Back to episode — Episode 1472 Scott Adams - Not Just a Lyricist and Vocalist. I Also Sip Coffee & Talk About the News
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I looked at the headlines today. I was looking at all the — looking for all the deaths. How many of you can answer the following questions? How many people on average — so in the comments I want to see how informed you are. In the comments tell me how many people per day die in the United States from all causes. So we're not talking about the pandemic yet, but from all causes, how many people per day die in the United States? Go put it in the comments and let me see if you're close. I'll read out some of them. I'm seeing 800, 8,000, 8,000, 10,000, 2,500. These are all your guesses. 20,000, 50,000, 1,000.
All right, you're all over the board. All over the board. The correct answer is approximately 8,000 per day. All right, so you're going to be the first bunch of people who ever heard context on the pandemic. Tell me if you've heard this anywhere else. That about 8,000 people a day die from all causes. Now your second question is how many of the 8,000 are dying at the moment — you know that could go up, but at the moment — how many are dying per day out of the 8,000 from COVID? How many of the 8,000? Go in the comments. I'll read your comments. I'm seeing zero, 500, 200, 1,000, 100, 8,000, 300, 500, 10. All right, so your guesses are all over the board. The answer is about 1,000. So about 1,000 of the 8,000 people who are dying every day at the moment, one out of eight is dying of COVID.
Now do you count that one out of eight the same as you count the other people? Well probably, because that seems fair. But we have to also include the fact that these are people who might have only lived another year if they're elderly. For example, they might have had only a few years left. So that 1,000 people dying is a little misleading because if you looked at life years denied, you know a child would have maybe 80 years ahead of them. A senior citizen might have one. So what happens if of the 1,000 people who died, what happens if 800 of them only had a couple years left? There's more like a few hundred people dying, isn't it? It's more like a few hundred because the people who only lost a year or two, you have to count that. I mean if
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you're doing life and death math you don't get the choice of oh everybody lives. Got to make choices. And I think the fact that this isn't in the headline and instead we're talking about ICU beds should tell us that the news is manipulating us and trying to tell us it's a bigger problem than it is. Now is the ICU beds problem a problem? Well I think the New York Times said 20 percent of the hospi…
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