y there's probably some groups that are all bad but we don't talk about them too much. So you know try to improve your game so that you can accept that people could be good at things and bad at other things. It's the thing. It really is.

NBA got cancelled. All the rallies are canceled. Remember I told you yesterday that the president should have gone first because whoever goes first just looks like they're the smart one because you know it's all going to happen. You might as well go first. The weirdest, just the weirdest story about this NBA cancellation is that so there was one player, Gobert. Gobert. This again makes me feel like the simulation is winking at me that the guy who's in this story has Bert as the last part of his name. Gobert. Anyway so he's a basketball player and prior to being tested and finding out that he is the first NBA player confirmed to have the coronavirus, prior to testing, this is the funny part, before he was tested he's giving one of these little pressers where each of the players come out you know by themselves and talk to the press. And he jokingly stands up and makes a joke about the coronavirus and then in front of the cameras he jokingly touches all the microphones and all the places like he is joking that he's going to spread the coronavirus to whoever comes next to the microphone. He did that on camera joking. And at the time he did it he didn't know he would be the first person tested to actually have coronavirus. What is happening? Is the simulation just screaming at us to know that this is made up? I'm just asking. Was there one other basketball player that we could find a video footage, video meaning you know that you actually see it, in which they were joking about having the coronavirus? Was there even one other player anywhere in the professional athlete world? The only one who joked about it on camera is also the first one to be confirmed to have it. What's happening? How is that even possible?

Somebody says he's pronounced Gobert which sounds correct. All right so I think the world of large social gatherings, I could see two things happening. You know I had always predicted that large gatherings would have to be canceled at least outdoor gatherings because of drones you know and terrorism just seems like that was obvious. But maybe the other reason will be pandemics. And by the way it's officially a pandemic which changes nothing.

Let's talk about the worst forms of loser think I'm seeing here. And I mentioned one and I'm just gonna run through this list. You've heard some of this but it's worth reminding you because you're gonna see so much of it. One is that people are comparing Italy who's having all kinds of trouble with their hospitals, their hospitals are overloaded with corona or Wuhan virus patients. And people are saying but don't worry about that Scott because that's Italy. You know Italy is not the United States. We're not going to have that kind of problem. They just have you know whatever lesser health care services or whatever. Now that's loser think. Here's why. You do not compare or you should not rationally compare the Italian situation right now to any future American situation. The accurate and useful comparison is Italy now with the coronavirus versus Italy with a normal virus in other years with just the normal flu. Have their medical facilities ever been overrun? And the answer is no. So that's why you need to know that this virus is not like other viruses. Don't feel that you're safe because that's only going to happen to some country that has less resources or something because even in the top hospitals, you know they're really high-end hospitals in Italy, they're still having the same problem. It has nothing to do with the quality of the medical care or anything. That's just a bad flu. So first loser think is comparing other countries to us. You should only compare those other countries to themselves in the past with a regular flu. That's your best comparison.

Now other people say Scott Scott Scott if you think this flu is bad explain to me why South Korea has already got apparently control on it so the number of new cases was declining. To which I say that's the exception that proves the rule. South Korea did what nobody else could do. Just massive testing and social distancing and fast acting and you know just really dramatic changes very quickly and it worked apparently. Or at least it worked in a sense of slowing it down. I don't think we're gonna eradicate it right away. But what you should learn from that is if you take drastic action you can slow it down. That shouldn't tell you anything about what's happening in Italy because they didn't do that. It's just a different situation. And of course don't compare the regular flu to this flu because the regular flu has already run its course. We know its full numbers. This one's just starting and the risk is that it ramps up faster than those other ones. So understand the difference. So those are the main things.

All right here's the more loser think in the form of analogy. This is from actor Kumail Nanjiani I think he's the actor on Silicon Valley if I'm correct. You might be a stand-up comedian too. I'm not sure what he does anyway. He offers this analogy about closing the flights to Europe. He says from Europe he says trying to fight the coronavirus by limiting travel between Europe and the U.S. is like trying to clean a coffee spill by washing the coffee cup. So he's coming out, it's actually a clever analogy. So in terms of cleverness it's an A-plus and it's basically a version of you know closing the barn door after the horse got out. So basically it's just saying it's too late. To which I say what is wrong with your brain? If there's new virus coming in f