Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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irus, better. It's called the simultaneous sip. If it happens now... go. So as I often do, I was watching myself in replay. I play back my Periscopes now and then just to see what it looks like and see if I could make it better. And I gotta tell you, one of the systems you should implement in your life, and it really, really helps you understand yourself, is making a real concerted effort to mon…

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the meds I'm on or I didn't get enough sleep or something?

All right, there's a whole bunch of stuff happening. Number one, I understand that the Chinese government really, really, really hates it when you call this any kind of a Chinese flu or the Wuhan virus. Now once I learned that the Chinese government really hates it when you call the virus that, I decided that from now on I'll only call it the Wuhan virus.

Now I don't love calling it any kind of a Chinese virus because Chinese refers to, you know, variously the country, the people, etc., and that's a little close to making an accidental racist sounding statement. But Wuhan is literally the name of a piece of real estate. So that to me feels like more government. And it's the government of China that I have a passion with. The people are quite awesome.

In fact, let me thank the people of China right now, the people of China as opposed to the government, who sacrificed a lot to slow this virus down. And you guys did a great job for the world. Certainly the people working on containing it in China were not the people responsible for releasing it, if anybody is responsible. Who knows where it came from? But the Chinese people, A-plus plus plus. And a big thank you for the sacrifice that you guys did because I know you were fighting for your own lives and for your families and for your own country, but it helped the world as well. So thanks. And it

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looks like things are slowing down over there. So China's really getting a handle on it. In these times of national, not national, global crisis, it's good to take stock of the more sober-minded among us. So leadership sort of bubbles up where you don't expect it. You see this in a whole bunch of different ways. People are just sort of stepping up and taking a position on the Wuhan virus. Taking…

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