Back to episode — Episode 1220 Scott Adams - Good News on COVID-19, Biden Warned us About Himself, Historians Screwed
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f just looking at the freaking data was going to take six months. Just imagine what he said, right? I'll tell you what he didn't say: "Well you're the experts, I guess it takes six months to look at data." No, no. Maybe Biden would do that because Biden says listen to the experts, right? Maybe he would have said, "What can you do?" Every single expert just said six months. If that's what it takes…
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But imagine if you're trying to figure out who should get the vaccination first. We'll also ask them about DNA and privacy and stuff like that. So I'll get into that. So imagine if we could find out that some people have much lower risk than other people, and even after you've accounted for comorbidities and lifestyle and age and all that, that should probably help us, right? If we could actually say, well if we're going to do the high-risk people first, it should at least help you identify them.
All right, other good news. It's just all good news day on COVID. The FDA is actually authorizing its first over-the-counter at-home COVID test. You've been hearing me complaining about the lack of the rapid tests for a while now. Now I don't think this is exactly the same thing I've been talking about because this might be a little bit of a higher end, higher I don't know, but it might be a higher sensitivity but cost a little bit more. Still takes only 15 to 20 minutes to get a result at home with just your own nasal swab test. You don't have to send it anywhere. It comes with an app. And I think that'll be available in a few months. That's huge.
Now the problem is — oh, is somebody saying can he identify adverse reactions to the vaccine? I'm sure that's not part of what they do at Traitwell, but it's a heck of a question. That's a heck of a question. I'll ask him that. Thank you.
So I had been saying that I thought there must be some kind of either — I was actually speculating there was some kind of corruption in our government for not already having approved these over-the-counter cheap tests. I still think that's more likely the case than other explanations for why it wasn't here sooner and why we don't have more of them and maybe the lower sensitivity tests as well. There's still something going on. But when you hear that it takes six months to look at data, I start saying, oh maybe it is possible that incompetence could explain it. You know, because I ruled out incompetence just because it's so long. Now that you couldn't possibly say, well it's just things just take a long time. Like I was ruling that out. But now you hear how long it really takes, or it used to ta
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ke before Trump was kicking their butts, and you say to yourself it's actually maybe it wasn't corruption. Could it be they were actually just that incompetent? I didn't want to believe it because it's easier to believe corruption, but maybe. Who knows. Other good news COVID-wise is that McConnell — Mitch McConnell — says that the top leaders in Congress are going to stay behind and not go home f…
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