Episode 842 Scott Adams: Biden, Coronavirus, MSNBC Trying to do Math and Other Disasters

Date: 2020-03-06 | Duration: 53:31

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a MSNBC Brian Williams and NYT Mara Gay math error Matt Gaetz GDP of American Samoa Bill Clinton’s anxiety management technique Lisa Marie Boothe’s perfect framing of Biden v Trump Elizabeth Warren’s dishonesty Coronavirus

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hey everybody it's time it's time it's time for coffee with Scott Adams come on in
in you came to the right place good job so far your day is going just the way you wanted to dr. drew good to see you it's a terrific morning and it's only gonna get better yes it is because you're about to enjoy something well you've heard of it it's it's going all around the world now it's not the corona virus it's the simultaneous sip and all you need to enjoy it is a cup or a mug or a glass a tankard chalasis died in the canteen director flask a vessel of any kind filling with your favorite liquid have you heard I like coffee enjoyed me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous up go mmm better every time do you feel your immunity immunity

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time do you feel your immunity immunity improving we'll be talking about to grow the virus but first some politics some fun stuff here's the least important news you'll ever hear the jobs numbers are really good I it's it's such a tragedy that we're getting job numbers that are just crazy good like you know trashing expectations that are so good but they're for the last month so we're gonna see a little dip in the economy there's there's no question about that might not be as big as people think I don't think it's gonna be toward the worst case or anywhere near it I think it'll be a blip I think in a year we'll be we'll be back in a hundred percent but those job numbers are a good reminder of this concept that you need to be strong to get ready for surprises

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to be strong to get ready for surprises the Black Swan event the thing you didn't see coming and this is really relevant to the question of climate change isn't it because if you use all of your ammunition on one emergency how much do you have left for the next emergency and how many emergencies are there they have global economic disaster potential well you know I've been saying I've been saying for years that if we were to spend you know whatever is we consider our excess financial ability if we if we move it to climate change that could be a great thing for saving the world from climate change if if that risk turns out to be what the scientists say but what about the other stuff people always say you should you should definitely you know even if you don't believe climate change is going to kill us because there's a risk and it's so big you know what you destroy the entire planet you should put all of your resources

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you should put all of your resources there to drive that risk to zero and I've been saying since the beginning hello that doesn't make sense that only makes sense in a world with one risk in the world with multiple risks that could all take you out you need to be ready for home and sometimes the best thing you can do is to keep your economy and your people as healthy as possible so that when they take the punch they can get up and that's that's where President Trump has brought us and I give credit to Obama I'm not the guy who says Trump did everything right to Obama did everything wrong I think it took two presidents in two different times with two different personalities and they were both well fitted for their time I think I'm alone in that opinion but we got to this point where the United States is very strong and we got here at a point when we needed to be strong so that might be one of president Trump's

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that might be one of president Trump's greatest accomplishments is to toughen us up and you know make the border a big question and make make the economy a big question and we're probably in stronger shape than we could have been without toughening up so that's good but I wouldn't wouldn't make anything from the jobs numbers except it's it's better than if it were bad so the news from Afghanistan in Syria without getting into the details are everybody smart is pretty sure that if we leave you or at least not paying attention to either those places Afghanistan is more about leaving Syria is more about should we be more involved in it Lib or not and the president's made the adult decision excuse me he's made the parent decision that when we leave those people those poor people in those regions are going to get slaughtered but if we stayed it

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to get slaughtered but if we stayed it doesn't make sense because we would just be postponing the inevitable because they were gonna get slaughtered anyway it happened slower it will happen when we leave eventually so there wasn't any path to success and it's a real tough decision but it's the right one to get out when there's no path to success and the president's taking that choice I applaud it but you have to have you know sympathy empathy for the people who we are leaving behind they will be slaughtered but to keep it in context there are lots of places in the world that we could put the same amount of effort to save the same amount of lives it's not the one place it's just not the one place that needs help where people are dying unnecessarily we could help all of them if we had enough money but we don't so we got to call our shots I I look at you know the everything from the coronavirus to the Wars to the economy as part of a big system and you want

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as part of a big system and you want this system to be as strong as possible and it's an ugly truth that the system is probably strongest when the when the biggest player is the strongest now I can't prove that but so I'll put it out there and you can you can wrestle with it but let me say it again I think the world is strongest when its most important player is strongest now that assumes that the most important player is a benevolent kind of force and I think the United States is I'm not talking about you know Hitler or Putin being the strongest in the world but if the United States the most I would say most productive well-intentioned player the stronger we are the better the whole world is because we're the ones who are going to be able to dole out help and you know we're sort of that a an anchor that could give the rest of the world some optimism that things get improved

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some optimism that things get improved if you let the United States to have the same amount of problems that the other countries had we would be brought down to their problems and you would have the international relations equivalent of socialism we have sort of just by analogy not in actuality but by analogy the way the United States operates which is staying selfish to a point right we give some international aid but it's really trivial where the United States remains as a selfish but I would argue that's what makes the entire system work best in the same way that in capitalism looking out for your own profits kind of makes everybody better off even if it doesn't sound like you should even if it doesn't sound kind so I think the United States is likely to be one of the most well probably the most productive player just by being healthy all right you're

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just by being healthy all right you're all laughing I know this morning about the amazing math errors that we're watching in the media it started with a tweet from from one Revis makitas or possibly Makita Revis so one of those names I don't know which is the first name I think it's Makita Revis so she tweeted and I'll paraphrase but she tweeted that Bloomberg spent five hundred million dollars on this campaign and all he got was some delegates out of American Samoa which most of you didn't know even existed until this week so congratulations there's something called in America Samoa and now you all know it exists I'm not sure I knew it existed last week so I'm certainly not calling you uninformed you know when we're talking about it I think to myself oh yeah I've heard of that I've heard of America Samoa now tell me where it is and I don't feel

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now tell me where it is and I don't feel guilty one bit that I have now spent much time understanding where America Samoyeds anyway back to the tweet so this was presumably left leading person I assume tweets that Bloomberg spent five hundred million just to get a couple of Delegates in America Samoa and then goes on to say that instead of spending that five hundred million given that there are only 327 million people in the United States the Bloomberg could have given a million dollars to each says that the United States and wouldn't that make everybody's life better what
so you're probably doing the math in your head then you just said to yourself Scott isn't that math off by a million yes it is it is off by a million so but

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yes it is it is off by a million so but that's not bad enough you know somebody making a dumb math mistake or a typo or using a word wrong or something the spelling error in a tweet I'm the first one to tell you it doesn't mean anything right I've made a lot of tweet mistakes some of them pretty bad so I'm not the one who's going to jump on somebody for you having a brain a brain flaw on a tweet but it didn't end there it got better yeah I got better MSNBC Brian Williams does a segment in which he's talking to Mara gray was on the New York Times editorial board and they bring up this tweet and they show the graphic now showing the graphic indicates that this was planned went through producers and editors probably a number of people saw it and they put it on the air and then they discussed it and between Brian Williams and Mara gray

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and between Brian Williams and Mara gray of the New York Times editorial board they also laughed but not at the tweet they weren't laughing because the math was wrong by a million no they were laughing because they thought it was accurate and they thought it was a good point that Bloomberg should have spent a million dollars and just given it to every citizen in the United States and we'd all be rich for a good idea right and nobody nobody stopped the game there were no refs to say buh tweet tweet Brian Williams Mara gray foul you can't put that on the air because four people are gonna believe that that's actually real math it's gonna be kind of embarrassing but no whistle was sounded and so that went on and they are getting absolutely pilloried today I do not envy

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absolutely pilloried today I do not envy Brian Williams and Mara Gray's week may be their month I don't know if you can ever recover from this now again listen let's be fair do you think that Mara gray and Brian Williams can do math well enough to know that this is wrong and the answer is yes yes of course neither of them are so dumb that they don't know this math is wrong but why did they act like they didn't know why did they put it on the air and the answer is it's it's an optical illusion that I'm using that the figurative sense it's not actually optical so there's something about this little tweet that is weirdly cleverly misleading because if you if you just read it fast hey gave up five hundred million dollars to you know to the campaign three hundred twenty seven million people

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hundred twenty seven million people that's a million dollars piece we could have all had a million dollars if you just say it fast you actually think it does make sense but I think the reason you make sense is because you've made sense to other people see where I'm going with this there this has been studied quite a bit if you put a bunch of people in the room and let's say nine of them are working for the researcher so they're they're in on that on the joke and one of them is not and doesn't know doesn't know that he's the only one in the room who's not in on it if nine people give an opinion that's ridiculous you can test this it's very it's very well tested the tenth person will be positive those nine people are wrong and still agree with them very easily just saying okay it must be me if nine people are all on this crazy opinion yeah I'll go there too so peer pressure overcomes math and common sense

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pressure overcomes math and common sense and your own judgement all the time it's easily proven so if you're laughing at Brian Williams and Maura gray for being bad at math that's probably not exactly what's happening you should feel sorry for them because they got a little cognitive trap and I'm gonna say this you're not gonna like it could it happen to a lot of people I'm not going to say it could happen to everybody because I don't think it would have happened to me and I'd like to think that most of you it would not have happened to but if you took a hundred people in the media and you put it in Brian Williams put a chair for that exact situation how many out of a hundred would have caught that half maybe half because you know illusions don't fool everybody all the time but I I'm going to show him some empathy for this being a cognitive

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empathy for this being a cognitive illusion not a math problem which would look just stupid now I do say all the time that one of the problems with the media is that they're not trained in economics and science and engineering and other things that would be useful for them to give the public a good idea of what's going on but I don't know if that's the case here I do think that if they had been economists they would be more alert to the problem so probably the fact that there were no Economist's or engineers or scientists who looked at this graphic before it went on there probably does mean something I would like to guess that if he had hundred engineers and you tried to pull this cognitive trick on them though almost a hundred percent of them would not fall for it so they're not innocent for having fallen for a trick because there are other people with wider wider exposure to things I think would have caught it right away I'm pretty sure I

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caught it right away I'm pretty sure I would have so does that mean liberals are dumb and can't do math well as it turns out we have a very interesting case with a Matt Gaetz tweet about the same time that Gates of course associated with the right and what he said was and again I'll paraphrase he said he said that Bloomberg spent five hundred million to get those two delegates in America Samoa and the entire GDP of America Samoa is only seven hundred billion so you spend five hundred million just to get two delegates and Matt Gaetz says you could have bought them you could have bought the entire America Samoa for seven hundred billion do you see anything wrong with that yeah because we're laughing about those we're laughing about Brian Williams and Mauro gray right oh how dumb they are with that it's that math error which was really a cognitive cognitive trick but when mad

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cognitive cognitive trick but when mad Gates says you know he should have bought America Samoa for seven hundred million because that's her entire GDP does that make sense and I'm not talking about the question of whether or not it's for sale because obviously he's just he's he's speaking in the Twitter way of hyperbole and just having fun it's not as serious in any way but let me explain something about the GDP that's not what makes the price tag in your state or your country or your region or your whatever the help America Samoa is that's not what does that I'm gonna I'm gonna help you mark or Richard Richard says this is boring so we're gonna make him go away goodbye here's the thing the price or the value that you would pay for a country or a state as should it be for sale be it Greenland or America Samoa or anywhere else is not the GDP because the

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anywhere else is not the GDP because the GDP is just how much they do per year or an economic activity has nothing to do with what you would pay for the country so now does Matt Gaetz know what I just said does even doesn't know that the GDP is not telling you the price tag of a region yeah he knows that of course he knows that but when I saw the tweet I said to myself oh here it comes all the nitpicker all the nit pickers are gonna say Matt Gaetz what don't you understand about economics the GDP doesn't tell you the price of the country I mean it's related it can tell you a sizing relative to others so it's useful for that but it's not the price tag in the country so I looked at in the comments to see how many people would say Matt you got this all wrong and there weren't any so apparently apparently nobody noticed when Matt Gaetz said that Bloomberg could have bought America Samoa for the

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could have bought America Samoa for the value of their GDP which makes no sense all and and nobody nitpicked him and I thought did they not in to pick him because they know he's not being serious and he noticed that you don't pay the GDP it's a price tag where do they not know it's an open question all right let's talk about something else Bill Clinton found a way to make things worse for Monica Lewinsky so decades after poor Monica lives Lewinsky goes through this ordeal something that you know lives with her forever and you think well maybe she's finally getting used to it you know you can get used to anything after a while and then there's this Netflix documentary which is which is not kind to Monica Lewinsky but accidentally and so Bill Clinton was talking about essentially what was his motivation or why did he have this extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky

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extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky and he said it was quote that there was a lot of stress on the job being the president was giving him a lot of anxiety and he thought that having this affair with Monica Lewinsky would it be a way to of managing my anxieties now
first choice just don't talk about it anymore that's first choice if you want to be kind to Monica Lewinsky don't do the documentary and if you do don't talk about it and if you talk about it don't say anything new don't say anything new no surprises Bill Clinton comes up with saying that Monica Lewinsky was nothing but a way of managing his anxieties that is one of the most insulting things I have ever heard in my entire life am I wrong imagine you're Monica Lewinsky and you're reading that Bill Clinton only had a relationship with you to manage

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had a relationship with you to manage his anxiety ouch that's like the biggest move I've ever seen in my life seriously that's horrible so you know I I apologize on behalf of the United States for electing Bill Clinton who would say that decades after you know the wound is is healing I mean that's messed up isn't it that's messed up to me that looks like taking a wood that had closed and just opening it up for no reason at all except I want to feel good about yourself Bill Clinton don't be proud of that all right
I tweeted the worst one of the worst and that one of the worst tweets of my life in which I called something a fatal kill shot well you might imagine that people on Twitter said fatal kill shots a little redundant Scott what were done didn't any right but it was on this so

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didn't any right but it was on this so President Trump tweeted a quote I guess it came from Lisa Marie booth probably on Fox probably on Ed Henry show based on the who attacked and he and the quote that the president thought was worthy of retweeting to his 73 million followers was quote to Joe Biden represents the past president Trump represents the future that's really strong because even if you like everything that Biden is offering it is unambiguous ly more like and he's selling it this way more like you know going back to the Obama world now even if you think that was a good idea and a lot of people do if I just explained it to you that way if I said do you want to stay in this Trump like administration world that has these this set of problems according to you or would you like to be in more of an Obama like world where we're not like that now

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like world where we're not like that now if you put the question that way people say well at least a lot of people Democrats would say I like that Obama the world yeah yeah let's let's do that again that worked out pretty well doing something again that doesn't sound bad does it doesn't sound bad doing something again that was good but the moment the president in this case he picked it up from Lisa Marie booth but the moment you see this as you reframe it as Biden was going to take you to the past and Trump is going to take you to the future the election is over that's it that's the elections over because everybody who also thinks that the Obama like style or whatever that they liked about them was good and that we should do it the moment you tell them that's the past they'll walk away from it they remember from it they'll still say it but mentally you don't want to go backwards we are really really well not

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backwards we are really really well not well designed we're designed by evolution or whatever you want to now I don't have the coronavirus I don't think we're very designed to not want to walk backwards do not want to go backwards do not want to revisit the past we're we're pretty much future oriented creatures we I think we we evolved to care more about the future than the past that's how you survive and then I saw a representative McCarthy talking about talking about how Biden would take us backwards it's the same thought so if you see the administration pick up on this the idea that Biden is taking us backwards Biden is bringing us back to the past you don't even have to talk about what that means you don't even have to address the details of what the past looks like versus what the future looks like just that frame alone is the end of the

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just that frame alone is the end of the story it's it's a devastating frame if you ever have a chance to do that to an emesis watch how well it works you could use this in the corporate world if you say somebody comes in and they're in the meeting and they say hey let's do this because it worked before if you're the one who says you know let's just not go back to the past you'd need more of a reason than that you know if it worked well in the past there's that's a pretty good argument for doing it again but that that's if it's a specific plan when you're talking about Biden you're talking about a concept of the past they have some obama-like quality to it if you're talking about only concepts nobody wants to go backwards all right here's another dog that won't be barking what was one of the biggest complaints about the president for the last four years let me tell you I'm the in the top five maybe in the top three is that he's mentally incapable mentally incapable

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mentally incapable mentally incapable meaning they he's losing it he's got dementia etc have you heard that recently is that anybody talking about president Trump not having good mental acuity well sometimes you see a little pushback when people are making fun to Joe Biden but it's only in the push back way because one of the most important things you'll ever learn about the world is that everything is contrast you should just have that mantra just just repeated in your head for the rest of your life everything is contrast because the moment that Biden became the people are presuming he's going to be the nominee I don't think it's done yet but people are presuming it he's so obviously mentally more frail that that causes a new contrast with President Trump and it will eliminate it will eliminate the

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will eliminate it will eliminate the Democrats one of their top five you know attacks which is the president Trump can't put a sentence together but if you're comparing him to Biden that arguments gone it's all gone I tweeted yesterday that you can't realize how good President Trump is at tweeting and communicating and memes until you see somebody else try it so Mike Bloomberg tweeted the Star Wars meme in which he was fighting Trump with a light saber and it took about 10 minutes for the Trump team to create a brand new response to that from the movies Spaceballs which itself made fun of the Star Wars franchise showing a large person holding the head of a small person and they put the head of the small person Mike Bloomberg's head on it and Trump's head on the big person he's just holding the small one by the head while the little ones flailing around with lice or cyber and kicks light saber and can't

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cyber and kicks light saber and can't reach em and I thought oh my god it's just a slaughter that the Trump team is just so good at this that I don't even see dude do you remember there was one point where when Trump was running there was a lot of criticism about the quality of his you know campaign and whatever you don't see that now do you is anybody making fun of the quality of the Trump re-election campaign how about no there's a dog that's not barking I don't hear that dog barking oh the Trump campaign they can't raise money okay I can't raise money you can raise a lot of money oh my God look how much money is raising but the Trump campaign is not good at community communicate okay look at that meme oh my god that's a good meme look at that ad home on top that's not such a good at all right ukrane fired its top prosecutor what the hell

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fired its top prosecutor what the hell the simulation is just entertaining us like crazy because I don't know how important it is probably not too important but Ukraine firing its top prosecutor well while Biden is news and Trump isn't it it's just the simulation then code reuse have you tried talking to anybody who doesn't follow the news about the corona virus does anybody have that experience because I've I've tried to help some people who are not watching the news to be prepared you know just to be careful be prepared let me let me see if you've had this conversation because it's easy for us to think that other people are watching the news they're not most people are not watching the news and if they're not watching the news they're there fear has not been amped up to the level that yours and mine are if you're watching me right now you

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you're watching me right now you probably watch the news and and it's it's a mind-boggling experience let me give you an example of that conversation hey Bob did you know the truth of iris is coming and scientists say it's going to be really bad it's not like the regular flu a lot of people could die I could disrupt our economy maybe you should you know just just to be careful get in a little extra food just to be careful do you know what Bob will say if he's not watching the news Bob will say and I'm not worried about it and then then you say okay Bob I hear you when you say you're not worried about it but what I'm telling you is every expert in the world just pretty sure they should be worried about it so I hear you that you're not I'm telling you you should be and you should get some food in probably won't need it just to be careful and Bob will say it's just the flu I go Bob Bob okay did you hear the part

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I go Bob Bob okay did you hear the part where all the experts in the world say it's not just the flu this is like a special danger so you should get ready Bob and Bob will say yeah you can't you can't worry people who are not watching the news if you noticed that now some people in the comments say I'm not worried about it and we'll talk about that so apparently you know most of you know I live in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco there are a couple of cases reported now and there's another cruise ship that may or may not be infected off the coast that wants to get into San Francisco so it's here so if you're waiting for your town to get the first coronavirus confirmation I'll tell you what it's like it's here for me so
I'm just going to jump around some topics there's something about this coronavirus that feels like it's a green new deal virus because the green new

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new deal virus because the green new deal was all about reducing our use of fossil fuels and this virus did it really quickly so you saw that the pollution cleared up in China etc now people are going back to work so we do expect the level of pollution to go back up but I think we may have we may have it be at a permanent turning point in terms of traffic would you agree with that are we not at a permanent turning point in terms of traffic I think we are we may also be at a turning point in how much AC we use and how often we keep the windows closed and stuff like that so there could be a lot of different changes but one of the unintended
outcomes of the virus might be that we're permanently more telecommuting and that could be one of the biggest changes in the world in terms of carbon carbon use there there's some indication that

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use there there's some indication that the summer reduces reduces the risk of the virus transmitting people aren't quite sure why they've got a number of ideas one of them is humidity so I just I just bought a humidifier for my house now what are the odds that if it's true I think the experts agree that humidity will decrease the transmission but it does it therefore follow that having that humidifier to your house would make any difference at all and I don't know maybe it only makes a difference if everyone does it if you only do it in one place it might make such a small difference it's not worth it maybe it's hard to do for more than one room at a time people are coming in and out maybe it doesn't make any difference because people are always in and out anyway but I got one now I was interested to find that there was no shortage at least on Amazon so I ordered it at an Amazon says it'll be here tomorrow didn't cost that much I

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here tomorrow didn't cost that much I could have put one in it's just one of the things I can do and a lot of the things that I plan to do about the coronavirus I am completely aware completely aware that there's a very small chance that any of the things I do are the thing that makes a difference but I'm going to take over a sense of control because that's good for my mental state and for the benefit of myself as well so the benefit of you I would like to keep my mental state is calm and functional as possible so I'm going to do stuff that I consciously know probably doesn't make a lot of difference but it makes a difference and it's something and I'm going to do it so it's going to make me feel good that will make me more productive and capable to help all of you so think about that as a mental strategy find something you can do and then go do it so you feel like you have a little sense of control

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here's my opinion subject to change here's what I think you should not care about number one is the vaccine I don't think she's counting on it I don't think there's necessarily even a high chance we'll ever have one but I don't think that that means it's the end of the world so I don't think that the vaccine is coming the other thing I I think you should ignore as being possibly good is containment it's I don't think there's any chance it will be contained and I don't think that there's well I'll just say that there's no chance it's going to be contained and I don't think the vaccine will will save us here's what I believe is the real strategy that the government can't tell you all right I almost hate to say this but I think you're if you're watching this periscope you're probably among the smarter level-headed people I like to think and I will start with this assumption I agree that our government

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assumption I agree that our government should lie to us whenever that's for the greater good now that you you could argue that there should never be a never government should never lie to you but I'm not going to have that conversation today I think there are special cases where it's just better for the government you and this might be one of them it's probably one of them I think that the government knows that the vaccine isn't going to stop it I think I think the governor knows that closing borders as mildly as we've done it isn't going to stop it because we've stopped travel from the the high-impact places but it's in the 80 countries now it's in 80 countries including arms and we're not stopping travel apparently from Italy so I just saw a tweet from somebody who was on the the medical team went over to Italy came back to the United States and nobody even asked her where she was she was literally in the middle of the corona virus epidemic for medical

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corona virus epidemic for medical treatment reasons and nobody asked her when she came back now how many of those are there I don't know how many there are but there are enough that the virus is coming so here's what I believe is the unstated real strategy this is based on picking up what all the experts are saying individually and trying to collate it it seems to me that the strategy is a controlled spread because there is no hope of stopping it there are only there only two options spreads quickly because we don't do anything or we we fight like hell to slow it down so it doesn't overwhelm our systems so that the goal is to get infected because it until you get infected until enough people are infected and apparently 80% don't even have anything like a symptom or their mild so you need 80% to get at once to have some immunity which apparently is not complete immunity and

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apparently is not complete immunity and it doesn't last forever but it gives you some immunity so that if somebody does get it they're less likely to have anybody they could give it to apparently that's the only thing that stops the virus it's the only thing because even the good weather and going outdoors will slow it down but then it's going to come rage raging back in the winter and I've not heard any expert who disagrees that it needs to run its course have you so if you don't hear that the real strategy is to not panic you because there's nothing you can do about it aside from you know washing your hands and the small stuff you can do about it but there's not much you can do about the fact that much of the country is going to get it like every other virus now that if that sounded like a doomsday thing it's the opposite it's the opposite of do mistake it's actually the only plan that makes sense in my opinion

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only plan that makes sense in my opinion and that's an opinion based on just watching the experts I'm certainly no expert but somebody says that somebody says there they're trying to not get it you should all try that you should all try to not get it even if individually it might be better if if you got it and got it over with and because it's the difference between what's good for you versus what's good for the society what's good for you would be to get a mild case and get it over with don't do that what's good for society is they you fight and fight and fight to put it off because you want to spread it out if you don't spread it out you're gonna overwhelm our facilities and the hospitals and then everything just falls apart I don't think that's going to happen because we're gonna spread it out and and the United States is doing a good job now here's here's my opinion of why this is the real strategy but it's not one you can tell the public

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but it's not one you can tell the public if you told the public that I think it would cause the wrong behavior people would say yeah let's just get it that more or let's not care about it and those are the wrong their own moves but the fact that the airports are not all closed is everything you need to know closing it from China probably was in and a few of the other hot spots makes sense because that could have cost us too suddenly you searched well I feel like we're letting it in intentionally in other words the the actions were too are clearly meant to allow some risk into the country but a small one now the small risk is not a risk of something happening or not happening it's a guarantee it's it's a guarantee that if you let if you let world travel happen and the only things that you stop are the the hot spot travel you're still gonna get it guarantee there's no there's no question about it so so

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there's no question about it so so here's somebody who come and says let's just get it and did you hear me if we all got it right away it would be the end of civilization probably not but it would be pretty bad you need to fight like heck to not get it spread it out don't overwhelm the resources so yeah let's see what else we got here CNN had a headline that said that dr. Gupta there their medical TV doctor who was a real doctor he said their headline said that he debunked Trump's hunch that the corona virus would be lower than a 1% death rate after we've found out all the people who have no symptoms so the president was saying that he thinks the death rate is lower because we're gonna find a whole bunch of people we didn't know had it that weren't in the denominator no he was widely mocked for that saying my god the scientists say

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that saying my god the scientists say it's I know 3% or whatever they were saying at the time and Trump says it's less and he's not a scientist and he's so anti science and what kind of an idiot and then a few hours later scientists started lowering their estimates in other words President Trump was completely correct it wasn't just a hunch he was listening to the experts and he was watching the the estimate go down and down and down every day if you're watching an estimate go down every day and there's an obvious reason why it's going down which is more testing it's not a hunch per se that it's going to keep going down and it's just a pretty good guess and the president made his pretty good guess I think it was a total the responsible thing to say as president because it was an estimate of where things are going and it would look like it might go in the right direction that's exactly what you want your president to say if the president thinks things are going to go in the right direction the experts do there's a reason for it of course you should say

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reason for it of course you should say it out loud now did dr. Gupta debunk because that's the word used in the headlines Trump's hunch and the answer is no he didn't if you read the article he didn't debunk it at all he didn't really talk about it in those terms so the headline says that Gupta's debunking Trump but the article doesn't doesn't do that typical typical BS
there's an interesting story out of Africa reportedly there are only three cases out of Africa which makes no sense it should be ravaging the continent by now because they don't have the same quarantine and medical facilities and testing and all that stuff we have only three cases is it because it's hot and humid is it because we've confirmed that there are genetic differences in terms of who can get it but one expert said there's nothing about the corona virus

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there's nothing about the corona virus that we've identified that has a genetic preference but just because we haven't identified it it doesn't mean it's not the case it could be that Africa gets through this pretty well I mean the fingers crossed we'll see it's gonna be pretty bad if it doesn't see you what else we got here the other possibility is that when we start testing we're going to find out that so many people already have the corona virus that word way better shape than we thought it could be for example that no I guess we would know that by now if there's enough testing maybe we don't it could be that I'm just going to throw this out there may be so many people in Africa already have it but have it mildly that it doesn't catch on in any deadly way they're possible but I would think they were tested that by now Kelly and Conway says oh here's

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by now Kelly and Conway says oh here's another thing on masks those an n95 masks you know a lot of experts are have been contacting me privately to give their opinions on the mask I didn't realize at the end 95 masks you buy the hardware store I thought these were some kind of high-end medical special masks the ones everybody wants but apparently you could just buy them at at the hardware store because people use them for construction to keep the dust down now there's some thought that there they don't have enough of a filter for a virus because virus is smaller than the filter even of the high-end masks but here's just the new thing I'm going to add to it I heard from I heard directly from somebody whose job it was to work in the ER or work in surgery rooms and make sure the people had the right protective gear and apparently did you know this that surgeons will typically wear the non and 95 masks in fact the only time

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non and 95 masks in fact the only time they use the high-end masks even when they're doing surgery the only time they use the good masks is if there's something special yeah like the dust let's say they're grinding a bone and there's some bone dust or there or there's some fumes or something coming out but for an ordinary operation they just use the same cheap old face masks everybody else does so that should tell you something right I don't know what Kelly and Conway had a funny tweet so Elizabeth Warren is is claiming that misogyny and sexism were part of the reason that she had to leave the race and was not victorious and Kelly and Conway to eat this if true that Elizabeth Warren Kirsten Gillibrand Carla Harris and Amy Klobuchar lost quote because they are women then the Democrats aren't just hapless they're sexist these these women lost among demographics in Democrat primaries

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demographics in Democrat primaries and caucuses and I thought oh yeah every type of warrant says that sexism is what kept her from being president you have to ask yourself who is sexism because I don't think the Republicans were part of that process so apparently Democrats don't think that any of those women were the ones that were more qualified now here's something that Elizabeth I'm gonna say something that nobody says all right I don't know why when you hear me say this you're gonna say oh yeah I'm thinking that why doesn't anybody say that it's something I guess you can't say on TV or in public but I'm gonna say it anyway for every voter who would say I'm not gonna vote for a candidate because this person is a woman there are two that will vote for because she is I'm not wrong and those two aren't necessarily both women you

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two aren't necessarily both women you don't think there were plenty of men who said yeah it's time for a woman time for a woman I'm gonna take that under consideration that's that's a variable I'm gonna put that in there I think we should have a woman president yes how about when President Obama ran for office did he fail to win two terms because the public would not vote for him because he's black oh there must have been somebody there must've in some you know that somewhere there were Republicans who didn't vote for Obama because he's black that's fair to assume we got a racist enough country that that's true but there were two people who voted for him for being black for everyone who didn't vote for everyone who voted against them and I would put myself in that category I didn't vote but I'm in the category of people who said sounds like an advantage as long as he doesn't say it's an advantage and I make that point a lot as long as as long as Obama wasn't selling his blackness as

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as Obama wasn't selling his blackness as an asset that allowed me as a citizen to say yeah that gives us a little extra if it makes people more comfortable that we're an inclusive country he's got the skills people voted for him it's a it's a benefit it's an absolute plus why wouldn't I vote for the candidate who has a little extra little extra plus so when I hear Warren say that there's misogyny oh my god I almost lost it I caught myself I almost just launched into a profanity-laden monologue because this does bother be more than I'm letting on because it's so dishonest it's dishonest Elizabeth Warren the only reason you got that far just because you're a woman sorry the only reason you got that far because you're a woman and the reason that you didn't go farther just because

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that you didn't go farther just because you weren't good enough that's it that's a little thing I've been tell you I temporarily I'm prednisone for my sinus things getting ready for some upcoming surgery and one of the side effects is a anger there was somebody saying do it don't hold back the reason the only reason I'm holding back is not because it is not because it was a genuine emotion and not because I'm being kind to anybody listening or whatever the reason I'm holding back is I don't think it's real because I'm on prednisone and one of the side effects is it can make you flashed anger and I felt myself starting to flash to anger for a reason that I didn't know was real so this is one of the most valuable lessons you'll ever have any life your attitude is caused by environment and chemistry and what you ate and how tired you are and all that stuff if you

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you are and all that stuff if you believe the reason you're mad at a thing is because of the thing you have not understood the most basic concept of life your your anger or your attitude is sort of self generated I mean given that it's influenced by the chemistry that you choose to put in your body and whatever's there but once you learn that your anger is entirely about you and that the events are just the events there are certainly things that are worth getting mad at but it's good to know the difference you know what are you really mad because it's a bad thing when are you mad because you didn't get enough sleep all right that's all I got for now and I will talk to you later