Back to episode — Episode 909 Scott Adams - Was Live
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Because the government cannot really do something that the public hates too much. You need a little bit of support, right? So I wonder about that. So it would be great to be able to figure out how many of us have actually had it in some statistically valid way so that you could get talked out of the odds that you are one of the few people who had it. Because I do not think 50 percent of the count…
← Previous segment →say in public what I am thinking incorrectly or even correctly. Yeah, the only person who should be telling the public what I am thinking is me. So if you do it I do not care what your intentions are. I do not want you in my world. I do not want anybody telling other people what I think because it is almost never right. So it is just — it is not even personal. It is not like I hate you for doing it. It is just I prefer not to have any involvement with people who think that that makes sense.
So here is how I ratcheted this up and caused trouble. I suggested that there could be an app that you would voluntarily — that is a keyword, voluntarily — every day put into your particular temperature and you know if you have any symptoms. And then that would be able to maybe — it would not work every time of course — but it might pick up some hot spots where you would not get them otherwise.
Now what were the two major comments to that? And this will tell — this is like the story of my life because I surface a lot of ideas and yeah I cannot tell you how many times this happens. So in the comments the commenter will come in and say that will never work and they will give reasons why this will never work. And the comment right below it will be, oh it is already being done, here is the name of the company. And it is always the one right after the one who says that it can never work. Scott you dreamer, you crazy, crazy guy. Next comment, oh here is a link to it. They have been doing that for a year.
So it turns out I thought I knew that there was an app that came with a measuring device, a temperature device that were paired. It was paired to the app. But I mistakenly thought that that is all it did. I thought it was only temperature. And my idea was to ask if you had lost your sense of smell and do you have any other symptoms. But I have been informed, I think reliably, that the temperature app also asks those questions. So it would be fine for exactly what I said.
So it will never work, say all the smart people on the internet. Followed by oh it already works. There is a company doing that. You should get one. I cannot tell you how many times this has happened to me.
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ll right, now here is the other thing that got people worked up. So people complained that I was trying to limit their freedom to, you know, the freedom to just go back to work even if there was some impact on other people. They claimed that as their freedom. Now I do not disagree with that by the way. We will get to my opinion here. But I do not disagree with that. That would be exactly a descrip…
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