Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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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 u…

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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 ventilator use not to kill people with ventilators. If you take each of these many pieces of good news, each of them individually reduces risk by some percentage from 75% with masks down to maybe vitamin D makes a difference or maybe it's just correlation we don't know if it's causation yet but maybe hydroxychloroquine and zinc if you get it early maybe 20% benefit. Maybe there's some people we can get with this convalescent blood serum. So we now have off the top of my head maybe 10 to 12 different things we've either developed as tools or learned which also allows us to reduce risk. I feel like we have all the tools to within a few weeks we're going to have the risk down to, it's going to approach zero. I mean it's almost going to disappear. I think monoclonal antibodies, almost ready somebody says yeah and that could be huge. The monoclonal antibodies just could be huge.

All right and then somebody says primarily immune system strength. Let me ask you this. I want to see this in the comments. When this whole thing started I was advising everybody to just make sure they took care of their immune system. So in other words get a little light exercise, get some sun, get some sleep, all the usual things. How many of you have done that? How many of you in the comments, it'll take a little time to load here but in the comments tell me if you feel that you've done something that would boost your immune system. Have you intentionally boosted your immune system? With all the yeses. Wow almost every person, every so far every person who's answering is saying yes. Think about that. What kind of change does that make in your life and in civilization if suddenly 370 million people just decided to get serious about boosting their immunity and their health? Oh my god I am so impressed.

For those of you who are listening to this it is a non-broken string of yeses. I've never seen so much agreement. Somebody lost 20 pounds bicycle riding outdoors. Yes definitely. Yes yes yes yes. Immune system way up. Yes. Oh my goodness I am so so impressed. Very impressed. I've never seen anything like this. Are you as impressed as I am? Take a look at these comments coming by. They're still absolutely solidly yes. Holy cow this is one of the, this is the most underreported story of the year isn't it? Wouldn't you say this is the most underreported story? If we had not had a coronavirus and suddenly you found that 370 million Americans and I'm guessing other countries doing something similar, if you found that hundreds of millions of people suddenly took seriously their health, what did we just do to the entire health care cost of this country? How much of this is going to become habit?

You know I'm wondering if you think that you'll be able to turn this into habit. The trouble is a lot of us not going to work in the normal ways. We don't have the normal schedule so it's going to be harder when you're trying to work it in with your normal schedule. But wow I am so impressed with all of you. Genuinely. Somebody stopped smoking. Congratulations. Congratulations on stopping smoking. That is hard.

All right so well that might be the good news for this. Maybe our healthcare cost just took a 20% hit simply because we're in better shape and we know how to do this. So where can you outdoors shoot? I don't understand that question.

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All right well I'm impressed with you all and I'm going to leave you on that note. Hope you learned something today and I'll talk to you tonight.

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