Back to episode — Episode 849 Scott Adams - Biden's Addled Brain, Chinese Bots, Loserthink, Ventilators, #WuhanFlu
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would ever have the thought. It just wouldn't even be a thought that you would ever put two people on a ventilator, right? Because in a normal world you would just never do that. But is the only reason we haven't considered it because we have normal world thoughts? You know, should we at least toss it into the mix that somebody could develop a, and maybe somebody's making ventilators now that's a,…
← Previous segment →and a lot of individual private schools and stuff are probably closed. So schools are closing. I don't see much hope that that won't be widespread. In other words I think most of the states if not all will probably have to close schools. So I think school closings are, here's what I need from my government to make that work.
If you have kids, you know, between a certain age, let's say they're old enough to be a little bit independent, you know, let's say 11 years old to 18. So you've got a kid now who's 11 to 18 and you say, okay kids you get to stay home from school. And the kids say yay. All right, yeah you stay home from school. And then you say and you're not going to be able to leave the house. And they say what? Yeah kids you're actually gonna stay in this house for 30 to 90 days. Tell that to your 11 year old. And then they say well but you know our friends will be able to come over and you know at least we'll be with our friends. And then you as the parents say, okay I don't think you're hearing this yet. Not with friends. You're not gonna be with your friends and you're not gonna be in school. You're gonna be so bored that your head is going to explode. And then they'll say okay but can I go visit one friend? And if you're a parent you know you're gonna break down. You're gonna break down because your kid is gonna nag you and nag you and say but just one friend. I just want to go visit one friend. I'm going crazy. I have nothing to do. I'm just you know playing with my phone. Can I just visit one friend? And you're gonna say all right, all right, but hard rule, one friend. So you can go to their house and then you can come directly back. One friend.
And your kid goes to their house and 50 frickin' friends show up because they're kids, right? Kids say hey come over to my house, my mom said it's okay, or didn't say it's okay and they come anyway. You can't keep kids from bunching if they have phones. So unless you took their phones away, which nobody's gonna do, right? Nobody's gonna take kids' phones away. You especially in that teenage range it's just impossible. If you don't take their phones away they call each other and they say hey I got permission to go to one friend's house, meet me there. Kids will not comply. They will not comply. There isn't the slightest chance that when they walk out of the house they will comply. They will not. So you have to plan a world in which there's massive non-compliance.
I want my government to do this, assuming more schools close or even the amount they have. I want my government to issue an executive order telling kids how much or if they should socialize. In other words I want my government to tell me as a parent what to tell the kid. Because the only hope I have is to tell my kid, my god I would let you go play with your one friend. I really would. I mean I think it's reasonable but it's the law. There's an executive order. It's the law. We could get arrested. Now could it be a law? Would you get arrested? No. But these are k
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ids. You're gonna have to lie to them. You're gonna have to lie to them and tell them it's a law otherwise there's no chance of compliance. And even then there's not much chance but it would help. So I would like my government to, assuming schools close, to do some kind of an executive order. Obviously there's no such thing as a binding order of this type. It wouldn't really be legally binding bu…
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