Episode 1640 Scott Adams - Joe Rogan's Video Response and How the Pandemic Changed Reality

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tin. It's just about the truth of a story. And then it took Andreas Backhaus another like five seconds to completely dismantle it. And he goes, this news feels too basic. Sanity checks: one, there is no preprint or other documentation yet. And then two, assuming they did the trial in Japan, Omicron became dominant there just one month ago. One month isn't a realistic time frame for a whole trial.…

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ain why there's so much anger out there.

Well I think Pat was off by five percentage points. As I've been noting, 25 percent or so-ish people will be wrong about anything, everything. To the point where I got a tweet just before I came on, or was it maybe I saw it on a Locals comment, I'm forgetting where I saw it, that maybe it just might be part of the base rules of our reality. You know the base rule of reality is around 25 percent of people have to misunderstand everything. It's a different 25 percent. I hope it's not the same 25 but there always has to be the standard 25 no matter what.

All right, one more thing and then I'm going to solve the Ukraine problem. We have to only start looking at unvaccinated people and I'm sorry we have to look at only fully vaccinated deaths to make our decisions on the mandates. Fully vaccinated deaths. We've been doing the wrong thing. We've been looking at unvaccinated deaths but that's the group that chose that option, right? But if all the unvaccinated people are completely happy with their risk management decision, and they are, and all of the vaccinated people, they've seen the risk drop to the point where it's now a baseline risk not a pandemic risk, why are we looking at the deaths of the unvaccinated? They're getting exactly what they want. Not the dead ones but the people who lived got exactly what they wanted. And the people who died, they chose a path that they were fully informed about. They didn't believe it and that was their option.

So if you looked at the total deaths, vaccinated and unvaccinated, it looks like we're at a record and that would be a bad argument for ending mandates. But if you look at what people asked for and what they got, vaccinated people asked for vaccinations, they got it. Unvaccinated people asked for a different risk profile, they got it. As long as the hospitals can handle the load, and it looks like they can at this point, it looks like they can, we're done.

Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen and people of all types, Regis McKenna is the Regis McKenna who was the person who advised Steve Jobs. I don't know if he advised him on that question I was talking about. Thank you very much. It was Regis McKenna.

So February 1 is the date that the public takes over because our government has not. And I believe that the argument should be that everybody got what they wanted at this point. The vaccinated got what they wanted. The unvaccinated got what they wanted. We are done.

I would argue that the worst way to protest at this point is with trucks because don't we need the stuff in those trucks? Anybody? I think we need the stuff in those trucks. I don't think we should stop the supply chain for anything. That's just my thinking.

But here's what we should do. We should just take control. Just take off your mask if you go in a place that requires them. Make sure that they ask you to put it on and then the first thing you should say is no. After February 1st the public took control of the mandates. And people say no, the government still has mandates. And you'll say yeah I know. That's why the public took control on February 1st. Now if they put up a fight, well you can decide to leave or put on your mask. That's up to you. But I'm just saying the default should be take the mask off.

Now I probably won't, just personally I probably won't try going to Walmart or Target or anything but I'll just stay away from any places that I know will require a mask. And any place I think is a soft target I'll go in and take it off and we should just see it. Yeah I know people will be more rebellious than I am. We're going to try to get on planes and everything else but that would be a little bit dangerous at this point. I don't think I'd mess around with an airport. But the point is we have to make it a big enough deal that the press starts talking about it.

If the press doesn't talk about the public taking control of the issue and make that a theme it just wasn't going to happen, right? So you need the press to understand this is a perfect story. The press does not like dog bites man because that's normal. The press likes a man bites dog. The press doesn't care if the government tells you what to do. That's normal. The press does care when the public tells the government what to do. That's wh

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at makes it a story. So somebody needs to talk about the public rebellion until the narrative catches on and then it snowballs. But let's kick this thing off now. Let's tell you how to handle the Ukraine problem. Have you ever wondered what the hell do you do when you're dealing with a dictator? Like you could never really solve a problem with a dictator, right? It's very unlikely that democracie…

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Wisdom from this episode

"The base rule of reality is around 25 percent of people have to misunderstand everything. It's a different 25 percent. There always has to be the standard 25 no matter what."

In any situation, about 25% of people will misunderstand or get it wrong, and it's typically a rotating group rather than the same individuals every time. This appears to be a fundamental rule of reality.

"If you look at what people asked for and what they got, vaccinated people asked for vaccinations, they got it. Unvaccinated people asked for a different risk profile, they got it. As long as the hospitals can handle the load, we're done."

Rather than fixating on total deaths, reframe by recognizing that both the vaccinated and unvaccinated received the risk choices they selected. Once hospitals manage the load, the crisis phase has effectively ended.

"The press doesn't like dog bites man because that's normal. The press likes a man bites dog. The press doesn't care if the government tells you what to do. That's normal. The press does care when the public tells the government what to do."

Media ignores ordinary events like governments directing citizens, but is drawn to the unusual reversal where the public directs the government. Frame your actions as the latter to capture attention and drive change.