Episode 849 Scott Adams: Biden’s Addled Brain, Chinese Bots, Loserthink, Ventilators, WuhanFlu

Date: 2020-03-13 | Duration: 52:20

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Joe Biden opposed to Europe travel ban? Impeachment distracted from coronavirus preparation Emergency ventilator shortage China threatens to withhold antibiotics from America Which Dems are padding the emergency funding bill?

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well I hope you're all here to find love and the time of coronavirus well we're we're limping along we'll get through this thing together one way we're gonna enjoy the day
despite all of the events in the news is with a little thing called the simultaneous M now I know you're thinking but Scott the simultaneous sip can't cure the coronavirus can it to which I say you don't know until you try so all you need is a cup of our glass of tanker gel just eyeing the canteen trekker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine here the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous up go well

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go well the dumbest presidential candidate in the history of candidates Joe Biden who's an animal brain is barely functioning at this point I think we could agree he has decided to go public and proved to the world that he doesn't understand the strategy against the coronavirus all right I'm gonna read his something he said yesterday and tell me if you think he understands what the strategy is because the CDC has a strategy and it's to flatten the curve those are exact words nobody is trying to keep the virus from getting in because that can't be done and nobody thinks it can be done there are no experts who think we can stop the spread of the disease not if you think that it's time to change your mind the disease is coming it could be 40 to 70% the public get it and that's actually

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the public get it and that's actually the only way it will ever stop because you have to have enough herd immunity that the odds of spreading it aren't that high because it always hits somebody who's already got it and is immune so that's the strategy the strategy is to slow it down and that's it that's the only strategy and everybody agrees that's the strategy the CDC says it clearly and often here's what Joe Biden says quote a wall will not stop the coronavirus all right we're done there right aren't we done he can't be President we're in the middle of a crisis and he can't tell the difference between slowing something down because that's the best we can do and stopping it a wall will not stop a coronavirus how does that have anything to do with anything okay let's let's say that's just politics and we'll let that pass and then he went on and said the poll banning all travel from Europe or any other part of the world will not stop it

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other part of the world will not stop it Biden continued taking aim at the temporary travel policy I'm Joe Biden you just proved you can't be President because if you think that the travel ban was to stop it you're missing the whole important part which is that it can't be stopped the important part is slowing it down to the flattening of the curve and Joe Biden if you don't know that by now you really can't be President and was there nobody on his team who could advise him that the strategy is to flatten the curve nobody noticed nobody's paying attention has anybody watched any of the CDC stuff at all somebody asked me what's this going to look what it what will it look like if Carl Harris becomes the vice president

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Carl Harris becomes the vice president and looks like he's a nursemaid for a declining Biden's and I said unfortunately for them it's going to look like a Driving Miss Daisy situations it's gonna look you know with the genders reversed it's going to look like Biden is Miss Daisy and Connell is driving the car and I don't know how we got here I you have to don't you have to blame the Democrats now I realize that when Trump was running for office the the Democrats were yelling you Republicans can't you see
see are you blind to what's happening here my cats bumping the camera that's why it moves to which I said no actually I can't see it now I can't see it you're telling me that Trump is a monster and he'll destroy the world but looking at the same things you're looking at and I

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the same things you're looking at and I don't see it and then he became president and things were going well except for the one thing he couldn't control the virus and he did the one thing he could do that he could control which is closed-closed traveled fairly quickly so is that the same as watching Joe Biden run for president and clearly is in some stage of just give us at some stage of mental decline you know I was going to use a word but I think I won't use a mental medical word because obviously I I can't diagnose him but there's something going on anyway that's enough on that I would ask Democrats not to put the country in this kind of danger I mean what would happen you know I don't even want to put this thought into the universe but let's let's say if Trump retired tomorrow just to put it that way what would be the back-up plan I mean of course vice president but for

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I mean of course vice president but for 2021 could we survive a president biden whose brain is clearly not working
what do you say democrats i you know what i need to do is i need to give someone as a guest or or at now this is interesting I've never talked to anybody in person who who supported Biden and also thought his brain was working have you how can it be that I've never talked to anybody who think Biden's brain is working now I have talked to people who support Biden but I've never heard them say directly yeah I'm looking at him and he looks fine to me because I don't think it's a thing I don't think there's any Democrat we're looking in the eyes and be honest I mean anybody can lie but and be honest and say you know I don't see anything wrong I'm watching the videos you are I guess

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I'm watching the videos you are I guess those videos are just sort of taken out of context so you know you're being fooled there's there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden have you haven't have you have you been in person with somebody you know you know not just somebody on TV who could lie of course but somebody you know will they look you in the eye and say I'm looking at those videos he looks fine to me I don't know is that ever gonna happen let's stop arguing about whether people are panicking or not panicking that's word thinking let's just call it preparing every time somebody says so-and-so is panicking or are you panicking or who's panicking or panic panic panic immediately just replace the word with preparation because nobody knows the right amount of emotional investment yeah don't worry about my internal state worry about what I do and let's just call it preparing so

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I do and let's just call it preparing so every time somebody uses that other P word immediately correct them and say well the only thing we know is or preparing you know I don't think we can define the exact proper amount of worry which by the way should be different for each person depending on your situation all right Joel Pollak wrote an amazing piece in Breitbart and you can see it in my Twitter feed i retweeted it between it and he's comparing the timelines of impeachment with the timelines of the beginning of the coronavirus before the united states was fully engaged and there's a complete cross there's a complete overlap in other words when the government of the United States should have been putting its focus on the coronavirus really early it was instead distracted by the impeachment process and I don't think you know of course the Democrats have

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you know of course the Democrats have always been saying hey we can we can walk and chew gum at the same time but they didn't you know I have to wonder could they walk and chew gum at the same time that question doesn't have to be asked any more you don't have to ask is it possible you can simply look at what happened it didn't happen they walked and they did not chew gum now maybe they could have maybe maybe if you talk to them say you know we could have done both things but we didn't so it doesn't matter if you can walk and chew gum if you're not willing to if all you're gonna do is walk and not chew the gum don't tell us you can if you don't and they didn't and you could argue and joel puts this this thought out there in the universe that we can now put a price

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universe that we can now put a price under the impeachment in lives actual people who would die who might not have died otherwise because of a slow preparation and lack of focus on this emerging problem at the time could it be that impeachment will kill the middle and million americans you know did did you just scoff at that did you just scoff when I said that impeachment might kill a million Americans because you shouldn't have I think that's the upside I don't think you'll need more than that but if you were to price you know sort of
of freakonomics economic pricing of the impeachment you would have to look at the opportunity cost that's how economists think they say if we're doing this we can't simultaneously be doing this other thing because you can't be everywhere at once it's true with money but it's true with any resource if you're doing something you can't be doing something else with the same resources so I think the argument

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same resources so I think the argument is fairly solid that a late start will make a big difference in the outcomes and we probably got started later than we should have I mean we should have been printing ventilators like crazy in mid January so we didn't have to worry about it in February and March all right here's a question that's really making me angry and I don't know the answer to this which is why are we not seeing reporting on the ground of an actual manufacturing company in the United States who is going you know balls-to-the-wall to ramp up to make ventilators even if they've never made a ventilator before now is that because it's not happening is that because there's only one little ventilator company in the United States and all the rest of them are in other countries and that poor little company can't do anything so it's better to ignore it and and just people are gonna die because we don't have enough

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die because we don't have enough ventilators what exactly is happening with the ventilator situation I'd like to see a news crew camped out outside of an American manufacturing plant and watch them work 24 hours a day making ventilators that they maybe even never made two weeks ago where's my Apple ventilator serious question if Apple Computer made a ventilator and they said we don't know if we're when you'll ever use this but here's one you can have at your house it's a thousand dollars whatever it is would there be enough senior citizens people like me I'm in that risk category over a certain age some history of asthma would I pay a thousand dollars to have an Apple made ventilator just in case you know just to have us in there just in case yes yes I would so Apple computer if you're listening I would buy an Apple ventilator now you're

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would buy an Apple ventilator now you're saving yourself how hard is it to make a ventilator right so a an alert follower of my Twitter account showed me a tweeted around an article from 2010 all right so context is important this is ten years ago ten years ago mit had a contest I guess to see if somebody could see if the students could develop a low-cost ventilator for exactly this reason an emergency low-cost ventilator students made one with a hundred dollars in parts and I think they used mostly off-the-shelf parts I don't think they invented parts I think they just bought parts and assembled them in a little do-it-yourself kit and actually made working ventilators in a reproducible way for $100 now obviously an Apple made ventilator would not be 100 dollars and

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ventilator would not be 100 dollars and be maybe if that wasn't or whatever but the point is apparently it's not hard to make them there doesn't seem to be too much to it now someone else weighed in and here's a fact check for you saying Scott Scott Scott it's not good enough just a ventilators you also have to have trained operators if you don't have a trained operator it's not going to help you with your ventilators to which I say seriously we we couldn't you know you couldn't do a telemedicine call to a doctor and say hey I got my ventilator am i putting this on right and the doctor says no better you better tighten up the mask a little bit if I were there I'd make sure there are no holes yeah the stuff like that is that really a problem that these ventilators that students students can make for $100 it was just a little mask thing you don't think we can figure out how to put that little masculine on her faces without a trained operator and hit the button turning on I don't know there I

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button turning on I don't know there I got questions in a world war two this country ramped up to produce you know tanks and weapons and all kinds of stuff and we did it pretty quickly over in China you saw them ramped up to create hospitals they built hospitals in two weeks it almost sounds like I it almost sounds like I misspoke China built entire hospitals in two weeks now of course there were temporary etc but good enough for the job we can't build enough ventilators with this much warning if you give the United States 30 days warning of a problem we can't build stuff anymore there's nobody in this country you can build stuff really fast maybe I mean could it be that our manufacturing capability you know just generally has dropped so low that we can't ramp up quickly and build a little

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can't ramp up quickly and build a little device than a student can make for a hundred dollars and we can't crank these out by the hundreds of thousands with two weeks of notice what's wrong with our country if we can't and I don't know that we can't let's have some I'm asking for some reporting on that so news business please find some companies in that business and ask them what's happening and you know and can we help if you said to me Scott there's a ventilator company down the road from you and they're you know the only thing they need is more labor because you need somebody to assemble the parts and we can't build a robot to do it this quickly so we just need lots of people just to assemble them I'd be down there in a heartbeat I would I would stand up I would go to my car and I would drive down there and I would start assembling for free you don't even need to pay me I'll work all day I'll assemble some ventilators for you just tell me what I need to do alright

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need to do alright so very disappointed in the media for not focusing on that problem maybe they will I've started a new policy today I'll you can of course make your own decisions but I'm blocking anybody on Twitter who comes into my mentions and into the comments and keep saying that this is the common flu and it's it's gonna be like the common cold and we're all panicking and we should stop worrying because it's not going to be a problem that is exactly what a baby yet I don't know a Chinese agent might say so I'm gonna block everybody no matter how long you followed be I'm gonna block you for coming in to Twitter and saying it's just a common cold it's regular flu or even comparing it to the regular flu so anybody who compares it to the swine flu compares it to Ebola as if that's making a point that it's not so bad I'm just blocking you all for now all right

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just blocking you all for now all right because this is a crisis it's an emergency and normally I would say free speech say whatever you want but that's dangerous it's dangerous for that kind of opinion to be out there now are they right are they right that you know a year from now we might say oh my god we panicked and everything was fine are they right well it's not impossible but it is also the dumbest thing in the world it's the dumbest thing in the world to act as if you know it's not going to be a problem because you don't know you don't know so maybe you should be prepared anyway so I'm blocking anybody who is acting exactly like a Chinese agent even if they're not there's just no excuse for acting like one here's a question for you can two people share a ventilator no obviously

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people share a ventilator no obviously two people can have a facemask the same facemask on for the ventilator but because it's an emergency is there any situation in which you could add like an adapter to a ventilator that would keep the two people's air separate let's say I don't even know if that's important if both people do have coronavirus does it matter anymore if you get exposed I don't know how that works but could you put an adapter that's just a hose adapter so two people can use the same ventilator I think the answer is probably not for any variety of reasons of cross contamination you know not enough power etc but if the only problem is that the ventilator wouldn't last as long you know if you overtaxed it or something like that or maybe each person would only get eighty percent as much air you know there may be an engineering reason why I can't work as well but I just put it out there you know in a

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just put it out there you know in a normal world nobody would ever have the thought it just wouldn't even be a thought that you would ever put two people on a ventilator right because in a normal world you would just never do that but is the only reason we haven't considered it because we have normal world thoughts you know should we at least toss it into the mix that somebody could develop a and and maybe maybe somebody's making events later now that's a you know a central processor with a number of hoses is that a thing could you build that I don't know I'm not suggesting as possible I'm just saying let's put all the ideas into the mix and in the in the deeply unlikely you know one percent case that having a having a you know a hos double hose coming off of a single ventilator might actually make sense one percent chance I mean it's not very high likelihood but I'll put it out there maybe somebody sees and says oh my god I never thought

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sees and says oh my god I never thought about that you never know this report from UC San Francisco on what is likely to happen in the United States and goes like this so their estimate is that forty to seventy percent of the u.s. will be infected over the next year and a half 40 to 70% now you need you would need that many people to get infected to have any hope that it slows down or stops because you have to have enough people who can't get it again because they've already been exposed and have some immunity presumably I mean I think we're agreed that it creates immunity if you've had it once but I guess we should get a confirmation on that as well and they estimate that 1.5 million Americans may die compared to a seasonal flu that might be 50,000 so this is why I'm blocking people who are comparing because they're doing that

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comparing because they're doing that dumb thing where they're comparing the number of people who have died already from this flu to the total number who will ever die from the other flu so it's like a few hundred compared to 50,000 but the real number of course is the risk number that it could be 1.5 million people most of the old people compared to 50,000 that's not really close those are different problems fatality range they're still saying is in the range of ten times as much as a regular flu there's some reason to hope that that could be downgraded when we have more information this assumes no drug is found and I think that's fair so 1.5 million people dying who might not have died otherwise or at least not so well they all everybody dies everybody dies but wouldn't have happened that quickly or for that reason

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here's something I would like my government to do for me so schools are closing in various places in the country not everywhere so I last i checked three states had closed and a lot of individual private schools and stuff are probably closed so schools are closing i don't see much hope that that won't be widespread in other words i think most of the states if not all looking closed schools will probably have to so I think school closings are
here's what I need from my government to make that work if you have kids you know between a certain age let's say they're old enough to be a little bit independent you know let's say 11 years old to 18 so you've got a kid now house 11 to 18 and you say okay kids you get a stay home from school and the kids say yay
yay all right yeah you stay home from school

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all right yeah you stay home from school and then you say and you're not going to be able to leave the house and there and they say what yeah kids you're actually gonna stay in this house for 30 to 90 days tell that to your 11 year old and then they say well but you know our friends will be able to come over and you know at least at least we'll be with our friends and then you as the parents say okay I don't think you're hearing this yet not with friends you're not gonna be with your friends and you're not gonna be in school you're gonna be so bored that your head is going to explode and then they'll say okay but can I go visit one friend and if you're a parent you know you're gonna break down you're gonna break down because your kid is gonna nag you and nag you and say but just one friend I just want to go visit one friend I'm going crazy I have

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one friend I'm going crazy I have nothing to do I'm just you know playing with my phone can I just visit one friend and you're gonna say all right all right but hard rule one friend so you can go to their house and then you can come directly back one friend and your kid goes to their house and 50 frickin friends show up because they're kids right kids say hey come over to my house my mom said it's okay or didn't say it's okay and they come anyway you can't keep kids from bunching if they have phones so unless you took their phones away which nobody's gonna do right nobody's gonna take kids phones away you especially in that teenage range it's just impossible if you don't take their phones away they call each other and they say hey I got permission to go to one friend's house meet me there kids will not comply they will not comply there isn't the slightest chance

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comply there isn't the slightest chance that when they walk out of the house they will comply they will not so you have to plan a world in which there's massive non-compliance I want my government to do this assuming more schools close or even the amount they have I want my government to issue an executive order telling kids how much or if they should socialize in other words I want my government to tell me as a parent what to tell the kid because the only hope I have is to tell my kid my god I would let you go play with your one friend I really would I mean I think is reasonable but it's the law there's an executive order it's the law we could get arrested now could it be a law would you get arrested now but these are kids you're gonna have to lie to them you're gonna have to lie to them and tell them it's a law otherwise there's no chance of compliance and even then there's not much chance but it would help so I would

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much chance but it would help so I would like my government to assuming schools close to do some kind of an executive order obviously there's no such thing as a binding order of this type it wouldn't really be legally binding but parents could use it they can still tell their kid look there's an executive order from the president that says you got to stay inside it's not me you know take take the pressure off the parents that's all I'm asking
apparently China I'd seen stories about this but honestly didn't believe it you know I'd heard stories that Chinese officials were starting to blame the United States for putting the virus in China or starting it ourselves or something like that and I thought no there that's crazy the Chinese government is not blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus that would just be nuts and

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Wuhan virus that would just be nuts and then I saw it it's actually happening China at real officials you know people with titles on Twitter and stuff are actually blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus to which I say thanks a lot oh man I just thought myself from really swearing a lot my my cursing reflex was was like just right on the right on the barrel there Thank You China for guaranteeing decoupling the you know there were a lot of there were a lot of reasons to de couple before this virus came out and I I've been one of the most vocal people saying we should do it now that doesn't mean we do it tomorrow it just means that that should be a national strategy to get our stuff out of China move our manufacturing back and become less dependent because they actually not only

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dependent because they actually not only did they blame us for it but here's the good part the good part being the bad bar China actually has threatened to withhold antibiotics for political reasons what are you kidding me we have critical manufacturing in a country that just threatened to use access to medicine as a weapon against us decoupling is on there isn't anything that could stop decoupling now let me let me state this as a fact and see if any of you disagree with it four months ago
ago when I was putting the hash tag decouple in every other tweet and I was saying people people people we have to decouple you know other people were saying it to I'm not the only one but wasn't wasn't the general reaction to that well that's a little extreme we're not going to

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a little extreme we're not going to decouple from you know they're I mean we got our problems we'll work through it it's normal we're not going to decouple what do you think now now that now that we put critical pharmaceuticals in China and they just threatened to use that against us now maybe they won't my guess is they won't use it against us it would be too dangerous but once they've threatened that's the end of the story you know there's there you've got lots of variables that you say oh how do I weigh this variable and should we decouple and maybe we shouldn't well we can work this thing out we can work that thing out and we could put up with this so now you know we don't really need to decouple I see your argument but you know it's the sort of a gray area not anymore it's not a gray area now when a country threatens to withhold antibiotics during a

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to withhold antibiotics during a pandemic that removes all doubt there's no longer any depth decoupling has to happen and more importantly it will there isn't any chance we're keeping our in China anymore that's over so whatever you're planning in terms of you know looking at the future of their world and what's going to happen with the economy etc I'm hoping it's good news that we're bringing manufacturing back to the United States but if you're wondering if we're going to decouple from China you know it'll probably be gradual but it's no longer if it's no longer if once they've threatened our health it doesn't matter if it's a empty threat doesn't matter if they meant it doesn't matter if they really would have no intention of doing that none of that matters the threat is the end of the story no conversations need to be happened no

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conversations need to be happened no debate needs to happen anymore we need to be on the same side on this it's time to decouple all right it'll happen I see Trump blaming Obama for the CDC not being ready for the pandemic and you know you can make the argument that the other guy should have been more prepared but Trump's had three years on the job and you know it took eight years of Obama and three years of Trump to not be prepared enough I guess I mean there is obviously preparation but some deficiency in preparation testing for example now I don't I don't have any tolerance for this anymore I have no tolerance for blaming the past I don't have any tolerance for Trump blaming Obama but I also don't have any tolerance for anybody blaming Trump it's

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tolerance for anybody blaming Trump it's just backwards thinking during an emergency we only need to focus forward if you're spending any of your time tweeting or you know blaming the last administration or even blaming what Trump should have done in 2017 as if we knew what to do then it's just wasted time please don't waste my time blaming the past let's let's look forward
there's a weird thing happening that it's not it's terrible to mention but I'm gonna do it anyway that the Wuhan virus and I don't need this to be a joke it's just this weird element of the simulation that we live in that this could ever happen our biggest problem had been climate change it looks like the war on virus is almost designed to solve it now I don't think it's designed I'm not not making that

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it's designed I'm not not making that claim I think it's probably natural but it does seem to really help for climate change because it slowed down the whole economy and in you know it I'm not sure international travel will ever be the same but there's an even darker side to this there's a hashtag get trending if you haven't heard this this is dark this is really dark stuff apparently young people who are relatively immune to the Wuhan virus I've started a hashtag called boomer remover yeah and you've got to really have a dark sense of humor to laugh at that and I do happily so even though it's about removing me because I'm at the tail end of the Boomers you can't you can't ignore the fact that it's weird that young people were blaming a certain generation for a climate change and then this virus comes it totally

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and then this virus comes it totally removes the smog because all the industrial stuff stopped in the most polluted places you know China in particular and then it started killing the people that they blame for the problem has there ever been a virus more more suited accidentally I think more suited to solve some other problem and and so the young people are actually so cold that they're saying well you boomers ruined the world for us here's a virus that's going to take you out and leave us with your stuff maybe not so bad wow wow I don't know what to say about that that's just it's just mind-boggling martha maccallum on Fox News asked the CMS administrator Seema Verma if there were enough ventilators in the country and she asked her four

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in the country and she asked her four times and each time she refused to answer the question directly instead just talked about some talking points until Martha was pretty frustrated but if you avoid a question four times that is your answer you can't avoid a question four times and then say well I guess there was no answer no the answer is the avoiding the question four times the answer is no the answer is no we do not have enough but it could be it's not the dumbest thing in the world for the government maybe not worry us about it if you can't fix it so if you can't fix it me
somebody in the comments says it's confirmed that the Brazilian president has coronavirus I was expecting that I don't know if that's that's just a comment here I'm not saying that's true but check your news I would I would I've

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but check your news I would I would I've been expecting bad news I've been expecting to hear that the Brazilian president has it because some of the members of his staff did but check that I'm not sure if that's true yet so I wonder if 3d printers will ever become part of emergency preparation can you imagine having a 3d printer and I guess you'd have to project into the future where the 3d printers are just better and there's a there's a problem that comes up and the government just sends a blueprint down to everybody's 3d printer on how to print your own $100 ventilator could you get to a point where you could print a ventilator now before that you would probably get to a point where you can print a mask maybe maybe you print some toilet paper so I'm wondering if the far future that won't help us this time but I'm wondering if the future 15

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time but I'm wondering if the future 15 years from now is that each maybe it's each town not each house but each town has a 3d printer and as soon as the emergency breaks out these printers activates and they start printing out the very thing you need for this very problem because each problem needs a different set of supplies so you might have a problem where you need a different set of supplies and they're going to be limited because nobody expected the emergency so maybe there's a world where 3d printers become the emergency plan Democrats apparently are
they're handicapping these these emergency congressional legislation things that are trying to you know settle the markets and handle the handle the epidemic etc and the Democrats are adding adding pork to it I don't know if it's pork or just stuff they want slowing it down and so I see news about

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slowing it down and so I see news about this and the news will report well the Democrats collectively tried to add this thing and that's going to slow it down during an emergency and I thought to myself you show us names I want to see a one-page slide this as Congress somebody proposed this bill to fund the pandemic one way or the other these three Democrats proposed things that are slowing it down that are you know maybe they're good things in and of themselves but they couldn't get past by themselves so they're trying to tack it onto this other thing this is an emergency let's show the public exactly who is slowing things down now if they can make their case well maybe they get an audience for that and people say yeah yeah it should be slowed down because we should have had this extra you know element to the bill maybe they can make their case but why don't you know the

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their case but why don't you know the names the actual name the person who is trying to slow down these bills by adding stuff now in a normal world you don't care it's like I had Democrats are doing this Republicans are doing this but this isn't normal this is an emergency in an emergency you have to list all of your resources and one of the resources is the American public in social media and the news tell us who is slowing things down can you give us a picture in the name news media show us the people is that all of them do all of the Republicans want these things I'm sorry do all the Democrats want these items added to the emergency bills well that'd be good to know or is it there are some specific leaders or specific people who are trying to add these things because I need to know their names don't you because you're in this now we're not a spectators anymore we're all

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we're not a spectators anymore we're all in it this is this is a global show me their names we'll see what we can do about that it's mostly what I got today you know one of the weird the weird things about this emergency is that 98% of my day can be exactly like it always is except for the thoughts you know my thoughts are sort of preoccupied by this but 98% of my day is completely normal and then 2% of the time I think oh there are some real big problems and they're really close so I'm in this two worlds mind where everything's normal and it's also a big emergency sort of at the same time and my head is going phasing back and forth depending on what I'm doing at the moment so that's weird but one good thing that's come out of it I think I mentioned this before I'm taking very seriously the the building up of my

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seriously the the building up of my personal immunity so I've always been you know the fitness advocate and follower but I'm taking it to the next level so I am seriously getting enough sleep which I've never done before actually in no time in my life have I ever attempted to get enough sleep I've never even tried because I you know one of these people who can operate on low sleep and I know it's not good for me but I like being awake I just prefer it yeah I like being in the world I hate I just don't like sleeping so in the past I just didn't do much of it four hours a night I'm good I'm fine but now I'm getting serious about it because as it has a big impact on your immunity your your momentarily your momentary immunity so I'm getting enough sleep and I'm also taking a walk in the sunshine I'm doing a light exercise I'm not exhausting myself that's bad for my knee but a little light exercise get out of

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but a little light exercise get out of the Sun get your vitamin D he builds up your immunity a little bit so I'm doing that and I'm eating right and I'm you know doing light weight training etc so here's the weird part I've never felt better I'm in the middle of a global pandemic but personally if he asked me how do you feel Scott I'd say well I'm a little embarrassed by this but obviously I've never felt better and even the social distancing you know if you if I had to choose I would interact more with people I'm just a natural social creature in some context I'm more of a you know I need a lot of loan time to but I'm very happy to interact with people not during my alone time but have you noticed that the less you deal with people the less stress you have because stress comes almost 90% of stress comes from other

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almost 90% of stress comes from other people so I've decreased my exposure to other people in person and I feel like it's less stressful even if those people are good people they're not trying to create problems it's just normal people create stress and other people we don't we can't turn that off exactly just being normal creates stress so that's the the irony is that I've never felt better now I and I'm getting a little bit addicted to the feeling it actually feels so good there's like being on drugs I heard somebody tell me this a similar story some time ago and I scoffed that it was like hmm I don't know you know I don't I don't think being super healthy and well rested and stuff feels as good as drugs and then I got healthy and well rested it actually feels as good as drugs like actually

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feels as good as drugs like actually literally it literally feels as good as being like a little buzzed on a drug just because my health is just peak it couldn't be possibly better at the moment alright I'm off the I'm off the prednisone by the way I think I've been off it long enough that it's not having too much effect on me yeah I am a hermit somebody saying in the comments I I can be a hermit but not indefinitely I need I need people so I'm an introvert but I still need a healthy dose of social interaction like most people let me tell you the funniest thing that I heard yesterday I won't tell you who said it because that person may or may not be watching this video right now but it was a conversation about running out of

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a conversation about running out of toilet paper and somebody who remained the endless said he's training himself to scoot across his front lawn like a dog just in case the toilet paper runs out aren't you glad you waited for the end of the periscope for that and and I my immediate feeling was oh that's a terrible plan what kind of dumb plan is it that if you run it in a toilet paper you're gonna train yourself like a dog just good across your front lawn instead and I said that's the dumbest plan I've ever heard don't your neighbors have lawns don't they you know aren't they ever asleep why would you do it to your own lawn now the lawn part the dogs scooting part perfect sense but why would you do it on your own lawn your neighbors sleep go next door yeah that's all I'm saying all right just joking if we can't have fun during the coronavirus we're dead inside and if you're dead inside it doesn't

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and if you're dead inside it doesn't matter if you're dead on the outside so let's not lose our sense of humor entirely not entirely it's a serious deal but we're still human can't lose our humanity oh by the way somebody mentioned to a or C and me there's a there's a funny video if a or C saying you shouldn't touch you face and then they do a quick cut of all the time she's touching her face wall telling you not to touch your face so that's funny but not meaningful in any way but here's what is meaningful they ever see did a prime I think was a prime time I think so interview with Bret Baier on Fox News that's right AOC went into the into the Lions Den and did an interview on Fox News now why this is important is that Deborah Democrats in general are very reluctant to appear on Fox News because it feels like the enemy they probably don't think they'll get a fair shake and all that

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they'll get a fair shake and all that stuff but a or say you broke the seal now what do I tell you about master persuaders people who are good at it they take free money if there's a pile of money on the table everybody will walk by it except the people who are good at this the people who are good at it will walk by and they'll say a lot big pile of money on the table can I have it does this belong to anybody no it doesn't and that's what a was he did by appearing on Fox News when other Democrats did not she raised her national profile in a very substantial way and yeah of course all the people on Fox News are saying blah blah blah we don't like you what you said is bad etc you all remember that you won't remember that what you will remember is the AOC went on Fox News and wasn't afraid and and got interviewed by Bret Baier so first of all if you're gonna go on Fox News who

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all if you're gonna go on Fox News who are you gonna pick all right you've decided to go on Fox News your AOC do you pick Sean Hannity no no you don't do you pick Tucker Carlson no no you do not because their opinion people and you don't know how that's going to go but Bret Baier is famously you know competent famously independent fair-minded you know news guy so bret baier is a news guy not the opinion guys so she picked in my opinion you know maybe chris wallace would be another it would be a you know a good choice of this but she chose well she chose the right person i'm sure other people had asked her but she chose the right one so i'm just pointing that out as technique you could you can go back to hating her like you used to all right what else we got going on

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all right what else we got going on somebody says to me wasn't she a racist POS yes yes she is now it you can hold both thoughts am I not allowed to hold both of these thoughts that a or sees you know statements and preferences etc suggests a strong racism but that doesn't stop the fact that she's also tremendously talented as a public figure those can both be true what's wrong with that I'm not going to be that the person who is just going to take a side so if he need that go somewhere else if you need me to say there's some good and there's some bad about both sides came to the right place all right and I will talk to you later