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Back to episode — Episode 861 Scott Adams - Sipping the Crisis Away. Join Me!

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ar enough that we can send an atomic bomb and change the direction of a meteor coming in our direction? Maybe. Maybe there is a very small chance we'd be wiped out by a meteor but you know maybe so. In a world with multiple risks you've got to be smarter about your risk management. Somebody says you are making excuses for what? I don't even know what that criticism is. Oh maybe I think I know how…

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you know maybe you only fill up half the cruise ship, maybe we've learned something about the ventilation system, maybe you give them a pile of chloroquine and they're young people to begin with right so they're young and healthy to begin with. You give them a barrel of chloroquine. You get out of the ship. Maybe if, again this is just brainstorming. I do not kid myself that this is a good idea. It's just sort of creative and moving in the right direction and maybe you could fix it. So fix my idea for me if you can.

Can we just load up the cruise ships with people who are low risk, young people who have been checked before they got on, checked while they're on, checked when they got off to the degree that you could even do that? So one way you could save the cruise industry is by taking the spring breakers and testing them. So I don't know how many tests, I don't know how many test kits we have but if you could rapidly test could you save an industry by, I know we need to test everywhere, there aren't enough, but just brainstorming, just stay with me. Could you focus some of the tests on an industry that could be at least kept on life support until the economy comes out and just maybe keep the cruise ship business alive?

How about hotels? How about you say you know the Marriott in pick a city, San Diego has zero business and basically we're going to go out of business but if you're a spring breaker, you're a young person, we'll give you a deal, half price. There will be nobody in the hotel except young people. No old people will get in. You can't check in without taking the chloroquine before you walk in the front door and when you're here you can't leave and before you leave you'll be tested. I'm just throwing out ideas. Could you save the travel industry by saying we're going to limit it to young people, we're going to slash the price, cut it in half, we're going to test before you get in and you're going to be limited here but you know who would be mad about being stuck in a hotel with only other people who were single? Nobody. Tell me a young person who doesn't want to go stay at the Marriott with only young people on spring break, pay half price but you c

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an't leave the building for two weeks. Might be popular. So this is the human ingenuity. Not this idea but at least the idea of being flexible. Somebody says save airlines first. So here's the thing. You might be able to do something similar by testing people before they got on a flight but it seems like it'd be too slow. In the case of a cruise ship people actually would go a day early you know…

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