Back to episode — Episode 927 Scott Adams - Is Biden Out of the Race? Kim Jong-Un Brain Dead? Is Immigration Racist?
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← Previous segment →Well, there's so much silly news today that I almost can't stand it. I like the silly news, the stuff that really doesn't make any difference at all to anything. I'm much less interested in the bad news that really affects people. That stuff's just sad.
Let's start at the top. Here's a provocative thought for you. If the coronavirus only targeted young males, would the economy have shut down? I say no, because I think if the only people who were dying were young males, that we would see this like every other war and we'd say, well, we don't shut down the economy just because we've got a war. So it's just a thought. I think that biologically, society considers young males largely expendable. And I actually think that if all of the risk had just been on males, I don't think we would have closed the economy. I mean, it's just a thought experiment. I don't know for sure, but I don't think we would have.
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President Trump is making things interesting by tweeting that he was going to do an executive order suspending immigration because of the coronavirus. What did people say about that? Did people say, well, from the health perspective, that's a pretty good idea? Did they say that? No, no they didn't. Did they say, you know, given unemployment is so high, that certainly makes sense? Did they say that…
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