Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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ocess by which the elected people decide in advance that this is how they'll make a decision. But it would still be the elected people who had created the system that created the outcome. It would just be a reasonable person making the decision who is neither Democrat nor Republican in terms of bias. Watch how that idea sounds bad, crazy, when you first hear it. And it's going to sort of gnaw at…

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nk of one? Because presidents usually start off pretty well, right? Usually the first honeymoon period. Somebody says Bush. But what did Bush do in the first 30 to 60 days? I don't think anybody's had a worse start. This might be the, oh, 9/11.

Was 9/11 in the first two months of Bush? Yeah, I don't know.

All right. Here's a question that you think we ought to know the answer to but according to social media, the final word on everything, we don't. So I saw these tweets going around this morning about Israel's outcomes. And if you look at the Israeli data of vaccinations versus outcomes it seems pretty clear that the vaccinations started and then the hospitalizations and deaths plunged as soon as they started getting enough people vaccinated.

So you say to yourself, well it obviously works because the vaccinations came, the deaths and hospitalizations plunged. What else do you need to know? Well, I thought that that sounded pretty good. And especially because the rate of vaccinations within different age groups seems to map perfectly to show that the more vaccinated you are, the f

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aster the curve falls just like you'd expect. But it didn't take long for people to say, "Well here's my chart of other countries who have exactly the same curve and they're not vaccinating much at all." To which I say, damn it. Damn it again. We actually, is it true that we can't tell if the vaccinations are working and that we'll never know? When I say we'll never know I don't mean that scienc…

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