Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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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…
← Previous segment →elieve anything on its face value that looks like it's coming from some unknown source about somebody who talked to somebody. So that's a caution, which is really important.
I saw some photos that Disneyland was packed this weekend. Is that real? Because again, fake news is going to be so prevalent now that you just have to distrust every photograph, every tweet.
I'm also seeing tweets from what appeared to be individuals or doctors at hospitals talking about how bad things are at their hospital. I've seen at least one from Italy. I've seen one from Seattle. There's reason to believe if those are not real. Now we do think that Italy's in bad shape, but if you see anything that looks like "I'm a doctor, here's my thread of how bad things are in my specific hospital. We're piling bodies in the street," it might not be true. And indeed what happened recently, there was a Seattle doctor who had one of those threads about it, and when people checked in on the hospital they said it's bad but not like that. So we know that those can be either misleading or outright false. So watch out for those. So any individual that doesn't have a second source, you know, such as a news source that says, "Oh my God, yes, you know, this, we're seeing the same thing," just don't believe it yet or at all.
Here's a question for you. What are you doing about playdates? So I talked to Dr. Drew yesterday online on the Ask Dr. Drew livestream, and you know kids are gonna be a real problem. But here's a potential way to go if you're wondering what to do about it. It's almost cruel and unusual to lock up a kid in a house for three months. Adults, maybe we can handle it. It's going to be tough for a kid. It's gonna be really tough.
And what I suggest is that maybe they find one special friend with a family that you know is doing good German, you know, good virus protection stuff as well. Talk parent to parent. Make sure you've got a similarly strict situation in both households. You know, wash your hands when you come in, that sort of thing. Parents staying home from work, whatever. And then say, all right, you can play with your friend Timmy as much as you want, but that's it. Or maybe a few houses like that, but one at a time. Because if you can get a kid to agree to one friend, but getting them to agree to not seeing a friend for three months, it's going to be nothing but a terror in your own household. So you've got enough of an external threat. You don't want to turn your own children into an internal threat because they're gonna get on your nerves too. And you don't want your nerves to be broken in this situation. So stay strong.
All right, here's the situation on ventilators. There's still a little bit of lack of clarity here. And here's the situation. And again, Joel Pollak reported on this. The U.S. and ventilator manufacturers, at least one of them, have received a lot of inquiries but not a lot of orders. And I wasn't sure what was going on with that. Like why would it make sense that there are not a lot of orders for new ventilators, especially since all the parts apparently are available in the United States?
And one of the answers, but I think
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it's an incomplete answer, is that as Dr. Drew explained yesterday on his show, the hospitals actually in the United States, we can flex better than other places. And in particular, apparently every operating room has a ventilator that they use for the operations. And given that we'll probably be postponing a lot of elective surgery, we can repurpose them. So first of all, there's a bunch of unuse…
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