Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

hat Periscope is going to be discontinued? But fear not, I will not be discontinued. I will not be canceled yet. So in March, apparently, Periscope will be discontinued. But you have the following options. Number one, there may or may not be — I do not know — a replacement. So Periscope will go away, but we don't know if Twitter will offer some kind of a replacement. Let's just say I've heard chat…

← Previous segment →

going on — but the people looking into it think the dog would be able to get up to between 75 and 100 percent effectiveness.

Now imagine how quickly you could test if the dog could do it. Let's say you get off an airplane or something and they want to test you when you reach the ground. Everybody gets a moist towelette, everybody goes, "Rat, stand in line." The dog just walks down the line. Boom. The entire plane is cleared. It's pretty good. This is one of those weird situations where the least expected solution might be the one that is just the kill shot. Because if you can train dogs to do this, there's no technology that's going to come close, because literally the dog can just walk through a whole crowd as long as they've swabbed themselves and made it available, test the whole room in 10 minutes.

And how long does it take to train a dog to detect a certain smell? I don't know the answer to that, but I'll bet it's not hard. I'll bet it's not the hardest thing you've ever trained a dog to do. So dogs might be our savior. There are a number of pilot programs going on and look kind of promising.

Now of course the other big news is the vaccines being rolled out and all the conversation about who gets the vaccination first. And all that conversation has been kind of boring because everybody says the same thing. Let us discuss who should get the vaccines first. All right, I'll give you my novel opinion you may not have heard this before, but I'm thinking people in rest homes and nursing homes and maybe frontline healthcare workers. Just like 100 percent of the other people in the world. Why are we even talking about it? Does anyone disagree?

Now those are the easy ones, right? But there's

Context —

also a big conversation about who should do it in front of the public, because wouldn't you like to see Joe Biden get a vaccination in public? That would be good for confidence, and I think that's good too. And I'll tell you, in my opinion, I'm pretty sure the vaccine is going to be safe. But just in case, you know, I again I'm really sure the vaccinations will be safe, but just in case, don't you…

Next segment → →