Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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mug or glass or a chalice or a canteen, jug or flask, vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid — I like coffee — and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes, that's right, everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go stretch everybody. I feel

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so good. What a day.

All right, well let's start with all the good news. Do you want the good news first? Of course you do. Of course you do.

In pandemic news, the new single shot vaccination from J&J looks like it has 85 percent efficacy. And if you don't like the word efficacy, well you haven't said it out loud. Try it. Try it at home. Say "efficacy." It's fun. It is. It has 85 percent efficacy 28 days after you get it. That's pretty good. And it has almost 88 percent efficacy, did I say efficacy, of blocking asymptomatic infections. Bam. Pretty good stuff.

Would you take the single shot that gave you 85 percent efficacy or would you wait for the double shot that gives you a little bit more? I don't know. I told you that I'm going to wait until the last possible moment because I'm not eligible yet. But I think I will b

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e. I think I'll be in the next wave. So maybe in a few weeks. I'm not sure. Here's some more good news. As you know, I think over 20 states have legislation to associate funding for school with the children instead of the school so that the child could go to a different competing school, a private school for example, and the funding would move with them, the government funding. So that is a reall…

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