Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

ow if you get taken out for six months it kind of screws up your whole year. I had that experience of you know I had my prednisone experience. It took me out for about six months. Like for six months I struggled but it kind of ruins your whole year right? So would you do extreme things to stop half of the public from losing a year of quality life? Now if you say no to that that's a reasonable ans…

← Previous segment →

nd of a fair comparison. So it wouldn't matter how many people died or didn't die during the Olympics. It wouldn't tell you anything about the real world. Well let me take that back. If five people dropped dead during the Olympics yeah that would tell you a lot. That would tell you a lot. But if zero people drop dead during the Olympics that won't tell you anything. Do you get that? Because the Olympics are really just 4,000 athletes over two weeks. You wouldn't expect even if the vaccination was dangerous you wouldn't expect anybody to die in that limited little time window. So you can't compare that to all athletes all over the world you know high school, professional, college running all day long for two years. Yeah that's a different situation.

Anyway the reason I bring that up is because I think I had misleadingly asked that question before without clarifying. It was a dumb question.

How many people think that the gigantic surge in Israel of both deaths, their deaths of COVID are way up and also not, they're not way up above previous highs but they're up, but their infection rate is just through the roof. They're highly vaccinated. Infections through the roof. Just way through the roof. And at the same time deaths are up too. That tells you that vaccinations, what, work or don't work? Boom. Tell me. Israel is the most vaccinated and also infections through the roof and death rates climbing. Bad news or good news? Bad news or good news?

Here's the point to point. On its surface looks like pretty bad news. Would you agree that on the surface if that's all you knew it's pretty bad news? Everybody on the same page so far? If that's all you know and there's nothing else to the story it looks pretty bad.

Here's the other thing to know. There is almost one, it's come way down now. Translation that means that they have compressed. Remember I just talked about how you can't compare athletes over two years, can't compare athletes over two years with athletes over two

Context —

weeks. What did Omicron do? Omicron is so spready it took what would have been a longer pandemic and compressed it into two weeks. Israel is almost done. They're almost done. That the high spike in all likelihood is going to go up up up up up up up bam right to the ground. In all likelihood that is going to drop like a rock in about a week because the R is approaching one and they've been tracking…

Next segment → →