Back to episode — Episode 884 Scott Adams - Taking Questions and Solving Pandemics Like it's Nothing
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. But first let me give you an idea of what's new and exciting. Number one, people are starting to wise up to the fact that masks might be a good idea after all. Who saw that coming? All of us. So it's sort of a crazy, bizarre thing watching our experts slowly start to agree with the public. It's supposed to work the other way around, right? Aren't the experts supposed to have a position and then…
← Previous segment →the president calling Jim Acosta "Jim," you know he just used his first name a few times and he did allow him to ask his questions. He pushed back but it was all way more polite than you're used to.
Likewise when we found out that unfortunately Chris Cuomo tested positive for the virus I didn't see anybody acting political or like a jerk. I'm sure there were some because it's the internet but mostly people were just saying you know get well soon. And that's exactly what I want to say. No time for partisanship.
All right, somebody says only 5,000, we're already at 4,000. No, listen to me carefully because when you come back and tell me I'm wrong this is the key point. We're not at 4,000 net. Net we're actually negative. So at this moment, of course this will change, but at this moment more people have been saved than have died, meaning that people would have died in car accidents if we'd been driving to work etc. So we're actually ahead in lives. I'm not saying that will last but that's where we are. We're actually in negative deaths net.
Sixty hours ago you said 4,000. God I knew this was going to happen. Everybody's gonna misremember what I said and then come back to tell me I'm wrong. Isn't it bad enough that I'm probably gonna be wrong by a hundred thousand according to the experts? Can you l
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ive with that? That in theory I should be wrong but like a hundred thousand at least. If you're coming back this just bothers the heck out of me if somebody comes back and says you said and it wasn't what I said. I know that's gonna happen. Why am I cranky? I just took a nap. I just woke up from a nap. All right, I got some questions here which I will answer. Jentech Sir says do you think Dr. Fa…
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