Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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e's any chance we need ventilators at all, get some ventilators. So I hope the government is looking to do that. I have a question I'm going to put out here publicly. I think I can find the right person in the government, but I've been asked, and it's weird how this world works. You know, every citizen is sort of entering the fight if they can. So I'm in the fight with all of you. And people have…
← Previous segment →d China is not telling us stuff. But now the information is coming in. The fog is starting to clear. Human capability is being put on this thing like nobody's business.
Somebody passed around a quote attributed to me but it's not really my quote. The quote was somebody else's, but I don't know who said it first. So I am mistakenly credited for this quote but I'm only a fan of it. And it goes like this: if you want something, find out the price and then pay it. Now as basic as that sounds, we so often don't do that, that it sounds startling to hear that that's a way to success.
This coronavirus is presenting people all over the world with this proposition. What do you want? I want to get rid of this coronavirus from the world. You really? Is that what you want? Do you really want it? Yeah, yeah. Before I was a little ambiguous, a little ambivalent, let's say. But right now, 100 percent, that's what I want.
Once you know what you want and you're not wondering anymore, and that's where we're all at at this point, that's a decision. It's one thing to want the virus to go away. We have passed wanting it to go away. We are in deciding to make it go away. And that's different because once you decide, you'll do anything. And you see that happening. People will do anything. We're watching our healthcare professionals, some of them getting infected. I guess there are two emergency doctors just reported were badly infected and having some problems, pretty bad ones. And when you see our medical professionals run toward danger, these people are better than us.
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They are your standard. You should look at the doctors who are doing this stuff, the nurses too. And they know they're not completely protected. They know their risk and they're doing it anyway. They are our best heroes right now by far. So use that as your standard for what to do as a citizen, because you might be asked to do something that hard. You know, maybe you already are, but not that hard…
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