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Back to episode — Episode 895 Scott Adams - Catch up on the Day and Learn Some Tricks for Relaxing

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It's time to get your swaddle on. I've got mine on, if I could find the long side. Oh, so much better. Oh my goodness. Get yourself a warm blanket. It's the best.

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So let's catch you up on what's happening in the last 12 hours. Does all of this feel like Groundhog Day to you? I don't know about you, but there's a certain sameness to every day now. I feel like I wake up, I do some cartooning, I do a Periscope, and I talk about the same five things. Then there's a press conference with the president and the task force, and they babble the same meaningless stuff that doesn't mean anything. And you can't understand it in context. You don't know if that's enough ventilators or not enough. You really don't know anything, but they sure talk a lot.

Then it's this time of night, then I do this again, then I'll be going to bed pretty soon, and then I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do exactly the same thing again. It's starting to feel a little repetitive. Am I dead? Is this hell where I just wake up every day in the pandemic, but it never gets worse and it never gets better? It's just about the same as yesterday. Do you remember yesterday? Today's like that but a little bit different anyway.

But there are some small differences. We will talk about them. So there's a website that lets you estimate your chances of getting the coronavirus and then if you get it, your odds of dying from it. I'm not proud to say that I thought, oh, I got to find out if I'm gonna die from the coronavirus. So I just retweeted the site. So if you want to find it for yourself, go to my Twitter feed and it's near the top.

And what do you put in? Your particular gender and age and some lifestyle stuff, what your situation is. And this is what it spit out for me. And tell me if you think this sounds reasonable. It says I have a 55 percent chance of catching the virus. Now I put that I literally am completely alone. Do I have a 55 percent chance of catching it all alone in my house just because I get mail? You know, I ordered food. That's pretty high. So I'm not sure I believe I have a 55 percent chance.

But the next thing is what are my odds of dying from it? So again I put in my particulars and it said that if I get it, my odds of dying from it are 2.6 percent. The equivalent of 138 people. Or if people are in betting odds, there's a 37 to one chance I won't die. So if I get the coronavirus and you want to bet on me, you know, if you want to do a dead pool, the odds apparently are 37 to one that I would survive. Not bad. Not bad.

On the other hand, is there anything else that has that much of a chance of killing me by the end of the week? Probably not.

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So news from the simulation. I think I'll make an ongoing segment that is just news from the simulation. What I mean by that is the idea that we're a similar software simulation. And if we are, there might be some code reuse, meaning you would see some patterns that recur that seemed like more than coincidence. Of course this is just for fun because they're just coincidences, but I like to point t…

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