Episode 923 Scott Adams: Coronavirus, The Simulation and Next Level Human Awareness

Date: 2020-04-19 | Duration: 49:27

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: China is an incompatible system No vaccine or herd immunity, no return to normal Our adult decision needs to be herd immunity California Mayor of Auburn abdicates his right to empathy Far UV light kills coronavirus

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mm-me well studio coming online yes this is the famous coffee with Scott Adam studio going into dark mode in a moment my lighting will be perfect oh there I am and there you are it's good to have you again bump bump bump bump bump hey you know it would be great I'll tell you what would be great this would be great it's called the simultaneous simple it's probably why you're waiting for if you would like to participate it doesn't take much all you need is singing along with me you know the words know you don't but imagine you do just imagine you can say it in your head a crisper a mug or a glass attacker jealous or study the canteen sugar flask invest a little bit in kiting to fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unfair pleasure the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything including the pandemic better gets your

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including the pandemic better gets your herd immunity on and join me for the simultaneous sip it happens now go
immunity coming online I feel as though I could fight off any old virus be it bioengineered in a Chinese weapons lab or be it coming from a dead bat on a street market either one of those no problem well let's talk about anything this happened to the last 11 hours last time I talked to you it appears that Chinese China is a reputation in the world continues to get worse I guess Germany is going after him hard in terms of the media so there's some stories about how hard the German media is going after China and the US media seems to

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seems to at least the media from the right seems to be on board anti-china I'm not sure if the left is fully on board and I think Nancy Pelosi is still siding with China you know the independent of politics there are some things you can say about politics that are just objectively true and I think this is objectively true Nancy Pelosi is not really on our side anymore is she and I don't mean you know our side pro-trump anti-trump like that I mean I'm not sure she's not America's side anymore it means go it's got that far you normally I'm not the person who says I'll don't call them a traitor they're just have different political beliefs and stuff but my opinion of Pelosi is that her actions are entirely based on Trump personally right it feels like everything that she does has to do with

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everything that she does has to do with Trump personally it doesn't have to do with the voters doesn't have to do with the country doesn't have to do with Congress of the government it's just personal and if she can't get out of that mood well we don't need her in any position in our country so I would say you know say you just because she's you know important Democrat or anything she seems to be absolutely completely worthless would know beyond worthless worthless would just be she's not helping Pelosi seems actively working against the interests of the United States because she's got something bugging her bonnet you know I don't want to read her mind so I'll just say she acts as though if you're just looking at her actions she acts as though it was just some kind of personal thing that would be my cat's tail that you're saying no boo would like to say hi again apparently say hi boo all right that's enough of that and

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boo all right that's enough of that and every single day that I open up the news it looks like it looks like there's just more hatred for China it's just growing and growing and growing and here's what I would worry about this is a persuasion trick people become whatever you you act like they are so loose stop it so here's an example if if you meet somebody new for the first time and you simply act like you're their best friend how do they act well they just sort of automatically backed friendlier you know they might not act like your best friend but if you act friendly to people they actually back it's just automatic we mirror people automatically if you treat somebody like an enemy how will they act well if you treat them like that I mean they're gonna act like an enemy so to a large extent it's not a hundred percent you

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extent it's not a hundred percent you know effective but to a large extent you can cause other people to become what you want by treating them that way you can actually treat somebody like a friend until they become a friend treat him like an enemy until they become one now Charlie was kind of a special case because apparently at least culturally we're told the Chinese culture has some kind of dominant conquering we must take over the world kind of a vibe to it which honestly I would say is unconfirmed yeah my cat's just going crazy over there now I have to move all the things on my desktop because she's knocking along the ground bad kid [Music] so here's the thing if we just tell China China you have done all these bad things just all our stuff and you you lied about the coronavirus and you're locking Weger and concentration camp and

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locking Weger and concentration camp and you're using flan boom people for you know forced transplants you're doing all that so we're gonna treat you like an enemy how would I respond well I think they'd respond like an enemy we've we've tried to treat them like a friend and I think we Green didn't work right I feel it feels like it was worth a try I wouldn't I don't think I would have any bad feeling about anybody who wanted to get closer to China in the past because it kind of was worth a try but now we tried right so that the trying is over we tried it clearly didn't work being friends with them just isn't a model that can work for us now we don't have to be their enemy that would be the worst thing we could do the worst thing we could do is just say all right you're our enemy now so we're just going to treat it like an enemy wouldn't do that I would go a different way and I would be personalize it and I think the president's instincts would be similar because he's he's big

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would be similar because he's he's big on being respectful to the leadership for practical purposes and you know the the idiot opposition acts as though Trump can't tell the difference between President Xi oh man did I want to swear just then whoa everyone said while the the cursed words just well up into my throat and I have to like eat them to choke them back what I was going to say some unkind things about President Xi so I'll say them in less Pursey tones president Trump apparently is smarter than all of his critics on the left unless they're just pretending because quite obviously and he's not trying to hide it even in the least when he talks about presidents shaving awesome and powerful and a good friend of his that's not personal he's not actually talking about his good friend President Xi if you believe that you're an idiot no the president is treating the leader

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no the president is treating the leader of the biggest country in the world at least in population with respect because that's functionally the best thing to do it's obvious it's just for effect now does he like him personally yeah maybe I don't know I mean they spent some time together you might like him personally but believe me whatever President Trump says about President Xi in public to the United States is for effect it's not what he actually thinks how dumb would you have to be to think that the president this is the only time he's telling you exactly what he really thinks no he's the president he's treating other leaders with the respect he tells you that directly he says it directly of course I'm changing the leaders with respect and then he goes hard at them with tariffs and other complaints so so I think the Presidents on the same page which you don't need to treat them like an enemy that but at the same time you could be clear-eyed about what the risk is so here's how I would go I said this

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is so here's how I would go I said this before but I'm going to say it better rather than treating China as an enemy we should treat it as an incompatible system we should just say you know we've got this electronic thing we want to plug into the wall socket but we need voltage of 110 you've got 220 well it's not our it's not our opinion that that's good or bad we're not criticizing you you're not our enemy I'm just saying I have a toaster it requires 110 but your system is 220 we tried plugging in and it blew up my toaster and then we tried plug in the you know the hair dryer and hair dryer blew up too so then we tried plugging in our electric car and my Tesla blew up and then I tried you know plugging in my phone and my phone blew up how many things do we have to blow up before we find out that you can't plug a 110 device into a 220 outlet so we so he says get an adapter stop at you

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says get an adapter stop at you engineers stop ruining by analogy with your clever clever engineering solutions my point is we should just say while you have a system that doesn't have transparency you can't connect to a system that does now do we have all the transparency in the world no you know even the United States could have far better transparency but it's pretty good wouldn't you say and when we are pretty close to transparent I mean we even have we even have transparency and things that didn't happen we have so much transparency we know the things that did happen behind closed doors plus people are writing entire book about things that didn't even happen we have whatever is more than transparency we have people actually making stuff up and they still don't go to jail imagine that in China imagine China somebody writes a book and you just make up a bunch of stuff that happened behind closed doors that the president said oh

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closed doors that the president said oh yeah then President Xi said you know let's say let's kill all the weavers or whatever and you imagine that how long that would last in China so not only does the United States have transparency but we have whatever's past that where people can just make stuff up and they still don't go to jail it's kind of amazing actually so I think you could boil it down to that you can't plug a transparent system into a non transparent system and get a good result for the transparent one the non transparent one will do just fine right remember you plug your toaster into the 220 the toaster blows up I don't know if this is true because I'm not an electrician but imagine if I were an electrician and I knew what I was talking about right now wouldn't this be a cool story so just imagine this is true you plugged your 110 I have no idea that this happens you plug your 110 you couldn't do it because the plugs would

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couldn't do it because the plugs would be different but imagine you did you plug it in your toaster blows up but the 220 outlet is fine the outlet is fine it's only the toaster that got injured so as long as we're a transparent system we're vulnerable to plug into a non-transparent system and I think we should just keep it simple say it's not about communism we don't care do we care do you really care if they if the Chinese government is communist know you can only care how it affects you how it affects the world we don't really care how other countries govern themselves I mean we'd like them not to be murdering their citizens right but it is kind of up to them I mean you know there's not much we can do about it so that's how I do it I would de personalize it and say you can't plug a transparent system into an entree system and if you do only one of them can win only the non-transparent can win because they can take from the transparent side but they give nothing

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transparent side but they give nothing they don't even tell you if they have a pandemic coming so that's that that's how I would decoupled I would decoupled entirely based on transparency because it can't be argued there's no argument about it and you don't have to argue whether a communist system is better than a democratic system right because transparency isn't really technically built into the communist system if you said China can you describe the communist system would there be anything on their list that describes their government in their own opinion they said oh yeah and we don't do transparency because communists don't do transparency that's not actually part of the system so you can actually ignore communism in your you ignore the entire system of government and say we don't really care what kind of system you have we care about transparency and if you don't have that it doesn't matter what

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don't have that it doesn't matter what else you're doing we don't care if you've got a king a dictator a communist system we don't care if you're democratic you could be Democrats if you have no transparency I guess it doesn't work if you're democratic but if you have no transparency to us doesn't work alright so China's going down there's no two ways about it let me say this is as clearly as I can in five years China's gonna be a bad place it's gonna be a bad place because it's it's gonna be doing nothing but going downhill and I think that's guaranteed at this point us however in five years is going to be really really good shape I'll tell you where you want to be the United States in five years boy do you want to be in the United States in five years because it's gonna be an amazing place this year little little problematic all right so last night on was it

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last night on was it Levin Jo I think it was dr. David Katz the founding director of the Yale Griffin Prevention Research Center in Connecticut he says what I've been saying so apparently I'm a qualified biologist now because what I've been saying for months is now being said by an actual doctor now it's not like other doctors haven't said this before but he's the clearest one and it goes like this he says if you but I want to get his exact words I didn't write down his exact words the basic thing is he's saying that unless you have vaccines which we don't have or you have to heard humanity herd immunity which we don't have unless you have one of those two things there's no such thing as getting back to normal and he suggests that the longer we're in isolation and avoiding the virus we're

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isolation and avoiding the virus we're just pushing the problem into the future now I suppose you could push it into the future like theoretically until the vaccines here but we know that won't work because it's just too long and if we if we can't close the economy for a year or 18 months I think everybody bears degrees that's too long so we can't wait for a vaccine so let's take one of the two possibilities off the table all right if Exene doesn't help us soon enough what is the only other thing that could work according to a doctor who is an expert on prevention I assume it's this kind of prevention and actually I don't know what kind of prevention he's a doctor oh so let's let me not assume I know his credentials but he got on TV you use a doctor who got on TV that's one or something
and so he's basically saying we should go ahead and get the herd immunity well he doesn't say this directly is that

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he doesn't say this directly is that I'll just say it directly so I've said that we should rethink what our goal is the goal should not be to avoid it the goal should be to get it in the most careful way so in other words if we're not already letting out the people who are unlikely to die from it so that they can guess of immunity we can't really ever get there there's no way to get from here to there right so I'm very much on that team which is to say I think we're on the right path really because as we carefully reopen the government to the infections should spent I think the only gaining factor should be the icy use and unfortunately the only thing that should slow us down is the hospital resources and I think we're in much much better shape Hospital resources than we thought we would be so that seems to be the only path and you

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that seems to be the only path and you know what's interesting about it is that the public with all of their protests and going to the beach and huddling and stuff it seems to me yeah actually no people didn't talk about convalescent blood serum he should have said that that was the third option right because wouldn't comes lessons of blood serum also get you two something like herd immunity if you did enough of it so I think we should change our strategy I think our strategy should get should be explicitly to get to herd immunity but to do it with the least possible death so there's probably some strategy for doing that that involves infecting the keeping cold away for at least a month and then then hoping you've got immunity maybe you can test for antibodies in a few months anyway I would like to see our goal explicitly changed to careful

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our goal explicitly changed to careful herd immunity and or vaccinations because right now just hiding I feel like isn't getting this closer to the endpoint as this doctor says is just pushing off the endpoint and I and if you push off the endpoint you're also pushing off the point that your that your economy can recover it certainly makes point it makes sense to push off your your end point if the only thing you're worried about is dying because it keeps your hospital resources as open as possible but if the economy is a variable too I think you want to do it sooner I think you want to get the economy going get the infections going you know the X number of people are going to die no matter what you do it's a it's an adult decision and and by the way I've heard a number of other people use the phrase adult decision it's a really good one yeah in terms of persuasion if you get an argument with some idiot who is just

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an argument with some idiot who is just being political and acting as though there's a choice that where nobody dies that's the child view I'll take the child view please where the economy is good and nobody gets the virus I'll have that one please and you say well we don't have that choice you know you got to make tough choices somebody's gonna die because the economy went bad different people other people will die if you do the other plan where the virus goes everywhere so you just sort I have to pick and I'll say it again if if there's nobody in the country who wants to make the choice I'll do it not my job obviously nor do I think I'm especially qualified but if you needed an adult to make an adult decision and you don't want to make it yourself I'll do it I won't like it I mean it would you know mess me up for the rest of my life wouldn't it I mean if you made a decision that you knew killed people you'd never really be the same I don't think I don't think I would be the same

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think I don't think I would be the same but if it's the only way to get from here to there the country requires somebody to make a decision and it's gonna have some kind of a you know a psychic load on that person for the rest of their life well I'm pretty I'm pretty hardened against that thing I'm pretty mentally tough I'll do it if you need an adult to tell you which way to go and people are gonna die I'll do it if we don't have any other adults who will do it I'll do it alright that won't come to that I'm just saying that we should just stop talking with children about the impossible ways let's get a flying unicorn and then the economy will be good and nobody will have the virus okay children you're done now speaking of children so-called comedian Patton Oswalt I hate I hate Patton Oswalt by the way I just hate him personally now he's come after me personally on on Twitter he's just a horrible little troll of a man and he's skiing I think

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troll of a man and he's skiing I think it went after a Greg Gutfeld this week and so now people to go after him so here's what he said and of course I'm not I'm not the guy anything she should get in trouble for jokes all right so I'm not gonna say somebody should lose their job or something because I made a stupid joke especially if you're a comedian I mean I just had bad nose well there's a horrible human being as far as I can tell he's just a terrible person based on his public public persona I don't know him personally and so here's what he said but even so he's even though he's a terrible person I don't think anybody should lose your job for a bad joke but here's what he said and on Twitter he said Anne Frank spent two years hiding in Natick so you know already son shaky ground if the first two words in your tweet are in Frank it almost doesn't matter what comes out in the rest of the tweet you're gonna get some attention you start with Anne Frank that's that's

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you start with Anne Frank that's that's starting strong alright so he says Anne Frank spent two years hiding in an attic and and we've been home for just over a month with Netflix food delivery and video games and her people risking viral death by storming state capitol buildings and screaming open flood rockers he tweeted now on a on a comedy level not bad not bad I mean Patton Oswald is a famous comedian because he's good at comedy I can't take that away from and also in terms of judging artists in general since I'm usually on the receiving end of the judgement I always like to say that if there are if an audience is paying for your work it's not bad so anybody who says that a comedian is not funny at the same time that a comedian films entire stadiums of people buying a ticket and know why they're there and they're happy when

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they're there and they're happy when they leave that's not a bad artist as somebody who filled a room with people who wanted to pay for it so patton oswalt he fills rooms with people who want to pay for his content so he's good he's good at what he does I can still hate him for just being a horrible person though so his food is funny but of course he is he was blamed of being tone deaf not reading the room because it does not describe everybody in the country watching Netflix with their delivery and video games you do know there are people who can't afford food delivery they're called most of the people in the United States probably the majority wouldn't you say I would guess over half of the country wouldn't do takeout even if they wanted it because it would cost a few bucks extra I think at least half the country doesn't do takeout orders or delivery even if it's not a corona virus it's got

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even if it's not a corona virus it's got to be half more 75% it might be 75% of the country has never done delivery of groceries because they can't afford it wouldn't you say maybe 75% I'm just guessing it's at least 50% have never had food delivered to their house because you wouldn't pay extra for it yeah somebody's saving 3/4 I think it might be 75 it could be higher it could be 80% of the cut I don't know wouldn't be surprised so Patton definitely wasn't reading the tone of the country there here's a horrible story that I'm only going to tell you because of the way I feel about it
it I want to see if you gotten to this point to this is a terrible story you're not gonna like me more after I say this so let me just warn you I'm gonna reveal a little bit too much about my inner thoughts and it really shouldn't do this but I feel like

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really shouldn't do this but I feel like it anyway it's like you ever do something that you know you shouldn't do and you know you're gonna do it anyway even when you know you shouldn't do it you say I know I shouldn't do this now watch me do it I don't know why I'm doing this because I just said I know I shouldn't do this well I'm gonna do this right now it was a California mayor who got in trouble for doing some public presentation where he showed a Ku Klux Klan photo and compared it to Trump supporters so so this is a mayor of Auburn California and he had just recently on social media posted a meme comparing Trump supporters to the KKK well he died in a small plane crash yesterday and I thought to myself I don't have empathy I have I have lots of empathy for his family right so to his family of course of course I'm to

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family of course of course I'm to present empathy nothing else would be even human but I get honestly this is the part I don't want to admit in public but I'm gonna do it anyway if somebody who was a listen elected official has put me into a category because I'm a trump supporter not a conservative not a Republican but definitely a trump supporter he puts me in the category with the KKK in public and that he dies I don't care sorry didn't mean to swear I actually don't care I do care about his family I mean genuinely you don't want anybody to die if they feel loved ones etc and that part is the tragedy but let me say it as clearly as I can if you're an elected official and you've compared some part of the American public who just want you know freedom and a constitution and people follow the laws and don't raise my taxes too much if you're calling them

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my taxes too much if you're calling them the KKK in public and you're an elected official and ya made sure he was joking right sure he was joking well not really I mean he was joking and since he didn't literally mean the KKK but he meant to compare them and I gotta say I don't have any empathy for him he died in a terrible accident and I actually just don't care I think he deserved it there's deserves a tough word nobody should ever say anybody deserves that so I'll take back deserved I will say that he he abdicated his right to empathy let's say that nobody deserves it so nobody deserves it I want to be as clear as I can nobody deserves to die in a bad accident but you could certainly abdicate your right to empathy and I think he did that's all I'm saying

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I like death so there's a former NASA scientist who is on Fox News peace who's talking about this thing called the far UV light and his take on it was really really good and I don't know I've said before that engineers are gonna save the world just over and over again scientists but also engineers and this is this is a good example so the scientists and this guy's a scientist former NASA scientist was saying that the special kind of UV light it's not the normal kind it's a special range for UV whatever that is yeah we know that it kills the virus and we've known that for a while in fact there are industrial devices with this light that actually do that right now they work in hospitals they they kill the virus and what the scientist was saying was essentially an engineering solution so it's one thing to invent things but they have to actually be spread into the public and implemented and that's where the engineers come in and so the scientist

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engineers come in and so the scientist was saying that instead of using these devices to let's say decontaminate something you know is to kit you know is contaminated which is the normal way your brain works so your brain says oh wait there's this light and you know it kills the virus so we'll use this in all the places that there's a virus like if I have a mask I wanted to camp decontaminate it maybe I put that in there you know if I had something specific that was contaminated I'd put that light there and then the but then the scientist gives this twist on it and the change completely changes what I thought of this idea and he put an engineering spin on it and he said you don't want to use it to kill the virus where you know there's a virus you just want to put them everywhere because apparently you could even put one in the you know attach one to the dashboard of your car or you know up to the hang one from the the rearview light it would just be a little unit and all day long

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just be a little unit and all day long you know or at least when he turned it on it would just use some UV light into the environment it would be killing the virus if it were in your car so without even knowing if your car would ever be infected you put this little device there during the day periodically it just shoots out some far UV lights and if anybody had some and if they touched your car on the inside it would kill it now he's saying you could put it in your door ways you could build a doorway so that if you walk through it the UV light would kill some stuff that was on your body maybe you could put you could build it into the ceiling lights and they actually showed a prototype was actually a ceiling light that during the day just use UV light out in addition to the regular room light so as the regular room light is on somebody says I already did this interesting so as the regular room light is on you can't even see the UV light so we could just be done during the day killing viruses in your environment and you never know and to me that seems like

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you never know and to me that seems like a really scalable solution it doesn't look like it's necessarily to scale ball in the next 12 months but if we're talking about the future of humanity and I think that's with a NASA scientist is talking about because we've got pandemic after pandemic after pandemic right now to the extent that they're all viruses they probably are not susceptible to the same kind of treatment yeah airplanes airplanes would be the obvious one where you'd want to put this so you can easily imagine and let me ask you a question how much do you think it cost if you were to make a consumer product that was handheld or you know ceiling mounted or maybe it's just a light bulb and it could be just a light bulb right but what would it cost per room or per car I suppose what would it cost if you got your production down per unit and I'm thinking I'll pay you could get one of those devices below $20 pretty quickly for let's say a small space like a bedroom or something the

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space like a bedroom or something the bathroom maybe I'll bet you could get your whole house done for under $1,000 if you got the good stuff and maybe under $300 if if you went cheap maybe your car unit would be you know 50 bucks sits up there and you just change the batteries now and then something like that somebody says 5g will kill them wouldn't that be great imagine waking up tomorrow and finding out that we killed the corona virus by just you know cranking up all the 5g cell towers for a few minutes just turn them up for a few minutes we killed all the virus I don't think that'll happen all right so that's what more hopeful things I've heard because it does feel like even if we beat the corona virus it's just going to be one virus every X years killing our economy so it'd be good to have some kind of permanent way to suppress it let's talk about that skatepark yeah cruise ships

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about that skatepark yeah cruise ships or another another great one somebody says they have them on Amazon is that right I don't know I'm not sure I would I don't think I would trust and anything uh Amazon during the virus because what there's a lot of scams let me just check somebody said it's Oh let me talk I could talk about systems in a minute so that would be far UV light or UV let's see and the answer is oh yeah germicidal lamps so 414 dollars you could buy a pack of 60 watt light bulbs that are allegedly germicidal lamps but here's my warning to you oh yeah there's a whole bunch of light bulbs all I'll be doing sanitizing light bulbs they all say UV not far UV so

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bulbs they all say UV not far UV so here's what I would caution you
oh there's one that you stick your hand into interesting so yeah there's all kinds of products in that category but they don't use the word far and here's the thing I would worry about it's very likely that there's a specific kind of UV the far UV whatever that is I know there works better than other UV things and so I'm thinking that the regular UV might be a little bit useful and the far UV might be very useful so I would be cautious anything you buy during that coronavirus because it's probably as many scams as or a real products I don't know you can tell somebody says they're made in China I'll bet they are what would happen if you found out that the reason China got it under control is they're usually far UV in their light bulbs and they didn't tell us

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bulbs and they didn't tell us
somebody says 5g could be the problem not the cure yeah maybe somebody says you're an LED expert electrical engineer well good there might have been more to that yeah there's some youtubes on this people are sending me URL to see it's not a novel approaches built oh yeah that's what I said I thought it's been out there forever it's a common approach but what was different is how to engineered into everything to me that was the breakthrough the breakthrough is not the the UV light kills virus the problem is that it's not in the places it needs to and apparently it could be apparently it could be there's no difference or it could be worried about our own immune system you know it would be interesting I wonder if you could test our immune systems before and after the corona virus are you curious about that because you know as I've told you many times I

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you know as I've told you many times I think many of you are doing the same thing I am consciously working on my immune system so it almost every decision I make during the day is directly or indirectly related to my immune system because at the moment it's my highest priority because I figured eventually I'm going to get exposed to the virus sooner or later and I want to be in good shape so for example are there are there so many people who are doing something similar and it could be you know just work was more stressful than staying home for a lot of people as long as you're still getting a paycheck staying home is probably a little less tense than going to work for a lot of people may be the reverse for some of us - anyway the question is if you could measure our immune if there's a way to do that directly our immunity before and after coronaviruses shut down would it be higher or lower I'm pretty sure binding would be higher if assuming that I can actually boost my immunity by lifestyle and in the you know in a few

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lifestyle and in the you know in a few months and I think you can I do yeah I'd love to get an opinion if there's a medical doctor here who knows this how much can you boost your immunity through lifestyle we'll say in a month you know - can you make an appreciable difference in your overall body's immunity in a month or or is it a case of the average person with good immunity has good days and bad days based on what they did that day in other words if you didn't get any sleep that day is your immunity lower if you're tip more tense that day if you I don't know if you if you over exercise and worry around yourself out so that's my question and the reason I'm asking this is it's entirely possible I'll just throw this out as the most ridiculous optimistic statement anybody ever said okay if the problem with this virus is that it kills more well it seems to be

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that it kills more well it seems to be extra deadly at least in quantity if not in ratio meaning that it might not be killing such a high ratio of people to get it but there are lots of them because it's a pretty viral thing so if there are lots of them and you know it's deadly what would happen if our immunity went up 20 percent let's say if you couldn't measure such a thing and then we were released back into the wild to get some herd immunity would brute would boosting your immunity by 20% make a huge difference in the mortality rate and in the way sony says just looking at the comments because this is funny so there's a Steve says damn I was waiting for a Monday call and it stopped Monday welcome to the club no idea what day it is most of the time no idea in fact it's worse for me you think it's bad for you you don't know a day it is I don't know

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you don't know a day it is I don't know what time of the day it is because I put my blackout curtains down what I do these periscopes so when the curtains are down it could be any time today I don't know what it is outside because I do the periscope at the same time of the day in the a.m. as the p.m. so my local time is 7:00 a.m. and then again at 7:00 p.m. I have this weird experience like last night where you know I do my periscope I was probably in bed by 9:30 ish and and then I wake up I slept a little late today and I'm just doing it again so I've got this Groundhog Day thing where I do this periscope I go to sleep and then I do the periscope and then I do some things than I do a periscope and I have to tell you I several occasions I couldn't remember if it was morning or night I actually couldn't tell I was sitting there thinking I know I've gotta do a periscope but is this the morning or is

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periscope but is this the morning or is this the night and a few times I've had to actually had to once I had to look outside just to talk to to figure out if it was morning or night so that's bad all right let's talk about this skate park this is one of those stories people like to talk about because you understand it there's there's nothing to it you don't understand so there's some skate park I think it was in Southern California where they filled it in with sand so that people wouldn't use it in violation of the of the ban on getting together and a lot of people sent that's outrageous it's outrageous except probably not I don't think it was outrageous if you wanted to keep people from using it and you didn't want to put a staff there a hundred percent of the time and the signs didn't work and he knew that people would be you know congregating too close well Phil Lewis and you can always take it out so I know people are not outraged because somebody

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people are not outraged because somebody found a clever solution to these things just filibus and I don't know you could argue that skateboarders don't get that close to each other but in my experience I've actually spent quite a bit of time as skate parks how many of you have spent time in skate parks because I have I spent a lot of time at skateboarding parks in my local town not skateboarding but watching my stepson at the time and they could get pretty busy there's a lot of a lot of social interaction there so I would not disagree with them acting creatively and making that skatepark unavailable all right anybody have any other questions
sleep tips I will give you some more sleep tips tonight because I think you should look at sleep as a skill I was in Venice

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at sleep as a skill I was in Venice California is the skate park San Clemente some people say alright yeah they tried caution tape first you can't really get teenage boys and they're mostly boys you really can't get them to obey rules so maybe fill it in with sand
yeah I don't even think a fence would stop him you know the thing with the sand is that it's temporary it's not that hard to take the sand out of it it's not gonna hurt anything hard in order to take it out and put it in yeah it'll be harder but it's not that big a deal you got brooms sweep it is there any other thing you would like from me in subsequent periscopes there would be in the form of a lesson something something you think I know how to do that you would like me to teach you how to do among the possibilities

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you how to do among the possibilities are systems for fitness systems for diet those of you who are new to me are wondering what are you talking about I thought you were a cartoonist why would you have a system for diet and a system for fitness and if you did why would I care about it because after all you're a cartoonist and the answer is what I teach is systems that would work in any domain so it's not a specific system it's just how to build a system for fitness and how to design a system for that sort of thing so I was probably gonna be doing that stuff pretty soon and yeah walking helps a lot all right just leave your comments before I sign off
yeah the counting to 20 is an amazing technique and I'll reinforce that and because the more it's reinforced the more powerful it is

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the new Biden ad yeah so the Biden ad tries to make it look like Trump did everything wrong and the pandemic and everything wrong dealing with China and it it makes China the the enemy and then it tries to say that Trump did a bad job dealing with the enemy of China and as Tim Poole pointed out in a tweet this morning I don't think they thought this through because if Joe Biden succeeds in making it look like China is the big old enemy who are you gonna vote for I mean seriously if the only thing you've gotten out of that ad is that China is really dangerous and we'd better be tough with them who are you gonna vote for you're not gonna vote for Biden if you if you think the Biden is accurate and saying that China is a big of a problem I mean it's like it's almost like the mole came up on that you know the mole is my theoretical person who gives bad advice to the other side our

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gives bad advice to the other side our system to learn how to draw sure I could I could teach you that pitching ideas for projects that's a good one I'm not sure I'm the best at pitching ideas for projects but I'll get you there yeah I could probably get you into the top 20% pretty easily the New Jersey cop drones well I think we have to get used to drones being everywhere I think drones will be everywhere I think that they're gonna have facial recognition that are gonna be able to sense things in the environment they might even be able to at some point you're gonna have military drones in the air you're gonna have armed drones in the air sooner or later somebody says Biden is less dangerously creepy now that he has early onset dementia Lady Gaga's Biden's visiting

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Gaga's Biden's visiting don't you wonder what yeah in their private moments do you ever wonder if the Biden supporters like Alyssa Milano and lady gaga and stuff don't you wonder what they say in their private moments because privately don't you think they say yeah we know he's lost it but we just we can't have another you know we can't have the orange monster elected again don't you think privately they know the Biden's already done at least in terms of mentally Oh drying for kids yeah I could give you a drawing lesson for kids okay I'll do that I'll make that one of my two deuce all right that's all I got for today and I'll talk to you tonight you know what