Back to episode — Episode 1311 Scott Adams - Biden Boring Speech, Israel Solves Water Shortages, George Floyd Strategy
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talk normally, could you convict? Because that removes all the reasonable doubt. I mean it's just gone at that point. I would have done it. All right. There's a study in Israel—Israel is in the news a lot—that they think aspirin may protect against COVID. Andres Backhouse commented on that to point out it's a low quality study. And I wouldn't start taking aspirin because number one, you know I us…
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Here's another compliment to the Biden administration. You didn't see this coming. Pete Buttigieg as the transportation secretary is a really good choice. He's a really good choice. I don't know if you remember but Buttigieg's background is as a business consultant. I mean that was his first role. And you don't get the—I was at Bain I think you worked for—but you don't get that kind of a job unless you're just crackling smart and you just came out of Harvard, usually, as he did.
But the thing that makes this perfect is that it's a purely analytical job. McKinsey, somebody's saying it was McKinsey. That's right. So he was a McKinsey consultant. But he has exactly the right skill set for transportation and infrastructure because those are things that people sort of are more likely to agree on, right? We're a little bit closer on the need for an infrastructure package than we are for probably almost anything else. He's perfect. So you know I'm going to give the Biden administration an A-plus on that appointment. We'll see if he delivers, right? He still has to deliver. But that's a perfect fit of training and competence with job.
The AstraZeneca vaccination—some people thought it might cause blood clots but now they've looked at the data and they say nope, no blood clots. So that story about the vaccinations being a problem is fake news as far as we know. There's still a lot of concern that people will not get the vaccinations because they're afraid of it or mostly they're afraid of it. And I'm going to predict that in the end that won't be a problem.
My last observation is that because supply is limited, that people's willingness to get the shot is going to match the supply all the way to the end. Meaning that you'll get enough people vaccinated to get to wherever we need to get. People like me are quickly saying they're skeptical until the last minute. You should stay skeptical until you have a chance to get the shot and then take all the information that you have up to that point and make your decision. But you don't need to make a decision until the shot's available.
Something tells me that a lot of the people who are sort of talking about not getting the shot, when they really, really think it through and when they watch how many people have gotten the shot and they haven't heard that many stories of bad outcomes, I feel as if a lot of people are going to get the shot. I think w
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e'll get as many as we need. I think we'll be fine there. Here's my math question for you. And I asked this this morning. I got a number of answers and I'm still not sure of my opinion on it. So help me form an opinion on it. It goes like this. If we had a normal virus that affected everybody about the same way every age group, then we're told that getting to 60, 70 percent herd immunity with vac…
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