Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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ll be a tough day. Tomorrow will be tough. Somebody says I'm starting to lose it. I even woke up angry. Exercise. If you're physically angry and you know that it's something you need to get into control, go wear yourself out. Just get outside, ideally. Outside. Being in the house when you're stressed is not helping. Get out. Take a long walk. That's what I say to you. All right, let's talk about…
← Previous segment →ety is doing anything but collapsing. It's evolving, and it hurts, but you know, sometimes the growth does, right? Sometimes it's hard to do the thing you need to do. But society is not collapsing. Society is evolving and is hardening and it's getting smarter and it's getting more connected. What you don't notice is that you don't notice that, but I'll talk about that.
So first of all, your food supply is the last thing you should worry about. And here's why. There's no risk to it. The hoarding is a super short-term thing because it had no effect on the supply. The total supply of farms and farm goods and products is exactly the same. Well, no, that's a lie. It's not exactly the same. It's way more right now. Our pipeline, according to all information we have, you know, we're not hearing any stories of a farm closed or a trucking company can't ship the goods. We're not hearing any stories like that, which by the way, if we can't cross state lines, I don't know how that's gonna work, but probably there will be exceptions for food.
And so the point is, when you look at the scary shelves, just understand that the entire weight of civilization's successes, the entire capability of the United States, is still just as strong for producing and delivering it to you. The harder part will be if people can keep their incomes up, and I think you'll probably see something like a universal basic income, something like that.
Now, restaurants, poor little restaurants, are gonna get whacked. But I think this might be another situation where we're evolving more than collapsing, because for every server, you know, every hostess, every server at a restaurant, surely we need another delivery person, right?
So here's what I'm doing for my local restaurants. So I'm DoorDashing now. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I get it. It's a rich person thing. Not all of you can afford to DoorDash. I get that. It adds a cost on top of a cost on top of a cost. But I can. And you know, even though my income will get whacked, as you know, percentage-wise as much as the rest of you, maybe more, I'll still have enough to DoorDash.
So during these times when it makes more sense to try to think of all of your actions in terms of how they affect other people, you know, this is a time to think about that. I'm gonna DoorDash the hell out of my area so that my local restaurants are getting at least that much business.
And here's the other advantage. Let's say you, and again this is only for people who have the wherewithal to do it. I'm not recommending, you know, if money's tight, I don't recommend this at all. But one way that I can protect your food supply is by DoorDashing. So you know if you've got some extra food and you're saying, oh, I hope this is enough, well one of the ways I can help make it be enough is I'll get my food directly from the restaurant, who apparently have plenty of supply. That's
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partly what Joel Pollak found out in his article in Breitbart. You can find that in Breitbart or you can find it at my Twitter feed. So food, don't worry about it. And I would say the same with paper goods and stuff. There's just some temporary craziness, but the pipeline has plenty of paper. You know, nobody stopped cutting down trees as far as the mills. You should be aware that in this time o…
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