Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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I have is, is this typical? That in the past we were having doctors dying from treating just regular flu? Because they had to be happening somewhere, right? Because the regular flu can also take people out and some doctors would be older, over 60 etc. But I think these are actually younger doctors. But is this a reporting phenomenon? In other words is it true that every year there are, you know, w…
← Previous segment →u season from catching the flu, it's just low percentage, we don't report it, it's just sort of baseline badness. If I knew that and I knew that what I was seeing about these doctors dying was just more of that, then that would give me a little more comfort that if I get it I'm not going to die. So it has to do with our national state of mind which is important because this is in a way what we're having is an information and psychology problem and you have to treat it that way as well as a health and physical problem.
But I'd like to know if more doctors, more young doctors especially, are dying from this flu than from last flus because that would give me some information. You know, should I contract it from that point on and what are my odds? That would give me some information.
All right, what about, maybe I've already talked about this one. Let's talk about Bernie and Biden. You know again I just watched it happen in real time. I'm so uninterested in Biden and Bernie Sanders that I just forgot to talk about it. It was like the big news that wasn't the virus last night, the biggest news, and literally just forgot to talk about it. But I'll go back to it.
What I saw, you know I refer to it as a pillow fight in the nursing home. And the reason I called it that is that there was a lot of activity. They were loudly, passionately talking about his stuff but it felt like two old men just going at it and they were punching as hard as they could but it was sort of like a pillow fight punch. It felt to me that there were no real blows landed.
Now if you were a partisan you would look at it and say oh yeah there was that time that Bernie cornered him on that and that lie. Yeah nobody cares. And that was a time Biden did that good thing and he really showed his presidential. Yeah maybe. Nobody cares.
Here's my summary of it. My summary is that because Biden didn't lose, he won. Biden looked better than I've seen him, I have to admit. But he didn't look healthier than I've seen him. Wasn't there? I missed the first part but somebody said he coughed. Did that happen? Because he didn't cough for the
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rest of the event but I was waiting to see if there was a video of it. I saw that hashtag Biden cough was trending and then I looked for it but I haven't seen the video yet. So can anybody tell me in the comments, did that cough look like it was a problem cough or did it look like just a dry throat, I've been talking all day kind of cough which we all have? So I don't know. So I would say Biden w…
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