sasters. There's probably a way around it.

Can we get reparations from China for COVID? Well, have you heard the story that Russia has put together a case that the virus escaped from a Ukrainian lab that America backed? And they've asked the UN to investigate it and they've given a bunch of information. Have you heard of that? Now how many of you would say there's no chance that America was behind the virus in the comments? How many of you think there's no chance, there's no chance that America was behind the virus? Yeah, you're a little uncertain, aren't you? Yep. In my opinion it's entirely possible. Entirely possible. I'm not even sure how I would put the odds on it. I would say the odds that we have accurate information about the source of the virus is probably low. Probably low.

Now obviously the Wuhan lab looks like the obvious place. But I'd have to hear what the Russians say. Because if America released that virus and knew it, what would they do? If America knew it released the virus, it was already out there and it knew, you know, nobody noticed it yet but it's percolating and they know it's going to percolate up, the first thing you do is you go infect some people next to the Wuhan lab. That's what you do. You go infect some people in Wuhan because then when it breaks down, everybody's gonna say Wuhan. So if you tell me that the odds are all pointing toward Wuhan being the source, I would say not so much. They're definitely strong signals. But we live in a world in which that's the sort of thing that gets faked. Like it's in the category of things that people do lie about every time. Like every time, whoever's country it was that released that virus or whoever was responsible, don't you think you could rely on them lying? So you know somebody's lying and you just don't know. Yeah, Russia's been saying it since February, right?

Do prices return to previous levels when inflation comes back down? That's not exactly how that works. No, the answer is no. What should happen is your paycheck should rise at some point if you're working for the right company. Your paycheck should rise to meet that. But I don't know if that's going to happen.

Yeah, pangolins have been maligned. Do you remember when we were hearing the early theories about the virus and people were so confident about it? The theories that turned out to be wrong. Oh, definitely came from that wet market. Oh, definitely. Oh, wet market. Nope.

Your coffee cup. Somebody got their coffee with Scott Adams coffee cup while on live streaming. Amazing. Somebody asked me at an event yesterday, well actually lots of people asked me this. They asked me if I'm retired. Because I guess I'm at that age where people just look at you and say, how's retirement? Like do I look that old? Well I think that's the first question you're going to ask me is if I'm retired. I don't like that. But I decided that I am retired. But I'm modern retired. By modern retired I mean I've simply stopped doing the things I found unpleasant that I did for money. And I do the things that I find pleasant. It still is work. I was adding up how many hours per week I work now in my retirement. It's about 40 hours a week. So my retirement is 40 hours a week of work, okay? Which feels like retirement because 60 and 70 would be more normal. But 40 feels like vacation. Like I'm usually done by, if I start at 4 a.m. and I work seven days a week, right, I'm done by 10 a.m. and I've done 40 hours a week, 42. And that's just on the live stream, right? Because I do a lot of prep for that.

So I'm still doing the cartoon, but my assistant is doing all of the drawing now. So if you see any differences in the drawing, it's because a better artist is doing it. So my assistant who does the art now is authorized to change the look of it a little bit, like the background, add a little backgrounds and maybe some angles that I don't do just because she's a better artist than I am.

All right, I need a time clock because I've run too long. Okay, interesting message here. All right, I got a funny message but I can't share it with you. Sharon says, Scott, with all caps, do you feel guilty for falling for the fear hysteria of COVID? Would anybody like to answer Sharon for me? This is in all caps. Scott, do you feel guilty for falling for the fear hysteria of COVID? Huh. I wonder what's going to happen to poor Sharon. This is the sort of situation where in the past people have seen me have a reaction. Except I don't believe she's real. I think she's just goading me. So I'm not going to respond to that. But Sharon, I'm sure there's somebody in the comments who will share with you the word that you have identified yourself as. And I don't need to use it. So Sharon, you dug your own situation. I don't want to say, gray, if that sounded violent. Yeah, I think she's just kidding around. I don't think that's real. I've blocked her. I didn't block her.

All right, is there anything I missed? Any stories I missed that you need a reaction to? Wake up, Scott. Check out this jingle for the simultaneous sip. Send that to me somewhere else so I can see it. I won't be able to go back in the comments easily. Baby troll. What's that? Means you're still feeling better? Yes. Yeah.

So let me continue with my update. I have had nothing but excellent days all day long from the day that I stopped taking my blood pressure meds. Nothing but excellent days mentally. 100 percent. 100 percent physically. My knees are hurting a little bit from overuse, but otherwise my body is like 20 years younger. Yeah, I mean I can exercise for hours. It's just everything's fixed. And it was just that. Yeah, I forget what kind. I don't think I had a beta blocker. I think I said it was a beta blocker and then somebody corrected me. So I'm not going to name the specific med because I don't want to get sued for making claims that they can debunk or something. All right, it was a statin. I don't think it was. It wasn't a statin.

Your coffee mugs will be arriving soon. Thank you, Henry. High BP will jack your cognition. Jack your cognition as an improvement. So did I tell you my reframe for blood pressure? Now I don't think this has scientific backing. So this is like just a fun speculative thing, right? Is it a coincidence that all the things that are good for blood pressure are things that manage your energy, right? But basically if you can lower your energy or expend your energy. So you can expend it by exercise or you can lower it by meditation, for example. So it seems to be, and this is just the hypothesis, that as you age your body does not naturally off-gas your energy. Meaning that if you're a child and you have high energy, nothing will stop you from moving, right? You'll just get real active until you burn off your energy and like fall asleep into a dead sleep. If you're an adult, just because a normal adult lifestyle doesn't involve moving much depending on your job. But you sit in the chair a lot. Oh, and I don't, I like miss my workout or something like that. So I feel as if high blood pressure is really energy that doesn't have a way to get out. Does that reframe make sense to you? Because it also tells you what to do. It tells you if you keep your body healthy enough that you can exercise, then you've got a good chance of managing your blood pressure. Yeah, follow the energy. Exactly. Follow the energy.

Dr. Oz has entered the room. Yeah. So I'm not going to say that you should take that reframe and ignore your doctors. I'm just saying that it so clearly explains everything that you need to do and not do just by energy. And there are a whole bunch of things in which if you reframe it as energy, you start understanding it. Remember when I first reframed Trump as energy? Like you were thinking in terms of fact checking and policies. But when I reframed it in terms of he's an energy monster and he moves the energy where you want it, then suddenly everything makes sense, right? All the things that are a little confusing, this suddenly comes into focus when energy is the frame. I feel like this might be another one of those. We'll see.

Oh, I just realized I did something clever. If I have a stroke because everybody's teasing me because I got vaccinated originally, people saying I'm gonna get a stroke. But now that I've publicly gone off my blood pressure