Episode 885 Scott Adams - Announcing my Candidacy for President of the United States

hey everybody come on in here it's time for another delightful episode of coffee with Scott Adams it will be featuring the simultaneous sip yes well we will not be skipping that today I have a very special announcement as soon as you all get in here but first for those of you who are fleet of finger fast enough to get in here people who are well prepared people who are not going to work anyway you might as well listen to me and all you need is that copper Margaret glass to take her cello sir Stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and drive you now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine tip of the day the thing that makes everything better including the pandemic it's called the cycle taenia simple go mmm I can feel the death rates starting to decline already because that's how fast it works well the big news of the day is of course I'm announcing my candidacy for President of the United States effective today now there are some caveats the caveats are important number one I'm not going to fill out any paperwork so if any of that's necessary to be on the ballot can somebody figure that out for me maybe if there's something I have to sign I could do that but I'm not really into the paperwork so I'll been somebody else can take care of that but here's the deal I'm not going to be running as a primary candidate meaning not your first choice I'm going to be running as a backup choice so if you liked let's say president Trump's job performance and he's running and I'm running you should vote for him that would be my first choice state oh you should vote for him if that's this if you like it what he's done and you think he's better than the alternatives and even if you think I'm better than him you should still vote for him all right so if Trump is in the race and he's healthy and he's doing a good job or at least as good as he's done so far you should definitely vote for him you should give me no votes but we're in very unchartered territory and November's a long ways away people over 70 are not guaranteed to be healthy by November some percentage of people over 70 in the president's over 70 may have some health difficulties between now November plus anything could happen you know perhaps the president does something that even these supporters don't like hasn't happened yet but it could happen so here's the deal Democrats are not running a backup option because it looks like it's gonna be Joe Biden and he's not really a backup option forget about the policies he's just simply not capable of functioning in that or any other job you wouldn't hire him to be a barista at Starbucks would you I don't think you would I mean quite seriously you wouldn't so in normal times your emergency backup president would be just whoever's running than the other party but right now we don't have an emergency backup so I will be your Joe Biden or emergency backup if you're a Democrat and you don't want to vote for Trump well you could vote for me that would make sense the Biden was not going to win anyway so you know give it a shot I promise you that if if I get elected I will make a plan for covering everybody with health care but it'll be more of a capitalist plan to get there may not be on day one so if you're a Democrat and you want to improve health care and you don't really have a candidate because Joe Biden really isn't one then you think Trump isn't quite what you need well I'd probably be a little bit better on healthcare so far for me but if you're Republican just vote for Trump now in the unlikely event that Trump is I though maybe he retires or he's unavailable or something happens here would be the people I would nominate for my administration just so you know what's ahead first of all I would need a good vice president because I would plan to work from home and I don't do meetings so might not be the best president because I'm not gonna go to meetings I'm not gonna travel and you know not not too much about paperwork so I would appoint as my vice president somebody who could immediately take over I mean the first day of the job I would just say hey vice president yeah I didn't really like this job anyway why don't you do it and I may or may not step down which would be optional I just say you know I'm not really into all this presidenting stuff frankly I'd rather do something else so I need a strong vice president so I think I'll pick back gates as my vice president he doesn't have to agree with this we'll just draft him and the theory is most most candidates pick a vice president who's sort of the weaker version of themselves so you're never confused about who the best person is from the top of that ticket you know mike pence very solid I think he's one of the best vice presidents just because he doesn't make mistakes but he's not as exciting as President Trump right so that's that's the right way to do it you want to just a solid vice president but in my case since I have no qualifications for the presidency whatsoever I would reverse that so I would pick a vice president who could actually do the job better than I could I figured Matt Gaetz has policies which are as far as I know almost completely compatible with mine and these are well known Republican so you might like him so I would draft him as my vice president and immediately put him in charge upon my election I don't think I'd like to do the actual work of course you know uh here are some some of the rest of my cabinets and pointees I would appoint Adam Townsend as governor of Greenland he might have to conquer it himself but I know how hard would that be do they even have weapons up there Mark Snyder of course Secretary of Energy carpe Noctem secretary Amin's obvious secretary defense I think Mike cirrage like so much Secretary of Defense under my administration of course navall Rove ACOG the secretary of higher awareness we got Balaji Street of us and maybe FDA well you can take his pick and of course you know jack boo Sabich probably wants to be Secretary of State but if there's something else you want you can have that too so that would be a an idea what my administration will look like all right one thing about this coronavirus thing is that it really shows you who is useful and who is useless and I saw a headline today that actor John Cusack is saying we should try again to impeach President Trump and I'm thinking to myself well I don't think you could design a more useless person if you wrote a movie script and said all right we're gonna read a movie we're gonna write a script and the script is about the most useless person in the universe what could be the most useless thing you could do in the middle of a crisis about impeach the president John Cusack if you're writing a movie script on how to be the most useless useless person in the universe you're on a good track all right here's a question for you that I would not have asked weeks ago so there's some indication and of course this is anecdotal some indication that the hydroxychloroquine if given early to people who have symptoms or even maybe before they do could be effective and there's some thinking again anecdotal it's not proven then it might be the most effective if you give it to them early on in the symptoms and then they won't progress to needing a ventilator so that's unproven but you know anecdotally that looks to be the case and so I asked myself is that the way we're testing it so we know that through a number of trials going on different drug trials but are we trialing hydroxychloroquine for people who are just getting symptoms or are we only testing it for people who are already in bad shape where there's some indication it could help but not nearly as much now again if this were a few weeks ago I would have said well obviously we're doing both duh you know if you're doing multiple drug trials you're gonna do the obvious ones so one trial where you give it to him early one trial where they get it later but you gonna try both of those things however having seen the massive and competence from our professionals so far here I'm talking about the World Health Organization the CDC our you know the Surgeon General telling us that masks are not a good idea when you knew they were so if we'd not just witnessed obvious and unambiguous massive lying and incompetence I would have said well you can count on the fact that they're doing the right kind of drug trial right but as of today I'm not so sure so this is something I would like a fact check on ideally the task force would tell us today is there every trial of the hydroxychloroquine that does not focus on people who are already bad off is there any trial of the people were taking it early I don't need results yet although I would think we might even have some preliminary results but are we not even testing that because there's part of me that's a little bit worried that we're not even fricken testing it and only because of the massive incompetence I've seen so far otherwise I wouldn't even question that so I'd like an answer on that today oh and in my tweet I'd said I said something that is medically probably a terrible idea which is that maybe people should be giving the azithromycin and the hydroxyl chloroquine before they have symptoms but somebody in the comments pointed out that if you're taking an antibiotic the is a thermos niacin part you might you might just cause the virus to become resistant so it probably doesn't make sense to take an antibiotic until you actually have symptoms but it might make sense and again this is a question not a statement to take the hydroxychloroquine ahead of any symptoms because that one's not a antibiotic per se all right so there are two problems with the pandemic models that I can see number one I mentioned last night in periscope if you're throwing the New York data in with the rest of the country data and then averaging it you get an average that doesn't mean anything because it's like averaging an apple and an orange you so really you should look at New York by itself as if it's the only country and the rest of the country because the rest of the country is not nearly as bad off so if you're projecting what's going to happen by throwing New York into the mix it's probably skewing the average in a way that's that is misleading and I think that's true I would need some confirmation but I think that's true but then some other smart people pointed out another problem with the model and this is a pretty big problem which is that the models say that after the after the end of the quarter the quarantine or the social distancing that our number of deaths will be way down and that's the good news you know that it would trend toward zero except the experts say what happens as soon as you stop doing social distancing the minute you stop it doesn't just go right back up in other words if the social distancing is doing nothing but delaying the bump you have exactly the same amount of deaths you just you just no no spreading around is a good thing in and of itself because of hospital capacity but does it affect the total number of people who died or is that just going to be the same because there's just nothing we can do in the next 18 months or however long it takes to get a vaccination that's a pretty good question and if you don't deal with that then any of these numbers about total number of people were gonna die or just nonsense because it's based on magic and the magic would be after the after the social distancing is over and everybody just goes back to work the magical assumption is that the pandemic doesn't just start right back in again exactly like it was why wouldn't it there's no reason to no one not a single reason that it wouldn't but here's the hope if we slow it down we can first of all it's a gigantic big deal to slow it down even if it's the same number of total deaths because you at least can you get your Hospital capacity a little bit more under control but maybe those other meds are a big difference to maybe we'll know more from the drug trials so I would say that it's a stalling technique to find out which of the meds work that feels like that's what that is and I don't think that's been explained so I think I'm explaining it to you better than the experts because you have to know what's what comes after what happens when everybody goes back to work if there's no plan for that there's no plan all right him so Balaji Srinivasan has this suggestion which I think it's pretty good we might be in sort of a semi-permanent world where we're face masks are going to be important so even after this pandemic passes we might have lots of future needs for face masks for you know a few weeks every year or something like that and so Balaji says well why don't we make them cool you know why don't you build some stuff into him I got a high-tech face mask maybe it's got your phone in there wouldn't you like to have a face mask I've always thought this would be a good idea like a high-tech face mask not not a cloth one but something more substantial where you could put some electronics in it whatever could you make one in which you could talk but only the the person on the phone and you've got a phone you know microphones in there but only the person on the phone could hear you so in other words could he be wearing a mask having a regular conversation with somebody on the phone through your mask but people in the room can just your remember you know a little murmur maybe it doesn't bother him so much yeah and maybe you could put some heads-up display you know some not virtual enhanced reality stuff so make it cool maybe all right let us compare what experts told you and when to what a cartoonist told you and when okay every day when that is good to say well how did the experts do compared to the non experts and that doesn't mean that the very next time you should only listen to the experts or only listen to the not experts really this is just one data point but every now and then you should stop and say all right how did the experts do just sort of keep a running tally so you know when to be skeptical or what not to let me give you some examples who was the first expert who said we should close the airports the flights from China was it the violinist or was it me it was me it was me so I was way before the experts saying we should close flights from China right I mean you could check that January 24th but was there anybody before me who was an expert I'm not aware of any I'm aware of a jackdaw Sabich said it before me that we should close the borders and he's not a biologist so just on that one scale of should we close the airports I would say the experts were following the non experts and you can verify that I mean there might be some expert who's saying it before me but check that how about the question of whether masks were useful or not useful in the pandemic who said first that masks are probably useful because duh was that the experts the CDC the World Health Organization your Surgeon General and your task force was it them or was it me the answer is me way before the experts admitted it I told you Basques clearly obviously duh make some difference and now the experts pretty much are all agree all right so I was before the experts on closing the airports before the experts on the efficacy of masks where did you first hear in public that hydroxychloroquine the malaria drug might be useful if taken early now I'm not the person who invented that idea of course that did come from the experts but where did you hear it first probably from me right no some of you might have heard it from somewhere else but probably most of you heard it from me now again that doesn't make me right or wrong we still have to test it and who knows if it'll work or not but it's very important part of the conversation everybody agrees with that and you probably heard it first for me at least the people watching this periscope what about convalescent blood therapy where was the first place you heard of that as something they could work well it's an old technique so there are people who were aware of it and and certainly you know in small groups and maybe in small ways we're talking about it but I'll bet you heard it first for me now I didn't make it up I heard it from from Ian whose last name I can never pronounce you know you re and you're probably watching but that probably you probably heard that from non-experts before you heard that from experts alright here's another one experts are telling me that it might be dangerous to give people these malaria pills the hydroxyl color queen before they have symptoms and the reasoning is that under certain conditions if you have heart issues I guess it may be something else that the pills could kill you all right so that's what the experts are saying in fact even this morning a medical expert told me this said you don't want to give these just everybody willy nilly because the pills themselves could kill people and we know that if sir they have certain conditions to which I say to the experts was that a problem when you prescribe here for lupus what you do every day is that a problem when you prescribe it for rheumatoid arthritis which you do every day is that a problem when you prescribe it for malaria before people even have malaria every day so experts why are you telling me that this is a problem when it's something that's been done for four decades for other conditions and of course you have exactly the same warning it doesn't matter if you're getting it for lupus or malaria or rheumatoid arthritis it's gonna come from a doctor and the doctor is gonna say do you have one of these conditions if you say yes maybe you don't get it if you say no maybe you get it it's no different than all the other uses so who would you listen to the doctors and the experts who say I don't know this pill could be dangerous or the non expert who is telling you yeah it could be dangerous we know that it's no different than every other use who are you gonna believe me or the doctors I would go with me honestly I would all right here's another one how much DNA testing is being done of the people who have the worst outcomes versus the ones who do not is anybody doing that which expert is telling you yeah we better to start testing DNA and get ahead of this and find out if there's anything about some people that makes them more susceptible I'm not aware of any are you do you think a month from now that nobody will be testing DNA to do exactly what I just said find out who's most susceptible I guarantee it in a month your experts will be saying hey I got an idea why don't we test for DNA now again this isn't like my original idea I got this from people who are smarter and work in this field but you probably heard it from me right so here's my point even though I'm not you know I'm not the original creator of anything any of the stuff I told you except you know the mask stuff was obvious I'm not the creator of it so I'm not the original expert for it but where are you hearing it from if your experts have a lot of knowledge but they're not telling you that knowledge or that you're telling you the opposite of that knowledge it doesn't really help you that they have that knowledge you also need to be communicating it accurately so I would say if you're looking at this whole situation and you were being even a little bit objective and you said who gave you better information about this medical situation it would be me I'm not even a little bit unconfident about that opinion right I think you'd agree all right I am let's see what else we got going on here I've come up with an idea that's it's a little half-baked and maybe somebody can help me with this you know that my startup created its own crypto token lots of people did this in the past but once you create a crypto token it just sort of lives forever you know you don't have to close it or do anything you create the token and it just lives in the internet forever and I don't think he can ever change I suppose anything could happen so the when is a token that exists on the Internet and will live forever no matter what you do but like most crypto currencies you know its value starts out optimistically and then it you know drops until it becomes vanishingly small I don't even know what it is at the moment but here's my idea you know most the reason that dollar bills are valuable is that the government backs them you know the The Full Faith and guarantee of the government is what makes your US dollar worth thing because you know that if everything else went wrong at least the government would take it when you pay your taxes so there's always a market for a dollar if only the government collecting taxes but with cryptocurrency if you can't guarantee that someone will ever want one then it's the value just to zero so here's my idea I'm going to peg the value of the when to one roll of toilet paper so that one roll of toilet paper will become the the backing now here's the part I haven't quite figured out have to be able to figure out some way that you could legitimately trade some when and actually get a roll of toilet paper and actually you actually get a roll of toilet paper somebody says worst periscope ever well you will have to ever listen to another one good for you so if anybody can figure out how to do that like maybe it would require an actual warehouse full of toilet paper and so here's the other part of the deal you could distribute the wet which at the moment is worth nothing virtually nothing and to poor people and then all the poor people would say oh I've got these cryptocurrencies but it's not worth anything and then a big toilet paper company could say we're gonna peg the when to you know a roll of toilet paper it will actually mail it to you so if you you know send us some of the when we'll send you some rolls of toilet paper the moment there was an exchange so that you knew that a when could be exchanged for actual real toilet paper the winner would have would have value and the moment it has value all the poor people who got some would suddenly have money because they wouldn't have to use it for toilet paper they could trade it to someone else who didn't need toilet paper now this is a half-baked idea I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with this and how practical is it you need some big toilet maker with a toilet paper maker with a warehouse to sort of back it but I think it would make a whole bunch of poor people or at least give them enough to buy food you just distribute them a bunch of when because we got lots of them they're not doing anything and just turn it into money by by backing it with toilet paper so somebody tell me why that's a bad idea all right I put a survey up on the Internet in which I asked the following provocative question do you think China will kill more people with which of the following methods will they kill more people with fentanyl because of course they allow their dealers to send it to the cartels who turn it into fentanyl pills and it kills Americans including my stepson so that's that could be 40 to 70 thousand Americans per year so will they kill more people with fentanyl and keep in mind this is all intentional because the government of China could stop that anytime they want they know they actually know who the fentanyl dealers are given 60 minutes interviewed one of the top ones the top one so if 60 minutes can find you in China I'm pretty sure the government knows who you are too so that's one number the coronavirus well we don't know yet you know could be 200,000 dead could be 2 million that could get up there pretty fast how about climate change if China is the biggest contributor to climate change what would the green New Deal people say in terms of the number of people who will die because of China specifically now of course it takes everybody polluting to get the resilient you got but if one of them is the biggest polluter you could probably say well a quarter of the deaths are attributed to China or something like that right so how many would that be how many people do we think will die from climate change over the next 100 years and would let's say 25 percent of those deaths be attributed to China that's the question how about the organ transplants so as you know it's alleged with high credibility that they use prisoners probably political prisoners and they they kill them on demand to sell their organs to people who are buying their organs from both from China from other countries now because of the corona virus a lot of people are gonna have their lungs destroyed there's already information that China may be executing prisoners just to take their lumps and hearts and translate them into people who would be willing to pay for it because I can't apparently people will pay a lot for an organ so how many how many we Gersh and flown goon followed Fallone flown gong whatever that is how many dissidents and political prisoners will be used for parts will that kill more of them than fentanyl or a corona virus or climate change I don't know so that's the question now a suggestion that I've heard a few times is that for every American death caused by China we should check out of the country and the Chinese citizens that are for example going to our universities apparently that's a big deal for Chinese elites to send their kids to American universities the Ivy League's so that would hurt quite a bit because the elite really have a pretty big incentive to send their kids to American high end at colleges so you can just say it's nothing personal it's just nothing personal we're just gonna go in alphabetical order and we're just gonna send one student home for every death and we could just do it weekly batch him up and say okay well it was a thousand fentanyl deaths and we think you know 400 people died from corona virus so we'll send back 1400 Chinese citizens who are using this country for variety things it could be rich people who just have houses here you know we could send them back and confiscate their houses we could take their stock so if they owned any any assets of the United States we could just say alright well no it's nothing personal we're just doing this enough Medical order and literally just start with a they just start sending them back in alphabetical order and the thinking here would be if your letter if your a letter F you know if you if your last name in China starts with an F and you're watching the A's go home and then the B's go home then the C's go home well the elites who are a letter F and Beyond are gonna say holy cow they're not kidding about this my kid is gonna be sent home from Stanford MIT Harvard wherever and that's it they're not gonna have a Harvard education he's just come come home so would they start saying maybe we should not be sending fentanyl to the United States with the elites saying look this is now bad for me it was okay when it was only bad for dead Americans I didn't care you said the Chinese elite but now it's affecting me so maybe we should rethink it because I want my kid to go to about Ivy League school so I think if we were to do this we should do it by formula and it would be cold and effective to just do it in alphabetical order because alphabetical order is such a strong message that it's not personal because it isn't has nothing to do with the individuals who are getting kicked down there's nothing to do with that it's just it's just numbers and if you want to keep killing US China well we'll just send one home we're not even killing yours I mean it's I would say that would be a mild response when you for every person they kill all we're gonna do is send somebody home that's a pretty mild response I don't even think that that's extreme so we could be doing that my CTO from my startup dick Kalyani is he was trying to figure out a way to to help things with the coronavirus and so he's using his technical technical expertise to put together a virtual online summit for blockchain development ideally for you know at least the primary purpose right now is for any apps that might use the blockchain they would have some immediate health care and/or coronavirus solution so it's a it's a general platform for people who want to learn a little bit more about blockchain development for the purpose of developing some kind of a useful app now it doesn't have to be for that purpose you could just go there for general information but I tweeted it in my list of online online sources so it's a pin tweet that has all the different links to different things I'll talk about those in a minute but one of them is the block co-ed online summit so if you if you can't find the link just google google block co vid online summit and or you could go to at block ovid and you'll see the links and stuff alright so I I tweeted and it's I said it's pinned to my account I asked for people to put in links to various apps and websites and stuff that would be useful for the crisis so some of the ones I know about just to just to tell you what's going on so besides the one I just mentioned there's the project n95 comm where buyers and sellers of this PPE can find each other so that's a good one there's a one I put on there and again you can find the actual links on my pinned tweet there's link to some people where you can take your temperature every day just on your own and then you enter into the into the app of the website your temperature and the idea is that as anybody gets elevated temperatures you might be able to identify hot zones so you know if you found that let's say the people in my zip code suddenly started to you know inch up in temperature maybe you got a problem there so those are just some of the many ideas and a lot of people have submitted links for that so go take go take a look at that alright by the way if you're wondering why you would use blockchain as to other technologies for any kind of apps some of the advantages are that it's a distributed system so you don't need to build a database the other data just lives distributed in the Internet some of it is privacy something that is it's easier to do things across borders so you don't have to worry about the the banking regulations etc if you're just moving you know blockchain and tokens and stuff the governments are too involved in that so those are some of the benefits I'm no expert all right here is the question which is so missing which is this here's a question for the reporters today for the task force you ready I'm pretty sure that there are some reporters who watch these periscopes and here's what I'd suggest as a question for the next press conference mr.

president and mr.

vice president are you already taking hydroxychloroquine are the members of the task force who by the nature of their job do have to sort of need in rooms and they can do their social distancing but I'm pretty sure the president is not saying six feet away from people I just don't know if it's even practical for him to do his job so the question I would ask is are they already on hydroxychloroquine and why not why not right if you don't see that question yesterday I will be amazed because as soon as you hear the question you say to yourself oh yeah you got to ask that question you know because it's a yes or no and we'd like to know etc here's the related question are we aware of anyone in the United States who is a medical professional who is taking the hydroxychloroquine in advance of an infection in other words just in case who also went on to have to be on the ventilator even one is there any even one person who fits that description now this is not a scientific study obviously but I am assuming that by now we have many thousands of healthcare workers who probably anecdotally we're hearing reports of this probably are taking it prophylactically in other words in advance of having a problem so if we have thousands of health care workers and we know that some number of them unfortunately are going to get infected no doubt about it because they're just they're just too close to it all the time so of the people who got the infection who were also taking the drug before they got the infection do we have even one case where it progressed to needing a ventilator because enough time is going by right where if that number is zero it's still not a it's not a scientific test you can't take it to the bank but I'd feel a lot better wouldn't you I'd feel a lot better if I knew that that number was zero and if it turns out it's 1 or 2 or whatever then I'd start asking you know where their underlying under any underlying issues so those are the main things happening today I was somebody there says they're taking a low dose you know I don't know if that's a good idea because then that's how you get into the hoarding too - yeah as has Chris Cuomo said yet if he's what what meds if any he's taking that would be a that'd be a good case by the way my hats off to Chris Cuomo I hope that he continues working even as he has symptoms and I realized that you know that would be people are gonna say that's kind of showboating you know if he's coughing and trying to get through his interviews and stuff but on the other hand it's real you know it's not showboating if it's real and if it's real and he's willing to keep working I would be very interested in watching that programming I've told you before that watching Chris Cuomo interview his brother the governor of you ork is some of the best there's just some of the best TV around I mean it's just fascinating to watch that so I'd like to keep see them so best of luck to Chris Cuomo for a speedy recovery but I hope that you stick with us and let us let us see the whole process and I hope it turns out well alright that's about all I got here not a fan of Scott but would vote for Scott just on the weed thing yeah that's what I promise I'll get the federal government ahead of the weed business states will still get to make some decisions but I would get the federal government down and by the way I'm pretty sure that Matt Gaetz would do the same so if you wanted to know what my policies would look like I haven't I haven't matched them but I've kind of feeling that Matt Gaetz oh that would be really really close a lot of stuff from you know how do you address the green new deal to health care to weed I think a lot of them are going to be really close I haven't checked but I think so yeah I've heard of people who I know one person who hasn't got it in a test result it's been almost two weeks so this is somebody who actually you know waited waited and got the test had the rice symptoms to get the test and two weeks are going by without a result two weeks now I don't Scott running out of gas are you talking about me or or the world somebody says the antibiotics helped with a secondary infection yeah so the reason that people take the malaria drug plus the user through Meissen is if they do get the the virus the azithromycin helps with the infection part whereas the malaria drug sort of prevents it from from your body from going nuts and then the zinc has some some benefit too let's see what about screws ships oh let me talk about an idea I'm not sure if I totally understand this but somebody on the internet was suggesting that if we don't have a better plan that that there's sort of an emergency back-up plan so we hope we'll have a better plan that would have you know therapeutics and vaccines sooner than we think and you know stuff like that but maybe maybe not so the other plan is to put people in let's say put them in a hotel or put them in a cruise ship or put them in someplace that they're only together and they don't leave with the idea of intentionally infecting them so the idea would be to put groups clusters of people who volunteered to say living in an apartment or a hotel or some some identified space with the with the express intention of infecting them but to also infect them lightly so that they don't get the the full dose which apparently makes a big difference if you're just marinating in the virus it will take over your immune system pretty quickly and you're in bad shape if you get a little trace of the virus and your your immune system gets a little bit of warning before the virus gets too big then then it's a fair fight so there seems to be a big difference whether you get it early or whether you get a little bit of dose or a big dose even though both of them can infect you so the idea would be to give people intentional small doses treating them early I assume that this part I might be adding to the idea but let's say you give them the hydroxychloroquine if that works and it works when you get it early so you would build a group of people who all have immunity and then once they've all tested positive but they don't have you know it doesn't look like they have they would spread it then you just release them into the wild and you've created a whole bunch of immune people and then you just do it again with another batch now would that work or would that just spread the disease everywhere I don't know you know it definitely falls into the category of if you don't have a better idea maybe you try it so it doesn't sound like the safest thing in the world for a variety reasons but what we're doing now might not be the safest thing in the world either let's see just looking at your comments some of them I don't want to read out loud because a lot of you have medical opinions and I'm not sure I want to randomly spout the medical opinions I'm seeing in the comments even if they're right somebody says this is the concept of a vaccine well not exactly because the vaccine would be a non non deadly version you can't be a little bit pregnant actually you can yeah with the virus apparently you can be a little bit pregnant meaning that you could have a low initial viral load versus Island oh no on the same point there was a story it was the vent of Washington state where there was a choir who decided to hold their choir practice despite the fact that the corona virus was becoming a bigger thing but the state had not yet told people not to meet in groups so I was right at the end of when you could still meet it in a group and they did and the problem was they had to require practice of course all in the same room and I think there was something like 45 of them who ended up with the virus and the thinking which sounds logical to me is not just that they were in the same room and not just that they did not do social isolation they you know they were close to each other but there was some thinking that some thinking that the singing itself might have been contributing meaning that if you sing you're exhaling more aggressively and you're all standing together exhaling aggressively because you're singing so that might have been the very worst situation you could possibly imagine we're a bunch of people with no face masks are exhaling air in the same splay at space for a couple hours I mean it probably couldn't have been worse and sure enough the the results that show it all right yeah there's a navy carrier with with a bunch of infected people on it so we'll probably learn something from that as bad as that is I just saw a mess and saw an article that DMD s can leave you with stronger resistance I don't know what a DMD is how are you certain that the virus is not in the surface of cans of food restocked why some it is I assume it is so everything has to be seen as as statistics and following the odds the odds of getting the virus if you're in a chorus that meets in one room and all sings really loudly in exhales seems to be very high so don't do that the the odds of getting there from intense personal interaction with somebody has it very high so don't do that but the odds of getting it because you took a walk in the park it's possible right I guess because they say it can float around in the air and who knows you stop and pet a dog and it's on the dog so could you get it from a walk in the park by yourself the answer is I guess you know maybe but the odds of getting it that way are so low that that would not be really contributing much to the viral spread in other words it's the only way anybody ever got it was taking a walk in the park it would not reproduce fast enough to be viral so that's not the kind of risk that I wouldn't avoid because taking walks good for you too likewise your question was how can you be sure it's not on the the cans of food or the food itself and the answer is it probably is somewhere in some grocery store I'm sure it's on something I mean the odds of that seem like a hundred percent somewhere in the whole supply chain but what are the odds that you're gonna get it that way so let's say you you know your bag your groceries is delivered to you and you you know you open it up and you take things out you put them away but you make sure you don't touch your face maybe you're wearing a mask when you do it and you immediately thoroughly wash your hands after you've touched everything do you then need to go back and swab everything down you know like all your cans and wash with soap your your vegetables and stuff like that well it would probably help but I'm not going to do it because the way I'm gonna play the odds is you know if something has a 90 percent chance of giving it to me like attending a choir practice I'm not going to do that if something has a maybe a 1 percent chance of giving it to me I'll probably still do that and if everybody acted that way and they avoided the 90% chance of getting it but they did do the things that would give you a 1% chance of doing it we'd still be ok because it would bring the the rate of reproduction down below giving it you know one person make you more than one person sick so you can't reduce your risk to zero from your groceries you can do the obvious stuff watch your hands throw away the bag throw away the bags from watch your hands but I don't know that the risk is so big then I would worry about that too much now Here I am NOT giving you my personal medical opinion I am imitating a doctor who's working on the front lines who said in his experience she's now dealt with I don't know how many hundreds of patients that they all know where they got it basically not all of them not a hundred percent but mostly they know where they got it and they got it from a person and they got it from a person that they interacted with what he's not seeing is people coming in and saying I have no idea where I got it because I've been socially isolating and just taking walks so he's now seeing that and those people of course are handling you know groceries because they have to eat so if it's happening it's it's not happening a lot I think we're safely we can say that yeah even the garbage man and you know all that but my guess is that all the outdoor stuff is just not going to be your big problem I wouldn't use a water fountain but that's about it yeah somebody has 90 year olds in the house so you wipe it all down yeah you know if you got people who are at special risk then maybe you want to take it to another level if if only to make you feel better I mean if it makes you feel better it's worth it if you have the time yeah all right don't want to give up my reusable bags and here are you cutting your own air now well that's a good question because you know what I thought this was just gonna be a few weeks I thought well you know there's a whole bunch of stuff you can put off for a few weeks but a haircut is not something you put off for two months if you're me anyway so I'm gonna have to cut my own hair it looks like that's coming up I don't see anybody in person that's not gonna make that much of a difference stock market predictions yeah the stock market will be spotty and choppy and we'll just stay spotty and choppy for a long time so you're gonna have you know days when it's up five percent days when it's down five percent you're gonna have some stocks doing well well something to do do poorly but in the long run the a broad basket of stocks of the United States is probably gonna be among your safest investments I don't give financial advice and so you should not consider that financial advice but if you're warren buffett and somebody said what should i do i think he tell you the same thing which is i think you tell you there are no guarantees but if you wanted to look historically and even based on current situation what country is the safe place to park your money probably the United States and if you get a park it in the United States what's the safest asset class to put it in probably a broad-based the basket of you know the bigger stocks in the United States probably so that's all I got for now and I will talk to you later tonight you don't a time 10 10:00 p.m.

Eastern 7:00 p.m.

Pacific and I will I will see you then I hope so stay safe everything's under control

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taenia simple go mmm I can feel the

death rates starting to decline already

because that's how fast it works well

the big news of the day is of course I'm

announcing my candidacy for President of

the United States effective today now

there are some caveats the caveats are

important number one I'm not going to

fill out any paperwork so if any of

that's necessary to be on the ballot can

somebody figure that out for me maybe if

there's something I have to sign I could

do that but I'm not really into the

paperwork so I'll been somebody else can

take care of that but here's the deal

I'm not going to be running as a primary

candidate meaning not your first choice

I'm going to be running as a backup

choice so if you liked let's say

president Trump's job performance and

he's running and I'm running you should

vote for him

that would be my first choice state oh

you should vote for him if that's this

if you like it what he's done and you

think he's better than the alternatives

and even if you think I'm better than

him

you should still vote for him all right

so if Trump is in the race and he's

healthy and he's doing a good job or at

least as good as he's done so far

you should definitely vote for him you

should give me no votes but we're in

very unchartered territory and

November's a long ways away people over

70 are not guaranteed to be healthy by

November some percentage of people over

70 in the president's over 70 may have

some health difficulties between now

November plus anything could happen you

know perhaps the president does

something that even these supporters

don't like hasn't happened yet but it

could happen so here's the deal

Democrats are not running a backup

option because it looks like it's gonna

be Joe Biden and he's not really a

backup option forget about the policies

he's just simply not capable of

functioning in that or any other job you

wouldn't hire him to be a barista at

Starbucks would you I don't think you

would I mean quite seriously you

wouldn't so in normal times your

emergency backup president would be just

whoever's running than the other party

but right now we don't have an emergency

backup so I will be your Joe Biden or

emergency backup if you're a Democrat

and you don't want to vote for Trump

well you could vote for me that would

make sense the Biden was not going to

win anyway so you know give it a shot

I promise you that if if I get elected I

will make a plan for covering everybody

with health care but it'll be more of a

capitalist plan to get there may not be

on day one so if you're a Democrat and

you want to improve health care and you

don't really have a candidate because

Joe Biden really isn't one then you

think Trump isn't quite what you need

well I'd probably be a little bit better

on healthcare so far for me but if

you're Republican just vote for Trump

now in the unlikely event that Trump is

I though maybe he retires or he's

unavailable or something happens here

would be the people I would nominate for

my administration just so you know

what's ahead first of all I would need a

good vice president because I would plan

to work from home and I don't do

meetings so might not be the best

president because I'm not gonna go to

meetings I'm not gonna travel and you

know not not too much about paperwork so

I would appoint as my vice president

somebody who could immediately take over

I mean the first day of the job I would

just say hey vice president yeah I

didn't really like this job anyway why

don't you do it and I may or may not

step down which would be optional I just

say you know I'm not really into all

this presidenting stuff frankly I'd

rather do something else so I need a

strong vice president so I think I'll

pick back gates as my vice president he

doesn't have to agree with this we'll

just draft him and the theory is most

most candidates pick a vice president

who's sort of the weaker version of

themselves so you're never confused

about who the best person is from the

top of that ticket you know mike pence

very solid I think he's one of the best

vice presidents just because he doesn't

make mistakes but he's not as exciting

as President Trump right so that's

that's the right way to do it you want

to just a solid vice president but in my

case since I have no qualifications for

the presidency whatsoever

I would reverse that so I would pick a

vice president who could actually do the

job better than I could I figured Matt

Gaetz

has policies which are as far as I know

almost completely compatible with mine

and these are well known Republican so

you might like him so I would draft him

as my vice president and immediately put

him in charge upon my election

I don't think I'd like to do the actual

work of course you know uh here are some

some of the rest of my cabinets and

pointees I would appoint Adam Townsend

as governor of Greenland he might have

to conquer it himself but I know how

hard would that be do they even have

weapons up there Mark Snyder of course

Secretary of Energy carpe Noctem

secretary Amin's obvious secretary

defense I think Mike cirrage like so

much Secretary of Defense under my

administration of course navall Rove

ACOG the secretary of higher awareness

we got Balaji Street of us and maybe FDA

well you can take his pick and of course

you know jack boo Sabich probably wants

to be Secretary of State but if there's

something else you want you can have

that too so that would be a an idea what

my administration will look like all

right one thing about this coronavirus

thing is that it really shows you who is

useful and who is useless

and I saw a headline today that actor

John Cusack is saying we should try

again to impeach President Trump and I'm

thinking to myself well I don't think

you could design a more useless person

if you wrote a movie script and said all

right we're gonna read a movie

we're gonna write a script and the

script is about the most useless person

in the universe what could be the most

useless thing you could do in the middle

of a crisis about impeach the president

John Cusack

if you're writing a movie script on how

to be the most useless useless person in

the universe you're on a good track

all right here's a question for you that

I would not have asked weeks ago so

there's some indication and of course

this is anecdotal some indication that

the hydroxychloroquine if given early to

people who have symptoms or even maybe

before they do could be effective and

there's some thinking again anecdotal

it's not proven then it might be the

most effective

if you give it to them early on in the

symptoms and then they won't progress to

needing a ventilator

so that's unproven but you know

anecdotally that looks to be the case

and so I asked myself is that the way

we're testing it so we know that through

a number of trials going on different

drug trials but are we trialing

hydroxychloroquine for people who are

just getting symptoms or are we only

testing it for people who are already in

bad shape where there's some indication

it could help but not nearly as much now

again if this were a few weeks ago I

would have said well obviously we're

doing both duh you know if you're doing

multiple drug trials you're gonna do the

obvious ones

so one trial where you give it to him

early one trial where they get it later

but you gonna try both of those things

however having seen the massive and

competence from our professionals so far

here I'm talking about the World Health

Organization the CDC our you know the

Surgeon General telling us that masks

are not a good idea when you knew they

were so if we'd not just witnessed

obvious and unambiguous massive lying

and incompetence I would have said well

you can count on the fact that they're

doing the right kind of drug trial right

but as of today I'm not so sure so this

is something I would like a fact check

on ideally the task force would tell us

today is there every trial of the

hydroxychloroquine that does not focus

on people who are already bad off is

there any trial of the people were

taking it early I don't need results yet

although I would think we might even

have some preliminary results but are we

not even testing that because there's

part of me that's a little bit worried

that we're not even fricken testing it

and only because of the massive

incompetence I've seen so far otherwise

I wouldn't even question that

so I'd like an answer on that today oh

and in my tweet I'd said I said

something that is medically probably a

terrible idea which is that maybe people

should be giving the azithromycin and

the hydroxyl chloroquine before they

have symptoms but somebody in the

comments pointed out that if you're

taking an antibiotic the is a thermos

niacin part you might you might just

cause the virus to become resistant so

it probably doesn't make sense to take

an antibiotic until you actually have

symptoms but it might make sense and

again this is a question not a statement

to take the hydroxychloroquine ahead of

any symptoms because that one's not a

antibiotic per se all right so there are

two problems with the pandemic models

that I can see number one I mentioned

last night in periscope if you're

throwing the New York data in with the

rest of the country data and then

averaging it you get an average that

doesn't mean anything because it's like

averaging an apple and an orange you so

really you should look at New York by

itself as if it's the only country and

the rest of the country because the rest

of the country is not nearly as bad off

so if you're projecting what's going to

happen by throwing New York into the mix

it's probably skewing the average in a

way that's that is misleading and I

think that's true I would need some

confirmation but I think that's true but

then some other smart people pointed out

another problem with the model and this

is a pretty big problem which is that

the models say that after the after the

end of the quarter the quarantine or the

social distancing that our number of

deaths will be way down and that's the

good news you know that it would trend

toward zero except the experts say what

happens as soon as you stop doing social

distancing the minute you stop it

doesn't just go right back up in other

words if the social distancing is doing

nothing but delaying the bump you have

exactly the same amount of deaths you

just you just

no no spreading around is a good thing

in and of itself because of hospital

capacity but does it affect the total

number of people who died or is that

just going to be the same because

there's just nothing we can do in the

next 18 months or however long it takes

to get a vaccination that's a pretty

good question and if you don't deal with

that then any of these numbers about

total number of people were gonna die or

just nonsense because it's based on

magic and the magic would be after the

after the social distancing is over and

everybody just goes back to work the

magical assumption is that the pandemic

doesn't just start right back in again

exactly like it was why wouldn't it

there's no reason to no one not a single

reason that it wouldn't but here's the

hope if we slow it down we can first of

all it's a gigantic big deal to slow it

down even if it's the same number of

total deaths because you at least can

you get your Hospital capacity a little

bit more under control

but maybe those other meds are a big

difference to maybe we'll know more from

the drug trials so I would say that it's

a stalling technique to find out which

of the meds work that feels like that's

what that is

and I don't think that's been explained

so I think I'm explaining it to you

better than the experts because you have

to know what's what comes after what

happens when everybody goes back to work

if there's no plan for that there's no

plan all right him so Balaji Srinivasan

has this suggestion which I think it's

pretty good we might be in sort of a

semi-permanent world where we're face

masks are going to be important so even

after this pandemic passes we might have

lots of future needs for face masks for

you know a few weeks every year or

something like that and so Balaji says

well why don't we make them cool you

know why don't you build some stuff into

him I got a high-tech face mask maybe

it's got your phone in there wouldn't

you like to have a face mask I've always

thought this would be a good idea like a

high-tech face mask not

not a cloth one but something more

substantial where you could put some

electronics in it whatever could you

make one in which you could talk but

only the the person on the phone and

you've got a phone

you know microphones in there but only

the person on the phone could hear you

so in other words could he be wearing a

mask having a regular conversation with

somebody on the phone through your mask

but people in the room can just your

remember you know a little murmur maybe

it doesn't bother him so much yeah and

maybe you could put some heads-up

display

you know some not virtual enhanced

reality stuff so make it cool

maybe all right let us compare what

experts told you and when to what a

cartoonist told you and when okay every

day when that is good to say well how

did the experts do compared to the non

experts and that doesn't mean that the

very next time you should only listen to

the experts or only listen to the not

experts really this is just one data

point but every now and then you should

stop and say all right how did the

experts do just sort of keep a running

tally so you know when to be skeptical

or what not to let me give you some

examples who was the first expert who

said we should close the airports the

flights from China was it the violinist

or was it me it was me it was me so I

was way before the experts saying we

should close flights from China right I

mean you could check that January 24th

but was there anybody before me who was

an expert I'm not aware of any I'm aware

of a jackdaw Sabich said it before me

that we should close the borders and

he's not a biologist so just on that one

scale of should we close the airports I

would say the experts were following the

non experts and you can verify that I

mean there might be some expert who's

saying it before me but check that

how about the question of whether masks

were useful or not useful in the

pandemic who said first that masks are

probably useful because duh was that the

experts the CDC the World Health

Organization your Surgeon General and

your task force was it them or was it me

the answer is me way before the experts

admitted it I told you Basques clearly

obviously duh make some difference and

now the experts pretty much are all

agree all right so I was before the

experts on closing the airports before

the experts on the efficacy of masks

where did you first hear in public that

hydroxychloroquine the malaria drug

might be useful if taken early now I'm

not the person who invented that idea of

course that did come from the experts

but where did you hear it first probably

from me right no some of you might have

heard it from somewhere else but

probably most of you heard it from me

now again that doesn't make me right or

wrong we still have to test it and who

knows if it'll work or not but it's very

important part of the conversation

everybody agrees with that and you

probably heard it first for me at least

the people watching this periscope

what about convalescent blood therapy

where was the first place you heard of

that as something they could work well

it's an old technique so there are

people who were aware of it and and

certainly you know in small groups and

maybe in small ways we're talking about

it but I'll bet you heard it first for

me now I didn't make it up I heard it

from from Ian whose last name I can

never pronounce you know you re and

you're probably watching but that

probably you probably heard that from

non-experts before you heard that from

experts alright here's another one

experts are telling me that it might be

dangerous to give people these malaria

pills the hydroxyl color queen before

they have symptoms

and the reasoning is that under certain

conditions if you have heart issues I

guess it may be something else that the

pills could kill you all right so that's

what the experts are saying in fact even

this morning a medical expert told me

this said you don't want to give these

just everybody willy nilly because the

pills themselves could kill people and

we know that if sir they have certain

conditions to which I say to the experts

was that a problem when you prescribe

here for lupus what you do every day is

that a problem when you prescribe it for

rheumatoid arthritis which you do every

day is that a problem when you prescribe

it for malaria before people even have

malaria every day so experts why are you

telling me that this is a problem when

it's something that's been done for four

decades for other conditions and of

course you have exactly the same warning

it doesn't matter if you're getting it

for lupus or malaria or rheumatoid

arthritis it's gonna come from a doctor

and the doctor is gonna say do you have

one of these conditions if you say yes

maybe you don't get it if you say no

maybe you get it it's no different than

all the other uses so who would you

listen to the doctors and the experts

who say I don't know this pill could be

dangerous or the non expert who is

telling you yeah it could be dangerous

we know that it's no different than

every other use who are you gonna

believe me or the doctors I would go

with me honestly I would all right

here's another one how much DNA testing

is being done of the people who have the

worst outcomes versus the ones who do

not is anybody doing that which expert

is telling you yeah we better to start

testing DNA and get ahead of this and

find out if there's anything about some

people that makes them more susceptible

I'm not aware of any are you do you

think a month from now that nobody will

be testing DNA to do exactly what I just

said find out who's most susceptible

I guarantee it in a month your experts

will be saying hey I got an idea why

don't we test for DNA now again this

isn't like my original idea I got this

from people who are smarter and work in

this field but you probably heard it

from me right so here's my point even

though I'm not you know I'm not the

original creator of anything any of the

stuff I told you except you know the

mask stuff was obvious I'm not the

creator of it so I'm not the original

expert for it but where are you hearing

it from if your experts have a lot of

knowledge but they're not telling you

that knowledge or that you're telling

you the opposite of that knowledge it

doesn't really help you that they have

that knowledge you also need to be

communicating it accurately so I would

say if you're looking at this whole

situation and you were being even a

little bit objective and you said who

gave you better information about this

medical situation it would be me I'm not

even a little bit unconfident about that

opinion right I think you'd agree all

right I am let's see what else we got

going on here I've come up with an idea

that's it's a little half-baked and

maybe somebody can help me with this you

know that my startup created its own

crypto token lots of people did this in

the past but once you create a crypto

token it just sort of lives forever

you know you don't have to close it or

do anything you create the token and it

just lives in the internet forever and I

don't think he can ever change I suppose

anything could happen

so the when is a token that exists on

the Internet and will live forever no

matter what you do but like most crypto

currencies you know its value starts out

optimistically and then it you know

drops until it becomes vanishingly small

I don't even know what it is at the

moment but here's my idea you know most

the reason that dollar bills are

valuable is that the government backs

them you know the The Full Faith and

guarantee of the government is what

makes your US dollar worth

thing because you know that if

everything else went wrong at least the

government would take it when you pay

your taxes so there's always a market

for a dollar if only the government

collecting taxes but with cryptocurrency

if you can't guarantee that someone will

ever want one then it's the value just

to zero so here's my idea I'm going to

peg the value of the when to one roll of

toilet paper so that one roll of toilet

paper will become the the backing now

here's the part I haven't quite figured

out have to be able to figure out some

way that you could legitimately trade

some when and actually get a roll of

toilet paper and actually you actually

get a roll of toilet paper

somebody says worst periscope ever well

you will have to ever listen to another

one good for you so if anybody can

figure out how to do that like maybe it

would require an actual warehouse full

of toilet paper and so here's the other

part of the deal you could distribute

the wet which at the moment is worth

nothing virtually nothing and to poor

people and then all the poor people

would say oh I've got these

cryptocurrencies but it's not worth

anything and then a big toilet paper

company could say we're gonna peg the

when to you know a roll of toilet paper

it will actually mail it to you so if

you you know send us some of the when

we'll send you some rolls of toilet

paper the moment there was an exchange

so that you knew that a when could be

exchanged for actual real toilet paper

the winner would have would have value

and the moment it has value all the poor

people who got some would suddenly have

money because they wouldn't have to use

it for toilet paper they could trade it

to someone else who didn't need toilet

paper now this is a half-baked idea I'm

pretty sure there's something wrong with

this and how practical is it you need

some big toilet maker with a toilet

paper maker with a warehouse to sort of

back it but I think it would make a

whole bunch of poor people

or at least give them enough to buy food

you just distribute them a bunch of when

because we got lots of them they're not

doing anything and just turn it into

money by by backing it with toilet paper

so somebody tell me why that's a bad

idea all right

I put a survey up on the Internet in

which I asked the following provocative

question do you think China will kill

more people with which of the following

methods will they kill more people with

fentanyl because of course they allow

their dealers to send it to the cartels

who turn it into fentanyl pills and it

kills Americans including my stepson so

that's that could be 40 to 70 thousand

Americans per year so will they kill

more people with fentanyl and keep in

mind this is all intentional because the

government of China could stop that

anytime they want they know they

actually know who the fentanyl dealers

are given 60 minutes interviewed one of

the top ones the top one so if 60

minutes can find you in China I'm pretty

sure the government knows who you are

too

so that's one number the coronavirus

well we don't know yet you know could be

200,000 dead could be 2 million that

could get up there pretty fast

how about climate change if China is the

biggest contributor to climate change

what would the green New Deal people say

in terms of the number of people who

will die because of China specifically

now of course it takes everybody

polluting to get the resilient you got

but if one of them is the biggest

polluter you could probably say well a

quarter of the deaths are attributed to

China or something like that right so

how many would that be how many people

do we think will die from climate change

over the next 100 years and would let's

say 25 percent of those deaths be

attributed to China

that's the question how about the organ

transplants so as you know it's alleged

with high credibility that they use

prisoners probably political prisoners

and they they kill them on demand to

sell their organs

to people who are buying their organs

from both from China from other

countries now because of the corona

virus a lot of people are gonna have

their lungs destroyed there's already

information that China may be executing

prisoners just to take their lumps and

hearts and translate them into people

who would be willing to pay for it

because I can't apparently people will

pay a lot for an organ so how many how

many we Gersh and flown goon followed

Fallone flown gong whatever that is

how many dissidents and political

prisoners will be used for parts will

that kill more of them than fentanyl or

a corona virus or climate change I don't

know so that's the question now a

suggestion that I've heard a few times

is that for every American death caused

by China we should check out of the

country and the Chinese citizens that

are for example going to our

universities apparently that's a big

deal for Chinese elites to send their

kids to American universities the Ivy

League's so that would hurt quite a bit

because the elite really have a pretty

big incentive to send their kids to

American high end at colleges so you can

just say it's nothing personal it's just

nothing personal we're just gonna go in

alphabetical order and we're just gonna

send one student home for every death

and we could just do it weekly batch him

up and say okay well it was a thousand

fentanyl deaths and we think you know

400 people died from corona virus so

we'll send back 1400 Chinese citizens

who are using this country for variety

things it could be rich people who just

have houses here you know we could send

them back and confiscate their houses we

could take their stock so if they owned

any any assets of the United States we

could just say alright well no it's

nothing personal we're just doing this

enough

Medical order and literally just start

with a they just start sending them back

in alphabetical order and the thinking

here would be if your letter if your a

letter F you know if you if your last

name in China starts with an F and

you're watching the A's go home and then

the B's go home then the C's go home

well the elites who are a letter F and

Beyond are gonna say holy cow they're

not kidding about this my kid is gonna

be sent home from Stanford MIT Harvard

wherever and that's it they're not gonna

have a Harvard education he's just come

come home so would they start saying

maybe we should not be sending fentanyl

to the United States with the elites

saying look this is now bad for me it

was okay when it was only bad for dead

Americans I didn't care you said the

Chinese elite but now it's affecting me

so maybe we should rethink it because I

want my kid to go to about Ivy League

school so I think if we were to do this

we should do it by formula and it would

be cold and effective to just do it in

alphabetical order because alphabetical

order is such a strong message that it's

not personal

because it isn't has nothing to do with

the individuals who are getting kicked

down there's nothing to do with that

it's just it's just numbers and if you

want to keep killing US China well we'll

just send one home we're not even

killing yours I mean it's I would say

that would be a mild response when you

for every person they kill all we're

gonna do is send somebody home that's a

pretty mild response I don't even think

that that's extreme so we could be doing

that my CTO from my startup dick Kalyani

is he was trying to figure out a way to

to help things with the coronavirus and

so he's using his technical technical

expertise to put together a virtual

online summit for blockchain development

ideally for you know at least the

primary purpose right now is for any

apps

that might use the blockchain they would

have some immediate health care and/or

coronavirus solution so it's a it's a

general platform for people who want to

learn a little bit more about blockchain

development for the purpose of

developing some kind of a useful app now

it doesn't have to be for that purpose

you could just go there for general

information but I tweeted it in my list

of online online sources so it's a pin

tweet that has all the different links

to different things I'll talk about

those in a minute

but one of them is the block co-ed

online summit so if you if you can't

find the link just google google block

co vid online summit and or you could go

to at block ovid and you'll see the

links and stuff alright so I I tweeted

and it's I said it's pinned to my

account I asked for people to put in

links to various apps and websites and

stuff that would be useful for the

crisis so some of the ones I know about

just to just to tell you what's going on

so besides the one I just mentioned

there's the project n95 comm where

buyers and sellers of this PPE can find

each other so that's a good one

there's a one I put on there and again

you can find the actual links on my

pinned tweet

there's link to some people where you

can take your temperature every day just

on your own and then you enter into the

into the app of the website your

temperature and the idea is that as

anybody gets elevated temperatures you

might be able to identify hot zones so

you know if you found that let's say the

people in my zip code suddenly started

to you know inch up in temperature maybe

you got a problem there so those are

just some of the many ideas and a lot of

people have submitted links for that so

go take go take a look at that alright

by the way if you're wondering why you

would use blockchain as

to other technologies for any kind of

apps some of the advantages are that

it's a distributed system so you don't

need to build a database the other data

just lives distributed in the Internet

some of it is privacy something that is

it's easier to do things across borders

so you don't have to worry about the the

banking regulations etc if you're just

moving you know blockchain and tokens

and stuff the governments are too

involved in that so those are some of

the benefits I'm no expert all right

here is the question which is so missing

which is this here's a question for the

reporters today for the task force you

ready I'm pretty sure that there are

some reporters who watch these

periscopes and here's what I'd suggest

as a question for the next press

conference mr. president and mr. vice

president are you already taking

hydroxychloroquine are the members of

the task force who by the nature of

their job do have to sort of need in

rooms and they can do their social

distancing but I'm pretty sure the

president is not saying six feet away

from people I just don't know if it's

even practical for him to do his job so

the question I would ask is are they

already on hydroxychloroquine and why

not why not right if you don't see that

question yesterday I will be amazed

because as soon as you hear the question

you say to yourself oh yeah you got to

ask that question you know because it's

a yes or no and we'd like to know etc

here's the related question are we aware

of anyone in the United States who is a

medical professional who is taking the

hydroxychloroquine in advance of an

infection in other words just in case

who also went on to have to be on the

ventilator even one is there any even

one person who fits that description now

this is not a scientific study obviously

but I am assuming that by now we have

many thousands of healthcare workers who

probably anecdotally we're hearing

reports of this probably are taking it

prophylactically in other words in

advance of having a problem so if we

have thousands of health care workers

and we know that some number of them

unfortunately are going to get infected

no doubt about it because they're just

they're just too close to it all the

time so of the people who got the

infection who were also taking the drug

before they got the infection do we have

even one case where it progressed to

needing a ventilator because enough time

is going by right where if that number

is zero it's still not a it's not a

scientific test you can't take it to the

bank but I'd feel a lot better

wouldn't you I'd feel a lot better if I

knew that that number was zero

and if it turns out it's 1 or 2 or

whatever then I'd start asking you know

where their underlying under any

underlying issues so those are the main

things happening today I was somebody

there says they're taking a low dose you

know I don't know if that's a good idea

because then that's how you get into the

hoarding too - yeah as has Chris Cuomo

said yet if he's what what meds if any

he's taking that would be a that'd be a

good case by the way my hats off to

Chris Cuomo I hope that he continues

working even as he has symptoms and I

realized that you know that would be

people are gonna say that's kind of

showboating you know if he's coughing

and trying to get through his interviews

and stuff but on the other hand it's

real you know it's not showboating if

it's real and if it's real and he's

willing to keep working I would be very

interested in watching that programming

I've told you before that watching Chris

Cuomo interview his brother the governor

of you

ork is some of the best there's just

some of the best TV around I mean it's

just fascinating to watch that so I'd

like to keep see them so best of luck to

Chris Cuomo for a speedy recovery but I

hope that you stick with us and let us

let us see the whole process and I hope

it turns out well alright that's about

all I got here not a fan of Scott but

would vote for Scott just on the weed

thing yeah that's what I promise I'll

get the federal government ahead of the

weed business states will still get to

make some decisions but I would get the

federal government down and by the way

I'm pretty sure that Matt Gaetz would do

the same so if you wanted to know what

my policies would look like I haven't I

haven't matched them but I've kind of

feeling that Matt Gaetz oh that would be

really really close a lot of stuff from

you know how do you address the green

new deal to health care to weed I think

a lot of them are going to be really

close I haven't checked but I think so

yeah I've heard of people who I know one

person who hasn't got it in a test

result it's been almost two weeks so

this is somebody who actually you know

waited waited and got the test had the

rice symptoms to get the test and two

weeks are going by without a result two

weeks now I don't Scott running out of

gas are you talking about me or or the

world somebody says the antibiotics

helped with a secondary infection yeah

so the reason that people take the

malaria drug plus the user through

Meissen is if they do get the the virus

the azithromycin helps with the

infection part whereas the malaria drug

sort of prevents it from from your body

from going nuts and then the zinc has

some some benefit too

let's see what about screws ships

oh let me talk about an idea I'm not

sure if I totally understand this but

somebody on the internet was suggesting

that if we don't have a better plan that

that there's sort of an emergency

back-up plan so we hope we'll have a

better plan that would have you know

therapeutics and vaccines

sooner than we think and you know stuff

like that but maybe maybe not so the

other plan is to put people in let's say

put them in a hotel or put them in a

cruise ship or put them in someplace

that they're only together and they

don't leave with the idea of

intentionally infecting them so the idea

would be to put groups clusters of

people who volunteered to say living in

an apartment or a hotel or some some

identified space with the with the

express intention of infecting them but

to also infect them lightly so that they

don't get the the full dose which

apparently makes a big difference if

you're just marinating in the virus it

will take over your immune system pretty

quickly and you're in bad shape if you

get a little trace of the virus and your

your immune system gets a little bit of

warning before the virus gets too big

then then it's a fair fight so there

seems to be a big difference whether you

get it early or whether you get a little

bit of dose or a big dose even though

both of them can infect you so the idea

would be to give people intentional

small doses treating them early I assume

that this part I might be adding to the

idea but let's say you give them the

hydroxychloroquine if that works and it

works when you get it early so you would

build a group of people who all have

immunity and then once they've all

tested positive but they don't have you

know it doesn't look like they have they

would spread it then you just release

them into the wild and you've created a

whole bunch of immune people and then

you just do it again with another batch

now would that work or would that just

spread the disease everywhere

I don't know you know it definitely

falls into the category of if you don't

have a better idea maybe you try it so

it doesn't sound like the safest thing

in the world for a variety reasons but

what we're doing now might not be the

safest thing in the world either let's

see just looking at your comments some

of them I don't want to read out loud

because a lot of you have medical

opinions and I'm not sure I want to

randomly spout the medical opinions I'm

seeing in the comments even if they're

right somebody says this is the concept

of a vaccine well not exactly because

the vaccine would be a non non deadly

version you can't be a little bit

pregnant actually you can yeah with the

virus apparently you can be a little bit

pregnant meaning that you could have a

low initial viral load versus Island oh

no on the same point there was a story

it was the vent of Washington state

where there was a choir who decided to

hold their choir practice despite the

fact that the corona virus was becoming

a bigger thing but the state had not yet

told people not to meet in groups so I

was right at the end of when you could

still meet it in a group and they did

and the problem was they had to require

practice of course all in the same room

and I think there was something like 45

of them who ended up with the virus and

the thinking which sounds logical to me

is not just that they were in the same

room and not just that they did not do

social isolation they you know they were

close to each other but there was some

thinking that some thinking that the

singing itself might have been

contributing meaning that if you sing

you're exhaling more aggressively and

you're all standing together exhaling

aggressively because you're singing so

that might have been the very worst

situation you could possibly imagine

we're a bunch of people with no face

masks are exhaling air in the same splay

at space for a couple hours I mean it

probably couldn't have been worse

and sure enough the the results that

show it all right yeah there's a navy

carrier with with a bunch of infected

people on it so we'll probably learn

something from that as bad as that is I

just saw a mess and saw an article that

DMD s can leave you with stronger

resistance I don't know what a DMD is

how are you certain that the virus is

not in the surface of cans of food

restocked why some it is I assume it is

so everything has to be seen as as

statistics and following the odds the

odds of getting the virus if you're in a

chorus that meets in one room and all

sings really loudly in exhales seems to

be very high so don't do that the the

odds of getting there from intense

personal interaction with somebody has

it very high so don't do that

but the odds of getting it because you

took a walk in the park it's possible

right I guess because they say it can

float around in the air and who knows

you stop and pet a dog and it's on the

dog so could you get it from a walk in

the park by yourself

the answer is I guess you know maybe but

the odds of getting it that way are so

low that that would not be really

contributing much to the viral spread in

other words it's the only way anybody

ever got it was taking a walk in the

park

it would not reproduce fast enough to be

viral so that's not the kind of risk

that I wouldn't avoid because taking

walks good for you too likewise your

question was how can you be sure it's

not on the the cans of food or the food

itself and the answer is it probably is

somewhere in some grocery store

I'm sure it's on something I mean the

odds of that seem like a hundred percent

somewhere in the whole supply chain but

what are the odds that you're gonna get

it that way so let's say you you know

your bag your groceries is delivered to

you and you you know you open it up and

you take things out you put them away

but you make sure you don't touch your

face maybe you're wearing a mask when

you do it and you immediately thoroughly

wash your hands after you've touched

everything do you then need to go back

and swab everything down you know like

all your cans and wash with soap your

your vegetables and stuff like that well

it would probably help but I'm not going

to do it because the way I'm gonna play

the odds is you know if something has a

90 percent chance of giving it to me

like attending a choir practice I'm not

going to do that if something has a

maybe a 1 percent chance of giving it to

me I'll probably still do that and if

everybody acted that way and they

avoided the 90% chance of getting it but

they did do the things that would give

you a 1% chance of doing it we'd still

be ok because it would bring the the

rate of reproduction down below giving

it you know one person make you more

than one person sick so you can't reduce

your risk to zero from your groceries

you can do the obvious stuff watch your

hands throw away the bag throw away the

bags from watch your hands but I don't

know that the risk is so big then I

would worry about that too much

now Here I am NOT giving you my personal

medical opinion

I am imitating a doctor who's working on

the front lines who said in his

experience she's now dealt with I don't

know how many hundreds of patients that

they all know where they got it

basically not all of them not a hundred

percent but mostly they know where they

got it and they got it from a person and

they got it from a person that they

interacted with what he's not seeing is

people coming in and saying I have no

idea where I got it because I've been

socially isolating and just taking walks

so he's now seeing that and those people

of course are handling you know

groceries because they have to eat so if

it's happening it's it's not happening a

lot

I think we're safely we can say that

yeah even the garbage man and you know

all that but my guess is that all the

outdoor stuff is just not going to be

your big problem

I wouldn't use a water fountain but

that's about it yeah somebody has 90

year olds in the house so you wipe it

all down yeah you know if you got people

who are at special risk then maybe you

want to take it to another level if if

only to make you feel better I mean if

it makes you feel better it's worth it

if you have the time yeah all right

don't want to give up my reusable bags

and here are you cutting your own air

now well that's a good question because

you know what I thought this was just

gonna be a few weeks I thought well you

know there's a whole bunch of stuff you

can put off for a few weeks but a

haircut is not something you put off for

two months if you're me anyway so I'm

gonna have to cut my own hair it looks

like that's coming up I don't see

anybody in person that's not gonna make

that much of a difference stock market

predictions yeah the stock market will

be spotty and choppy and we'll just stay

spotty and choppy for a long time so

you're gonna have you know days when

it's up five percent days when it's down

five percent you're gonna have some

stocks doing well well something to do

do poorly but in the long run the a

broad basket of stocks of the United

States is probably gonna be among your

safest investments I don't give

financial advice and so you should not

consider that financial advice but if

you're warren buffett and somebody said

what should i do i think he tell you the

same thing which is i think you tell you

there are no guarantees but if you

wanted to look historically and even

based on current situation what country

is the safe

place to park your money probably the

United States and if you get a park it

in the United States what's the safest

asset class to put it in probably a

broad-based the basket of you know the

bigger stocks in the United States

probably so that's all I got for now and

I will talk to you later tonight you

don't a time 10 10:00 p.m. Eastern 7:00

p.m. Pacific and I will I will see you

then I hope so

stay safe everything's under control