Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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enjoy the jokes? What do you think? Where do you stand on that? My take is I can't help it. I feel like it's beyond my control. If something's funny, I laugh at it. And I don't know how many of you have the same feeling, but the thing that makes these jokes make you laugh is that they're so deeply inappropriate. Am I right? If they were not deeply inappropriate, would they really be funny? No. S…

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d trust anybody's opinion on this because people have been so wrong about inflation and stagflation and national debt. We don't even know what national debt is. We don't even know what it is. Like just the most basic stuff about the economy, I don't think anybody knows. And the problem is that there are just so many variables, right?

So something could happen with a war, a shortage, some kind of bottleneck thing. Nobody—I don't think anybody saw the supply chain thing coming. Maybe they did. I don't know. But I guess my only takeaway on the runaway inflation, hyperinflation risk, is we don't really know. Maybe. Maybe.

All right. Britain, it looks like they're first in line to get these new antivirals, the therapeutics coming to us from Pfizer and Merck. So there would be pills that you take. They could reduce the risk of mild to moderately ill people, reduce their risk of serious hospitalization and death by 50 percent. To which I say, if you can reduce the winter surge by 50 percent—and again, other people saying we already have therapeutics. Yeah, we've already got Regeneron, et cetera.

Given all the ways that we've learned to treat COVID, given the fact that our most vulnerable are mostly vaccinated, given the fact that the people most likely to die, a lot of them already died, I feel like the argument for keeping any restrictions in place really just became irrational, didn't they? At least after the pills are available. So they're not available yet. Maybe the end of t

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he year. But if we're in January and we've got these antivirals—I don't know if they can produce enough of them fast enough—but if we had them in January, what would be the argument for any ongoing restrictions? Now the argument of course is to reduce deaths, but if you can reduce them by 50 percent, isn't that going to be enough? I mean, we keep doing things that reduce the risk by 50 percent. H…

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