Back to episode — Episode 1200 Scott Adams - Don't Miss My Impression of Reporters Looking at the #Kraken, Section 230
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to begin my program with an impression. Now, I'm not like an expert at impressions, so bear with me as I build my talent stack in doing impressions. This first impression I call a mainstream reporter reviewing Sidney Powell's allegations, which she's recently filed, called the Kraken. Let us refer to them as the Kraken. And here is a mainstream reporter looking at her evidence for the first time…
← Previous segment →nd that is why I don't do impressions now. You know, but let's talk about all the baselessness and stuff. I'm going to jump around a little bit.
Let me ask you this question. Has the news of the coronavirus vaccination made you feel like you want to take more risks because you feel like help is on the way, or do you feel like taking even less risk because you'd feel so stupid if you got the coronavirus and you know had some lasting problem or you died when you only had to wait a few months? Which way does it go for you?
Because I found myself feeling the following, and I'll give you an analogy. I always thought that if I were to die doing something stupid, I would hope that the death would be instant because I have this weird fear of knowing that I just did something that's going to kill me but I didn't die right away. So I have to not only know I'm dying but know that I was so stupid I shouldn't have done whatever it was that was going to kill me. And for some reason that plays a big psychological role in my life. Completely irrational. I'm not claiming it has any rational basis.
But my experience so far is that my willingness to accept social distancing and masks and lockdowns and a disruption in my life is much higher than it was. I think many of you are going the opposite direction, saying, "Ah, help is on the way. We can loosen up a little bit, you know, because we'll still get the vaccine, so we'll be okay in the long run." And I'm thinking the opposite.
I'm feeling as though because I'm sort of in the bottom half of the class of people who have to worry about the coronavirus because I've got a comorbidity. I've got asthma and I'm over a certain age. So I'm starting to get close to that range where it's dangerous.
And here's what I felt. So this is just my internal feeling. I don't recommend it for you, right? I'm not trying to influence you to think the way I'm thinking. I just think it's useful to know how people are processing this situation.
And the way I'm processing it is I've never felt as much personal responsibility as I feel right now. And what I mean by that is before I was willing to say, well, you know, it's my life. I'll take a risk if
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I want to. But of course that's shortsighted because it's not just your risk. You're filling up an ICU. You're causing problems for people who love you. You're using up resources, etc. And so I've decided that the most, let's say, defensible, morally defensible thing that I can do is to suck it up because what you don't need is for me to be sick, right? Don't you want that ICU bed to be available…
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