Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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velop something like a pre-immunity. Meaning that if you check them for antibodies maybe you wouldn't find them the way you're expecting to find them, but that your body has been warned essentially. Basically it's been prepped by tiny little exposures but not enough to make you sick because you're out in the sun and you're outdoors and maybe you get a little whiff of it from passing somebody. So…

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All right. There's a study that says that the COVID can destroy your penis. So there's a study that found that people had recovered, still had COVID in their penis. And at least a few cases, not enough to be statistically relevant yet, but anecdotally there are some people who seem to have become impotent after getting the coronavirus and it's still in their penis.

Now the doctors haven't been specific about this, but I think this is an obvious case like breast exams. You should examine your penis on a regular basis. I think that's what Jeffrey Toobin was doing. A lot of people think he was pleasuring himself, but that was really a self-examination. He was wondering if he'd been infected with the COVID virus and he was just finding out. It was just examination to see if his junk was still working. And apparently it was. So good for you.

Now, how much should you put in your belief that coronavirus will make you impotent? Probably not a lot. Probably not a ton. But you've got the long-haul problem with COVID. But allegedly people have had problems with the vaccination. Which one is bigger?

So for all of you who are just positive, you are just positive in your opinion, for all of you, tell me the risk of having a vaccination bad outcome versus the risk of having a long-term coronavirus problem. Remember that's even if you live, having a long-haul problem. So what are the risks? So many of you are very, very certain of the risks. So for all of you who are so certain, please compare with me in the comments. Give me the risk of a vaccination bad outcome versus the risk of a coronavirus long-haul problem. What? You don't know, but you were so certain just minutes ago. Where are all my convinced people who are so sure that one of those choices is cowardice? Well obviously you would know the risks because you couldn't compare the risks to know which one is the cowardest one unless you knew the risks. Is it one percent?

All right. And let me say, somebody said I'm changing minds about getting the vaccination. That's not my intention. I'm quite adamant about the fact that you shouldn't get your medical advice from cartoonists. All right? That's not — I don't say that just as a bumper sticker. Really seriously, don't get your medical advice from cartoonists. But if I can help you think about it a different way and you can talk to your medical experts more productively, maybe that's good. But don't get your decisions from the cartoonist. Don't do that.

All right. And I think I just lost the feed here because my laptop keeps dying. So sorry about the screensaver going out on Locals. All right, just look, I'm looking at some of your comments. We're all good over there. Good, thank you. It's back. All right, yeah, so the screensaver was knocking my live feed off on my laptop. Doesn't happen on here. So I'll have to — so I've told you every time I add a complication to the live streaming it does go bad. The complication here is that using the laptop as the screensaver that I need to deactivate. So there's one more thing I have to remember to do.

Still working on the microphones, by the way. I'm going to try to get my Rodecaster working. I figured out how to give phantom power to some microphones on it, which was not obvious at first, but I figured out my phantom power problem. And now I've got to figure out how to get sound out of the Rodecaster. So this is how far I got. I've got a mixing board where I can get the sound into it now with all of my microphones. I just can't get any sound out of it. I've got to figure that out.

Here's a question. I might never get the virus. Why risk taking the vaccination? Donnie, I just don't know what to say to that. I just don't want to say that if you don't know the risk of the vaccination and you also don't know the risk of getting the virus, you don't know which one's bigger. And nobody can tell you. Nobody else knows either. Nobody knows that stuff. You're gonna have to make the decision without knowing which one is the bigger risk.

Now I happen to feel that given the fact that most vaccinations are going to show you a bad impact fairly quickly, that gives me some comfort, along with the fact that we know that it does create antibodies and it does work. So we know it works and we know that the period where you would see the most problems doesn't seem to be a big risk. Of course some people will always have problems with a mass rollout of any kind of new medicine.

All right. Somebody says Moderna gave you vertigo. Well keep in mind if you're like most people you get at least one mystery illness per week. Is there anybody who doesn't get a mystery illness every week? Like I'll wake up and like, ow, my earlobe. Wow, why does my earlobe hurt? And it'll hurt all day and then it'll just go away the next day. You wake up, it's like, ah, my sinus. My sinus. Pretty much every week, right? Have you ever gone a week where you didn't have at least one mystery illness? My ankle. Ah, I could barely walk on this one ankle. Okay, it's okay by tomorrow. How could it be possible that people, you know, tens of millions of people getting the vaccination, of

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course there should be millions of stories of people who got the vaccination and then, ah, my eye, my eye. Of course it has to happen. It can't not happen. You know, just the way numbers work. All right. I think I have angered everybody. Those people who have a certainty about their risk management decisions have all gone away because I've either shamed you or you'll never watch me again. One of…

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