Back to episode — Episode 1220 Scott Adams - Good News on COVID-19, Biden Warned us About Himself, Historians Screwed
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nd out. 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…
← Previous segment →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 from Washington over the holidays until they get an agreement. So he's talking about the funding for COVID relief in a variety of ways. But if the rest of Congress goes home, does it matter that the leadership makes an agreement? Because they can't vote on it because everybody went home. So isn't it really just an agreement to see if they can agree among themselves so then they can go home? But when Congress comes back, the rest of Congress might not agree. So it looks like just a clever way to go home for Christmas without an agreement or at least without any legislation. So the whole thing looks like to me, but you know at least they know the optics look bad if they all go home. So that's something.
What are we going to do with history? It seems to me that in the old days the winning team got to decide what the history was for the country, right? So if your country won the war, you get to write the history of the war and you write it your way. But in the old days history would have basically one version per country at least through high school. And you know most of college you could find other versions, but there would be a mainstream version.
Now history is being written and permanently recorded in the internet, so everything that's happening will just sort of always be there, we think. So how do you deal with the fact that there are two completely diffe
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rent histories? How do you write a history book at let's say the college level that would include this era? What would you say about the Trump administration? Would you say Russia collusion was real? Would you say the fine people hoax actually happened? Would you say that the president really did suggest drinking bleach? Because these are the things that will become the permanent record. They beco…
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