Back to episode — Episode 900 Scott Adams - Why I Have Decided to Identify as Woman to Lower My #Coronavirus Risk
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o, you probably ordered anything. Hi. So I've never seen an argument ended so perfectly. Have you? Have you ever seen an argument on Twitter that actually came to some kind of a conclusion? Usually you could argue forever. And if we'd only been arguing without the benefit of an animated graph, because it was the animation that brought it alive. Now I'd like to tie this point to the point I've bee…
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All right. There's also CNN is mocking the conservative people for saying that the death count may be overcounted. And this is Brian Stelter on CNN. So I have to read this because I think it's always funny the way CNN biases their opinion stuff. Well, I guess opinions are biased by nature, but this is Brian Stelter on CNN. He says some of the biggest names in right-wing media are questioning the official COVID-19 death toll.
All right. So some of the biggest names in right-wing media. So later he goes on to name who he's talking about, these biggest names in right-wing media. And the list, he says Rush Limbaugh. And I'm thinking, yeah, yes, that's about the biggest name in right-wing, well, conservative anyway. I wouldn't call him right-wing. Mark Levin. Yeah, yeah, big name on conservative talk. Tucker Carlson, of course. Brit Hume. Yeah. And he throws in Diamond and Silk.
Now I love Diamond and Silk and what they do is tremendous. I mean there's a reason that they're successful. They're very talented and charismatic and they're great. All right. As far as being in the same category with Tucker Carlson and Brit Hume. But yeah, that's just what's funny is that CNN likes to just lump everybody together. So that for their purposes anyway.
Here's his point. He's saying that all these conservative types, who he calls right-wing but I would just say they're conservative, they're suggesting that the numbers might be inflated in an effort to paint President Trump as doing a worse job. And I think that the evidence of that is that Dr. Birx said at the press conference that if somebody comes in with two conditions, let's say diabetes and also a coronavirus, and they die, that they call that a coronavirus death, not a diabetes death. If they come in with hypertension and coronavirus, they call it a coronavirus death.
Now I think that a lot of conservative people are saying, wait a minute. Between the fact that you've already admitted that you can't tell what they died of and yet you're coding them all as coronavirus deaths just because they have coronavirus in them, there must be a lot of people dying coincidentally who also have an infection. So they're saying, well, that's an obvious way that you're overcounting. And then they look at that graph that's been debunked and they say, well, there it is. There's the proof. Dr. Birx has admitted that they're coding them coronavirus without really knowing. And then you look at the graph and it shows there's a big drop-off in pneumonias. Boom. You put those two things together and therefore it's obvious that the number of pneumonia deaths have been undercounted and that they illegitimately counted them as coronavirus deaths and therefore the number is inflated.
Here's what's wrong with that point of view: everything. All right. So whoever is associated with that point of view, that's just dead wrong as far as I can tell. Number one, remember two points of data that they're using. Number one is that graph that I talked about earlier, which is completely debunked. So in terms of looking at the data as it's presented on the graph, it's just fake. There's that data. So half of the argument, I don't know if this is true for all the individuals that I mentioned, but in general half of the argument is based on a graph which we know is based on lagging data and not accurate. I won't call it a fake. Some people object to calling it a fake because that sounds like it was intentionally faked. But fake also just means untrue. So the graph is untrue. I don't think anybody necessarily did that intentionally.
Secondly, what do you make of the fact that Dr. Birx admits in public that if somebody comes in with two conditions, either one of them could kill you, but if one of them is coronavirus they call it a coronavirus death. Does that inflate the number of coronavirus deaths? I think not. But every one of you thinks yes, right? Probably almost every one of you, at least 90% of you are saying, well duh, if they come in with two things that could kill you and you don't know which one killed you and they're not checking, they're not doing an autopsy, obviously that gets you accidentally overcounting. Rig
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ht? Just obviously it couldn't be more obvious, right? I disagree. I'm going to side with Dr. Birx. And here's why. Statistically speaking, what are the odds that your diabetes was going to kill you that day? Yeah, what if you had diabetes? You probably didn't get it on Tuesday. You've probably had diabetes for 15 years. If you have diabetes for 15 years, you go in one week for coronavirus and yo…
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