Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 931 Scott Adams： Let's Make Bad Comparisons Like Pundits and Drink Delicious Beverages

00:00:00.000 Hey, good morning. Come on in. What a great day. Yeah, today's a great day. I feel as if sometime

00:00:20.840 in the next week, maybe two weeks, there's going to be some really good news. Like really good

00:00:28.760 news. I can feel it coming. Sometime in the next two weeks, oh, we'll have plenty of bad

00:00:33.980 news. But I feel like there's something big coming. Maybe something medical, maybe something

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00:01:10.680 now. Go. Yeah. So I have a entertainment recommendation for you. Now, this entertainment

00:01:28.400 recommendation comes with a caveat that if I had not told you it's good, you wouldn't be able to

00:01:36.280 tell by looking at the advertisements for it. All right. There's a TV show on FX. It's new.

00:01:45.240 I think it's several episodes they've already got in the can. And it's called What We Do

00:01:50.520 in the Shadows. What We Do in the Shadows on FX. And the setup is that it's three vampires

00:01:59.040 who've been living together for 100 years in Staten Island. And they're sort of lazy vampires. And they

00:02:05.900 have a human who's a, they call a familiar. And it is the funniest freaking thing that you've seen

00:02:14.820 in a long time. Now, they use the technique that the show The Office used, where they act like they're

00:02:22.380 in real life. But they'll occasionally turn to the camera, sort of like Modern Family did. So it's

00:02:28.380 like a half documentary-ish fake documentary of people living their real life. So it's like a

00:02:35.320 fake reality show, if you will. But man, is it clever. Now, I'm just going to tell you, I don't

00:02:43.000 want to ruin it for you. But I'm just going to tell you one concept from the show. All right. So it's

00:02:49.680 three vampires living in Staten Island. And one familiar, which is the, or maybe more familiars,

00:02:56.900 they're the humans who take care of them. And then there's one who's a special kind of vampire.

00:03:02.600 He's an energy vampire. And he looks like Dilbert. And he just works in a cubicle. And all he does is

00:03:10.400 he goes from cubicle to cubicle. And he makes conversation. And he feeds off your energy while he

00:03:16.340 drains it out of you. And here's, I'm just going to tell you this one thing that is all you need to

00:03:23.660 know about how clever this is. The actual vampires who suck blood, the only thing that they're afraid

00:03:30.360 of is this guy. That's it. That's all you need to know about how clever this show is. That the

00:03:37.980 vampires are afraid of the guy from the cubicle who will suck their energy out of him. And in one

00:03:44.160 episode, again, I don't want to give away too much. I just, I just need you to know how clever

00:03:48.060 this is. The real vampires get to their, their virgins that they're going to drink their blood.

00:03:54.120 They've captured some human virgins and they find their human virgins by having their familiar 0.99

00:03:59.300 joined live action role-playing groups where he, where he recruits all the virgins for the vampires to,

00:04:07.900 to suck their blood. Cause I guess virgin blood is extra good. I hear, I mean, that's what I hear. 0.97

00:04:16.240 Uh, but in one episode, the real vampires get to the virgins, uh, too late because the, the energy,

00:04:23.240 the energy vampires already sucked all their life force out. And they're like, well, no, no, no good.

00:04:29.340 No nutritional value. It's, it is so good. You have to watch it. Anyway, if all you saw was the

00:04:36.400 commercial for it, the commercial doesn't sell it at all. You know, usually the, the, the trailer for

00:04:44.160 a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself, but, but this is very much the reverse. You would

00:04:48.700 have no idea how good this is just by watching the commercials for it. All right. Uh, there is still

00:04:55.600 a big mystery for me in why we're not hearing more about this Michael Moore backed documentary,

00:05:03.320 planet of the humans, because it pretty much debunks, uh, the green energy, um, whole field.

00:05:14.120 How is that not a gigantic story? That's the only thing we can talk about today. I mean,

00:05:19.620 besides coronavirus, it would be the second biggest story, but how is that not getting more attention?

00:05:25.520 Is there something going on here that I don't understand? Somebody pointed out that even Fox

00:05:32.720 News is not hammering on this as much as one would expect. You would expect that they would be talking

00:05:38.660 about this nonstop, but, and, and I know it's been mentioned. I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned.

00:05:45.340 Um, I think it was mentioned by, on the five probably at least, but, uh, whether or not it's been

00:05:51.920 mentioned, wouldn't you expect, and it's been mentioned on the website, of course, Fox News

00:05:57.560 website, but shouldn't this be like the main story? I feel like there's just something missing in all

00:06:04.760 of this. I don't know what it is. One thing missing was, of course, talk about nuclear power,

00:06:10.200 that this of course brings up that question, but there's just something going on and I don't quite

00:06:15.520 understand it yet about how we're dealing with this story. It could be that people just can't wrap

00:06:20.660 their heads around it. It could be that it's so mind destabilizing to think that Michael Moore may

00:06:29.480 have killed the Green New Deal because he, he did, he killed the Green New Deal. It might be that people 0.83

00:06:36.680 just can't wrap their heads around it. And so we just talk about the things that are easier to talk

00:06:41.340 about. I don't know, something's going on. Um, I hear that in phase one of the reopening plan

00:06:48.900 that the government has put together that apparently there were some, you know, friends and lobbyists

00:06:54.560 and stuff who got included in the first phase, uh, that gyms could reopen. So gyms would be in the

00:07:03.680 first phase of reopening if certain requirements were met by, by states. Now this raises a question

00:07:11.080 question. Cause one of, only one of two things can be true. So you decide which of these things are

00:07:17.860 true. Uh, I would like to warn you that if you have children who are already awake, probably not,

00:07:25.120 but they should not listen to this next part. There might be a curse word coming up. I think only one

00:07:31.600 today. So if you want to get past this one, you'd probably be okay after that. But there are certain

00:07:37.800 topics that can only be expressed with an obscene word and it's coming up. So there are two possibilities

00:07:45.700 with the foot to explain why gyms are included in phase one. Number one, everything we've ever been

00:07:53.260 told about how coronavirus spreads is wrong. Cause that would make sense, right? Because a gym is really

00:08:03.640 a place where people go to breathe hard and, uh, expel water droplets in a variety of ways.

00:08:12.600 So if you were to design a place that would have the maximum spread of coronavirus, you'd say, well,

00:08:20.040 I don't know, let's put people in close proximity. Uh, we'll make them sweaty. You know, we'll get them 0.98

00:08:26.540 nice and moist on their hands and stuff. Um, and then we'll have them exercise hard, breathing hard,

00:08:32.740 and stand close together, uh, use the same circulation system, um, and make sure they touch

00:08:39.100 a lot of the same things, you know, all the equipment and stuff. So that's what we'll do.

00:08:43.480 We'll build a system that maximizes the spread. Wouldn't it look like a gym? So here's my swear word

00:08:53.440 coming up. There are only two possibilities for explaining why gyms are in phase one. Number one,

00:09:01.500 everything we've been told about the coronavirus is a lie. That's one possibility. Or number two,

00:09:08.900 we have achieved new levels of dumb fuckery. Because if there's anything dumber than fucking

00:09:14.700 opening a gym during a pandemic, I haven't heard it. Can you top it? Can you top that for dumb fuckery?

00:09:22.600 Or, or everything we've been told is just a lie that it doesn't, doesn't travel through the air.

00:09:29.960 Doesn't, you can't pick it up by touching things that infected people have, have touched. I mean, maybe.

00:09:38.720 Uh, why is somebody delivering something right now? Huh. Okay. Um, so, creepy old guys stay home.

00:09:49.200 Okay. Uh, I'm reading a comment. I don't know what that was related to.

00:09:55.920 Now, uh, I am a, a avid gym goer for over 30 years. I've been going to the same gym.

00:10:04.100 I love the gym. And mine was like a full health club. So it wasn't just gym equipment. There's

00:10:12.140 snack bars and, you know, babysitters and classes and stuff. So there, I don't think there's anybody

00:10:20.580 in the country who wants gyms to open more than I do, because it's really the only other place I go.

00:10:26.500 Well, you know, 50% of all of my outside the home exposure is my gym. So nobody wants those gyms

00:10:36.340 open more than I do. I mean, I really want the gym open, but I don't understand what's happening.

00:10:45.840 You know, my, my love of gyms is not independent from my love of understanding what's going on.

00:10:53.040 Either. This is the worst idea in the world to have them in phase one or everything we've been

00:10:59.840 told is a lie. Pick one. Um, that said, if, uh, you know, I also believe in freedom and I also think

00:11:11.460 we've probably reached the point where the country is willing to take the hundreds of thousands of

00:11:17.760 deaths in order to get open. And why don't I just say it out loud? Cause I feel, I feel like people

00:11:26.180 are just hesitant to say it because we don't want to be bad people. So let me say it out loud.

00:11:35.520 And, um, and I'll, I'll start it by, by, uh, a special, a special message for the dumb people.

00:11:42.360 So for the dumb people who are listening to this next part, uh, I would be sad if somebody I knew

00:11:50.540 died of the coronavirus, just so you know that, because otherwise you're going to ask that question

00:11:57.200 as soon as I say the next thing. The next thing is, I don't see any possibility

00:12:03.460 that there's any way to get to the other end of this without killing a few hundred thousand

00:12:09.320 Americans, just Americans. Forget about how many people would die in the rest of the world, 0.84

00:12:14.020 but just Americans. I don't see any way to get there. Everything that I see has pretty big drawbacks, 0.77

00:12:21.760 won't work, et cetera. So, um, I'm okay with opening the gyms as long as we're honest about it.

00:12:30.780 If we're honest about it, opening the gyms sort of is the opposite of our strategy of

00:12:36.820 social distancing, right? And if we're going to, if we're going to open the gyms, just say,

00:12:42.300 fuck it. I'm sorry. If we're going to open the gyms, just open everything with the exception of

00:12:49.480 maybe, you know, large sporting events or, you know, maybe, you know, clubs and bars might be

00:12:54.760 special, but if you're going to open the gyms, certainly open the restaurants, certainly open

00:13:01.340 business, certainly open everything else. And let's just, let's just take the, take the price

00:13:09.580 and a couple hundred thousand people are going to die. I don't see a way around that. And if there's

00:13:18.680 no way around it, it is not an adult decision to put it off. If you can't get around it and,

00:13:26.280 and delaying doesn't seem to be kicking up any kind of a solution so far, there's a whole bunch

00:13:31.760 of cool things that are on the horizon, but they're still on the horizon. I don't see them

00:13:37.260 running to the rescue. So every day there's a new story of a vaccine that's done earlier than we

00:13:45.100 thought and they're testing it and the thing they try that worked or didn't work. But, uh,

00:13:51.920 we don't have anything that looks like a solution. We have nothing in the, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:13:58.020 I don't believe we have anything in the pipeline that reasonably would allow us to open up the

00:14:04.040 economy and also avoid a few hundred thousand deaths, right? I don't see anything that would

00:14:11.140 do that because even if we're really good at testing, it just means we know who got it. I mean,

00:14:16.380 it's not really going to stop it from ripping through the population. So let's be honest about

00:14:22.740 it. It's going to be a hundred, a few hundred thousand Americans are going to die. And for 0.50

00:14:27.160 the dumb people watching this, yes, I would be sad if it were a family member. Yeah. In case you're

00:14:34.140 wondering about that. Yeah. I would be sad if a family member died. You hypothetical dumb people.

00:14:40.420 All right. There's a story about, uh, Dr. Rick Bright. And because the, the simulation loves us

00:14:48.220 and wants to entertain us, this doctor's last name is Bright. His first name is Rick, which is of

00:14:56.040 course short for Richard. What's the other nickname that people named Richard have? Sometimes they're

00:15:03.780 called a Rick. Sometimes they're called a rich, sometimes Richard, sometimes Dick. So Dick Bright,

00:15:16.620 um, he, uh, he issued a statement saying that talking about how he was removed from his position

00:15:22.900 as director of the biomedical advanced research and development authority and the HHS deputy assistant.

00:15:30.180 Okay. It's all too boring. What his job title was, but he says that he was removed because he kept

00:15:36.160 saying that hydroxychloroquine should not be promoted because it was not, uh, had not gone through the

00:15:44.180 proper testing for effectiveness more than safety, I would think. And he was, uh, demoted or basically

00:15:52.820 moved to another part of the government where he would be less trouble. And this story was

00:15:59.860 presented as though he was sort of a whistleblower. They didn't use that word, but it was presented

00:16:06.640 that way. He's sort of a, a brave whistleblower who's complaining about how his expert advice was

00:16:13.760 not being taken seriously and he was demoted for it. But I read his story. I mean, I only read his side

00:16:21.460 of the story without even seeing the other side of the story, which is even worse, uh, just reading

00:16:29.660 his side of the story. I concluded I would have fired him. I mean, I wouldn't even, I don't even

00:16:35.280 know if I would have reassigned him. I think I would have just fired him because everything about this

00:16:40.360 guy looked like he was quite a, quite a Richard, if you know what I mean. And he looked like he would

00:16:45.700 be impossible to work with. And he seemed to think that it was his decision about risk management,

00:16:52.520 where I remind the world that risk management is the boss's job. Risk management is not the expert's

00:17:01.300 job. The expert is to inform the boss of the risks. If you do this or that, their information,

00:17:09.920 they are not in the risk management business directly. It's the boss. The boss in this case

00:17:16.700 being Trump. And if Trump decided that everything he'd seen made a good risk management decision to,

00:17:24.820 let's say, promote the hydroxychloroquine, presumably in combination with azithromycin and zinc,

00:17:31.520 because that's when, at least anecdotally, that's when it seems like it works. If the president made a

00:17:38.520 risk management decision, it's his to make. It might be right. It might be wrong. But it's only

00:17:49.260 the president's to make after he has gotten input. And you have to fire people who don't understand

00:17:55.760 that. Certainly, if you were in the military, you would be demoted or fired or reassigned right away.

00:18:02.700 If you told your boss your opinion, and you fully expressed it, and you know he heard it,

00:18:11.120 and then he makes a decision that's not the way you would have gone, so that's how it works.

00:18:19.420 The president is including other considerations, which maybe Mr. Richard Bright, Dr. Richard Bright,

00:18:26.100 did not have as his priorities. All right. I'm loving the story about the president

00:18:33.060 tweeting his orders. I don't even know if he told the military or he just tweeted it.

00:18:38.840 I assume he told the military too, but he could have just tweeted it, that the military has

00:18:45.340 permission basically to blow up the Iranian gunboats that are hassling them.

00:18:49.980 Now, I'm so interested to know how this plays out. Number one, does that really mean that our

00:18:59.340 U.S. Navy is going to just blow up those ships if they get near? Probably not, right? Because if

00:19:06.460 you're the captain of the ship, you're probably going to be pretty flexible, and you're not going

00:19:11.720 to blow up an Iranian boat because it's killing people. I mean, you don't kill people just to make 1.00

00:19:17.400 a point. You need a better reason. So will the Iranians just sort of back up a little bit and 1.00

00:19:24.440 say, we're not touching you, we're not touching you, we're just in the area, and try to game the

00:19:30.820 system and find out where the limit is? Or will they just say, I think we better stop doing this?

00:19:38.560 Because they haven't blasted one yet, right? Somebody says, Trump is a con man. All right,

00:19:47.180 I'm going to block you for coming into here and saying Trump is a con man. It's not because I

00:19:53.380 disagree with you, or because I agree with you. Completely irrelevant. It's just that you didn't

00:19:59.780 pass the Turing test. So to be a guest and to comment here, you have to at least pass the test

00:20:07.600 that it doesn't look like a laundry list of common phrases have been messaged out in order.

00:20:15.320 It should show some kind of human thought, possibly connected to the topic. But if you just say,

00:20:22.960 orange man bad, you haven't passed the Turing test. Because I could write a program pretty easily.

00:20:32.000 I could use the basic language, you know, print quotes, orange man bad. So a computer can do what

00:20:41.460 you're doing. It can say, Trump is a con man. But why would I do it? What would be the point of it?

00:20:51.460 So you will be sent into the, oh, I lost you. Damn it. This is, this interface lost you. But anyway,

00:21:04.620 if I see you again, I will block you for that. You have to show some signs of being a human being.

00:21:11.460 That's like a minimum. If I don't, if I can't even tell if you're human by your comment,

00:21:16.180 maybe I would like less exposure to you. Nancy Pelosi was speculating on a public interview that 0.99

00:21:27.200 Putin must have some blackmail material on Trump, because it's the only thing that explains it.

00:21:33.660 Now, shouldn't she be removed from office for that? I would say that if the Speaker of the House 1.00

00:21:40.660 speculates publicly, speculates publicly without any evidence, no evidence, and she doesn't even

00:21:45.700 claim she has any, that the President of the United States is actually being controlled by a foreign

00:21:52.100 government. Shouldn't you be removed from office immediately for speculating that? Now, if she had

00:21:58.600 evidence, if she had evidence, of course we want to, we want to know. Like if Nancy Pelosi had some

00:22:06.440 evidence that Trump was being blackmailed by Putin, yeah, we want to know. But if she doesn't have

00:22:14.700 evidence, she should be immediately removed from office for saying something so insanely dangerous

00:22:23.680 during a crisis. Immediately, she, is there, what is the process for that? Is there, is there some

00:22:32.180 process for removing a Speaker of the House from office? But that should be started. All right.

00:22:41.760 So Fox News is reporting that in 2012, it was first reported in 2012, so this is a story that's sort of

00:22:50.980 been around for a while, that Joe Biden was Osama bin Laden's preference for President.

00:23:02.180 So apparently the reporting is that we have some intelligence that bin Laden was trying to get

00:23:07.960 somebody else in al-Qaeda to assassinate President Obama when he was flying over to the Middle East,

00:23:15.580 I guess, and also Petraeus, and that bin Laden, his reasoning was that he really wanted Biden to

00:23:23.600 become the President because Biden is, quote, totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S.

00:23:30.600 into a crisis. So I don't know if any of this is real. Do you? Somebody says Bitcoin is surging. Really?

00:23:43.020 Let's see what Bitcoin's doing. It's so, it's surging so much. Oh, it's surging 6%. Okay.

00:23:52.600 All right. So I have to tell you, I made an investment decision several months ago based

00:24:06.600 on an 11-year-old. So an 11-year-old was telling me about Snapchat. And when I saw the new feature

00:24:14.960 that they'd added, Snap Maps, where you can see all your friends and chat with them and stuff.

00:24:19.560 And then you listen to an 11-year-old and they'll tell you it's the only app they use. I mean,

00:24:24.180 they use TikTok and stuff, but for communicating, it's basically Snapchat. So I bought a stock in

00:24:30.660 Snapchat and they went up 32% yesterday. So they're doing something right. So I got lucky on that one.

00:24:37.300 I don't tell you the ones where... If I only tell you a stock that did well, don't assume that's my

00:24:44.280 only stock I bought. Because, you know, buying individual stocks is a fool's game. And you

00:24:51.160 should only do it for, I don't know, entertainment or if you have some special knowledge about a

00:24:55.540 company. But generally, it's a bad idea. I just got lucky on that one. Because I took advice from

00:25:00.880 an 11-year-old. Literally. I literally took that advice from an 11-year-old.

00:25:04.920 So the story about Obama wanting Biden to be president, who knows how true that is, but it's

00:25:14.100 a funny story. So I woke up in sort of a competitive mode this morning. Because, you know, we're all

00:25:23.140 having this Groundhog Day feeling. It feels like every day you wake up and it's just more stories

00:25:29.980 about this or that therapeutic works or doesn't work. This or that state is doing better or this

00:25:37.140 or that. Comparing something that shouldn't be compared. And so it's making me a little crazy

00:25:42.820 about how bad we are as a society in making decisions. And the decisions that we make most

00:25:53.600 of the time are not going to end civilization if you get them wrong. Most of the time. But the

00:25:59.820 decisions we make this year with the coronavirus could actually, you know, end civilization on Earth,

00:26:07.680 I suppose, if you did the worst case scenario. So we got really, really big stakes. And if we don't

00:26:14.700 think about them correctly, we're in trouble. And it's almost to the point where I'm not even sure

00:26:20.800 you can call this a virus crisis anymore. It sort of started as a virus. That's the part of the

00:26:27.280 physical world that is the trigger for it all. And of course, the virus is killing people. So

00:26:32.340 that matters a lot. But it feels like the problem has morphed into a thinking problem and a decision

00:26:40.940 making problem. Because if we made the right decisions, the problem we would have would be much

00:26:48.440 less than if we make the wrong decisions. And so let me make this case. Would you say that

00:26:56.500 getting hit by a car is your biggest problem today? Like as a pedestrian? Would you say that's your

00:27:05.060 biggest problem? And the answer is no. No, you wouldn't say that's a big problem. And the reason

00:27:10.180 is because you know not to make the decision to walk in front of a car. So if your decision making

00:27:17.880 is good, I think I will not walk in front of a speeding car, then you don't have to worry about

00:27:23.240 the physical part. Because the physical part didn't change. It's still a car still speeding

00:27:28.200 down the road. But you made the proper decision. I think I will not walk in front of that car.

00:27:34.120 And so it is with the coronavirus. Except that the right decision is a little less obvious

00:27:41.140 than walking in front of a car. There is a right play. We just don't know what it is. And if we're

00:27:48.180 not good at thinking, we're not going to find it. So it feels to me like that the coronavirus is a

00:27:56.420 little bit like the speeding car in a terrible analogy way. I know there are lots of differences,

00:28:01.500 right? But the point is, if you think about either one of them, right, you get a much better result

00:28:06.520 than if you think about it wrong. And when I wrote my book, Loser Think, which was tips on how to think

00:28:13.540 better on the internet, basically, I didn't realize how timely it would be. Because loser think could

00:28:21.780 actually destroy civilization. And a lot of it has to do with making bad comparisons. And let me tell you

00:28:29.300 a few of them that are happening today. So there's a writer named Alex Berenson, who's getting a lot of

00:28:37.260 attention because he's being somewhat of a contrarian about the press about coronavirus. And his position

00:28:46.520 seems to be that it's an overstated problem. And that maybe hysteria is the bigger problem than the

00:28:54.460 virus. Maybe we should go back to work. That sort of vibe. So he's on the on the maybe it's overstated to get

00:29:01.680 back to work side of things. But the real problem is not the virus in his case, the real problem is how he

00:29:08.760 thinks about it. And then people who don't know the difference think he's thinking about it, right. And so they

00:29:16.360 agree with him. Here's what he said today, after I had tweeted, tongue in cheek, that it would be another day of

00:29:24.280 comparing the wrong things. And he tweets a New York Times story. And he says they'd be more credible if

00:29:30.980 they mentioned that only New York City and maybe New Orleans and Detroit have had serious problems.

00:29:38.220 Now his point is that the New York Times should carve out, and I would agree with this point,

00:29:44.740 that whatever's happening in New York City and the other hotspots is entirely different from what's

00:29:49.760 happening in the rest of the country. And then I say, so? So? What do you do with that? Now, I think what

00:29:59.920 Alex Berenson is suggesting we would do, and I hope that I'm getting this right, is that he would suggest

00:30:06.820 that the places that are not like those hotspots are probably ripe to be reopened soonish, because

00:30:14.680 there's something different about them. Well, one of the things that's different about them is that

00:30:21.100 they're earlier in the cycle. So he's making the mistake of comparing what they are now with what

00:30:29.880 they would be if you stopped mitigating, as if those would be similar. The entire point of it is that if

00:30:37.660 you opened up now, you would have an outbreak of massive infections, and it would become more like

00:30:44.420 New York City. So if he's comparing New York City in the middle of a big, you know, what might be their

00:30:51.260 peak, to Nebraska that hasn't started getting it yet, that's just a bad comparison problem, right?

00:30:59.820 So it's not about the virus, it's about how you think about it. So the thinking is broken. Let me give you

00:31:05.120 some other examples. You'll see in the news today, as you've seen yesterday and last week,

00:31:13.160 that people will tell you that there's a study about hydroxychloroquine that shows that it doesn't

00:31:17.220 work. But of course, when you drill down, you'll find out that it's the wrong comparison, because they

00:31:24.240 gave the hydroxychloroquine without the azithromycin and zinc, the zinc being the secret ingredient that

00:31:31.240 that you need in there. So they would they would test it without that. And they would give it to

00:31:37.320 people who are already ready for a ventilator, when basically, it's too late. So all of the studies

00:31:45.260 are going to be comparing the wrong thing to the wrong thing. They always have, it looks like they

00:31:50.580 always will be. It looks like all of our news will be the wrong things being compared. How about

00:31:57.160 comparing the United States to Sweden, and then making a decision based on Sweden doing it

00:32:04.040 differently? And they seem like they're not going down the tube. So why don't we do that?

00:32:08.900 Well, how about because the United States and Sweden have too many differences? And how about

00:32:13.400 we don't really even know how many people are infected? We don't know if the testing is just as

00:32:19.220 good. We don't know if Sweden will have a good result in the long run. We don't know anything about

00:32:24.840 Sweden. Except that it's so different. Of course, we expect that they would be having a different

00:32:29.840 experience. But what does that tell us about us? Did you go to your summer cabin? What? You didn't go

00:32:38.720 to your summer cabin? Well, if you'd lived in Sweden, about half of them have a summer cabin. So is it

00:32:46.180 easier to socially isolate when half of your public has a summer cabin? And also apparently half of the

00:32:54.180 public, I'm not sure if this is true, but I read it, half of the public in Sweden is living alone.

00:32:59.860 And they don't have the same kind of density we have. So you'll see more of those comparisons.

00:33:09.100 How about everybody saying that if we have some temporary tracking of people,

00:33:16.920 and some temporary restrictions about going to parks and stuff, that we're clearly slipping into

00:33:23.600 Nazi Germany? You're going to hear a lot of that today. To which I say, you know, coughing into your

00:33:30.440 elbow is obviously a slippery slope to the Holocaust. Right? Because coughing into your elbow is just 0.88

00:33:39.100 giving in to the fascist demands of your overlords. Because you want to cough in the air, you just want to

00:33:45.940 go, you don't want to be told, you got to cough into your elbow. Because if you start giving in on

00:33:54.580 the little stuff, and it's like, okay, I'll cough in my elbow, that's not a big deal. The next thing you

00:34:00.500 know, they're going to be tracking you. And then after that, they round you up and they murder you.

00:34:05.400 It's obvious. Boop, boop, boop, ABC. So if you're coughing in your elbow, that's, you're only two

00:34:13.720 jumps away from Nazi Germany. You're going to hear a lot of that today. And yes, I'm kidding if anybody's

00:34:19.580 coming in here late. Now let's also compare Trump's diplomatic public statements about President Xi

00:34:29.440 Xi to how you and your friends would talk about President Xi in private. Because if you were in

00:34:35.980 private, and it was just you and your friend, you'd probably say something like, well, that Chinese

00:34:42.200 government is a murderous regime. And President Xi is a terrible dictator. And he's taken the organs

00:34:48.460 from dissidents. And he's rounded up Uyghurs and put them in prison camps. And he's killing Americans 1.00

00:34:53.920 with fentanyl. That's what you'd say to your friend. Yeah, you'd say that quite honestly to

00:35:00.820 your friend privately. But if you're the President of the United States, and you're trying to avoid

00:35:08.040 economic meltdown, you're trying to avoid a nuclear confrontation, how might you talk about the person

00:35:16.560 that you need to negotiate with? Might you be polite? Yes, you might. Might you be respectful,

00:35:23.080 even if you don't feel it on the inside? Yes, you might. So let us not compare how the President

00:35:30.300 treats Putin in public, or President Xi in public, or Kim Jong-un in public. Let us not compare that

00:35:39.340 to how you would talk privately to your friend about these same topics. Bad comparison.

00:35:46.060 Are hospitals anywhere overwhelmed? Okay, so that's an example of loser think. I won't call you out. But

00:35:58.720 whoever said, are hospitals overwhelmed? You know what's wrong with that, right? You know, you're

00:36:06.600 comparing places that are experiencing, you know, the peak with places that are predicted

00:36:13.840 predicted that they would have a peak if we had not already done mitigation. So when you say to

00:36:21.820 yourself, here's a little, oh God, I don't want to insult my audience, but I kind of have to.

00:36:30.840 Because there's so many of you have the same feeling. I'm going to insult you for utility. Okay?

00:36:38.380 I wouldn't do it just to be mean. And I wouldn't do it just because I'm in a bad mood. I'm going to

00:36:43.900 insult you, some of you, not all of you. I'm going to insult some of you, so it'll hurt a little bit 0.92

00:36:50.420 more when you say things that don't make sense. I'm going to add a little pain to it. If you've ever

00:36:57.360 said in the last week, hey, hospitals and parts of the country are not busy, you're being fucking 0.97

00:37:06.820 stupid. Okay? Because you're comparing a full mitigation scenario where, honestly, we can't

00:37:15.760 predict exactly the week that something would be overloaded. We just know there was a risk,

00:37:21.100 and so people over-prepared. If you don't understand that being over-prepared doesn't

00:37:28.180 mean you did it wrong. Do you not understand that? That being over-prepared probably means

00:37:34.980 you erred in the correct direction because we didn't have the option of hitting the nail on the

00:37:40.780 head from a thousand yards away with a BB. If we could hit the nail on the head from a thousand

00:37:49.200 yards away with a BB, every one of our hospitals would have just the right amount of capacity, 0.97

00:37:55.680 just right. They'd be operating 75% capacity, 25% left over just in case. Man, those hospitals would

00:38:04.800 be nailing it if you could shoot a BB a thousand yards and hit the top of a nail. If you could do

00:38:14.040 that, then it would make sense to wonder why the hospitals are so empty. But if you're wondering

00:38:21.720 why the hospitals are empty and you think that that means that the flu is not so bad, the virus is not

00:38:26.720 so bad, that's fucking stupid. It's fucking stupid. Don't ever say that in public if you don't want half 0.99

00:38:36.380 of the people who hear it to think, oh my God, why is he comparing the hospitals who couldn't possibly

00:38:43.840 know what was going to happen? Why is he angry that they over-prepared? Now, wouldn't it be better

00:38:51.860 if they prepared exactly the right amount? Yeah, it would. It would be better. How could they know that?

00:39:00.120 How could they possibly know that? They couldn't. So they over-prepared. Should they maybe look to

00:39:09.800 correct a little bit? Oh, I would think so. I think some are. I think some of the hospitals are saying,

00:39:15.320 hey, we over-corrected. Maybe we should do some more elective surgeries at least until things look

00:39:20.680 worse. Maybe the mitigation is working better than we thought. But man, if you're comparing those empty

00:39:26.360 hospitals to, if you're saying that the empty hospitals tell us that's the reason that it's

00:39:33.040 okay to open up the country, you're not understanding anything. You really are not

00:39:38.840 understanding anything. All right. So, sorry. I didn't mean to be mean, but somebody has to be mean to

00:39:48.540 the people who are looking at the empty hospitals and declaring that therefore it's no worse than

00:39:55.420 seasonal flu. That is such broken brain thinking that that needs to be expunged from the conversation.

00:40:08.220 Do you feel it is an unsolicited panic? I don't know what that means. They could cause a famine due

00:40:14.160 to the supply lines. Well, panic can cause problems, yes.

00:40:22.520 So, let's shut the country down with bad information. Have I ever told you about the, so here, this user is saying in the comments, so let's shut down the country with bad information. I actually wrote a book, two of them actually, I mentioned this, that when you start the sentence with so, at least on the internet,

00:40:48.960 everything that comes after so is just your own imagination. It's not something that ever happened. So, this user is like, so let's shut down the country down with bad information. Did I suggest that? Did it sound like I suggested, let's use bad information to shut the country? Is that what you heard? Because you need to, you need to check your thinking.

00:41:13.960 If you need to check your thinking. If you thought that I was suggesting, hey, let's use bad information and shut down the country. That's what you heard. How about, we don't know what's going to happen in the future, so sometimes it's better to over-prepare. That's what you should have heard.

00:41:31.040 And nobody can be exactly right in knowing how much to over-prepare. Because the models are not that accurate. We don't know how well mitigation would work. And maybe you adjust. It's probably time to adjust. But it cannot be said that it was a mistake.

00:41:48.980 How about comparing President Trump's performance to that other president that you imagine could have been the president, who has the gift of ESP. And unlike President Trump, who's a normal human being, who can't see the future, especially in the fog of war and a brand new situation, in which even the models and the experts look like they're just guessing.

00:42:15.920 Again, compare that and Trump's terrible performance as a regular human being to what we could have had. For example, we could have had a Joe Biden. We could have had a Hillary Clinton. And they have the gift of hindsight.

00:42:33.980 Meaning, meaning that if they know what happened in the past, they could also know what will happen in the future. It's an amazing power, and regular humans don't have it. But they could have made all the right decisions.

00:42:45.480 And why can't we have one of them? Why can't we have a magic president? I mean, really, why did we make such a big mistake and elect a human president with the inability to see the future, the inability to make all the right decisions when there's no data that is reliable?

00:43:05.120 Why can't we get the president who's magic? I mean, every time I look at our normal human president, I'm so disappointed in him not being magic, when it's obvious we could have had a magic president who would know what to do, even when it's unknowable. Come on, give us a magic president.

00:43:23.960 All right, well, I feel like I'm exhibit A of how this lockdown is not good for our mental health. Are you having the experience where you'll have bouts of anger? And the anger doesn't seem to be necessarily related to what's happening around you.

00:43:48.640 You know, you can certainly make the case why you should be angry, but you can always make that case. You can always be angry. Being angry is sort of a choice. You know, you can decide how you feel about stuff, and that's really up to you.

00:44:02.180 And, you know, there's a morning like this where I just open up Twitter, and I just fly into a rage, because I think I might die because people are bad at comparing things.

00:44:16.660 And I've always thought that, you know, we're all going to die, right? Well, I mean, I might be immortal in the sense that I'll become a computer entity someday in the cloud, but my physical body, you know, it's going to die.

00:44:30.300 And one of the things I think about is I don't want to die in a dumb way. You know, imagine one of the reasons I'm not a rock climber is because what I think about, if I think about, you know, that dangerous job of being a free rock climber with just your fingertips and, you know, there's nothing holding you up there.

00:44:50.640 What I think about is, if I slipped, and it took, let's say, you know, 10 seconds to reach the ground to my death, and as I was falling down, I'd be thinking to myself,

00:45:01.800 why was I so stupid? I shouldn't have been a free climber. I'm not good at this. And then I'm dead. And the part I worry about is not the dead part. The part I worry about is that 10-second fall where I feel so disgusted at myself for being so stupid to think it was a good risk management to climb rocks when I'm sort of not good at that, right?

00:45:27.980 And when I look at Twitter, and I see the quality of the thinking, and I realize that my life, to some extent, will depend on the quality of other people's thinking, because collectively we have to think right so that our leaders can make the right decisions, right?

00:45:46.000 Because we sort of have to support the decisions or they don't get implemented. So watching the United States not be able to compare the simplest things, it makes me mad.

00:46:01.700 And what it makes me mad about, somebody says, you blocked me on Twitter. Well, you probably had it coming. If you got blocked on Twitter in the last few days, it's because you said something in public, which claimed to show your superior knowledge of my opinion.

00:46:21.360 And it was different from my own opinion that I've stated. If you're stating my opinions for me, you're using Twitter wrong. You should be using Twitter to state your opinions. And then people can interact with you. But if you're stating other people's opinions incorrectly, and then you're using it to insult them for what you imagined was their opinion but wasn't, well, then you're not using Twitter right. Although you're using it in the most common way.

00:46:51.360 Somebody says, somebody says, somebody says, you're in a rage because your amygdala, my amygdala is swollen. Maybe so.

00:47:02.120 Update, you thinking catch or avoid coronavirus today? I'm thinking that I would prefer to catch it and get it over with. But that's not a logical choice. Meaning that, you know, there's a personality element to this.

00:47:19.120 So my personal risk management is that I don't want to spend the next year worrying about getting it.

00:47:27.280 And I don't think it's going to be gone in a year, because I just feel like it's going to be with us.

00:47:32.880 So I don't want to spend a few quality years of my life hiding in my house worrying that I might die.

00:47:41.600 I'm ready to make the risk that I would die or be deeply injured somehow in return for my freedom and for the economy to be working.

00:47:53.460 So, I will make an attempt, you know, I'll make all the smart attempts to avoid, you know, getting too close to people and stuff.

00:48:02.920 But, I no longer want to worry about getting it.

00:48:07.280 I want to just do the things that are smart, and then clear my mind of worrying about getting it,

00:48:13.500 and rather put myself in the mindset of, I might get it, I might not, it doesn't matter.

00:48:21.080 Somebody says, you blocked me because of my vaccine's opinion.

00:48:26.380 Yeah, I would block somebody for a vaccine opinion.

00:48:30.520 That sounds like something I would have done.

00:48:33.320 If I blocked you for a vaccine opinion, it means that I thought your opinion was literally dangerous.

00:48:38.660 It's, doesn't even know, you know, I'm no vaccine expert, but if you were making weird claims about Bill Gates using vaccines to conquer the world or something like that,

00:48:52.580 then I blocked you, yeah.

00:48:54.100 If you made any kind of a vaccine conspiracy theory, I blocked you.

00:48:58.660 Now, I am, I do have some sympathy or empathy.

00:49:05.520 I guess I agree with the anti-vaxxers up to a point.

00:49:12.200 So, the anti-vaxxers who say, hey, we haven't really tested all of these vaccinations in combination.

00:49:19.940 We've only tested them individually, but we give them in combination.

00:49:25.180 And it might be too much for the body to handle, blah, blah, blah, especially if you give them to children.

00:49:30.040 Now, I don't know if that's true.

00:49:32.920 I don't know that that's bad for you.

00:49:35.520 But it certainly raises the question.

00:49:37.860 If the entire point of medical testing is that you want to test things because you don't know, you don't know.

00:49:46.800 You know, if you don't know it's dangerous, that's why you test it.

00:49:50.100 But we're giving massive combinations of vaccines to kids, and we've never tested the combinations.

00:49:57.200 So, we are doing with vaccines the thing which every medical expert would say you shouldn't do.

00:50:04.820 That should be noted, right?

00:50:07.280 That's just an objective statement, that there's a standard in science.

00:50:11.360 There's a reason for the standard, and it is flagrantly being not done.

00:50:18.620 Now, it could be, and I think this is probably the argument, that there's no way to do it.

00:50:24.600 Because in order to test the combination of vaccines, wouldn't you have to not vaccinate a certain number of children?

00:50:33.540 Because you'd have to test children.

00:50:35.300 They're the ones who get the vaccines.

00:50:36.940 If you tested adults, you wouldn't really know.

00:50:39.940 It could be different.

00:50:40.760 So, we have a situation where we probably can't ethically test, but we also can't know if it's safe without it.

00:50:51.280 So, smart people, we hope they're smart, have said, you know, we've got these two unknowns.

00:50:56.980 We've got these vaccines in combination.

00:50:59.880 We think we'd maybe see a problem.

00:51:02.560 We think it would be obvious if a problem pops up, maybe we can dig into it and see if we can know more about it.

00:51:09.120 But we think that overall, it's sort of a, you know, best professional guess that you're better off doing this.

00:51:16.380 Even if it does cause some problems, you're better off doing it.

00:51:19.920 We can't test it.

00:51:21.260 We wish we could.

00:51:23.480 But we think this is the best risk management reward.

00:51:27.900 I can see why we got in this situation.

00:51:35.060 No vaccine has been double-blind tested.

00:51:39.120 No vaccine has been double-blind tested.

00:51:43.480 I think I've heard that claim before.

00:51:46.980 But we can tell that we don't have measles, right?

00:51:51.300 What we can't tell is if there might be some new kind of health problem that got introduced from vaccines and we thought it was from something else.

00:52:01.280 Somebody says, sorry, that's the Dunning-Kruger effect.

00:52:08.140 What is?

00:52:09.420 You'd have to be more specific.

00:52:14.640 Vaccines are liability-free.

00:52:17.020 Well, shouldn't they be?

00:52:19.080 You know, there's a reason that governments are liability-free.

00:52:22.160 Because governments have to make decisions that kill people.

00:52:26.780 But if they do it right, they're making decisions that save more people than they kill.

00:52:31.240 So there's a reason that governments can't be sued for a lot of stuff.

00:52:35.800 And the governments are sort of the ones who are behind vaccinations.

00:52:41.520 So it does make sense to me that vaccine companies could not be sued or they have a special court.

00:52:48.400 That does make sense.

00:52:50.220 Because otherwise there wouldn't be any vaccines.

00:52:52.140 So if you have one, you need the other probably.

00:52:57.320 You know, I'm going to throw out a concept that I kept throwing out earlier.

00:53:04.040 And I couldn't get anybody to agree with it except on social media.

00:53:08.240 I've never seen anybody in the government or on TV arguing this.

00:53:11.400 And it goes like this.

00:53:12.940 Why are we opening by zip code?

00:53:14.800 Is there any argument and or model or experience that would tell us that opening by physical location is the way to do it?

00:53:29.680 Because wouldn't it make more sense for everybody who has an individual situation that's low risk to open up no matter where they are?

00:53:38.460 I mean, is there a reason that the safest situation in New York City can't open today if it's the safest situation?

00:53:48.140 Now, let's say the safest situation is a, let's say it's a store vendor who already has recovered from coronavirus.

00:53:57.180 I'll just give an example.

00:53:58.980 Has been tested for antibodies.

00:54:01.900 Wears a mask.

00:54:04.820 And it doesn't touch the food or whatever it is.

00:54:08.900 Is there a reason that person can't open up?

00:54:11.040 I mean, there's no customers, but besides that.

00:54:14.540 So I just ask the question.

00:54:16.100 It seems to me that we should open everything right away to the people who are in the safest situations.

00:54:22.520 And that we could probably just discourage people who are in a bad situation from going to work.

00:54:29.460 Half of them would go to work anyway.

00:54:31.880 Because they just want to take the risk or they need the money or whatever.

00:54:35.980 And the other half would probably say, yeah, you know, because I can stay home a little bit longer.

00:54:42.520 I think I will.

00:54:43.640 I think I'll ride this out a little bit longer.

00:54:46.280 Just let everybody make their own choice.

00:54:48.040 I think you would be surprised how many people choose correctly, especially under the glare of public opinion.

00:54:55.820 You know, if you look at the number of people who recycle, the number of people who wear their seatbelt, you know, even though it's you get a ticket if you don't wear your seatbelt.

00:55:05.000 I think people mostly wear their seatbelt for safety.

00:55:09.620 I can't prove it.

00:55:11.360 But, you know, when you put on your seatbelt, is the reason you're putting it on to avoid a ticket?

00:55:18.180 That's not the reason I put my seatbelt on.

00:55:20.940 So I think you could get pretty darn good compliance.

00:55:25.860 Maybe half of the people at risk.

00:55:27.640 The other half will take their chance.

00:55:30.200 Some percentage of them will get the coronavirus.

00:55:33.700 We could probably flex our hospitals up to handle that. 0.51

00:55:38.060 They would be overwhelmed.

00:55:39.980 Maybe.

00:55:41.380 But nobody has modeled that.

00:55:44.140 And if they did, the modeling wouldn't be reliable.

00:55:51.640 Yeah, experts are monitoring by country.

00:55:54.620 It all doesn't make sense to me.

00:55:56.600 Now, we're hearing more reports, as of yesterday, that young people are getting strokes and young people are having problems.

00:56:05.360 You know what I'm starting to wonder about?

00:56:07.600 I'm wondering if the reports about young people dying from coronavirus are either, well, I'm sure it's true, first of all. 0.99

00:56:19.220 But since it's so rare, it makes me wonder if it's foreign influence.

00:56:24.500 Because if you were China or Russia and you wanted to mess with the United States, what messages would you want to reinforce?

00:56:33.360 Well, if I were Russia or China and I wanted to mess with the United States, I would say it's killing children, too.

00:56:40.920 It's killing young people, too.

00:56:42.320 The reason I would say that is that then we won't open up.

00:56:47.080 The longer we believe that it also kills young people, and frankly, we just care more about young people, you know, children.

00:56:53.280 It feels like disinformation.

00:56:59.400 It's what it feels like.

00:57:01.420 Which is not to say that young people are dying, but they're probably dying at such a small number that it would only make sense for that to be a national story if you were in the disinformation.

00:57:11.740 It's not disinformation, but if you were in the business of trying to ruin the United States, that would be the story you'd push.

00:57:20.000 So I got my questions.

00:57:22.060 What are the sources of that story?

00:57:23.320 And New Jersey hasn't hit plateau yet.

00:57:32.480 Most of you know Tony Heller, who's famous for his skepticism about climate change.

00:57:41.100 And he came after me yesterday.

00:57:43.340 I ended up blocking him because he was comparing things poorly.

00:57:47.740 And what was his argument?

00:57:49.740 Oh, no, I'm forgetting his argument.

00:57:55.380 He had a terrible comparison.

00:57:58.020 And he got blocked for that.

00:58:05.580 Elizabeth Warren's brother has died of COVID.

00:58:09.320 Did that really happen?

00:58:11.680 Well, that still hasn't satisfied my, somebody in the comments said that.

00:58:16.340 I don't know that that's true.

00:58:19.740 Somebody says the asthma vulnerability was debunked by Washington University School of Medicine.

00:58:26.660 I would love to see that link because I have a suspicion.

00:58:30.980 You probably, I think that's the reason you told me that, is that I'd expressed a suspicion that asthma wasn't the problem that people said it was.

00:58:39.520 And the reason that I'm suspecting that, and certainly don't take your medical advice from me, that's your warning.

00:58:47.240 The reason I suspected that is that the way the lungs were responding under coronavirus was weird, meaning that their oxygen level could be down to like 50 or 60, and they could still be walking around when they should be dead.

00:59:03.400 So there was something about how it was affecting the lungs that wasn't, you know, the straightforward way you'd imagine.

00:59:11.460 And then there was also the report that smokers were doing better, not worse, which also makes me think, okay, whatever this is, it has a very unique way it works on the lungs.

00:59:20.600 And it could be that that unique way it works just doesn't interfere with asthma, doesn't make it worse.

00:59:27.360 So I was at least speculating that we would have known for sure if asthma was a death sentence if you got coronavirus, because we would have enough data by now.

00:59:37.440 So the dog that wasn't barking is after all these cases of coronavirus, I was seeing the list that always had asthma in it would sometimes not have asthma in it anymore.

00:59:50.980 So remember that the list of things that would kill you would be like, you know, overweight, heart problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma.

00:59:58.740 And then suddenly I would notice the list would just, asthma wasn't on the list anymore.

01:00:05.240 And smoking fell off the list too, have you noticed that?

01:00:08.260 Remember in the early days, smoking was, you know, if you're a smoker, you're pretty much dead.

01:00:14.460 And then apparently that's not the case, right?

01:00:19.080 We don't have confirmation on that.

01:00:21.420 But there was that one study that said the smokers actually did better than non-smokers.

01:00:25.520 It could be because the smoke interferes with the ability of whatever to get into whatever.

01:00:31.680 So it could be just an oddity.

01:00:34.200 But, and then today I was seeing that almost everybody who was dying in New York City had some pretty serious health problems.

01:00:44.680 And diabetes seems to be a big one.

01:00:46.400 So diabetes is sort of moving up the charts along with, you know, heart, heart and blood pressure problems.

01:00:56.420 So it's starting to look like diabetes, weight, and cardiovascular are the biggest risks.

01:01:04.880 Somebody says you have a blood oxygen saturation of 60.

01:01:13.600 Wow.

01:01:15.260 I didn't know you could survive that in normal situations.

01:01:22.760 Somebody says 10,000 deaths in the U.S. are from nursing homes.

01:01:26.180 So, if it turns out that smoking and asthma are not actually the death sentences than we thought,

01:01:36.520 I'm really going to want to open up the economy even more than I do.

01:01:41.780 All right.

01:01:42.620 Maybe the smoke going into the lungs kills the virus?

01:01:45.020 I don't know.

01:01:45.540 I saw a story the other day about a company, and I think I interpreted this correctly.

01:01:50.600 But see if maybe somebody can confirm this.

01:01:52.980 I thought it was a company that was developing a far UV light that kills viruses that would actually be like a ventilator that you would stick into the lungs and then turn on the light.

01:02:06.600 And the idea was that the UV light literally shining in your lungs might kill enough virus to give your immune system, you know, a little bit of a boost, you know, on its own.

01:02:18.540 I mean, it wouldn't boost your immune system, but it would just let your immune system do what it was.

01:02:22.980 I don't know that vaping is good for you.

01:02:28.620 Something tells me vaping is a whole different situation.

01:02:34.640 Insulin receptors, somebody says, is the issue.

01:02:39.400 All right.

01:02:40.400 So, that's about all I have for today.

01:02:42.840 I'm going to talk to you tonight.

01:02:45.260 Diabetes and high BMI.

01:02:51.600 You know, I say open up the country to everybody who is under 60 and doesn't have a heart problem or diabetes. 0.99

01:03:03.880 Let's just go for it.

01:03:05.220 I'm ready to just go for it.

01:03:06.580 Now, of course, you know, maybe the hotspots need to do something differently.

01:03:11.600 But in my neighborhood, my neighborhood doesn't seem to have a problem.

01:03:16.820 And if it became a problem, I think I'd probably still be okay with it.

01:03:22.200 Because those are the risks.

01:03:23.480 Is it clear at this point that all of our problems are from huddling people indoors?

01:03:33.080 It does seem like that's the big problem.

01:03:36.800 All right.

01:03:37.900 I'll talk to you tonight.

01:03:40.420 You know where to find me.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 23, 2020

Episode 931 Scott Adams： Let's Make Bad Comparisons Like Pundits and Drink Delicious Beverages

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