Episode 862 Scott Adams: Goodnight Vibes. Forget Your Cares

Date: 2020-03-21 | Duration: 54:49

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[Music] boom hey everybody I've got an invention I'd like to show you hold on you know when it comes to these pandemics everybody's gotta jump in do their part and you've already seen a lot of inventions I just saw another video of another hospital that turned I don't know two ventilators into nine or something with some creative in tubing so you're seeing and inventions just all over the place and I didn't I didn't want to be left out because I'm I'm kind of inventive myself so I thought I would invent something that you can all use now first you have to start with a problem right the problem is people were touching their face with their hands now it's hard to avoid what if you have an

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it's hard to avoid what if you have an itch what are you gonna do so I took I started with this ordinary back scratcher and I did some modifications it's a little more aerodynamic took a little weight off it you'd say and now if should I have a hitch let's say on my nose in the old days I would go scratch scratch scratch and then die you know most likely so since I don't want to die just because I have an itch on my nose I'll I've repurposed the back scratcher don't watch this haha 4head ahahahahahaha hole that's so good oh my god I've been so needing to scratch my head Wow of course you have to immediately burn the stick so these are disposable that's how I make my money because if I were just to sell you one of them and it just lasted forever well

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of them and it just lasted forever well how do you make money on that so this is sort of like the other giving away the the razor the razor and selling the bleh it's you have to throw it away after one use so get that over there alright umm make it longer needs to be six feet long so I have my guest mode on and that means you get to ask me a question before you get to go to bed and I'm going to see if anybody's queuing up to ask any questions Oh carpe let's see if you're still on there carpe can you hear me that didn't work we'll see if our technology is working today let's go to Lynn Lynn Lynn can you hear me Lynn can you hear me

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well just barely let me see if I can turn up my volume too - hmm maybe I can't let's see if I can I'll ins begin can you hear me now I give you well enough just so to speak loudly what is your question for me alright so I want to call this time with thought all right a little branding you know I don't know if anybody tried this take me good all right blanket blanket I'm a knight it is thank you for that suggestion all right I have a little bit of sound issues so if I choose you speak loudly Charlie Charlie can you hear me Charlie

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hey Charlie do you have a question for me can you hear me yes well enough okay yeah no I just don't I actually just joined I just I'm so happy that you're doing what you're doing and you know I've been I've spoken to you a couple times I'm a huge fan of your person you're doing such a wonderful thing for the entire fan base people that good to see you but it's just wonderful and thanks so much for the positive yeah I've been taking that energy and and bringing it to my team at work okay I'm trying my to keep the morale up and it's awesome so thank you so much and like this is not pop but we're gonna get through it I really believe it oh yeah we're definitely good the only thing that I'm not worried about in the least is that we'll get through it there's a timing question but yeah well we will certainly get through it that part is that part is not in question all right Thank You charlie thanks a lot have a great evening

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great evening hey you too all right let's see what else is on here all these good vibes today people got good vibes let's see if it Anna Lisa wants to ask me a question Anna Lisa are you there hi do you have a question for me so I'm in the oil and gas industry and here in Houston and it's kind of I want to keep a positive attitude however it's really I don't think we've ever been in a place like this before so it's kind of it's a little bit scary so well do you know what is a little bit scary you know fear of the unknown but here are the things that I think you don't have to be afraid of there's zero chance of running out of food if if only because you can't hoard fresh food you know if you took a whole bunch of broccoli it just wouldn't last long so there always be fresh food and

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long so there always be fresh food and and the pipeline is you know flexing its muscles the best pipeline in the world so you always have food the my prediction for what's going to happen with our infection and death rate in this country is based on the fact that we're getting really close to just you know putting these therapeutics that seemed to work really well that the chloroquine in particular and some other ones reservoirs are written however you saying that so I think what you're gonna see in this country because we had enough time to prepare and we slowed it down enough I think you're gonna see that the infection rate will continue to just explode because there's just nothing you can do about it but I think the death rate will start to approach zero with the exception of people who have underlying issues you know if somebody's you know unhealthy overall then then anything can take about but I think you're gonna see the combination of more infection and less deaths and that might fairly quickly get us to a point where where we can open stuff and

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point where where we can open stuff and I think the economy is pretty resilient you know it's nothing got broken it's not like we got bombed people can just walk right back to their offices whenever it's time so I think we'll be fine well I don't think we'll be fine we'll be fine there is no doubt about it the question is is it inconvenient and a real pain for you know a month you know is it two months is it is this six months who knows but definitely something we can do you know standing on our heads we are we are America and the last thing we're gonna do is you know let each other starve so thanks for the question but you should feel better we got this all right let's see what else we got going here let's talk to you
Jennifer see if jennifer has questions for me Jennifer can you hear me I'm good how are you you have a question for me dr.

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are you you have a question for me dr. Shiva and he he's someone who just seemed so knowledgeable but he was bringing up some really serious questions concerns about dr. Falchi and I'm I'm just struggling with trying to figure out who to trust who to listen to maybe I shouldn't listen to so many of these but I'm just kind of here advice work well what what she could be as specific what would be a specific thing that not this not just the general criticism of how things were being approached but what's it what's a very specific thing that she should be doing according to dr. Shiva that he's not already doing well it's it's not so much that it's his past associations with people you know I guess deep state or whatever you know that he used that he is part of that group and has been for years and so well you know that's very

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years and so well you know that's very close to the bottom of the list of things I'm going to worry about I think the mental community medical community has a very high opinion of them and you know one of the things that you can guarantee about any of these you know Washington creators or anybody who's just operating at a very high level they all have all these weird connections to other people so it's sort of just built into being you know successful and prominent and in being in that part of the world they all they all know each other they got connections they did things that you wish they hadn't you know back in the day they had different opinions I want to worry about a that the medical people have great confidence in him and that's all I worry about so yeah I would relax about that thank you for the question all right let's see if we can bring on Brian Brian Brian hear me I can do you have a

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Brian hear me I can do you have a question yeah I was wondering why don't you think we hear more cases out of Russia of this coronavirus if it's such a big deal and they say oh such a big border with China well that is a really good question so why don't we hear more cases out of Russia well you know the the obvious explanations would be that you know maybe they're not testing they have a you know that it's just could be a you know a measurement problem it could be that Russia is concealing information and it could be that just by luck there wasn't a lot of travel across the border I don't know how much travel there is across the border really I would have to that's something I'd have to ask but is there is there a robust China Russia back and forth travel I just don't know the answer to that question I guess I just presume that there would be a robust China Russia travel connection because their political systems are both communists

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political systems are both communists and they seem like natural allies so you think they do a lot of trade and have a lot of back and forth well I'm not sure how natural allies they are but they have to share a border so they're doing the best they can I mean I guess they're natural in the sense that it wouldn't make any sense for them to ever fight so yeah natural allies in that sense for sure yeah but you know it's a good question and we're also not seeing a lot from Africa and so one of the questions you'd have to ask yourself is will there be a strong genetic indicator and not necessarily something that's limited to some ethnicity but it could be something that just some people have in in any group and maybe you know maybe Russians on average you know are less susceptible that's entirely possible so that would be just speculation but you know if you have to guess is that just we don't have good information or is there something genetically protecting them yeah it

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genetically protecting them yeah it feels like the information right it feels like that would be the big explosion all right thanks for the questions thank you all right see once we got here oh I think I feel like I can know what you're gonna ask by looking at your little icons all right color can you hear me
caller caller can you hear me yes I can do you have a question you chose these older people that are in their houses in quarantine with this whole scary thing and the mob at the store what if they need stuff and how do they know that if they need to leave one but how do we find these people if they need help there's no pot line number yeah yeah that's that's a

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line number yeah yeah that's that's a real good question and everything has to do with their capability and you know just how capable are they you know if somebody is capable but older they would do what I did today which is a neighborhood you know young person was willing to do some shopping for me just for some fresh fruit you know some fresh goods and you know left them outside and I you know cleaned clean the bag and everything so just we're doing all the right stuff but so that's what I did but I also have you know some some resources and some capacity I'm not so old I can't take care of stuff so I think it's up to people who know them I think you you have a lot of people knocking on neighbors doors of course all the relatives to check you with the older relatives but they're still going to be some people give the that slips into cracks so I don't know exactly how they get help but you know I hope

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they get help but you know I hope everybody is at least somebody who is young and capable that they can call and say what should I do but yeah it's a big problem but it's it's in the category of things that I think we can rise to that occasion so it's really just yeah and we've got an app here called a next door which I always recommend because the next door app if I put you know that I've got a chair I want to sell if in five minutes you know 10 people said hey I'll take a chair and you know if you say 82 babies or something like that you just get immediate responses from from your local local area so that would be a great way but then again you'd have to be you know clever enough to load an app and know how to use it so that that eliminates a lot of people all right good question thanks let me take another caller here we're gonna go for Pedro Pedro has been patiently waiting Pedro

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Pedro has been patiently waiting Pedro can you hear me Pedro disappeared he was not as patient as I hoped all right how about Joyce Joyce let's see if you could hear me Joyce could hear me good good how are you and do you have a question yes I just learned something tonight 9 1 of this you knew it because they never really heard it the virus out there is not covered 19 the virus is sauciness is a cyrus virus saris or what sorry SARS okay good it's sa no Cyrus - CoV - that's the virus that's document coded 19 is the disease but it causes that's the disease name did you know that I knew that there was a distinction between the disease of the name you're vaguely but I wasn't paying too much

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vaguely but I wasn't paying too much attention to it but but yes you know I've seen it written as this ours - covered 19 so I I figured that was the other scientists we're talking about it okay all right thanks for that okay let's see what else we can learn today maybe we'll talk to about Perry
peri-peri can hear me Barry hi do you have a question for me well I do but also comment on a few things that you've mentioned I need to exacerbate your your you know human ingenuity because I'm a public health nurse in California and I cannot believe what our county is doing for the homeless like you said it's amazing what humans can do and we are popping up a tent tomorrow to isolate

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popping up a tent tomorrow to isolate the homeless from from the well ones to the sick ones I want everybody to be reassured that you you cannot even imagine what public health has been doing behind the scenes so that's number one
one I mean I'm working all day tomorrow I've been working all week unfortunately my kids home alone which stinks but but it's amazing what's happening I want everybody to be very reassured how incredibly safe and the extra care given to homeless folks wow that is that is terrific to hear and I had not heard that from any other source so thank you for that and I think everybody here would join me in thanking you for for your public service because you know we're we're all I think pretty much uniformly and awe of how brave you have to do you have to be to run toward this thing and and all of you folks are running toward it and believe me we appreciate it we appreciate it like crazy it's it's getting easier because

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crazy it's it's getting easier because of the more information we're getting and there's hope and faith in these medications that are coming out I am not nearly as worried as I was 24 hours ago or 48 hours ago and my co-workers feel the same there's no is that because you have say more direct information about these drugs working or are you working off of the news reports like the rest of us I okay both because I I also have been in close contact with with with our Director of Public Health and my supervisor who have changed their tone whereas last Thursday was a totally different freakout looking face on my supervisor versus now today and in the text constantly all for the last 24 hours have been the the whole tone has changed it's completely changed they're yeah

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it's completely changed they're yeah they're not as worried it's more like excited to get this taking growth and we're going to be done in like a month or two that's well yeah a month or two would be terrific I I've been I've been predicting that whatever wherever the experts are in terms of how long it will take to get back on or feet however you want them to find that getting back on their feet the my prediction was going to be at the probably left of everybody's meaning the shortest so I think we're gonna surprise on the good side and one of the things that to your point about people being more optimistic and the attitudes change I think that's entirely true of the people were really paying attention and for the reason that you said because the the the meds that we're hearing about seem pretty good but it's such a different feeling to know that you have a path versus not knowing what's gonna happen and I think we went from not knowing what do you do you know how do we get to a vaccine before you know the

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we get to a vaccine before you know the casualties are too high to oh now now we kind of know exactly what to do the fact that it's gonna be crazy hard it still still changes your psychology because if you say I know how to get to the other side it's gonna be crazy hard I say when do I start you know crazy heart is not my problem you know staying alive is my problem you know I'll take crazy heart if if that's all it takes it's just crazy hard okay it can be crazy hard so I think that that's where people are at right now which is yeah we have a path we know what to do each of us know how to do our part and people are being pretty darn good on the whole you know the you've got some bad actors of course and never we're never going to follow directions but overall the public has been spectacular I think and yeah we're we're absolutely in the right direction now I feel like it turned a corner sometime yesterday it felt like to me is that

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yesterday it felt like to me is that what it felt like to you yes exactly 24 to 48 hours ago and maybe it wasn't the medication stuff I think also everybody in my department and at our clinic because we did a pop up thing in the front so we're screening everybody including employees and now that we've got this plan in place for this pop up for the homeless in the community which is my my jurisdiction I just it's such a calming feeling knowing that it's getting taken care of everybody other and now there's a plan unknown so yeah and then the you know the hidden benefit it's too early to crow about how good this is they'll do it anyway that the stuff that we're learning from this is what's gonna keep us from being so bad the next time so you know it's hard to feel there were were so far ahead but I would argue already it's inevitable that on the other end of this were way hardened for the same risk and we'll learned a lot so

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the same risk and we'll learned a lot so thank you so much for that input I really appreciate it and stay smart stay safe all right take care that was really good input let's see what Pedro has to say Sandra are you there hey Pedro do you have a question for me yes well first of all thank you for the I'm here can you hear me yeah yes go ahead yes first of all thank you for the great broadcast I love your book gods debris thank you do you see any changes in geopolitical relations with this and specifically us-china relations and other countries yeah I think this game Aaron teased that we're gonna pull our supply chain back from China

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supply chain back from China I was certainly at least the important stuff now we might not do it you know overnight it might take a while but I would say it's a guarantee at this point that we're going to pull back our manufacturing for strategic and other reasons economic and that's gigantic that that's about the biggest change you could ever imagine would happened so at the very least that the China situation will change substantially I think that's a guarantee everything else could go back to something close to normal in terms of relationships um I was surprised to see that Mexico seems to be willing to you know close down this border I don't know what that means for illegal immigration but you know the you always get good and bad out of this people will work well together and we'll bond them maybe some countries won't work well together and they'll get angry you know Iran there's another wild card because if Iran doesn't get on top of it you know they

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doesn't get on top of it you know they could be losing losing a few ayatollahs and that could change the what it looks like there so I understand that Joe Biden is essentially in seclusion and his aides are wearing gloves and masks even to come into the room but you know the people are at risk and he's certainly that age that's extra risk all right thanks for the questions thank you yes see well looks interesting I think let's bring in Nils Nils are you there no Nils is not but let's pick Tyler Tyler talk to me Tyler can you hear me Tyler what's your question this done

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Tyler what's your question this done when everything calms down a little bit is the whole idea of bling going to become a lot easier like you got to think people are gonna be asking a lot of questions after all this is calm down yeah I think the decoupling is is guaranteed it was just telling the last caller so yeah I don't think the relationship with China in the United States will ever be the same and that's probably good because where it was was was not where we wanted it to be so president Trump did a lot to move it the virus will do a lot more to move it yeah it's going to be a different world and in a little while all right thanks some question let's see who else is here ah
Fernando Fernando Fernando Fernando Fernando can you hear me I can do you have a question for me yeah your book how do I feel almost

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yeah your book how do I feel almost everything so I'm wondering if at one point in your life you had to like start a new venture or project during a recession or a crisis and if you hypnotized yourself to like but for opportunities or stay positive or something like that well I've started businesses and good times and bad and usually the only thing that matters is whether the idea is good so there are definitely a whole bunch of opportunities opening up right now but they might look different from the ones from two months ago so there are definitely people getting rich right now some for good reasons maybe some for not but I would say the you know this is a little hiccup so you're not gonna get much done for the next month or so but I think everything will be fine and I think that good ideas will still we'll still win and bad ideas won't but I always recommend looking at it as a numbers game which is that there are

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numbers game which is that there are certain number of things you're going to try in your life and most of them won't work you know most of the people you fall in love with it won't love you back most of the jobs you apply for you won't get I mean some people will but in general its life is a big little failure machine and everyone's all you hit it you guess that you get that job you find that person so I don't think it's much different and good times are bad if you got a good idea it's gonna work in good times or bad so that's the best I can do I don't know if that helps but thanks for the questions yeah all right let's see let's bring on Kim who has been patiently waiting Jimmy can you hear me yeah I can do you have questions yes I do
do well I don't know if it's a question but it's kind of like I haven't seen it anywhere all right I'm I'm a retired RN and I've been sidelined for about ten years because I have fibromyalgia I am NOT in a risk

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have fibromyalgia I am NOT in a risk group or anything but I'm 60 years old so I'm staying at home here's my question out of the positives I am not seeing anywhere what percentage of those positives are requiring hospitalization and what Senate of people that are staying at home and self-care because yeah I believe I saw that statistic and I don't want to like guess in public but I will just between us yeah if you all promise okay well I just saw the same number I was going to give it just went by in the comments somebody said 20 percent I think I saw 16 percent somewhere somebody say 18 to 20 percent so it's in that range but it probably also greatly depends what country when they age and all that stuff yeah I don't

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they age and all that stuff yeah I don't I don't know that I've seen it for the United States maybe our numbers arms big enough and I would also think that the percentage of people who were hospitalized might change based on how much capacity we have in other words if somebody's like well I don't know maybe we hospitalized them maybe we don't as long as you have capacity you're going to hospitalize them but as soon as it gets named the same person you're gonna be well maybe they could work it out at home but we don't have any beds anyway we send this one home so that that's gonna play with the statistics as well you know just the availability of beds so it's a good question in fact there are a number of facts that I think the public would like to know for example if I had a little dashboard where I could you know watch how we're doing against this thing to make myself feel better I'd like to see how many I'll just use one example how many n95 masks do we

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one example how many n95 masks do we need how many do we have and how many are in the pipeline and how many will be in the pipeline in three weeks so you can sort of you know visually see what's happening and you know are there are there two companies that are trying to crank up to make more masks or are there 25 different companies that are making mass and were there were there five yesterday but today we've got 25 because we're just spinning them up like crazy I'd love to know that I'd love to know what the food industry thinks is the realistic time before there's enough toilet paper for all oh I'd like to know and even where does it come from like how do you know is it as all-american trees does you know is there why don't I know
our toilet paper comes from China well it it feels like that wouldn't make sense because we'd have to wouldn't we

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sense because we'd have to wouldn't we be shipping lumber over there and I don't know again I'm sitting here thinking you know I have six rolls of toilet paper I think I'm okay and if push comes to shove I've got washcloths and I have a washer and dryer you know toilet paper for a respiratory infection all right well we're all set so thank you thanks to the question I'll talk to you later all right see let's take at least one more see how I feel I'm gonna take Prince here Prince Prince a key can you hear me my pleasure I do my question is we've seen kind of some really good connections from both sides across the look yeah go ahead

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Prince a geek and sorry man there was some lag going on yes so basically the Trump in the Democrats been kind of on better terms nowadays and do you think it's going to be well I think I think I caught your question before you got disconnected there so yes it does seem like at least some of the Democrats are working well on the president willing to praise him for his effort etc will it last probably not you know I think that it probably won't but I think it's really smart for Democrats to read the room properly and I think the smartest ones are the ones who are saying yes the president's doing a good job now party apparently if they say he's doing a good job he's probably gonna be a little more helpful to the state that says he's doing a good job because it's Hueber nature right so they may be just playing the odds it's like well we better say this guy's doing a good job so so we give stuff or it could be that they're just Patriots and

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could be that they're just Patriots and they know that complaining about stuff isn't going to make anything better because I'm sure they're complaining privately about anything they're not getting but it looks like it looks like the cooperation between the states and the and the federal government is excellent at the moment so no I don't think it'll last but I think the Democrats are smart too to judge the mood to the country that we're not looking for political infighting at the moment and so I think that they're going to be able to say look I'm not always political you saw that last time that I agreed with President Trump and proves that I can so it's not all political and now let me tell you all the ways that I disagree with them and why you shouldn't be President etc so I think it's just smart politics by Ilan Omar and anybody else who agreed with the president it's good for the country and it's more politics let's let's take another one let's see who else wants to talk to me

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Huey looks like he has a question Huey do you have a question Huey question for me yes I know and got me thinking about a topic of will so the basic idea is that with the law basic there could only be costing effects of my nose can you imagine some sort of mechanism that would allow for free will to be a thing yeah you're saying a mechanism that would create free will yeah well so cause and effect is why I think our cases so let's say there is no species that created our simulator for example so would they have a mechanism that would allow for them to have free will is that possible ah so so let's say it was a weird simulation well I guess the question is is the simulation just simulations or are people inhabited the simulated creatures in other words if I

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simulated creatures in other words if I in my simulation but there's a real intelligence that sort of using me like a fun ride and just experiencing my world through my eyes but really somebody else's is driving the car up there and what was your question that was if we would have freewill programmed in well free will doesn't make sense logically so I don't think you can program something that doesn't even make sense so I guess that's that's my answer I could I can say more about that but the bottom line is that something causes everything so the most you could do was build in ignorance so people didn't know why things were happening but that wouldn't be free well you could bring you you can build in randomness you know an actual random number generator and cause actions randomly but that wouldn't be free will that would just be randomness so I don't think there is anything that is real and therefore it can't be programmed it's not a it's not a even internally consistent concept that makes any sense

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consistent concept that makes any sense today I would accept the idea that free will will never be a thing for human species but how about the original species that created us like the al-qaida the accumulation creator or however however we want to call itself a free will well it's Turtles all the way down right because yeah you know if physics is the thing in our world whether we're simulated or not we have you know these constraints of physics you would expect that whoever was above us would have some kind of physical laws so the only way that could not be true is if the laws of physics are different but I guess you couldn't rule that out I just don't know what it would look like logically without if you take cause and effect out of the universe I don't know what it looks like so I don't know what's left so I can't say well if you just remove this then everything be fine I did have free well I I just think it would just be nonsense without cost effect all right thanks for the question thank you do do the big questions today

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thank you do do the big questions today let's talk to Kevin Kevin can you hear me do you have the questions I was gonna hear me hi what's your question - Kevin yeah I saw a tweet that was like by an avowal and it was some guy who is basically suggesting that there may be way more people infected by this thing than we think because so few were being tested so he was like citing some data from Iceland it's one of you opinion on that if you thought that it's possible that basically this thing has a way lower of the centers for sanity Bates if it's already way out there in the community but we just don't know it yet yeah I was asking this question the other day is this is a thought experiment based on the the information that we have and we can have now how would we know the difference between a flu that was extra deadly meaning it killed a high

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deadly meaning it killed a high percentage of people versus a flu that was extra mild but was way more viral in other words if you know if a thousand people get it but only you know 10% die that's still more deadly that would be a mild flu because yeah well that those numbers are not mild but you know what I'm talking about so if it was more deadly but not many people got it you could end up with a lower lower you know death count and I think that was the case with Ebola and stuff so I I'm not a scientist and I can't answer this question so I'll just say that as an observer how could you possibly rule out that it's a mild flu that just kicks some people's butts but way more people have gotten it that didn't have any any kind of reaction at all now that that doesn't explain though why all the emergency rooms are overloaded everywhere because you know just seems

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everywhere because you know just seems like the effectiveness is worse than regular sloughs but you know we often talked about the fact that the regular flu kills lots of people and you don't hear about it so what if we heard about it you know what would that look like now I'm not going to make the mistake of comparing this to a regular flu that's that I think that's the big mistake but there's certainly a lot we don't know about it I I will I will agree with navall why I'm not sure what he said so I'm not gonna say this is greeing I'll just give my opinion my opinion is that there's a certainty that there's way more of it than we know I would say that's a certainty I don't know how that could not be the case but that doesn't mean it's good news or bad news it just means we'll find out more and the problem is what the problem is now the other thing that I've been hearing I don't know how reliably because you know I'm not a doctor but that the the viral load makes it difference so if you get a whole bunch of it and that's your at the time of

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of it and that's your at the time of infection you're sort of marinating it you get a worst case of it so what if the the nature of this thing is that it's mild but it's also cumulative so that would mean that that if you were just you know you got a grazing if you were glance a glancing blow of the virus you just got a little bit of it your body would adapt in time before the virus got too big enough numbers but you know what if it's really subject to a ventilation problem yeah maybe that's its weird characteristic then if you're in a nursing home or on a ship or something that shares ventilation or just in close quarters that's the problem and so it could be and I'm not sure if this is even a thing because would you call it a weak virus if getting a little bit if it didn't take you out but marinating and it would you

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you out but marinating and it would you know it is deadly is that a thing and is that different than other viruses could would that be true of every other virus well it probably has to do with whether it's airborne and whether it's a lung infection and stuff like that but anyway there are too many variables to quite know what's going on yet because this probably could be something interplay of lots of variables anyway thanks for the question let's see what else we got going here okay are okay coming at you okay can you hear me okay could hear me you have a question the brief statement is earlier you're asking about chloroquine and prophylaxis the Queeny only works once your immune system has triggered and started to

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system has triggered and started to develop antibodies for it that's why they don't want you taking it beforehand but
but ask you this question if you had it in your body it would be doing nothing nothing nothing until you got it infected and then it would already be there so it could jump right in so but there are there are better there are better medications that are out there and I don't want to go too much into them and by the way my background is bio bio chemistry and physical chemistry so um anyway that's best just to comment once once you've started to develop antibodies the coin eating reduces a transmitter called the inner lutein series and it releases three of them that are all affected by a corona of the disease and it brings them down so they spread in your anybody system kidding why so so just to clarify if I already had it in my body and then I got infected it wouldn't stop me from

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infected it wouldn't stop me from getting infected but it would already be in my body so it more immediately addressed the infection would that be fair to say yes but you gotta make certain that your body is actually responding to the infection otherwise your viral load will just continue to increase okay anyway that was my statement the question is this so it looks like the Senate plan for stimulus checks has come out and I know that you had been arguing for everybody to go through and get a check it looks like it's gonna be a four tiered system if you didn't if you didn't file in 2018 you're not going to get to check at all so that's people on Social Security you make less than $25,000 the homeless etc etcetera etcetera if you make more than I don't remember what the number is a hundred thousand dollars or something is to cut off then you won't be and if you make under forty five thousand dollars

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make under forty five thousand dollars or something then you're gonna get a half-sized check I just want to get your opinion on that and if you had seen that data that well you know um these suggestions that I saw somebody else make ingresses Wall Street playboys that's the name of the Twitter feeds and the suggestion was so simple that I was angry at myself for not having thought of it because the problem is people say well if he base it on last year's tax returns that may not tell you about this year I might have had a different job I could be unemployed you know there you know there could be less difference so that's a terrible way to go but the suggestion was this give every person the same amount of money and then when it's tax time the people like me who didn't deserve the money would pay a hundred percent tax I'll just give it back in the mean time I probably spent it but you know I'll still give back that same amount when I pay the taxes because I can afford it I thought to myself that

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can afford it I thought to myself that is the cleanest simplest thing I can say you don't have to decide who gets it you just give it to everybody and then you claw it back at tax time for just the rich who were used to you know used to filling out deductions they have long forms and stuff and it would be no pain it would there would be no extra work on my part you know my accountant out and my accountant my paperwork like always and then my accountant would know that she should account for that and deduct it and then I would get a big pile of paper and then I would sign it no work whatsoever now in the meantime you know the government's out that thousand dollars but you know it comes back in the year we could probably make that work and I thought that is absolutely the fairest because the basis it's based on your what your actual taxes were and you don't have to say yeah but last year this year and that's not fair that's about as far as you get and then if you're doing it for your taxes you can make it infinitely you know great a

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make it infinitely you know great a infant degradations you know you could say if you make this much you get this much if you make this much you get this much you don't have to have just you know three categories then people feel like they got screwed if they were you know I was right close to the line I was right on the line and then I didn't get anything so you don't want that so you just add more gradations do it on your taxes it's just easy and automatic and the accountant takes care of it that's nothing so one one industry that people have kind of ignored really getting hit hard and that's the rental industry so like I had to try and rent a wheelchair while I was waiting for mine to be shipped in and nobody's running wheelchairs nobody's renting vehicles or anything else because of course they can't be sanitized effectively so that's an industry that nobody's really talking about but it's bad thing impact yeah they're you're worried that they're probably you know 200 job types and industries that are big ones that we're

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industries that are big ones that we're not talking about because you know you think automatically if a restaurant for example so there's some you just think of the like I I spent exactly zero time thinking about the rental industry but you're right that's gonna get whacked but it'll be fine as soon as we get the virus under control I think I think that'll all snap back so thanks for the question I appreciate it all right all right one more then we gotta go to bed
bed how about how about Curtis Curtis Curtis do you have a question tonight actually I'm a waiter in Nashville and tonight was essentially the last night that I'll have working for a while and something that I like to say is that makes you I don't know makes you optimistic is when people or people

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you optimistic is when people or people people being people and the amount of generosity the size of you know tips and things like that that people to tad and and stuff was just really amazing and even though you know there's kind of worry ahead about things like that in the next coming weeks it really gave a lot of encouragement to people that need it and it was really kind of an incredible night even though it it should have been sad it really didn't feel that way and yeah you know there there is something to be said about the just the way everybody feels the public spirit I saw the caller just disappeared but yeah thanks the story people people are stepping up and they're not going to stop until we get things right so let me see if people are asking me to add Kevin Ford and I don't know if Kevin is still here or if he went away I'm just scanning to see if I see him on the list here I do not see

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I see him on the list here I do not see Kevin forward on the lists so I think you went away anyway but I'm sure up Kevin's back all right Kevin Kevin what do you got for me thank you no well what do you got Kevin sorry
all right now I don't have a major position in the hospital I really don't know how to begin here I'll just give you from where I was at I'd say the beginning of last week to where I am now okay you know last week you know there were rumors oh you know what's going on what's going to happen I've been watching your videos every day and you know I've seen a cynical negative cynical positive takes me to LA last Friday a week from today last Friday and we started a no

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last Friday and we started a no implement visitor policy going on taken major precautions at our Hospital this is Northeast Massachusetts I work within the hospital I want to say what position just because I don't know what sort of you know things I'm breaking here in terms of rules but over the weekend I heard be any cases supposedly that's what they told us well over the over the weekend what over the weekend from Friday to when I came back to work on Monday I was told on Friday we had zero cases on Monday we had eight okay okay by Wednesday seven were gone home and one was left and then you know I begin to listen to your theories and your positivity and and I have family that's also within major hospitals in Boston and they have lower

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hospitals in Boston and they have lower numbers than we have we are I'm at a very small Hospital in terms of what we're at in Boston and for the most part everybody's being pretty much sent home I mean and I don't know what it means you know to the sorry I'm just I didn't expect to really get called upon I thought I was gonna send off here but I so so so Kevin I would imagine it's entirely dependent on location so there I I heard from somebody earlier today who was waiting four hours in a line for the emergency room it was it was a four-hour wait and I I don't know if that's typical or untypical but I've got to imagine there's something I have no impact you know literally none and some that are already starting to strain so butBut thank you Kevin for the the input I appreciate that very much

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all right people on that note we are going to take off I it would be easy to be fooled by any anecdotal information so especially if you hear there's some young person died I think you have to take all that with a grain of salt because I don't know how many times young people just sort of die from regular slings and other things so an of context it's not telling you as much as you think it is you got to kind of wait for the pros to sum everything up and give you some statistics so don't get frightened by anecdotes wait for the pros to just give you the cold hard statistics and I think those will improve over time as well anyway I hope you enjoy this and I hope it allows you to drift off to sleep everything's gonna be fine there really well it's just a matter of time humans were pretty good at this stuff and we're gonna be on top of this by the end of the week talk to you later