Back to episode — Episode 869 Scott Adams - There Will be Cursing and Coffee. Let's End the Political Career of Porkers
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if you've got 25 of them. Like, how can you tell which ones are real? You know, because you know there's gonna be a certain number of scammers, right? I mean, that's guaranteed. There'll be new people promising things they can't deliver. They get your check, they disappear after the crisis. So it's a real problem. You can't just throw money at people in a crisis because you end up with a lot of ba…
← Previous segment →ual doctor, and they have essentially all of the doctor skills. They just don't have that diploma because it's not May. They had to be pulled out of hospitals because the teaching hospitals couldn't support them in the crisis situation, because there's an insurance problem.
So tens of thousands of people who are near doctors, just they don't have this certificate, but they've been working in the hospital, got pulled off the front line because of an insurance problem. Needs to be fixed, right? You know, and one can imagine that the government could step in and say, "Okay, temporarily all those student doctors either can't be sued." I suppose you could do that. You could just say if you're a student doctor, you're called into action for the next three months. No matter what you do, you can't be sued. I mean, that would be the quickest way to do it. But I suppose you could also put in money so that there's actual insurance, and then people just act like doctors. And if you do something wrong, maybe you do get sued, but at least you have insurance. So that's a big problem that needs to be fixed, and literally can free up just a lot of human power.
There continues to be just really horrible fake news on CNN. I
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t's still on their website, still a story, and it goes like this. Here's the actual text from CNN: "President Trump continues touting chloroquine, a malaria drug he believes might help fight against coronavirus. CNN's Sanjay Gupta explains why that and other drugs that might be effective against the virus need more evidence." Here's the problem. That's not the drug that President Trump has good h…
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