Episode 849 Scott Adams - Biden's Addled Brain, Chinese Bots, Loserthink, Ventilators, #WuhanFlu

well I hope you're all here to find love and the time of coronavirus well we're we're limping along we'll get through this thing together one way we're gonna enjoy the day despite all of the events in the news is with a little thing called the simultaneous M now I know you're thinking but Scott the simultaneous sip can't cure the coronavirus can it to which I say you don't know until you try so all you need is a cup of our glass of tanker gel just eyeing the canteen trekker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine here the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous up go well the dumbest presidential candidate in the history of candidates Joe Biden who's an animal brain is barely functioning at this point I think we could agree he has decided to go public and proved to the world that he doesn't understand the strategy against the coronavirus all right I'm gonna read his something he said yesterday and tell me if you think he understands what the strategy is because the CDC has a strategy and it's to flatten the curve those are exact words nobody is trying to keep the virus from getting in because that can't be done and nobody thinks it can be done there are no experts who think we can stop the spread of the disease not if you think that it's time to change your mind the disease is coming it could be 40 to 70% the public get it and that's actually the only way it will ever stop because you have to have enough herd immunity that the odds of spreading it aren't that high because it always hits somebody who's already got it and is immune so that's the strategy the strategy is to slow it down and that's it that's the only strategy and everybody agrees that's the strategy the CDC says it clearly and often here's what Joe Biden says quote a wall will not stop the coronavirus all right we're done there right aren't we done he can't be President we're in the middle of a crisis and he can't tell the difference between slowing something down because that's the best we can do and stopping it a wall will not stop a coronavirus how does that have anything to do with anything okay let's let's say that's just politics and we'll let that pass and then he went on and said the poll banning all travel from Europe or any other part of the world will not stop it Biden continued taking aim at the temporary travel policy I'm Joe Biden you just proved you can't be President because if you think that the travel ban was to stop it you're missing the whole important part which is that it can't be stopped the important part is slowing it down to the flattening of the curve and Joe Biden if you don't know that by now you really can't be President and was there nobody on his team who could advise him that the strategy is to flatten the curve nobody noticed nobody's paying attention has anybody watched any of the CDC stuff at all somebody asked me what's this going to look what it what will it look like if Carl Harris becomes the vice president and looks like he's a nursemaid for a declining Biden's and I said unfortunately for them it's going to look like a Driving Miss Daisy situations it's gonna look you know with the genders reversed it's going to look like Biden is Miss Daisy and Connell is driving the car and I don't know how we got here I you have to don't you have to blame the Democrats now I realize that when Trump was running for office the the Democrats were yelling you Republicans can't you see are you blind to what's happening here my cats bumping the camera that's why it moves to which I said no actually I can't see it now I can't see it you're telling me that Trump is a monster and he'll destroy the world but looking at the same things you're looking at and I don't see it and then he became president and things were going well except for the one thing he couldn't control the virus and he did the one thing he could do that he could control which is closed-closed traveled fairly quickly so is that the same as watching Joe Biden run for president and clearly is in some stage of just give us at some stage of mental decline you know I was going to use a word but I think I won't use a mental medical word because obviously I I can't diagnose him but there's something going on anyway that's enough on that I would ask Democrats not to put the country in this kind of danger I mean what would happen you know I don't even want to put this thought into the universe but let's let's say if Trump retired tomorrow just to put it that way what would be the back-up plan I mean of course vice president but for 2021 could we survive a president biden whose brain is clearly not working what do you say democrats i you know what i need to do is i need to give someone as a guest or or at now this is interesting I've never talked to anybody in person who who supported Biden and also thought his brain was working have you how can it be that I've never talked to anybody who think Biden's brain is working now I have talked to people who support Biden but I've never heard them say directly yeah I'm looking at him and he looks fine to me because I don't think it's a thing I don't think there's any Democrat we're looking in the eyes and be honest I mean anybody can lie but and be honest and say you know I don't see anything wrong I'm watching the videos you are I guess those videos are just sort of taken out of context so you know you're being fooled there's there's nothing wrong with Joe Biden have you haven't have you have you been in person with somebody you know you know not just somebody on TV who could lie of course but somebody you know will they look you in the eye and say I'm looking at those videos he looks fine to me I don't know is that ever gonna happen let's stop arguing about whether people are panicking or not panicking that's word thinking let's just call it preparing every time somebody says so-and-so is panicking or are you panicking or who's panicking or panic panic panic immediately just replace the word with preparation because nobody knows the right amount of emotional investment yeah don't worry about my internal state worry about what I do and let's just call it preparing so every time somebody uses that other P word immediately correct them and say well the only thing we know is or preparing you know I don't think we can define the exact proper amount of worry which by the way should be different for each person depending on your situation all right Joel Pollak wrote an amazing piece in Breitbart and you can see it in my Twitter feed i retweeted it between it and he's comparing the timelines of impeachment with the timelines of the beginning of the coronavirus before the united states was fully engaged and there's a complete cross there's a complete overlap in other words when the government of the United States should have been putting its focus on the coronavirus really early it was instead distracted by the impeachment process and I don't think you know of course the Democrats have always been saying hey we can we can walk and chew gum at the same time but they didn't you know I have to wonder could they walk and chew gum at the same time that question doesn't have to be asked any more you don't have to ask is it possible you can simply look at what happened it didn't happen they walked and they did not chew gum now maybe they could have maybe maybe if you talk to them say you know we could have done both things but we didn't so it doesn't matter if you can walk and chew gum if you're not willing to if all you're gonna do is walk and not chew the gum don't tell us you can if you don't and they didn't and you could argue and joel puts this this thought out there in the universe that we can now put a price under the impeachment in lives actual people who would die who might not have died otherwise because of a slow preparation and lack of focus on this emerging problem at the time could it be that impeachment will kill the middle and million americans you know did did you just scoff at that did you just scoff when I said that impeachment might kill a million Americans because you shouldn't have I think that's the upside I don't think you'll need more than that but if you were to price you know sort of freakonomics economic pricing of the impeachment you would have to look at the opportunity cost that's how economists think they say if we're doing this we can't simultaneously be doing this other thing because you can't be everywhere at once it's true with money but it's true with any resource if you're doing something you can't be doing something else with the same resources so I think the argument is fairly solid that a late start will make a big difference in the outcomes and we probably got started later than we should have I mean we should have been printing ventilators like crazy in mid January so we didn't have to worry about it in February and March all right here's a question that's really making me angry and I don't know the answer to this which is why are we not seeing reporting on the ground of an actual manufacturing company in the United States who is going you know balls-to-the-wall to ramp up to make ventilators even if they've never made a ventilator before now is that because it's not happening is that because there's only one little ventilator company in the United States and all the rest of them are in other countries and that poor little company can't do anything so it's better to ignore it and and just people are gonna die because we don't have enough ventilators what exactly is happening with the ventilator situation I'd like to see a news crew camped out outside of an American manufacturing plant and watch them work 24 hours a day making ventilators that they maybe even never made two weeks ago where's my Apple ventilator serious question if Apple Computer made a ventilator and they said we don't know if we're when you'll ever use this but here's one you can have at your house it's a thousand dollars whatever it is would there be enough senior citizens people like me I'm in that risk category over a certain age some history of asthma would I pay a thousand dollars to have an Apple made ventilator just in case you know just to have us in there just in case yes yes I would so Apple computer if you're listening I would buy an Apple ventilator now you're saving yourself how hard is it to make a ventilator right so a an alert follower of my Twitter account showed me a tweeted around an article from 2010 all right so context is important this is ten years ago ten years ago mit had a contest I guess to see if somebody could see if the students could develop a low-cost ventilator for exactly this reason an emergency low-cost ventilator students made one with a hundred dollars in parts and I think they used mostly off-the-shelf parts I don't think they invented parts I think they just bought parts and assembled them in a little do-it-yourself kit and actually made working ventilators in a reproducible way for $100 now obviously an Apple made ventilator would not be 100 dollars and be maybe if that wasn't or whatever but the point is apparently it's not hard to make them there doesn't seem to be too much to it now someone else weighed in and here's a fact check for you saying Scott Scott Scott it's not good enough just a ventilators you also have to have trained operators if you don't have a trained operator it's not going to help you with your ventilators to which I say seriously we we couldn't you know you couldn't do a telemedicine call to a doctor and say hey I got my ventilator am i putting this on right and the doctor says no better you better tighten up the mask a little bit if I were there I'd make sure there are no holes yeah the stuff like that is that really a problem that these ventilators that students students can make for $100 it was just a little mask thing you don't think we can figure out how to put that little masculine on her faces without a trained operator and hit the button turning on I don't know there I got questions in a world war two this country ramped up to produce you know tanks and weapons and all kinds of stuff and we did it pretty quickly over in China you saw them ramped up to create hospitals they built hospitals in two weeks it almost sounds like I it almost sounds like I misspoke China built entire hospitals in two weeks now of course there were temporary etc but good enough for the job we can't build enough ventilators with this much warning if you give the United States 30 days warning of a problem we can't build stuff anymore there's nobody in this country you can build stuff really fast maybe I mean could it be that our manufacturing capability you know just generally has dropped so low that we can't ramp up quickly and build a little device than a student can make for a hundred dollars and we can't crank these out by the hundreds of thousands with two weeks of notice what's wrong with our country if we can't and I don't know that we can't let's have some I'm asking for some reporting on that so news business please find some companies in that business and ask them what's happening and you know and can we help if you said to me Scott there's a ventilator company down the road from you and they're you know the only thing they need is more labor because you need somebody to assemble the parts and we can't build a robot to do it this quickly so we just need lots of people just to assemble them I'd be down there in a heartbeat I would I would stand up I would go to my car and I would drive down there and I would start assembling for free you don't even need to pay me I'll work all day I'll assemble some ventilators for you just tell me what I need to do alright so very disappointed in the media for not focusing on that problem maybe they will I've started a new policy today I'll you can of course make your own decisions but I'm blocking anybody on Twitter who comes into my mentions and into the comments and keep saying that this is the common flu and it's it's gonna be like the common cold and we're all panicking and we should stop worrying because it's not going to be a problem that is exactly what a baby yet I don't know a Chinese agent might say so I'm gonna block everybody no matter how long you followed be I'm gonna block you for coming in to Twitter and saying it's just a common cold it's regular flu or even comparing it to the regular flu so anybody who compares it to the swine flu compares it to Ebola as if that's making a point that it's not so bad I'm just blocking you all for now all right because this is a crisis it's an emergency and normally I would say free speech say whatever you want but that's dangerous it's dangerous for that kind of opinion to be out there now are they right are they right that you know a year from now we might say oh my god we panicked and everything was fine are they right well it's not impossible but it is also the dumbest thing in the world it's the dumbest thing in the world to act as if you know it's not going to be a problem because you don't know you don't know so maybe you should be prepared anyway so I'm blocking anybody who is acting exactly like a Chinese agent even if they're not there's just no excuse for acting like one here's a question for you can two people share a ventilator no obviously two people can have a facemask the same facemask on for the ventilator but because it's an emergency is there any situation in which you could add like an adapter to a ventilator that would keep the two people's air separate let's say I don't even know if that's important if both people do have coronavirus does it matter anymore if you get exposed I don't know how that works but could you put an adapter that's just a hose adapter so two people can use the same ventilator I think the answer is probably not for any variety of reasons of cross contamination you know not enough power etc but if the only problem is that the ventilator wouldn't last as long you know if you overtaxed it or something like that or maybe each person would only get eighty percent as much air you know there may be an engineering reason why I can't work as well but I just put it out there you know in a normal world nobody would ever have the thought it just wouldn't even be a thought that you would ever put two people on a ventilator right because in a normal world you would just never do that but is the only reason we haven't considered it because we have normal world thoughts you know should we at least toss it into the mix that somebody could develop a and and maybe maybe somebody's making events later now that's a you know a central processor with a number of hoses is that a thing could you build that I don't know I'm not suggesting as possible I'm just saying let's put all the ideas into the mix and in the in the deeply unlikely you know one percent case that having a having a you know a hos double hose coming off of a single ventilator might actually make sense one percent chance I mean it's not very high likelihood but I'll put it out there maybe somebody sees and says oh my god I never thought about that you never know this report from UC San Francisco on what is likely to happen in the United States and goes like this so their estimate is that forty to seventy percent of the u.s.

will be infected over the next year and a half 40 to 70% now you need you would need that many people to get infected to have any hope that it slows down or stops because you have to have enough people who can't get it again because they've already been exposed and have some immunity presumably I mean I think we're agreed that it creates immunity if you've had it once but I guess we should get a confirmation on that as well and they estimate that 1.5 million Americans may die compared to a seasonal flu that might be 50,000 so this is why I'm blocking people who are comparing because they're doing that dumb thing where they're comparing the number of people who have died already from this flu to the total number who will ever die from the other flu so it's like a few hundred compared to 50,000 but the real number of course is the risk number that it could be 1.5 million people most of the old people compared to 50,000 that's not really close those are different problems fatality range they're still saying is in the range of ten times as much as a regular flu there's some reason to hope that that could be downgraded when we have more information this assumes no drug is found and I think that's fair so 1.5 million people dying who might not have died otherwise or at least not so well they all everybody dies everybody dies but wouldn't have happened that quickly or for that reason here's something I would like my government to do for me so schools are closing in various places in the country not everywhere so I last i checked three states had closed and a lot of individual private schools and stuff are probably closed so schools are closing i don't see much hope that that won't be widespread in other words i think most of the states if not all looking closed schools will probably have to so I think school closings are here's what I need from my government to make that work if you have kids you know between a certain age let's say they're old enough to be a little bit independent you know let's say 11 years old to 18 so you've got a kid now house 11 to 18 and you say okay kids you get a stay home from school and the kids say yay all right yeah you stay home from school and then you say and you're not going to be able to leave the house and there and they say what yeah kids you're actually gonna stay in this house for 30 to 90 days tell that to your 11 year old and then they say well but you know our friends will be able to come over and you know at least at least we'll be with our friends and then you as the parents say okay I don't think you're hearing this yet not with friends you're not gonna be with your friends and you're not gonna be in school you're gonna be so bored that your head is going to explode and then they'll say okay but can I go visit one friend and if you're a parent you know you're gonna break down you're gonna break down because your kid is gonna nag you and nag you and say but just one friend I just want to go visit one friend I'm going crazy I have nothing to do I'm just you know playing with my phone can I just visit one friend and you're gonna say all right all right but hard rule one friend so you can go to their house and then you can come directly back one friend and your kid goes to their house and 50 frickin friends show up because they're kids right kids say hey come over to my house my mom said it's okay or didn't say it's okay and they come anyway you can't keep kids from bunching if they have phones so unless you took their phones away which nobody's gonna do right nobody's gonna take kids phones away you especially in that teenage range it's just impossible if you don't take their phones away they call each other and they say hey I got permission to go to one friend's house meet me there kids will not comply they will not comply there isn't the slightest chance that when they walk out of the house they will comply they will not so you have to plan a world in which there's massive non-compliance I want my government to do this assuming more schools close or even the amount they have I want my government to issue an executive order telling kids how much or if they should socialize in other words I want my government to tell me as a parent what to tell the kid because the only hope I have is to tell my kid my god I would let you go play with your one friend I really would I mean I think is reasonable but it's the law there's an executive order it's the law we could get arrested now could it be a law would you get arrested now but these are kids you're gonna have to lie to them you're gonna have to lie to them and tell them it's a law otherwise there's no chance of compliance and even then there's not much chance but it would help so I would like my government to assuming schools close to do some kind of an executive order obviously there's no such thing as a binding order of this type it wouldn't really be legally binding but parents could use it they can still tell their kid look there's an executive order from the president that says you got to stay inside it's not me you know take take the pressure off the parents that's all I'm asking apparently China I'd seen stories about this but honestly didn't believe it you know I'd heard stories that Chinese officials were starting to blame the United States for putting the virus in China or starting it ourselves or something like that and I thought no there that's crazy the Chinese government is not blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus that would just be nuts and then I saw it it's actually happening China at real officials you know people with titles on Twitter and stuff are actually blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus to which I say thanks a lot oh man I just thought myself from really swearing a lot my my cursing reflex was was like just right on the right on the barrel there Thank You China for guaranteeing decoupling the you know there were a lot of there were a lot of reasons to de couple before this virus came out and I I've been one of the most vocal people saying we should do it now that doesn't mean we do it tomorrow it just means that that should be a national strategy to get our stuff out of China move our manufacturing back and become less dependent because they actually not only did they blame us for it but here's the good part the good part being the bad bar China actually has threatened to withhold antibiotics for political reasons what are you kidding me we have critical manufacturing in a country that just threatened to use access to medicine as a weapon against us decoupling is on there isn't anything that could stop decoupling now let me let me state this as a fact and see if any of you disagree with it four months ago when I was putting the hash tag decouple in every other tweet and I was saying people people people we have to decouple you know other people were saying it to I'm not the only one but wasn't wasn't the general reaction to that well that's a little extreme we're not going to decouple from you know they're I mean we got our problems we'll work through it it's normal we're not going to decouple what do you think now now that now that we put critical pharmaceuticals in China and they just threatened to use that against us now maybe they won't my guess is they won't use it against us it would be too dangerous but once they've threatened that's the end of the story you know there's there you've got lots of variables that you say oh how do I weigh this variable and should we decouple and maybe we shouldn't well we can work this thing out we can work that thing out and we could put up with this so now you know we don't really need to decouple I see your argument but you know it's the sort of a gray area not anymore it's not a gray area now when a country threatens to withhold antibiotics during a pandemic that removes all doubt there's no longer any depth decoupling has to happen and more importantly it will there isn't any chance we're keeping our in China anymore that's over so whatever you're planning in terms of you know looking at the future of their world and what's going to happen with the economy etc.

I'm hoping it's good news that we're bringing manufacturing back to the United States but if you're wondering if we're going to decouple from China you know it'll probably be gradual but it's no longer if it's no longer if once they've threatened our health it doesn't matter if it's a empty threat doesn't matter if they meant it doesn't matter if they really would have no intention of doing that none of that matters the threat is the end of the story no conversations need to be happened no debate needs to happen anymore we need to be on the same side on this it's time to decouple all right it'll happen I see Trump blaming Obama for the CDC not being ready for the pandemic and you know you can make the argument that the other guy should have been more prepared but Trump's had three years on the job and you know it took eight years of Obama and three years of Trump to not be prepared enough I guess I mean there is obviously preparation but some deficiency in preparation testing for example now I don't I don't have any tolerance for this anymore I have no tolerance for blaming the past I don't have any tolerance for Trump blaming Obama but I also don't have any tolerance for anybody blaming Trump it's just backwards thinking during an emergency we only need to focus forward if you're spending any of your time tweeting or you know blaming the last administration or even blaming what Trump should have done in 2017 as if we knew what to do then it's just wasted time please don't waste my time blaming the past let's let's look forward there's a weird thing happening that it's not it's terrible to mention but I'm gonna do it anyway that the Wuhan virus and I don't need this to be a joke it's just this weird element of the simulation that we live in that this could ever happen our biggest problem had been climate change it looks like the war on virus is almost designed to solve it now I don't think it's designed I'm not not making that claim I think it's probably natural but it does seem to really help for climate change because it slowed down the whole economy and in you know it I'm not sure international travel will ever be the same but there's an even darker side to this there's a hashtag get trending if you haven't heard this this is dark this is really dark stuff apparently young people who are relatively immune to the Wuhan virus I've started a hashtag called boomer remover yeah and you've got to really have a dark sense of humor to laugh at that and I do happily so even though it's about removing me because I'm at the tail end of the Boomers you can't you can't ignore the fact that it's weird that young people were blaming a certain generation for a climate change and then this virus comes it totally removes the smog because all the industrial stuff stopped in the most polluted places you know China in particular and then it started killing the people that they blame for the problem has there ever been a virus more more suited accidentally I think more suited to solve some other problem and and so the young people are actually so cold that they're saying well you boomers ruined the world for us here's a virus that's going to take you out and leave us with your stuff maybe not so bad wow wow I don't know what to say about that that's just it's just mind-boggling martha maccallum on Fox News asked the CMS administrator Seema Verma if there were enough ventilators in the country and she asked her four times and each time she refused to answer the question directly instead just talked about some talking points until Martha was pretty frustrated but if you avoid a question four times that is your answer you can't avoid a question four times and then say well I guess there was no answer no the answer is the avoiding the question four times the answer is no the answer is no we do not have enough but it could be it's not the dumbest thing in the world for the government maybe not worry us about it if you can't fix it so if you can't fix it me somebody in the comments says it's confirmed that the Brazilian president has coronavirus I was expecting that I don't know if that's that's just a comment here I'm not saying that's true but check your news I would I would I've been expecting bad news I've been expecting to hear that the Brazilian president has it because some of the members of his staff did but check that I'm not sure if that's true yet so I wonder if 3d printers will ever become part of emergency preparation can you imagine having a 3d printer and I guess you'd have to project into the future where the 3d printers are just better and there's a there's a problem that comes up and the government just sends a blueprint down to everybody's 3d printer on how to print your own $100 ventilator could you get to a point where you could print a ventilator now before that you would probably get to a point where you can print a mask maybe maybe you print some toilet paper so I'm wondering if the far future that won't help us this time but I'm wondering if the future 15 years from now is that each maybe it's each town not each house but each town has a 3d printer and as soon as the emergency breaks out these printers activates and they start printing out the very thing you need for this very problem because each problem needs a different set of supplies so you might have a problem where you need a different set of supplies and they're going to be limited because nobody expected the emergency so maybe there's a world where 3d printers become the emergency plan Democrats apparently are they're handicapping these these emergency congressional legislation things that are trying to you know settle the markets and handle the handle the epidemic etc and the Democrats are adding adding pork to it I don't know if it's pork or just stuff they want slowing it down and so I see news about this and the news will report well the Democrats collectively tried to add this thing and that's going to slow it down during an emergency and I thought to myself you show us names I want to see a one-page slide this as Congress somebody proposed this bill to fund the pandemic one way or the other these three Democrats proposed things that are slowing it down that are you know maybe they're good things in and of themselves but they couldn't get past by themselves so they're trying to tack it onto this other thing this is an emergency let's show the public exactly who is slowing things down now if they can make their case well maybe they get an audience for that and people say yeah yeah it should be slowed down because we should have had this extra you know element to the bill maybe they can make their case but why don't you know the names the actual name the person who is trying to slow down these bills by adding stuff now in a normal world you don't care it's like I had Democrats are doing this Republicans are doing this but this isn't normal this is an emergency in an emergency you have to list all of your resources and one of the resources is the American public in social media and the news tell us who is slowing things down can you give us a picture in the name news media show us the people is that all of them do all of the Republicans want these things I'm sorry do all the Democrats want these items added to the emergency bills well that'd be good to know or is it there are some specific leaders or specific people who are trying to add these things because I need to know their names don't you because you're in this now we're not a spectators anymore we're all in it this is this is a global show me their names we'll see what we can do about that it's mostly what I got today you know one of the weird the weird things about this emergency is that 98% of my day can be exactly like it always is except for the thoughts you know my thoughts are sort of preoccupied by this but 98% of my day is completely normal and then 2% of the time I think oh there are some real big problems and they're really close so I'm in this two worlds mind where everything's normal and it's also a big emergency sort of at the same time and my head is going phasing back and forth depending on what I'm doing at the moment so that's weird but one good thing that's come out of it I think I mentioned this before I'm taking very seriously the the building up of my personal immunity so I've always been you know the fitness advocate and follower but I'm taking it to the next level so I am seriously getting enough sleep which I've never done before actually in no time in my life have I ever attempted to get enough sleep I've never even tried because I you know one of these people who can operate on low sleep and I know it's not good for me but I like being awake I just prefer it yeah I like being in the world I hate I just don't like sleeping so in the past I just didn't do much of it four hours a night I'm good I'm fine but now I'm getting serious about it because as it has a big impact on your immunity your your momentarily your momentary immunity so I'm getting enough sleep and I'm also taking a walk in the sunshine I'm doing a light exercise I'm not exhausting myself that's bad for my knee but a little light exercise get out of the Sun get your vitamin D he builds up your immunity a little bit so I'm doing that and I'm eating right and I'm you know doing light weight training etc so here's the weird part I've never felt better I'm in the middle of a global pandemic but personally if he asked me how do you feel Scott I'd say well I'm a little embarrassed by this but obviously I've never felt better and even the social distancing you know if you if I had to choose I would interact more with people I'm just a natural social creature in some context I'm more of a you know I need a lot of loan time to but I'm very happy to interact with people not during my alone time but have you noticed that the less you deal with people the less stress you have because stress comes almost 90% of stress comes from other people so I've decreased my exposure to other people in person and I feel like it's less stressful even if those people are good people they're not trying to create problems it's just normal people create stress and other people we don't we can't turn that off exactly just being normal creates stress so that's the the irony is that I've never felt better now I and I'm getting a little bit addicted to the feeling it actually feels so good there's like being on drugs I heard somebody tell me this a similar story some time ago and I scoffed that it was like hmm I don't know you know I don't I don't think being super healthy and well rested and stuff feels as good as drugs and then I got healthy and well rested it actually feels as good as drugs like actually literally it literally feels as good as being like a little buzzed on a drug just because my health is just peak it couldn't be possibly better at the moment alright I'm off the I'm off the prednisone by the way I think I've been off it long enough that it's not having too much effect on me yeah I am a hermit somebody saying in the comments I I can be a hermit but not indefinitely I need I need people so I'm an introvert but I still need a healthy dose of social interaction like most people let me tell you the funniest thing that I heard yesterday I won't tell you who said it because that person may or may not be watching this video right now but it was a conversation about running out of toilet paper and somebody who remained the endless said he's training himself to scoot across his front lawn like a dog just in case the toilet paper runs out aren't you glad you waited for the end of the periscope for that and and I my immediate feeling was oh that's a terrible plan what kind of dumb plan is it that if you run it in a toilet paper you're gonna train yourself like a dog just good across your front lawn instead and I said that's the dumbest plan I've ever heard don't your neighbors have lawns don't they you know aren't they ever asleep why would you do it to your own lawn now the lawn part the dogs scooting part perfect sense but why would you do it on your own lawn your neighbors sleep go next door yeah that's all I'm saying all right just joking if we can't have fun during the coronavirus we're dead inside and if you're dead inside it doesn't matter if you're dead on the outside so let's not lose our sense of humor entirely not entirely it's a serious deal but we're still human can't lose our humanity oh by the way somebody mentioned to a or C and me there's a there's a funny video if a or C saying you shouldn't touch you face and then they do a quick cut of all the time she's touching her face wall telling you not to touch your face so that's funny but not meaningful in any way but here's what is meaningful they ever see did a prime I think was a prime time I think so interview with Bret Baier on Fox News that's right AOC went into the into the Lions Den and did an interview on Fox News now why this is important is that Deborah Democrats in general are very reluctant to appear on Fox News because it feels like the enemy they probably don't think they'll get a fair shake and all that stuff but a or say you broke the seal now what do I tell you about master persuaders people who are good at it they take free money if there's a pile of money on the table everybody will walk by it except the people who are good at this the people who are good at it will walk by and they'll say a lot big pile of money on the table can I have it does this belong to anybody no it doesn't and that's what a was he did by appearing on Fox News when other Democrats did not she raised her national profile in a very substantial way and yeah of course all the people on Fox News are saying blah blah blah we don't like you what you said is bad etc you all remember that you won't remember that what you will remember is the AOC went on Fox News and wasn't afraid and and got interviewed by Bret Baier so first of all if you're gonna go on Fox News who are you gonna pick all right you've decided to go on Fox News your AOC do you pick Sean Hannity no no you don't do you pick Tucker Carlson no no you do not because their opinion people and you don't know how that's going to go but Bret Baier is famously you know competent famously independent fair-minded you know news guy so bret baier is a news guy not the opinion guys so she picked in my opinion you know maybe chris wallace would be another it would be a you know a good choice of this but she chose well she chose the right person i'm sure other people had asked her but she chose the right one so i'm just pointing that out as technique you could you can go back to hating her like you used to all right what else we got going on somebody says to me wasn't she a racist POS yes yes she is now it you can hold both thoughts am I not allowed to hold both of these thoughts that a or sees you know statements and preferences etc suggests a strong racism but that doesn't stop the fact that she's also tremendously talented as a public figure those can both be true what's wrong with that I'm not going to be that the person who is just going to take a side so if he need that go somewhere else if you need me to say there's some good and there's some bad about both sides came to the right place all right and I will talk to you later

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the dumbest presidential candidate in

the history of candidates Joe Biden

who's an animal brain is barely

functioning at this point I think we

could agree he has decided to go public

and proved to the world that he doesn't

understand the strategy against the

coronavirus all right I'm gonna read his

something he said yesterday and tell me

if you think he understands what the

strategy is because the CDC has a

strategy and it's to flatten the curve

those are exact words nobody is trying

to keep the virus from getting in

because that can't be done

and nobody thinks it can be done there

are no experts who think we can stop the

spread of the disease not if you think

that it's time to change your mind the

disease is coming it could be 40 to 70%

the public get it and that's actually

the only way it will ever stop because

you have to have enough herd immunity

that the odds of spreading it aren't

that high because it always hits

somebody who's already got it and is

immune so that's the strategy the

strategy is to slow it down and that's

it that's the only strategy and

everybody agrees that's the strategy the

CDC says it clearly and often here's

what Joe Biden says quote a wall will

not stop the coronavirus all right we're

done there right aren't we done he can't

be President we're in the middle of a

crisis and he can't tell the difference

between slowing something down because

that's the best we can do and stopping

it a wall will not stop a coronavirus

how does that have anything to do with

anything okay let's let's say that's

just politics and we'll let that pass

and then he went on and said the poll

banning all travel from Europe or any

other part of the world will not stop it

Biden continued taking aim at the

temporary travel policy I'm Joe Biden

you just proved you can't be President

because if you think that the travel ban

was to stop it you're missing the whole

important part which is that it can't be

stopped the important part is slowing it

down to the flattening of the curve and

Joe Biden if you don't know that by now

you really can't be President and was

there nobody on his team who could

advise him that the strategy is to

flatten the curve nobody noticed

nobody's paying attention has anybody

watched any of the CDC stuff at all

somebody asked me what's this going to

look what it what will it look like if

Carl Harris becomes the vice president

and looks like he's a nursemaid for a

declining Biden's and I said

unfortunately for them it's going to

look like a

Driving Miss Daisy situations it's gonna

look you know with the genders reversed

it's going to look like Biden is Miss

Daisy and Connell is driving the car and

I don't know how we got here I you have

to don't you have to blame the Democrats

now I realize that when Trump was

running for office the the Democrats

were yelling you Republicans can't you

see

are you blind to what's happening here

my cats bumping the camera that's why it

moves to which I said no actually I

can't see it now I can't see it you're

telling me that Trump is a monster and

he'll destroy the world but looking at

the same things you're looking at and I

don't see it and then he became

president and things were going well

except for the one thing he couldn't

control the virus and he did the one

thing he could do that he could control

which is closed-closed traveled fairly

quickly so is that the same as watching

Joe Biden run for president and clearly

is in some stage of just give us at some

stage of mental decline you know I was

going to use a word but I think I won't

use a mental medical word because

obviously I I can't diagnose him but

there's something going on anyway that's

enough on that I would ask Democrats not

to put the country in this kind of

danger I mean what would happen you know

I don't even want to put this thought

into the universe but let's let's say if

Trump retired tomorrow just to put it

that way what would be the back-up plan

I mean of course vice president but for

2021 could we survive a president biden

whose brain is clearly not working

what do you say democrats i you know

what i need to do is i need to give

someone as a guest or or at

now this is interesting I've never

talked to anybody in person who who

supported Biden and also thought his

brain was working have you how can it be

that I've never talked to anybody who

think Biden's brain is working now I

have talked to people who support Biden

but I've never heard them say directly

yeah I'm looking at him and he looks

fine to me

because I don't think it's a thing I

don't think there's any Democrat we're

looking in the eyes and be honest I mean

anybody can lie but and be honest and

say you know I don't see anything wrong

I'm watching the videos you are I guess

those videos are just sort of taken out

of context so you know you're being

fooled there's there's nothing wrong

with Joe Biden have you haven't have you

have you been in person with somebody

you know you know not just somebody on

TV who could lie of course but somebody

you know will they look you in the eye

and say I'm looking at those videos he

looks fine to me I don't know is that

ever gonna happen let's stop arguing

about whether people are panicking or

not panicking that's word thinking let's

just call it preparing every time

somebody says so-and-so is panicking or

are you panicking or who's panicking or

panic panic panic immediately just

replace the word with preparation

because nobody knows the right amount of

emotional investment yeah don't worry

about my internal state worry about what

I do and let's just call it preparing so

every time somebody uses that other P

word immediately correct them and say

well the only thing we know is or

preparing you know I don't think we can

define the exact proper amount of worry

which by the way should be different for

each person depending on your situation

all right Joel Pollak wrote an amazing

piece in Breitbart

and you can see it in my Twitter feed i

retweeted it between it and he's

comparing the timelines of impeachment

with the timelines of the beginning of

the coronavirus before the united states

was fully engaged and there's a complete

cross there's a complete overlap in

other words when the government of the

United States should have been putting

its focus on the coronavirus really

early it was instead distracted by the

impeachment process and I don't think

you know of course the Democrats have

always been saying hey we can we can

walk and chew gum at the same time but

they didn't you know I have to wonder

could they walk and chew gum at the same

time that question doesn't have to be

asked any more you don't have to ask is

it possible you can simply look at what

happened it didn't happen they walked

and they did not chew gum now maybe they

could have maybe maybe if you talk to

them say you know we could have done

both things but we didn't so it doesn't

matter if you can walk and chew gum if

you're not willing to if all you're

gonna do is walk and not chew the gum

don't tell us you can if you don't and

they didn't and you could argue and joel

puts this this thought out there in the

universe that we can now put a price

under the impeachment in lives actual

people who would die who might not have

died otherwise because of a slow

preparation and lack of focus on this

emerging problem at the time could it be

that impeachment will kill the middle

and million americans you know did did

you just scoff at that

did you just scoff when I said that

impeachment might kill a million

Americans because you shouldn't have I

think that's the upside I don't think

you'll need more than that

but if you were to price you know sort

of

freakonomics economic pricing of the

impeachment you would have to look at

the opportunity cost

that's how economists think they say if

we're doing this we can't simultaneously

be doing this other thing because you

can't be everywhere at once it's true

with money but it's true with any

resource if you're doing something you

can't be doing something else with the

same resources so I think the argument

is fairly solid that a late start will

make a big difference in the outcomes

and we probably got started later than

we should have I mean we should have

been printing ventilators like crazy in

mid January so we didn't have to worry

about it in February and March all right

here's a question that's really making

me angry and I don't know the answer to

this which is why are we not seeing

reporting on the ground of an actual

manufacturing company in the United

States who is going you know

balls-to-the-wall to ramp up to make

ventilators even if they've never made a

ventilator before now is that because

it's not happening

is that because there's only one little

ventilator company in the United States

and all the rest of them are in other

countries and that poor little company

can't do anything so it's better to

ignore it and and just people are gonna

die because we don't have enough

ventilators what exactly is happening

with the ventilator situation I'd like

to see a news crew camped out outside of

an American manufacturing plant and

watch them work 24 hours a day making

ventilators that they maybe even never

made two weeks ago where's my Apple

ventilator serious question if Apple

Computer made a ventilator and they said

we don't know if we're when you'll ever

use this but here's one you can have at

your house it's a thousand dollars

whatever it is would there be enough

senior citizens people like me I'm in

that risk category over a certain age

some history of asthma would I pay a

thousand dollars to have an Apple made

ventilator just in case you know just to

have us in there just in case yes yes I

would

so Apple computer if you're listening I

would buy an Apple ventilator now you're

saving yourself how hard is it to make a

ventilator right so a an alert follower

of my Twitter account showed me a

tweeted around an article from 2010 all

right so context is important this is

ten years ago ten years ago mit had a

contest I guess to see if somebody could

see if the students could develop a

low-cost

ventilator for exactly this reason an

emergency low-cost ventilator students

made one with a hundred dollars in parts

and I think they used mostly

off-the-shelf parts I don't think they

invented parts I think they just bought

parts and assembled them in a little

do-it-yourself kit and actually made

working ventilators in a reproducible

way for $100 now obviously an Apple made

ventilator would not be 100 dollars and

be maybe if that wasn't or whatever but

the point is apparently it's not hard to

make them there doesn't seem to be too

much to it now someone else weighed in

and here's a fact check for you saying

Scott Scott Scott it's not good enough

just a ventilators you also have to have

trained operators if you don't have a

trained operator it's not going to help

you with your ventilators to which I say

seriously we we couldn't you know you

couldn't do a telemedicine call to a

doctor and say hey I got my ventilator

am i putting this on right and the

doctor says no better you better tighten

up the mask a little bit if I were there

I'd make sure there are no holes yeah

the stuff like that is that really a

problem that these ventilators that

students students can make for $100 it

was just a little mask thing

you don't think we can figure out how to

put that little masculine on her faces

without a trained operator and hit the

button turning on I don't know there I

got questions in a world war two this

country ramped up to produce you know

tanks and weapons and all kinds of stuff

and we did it pretty quickly over in

China you saw them ramped up to create

hospitals they built hospitals in two

weeks it almost sounds like I it almost

sounds like I misspoke China built

entire hospitals in two weeks now of

course there were temporary etc but good

enough for the job we can't build enough

ventilators with this much warning if

you give the United States 30 days

warning of a problem we can't build

stuff anymore there's nobody in this

country you can build stuff really fast

maybe I mean could it be that our

manufacturing capability you know just

generally has dropped so low that we

can't ramp up quickly and build a little

device than a student can make for a

hundred dollars and we can't crank these

out by the hundreds of thousands with

two weeks of notice what's wrong with

our country if we can't and I don't know

that we can't let's have some I'm asking

for some reporting on that so news

business please find some companies in

that business and ask them what's

happening and you know and can we help

if you said to me Scott there's a

ventilator company down the road from

you and they're you know the only thing

they need is more labor because you need

somebody to assemble the parts and we

can't build a robot to do it this

quickly so we just need lots of people

just to assemble them I'd be down there

in a heartbeat I would I would stand up

I would go to my car and I would drive

down there and I would start assembling

for free you don't even need to pay me

I'll work all day I'll assemble some

ventilators for you just tell me what I

need to do alright

so very disappointed in the media for

not focusing on that problem maybe they

will I've started a new policy today

I'll you can of course make your own

decisions but I'm blocking anybody on

Twitter who comes into my mentions and

into the comments and keep saying that

this is the common flu and it's it's

gonna be like the common cold and we're

all panicking and we should stop

worrying because it's not going to be a

problem that is exactly what a baby yet

I don't know a Chinese agent might say

so I'm gonna block everybody no matter

how long you followed be I'm gonna block

you for coming in to Twitter and saying

it's just a common cold it's regular flu

or even comparing it to the regular flu

so anybody who compares it to the swine

flu compares it to Ebola as if that's

making a point that it's not so bad I'm

just blocking you all for now all right

because this is a crisis it's an

emergency and normally I would say free

speech say whatever you want but that's

dangerous it's dangerous for that kind

of opinion to be out there now are they

right are they right that you know a

year from now we might say oh my god we

panicked and everything was fine

are they right well it's not impossible

but it is also the dumbest thing in the

world it's the dumbest thing in the

world to act as if you know it's not

going to be a problem because you don't

know you don't know so maybe you should

be prepared anyway so I'm blocking

anybody who is acting exactly like a

Chinese agent even if they're not

there's just no excuse for acting like

one here's a question for you can two

people share a ventilator no obviously

two people can have a facemask the same

facemask on for the ventilator but

because it's an emergency

is there any situation in which you

could add like an adapter to a

ventilator that would keep the two

people's air separate let's say I don't

even know if that's important if both

people do have coronavirus does it

matter anymore if you get exposed I

don't know how that works but could you

put an adapter that's just a hose

adapter so two people can use the same

ventilator I think the answer is

probably not for any variety of reasons

of cross contamination you know not

enough power etc but if the only problem

is that the ventilator wouldn't last as

long you know if you overtaxed it or

something like that or maybe each person

would only get eighty percent as much

air you know there may be an engineering

reason why I can't work as well but I

just put it out there you know in a

normal world nobody would ever have the

thought it just wouldn't even be a

thought that you would ever put two

people on a ventilator right because in

a normal world you would just never do

that but is the only reason we haven't

considered it because we have normal

world thoughts you know should we at

least toss it into the mix that somebody

could develop a and and maybe maybe

somebody's making events later now

that's a you know a central processor

with a number of hoses is that a thing

could you build that I don't know I'm

not suggesting as possible I'm just

saying let's put all the ideas into the

mix and in the in the deeply unlikely

you know one percent case that having a

having a you know a hos double hose

coming off of a single ventilator might

actually make sense one percent chance I

mean it's not very high likelihood but

I'll put it out there maybe somebody

sees and says oh my god I never thought

about that

you never know this report from UC San

Francisco on what is likely to happen in

the United States and goes like this so

their estimate is that forty to seventy

percent of the u.s. will be infected

over the next

year and a half 40 to 70% now you need

you would need that many people to get

infected to have any hope that it slows

down or stops because you have to have

enough people who can't get it again

because they've already been exposed and

have some immunity presumably I mean I

think we're agreed that it creates

immunity if you've had it once but I

guess we should get a confirmation on

that as well and they estimate that 1.5

million Americans may die compared to a

seasonal flu that might be 50,000 so

this is why I'm blocking people who are

comparing because they're doing that

dumb thing where they're comparing the

number of people who have died already

from this flu to the total number who

will ever die from the other flu so it's

like a few hundred compared to 50,000

but the real number of course is the

risk number that it could be 1.5 million

people most of the old people compared

to 50,000 that's not really close those

are different problems fatality range

they're still saying is in the range of

ten times as much as a regular flu

there's some reason to hope that that

could be downgraded when we have more

information this assumes no drug is

found and I think that's fair so 1.5

million people dying who might not have

died otherwise or at least not so well

they all everybody dies

everybody dies but wouldn't have

happened that quickly or for that reason

here's something I would like my

government to do for me so schools are

closing in various places in the country

not everywhere so I last i checked three

states had closed and a lot of

individual private schools and stuff are

probably closed so schools are closing i

don't see much hope that that won't be

widespread in other words i think most

of the states if not all looking closed

schools will probably have to so I think

school closings are

here's what I need from my government to

make that work if you have kids you know

between a certain age let's say they're

old enough to be a little bit

independent you know let's say 11 years

old to 18 so you've got a kid now house

11 to 18 and you say okay kids you get a

stay home from school and the kids say

yay

all right yeah you stay home from school

and then you say and you're not going to

be able to leave the house and there and

they say what yeah kids you're actually

gonna stay in this house for 30 to 90

days tell that to your 11 year old and

then they say well but you know our

friends will be able to come over and

you know at least at least we'll be with

our friends and then you as the parents

say okay I don't think you're hearing

this yet not with friends you're not

gonna be with your friends and you're

not gonna be in school

you're gonna be so bored that your head

is going to explode and then they'll say

okay but can I go visit one friend and

if you're a parent you know you're gonna

break down

you're gonna break down because your kid

is gonna nag you and nag you and say but

just one friend I just want to go visit

one friend I'm going crazy I have

nothing to do I'm just you know playing

with my phone

can I just visit one friend and you're

gonna say all right all right

but hard rule one friend so you can go

to their house and then you can come

directly back one friend and your kid

goes to their house and 50 frickin

friends show up because they're kids

right kids say hey come over to my house

my mom said it's okay or didn't say it's

okay and they come anyway you can't keep

kids from bunching if they have phones

so unless you took their phones away

which nobody's gonna do right nobody's

gonna take kids phones away you

especially in that teenage range it's

just impossible if you don't take their

phones away they call each other and

they say hey I got permission to go to

one friend's house meet me there

kids will not comply they will not

comply there isn't the slightest chance

that when they walk out of the house

they will comply they will not so you

have to plan a world in which there's

massive non-compliance

I want my government to do this assuming

more schools close or even the amount

they have I want my government to issue

an executive order telling kids how much

or if they should socialize in other

words I want my government to tell me as

a parent what to tell the kid because

the only hope I have is to tell my kid

my god I would let you go play with your

one friend I really would I mean I think

is reasonable but it's the law there's

an executive order it's the law we could

get arrested now could it be a law would

you get arrested now but these are kids

you're gonna have to lie to them you're

gonna have to lie to them and tell them

it's a law otherwise there's no chance

of compliance and even then there's not

much chance but it would help so I would

like my government to assuming schools

close to do some kind of an executive

order obviously there's no such thing as

a binding order of this type it wouldn't

really be legally binding but parents

could use it they can still tell their

kid look there's an executive order from

the president that says you got to stay

inside it's not me you know take take

the pressure off the parents that's all

I'm asking

apparently China I'd seen stories about

this but honestly didn't believe it you

know I'd heard stories that Chinese

officials were starting to blame the

United States for putting the virus in

China or starting it ourselves or

something like that and I thought no

there

that's crazy the Chinese government is

not blaming the United States for the

Wuhan virus that would just be nuts and

then I saw it it's actually happening

China at real officials you know people

with titles on Twitter and stuff are

actually blaming the United States for

the Wuhan virus to which I say thanks a

lot oh man I just thought myself from

really swearing a lot my my cursing

reflex was was like just right on the

right on the barrel there Thank You

China for guaranteeing decoupling the

you know there were a lot of there were

a lot of reasons to de couple before

this virus came out and I I've been one

of the most vocal people saying we

should do it now that doesn't mean we do

it tomorrow it just means that that

should be a national strategy to get our

stuff out of China move our

manufacturing back and become less

dependent because they actually not only

did they blame us for it but here's the

good part the good part being the bad

bar China actually has threatened to

withhold antibiotics for political

reasons what are you kidding me we have

critical manufacturing in a country that

just threatened to use access to

medicine as a weapon against us

decoupling is on there isn't anything

that could stop decoupling now let me

let me state this as a fact and see if

any of you disagree with it four months

ago

when I was putting the hash tag decouple

in every other tweet and I was saying

people people people we have to decouple

you know other people were saying it to

I'm not the only one but wasn't wasn't

the general reaction to that well that's

a little extreme we're not going to

decouple from

you know they're I mean we got our

problems we'll work through it it's

normal

we're not going to decouple what do you

think now now that now that we put

critical pharmaceuticals in China and

they just threatened to use that against

us now maybe they won't my guess is they

won't use it against us it would be too

dangerous but once they've threatened

that's the end of the story you know

there's there you've got lots of

variables that you say oh how do I weigh

this variable and should we decouple and

maybe we shouldn't well we can work this

thing out we can work that thing out and

we could put up with this so now you

know we don't really need to decouple I

see your argument but you know it's the

sort of a gray area not anymore it's not

a gray area now when a country threatens

to withhold antibiotics during a

pandemic that removes all doubt there's

no longer any depth decoupling has to

happen and more importantly it will

there isn't any chance we're keeping our

in China anymore

that's over so whatever you're planning

in terms of you know looking at the

future of their world and what's going

to happen with the economy etc I'm

hoping it's good news that we're

bringing manufacturing back to the

United States but if you're wondering if

we're going to decouple from China

you know it'll probably be gradual but

it's no longer if it's no longer if once

they've threatened our health it doesn't

matter if it's a empty threat doesn't

matter if they meant it doesn't matter

if they really would have no intention

of doing that none of that matters the

threat is the end of the story no

conversations need to be happened no

debate needs to happen anymore we need

to be on the same side on this it's time

to decouple all right it'll happen

I see Trump blaming Obama for the CDC

not being ready for the pandemic and you

know you can make the argument that the

other guy should have been more prepared

but Trump's had three years on the job

and you know it took eight years of

Obama and three years of Trump to not be

prepared enough I guess I mean there is

obviously preparation but some

deficiency in preparation testing for

example now I don't I don't have any

tolerance for this anymore I have no

tolerance for blaming the past I don't

have any tolerance for Trump blaming

Obama but I also don't have any

tolerance for anybody blaming Trump it's

just backwards thinking during an

emergency we only need to focus forward

if you're spending any of your time

tweeting or you know blaming the last

administration or even blaming what

Trump should have done in 2017 as if we

knew what to do then it's just wasted

time please don't waste my time blaming

the past let's let's look forward

there's a weird thing happening that

it's not it's terrible to mention but

I'm gonna do it anyway that the Wuhan

virus and I don't need this to be a joke

it's just this weird element of the

simulation that we live in that this

could ever happen

our biggest problem had been climate

change

it looks like the war on virus is almost

designed to solve it now I don't think

it's designed I'm not not making that

claim I think it's probably natural but

it does seem to really help for climate

change because it slowed down the whole

economy and in you know it I'm not sure

international travel will ever be the

same but there's an even darker side to

this there's a hashtag

get trending if you haven't heard this

this is dark this is really dark stuff

apparently young people who are

relatively immune to the Wuhan virus

I've started a hashtag called boomer

remover yeah and you've got to really

have a dark sense of humor to laugh at

that and I do happily so even though

it's about removing me because I'm at

the tail end of the Boomers you can't

you can't ignore the fact that it's

weird that young people were blaming a

certain generation for a climate change

and then this virus comes it totally

removes the smog because all the

industrial stuff stopped in the most

polluted places you know China in

particular and then it started killing

the people that they blame for the

problem has there ever been a virus more

more suited accidentally I think more

suited to solve some other problem and

and so the young people are actually so

cold that they're saying well you

boomers ruined the world for us here's a

virus that's going to take you out and

leave us with your stuff maybe not so

bad wow wow I don't know what to say

about that that's just it's just

mind-boggling martha maccallum on Fox

News asked the CMS administrator Seema

Verma if there were enough ventilators

in the country and she asked her four

times and each time she refused to

answer the question directly instead

just talked about some talking points

until Martha was pretty frustrated but

if you avoid a question four times that

is your answer you can't avoid a

question four times and then say well I

guess there was no answer no the answer

is the avoiding the question four times

the answer is no the answer is no we do

not have enough

but it could be it's not the dumbest

thing in the world for the government

maybe not worry us about it if you can't

fix it so if you can't fix it me

somebody in the comments says it's

confirmed that the Brazilian president

has coronavirus I was expecting that I

don't know if that's that's just a

comment here I'm not saying that's true

but check your news I would I would I've

been expecting bad news I've been

expecting to hear that the Brazilian

president has it because some of the

members of his staff did but check that

I'm not sure if that's true yet so I

wonder if 3d printers will ever become

part of emergency preparation can you

imagine having a 3d printer and I guess

you'd have to project into the future

where the 3d printers are just better

and there's a there's a problem that

comes up and the government just sends a

blueprint down to everybody's 3d printer

on how to print your own $100 ventilator

could you get to a point where you could

print a ventilator now before that you

would probably get to a point where you

can print a mask maybe maybe you print

some toilet paper so I'm wondering if

the far future that won't help us this

time but I'm wondering if the future 15

years from now is that each maybe it's

each town not each house but each town

has a 3d printer and as soon as the

emergency breaks out these printers

activates and they start printing out

the very thing you need for this very

problem because each problem needs a

different set of supplies so you might

have a problem where you need a

different set of supplies and they're

going to be limited because nobody

expected the emergency so maybe there's

a world where 3d printers become the

emergency plan Democrats apparently are

they're handicapping these these

emergency congressional legislation

things that are trying to you know

settle the markets and handle the handle

the epidemic etc and the Democrats are

adding adding pork to it I don't know if

it's pork or just stuff they want

slowing it down and so I see news about

this and the news will report well the

Democrats collectively tried to add this

thing and that's going to slow it down

during an emergency and I thought to

myself you show us names I want to see a

one-page slide this as Congress somebody

proposed this bill to fund the pandemic

one way or the other these three

Democrats proposed things that are

slowing it down

that are you know maybe they're good

things in and of themselves but they

couldn't get past by themselves so

they're trying to tack it onto this

other thing this is an emergency

let's show the public exactly who is

slowing things down now if they can make

their case well maybe they get an

audience for that and people say yeah

yeah it should be slowed down because we

should have had this extra you know

element to the bill maybe they can make

their case but why don't you know the

names the actual name the person who is

trying to slow down these bills by

adding stuff now in a normal world you

don't care it's like I had Democrats are

doing this Republicans are doing this

but this isn't normal

this is an emergency in an emergency you

have to list all of your resources and

one of the resources is the American

public in social media and the news tell

us who is slowing things down can you

give us a picture in the name news media

show us the people is that all of them

do all of the Republicans want these

things I'm sorry do all the Democrats

want these items added to the emergency

bills well that'd be good to know

or is it there are some specific leaders

or specific people who are trying to add

these things because I need to know

their names

don't you because you're in this now

we're not a spectators anymore we're all

in it this is this is a global show me

their names we'll see what we can do

about that it's mostly what I got today

you know one of the weird the weird

things about this emergency is that 98%

of my day can be exactly like it always

is except for the thoughts you know my

thoughts are sort of preoccupied by this

but 98% of my day is completely normal

and then 2% of the time I think oh there

are some real big problems and they're

really close so I'm in this two worlds

mind where everything's normal and it's

also a big emergency sort of at the same

time and my head is going phasing back

and forth depending on what I'm doing at

the moment so that's weird but one good

thing that's come out of it I think I

mentioned this before I'm taking very

seriously the the building up of my

personal immunity so I've always been

you know the fitness advocate and

follower but I'm taking it to the next

level so I am seriously getting enough

sleep which I've never done before

actually in no time in my life have I

ever attempted to get enough sleep I've

never even tried because I you know one

of these people who can operate on low

sleep and I know it's not good for me

but I like being awake I just prefer it

yeah I like being in the world I hate I

just don't like sleeping so in the past

I just didn't do much of it four hours a

night I'm good I'm fine but now I'm

getting serious about it because as it

has a big impact on your immunity your

your momentarily your momentary immunity

so I'm getting enough sleep and I'm also

taking a walk in the sunshine I'm doing

a light exercise

I'm not exhausting myself that's bad for

my knee

but a little light exercise get out of

the Sun get your vitamin D he builds up

your immunity a little bit so I'm doing

that and I'm eating right and I'm you

know doing light weight training etc so

here's the weird part I've never felt

better

I'm in the middle of a global pandemic

but personally if he asked me how do you

feel Scott I'd say well I'm a little

embarrassed by this but obviously I've

never felt better and even the social

distancing you know if you if I had to

choose I would interact more with people

I'm just a natural social creature in

some context I'm more of a you know I

need a lot of loan time to but I'm very

happy to interact with people not during

my alone time but have you noticed that

the less you deal with people the less

stress you have because stress comes

almost 90% of stress comes from other

people so I've decreased my exposure to

other people in person and I feel like

it's less stressful even if those people

are good people they're not trying to

create problems it's just normal people

create stress and other people we don't

we can't turn that off exactly just

being normal creates stress so that's

the the irony is that I've never felt

better now I and I'm getting a little

bit addicted to the feeling it actually

feels so good there's like being on

drugs I heard somebody tell me this a

similar story some time ago and I

scoffed that it was like hmm I don't

know you know I don't I don't think

being super healthy and well rested and

stuff feels as good as drugs and then I

got healthy and well rested it actually

feels as good as drugs like actually

literally it literally feels as good as

being like a little buzzed on a drug

just because my health is just peak

it couldn't be possibly better at the

moment alright I'm off the I'm off the

prednisone by the way I think I've been

off it long enough that it's not having

too much effect on me yeah I am a hermit

somebody saying in the comments I I can

be a hermit but not indefinitely I need

I need people so I'm an introvert but I

still need a healthy dose of social

interaction like most people let me tell

you the funniest thing that I heard

yesterday I won't tell you who said it

because that person may or may not be

watching this video right now but it was

a conversation about running out of

toilet paper and somebody who remained

the endless said he's training himself

to scoot across his front lawn like a

dog just in case the toilet paper runs

out aren't you glad you waited for the

end of the periscope for that and and I

my immediate feeling was oh that's a

terrible plan what kind of dumb plan is

it that if you run it in a toilet paper

you're gonna train yourself like a dog

just good across your front lawn instead

and I said that's the dumbest plan I've

ever heard

don't your neighbors have lawns don't

they you know aren't they ever asleep

why would you do it to your own lawn

now the lawn part the dogs scooting part

perfect sense but why would you do it on

your own lawn your neighbors sleep go

next door yeah that's all I'm saying all

right just joking if we can't have fun

during the coronavirus we're dead inside

and if you're dead inside it doesn't

matter if you're dead on the outside so

let's not lose our sense of humor

entirely not entirely it's a serious

deal but we're still human can't lose

our humanity oh by the way somebody

mentioned to a or C and me there's a

there's a funny video if a or C saying

you shouldn't touch you

face and then they do a quick cut of all

the time she's touching her face wall

telling you not to touch your face

so that's funny but not meaningful in

any way but here's what is meaningful

they ever see did a prime I think was a

prime time I think so

interview with Bret Baier on Fox News

that's right

AOC went into the into the Lions Den and

did an interview on Fox News now why

this is important is that Deborah

Democrats in general are very reluctant

to appear on Fox News because it feels

like the enemy they probably don't think

they'll get a fair shake and all that

stuff but a or say you broke the seal

now what do I tell you about master

persuaders people who are good at it

they take free money if there's a pile

of money on the table

everybody will walk by it except the

people who are good at this the people

who are good at it will walk by and

they'll say a lot big pile of money on

the table can I have it does this belong

to anybody no it doesn't and that's what

a was he did by appearing on Fox News

when other Democrats did not

she raised her national profile in a

very substantial way and yeah of course

all the people on Fox News are saying

blah blah blah we don't like you what

you said is bad etc you all remember

that you won't remember that what you

will remember is the AOC went on Fox

News and wasn't afraid and and got

interviewed by Bret Baier so first of

all if you're gonna go on Fox News who

are you gonna pick all right you've

decided to go on Fox News your AOC do

you pick Sean Hannity no no you don't do

you pick

Tucker Carlson no no you do not because

their opinion people and you don't know

how that's going to go but Bret Baier is

famously you know competent famously

independent fair-minded you know news

guy so bret baier is a news guy not the

opinion guys so she picked in my opinion

you know maybe chris wallace would be

another it would be a you know a good

choice of this but she chose well she

chose the right person i'm sure other

people had asked her but she chose the

right one so i'm just pointing that out

as technique you could you can go back

to hating her like you used to

all right what else we got going on

somebody says to me wasn't she a racist

POS yes yes she is now it you can hold

both thoughts am I not allowed to hold

both of these thoughts that a or sees

you know statements and preferences etc

suggests a strong racism but that

doesn't stop the fact that she's also

tremendously talented as a public figure

those can both be true what's wrong with

that I'm not going to be that the person

who is just going to take a side so if

he need that go somewhere else if you

need me to say there's some good and

there's some bad about both sides came

to the right place all right and I will

talk to you later