Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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ention to kill them. We should also start sending home Chinese-born or Chinese resident students that are in the United States. Just kick out 10 a week, 10 a day, whatever it takes until they're all gone. So if we're going to be that way, let's be that way. Looks like maybe we are going to be that way. New cold war, which I know. So here's a story that I keep seeing on the internet, but I believe…

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s is true. I believe this is completely made up. But I've seen it a number of times on Twitter. So I'll tell you what it is. You tell me if you think this is true.

Do you think that all-cause mortality is way up, meaning people who are not elderly are dying from things that they weren't dying from two years ago? That the baseline of just ordinary non-COVID related deaths are way up for basically everything? Do you think that's true? Because you've seen things on Twitter that say it's true, right? But try Googling it. You can't Google it. There's no news story that supports it. If you can find any credible source, please tweet it at me because I didn't see any, and I looked. I looked for it. The only place you can find it though is on sketchy sources on Twitter.

Now I know you're saying the Ethical Skeptic. Some of you would say he's not a sketchy source. But I don't know who he is, and I've seen a lot of stuff out of him that I don't understand, meaning he prints a lot of stuff that I look at and I go, I don't know where the data came from or how to interpret it.

You're lying. What am I lying about? Somebody's accusing me of lying. Why would I lie about any of this? What would even be the point of it? I hope you're not talking to me. I need at least an incentive to lie. What would be my reason? I can't even think of one.

Anyway, I looked around and I could not deduce that was true. I did see a video of somebody who claimed to be an insurance company CEO making the claim that there's no other explanation except that the vaccinations must have caused some autoimmune problem that makes every other kind of disease seem worse for a while. Except the name of that insurance company wasn't even in the video, right? I mean, are you going to believe somebody who says they're an insurance company executive and they don't name the company? And what about the other executives? Do they say the same thing? Is there anybody who's actually associated with an actual company that I've heard of that would say all-cause mortality is up and we don't know why?

And secondly, we really don't know why. If you just made everybody fatter and more sedentary and then made them worry more, wouldn't they die of everything more often? Am I wrong? I mean, I'm no doctor, but just take the baseline health of people and don't change anything except you make them way fatter, exercise way less, and I'm going to throw in another one: spend two years avoiding germs. What's that do to your immune system? Spend two years avoiding germs pretty well. Let's say you successfully avoided germs because during the COVID lockdown I didn't get any other illness. Did you? Did anybody catch a common cold during the pandemic? I didn't. Did anybody catch a common cold? I feel like we have an entire civilization that just took its own immune response down by avoiding germs for two years.

So we're getting fat, we were more sedentary, we had more to worry about, we didn't have the same social benefits we had, we have more fentanyl, there's more crime, and we've probably avoided germs maybe too much for two years. It might have weakened our ability to fight the next group that come along. I'm saying germs as a general word for anything that affects your autoimmune system or your immune system. So I'm going to call BS on this until somebody gives me a real source.

All right, here is this little sir. Crotch Scott Adams, the most desperate pro-vaxxer on the internet. First of all, I'm not pro-vax. Second of all, you're uninformed. Thirdly, you're defaming me, so stop doing it. And fourthly, you're gone. Boom.

All right, you have to get a little bit higher level of interaction than you're coping. You're coping. No, I'm not coping. God damn idiots.

All right, let's get back to some positivity. So a question asked of Kirby in the Biden administration. He was asked by FBN's Edward Lawrence, this is the question. It's a good question. Given the aggression we're seeing from China and the FBI director saying that China is the number one threat to the U.S. in the next 10 years, would Biden caution companies from expanding in China? That's a good question, isn't it? If the Biden administration is saying China is our biggest threat, wouldn't the Biden administration also be responsibly acting to caution companies not to expand business? And the answer was that private companies make their own decisions.

Since when? Since when do private companies make their own decisions? How about this new tax plan that Congress looks like they'll probably pass? They would raise the minimum tax on corporations. Was that the corporations deciding to pay more taxes, or was that the government telling companies what to do? Pay more taxes. I mean, since when does the government not tell companies what to do? It's the very thing they do all the time. So that's a dumb answer and it's an avoiding answer.

If we think that China is our number one threat, our government should be warning us against it. In fact, I would say that would be pretty basic to their essential mission. I would say the government's central mission is to find out what's happening in the

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rest of the world and warn us about it and tell us where to do business and where not to do business. That's exactly what they should be doing. I want more of that, not less. Now if they told me not to do business in a place that didn't have any reason not to do business, then I would say, oh well, that's inappropriate. I want to do business with this country. You don't have any good reasons. Don…

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