Back to episode — Episode 994 Scott Adams - Convalescent Blood Plasma, Biden, Golf, and Scarborough
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All right so you know as much as the topic is interesting because in my opinion it's probably the most important topic besides masks, but I also wanted you to get a feel for Ian. You know just a feel for what your fellow citizens, if you're American, and I'm sure it's happening in every country around the world, people are just jumping into the breach and people are running toward this thing like…
← Previous segment →All right let's talk about some other things. I got a suggestion on the Locals platform where I've moved a lot of my non-Dilbert stuff. From Anholt, I don't know that's one name, and Nolt and Alt anyway I don't know his real name but he started referring to people who watched CNN and MSNBC as the poorly educated. How much do you love that? So I'm going to adopt that concept. So instead of what I used to be saying was you know it's two movies on one screen and some people are siloed in their news and they don't see the news from the other side and I used to sort of describe it in engineering terms but I thought this is so much more powerful. Just say it, oh you only watch these networks? Well you're among the poorly educated. Because it's literally just poorly educated which I think is hilarious because you know how much they can hate that.
So apparently in the polls, including a Fox News poll, Biden is ahead of Trump by way more than even Hillary was ahead of Trump at the same time. So apparently Biden is doing great by staying in his basement and just gaffing himself and decomposing at his basement. Now I don't know what could be more ridiculous or more funny than the fact that Joe Biden is in his basement. You literally just, you know, decomposing. And he stays at home and he just, are you ever just at home and you just are laughing about the whole Joe Biden in the basement situation? Because the Biden in the basement thing sort of crept up on us, right? Like it was like hey I think there's this virus and move on. All right yeah and yet it looks like it might be coming this way. All right and maybe we should stay away from public a little bit. And next thing you know a major candidate for president is living in his basement and babbling nonsense. And because we sort of got there gradually we've sort of accepted it.
Go on. Are you sure? Can you tell me that you've never just sat there by yourself and suddenly you just sort of realize the situation we're in with Joe Biden decomposing in his basement and leading in the polls to be the next president of the United States? I don't have his fingers on the nuclear button. If that's not funny to you it is. But here's the thing that's funniest. I'm not positive so don't hold me to this later. I'm not positive but I think we might be witnessing the greatest practical joke of all time. And what I mean by the greatest practical joke is I think, I can't prove this, I think conservatives are massively lying to pollsters because it's funny. Tell me I'm wrong. Don't you sort of suspect? Because if you were saying to yourself okay I get that President Trump's not popular and all the Democrats are going to vote for whoever the Democrat is, yeah I get that. That's going to explain most of what you see. But the fact that Biden's down there decomposing and leading the polls strongly suggests that what we're seeing is a really large national scale practical joke. Because if the polls still say Biden by eight points and then Trump wins by eight points it's going to be the greatest troll of all time. Honestly it will be the most epic practical joke ever played in the history of practical jokes and I think that's what's happening. Am I wrong? Am I completely off base? Because I'm seeing a lot of people in the comments who are saying I think you're right. I think the Republicans are just lying to the pollsters because it's funny.
Speaking of funny pranks, Alyssa Milano got photographed wearing a crochet mask and you can imagine how the internet reacted to her crochet mask. They of course said hey there are holes in your crochet therefore you fool, you idiot, you dumb Democrat, you Biden supporting fool. How could you wear a crochet mask? And worse yet if you're going to wear a crochet mask don't get your photograph taken if you're famous. And so of course Twitter went on fire. It's like she doesn't know anything, you idiot, your crochet mask. And then Alyssa Milano waited. Wait hold hold hold. And then it was, Alyssa Milano tweets to one of her critics, carbon filter inside. Love it. It was a trap. It was a trap. Do you think she knew that people were going to go after her crochet mask? Which she says, and I think it's probably true, she says has a carbon filter on the inside. It probably does because if you've got those good N95 masks they're the ugliest of the masks. So if she figured out a way to put a more pleasant cover over the ugliest mask which is also the best kind of mask, maybe. I don't know if it was an N95 but she said a carbon filter so maybe that's good too.
All right if you're not watching, I've said this a million times but if you're not following Mike Cernovich on Twitter you're missing one of the best shows. It's like a TV show that just goes on all the time. It doesn't have a beginning or an end. Like every time I get on Twitter I see like five Cernovich quotes and everyone does it makes you stop and go huh. But this one, if you want to understand how to operate on the next level, this tweet from Cernovich made me laugh for two days. If this is the whole tweet he goes, self-confidence triggers mediocre man. Now of course the beauty of it is you can't complain about it without being labeled the mediocre man. So it's like this perfect little trap. It's like I want to complain about that because I'm really mad about your self-confidence but if I do complain about it does that make me a mediocre man? So watching Cernovich build these little Twitter traps for the mediocre man, that's one of the funniest things I've seen on the internet.
Telehealth has taken off. I said this before but there's even more signs of it. Have you seen all the commercials? Telehealth is basically just huge now. We thought that might happen but apparently it is happening. The lasting benefit we're going to get from telehealth is going to be gigantic and the ability to practice across state lines which I think will become permanent would be huge. And again thank you to all of you who helped make that happen. So just checking in on that because it's such a big topic and it's going in the right direction so it's always good to hear some good news.
All right what else we got going here? There's some kind of drug called ivermectin that's getting some good reviews and I guess it can interact with other medications and has some side effects and stuff but there were some initial trials that sort of look good. So ivermectin. There's another one. I think that over the next few weeks you're just going to hear one therapeutic after another and it's just going to be all positive news.
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Now if you've done the math, I did this last night in Periscope, I was talking about all the things which have cut the risk down. So masks are supposed to be 75 percent effective. Distance of course is completely effective. Maybe vitamin D. Maybe summer will make a difference in the warm weather. Maybe what we've learned about nursing homes and how to protect them. Maybe what we've learned about v…
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