Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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now we still don't understand China, do we? I still don't understand how China is escaping this. That doesn't make sense, does it? If you saw that China managed to get coronavirus under control and keep it that way, and then you also saw that India did that, which would have seemed impossible in both cases. I mean, China getting it under control just seems impossible, but somehow did. India doing…

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do think there's a tipping point coming. Feels like we're almost there. The tipping point being I just don't see the public putting up with it. Now in my town people are back to playing basketball in the public park without masks. But I don't know if it's just not being enforced or if it's legal now. I don't know the difference. But I see people playing in the park without masks every day now. So don't know what the situation is.

All right, and still as far as I know I still don't have access to the vaccine. I believe it's fake news that the vaccine is sort of available for people in my age group. There's definitely lots of people getting it, but available would suggest that I could go to a website and sign up and stuff. But right now we just have websites where you can fill out all your information and then it will tell you it's not available. That's all we have. I'm hoping that changes soon.

The last person I talked to waited five hours for a vaccine in line. So since I'm not going to do that, I say it's not available.

All right, somebody says the definitive definition of IQ means that fifty percent are below a hundred. Yeah. Have you ever had a conversation with somebody whose IQ is below 100? We must have, right? Because a lot of people in that category. But if you're 40, let's just say 40, smarter th

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an the person you're talking to, that's a pretty tough conversation. Call your doctor. Kaiser is giving them. Well, they say they're not. So I only know what they say. Says don't call your doctor. All right, so that's all for now and I will talk to you tomorrow.

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