Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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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…
← Previous segment →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. You will be asked to make that kind of a tough decision. Just remember we're not at wanting. Wanting was before. We're at deciding. Get yourself out of wanting and get into deciding because it's easier, it's more effective. Let's decide to kill it. The virus, that is. One way or another.
All right, here's an ugly truth that I tweeted, and this gets to, this is related to human ingenuity but it's also related to deciding versus wanting. What I'm going to describe is possible. In any other world you would never even consider this.
All right, so what I'm going to suggest right now is ugly and you don't want it, but we're past the wanting phase. We're now at decision phase. Imagine if you could. Imagine if the government demanded that anyone who sold a ticket to any large event for this weekend had to give the government their data. We want to know the names of anybody who was, let's say, unwise enough to take themselves into a crowded situation. Now some places don't have tickets. Let's say a crowded bar. But there probably are credit card receipts because we're a credit card kind of a world. It wouldn't get everybody. Some people are cash. Some people don't buy drinks. But the credit cards will get a lot.
Now let's say you compare those lists of names of people who clearly were in large groups recently. If you add to that facial recognition, something like the Clearview app. Somebody says absolutely not. We're just talking here so you don't need to complain to me. I'm just telling you what we could do. All right, what we could do is have an app in every citizen's hand by the end of the week. It's possible. In which you could just take a picture of your kid's friend when they come over the house. You say to your kid, who's the friend that you want to hang out with today, just one-on-one? And this app, my friend Timmy. Show me a picture of Timmy. Boop. Timmy's family just came back from Disneyland. Nope, sorry Timmy. Should have told you that but Timmy did not. Timmy's a kid. You didn't kno
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w to tell you that. So you know I don't even have to look at the comments to hear you say no, no, big brother. We're past that. You want privacy. We're past that. We're past wanting. We're into deciding. If we decide to get rid of the virus we have tools. They're grotesque tools. They're expensive tools. They're tools we may have trouble getting back in the tube, the toothpaste back in the tube I…
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