Episode 923 Scott Adams： #Coronavirus, The Simulation and Next Level Human Awareness
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In this episode of the podcast, I discuss the current events in the world, and some of the things that have been going on around the world in the past 24 hours. I also talk about the current state of China, and how we should treat people in general.
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it's probably what you're waiting for if you would like to participate it
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doesn't take much all you need is singing along with me you know the
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imagine you can say it in your head a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker
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fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day the thing that makes
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everything including the pandemic better get your herd immunity on and join
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immunity coming online i feel as though i could fight off any old virus
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be it bioengineered in a chinese weapons lab or be it coming from a dead bat
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on the street market either one of those no problem well let's talk about
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everything that's happened in the last 11 hours since the last time i talked to
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you it appears that chinese china's reputation in the world continues to get
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worse i guess germany is going after him hard in terms of the media so there's some
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stories about how hard the german media is going after china and the u.s media
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seems to be at least the media from the right seems to be on board anti-china
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i'm not sure if the left is fully on board i think nancy pelosi is still siding with china
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you know independent of politics there are some things you can say about politics that
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are just objectively true and i think this is objectively true
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nancy pelosi is not really on our side anymore is she
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and i don't mean you know our side pro-trump anti-trump like that
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i mean i'm not sure she's on america's side anymore
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and it's got it's got that far normally i'm not the person who says oh don't call
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them a traitor they're just have different political beliefs and stuff
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but my opinion of pelosi is that her actions are entirely based on
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trump personally right it feels like everything that she does
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has to do with trump personally it doesn't have to do with the voters doesn't
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have to do with the country doesn't have to do with
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congress or the government it's just personal and if she can't get out of
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that mode well we don't need her in any position
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in our country so i would say you know and i'm not saying just because she's
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you know important democrat or anything she seems to be absolutely completely
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worthless we know beyond worthless worthless would just be she's not
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helping pelosi seems actively working against the
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interests of the united states because she's got something bug in her
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so i'll just say she acts as though if you're just looking at her actions
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she acts as though it's just some kind of personal thing
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all right that's enough of that um in every single day that i open up the
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news it looks like it looks like there's just more hatred for
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china it's just growing and growing and growing
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this is a persuasion trick people become whatever you
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uh so here's an example if if you meet somebody new for the first time
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and you simply act like you're their best friend
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how do they act well they just sort of automatically
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act friendlier you know they might not act like your best friend but if you act
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friendly to people they act friendly back it's just automatic
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we we mirror people automatically if you treat somebody like an enemy
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how will they act well if you treat them like an enemy they're going to act like
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an enemy so to a large extent it's not a hundred percent
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you know effective but to a large extent you can cause other people to
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you can actually treat somebody like a friend until they become a friend
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now china was kind of a special case because apparently at least culturally we're told
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uh the chinese culture has some kind of dominant conquering
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we must take over the world kind of a vibe to it which honestly i would say is unconfirmed
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yeah my cat's just going crazy over there now i have to move all the things on my
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desktop because she's knocking them on the ground
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um so here's the thing if we just tell china china you have done all these bad things you stole our
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stuff and you you lied about the coronavirus and you're locking uyghurs in concentration camp and
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you're using uh full-on goon people for you know forced uh uh transplants um if you're doing all
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that so we're going to treat you like an enemy how would china respond well i think they'd respond
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like an enemy we've we've tried to treat them like a friend and i think we'd all agree it didn't
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work right it feels like it was worth a try i wouldn't i don't think i would have any bad
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feeling about anybody who wanted to get closer to china in the past because it kind of was worth
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a try but now we tried right so the the trying is over we tried it clearly didn't work being friends
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with them just isn't a model that can work for us now we don't have to be their enemy that would be
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the worst thing we could do the worst thing we could do is just say all right you're our enemy
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now so we're just going to treat you like an enemy wouldn't do that i would go a different way
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and i would depersonalize it and i think the president's instincts would be similar because
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he's he's big on being respectful to the leadership for practical purposes and you know the the idiot
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opposition acts as though trump can't tell the difference between president she oh man did i
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want to swear just then whoa every once in a while the the curse words just well up into my throat
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and i have to like eat them to choke them back but i was going to say some unkind things about
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president she so i'll say them in less cursy tones president trump apparently is smarter than
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all of his critics on the left unless they're just pretending because quite obviously and he's not
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trying to hide it even in the least when he talks about president she being awesome and powerful and
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a good friend of his that's not personal he's not actually talking about his good friend president
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she if you believe that you're an idiot no the president is treating the leader of the biggest
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country in the world at least in population with respect because that's functionally the best thing to
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do it's obvious it's just for effect now does he like him personally maybe i don't know i mean they
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spent some time together he might like him personally but believe me whatever president trump says about
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president she in public to the united states is for effect it's not what he actually thinks
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how dumb would you have to be to think that the president this is the only time he's telling you
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exactly what he really thinks no he's the president he's treating other leaders with respect he tells you
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that directly he says it directly of course i'm treating the leaders with respect and then he goes hard at
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them with tariffs and other complaints so um so i think the president's on the same page which you
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don't need to treat them like an enemy at but at the same time you could be clear eyed about what the
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risk is so here's how i would go i said this before but i'm going to say it better rather than treating china
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as an enemy we should treat it as an incompatible system we should just say you know we we've got this
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electronic thing we want to plug into the wall socket but we need voltage of 110 you've got 220
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well it's not our it's not our opinion that that's good or bad we're not criticizing you you're not our
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enemy i'm just saying i have a toaster it requires 110 but your system is 220. we tried plugging in and it
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blew up my toaster and then we tried plugging in the you know the the hair dryer and hair dryer blew up too
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so then we tried plugging in our electric car and my tesla blew up and then i tried you know plugging
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in my phone and my phone blew up how many things do we have to blow up before we find out that you
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can't plug a 110 device into a 220 outlet so we so he says get an adapter stop it you engineers stop ruining
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my analogy with your clever clever engineering solutions my point is we should just say while
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you have a system that doesn't have transparency you can't connect to a system that does now do we
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have all the transparency in the world no you know even the united states could have far better transparency
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but it's pretty good wouldn't you say i mean we are pretty close to transparent i mean we even have
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we even have transparency on things that didn't happen we have so much transparency we know the
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things that did happen behind closed doors plus people are writing entire books about things that
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didn't even happen we have whatever is more than transparency we have people actually making stuff up
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and they still don't go to jail imagine that in china imagine china somebody writes a book and you
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just make up a bunch of stuff that happened behind closed doors that the president said oh yeah then
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president xi said you know let's uh let's kill all the uyghurs or whatever and imagine that how long that
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would last in china so not only does the united states have transparency but we have whatever's past that
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where people can just make stuff up and they still don't go to jail it's kind of amazing actually
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so i think you could boil it down to that you can't plug a transparent system into a
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non-transparent system and get good get a good result for the transparent one the non-transparent one
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will do just fine right remember you plug your toaster into the 220 the toaster blows up
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i don't know if this is true because i'm not an electrician but imagine if i were an electrician
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and i knew what i was talking about right now wouldn't this be a cool story so just imagine this
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is true you plug your 110 uh i have no idea if this happens you plug your 110 uh you couldn't do it
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because the plugs would be different but imagine you did you plug it in your toaster blows up but the 220
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outlet is fine the outlet is fine it's only the toaster that got injured so as long as we're a
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transparent system we're vulnerable to plug into a non-transparent system and i think we should just
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keep it simple say it's not about communism we don't care do we care do you really care if the if
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the chinese government is communist no you only care how it affects you how it affects the world we don't
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really care how other countries govern themselves i mean we'd like them not to be murdering their
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citizens right but it is kind of up to them i mean you know there's not much we can do about it so
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that's how i do it i would depersonalize it and say you can't plug a transparent system into a
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non-transparent system and if you do only one of them can win only the non-transparent can win
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because they can take from the transparent side but they give nothing they don't even tell you if they
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have a pandemic coming um so that's that that's how i would decouple i would decouple entirely based
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on transparency because it can't be argued there's no argument about it and you don't have to argue
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whether a uh a communist system is better than a democratic system right because transparency isn't
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really technically built into the communist system if you said china can you describe the communist
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system would there be anything on their list that describes their government in their own opinion
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that said oh yeah and we don't do transparency because communists don't do transparency that's
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not actually part of the system so you can actually ignore communism in your ignore the entire system
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of government and say we don't really care what kind of system you have we care about transparency
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and if you don't have that it doesn't matter what else you're doing we don't care if you got a king
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a dictator communist system we don't care if you're democratic you could be democrats if you have no
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transparency i guess it doesn't work if you're democratic but if you have no transparency to us
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doesn't work all right so china's going down there's no two ways about it let me say this is as clearly
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as i can in five years china is going to be a bad place it's going to be a bad place because it's
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it's going to be doing nothing but going downhill and i think that's guaranteed at this point
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the u.s however in five years is going to be really really good shape i'll tell you where you want to
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be the united states in five years why do you want to be in the united states in five years because it's
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going to be an amazing place this year a little a little problematic all right um so last night on was
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it uh uh live in show i think it was uh dr david cats the founding director of the yale griffin
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prevention research center in connecticut he says what i've been saying so apparently i'm a qualified
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virologist now because what i've been saying for months is now being said by an actual doctor
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now it's not like other doctors haven't said this before but he's the clearest one
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it goes like this he says if you um i want to get his exact words uh oh i didn't write down his exact
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words the basic thing is he's saying that unless you have vaccines which we don't have or you have
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herd immunity herd immunity which we don't have unless you have one of those two things there's
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no such thing as getting back to normal and he suggests that the longer we're in isolation and
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avoiding the virus we're just pushing the problem into the future now i suppose you could push it into
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the future like theoretically until the vaccines here but we know that won't work because it's just
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too long and if we if we we can't close the economy for a year or 18 months i think everybody agrees
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agrees that's too long so we can't wait for a vaccine so let's take one of the two possibilities off the
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table all right if vaccine doesn't help us soon enough what is the only other thing that could work
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according to a doctor who is an expert on prevention i assume it's this kind of prevention and uh actually
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i don't know what kind of prevention he's a doctor of so let's let me not assume i know his credentials
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but he got on tv he's a doctor who got on tv that's worth something um
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and uh so he's basically saying we should go ahead and get the herd immunity well he doesn't say
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say this directly is that i'll just say it directly so i've said that we should rethink what our goal is
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the goal should not be to avoid it the goal should be to get it in the most uh careful way
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so in other words um if we're not already letting out the people who are unlikely to die from it so that
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they can get some immunity we can't really ever get there there's no way to get from here to there
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right so i'm very much on that team which is to say um i think we're on the right path really because
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as we carefully reopen the government the infections should spread i think the only gaining factor should
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be the icus and uh unfortunately the only thing that should slow us down
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is the hospital resources and i think we're in much much better shape on hospital resources than we
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thought we would be so that seems to be the only path and you know what's interesting about it is
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that the public with all their protests and going to the beach and huddling and stuff
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it seems to me um yeah actually no people didn't talk about convalescent blood serum he should have
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said that that was the third option right because wouldn't convalescent blood serum also get you to
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something like herd immunity if you did enough of it so um i think we should change our uh strategy i think
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our strategy should get should be explicitly to get to herd immunity but to do it with the least
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possible death so there's probably some strategy for doing that that involves infecting the young
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keeping the old away for at least a month and then then hoping you've got immunity maybe you can test for
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antibodies in a few months anyway i would like to see our goal explicitly changed to careful herd immunity
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and or vaccinations because right now just hiding i feel like isn't getting as closer to the end
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point as this doctor says is just pushing off the end point and i and if you push off the end point
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you're also pushing off the point that your that your economy can recover it certainly makes point
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makes sense to push off your your end point if the only thing you're worried about is dying
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because it keeps your hospital resources as open as possible but if the economy is a variable too
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i think you want to do it sooner i think you want to get the economy going get the infections going
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you know the x number of people are going to die no matter what you do it's a it's an adult decision
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and um and by the way i've heard a number of other people use
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the phrase adult decision it's a really good one yeah in terms of persuasion if you get in an
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argument with some idiot who's just being political and acting as though there's a choice where nobody
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dies that's the child view i'll take the child view please where the economy is good and nobody gets
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the virus i'll have that one please and you say well we don't have that choice
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you know you gotta make tough choices somebody's gonna die because the economy went bad different
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people other people will die if you do the other plan where it's the virus goes everywhere so you
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just sort of have to pick and i'll say it again if if there's nobody in the country who wants to make
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the choice i'll do it and not my job obviously nor do i think i'm especially qualified but if you need
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an adult to make an adult decision and you don't want to make it yourself i'll do it i won't like
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it i mean it would you know mess me up for the rest of my life wouldn't it i mean if you made a decision
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that you knew killed people you'd never really be the same i don't think i don't think i would be the
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same but if it's the only way to get from here to there the country requires somebody to make a decision
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and it's going to have some kind of a you know a psychic load on that person for the rest of their life
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well i'm pretty i'm pretty hardened against that thing i'm pretty mentally tough i'll do it if
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you need an adult to tell you which way to go and people are going to die i'll do it if we don't
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have any other adults who will do it i'll do it all right um that we won't come to that i'm just saying
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that we should just stop talking with children about the impossible ways let's get a flying unicorn
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and then the economy will be good and nobody will have the virus okay children you're done now
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speaking of children uh so-called comedian patten oswalt i hate i hate patten oswalt by the way
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i just hate him personally now he's come after me personally on uh on twitter he's just a horrible
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little troll of a man and uh and he's yeah i think he went after a greg got felt this week and
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uh so now people are going after him so here's what he said uh and of course i'm not i'm not the guy who
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thinks you should get in trouble for jokes right so i'm not gonna say somebody should lose their job
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or something because they made a stupid joke especially if you're a comedian i mean i just said
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patten oswalt is a horrible human being as far as i can tell he's just a terrible person
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based on his public public persona i don't know him personally um and
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so here's what he said but even so he's even though he's a terrible person i don't think anybody
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should lose their job for a bad joke but here's what he said and on twitter he said and frank spent
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two years hiding in an attic so you know already he's on shaky ground if the first two words in
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your tweet are and frank it almost doesn't matter what comes out in the rest of the tweet you're
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gonna get some attention you start with and frank that's that's starting strong all right uh so he
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says and frank spent two years hiding in an attic and and we've been home for just over a month with
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netflix food delivery and video games and there are people risking viral death by storming state
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capitol buildings and screaming open fudruckers he tweeted um now on a on a comedy level not bad
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not bad i mean patten oswald is a famous comedian because he's good at comedy you can't take that away
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from um and i also in terms of judging artists in general since i'm usually on the the receiving end
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of the judgment i always like to say that if there are if an audience is paying for your work
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it's not bad so anybody who says that a comedian is not funny at the same time that a comedian fills
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entire stadiums of people buying a ticket and they know why they're there and they're happy when they
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leave that's not a bad artist that's somebody who filled the room with people who wanted to pay for
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it so patten oswald he fills rooms with people who want to pay for his content so he's good he's good
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at what he does i can still hate him for just being a horrible person though so his tweet is funny but of
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course uh he's he was blamed of being a little uh tone deaf not reading the room because it this does not
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describe everybody in the country watching netflix with their food delivery and video games you do
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know there are people who can't afford food delivery they're called most of the people in the united
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states probably the majority wouldn't you say i i would guess over half of the country
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wouldn't do take out even if they wanted it because it would cost a few bucks extra
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i think at least half the country doesn't do take out orders or delivery even if it's not a
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coronavirus it's got to be half more 75 it might be 75 of the country has never done
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delivery of groceries because they can't afford it wouldn't you say maybe 75 i'm just guessing
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it's at least 50 percent have never had food delivered to their house because you wouldn't
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pay extra for it yeah somebody's saying three quarters i think it might be 75 it could be higher
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it could be 80 of the i don't know wouldn't be surprised so patten definitely wasn't reading the
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the tone of the country there here's a horrible story that i'm only going to tell you
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because of the way i feel about it i want to see if you've gotten to this point too
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um this is a terrible story you're not going to like me more after i say this so let me just warn
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you i'm going to reveal a little bit too much about my inner thoughts and i really shouldn't do this but
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i feel like it anyway it's like you ever do something that you know you shouldn't do and you
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know you're going to do it anyway and even when you know you shouldn't do it you say i know i shouldn't
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do this now watch me do it i don't know why i'm doing this because i just said i know i shouldn't
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do this well i'm going to do this right now there's a california mayor um um who got in trouble for
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doing some public presentation where he showed a ku klux klan photo and compared it to trump supporters
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so so this is a mayor of auburn california and he had just recently on social media posted a meme
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comparing trump supporters to the kkk well he died in a small plane crash yesterday and i thought to
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myself i don't have empathy i have i have lots of empathy for his family right so to his family of
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course of course 100 empathy nothing else would be even human but i honestly this is the part i
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don't want to admit in public but i'm going to do it anyway if somebody who is an elected official
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has put me into a category because i'm a trump supporter not a conservative not a republican but
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definitely a trump supporter he puts me in the category with the kkk in public and that he dies
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i don't fucking care sorry didn't mean to swear i actually don't care i do care about his family
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i mean genuinely you don't want anybody to die if they've had loved ones etc and that part is a tragedy
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but let me say it as clearly as i can if you're an elected official and you've compared some part of the
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american public who just want you know freedom and a constitution and people follow the laws and
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don't raise my taxes too much if you're calling them the kkk in public and you're an elected official
00:28:56.680
and yeah maybe sure he was joking right sure he was joking not really i mean he was joking in the sense
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he didn't literally mean the kkk but he meant to compare them and i gotta say i don't have any empathy
00:29:11.080
for him he died in a terrible accident and i actually just don't care i think he deserved it
00:29:19.720
it deserves a tough word nobody should ever say anybody deserves that so i'll take back deserved
00:29:26.200
i will say that he um he abdicated his right to empathy let's say that nobody deserves it so nobody
00:29:36.280
deserves it i want to be as clear as i can nobody deserves to die in a bad accident but you could
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certainly abdicate your right to empathy and i think he did that's all i'm saying um
00:29:54.760
i like so there's a former nasa scientist who is on fox news piece who is talking about this thing
00:30:02.680
called uh far uv light and his take on it was really really good and i don't know i've said
00:30:11.400
before that uh engineers are going to save the world just over and over again scientists but also
00:30:18.760
engineers and this is this is a good example so the scientists and this guy's a scientist former nasa
00:30:24.760
scientist was saying that the special kind of uv light it's not the normal kind it's a special range
00:30:30.840
far uv whatever that is we know that it kills the virus and we've known that for a while in fact
00:30:36.200
there are industrial devices with this light that actually do that right now they work in hospitals
00:30:42.040
they they kill the virus and what the uh scientist was saying was essentially an engineering solution
00:30:49.720
so it's one thing to invent things but they have to actually be spread into the public and
00:30:55.400
implement it and that's where the engineers come in and so the scientist was saying that instead of
00:31:01.320
using these devices to uh let's say decontaminate something you know is to get you know is contaminated
00:31:09.640
which is the normal way your brain works so your brain says oh wait there's this light
00:31:15.720
and you know it kills the virus so we'll use this in all the places that there's a virus like if
00:31:20.680
i have a mask i wanted to camp decontaminate it maybe i'd put that in there you know if i had
00:31:27.240
something specific that was contaminated i'd put that light there and then the but then the scientist
00:31:33.640
gives this twist on it and it completely changes what i thought of this idea and he put an engineering
00:31:40.680
spin on it and he said you don't want to use it to kill the virus where you know there's a virus
00:31:47.000
you just want to put them everywhere because apparently you could even put one in the you
00:31:51.160
know attach one to the dashboard of your car or you know up to the hang one from the uh the rear view
00:31:56.600
light it would just be a little unit and all day long you know or at least when you turned it on it
00:32:03.400
would just shoot some uv light into the environment it would be killing the virus if it were in your car
00:32:09.000
so without even knowing if your car would ever be infected you put this little device there
00:32:13.480
during the day periodically it just shoots out some far uv lights and if anybody had some and if
00:32:20.920
they touched your car on the inside it would kill it now he's saying you could put it in you know
00:32:26.200
doorways you could build a doorway so that if you walk through it the uv light would kill some stuff
00:32:32.760
that was on your body maybe you could put you could build it into the ceiling lights and they actually
00:32:37.800
showed a prototype it was actually a ceiling light that during the day just shoots uv light out in
00:32:43.800
addition to the regular room light so if the regular room light is on somebody says i already did this
00:32:50.440
interesting so if the regular room light is on you can't even see the uv light so it could just be on
00:32:55.640
during the day killing viruses in your environment and you never know and to me that seems like a really
00:33:03.480
scalable solution it doesn't look like it's necessarily too scalable in the next 12 months
00:33:10.520
but if we're talking about the future of humanity and and i think that's what the nasa scientist is
00:33:15.960
talking about because we've got pandemic after pandemic after pandemic right now to the extent that
00:33:21.000
they're all viruses they probably are all susceptible to the same kind of treatment yeah airplanes airplanes
00:33:27.560
would be the obvious one where you do want to put this so you could easily imagine and um let me ask
00:33:33.640
you a question how much do you think it costs if you were to make a consumer product that was handheld
00:33:40.760
or you know ceiling mounted or maybe it's just a light bulb i mean it could be just a light bulb right
00:33:46.680
but what would it cost per room or per car i suppose what would it cost if you got your production down
00:33:54.760
per unit and i'm thinking i'll bet you could get one of those devices below 20 pretty quickly
00:34:01.720
for let's say a small space like a bedroom or something bathroom maybe um i'll bet you could get
00:34:07.720
your whole house done for uh under a thousand dollars if you got the good stuff and maybe under 300
00:34:16.200
if if you went cheap maybe your car unit would be you know 50 bucks sits up there and you just change
00:34:22.920
the batteries now and then something like that somebody says 5g will kill them wouldn't that be
00:34:29.720
great imagine waking up tomorrow and finding out that we killed the coronavirus by just you know
00:34:35.880
cranking up all the 5g cell towers for a few minutes just turn them up for a few minutes we killed all
00:34:41.000
the virus i don't think that'll happen all right uh so that's one of the more uh hopeful things i've heard
00:34:49.080
because it does feel like even if we beat the coronavirus it's just going to be one virus
00:34:53.480
every x years killing our economy so it would be good to have some kind of permanent way to suppress it
00:35:03.720
let's talk about that skate park yeah cruise ships or another another great one somebody says they
00:35:12.360
have them on amazon is that right i don't know i'm not sure i would i don't think i would trust and
00:35:20.760
uh anything on amazon during the uh coronavirus because a lot there's a lot of uh scams
00:35:27.720
so let me just check somebody said it's oh let me talk i'm gonna talk about the systems in a minute
00:35:34.840
so that would be far uv light for uv let's see and the answer is oh yeah germicidal lamps so for 114
00:35:51.240
you could buy a pack of 60 watt light bulbs that are allegedly germicidal lamps but here's my warning
00:36:00.040
to you oh yeah there's a whole bunch of light bulbs i'll be darn sanitizing light bulbs um they all say
00:36:07.800
uv not far uv so here's what i would caution you uh oh there's one that you stick your hand into
00:36:19.720
interesting so yeah there's all kinds of products in that category but they don't use the word far
00:36:26.440
and here's the thing i would worry about it's very likely that there's a specific kind of uv the
00:36:32.680
far uv whatever that is i know that works better than other uv things um and so i'm thinking
00:36:41.240
that the regular uv might be a little bit useful and the far uv might be very useful so i would be
00:36:49.400
cautious anything you buy during the coronavirus because it's probably as many scams as there are
00:36:55.240
real products i don't know how you can tell somebody says they're made in china i'll bet they are
00:37:03.320
what would happen if you found out that the reason china got it under control was they're using far
00:37:07.560
uv in their light bulbs and they didn't tell us uh somebody says 5g could be the problem not the cure
00:37:15.000
yeah maybe uh somebody says you're an led expert electrical engineer well good there might have been more
00:37:23.240
to that yeah there's some youtubes on this people are sending me urls i see it's not a novel approach
00:37:30.360
it's been out there yeah that's what i said i said it's been out there forever it's a common approach
00:37:35.160
but what was different is how to engineer it into everything to me that was the breakthrough the
00:37:40.280
breakthrough is not that the uv light kills the virus uh the problem is that uh it's not in the
00:37:48.440
places it needs to and apparently it could be apparently it could be there's no difference
00:37:54.120
or it could be um worried about our own immune system you know what would be interesting i wonder
00:38:04.040
if you could test our immune systems before and after the coronavirus are you are you curious about
00:38:10.120
that because you know as i've told you many times i think many of you are doing the same thing
00:38:15.640
i am consciously working on my immune system so it almost every decision i make during the day
00:38:23.720
is directly or indirectly related to my immune system because at the moment it's my highest priority
00:38:29.240
because i figure eventually i'm going to get exposed to the virus sooner or later and i want to be in
00:38:34.200
good shape so for example are there are there so many people who are doing something similar
00:38:40.360
and it could be you know just work was more stressful than staying home for a lot of people
00:38:46.040
as long as you're still getting a paycheck staying home is probably a little less
00:38:50.520
tense than going to work for a lot of people maybe the reverse for some of us too anyway the question is
00:38:56.520
if you could measure our immune if there's a way to do that directly our immunity before and after
00:39:03.160
coronavirus shutdown would it be higher or lower i'm pretty sure mine would be higher
00:39:08.680
higher if assuming that i can actually boost my immunity by lifestyle and in the you know in a few
00:39:15.560
months and i think you can i don't you know i'd love to get an opinion if there's a medical doctor here
00:39:21.800
who knows this how much can you boost your immunity through lifestyle uh let's say in a month
00:39:28.920
you know can you make an appreciable difference in your overall body's immunity in a month or or is it
00:39:38.760
a case of the average person with good immunity has good days and bad days based on what they did that
00:39:45.240
day in other words if you didn't get any sleep that day is your immunity lower if you're more tense that
00:39:51.240
day if you uh i don't know if you if you over exercise and warrior yourself out so that's my
00:40:00.120
question and the reason i'm asking this is it's entirely possible i'll just throw this out as the
00:40:05.560
most ridiculous optimistic statement anybody ever said okay if the problem with this virus is that it
00:40:13.720
kills more well it seems to be extra deadly uh at least in quantity if not in ratio meaning
00:40:21.160
that it might not be killing such a high ratio of people who get it but there are lots of them
00:40:27.320
because it's it's a pretty viral thing so if there are lots of them and you know it's deadly what
00:40:34.920
would happen if our immunity went up 20 percent let's say if you couldn't measure such a thing and then we
00:40:41.240
were released back into the wild to get some herd immunity would would boosting your immunity by 20
00:40:47.640
percent make a huge difference in the mortality rate and in the way
00:40:53.560
um somebody says i was just looking at the comments because this is funny uh so is it steve says damn i was
00:41:01.640
waiting for a monday uh call and it's not monday welcome to the club no idea what day it is most of
00:41:08.760
the time no idea in fact it's worse for me you think it's bad for you you don't know what day it is
00:41:16.680
i don't know what time of the day it is because i i put my blackout curtains down when i do these
00:41:23.480
periscopes so when the curtains are down it could be any any time of day i don't know what it is outside
00:41:30.360
because i do the periscope at the same time of the day in the a.m as the p.m so my local time is 7 a.m
00:41:38.200
and then again at 7 p.m i have this weird experience like last night where you know i do my periscope i
00:41:45.560
was probably in bed by 9 30 ish and and then i wake up i slept a little late today and i'm just doing it
00:41:55.160
again so i've got this groundhog day thing where i do this periscope i go to sleep and then i do the
00:42:00.200
periscope and then i do some things and then i do a periscope and i have to tell you on several
00:42:06.120
occasions i couldn't remember if it was morning or night i actually couldn't tell i was sitting there
00:42:13.720
thinking i know i've got to do a periscope but is this the morning or is this the night and a few
00:42:23.720
times i've had to actually had to uh once i had to look outside just to tell to figure out if it was
00:42:29.720
morning or night so that's bad all right let's talk about this uh skate park this is one of those
00:42:37.960
stories people like to talk about because you understand it there's there's nothing to it you
00:42:41.960
don't understand so there's some skate park i think it was in southern california where they
00:42:47.160
filled it in with sand so that people wouldn't use it in violation of the uh of the ban on getting
00:42:53.720
together and a lot of people said that's outrageous it's outrageous except probably not i don't think
00:43:01.320
it was outrageous if you wanted to keep people from using it and you didn't want to put a staff
00:43:07.240
there 100 of the time and the signs didn't work and you knew that people would be you know congregating
00:43:14.360
too close well fill it with sand you can always take it out so i know people are outraged because
00:43:23.320
somebody found a clever solution to these things just fill it with sand i don't know you could argue
00:43:29.560
that skateboarders don't get that close to each other but in my experience i've actually spent quite
00:43:34.680
a bit of time at skate parks how many of you have spent time in skate parks because i have i spent a lot
00:43:43.480
of time at uh skateboarding parks in my local town not skateboarding but watching my stepson at the time
00:43:51.640
and uh they can get pretty busy there's a lot of a lot of social interaction there so i would not
00:44:01.720
disagree with them acting creatively and making that skate park unavailable all right anybody have any uh
00:44:09.400
other questions sleep tips um i will give you some more sleep tips tonight uh
00:44:21.960
because i think you should look at sleep as a skill
00:44:25.800
i was in venice california is the skate park san clementi some people saying all right
00:44:31.800
yeah they tried caution tape first you can't really get teenage boys and they're mostly boys
00:44:40.200
you really can't get them to obey rules so maybe fill it in with sand um
00:44:49.400
yeah i don't even think a fence would stop them you know the thing with the sand is that
00:44:53.640
it's temporary it's not that hard to take the sand out of it it's not going to hurt anything
00:44:57.800
harder to harder to take it down than put it in yeah it'll be harder but it's not that big a deal
00:45:05.400
you got brooms sweep it um is there any other uh thing you would like from me
00:45:15.480
in subsequent periscopes that would be in the form of a lesson something something you think i know how to
00:45:23.080
do that you would like me to teach you how to do among the possibilities are systems for fitness
00:45:29.960
systems for diet those of you who are new to me are wondering um what are you talking about i thought
00:45:37.000
you were a cartoonist why would you have a system for diet and a system for fitness and if you did
00:45:44.280
why would i care about it because after all you're a cartoonist and the answer is
00:45:48.360
uh what i teach is systems that would work in any domain so it's not a specific system it's just how
00:45:55.480
to build a system for fitness and how to design a system for that sort of thing so i was probably
00:46:01.640
going to be doing that stuff pretty soon and um yeah walking helps a lot
00:46:07.320
uh all right just looking at your comments before i sign off um
00:46:16.440
yeah the counting to 20 is an amazing technique and i'll reinforce that because the more it's
00:46:27.320
the new biden ad yeah so the biden ad tries to make it look like trump did everything wrong in
00:46:38.040
the pandemic and everything wrong dealing with china and it it makes china the the enemy
00:46:46.280
and then it tries to say that trump did a bad job dealing with the enemy of china and as tim pool pointed
00:46:54.360
out in a tweet this morning i don't think they thought this through
00:46:59.960
because if joe biden succeeds in making it look like china is the big old enemy who are you going
00:47:07.720
to vote for i mean seriously if if the only thing you got out of that ad is that china is really
00:47:14.520
dangerous and we better be tough with them who are you going to vote for you're not going to vote
00:47:19.480
for biden if you if you think that biden is accurate and saying that china is a big old problem
00:47:26.520
i mean it's like it's almost like the mole came up with that you know the mole is my uh theoretical
00:47:32.200
person who gives bad advice to the other side or assistant to learn how to draw sure i could i could
00:47:38.600
teach you that uh pitching ideas for projects that's a good one i'm not sure i'm the best at pitching
00:47:47.560
ideas for projects but i could probably get you there yeah i could probably get you into the top 20
00:47:52.680
percent pretty easily uh the new jersey cop drones well i think we have to get used to drones being
00:48:02.120
everywhere i think drones will be everywhere i think that they're going to have facial recognition
00:48:07.320
they're going to be able to sense things in the environment um they might even be able to
00:48:13.480
uh at some point you're going to have military drones in the air you're going to have armed drones in
00:48:20.520
the air sooner or later um somebody says biden is less dangerously creepy now that he has early onset dementia
00:48:32.600
lady gaga's biden's visiting angel don't you wonder what uh you know in in their private moments do you
00:48:44.440
ever wonder if the biden supporters like uh elissa milano and lady gaga and stuff don't you wonder what
00:48:51.160
they say in their private moments because privately don't you think they say yeah we know he's lost it but
00:48:58.680
we just we can't have another you know we can't have the orange monster elected again don't you think
00:49:04.600
privately they know that biden's already done at least in terms of mentally
00:49:12.840
oh a drawing for kids yeah i could give you a a drawing lesson for kids okay i'll do that i'll make
00:49:19.800
that one of my uh to do's all right that's all i got for today and i'll talk to you tonight you know when