Back to episode — Episode 1117 Scott Adams - Persuasion Against Antifa, Cohen's Book, Gravity Batteries, Fake News
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So when I finish a speculation by saying I could be wrong, the I could be wrong is not just for you. When I finish a statement that is obviously speculative and that I say but I could be wrong, I'm talking to myself. And that's part of my self-programming to remind myself I could be wrong. It's a really good thing to do that. So if you think I was talking to you when I said I could be wrong, I was…
← Previous segment →mentioned this in public is because I thought it was just me. I thought I was being stupid because I can't imagine a scenario where doing more testing doesn't produce more positive results. I don't get it. All right, so apparently there's nobody here who even understands what the argument is, much less agrees or disagrees. It's like you don't even know what they're talking about. And we let that go like that's okay. I guess it is okay. They might be looking at positivity rate. Somebody said I don't know. Numbers are numbers. All right. But if somebody does have an answer for that and I still think there might be, send it along.
I love the fact that the president is teasing that there might be a vaccine sooner than you think. And there's a big discussion about the fact that the vaccines might be being rushed to have them done before the election. Now would it be good for the president if the vaccine started to be available even if only for a few people before election day? Would that be good for Trump? Maybe. Depends how the news handled it. They might say it's rushed and therefore it's worse than not having it. That's what Kamala Harris seems to be indicating. But let me give you a dose of the real world. Are you ready? This is, if you're below a certain age this will be the first time you've ever heard this, and this is a truism of big organizations, of projects, of everything. This is a universal truth. If you don't give somebody a deadline, it'll never get done. If you don't give somebody a deadline, it'll never get done. Things get done on the deadline. Doesn't matter what it is. This is something I've experimented with all my life. And I'll give you a concrete example. When I was first doing my comic strip while I was working full-time, sometimes I would sit there in the morning before I went to my day job and all of my time would get used up and I hadn't drawn a comic. I just couldn't come up with an idea. And I had 10 minutes, literally 10 minutes, because I would never let myself go a day without making a comic, to make whatever I could make to make a comic. And what happened? I would always, a hundred percent of the time with no exceptions over 30 years, haven't missed it once, 10-minute deadline to do a day's work, I could fit a day's work into 10 minutes. Now of course cartooning's not like other jobs, but the point is if you don't have a deadline things just don't happen. And it almost doesn't matter where the deadline is. You could say the deadline's next year. You could say the deadline is this. My guess is, and I don't know this field, but the people who make the regular vaccine for the regular annual flu, don't you think they have dead
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lines? It's probably an internal deadline. It's probably a deadline that looks like this. If we don't have this done by, pick a day, if we don't have this done by September we won't get to make any money this year because it'll be too late. So I would imagine that every vaccine has at least an internal company deadline because if it didn't nothing would happen. Nothing gets done without a deadline…
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