900 a price on

00:42:52.740 his head,

00:42:53.680 that was

00:42:54.240 sort of

00:42:54.700 saying to

00:42:55.140 the world,

00:42:56.340 hey, you

00:42:56.860 know, I'm

00:42:57.180 just giving

00:42:57.520 you a 0.57

00:42:57.740 warning, is

00:42:58.840 anybody going

00:42:59.380 to have

00:42:59.740 a problem

00:43:02.140 because we're

00:43:03.900 going to kill

00:43:04.280 this guy?

00:43:05.740 Anybody?

00:43:06.660 Because this

00:43:07.120 would be the

00:43:07.480 time to

00:43:07.860 complain.

00:43:09.560 I don't

00:43:10.160 know if

00:43:10.420 anybody complained.

00:43:11.240 I didn't

00:43:12.340 hear any, but

00:43:14.040 you can

00:43:14.480 imagine that

00:43:15.120 China wasn't 0.99

00:43:15.700 too happy,

00:43:16.960 because China

00:43:17.600 is probably

00:43:18.360 working with

00:43:19.260 Maduro, and

00:43:19.960 they don't

00:43:20.280 know if he's

00:43:20.920 replaced by

00:43:21.580 somebody else.

00:43:22.960 Let's say

00:43:23.440 somebody elected

00:43:24.480 democratically,

00:43:26.220 would they

00:43:26.680 work with

00:43:27.120 China? 0.73

00:43:27.620 Because China 0.94

00:43:28.040 had been one

00:43:29.400 of their

00:43:29.600 biggest trading

00:43:30.180 partners with

00:43:30.800 Venezuela.

00:43:31.980 I don't know

00:43:32.680 what that looks

00:43:33.140 like at the

00:43:33.560 moment, because

00:43:34.040 Venezuela is

00:43:34.680 falling apart.

00:43:36.740 But I

00:43:37.640 would think

00:43:38.020 that the

00:43:38.360 president's

00:43:38.940 larger strategic

00:43:40.000 objective is

00:43:41.080 to get

00:43:41.440 China out 0.98

00:43:42.220 of Venezuela,

00:43:43.460 to get

00:43:43.900 China out 0.98

00:43:44.560 of our

00:43:44.860 hemisphere.

00:43:45.820 I think

00:43:46.340 maybe that

00:43:46.900 matters more

00:43:47.500 than anything

00:43:48.120 else in the

00:43:49.120 long run.

00:43:50.080 Wouldn't you

00:43:50.480 think?

00:43:51.020 You don't

00:43:51.500 want China

00:43:52.500 to have that

00:43:53.440 much influence

00:43:54.080 over anything

00:43:54.820 in South

00:43:55.320 America?

00:43:56.500 So this

00:43:58.040 could be

00:43:58.700 this big

00:43:59.720 move to

00:44:00.400 maybe stop

00:44:01.100 some drugs,

00:44:01.880 but more

00:44:02.200 likely block

00:44:04.040 China.

00:44:04.980 So that's

00:44:05.360 what I

00:44:05.620 think.

00:44:06.480 That's what

00:44:06.860 I think.

00:44:07.160 it's a

00:44:11.460 cartel.

00:44:13.140 Okay.

00:44:15.260 Oil.

00:44:16.120 I don't

00:44:16.640 know if

00:44:16.860 anybody wants

00:44:17.520 oil anymore.

00:44:19.040 Oil is so

00:44:19.980 cheap, maybe

00:44:20.480 nobody wants

00:44:21.160 it anymore.

00:44:24.680 One theory

00:44:25.480 is that drugs

00:44:26.300 are how the

00:44:27.000 flu got here,

00:44:28.800 or the

00:44:29.500 virus.

00:44:30.500 Yeah, maybe.

00:44:32.560 Maybe.

00:44:33.080 But it

00:44:35.700 seems more

00:44:36.100 likely people.

00:44:37.560 So one of

00:44:38.100 the things

00:44:38.380 we're learning

00:44:38.880 is that the

00:44:39.660 amount of

00:44:40.460 viral load

00:44:41.360 you get

00:44:41.780 matters, so

00:44:42.920 that when

00:44:44.040 people are

00:44:44.560 singing in

00:44:45.420 the same

00:44:45.740 room, the

00:44:46.880 odds of

00:44:47.320 them all

00:44:47.660 getting it

00:44:48.120 are pretty

00:44:48.460 high.

00:44:49.960 So don't

00:44:50.800 do any

00:44:51.280 singing, and

00:44:53.560 wear your

00:44:53.980 face mask.

00:44:58.180 Azithromycin

00:44:58.660 is an

00:44:59.400 antibiotic.

00:45:00.260 That is

00:45:00.500 correct.

00:45:01.240 So the

00:45:01.520 azithromycin

00:45:02.220 is useful

00:45:03.540 if you

00:45:03.960 actually have

00:45:04.620 it, if

00:45:05.360 you have

00:45:05.680 the

00:45:06.280 coronavirus.

00:45:08.000 But if

00:45:08.480 you don't

00:45:08.800 have it, you

00:45:09.720 don't want an

00:45:10.280 antibiotic in

00:45:11.740 you.

00:45:13.700 Get China 0.98

00:45:14.380 out of

00:45:14.680 Africa, too.

00:45:17.560 Well, I

00:45:18.660 have a

00:45:18.880 feeling that

00:45:19.300 Africa is

00:45:19.840 just going to

00:45:20.240 blow up in 0.82

00:45:20.740 their faces.

00:45:22.720 You know,

00:45:24.260 so maybe

00:45:25.000 China can 0.98

00:45:25.500 have Africa.

00:45:27.760 Why did

00:45:28.460 CBS News

00:45:29.280 use footage

00:45:30.120 from an

00:45:30.540 Italian

00:45:30.920 hospital

00:45:31.540 when

00:45:32.420 describing

00:45:32.860 conditions

00:45:33.480 in New

00:45:33.800 York?

00:45:34.400 Well, I

00:45:34.800 don't think

00:45:35.220 that you

00:45:35.560 can bring

00:45:36.060 cameras in

00:45:36.820 to an

00:45:38.300 American

00:45:38.700 emergency

00:45:39.260 room because

00:45:39.980 of privacy.

00:45:41.600 So I'm

00:45:42.640 sure it's

00:45:43.020 just some

00:45:43.380 producer said

00:45:44.120 we need a

00:45:44.780 picture of

00:45:45.960 an operating

00:45:46.400 room, and

00:45:47.200 they had

00:45:48.440 one.

00:45:49.100 That's

00:45:49.320 probably all

00:45:49.760 it was.

00:45:53.860 Oil is

00:45:54.560 up 35%.

00:45:55.740 News of

00:45:56.420 the day.

00:45:58.000 Well, let's

00:45:58.580 see what the

00:45:58.980 stock market

00:45:59.520 looks like.

00:46:02.540 Stock market

00:46:03.400 looks smartly

00:46:05.780 up.

00:46:07.220 Smartly up,

00:46:08.060 at least in

00:46:08.560 a lot of

00:46:08.860 categories.

00:46:10.180 More up

00:46:10.860 than down.

00:46:13.280 Not bad.

00:46:14.560 All right?

00:46:14.960 So that's

00:46:15.300 good news.

00:46:16.100 You know, if

00:46:16.540 you have to

00:46:16.940 make a bet

00:46:17.700 on the

00:46:18.660 stock market

00:46:19.320 price, let

00:46:22.140 me give you

00:46:22.780 a rule that

00:46:24.440 will work

00:46:25.120 75% of

00:46:26.540 the time,

00:46:28.360 that whatever

00:46:28.960 the market

00:46:30.580 did yesterday,

00:46:31.460 it'll do the

00:46:31.920 other thing

00:46:32.420 the next

00:46:33.160 day.

00:46:34.060 So today

00:46:34.840 looks like

00:46:35.560 it's going

00:46:35.860 to be a

00:46:36.120 big up

00:46:36.520 day.

00:46:36.980 If it

00:46:37.540 ends the

00:46:37.940 day up,

00:46:39.260 you know,

00:46:39.620 3% to

00:46:40.100 5%, which

00:46:41.020 would be a

00:46:41.380 big day,

00:46:42.220 the odds

00:46:43.280 of tomorrow

00:46:43.880 also being

00:46:44.820 up, much

00:46:46.900 smaller.

00:46:47.280 So I'd

00:46:50.240 say there's

00:46:50.600 a 75%

00:46:51.620 chance in

00:46:52.500 our current

00:46:52.920 environment

00:46:53.360 that the

00:46:54.460 next day

00:46:54.980 will be

00:46:55.380 whatever is

00:46:55.860 the opposite

00:46:56.340 of today.

00:46:57.360 So if it

00:46:57.960 were bad,

00:46:58.420 it's going

00:46:58.640 to be good.

00:46:59.040 If it's

00:46:59.260 good, it's

00:46:59.620 going to

00:46:59.780 be bad.

00:47:00.960 But it's

00:47:01.580 not going

00:47:01.860 to happen

00:47:02.100 every time.

00:47:02.680 It's at least

00:47:02.920 75% of the

00:47:03.880 time.

00:47:04.580 And that's

00:47:04.920 what allows

00:47:05.340 you to

00:47:05.920 creep up

00:47:06.700 over time,

00:47:07.520 that your

00:47:08.140 ups outnumber

00:47:09.320 your downs

00:47:09.820 over time.

00:47:11.660 However,

00:47:12.380 do not make

00:47:13.040 any bets

00:47:13.640 based on

00:47:14.580 cartoonists

00:47:15.440 speculating

00:47:16.300 about

00:47:16.760 magical

00:47:17.220 things.

00:47:18.260 So don't

00:47:18.940 take any

00:47:19.360 investment

00:47:20.180 advice from

00:47:20.780 me.

00:47:25.440 How is

00:47:26.320 chloroquine

00:47:27.240 supposed to

00:47:27.880 work?

00:47:28.740 Well, it

00:47:29.240 keeps your

00:47:29.640 body from

00:47:30.400 going into

00:47:31.080 that trying

00:47:32.700 too hard to

00:47:33.400 kill the

00:47:33.720 virus mode.

00:47:34.540 It's your

00:47:34.840 body that

00:47:35.260 actually kills

00:47:35.820 you, not

00:47:36.320 the virus.

00:47:37.300 It's your

00:47:37.680 body trying

00:47:38.160 to fight

00:47:38.540 the virus

00:47:39.060 that makes

00:47:40.260 your lungs

00:47:40.680 stop working.

00:47:42.480 Do you

00:47:42.680 think Biden

00:47:43.220 is sound

00:47:43.820 of mind?

00:47:44.500 No, not

00:47:44.900 even close.

00:47:45.600 I don't

00:47:48.100 think there

00:47:48.520 are any

00:47:48.840 Democrats

00:47:49.400 at this

00:47:50.000 point, at

00:47:51.060 least the

00:47:51.920 professionals.

00:47:53.420 I don't

00:47:53.880 think that

00:47:54.300 they think

00:47:54.760 that Biden

00:47:55.260 is capable.

00:47:56.940 people.

00:48:00.320 Yeah, the

00:48:00.920 virus could

00:48:01.760 come back

00:48:02.200 year after

00:48:02.880 year, but

00:48:03.300 we would

00:48:03.560 have some

00:48:03.900 immunity by

00:48:04.540 then, so

00:48:05.000 it wouldn't

00:48:05.220 be as

00:48:05.700 bad.

00:48:09.340 No price

00:48:10.100 increase until

00:48:10.820 Saudi's

00:48:11.440 lower production.

00:48:13.780 All right, I

00:48:14.460 don't know what

00:48:14.780 the situation

00:48:15.320 there is.

00:48:16.040 it's 35%

00:48:20.420 down, dear. 0.54

00:48:22.740 So somebody

00:48:23.240 is saying

00:48:23.520 that oil

00:48:23.920 is down

00:48:24.520 or is it

00:48:25.360 up?

00:48:26.320 I don't

00:48:26.680 know.

00:48:28.540 It'll be

00:48:28.940 whatever is

00:48:29.940 the difference

00:48:30.440 tomorrow.

00:48:31.420 So tomorrow

00:48:31.860 it'll be

00:48:32.220 whatever is

00:48:32.660 different than

00:48:33.100 that.

00:48:34.880 Is Cuomo

00:48:35.760 going to

00:48:36.280 replace Biden?

00:48:37.100 He says

00:48:37.520 no, and I

00:48:38.880 don't know

00:48:39.140 how he would

00:48:39.760 run for

00:48:40.700 president.

00:48:41.460 I think he's

00:48:41.960 pretty busy.

00:48:42.480 Yes, I'm

00:48:45.060 sticking with

00:48:45.640 my 5,000

00:48:47.180 net, keyword

00:48:49.180 net, so

00:48:50.520 when all of

00:48:50.960 you come back

00:48:51.440 later to

00:48:51.940 tell me I'm

00:48:52.400 wrong, you'll

00:48:53.740 forget the

00:48:54.300 net part.

00:48:55.580 So let me

00:48:56.300 say in

00:48:56.640 advance, you

00:48:57.800 stupid idiot, 1.00

00:49:00.080 you forgot

00:49:00.540 the net part.

00:49:01.860 So you're not

00:49:02.460 criticizing me,

00:49:03.280 you're criticizing

00:49:03.880 your own

00:49:04.260 hallucination.

00:49:04.940 I like to

00:49:05.320 tell you what

00:49:07.280 I'm going to

00:49:07.580 say weeks in

00:49:09.160 advance.

00:49:10.700 So the

00:49:11.480 5,000 net

00:49:12.700 makes this

00:49:13.900 assumption.

00:49:14.580 Because we're

00:49:15.060 shut down, there

00:49:16.500 are a whole

00:49:16.740 bunch of

00:49:17.160 lives that

00:49:17.680 are not

00:49:18.020 being lost,

00:49:19.140 traffic accidents,

00:49:20.600 etc.

00:49:21.560 And you have

00:49:22.220 to net that

00:49:22.700 out, because

00:49:23.460 the decision

00:49:24.200 to close the

00:49:24.860 economy is

00:49:26.500 the decision

00:49:27.080 about how to

00:49:27.660 treat the

00:49:28.020 virus.

00:49:28.760 So it's all

00:49:29.280 part of the

00:49:29.700 same decision.

00:49:30.600 You can't

00:49:31.000 say this

00:49:31.940 many people

00:49:32.460 died in the

00:49:33.060 hospital, and

00:49:34.280 then ignore

00:49:34.780 the fact that

00:49:36.040 twice as many

00:49:36.720 people are

00:49:37.260 alive who

00:49:38.300 would have

00:49:38.640 been dead

00:49:39.200 under other

00:49:39.700 conditions.

00:49:40.180 So at

00:49:41.360 the moment

00:49:41.680 we're still

00:49:42.060 negative.

00:49:43.300 My understanding

00:49:44.200 is that the

00:49:44.880 number of

00:49:45.260 people who

00:49:45.640 have been

00:49:45.880 saved by

00:49:47.340 not having

00:49:47.880 a normal

00:49:48.280 economy is

00:49:49.620 still quite a

00:49:50.440 bit bigger

00:49:50.880 than the

00:49:51.360 total number

00:49:51.900 who are

00:49:52.140 dead.

00:49:52.680 Now I do

00:49:53.220 expect that

00:49:53.740 to reverse,

00:49:54.840 so it's not

00:49:55.960 going to stay

00:49:56.360 that way,

00:49:57.140 you know,

00:49:57.900 and the

00:49:59.500 economy itself

00:50:00.420 will cause

00:50:00.920 some problems

00:50:01.540 with poverty

00:50:02.940 too, and

00:50:03.400 that's hard

00:50:03.980 to net

00:50:06.160 that out of

00:50:06.680 there.

00:50:06.840 why am I

00:50:09.040 away from

00:50:09.540 Christina?

00:50:10.940 Somebody says.

00:50:12.040 Well, here's

00:50:12.760 the situation.

00:50:13.500 So she has

00:50:14.660 her own

00:50:14.960 house, and

00:50:16.040 she took

00:50:17.620 in a

00:50:18.000 family member.

00:50:20.180 You know,

00:50:20.440 it's emergency

00:50:20.900 time, so people

00:50:21.840 are doing what

00:50:22.280 they have to

00:50:22.580 do, and

00:50:23.580 one of her

00:50:24.080 family members

00:50:24.780 works at a

00:50:25.280 hospital.

00:50:27.120 So in

00:50:28.240 Christina's

00:50:29.200 house, you

00:50:30.160 know, it's

00:50:31.820 only young

00:50:32.800 people, and

00:50:34.640 one of

00:50:36.640 them has

00:50:37.640 a critical

00:50:38.200 job at

00:50:38.700 a hospital.

00:50:39.840 So I

00:50:40.740 can't be in

00:50:41.260 a house

00:50:41.700 where there's

00:50:42.400 somebody going

00:50:42.900 to a

00:50:43.220 hospital and

00:50:43.740 coming home.

00:50:44.900 So I'm

00:50:45.360 in my big

00:50:46.380 old house

00:50:46.800 alone with

00:50:47.520 no human

00:50:47.940 contact.

00:50:53.660 What about

00:50:54.500 the three

00:50:55.400 candidates

00:50:56.020 catching

00:50:56.760 coronavirus?

00:50:57.740 Well, it's

00:50:58.080 possible.

00:50:59.160 You know, I

00:50:59.840 said that a

00:51:00.580 question that

00:51:01.140 should be

00:51:01.520 asked of

00:51:02.940 the task

00:51:03.500 force is,

00:51:04.420 are they

00:51:04.680 already

00:51:05.200 taking

00:51:05.760 hydroxychloroquine?

00:51:07.560 And I'm

00:51:08.120 really surprised

00:51:08.980 that didn't

00:51:09.420 get asked

00:51:09.920 yesterday,

00:51:10.920 because it's

00:51:11.860 such an

00:51:14.120 obvious question,

00:51:15.900 isn't it?

00:51:16.900 Isn't it like

00:51:17.860 just a super

00:51:18.820 obvious question?

00:51:20.620 Mr. President,

00:51:21.820 Mr. Vice

00:51:22.320 President, are

00:51:23.060 you taking

00:51:23.780 hydroxychloroquine

00:51:26.400 for preventive

00:51:28.020 reasons?

00:51:29.360 Because wouldn't

00:51:30.180 you be surprised

00:51:31.080 if they're not?

00:51:31.840 I would be a

00:51:33.840 little worried

00:51:34.360 if they're

00:51:34.720 not, right?

00:51:36.120 Because the

00:51:36.760 task force

00:51:37.320 people just

00:51:37.900 don't have the

00:51:38.760 same flexibility

00:51:39.820 that we do.

00:51:40.800 I mean, even

00:51:41.520 when they're

00:51:41.840 standing on the

00:51:42.400 stage, they're

00:51:43.000 closer than six

00:51:43.740 feet away from

00:51:44.240 each other.

00:51:45.460 So I feel

00:51:46.900 like that's just

00:51:47.520 a given.

00:51:48.120 They should be

00:51:48.520 on it, and

00:51:49.020 they should

00:51:49.300 tell us.

00:51:50.120 I think that

00:51:50.680 we're owed

00:51:51.040 that.

00:51:51.760 I think we're

00:51:52.420 owed that

00:51:52.920 information.

00:51:56.980 Yeah, somebody

00:51:57.920 said, what

00:51:59.480 about obesity?

00:52:00.980 obesity.

00:52:01.900 So there's

00:52:02.600 some indication,

00:52:03.740 at least in

00:52:04.140 Italy, that

00:52:04.880 something like,

00:52:06.400 or maybe other

00:52:07.300 countries do,

00:52:08.240 something like

00:52:08.840 80 to 90% of

00:52:10.020 the people dying

00:52:10.820 are obese, or

00:52:13.980 at least they're

00:52:14.540 overweight quite a

00:52:15.880 bit.

00:52:16.920 So does that

00:52:19.060 then tell me

00:52:20.000 that I don't

00:52:20.540 have as much

00:52:21.440 of a risk if

00:52:22.500 I'm a normal

00:52:23.160 average weight?

00:52:25.100 I don't know.

00:52:26.040 It feels like it,

00:52:27.100 but I also have

00:52:27.660 a little asthma.

00:52:28.200 Now, having a

00:52:30.460 little asthma,

00:52:31.640 which is well

00:52:32.960 controlled, does

00:52:34.920 that put me at

00:52:35.560 the same risk as

00:52:36.900 somebody who has

00:52:37.520 COPD?

00:52:39.020 Because they lump

00:52:40.160 them together.

00:52:41.240 You know, if you

00:52:41.700 have lung disease,

00:52:43.620 it's like a big

00:52:44.180 category.

00:52:45.340 But if you have

00:52:46.060 COPD and you're

00:52:47.340 80, you're pretty

00:52:49.460 close to death

00:52:50.140 anyway.

00:52:51.020 So I can see how

00:52:52.020 the virus would

00:52:53.260 finish you off.

00:52:54.040 But if you're

00:52:55.120 in good shape,

00:52:56.540 normal weight,

00:52:57.960 everything's fine,

00:52:58.660 but you've got a

00:52:59.460 little bit of

00:53:00.220 asthma that's

00:53:00.980 well controlled,

00:53:03.440 am I in the

00:53:04.760 death group?

00:53:06.020 I'm going to

00:53:06.660 act like I am

00:53:07.580 because I don't

00:53:08.080 want to take the

00:53:08.700 chance, but I

00:53:10.040 kind of doubt

00:53:10.740 that my risk is

00:53:12.880 just like an

00:53:14.560 80-year-old with

00:53:15.360 COPD.

00:53:16.880 Anyway, let's

00:53:22.120 see.

00:53:22.460 help name the

00:53:24.500 Fortune 500 ETF.

00:53:26.600 Well, there are

00:53:27.000 ETFs and there

00:53:28.040 are SPYDERS. 1.00

00:53:29.300 There's a technical

00:53:30.440 difference, but they

00:53:31.300 act the same.

00:53:32.480 So the one I use

00:53:33.500 is SPY, S-P-Y. 1.00

00:53:36.340 So if you look

00:53:37.560 for that in your

00:53:38.560 online brokerage,

00:53:40.600 S-P-Y, it'll 1.00

00:53:43.040 pop up and it's

00:53:43.980 a basket of the

00:53:45.340 top 500 stocks

00:53:46.800 in the United

00:53:47.320 States.

00:53:48.220 I'm not

00:53:48.820 recommending it.

00:53:50.400 I only recommend

00:53:51.440 diversification.

00:53:53.700 That basket of

00:53:55.400 stocks does give

00:53:56.500 you diversification,

00:53:57.960 but I don't

00:53:58.760 recommend it.

00:54:00.420 Find your own

00:54:01.340 way to make it

00:54:02.760 work, but

00:54:03.180 diversifying is

00:54:03.880 good.

00:54:04.060 I tell you, Chris

00:54:09.420 Cuomo is just

00:54:11.460 getting more

00:54:11.940 interesting all the

00:54:12.820 time, unfortunately

00:54:13.760 not for happy

00:54:15.220 reasons, but I

00:54:17.180 don't know if you

00:54:17.540 saw he was

00:54:18.020 talking about

00:54:18.660 his fevers and

00:54:22.180 hallucinations, and

00:54:24.100 I don't know how

00:54:26.780 many of you are

00:54:27.340 doing this, but I

00:54:29.620 spend part of

00:54:30.680 every day going

00:54:32.700 through my memory

00:54:33.560 of how sick I

00:54:35.260 was in January

00:54:36.100 and trying to

00:54:37.560 convince myself

00:54:38.440 that I already

00:54:39.080 had it.

00:54:40.620 And that, you

00:54:40.940 know, because I

00:54:42.360 my January was

00:54:44.460 the sickest I've

00:54:45.640 been as an

00:54:46.560 adult.

00:54:47.940 Maybe.

00:54:48.980 I mean, you

00:54:49.640 witnessed some

00:54:50.780 of it.

00:54:51.080 I thought I

00:54:51.460 just had, I

00:54:52.660 thought I had

00:54:53.080 nasal problems

00:54:53.980 and fever and

00:54:55.200 night sweats and

00:54:57.460 everything, and I

00:54:57.920 thought it was the

00:54:58.360 meds, because I

00:54:59.640 was on meds for

00:55:00.340 some sinus

00:55:01.340 stuff, and maybe

00:55:03.580 it wasn't, because

00:55:06.500 I felt a little

00:55:07.320 sicker than I've

00:55:08.000 ever felt in my

00:55:08.600 life, but I

00:55:09.180 thought it was

00:55:09.560 just a bad

00:55:10.020 reaction to some

00:55:10.840 meds.

00:55:12.040 But maybe I

00:55:12.640 had it.

00:55:13.780 Who knew?

00:55:14.160 All right.

00:55:20.280 Asthma is part 0.99

00:55:21.220 of the COPD

00:55:22.040 Venn diagram, I

00:55:23.320 know, but I

00:55:24.560 just don't know

00:55:25.180 that COPD and

00:55:27.520 asthma are going 0.98

00:55:28.320 to respond the

00:55:29.040 same to this

00:55:29.740 virus.

00:55:30.800 It might.

00:55:31.680 Who knows?

00:55:32.480 Anyway, that's

00:55:33.320 all for now, and

00:55:34.680 I will talk to

00:55:35.240 you later tonight,

00:55:37.400 you know what

00:55:37.860 time, 10 p.m.

00:55:39.740 Eastern, 7 p.m.

00:55:41.560 Pacific, and I'll 0.50

00:55:42.800 talk to you then.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 02, 2020

Episode 887 Scott Adams： Grab Your Beverage and Get in Here!

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