Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 990 Scott Adams： Biden and Charlamagne Tha God, More Bad HCQ Studies, Scary Orange Man Complaints, Masks

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00:01:03.740 Hmm. I can feel my ACE2 inhibitors restricting, keeping the coronavirus out. You know, I had

00:01:12.500 this weird feeling yesterday. My town, as far as I know, we've had basically zero coronavirus

00:01:19.440 in my town, which means that I and everyone in my town have been just sort of play acting

00:01:28.180 at the plague. And we're all walking around with our little masks and everything. Now, I

00:01:34.200 get the idea that if we don't all do it, you never know who has it and who doesn't. And

00:01:39.380 you have to all act like, at least act like you have it or it's, or it's everywhere. But

00:01:46.920 it's sort of this weird, absurd realization that I've been living in a reality that doesn't

00:01:52.800 exist. In other words, I've been, I've been existing in at least mentally in a reality in

00:01:59.840 which there's coronavirus on every surface. And the reality might be in my specific town.

00:02:07.280 Maybe none, maybe none, but we're not going to take the chance. So keep your masks on. I

00:02:14.520 say there's a, here's a, here's a, here's a question for you. And this was suggested to

00:02:21.200 be on locals. And I want to see if anybody's had this experience. If you go in and you get

00:02:25.800 a test for coronavirus and it's positive, they'll often tell you to come back in two

00:02:31.420 weeks to test again, to see if you're, if you're no longer positive. If you test positive

00:02:38.320 the second time, do they count that as one person who tested positive or two? You know

00:02:46.700 the answer to that, right? It just feels to me, there's probably not the same people testing

00:02:52.820 each time. And probably every time they get a positive test result, they check it off,

00:02:58.140 check positive. So that might be at least one source of inaccurate counting. But on the

00:03:06.380 other side, there was a, I think it was a Yale researcher who said that based on the unexplained

00:03:12.640 extra deaths before we knew there was a coronavirus, meaning that probably the coronavirus was killing

00:03:18.880 people before we knew it, that he estimates that the number of actual coronavirus deaths

00:03:25.840 might be one to one and a half more than what's reported. Now let's say that's true in the United 0.82

00:03:33.360 States. I don't, I don't have a reason to think that's true, but let's say it is. He's a, he was a

00:03:39.780 Yale guy, seemed to know what he was talking about. One and a half times more than we have, 0.97

00:03:45.900 we're pushing a hundred thousand. So that'd be like close to a quarter million people have

00:03:51.720 already died. Already? Quarter million people? I feel like we would know that. That doesn't

00:03:59.740 quite, doesn't quite pass the sniff test. All right. Have you seen the, probably you have

00:04:09.020 the viral video of, it's got to be viral by now of Joe Biden, uh, doing a interview with, uh,

00:04:16.880 Charlamagne the God. Uh, now if you don't know who Charlamagne the God, it is important to the

00:04:23.040 story to know that he is black because, uh, the quote from Joe Biden is, and I'll read it,

00:04:32.700 but keep in mind that you're going to be hearing it so out of context, which will be the second part

00:04:40.020 of my story. So what, so what Joe Biden said as he was sort of closing up the interview with

00:04:45.680 Charlamagne the God, he goes, quote, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or

00:04:51.020 Trump, then you ain't black. And then Charlamagne quickly said, quote, it don't have nothing to do

00:05:01.180 with Trump has to do with the fact that I want something for my community. Now I have to tell

00:05:07.060 you that, uh, several people sent me this clip this morning and the context that people sent it to me

00:05:15.300 was Biden has gaffed again. He's gaffed again. Well, you know how we always talk about how the, uh,

00:05:23.840 the left is always taken in by these selective video edits. You know, they, they got taken in by the,

00:05:30.360 the Charlottesville hoax. I got taken in by, and other people by the Covington kids hoax.

00:05:36.520 So we know the video is misleading, right? Like we know video is misleading. Uh, this is one of them.

00:05:45.600 So there, I saw two clips. There's a short one. That's the one I just mentioned where really you

00:05:51.020 just, you mostly just see Biden saying what sounds like an awkward thing to say. If you have a problem

00:05:57.200 figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. You know, he says it jokingly. 0.94

00:06:02.360 Now, if you saw that by itself, it just looks like a gaffe. It just looks like what? Why would you say

00:06:11.660 it that way? It's just weird. It looks awkward. But if you see just a little bit more of it,

00:06:18.460 it completely changes it. So, so watch out for this video. It's, it's pretty misleading. So here's

00:06:26.900 what, here's the context that you're missing. Yeah, it's not a gaffe at all. In fact, I give him an A

00:06:32.940 plus. So you've seen me savage Biden, right? I mean, uh, there aren't too many people who've been

00:06:40.580 tougher on it than I have. So if I give him a good grade on something, I think you should take that as

00:06:45.420 credible because I'm, I'm quite biased in the other direction. And here's what I saw. If you saw the

00:06:51.200 slightly larger, uh, clip, the two of them have serious chemistry. That's the part you miss. If you

00:06:59.640 don't see how good their chemistry is, and you see Charlemagne talking very warmly to Biden and inviting

00:07:06.160 him over and stuff, and it seems very genuine. Once you understand that the two of them have a genuine

00:07:12.860 chemistry, then suddenly the context completely changes. And yeah, Biden can say absolutely

00:07:19.840 anything because once you see that they're, you know, they're, they're just so friendly and so

00:07:25.100 comfortable with each other, then it just is obviously just, uh, Biden joking around. And by the way,

00:07:32.640 he did it really well, really well. And here's what I mean by that. By, by his,

00:07:40.400 by his ability to just put it out there so comfortably,

00:07:43.860 it, it kind of tells the story that he's very, very comfortable with Charlemagne, the God. And by

00:07:51.960 extension, you say to yourself, he likes black people. Joe Biden likes black people. That's what I

00:07:59.040 got out of it. If you got anything else, like it was awkward or whatever, you probably saw the short

00:08:04.140 clip, just see a little bit more. And you're going to tell yourself, if black people watch that clip, 0.96

00:08:12.140 they are going to like Joe Biden because it is unmistakable that he likes them.

00:08:19.980 It's really strong. It's really strong, strong enough that Trump has to be careful of that.

00:08:25.440 Meaning, you know, I think I may have underestimated Biden's appeal because he's sell, he sells a

00:08:33.260 genuine, a genuine chemistry that I don't think you can fake. Honestly, I don't think you can fake

00:08:41.140 that. Well, he's just not that good that you can fake that. That looks real to me. And if it registers

00:08:47.020 as real to the black community, he's going to get a lot of votes. Well, we know we will anyway, 0.98

00:08:53.220 both. So I'm going to be a contrarian on that one. That's not a gaffe. That was a home run.

00:08:58.960 If you see the whole clip. Let's see what else we got going on here. So it's starting to look like

00:09:07.600 at least Obama and Biden won't have to worry about any legal repercussions for so-called Obamagate.

00:09:16.260 The hypothesis that we're sort of coming to understand is that Obama probably

00:09:23.160 got the, not probably, Obama got the ball rolling, but probably was not in on the details

00:09:30.160 of whatever they did. And maybe they did a little more than they were supposed to, meaning Comey.

00:09:35.900 So it's probably going to turn out to maybe the underlings did more than they should. That

00:09:41.020 could be a problem, but probably not for Obama. All right. So Jack Murphy over on Twitter

00:09:53.760 was tweeting that a good friend of his was automatically unfollowed from Jack's account.

00:10:02.020 And his friend noted that he also had been unfollowed from me and from Mike Cernovich at different

00:10:07.900 times. And Jack was asking us, you know, what's up with that? And I'll give you my latest. I mean,

00:10:15.500 I still don't know the real answer, but my hypothesis still is that it's third-party apps,

00:10:21.580 meaning that if you have TikTok, for example, when you sign up, it might ask you to have access to

00:10:27.660 your Twitter account so it can post your TikToks. But it might give you more access than you want.

00:10:33.780 Because once some foreign intelligence agency, or domestic, could be our domestic agency,

00:10:41.000 has access through a third-party app to your Twitter account, I think they can unfollow you.

00:10:47.420 And I don't think there would be any record of it that you would ever see.

00:10:51.860 So my hypothesis, because I've actually talked to Jack Dorsey about it, and unless I'm the world's

00:11:00.160 worst judge of character, and I don't think I am, unless I'm the world's worst judge of character,

00:11:06.280 Jack has no idea why this is happening. And he's looked into it. So I think that, I don't think

00:11:13.680 that it's coming from Twitter management. If it's coming from, you know, somebody who works there,

00:11:20.540 that's a possibility. But it feels like third-party influence to me. That's just my guess.

00:11:27.280 I'll call that a working hypothesis. Wouldn't bet my life on it. But that's where it feels like it's

00:11:34.580 heading. All right. Have you noticed that the complaints about Trump tend to be so generic

00:11:44.300 that they sound like a cry for help from the person who is doing it? Here is one of the memes I saw

00:11:50.560 today. It was a picture of Trump, and the meme said, doesn't listen, doesn't understand,

00:11:56.600 doesn't tell the truth, doesn't obey the rules, doesn't care about anyone. Now, of course,

00:12:03.440 part of it is just crazy mind reading at a distance. I don't think you can see in his brain 0.76

00:12:08.740 to see what he cares about. But it's so generic that it just feels like a mental problem on the

00:12:16.300 part of the person saying it, doesn't it? Yeah, he doesn't obey the rules, which is an interesting

00:12:21.240 way to put it. And I'm trying to think, if you were to just criticize the president on things

00:12:28.100 that you could measure, how would that look? Why do they have to resort to things that can't be

00:12:35.760 measured? Couldn't they say, blah, blah, the economy, blah, blah, this, blah, blah, the debt? They can't

00:12:42.660 use anything with a number on it? There's nothing that could be objectively looked at that says he's

00:12:48.980 doing poorly, because I'm sure there are. There must be some statistic that he's doing poorly in.

00:12:57.400 Now, obviously, the economy is in the toilet, but everybody knows what the problem with that is.

00:13:02.720 Just a question. So I have a new policy for blocking, in addition to my normal blocks,

00:13:11.840 just for being trolls, I've started blocking people who mischaracterize my opinion in public

00:13:17.900 and then criticize it. Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, Scott, that's a little harsh.

00:13:25.460 If somebody mischaracterizes you on Twitter, why don't you just tell them what your actual opinion

00:13:31.060 is? Wouldn't that be better than blocking them? I thought that for decades, not decades on Twitter,

00:13:38.220 but forever, I've thought to myself, if I can just tell this troll, this critic, what my actual opinion

00:13:46.660 is, I can get them to stop imagining I have some other opinion and then attacking me for their

00:13:53.520 imagined opinion. In all of my life, I've never succeeded at that. And finally, I said to myself,

00:14:01.380 oh, I get it. It's intentional. Or it's something they can't help. Meaning that if they've misinterpreted

00:14:09.420 you once and you correct them, they don't go to the correction, they go to a new misinterpretation.

00:14:16.200 You've seen it, right? You've seen it a million times in your own life. They will just keep moving

00:14:20.640 from one misinterpretation to another, but they will never accept your own opinion as you tell it to

00:14:29.480 them. In fact, they'll tell you that you've changed your opinion, as if you don't know what

00:14:34.480 your opinion is. So I've stopped completely debating with people who, as soon as at the very first moment

00:14:44.040 they mischaracterize, I just block them. And I find that my life is so much better because they always

00:14:50.940 turn into these extended fights where they imagine that they're arguing with me, but they're only

00:14:56.580 arguing with their misinterpretation of my point. Let me give you the specific example.

00:15:02.400 So this particular troll yesterday was saying that, claiming that I said that all of the states and

00:15:09.060 all of the countries were having roughly the same outcomes. Now, if you hear that out of context,

00:15:16.440 you say to yourself, uh, that's not true. They all have all kinds of different curves and stuff.

00:15:22.100 So of course I didn't say that, right? Here's what I did say. They are within a range and that range

00:15:33.300 is big enough. In other words, there's, there's no country where everybody died and there's no country

00:15:39.260 that has an infection rate where nobody died. You know, so there's sort of a range and they're all

00:15:44.740 in that range. And when they're not in that range, it's usually some, something we know about,

00:15:49.860 such as elderly and Italy, et cetera. But here, here's my real point. There are so many variables

00:15:57.520 from vitamin D to, you know, the sun, the humidity, the density, et cetera, that I don't think you can

00:16:07.780 tell what the leaders have done that made a difference. So that was my point that got turned

00:16:13.800 into this other point by the critic who got blocked. So my point is that if you were trying to sort out

00:16:19.140 which governors were doing a good job and which ones did a bad job, unless you had a really specific

00:16:25.880 question, like the nursing homes things, that's pretty specific. But in general, you wouldn't be

00:16:31.040 able to sort out what went well or what didn't go well because of what they did. Because there's also

00:16:37.880 the vitamin D that they use. Some of them use hydroxychloroquine. There's different rates of old

00:16:42.980 people, you know, the distance. They have, you know, they have subways or they don't. So my only point is

00:16:49.500 that we'll never be able to sort out the mistakes. But let's talk about this nursing home stuff.

00:16:56.420 So the, here's what I think happened with New York and Cuomo. And there's some other states, I think,

00:17:04.740 to send people back to nursing homes. So apparently the, the initial guidance from New York was that

00:17:12.540 any nursing home has to take these people back. But then a month later, they modified it to say,

00:17:19.380 no, no, no, you only have to take these people back if you can meet the requirements of doing it

00:17:25.520 safely. And if you tell us you can't, then you don't have to. Now, in the real world, you know,

00:17:32.020 people can't tell. You should assume that these nursing homes are going to say to themselves,

00:17:37.220 well, you know, we, we think we can, but they're not, they're not really medical facilities. So

00:17:43.260 are they right? So you could see that this was a gigantic problem, but here's what I want to add

00:17:50.320 to this. Do you think the experts told Cuomo to do something different than what he did?

00:17:58.100 Think about it. Do you think that Cuomo's experts in the state of New York or whoever he was talking

00:18:05.080 to, when the, when the, you know, the question came up of where do you put the old people who 0.92

00:18:10.720 have tested positive? And there was obviously a trade-off and they said, well, we could put them

00:18:17.900 in the hospitals, but hospitals might be impacted, might not have enough room, or we could try to get

00:18:23.640 him back in the nursing homes under these certain conditions that we hope will be safe.

00:18:29.160 Do you think Cuomo made the decision or did he listen to his experts?

00:18:37.080 Somebody says the experts told him not to. Is that, is that reported?

00:18:43.580 If you have a, if you have a link for something that would suggest the experts told him not to,

00:18:49.000 let me know. But I'm going to guess that the experts told him that that would work out. Okay.

00:18:56.720 How much do you blame Mario Cuomo? Not Mario. Sorry, wrong generation. How much do you blame,

00:19:05.340 uh, Andrew Cuomo? If, and this is the, if we need to fact check on this, if he followed the experts'

00:19:14.340 opinions, right? Because what are all the experts doing? As far as I know, every governor and every

00:19:26.200 president of the United States followed all of the experts' recommendations until the one that I know

00:19:34.080 of, and there may be others, but this is the only one I know of, the one and only time I know of

00:19:39.840 that one of these leaders directly violated the suggestion from the experts was when Trump closed

00:19:48.800 the travel from China. So we have one example of leadership. Correct me if I'm wrong. Leadership

00:19:57.760 was when Trump said, you know, the experts say, don't do this. I'm going to do this anyway because

00:20:04.880 I like the, I like the risk management of it. If it's wrong, it's just two weeks. It's no big deal.

00:20:09.840 If it's right, you know, I've saved tens of thousands of lives and that may actually be

00:20:15.100 what happened. So we have exactly one example that I know of, and I'm open to more examples

00:20:22.360 because surely there must be other ones. But I know of one example of any of these leaders

00:20:27.920 doing something that the experts did not advise and it was right. And it was Trump. Give me an

00:20:35.460 example where any of the governors did that. There might be examples. I don't know. Oh, Georgia.

00:20:39.820 Somebody says Georgia. I don't know the details of Georgia, but I think what you're getting

00:20:44.660 at is that Georgia opened up earlier than the experts suggested. And so far, do we know

00:20:51.140 if that's worked or not? I don't know. But yeah, that would be, if that one proves out,

00:20:56.800 that would be a good example. So my point is this. When you're looking at Cuomo and you're

00:21:01.920 saying to yourself, he made this huge mistake, you can definitely say it was a huge mistake because

00:21:08.080 the outcome was bad. But can you say it was a leadership mistake if he took the advice

00:21:15.260 of experts? And I don't know if he did. So let's check on that. And by the way, why are

00:21:19.460 we even talking about it if we don't know that? Right? Why are we even talking about whether

00:21:25.980 Cuomo made the right or wrong decision about nursing homes? Obviously it's wrong in the end

00:21:31.320 without knowing if he was advised to do it or who advised him. Were these qualified advisors?

00:21:38.640 I'd like to know that. Then we could have an opinion. So let me put it this way. If his advisors

00:21:46.040 told him not to do it, or even if they were mixed, and then he did it, then I'd say, well, okay, 1.00

00:21:52.740 that's on him. If the advisor said, yeah, all things considered, there's no good choice. We don't want the

00:21:58.900 hospitals to be overrun either. Let's try this. If the experts advised it. I think he's got an

00:22:06.100 out. All right. Apparently my local hospitals, Walnut Creek Hospital in particular, says they have a

00:22:15.280 sharp uptick in suicides that coincides pretty much with the shelter in place stuff. And they don't say

00:22:23.120 the number, but they say the figure of recent suicides just in my area right here is, quote,

00:22:31.720 unprecedented. So that's bad. Now, if those of you remember, my first predictions here was that if

00:22:42.120 the shutdown was a short one, you know, if it's a month or six weeks, probably it would reduce suicides

00:22:48.520 because everything just pauses when you have a big change, but that the longer it goes, of course,

00:22:54.660 of course, that increases the risk every day that you go on. So we're well into the point where it

00:23:00.920 would, it would be reasonable to assume that there's, there's more suicide coming. I looked before I got

00:23:08.780 on, I was trying to look for excess deaths over the baseline just to get an update. I couldn't find it.

00:23:15.520 Can anybody tweet at me? It updated, you know, all the way through today, a list of deaths by month

00:23:26.220 on the baseline so that we can see how 2020 is looking compared to the baseline. So do we have

00:23:33.140 more total deaths with all causes, you know, this April and May than we did in prior years? I couldn't

00:23:40.420 find that for some reason. There's a, there was a little study about drumming of all things in

00:23:50.140 which that the people studying have found that if you had people drum to the same beat and the end

00:23:56.660 they stayed together and synchronized, that their heartbeats would actually start to synchronize

00:24:01.240 and that when you had them do shared activities, the next thing that you had them do, they could

00:24:08.340 coordinate with each other better. So it's actually been demonstrated scientifically that, you know,

00:24:14.540 of course, subject to peer review and, you know, studies that back it up, etc. But initially it's

00:24:21.280 looking like creating some kind of a rhythm does in fact connect people and that that connection

00:24:27.320 becomes productive, meaning that they'll work together better. Now this is, of course, the ultimate

00:24:33.480 extension of what the hypnotists know, which is that if you match somebody, you pace them,

00:24:40.140 you can then later lead them. So it's the same concept and you'll see it in a whole bunch of

00:24:45.060 different ways. And once you learn that matching somebody is the first thing you need to do before

00:24:50.780 you can lead them or work with them or coordinate with them well, it's one of the most important

00:24:56.580 lessons in life. So there's a lot of talk about church openings and people saying things such as

00:25:07.520 why can my gym reopen but not my church, etc. And I've been just sort of monitoring that

00:25:16.860 because since I'm not personally religious, yeah, I've been sort of just watching it. It's not really my

00:25:24.660 business. But the longer it goes on, the more I feel like I have to comment on it. So I'll start

00:25:31.540 with this overarching comment. I'm not a believer, but I'm very pro-religion. I've told you this before.

00:25:39.000 So although I don't personally believe, I witness and observe that people who have belief seem to have

00:25:46.860 better lives, just in general, you know, statistically and observationally, and I think the science backs it up

00:25:53.060 too. So I'm entirely pro-religion, because as far as I can tell, it works. Makes people happier. If

00:26:00.720 there's an afterlife, well, bonus. But it seems to make people happier while they're here. So I'm pro-religion.

00:26:06.140 Let's start with that. Right? So if anything I say sounds biased against religion, just remember the

00:26:13.300 first part. I'm not. I'm pro-religion. That said, why do churches want to open? I'm a little confused.

00:26:26.440 I know you like going to church, and I know that there's benefit of going to church, of course.

00:26:31.140 That's my whole point. But do you have a kind of special God who doesn't do takeout?

00:26:37.960 will your religion suffer if you take a few months off? If you simply do something else on Sunday

00:26:46.380 morning for a few months, will your God abandon you? Will you abandon your God? Will he not hear

00:26:52.540 your prayers? What exactly do you lose if you're just waiting a few months? Now, if I told you you

00:27:02.180 could never go back to church, well, of course. You know, then you've got to do what you've got to do

00:27:06.940 to get your rights back. But nobody's telling you you can never go back to church. We're literally

00:27:12.100 just saying, hey, take a little pause here. I don't think your faith is going to suffer.

00:27:18.480 So I watch this, and I think, of all the things you could fight about, there are a million things

00:27:26.300 that you could find to have some conflict about and disagreement about. But really, do you want to

00:27:32.020 fight for being in close quarters with other people when it's just not necessary at the moment?

00:27:41.060 I mean, arguably, it is necessary in the long run for your soul and your well-being, etc.

00:27:47.600 But does anybody think it's necessary in the short run, given that nobody's faith is going to be shaken

00:27:54.100 by any of this? Somebody says a need for a community. There is a need for a community, but again,

00:28:01.880 in the short run. It just feels like it's a fight that's not worth having, right? Now, I get that

00:28:10.980 people want their freedom and everything, but again, it's the short run. I feel as though somebody

00:28:17.160 says, please stop, Scott. I'm going to have to block you for that. So that's my opinion. Obviously,

00:28:33.000 since, as I said, I'm not a believer and I don't go to church, I don't have any stake in it. I have no

00:28:39.940 stake in it whatsoever. But I would just suggest to you that whatever you think is the upside potential

00:28:46.440 of it, probably no real upside potential in the short run. A month or two, do a little zooming,

00:28:54.280 I think you'll be fine. Anyway, I don't think it's a fight worth having, but it is your fight to have,

00:28:59.560 not mine. So if you want to have it, that's fine with me. Amazingly, CNN, even today, is still running

00:29:09.020 an article about how dangerous hydroxychloroquine is. And yet again, they don't mention

00:29:16.020 they don't mention zinc. It's another entire article about hydroxychloroquine not working.

00:29:24.940 And again, today, as of today, it's still running on their website and it doesn't even mention zinc,

00:29:32.740 the active part. What would it be like to be a CNN news consumer and not know anything about what's

00:29:42.480 going on? I mean, that's a lot of context to be missing. All right. There's a story, and I think

00:29:49.920 it was Gateway Pundit, that Klobuchar is saying that her husband took hydroxychloroquine when he had

00:29:57.680 coronavirus, apparently. And Klobuchar sheepishly admitted that, you know, maybe, you know, things can

00:30:07.200 make sense if you talk to your doctor. But then she tried to say it was dangerous, and she just

00:30:12.820 couldn't sell it. She just could not sell it. So I think Klobuchar did not cover herself in glory.

00:30:26.640 Is anybody concerned about this story about Trump wearing a mask or not wearing a mask to the Ford

00:30:34.120 plant? I don't know if I've ever heard a less important story. Because the whole point of the

00:30:41.220 masks, correct me if I'm wrong, is that you don't want to be the one who's exhaling the coronavirus.

00:30:50.360 It's not so much about catching it. It's more about you giving it to somebody. And the president

00:30:55.820 is the most special of special cases. Doesn't he get tested every day? Now, not only does he get

00:31:03.600 tested every day, but the other people talking to him will have masks on. So you won't have any

00:31:09.240 situation where there are two unmasked people. It looked like he was keeping his distance even

00:31:14.580 without the mask. When he was in one part of the building, he did put the mask on. I don't know if

00:31:21.000 I've ever seen less of a story. It seems like literally the smallest story in the world that,

00:31:27.920 yeah, he seems to be setting an example. But what exactly is the example? The example that I got out

00:31:37.800 of this was, if you're the president of the United States, if you have a personal physician,

00:31:43.780 if you get tested for the coronavirus every day, and if you visit the Ford plant, maybe you should

00:31:50.400 wear your mask in certain places but not others? I mean, who exactly is going to go out and follow

00:31:55.740 that model? Well, I was going to visit the Ford plant and I wasn't going to wear my mask.

00:32:01.180 And now that the president didn't wear his, when I tour the Ford plant, I'm not going to wear a mask

00:32:05.900 either. How many people are going to look at the president wearing a mask sometimes in the Ford

00:32:11.900 plant, but when he was talking to reporters with the cameras on, not? How many people are going to

00:32:16.800 look at that and say, therefore, I'm not going to wear a mask to my gym? I don't know that that's

00:32:23.960 going to happen. I don't know that the president's setting that kind of an example. Now, of course,

00:32:31.840 the famous example where a president did set a standard was when Kennedy stopped wearing hats,

00:32:37.560 and then hats became not a thing for men. But that was just a style thing. Who in the world is going

00:32:43.720 to be taking their face mask medical advice by watching what the president does when we all know

00:32:51.500 he's a special case? I don't see any story here. It's the smallest, the smallest news of all time.

00:33:00.040 All right. That is what we know. Now, the president has promised us that there will be more good

00:33:11.200 news coming down the pike, more therapeutics, more vaccine news. And the latest news out of Canada,

00:33:21.860 the Canadians, doing us a solid, I think, studied a bunch of marijuana plants and found that 13 of

00:33:31.400 them, but not most of them, because there are lots of different marijuana strains, but 13 of them had

00:33:36.760 just the right chemical composition that it looks like it influences your ACE2 inhibitors to resist

00:33:45.920 coronavirus. That's right. There might be, needs verification, but there might be a marijuana

00:33:53.980 treatment for coronavirus. Now, I don't know which of those 13 strains they're using, but I'm going to

00:34:01.380 smoke as much as I can, just in case. Somebody says, you are wrong. What am I wrong about? Am I wrong

00:34:11.380 that you're getting blocked for saying you were wrong? Probably not. That's for the new people who

00:34:18.360 don't know that when you say you were wrong, instant block. Yes. Why is there not a MAGA mask?

00:34:25.640 When, when the president was wearing his mask, I noticed it looked like it was sort of an official

00:34:30.760 blue looking mask with a little, maybe it was a seal of the president over there or something.

00:34:35.980 And I thought that's pretty cool. But wouldn't you expect to see American flag

00:34:41.500 masks be fairly common? I'll tell you the masks that look really ugly to me, the, the, the monocolor

00:34:50.080 masks that are either white or black, or sometimes they have some kind of weird skin tones that are

00:34:55.860 sometimes African-American skin tones and sometimes lighter skin tones. And I don't like any of them. 1.00

00:35:02.500 I, I hate that. I hate to treat it like a fashion statement, but all of the plain colored ones, 0.54

00:35:09.580 I think look bad. Uh, I'd rather see one with a little character. So let's get some, let's get some

00:35:16.140 good masks. I think I've actually reached a point in the mask acceptance that I'm starting to see them

00:35:24.440 as fashion. And also, Oh, uh, I have an interesting observation for you.

00:35:32.500 Just something to watch. Uh, I don't know if this is true, but I feel as if there's a certain

00:35:40.120 segment of the female population who is going to feel more comfortable in masks. And I would be very 0.99

00:35:47.360 interested in the opinion of any women who are watching this to, to see if you would agree. Um,

00:35:53.600 if you're a woman and you go out in public where there are men, you're pretty much always being

00:35:59.620 stared at and judged and you just feel like you're, you know, you're prey now that everybody's mileage

00:36:07.380 will differ, right? So there's no two people have the same experience, but it's very common if you're

00:36:12.380 a woman to feel like you're just sort of, uh, you know, walking around being looked at, judged, stared at,

00:36:21.540 you know, people having, uh, you know, sexual thoughts, et cetera. And my observation is that I saw more

00:36:28.120 women in this, in the grocery store than I'm used to. It actually looked like women were leaving the house 1.00

00:36:35.500 more because the mask made them comfortable or something. And it was, it was sort of striking

00:36:41.480 when I went to the store. It's like, wow, there are a lot of, you know, women in a certain age group

00:36:46.300 wearing masks. And I thought, I wonder if it's actually more comfortable to go some places with

00:36:52.560 a mask on. So that's just a question. No one thinks Scott Adams is smarter than Scott Adams does.

00:37:00.740 Well, you're right, but you're also blocked. Uh, he got blocked for being right. That's a, that's a first,

00:37:11.500 uh, somebody says, challenge yourself. It's better than smoking dope. You know, people who don't know

00:37:23.740 much about marijuana have different opinions than people who know a lot about it. I'll just leave it

00:37:30.580 there. You can decide what category you're in. All right. Uh, not me. Don't like restrictions to

00:37:39.680 breathing. You know, uh, let me tell you a little experience I had driving the other day.

00:37:45.200 You've probably had this too. You'll see somebody driving the car with a mask on and they're by

00:37:50.180 themselves. And you say to themselves, uh, you say to yourself, uh, I don't think you understand the

00:37:55.760 mask idea. If you're by yourself in your own car, you don't need a mask. The other day I got in my

00:38:04.800 car after I'd been in the grocery store and I still had my mask on and I started to drive and it was

00:38:11.680 still on. And I thought to myself, well, I'm just going from here to, you know, home. It's not very far.

00:38:18.860 I'll just leave my mask on because I got so used to it that the, the effort of taking it off. And

00:38:27.140 when I take it off, it hooks on my glasses and then my glasses come off and then I'm like, ah,

00:38:31.420 so I, I very, very quickly got to the point where leaving it on just for convenience was fine because

00:38:40.620 it wasn't bothering me that much. Has anybody, has anybody got to that point where you've worn it so

00:38:46.260 much that you almost, you've acclimated and you can't even tell it's on anymore? Has anybody got

00:38:51.460 to that point? Um, am I sponsoring Rasmussen this week? Yes. The Rasmussen poll is listing me as their

00:39:02.900 sponsor for this week for their polls. Now being a sponsor just means that you're, you know, you're,

00:39:09.680 uh, you're associating with each other. It's not a money, there's no money involved.

00:39:16.260 Um, can we build a startup together? You have an awesome e-learning project. Well, I probably

00:39:25.180 can't get involved in a new startup. I've got a lot going on, but there's going to be a lot

00:39:30.420 of the learning startups. I'll tell you. Um, if it's a short journey, you don't have to take it off.

00:39:39.920 Yeah. I mean, you know, I used to rip it off as quickly as I could because I hated it, but I kind

00:39:46.220 of got used to it. It would be real easy to imagine that in the future we'll have some kind of mouth,

00:39:52.980 mouth, nose covering that maybe cleans the air that maybe acts as your, your phone. I've always

00:40:01.580 thought that the future would be some kind of a, uh, a comfortable mask that goes over your face and

00:40:07.180 nose that you have on all the time and you can talk so that you can make a phone call without

00:40:13.440 anybody hearing it because the mask is, is muffling it. Somebody says the mask triggers

00:40:20.220 your claustrophobia. Oh, that would be a problem. I haven't had that sensation, but I can imagine

00:40:25.800 some people would. Yeah. Some, so other people are saying, yeah, stays on until you're home.

00:40:32.240 Uh, and other people say they panic with the mask. Yeah, that's going to be really, it fogs

00:40:39.760 up your glasses. Somebody needs to invent a mask that doesn't fog up your glasses because

00:40:44.880 I have that problem too. Uh, pull it down and step out of it. All right, here's the mask

00:40:52.920 I want. I want a turtleneck that just lifts up. Do they make that? Like it's just on all the

00:41:00.120 time on your turtleneck and you just go, whoop. I think I saw that somebody makes that. All right,

00:41:05.120 that's enough for me. I'll talk to you tonight.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 22, 2020

Episode 990 Scott Adams： Biden and Charlamagne Tha God, More Bad HCQ Studies, Scary Orange Man Complaints, Masks

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