Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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critics agree with by the way. So here's my challenge to you. I say that even the experts who are anti-vax would agree with the statement that the vaccine reduces your risk of COVID and your risk of spreading it vastly. Even the critics. So that's my challenge to you. Find out any critic. Somebody says Israel. That's been debunked. I know you've read news stories that say the opposite but they'v…

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. So just finishing up on the booster. So I'm going to make the same process I did to decide on getting the vaccination. Since I got the vaccination late you know my immunity is a little higher than people who got it earlier so I have some time. So I'm going to wait as long as possible to have the most information. If I don't hear any information that is startlingly negative I'm inclined to get the booster just because there's a consistency thing about it, right? If there's no new information why wouldn't I use the same decision because there's no new information. But am I comfortable with it? No. Does that help you? Am I comfortable getting a booster? Nope. Was I comfortable getting the first shots? No. You shouldn't be either. What? How can you be comfortable with it? Like I said the people who are telling us to do this are all liars. They're all undependable. But you had to do something, right? There's a risk of getting vaccinated. There's a risk of not. You just had to make a decision and you know not getting vaccinated is a decision. We all made decisions without the right amount of information. Everybody agree with that? That all of us made the decision without enough information. We kind of guessed and then we imagined that we used data after the fact but we didn't. It was based on just how you felt basically.

All right, I gotta go run and do some other things and I'll talk to you tomorrow.