Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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uld tell me what the guesses were so that I know how much risk. All right, so the Chinese seem to be going all-in on blaming the U.S. for the coronavirus or at least escaping blame. I've been saying since the beginning that I don't like the phrase Chinese virus, because if it even raises the question of are you being racist, why cause that trouble? Why cause that trouble? Why would you do it? But…

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ly on the vulnerable and the seniors like nursing homes but allow everybody else to return. So the other option is you can go back to work unless you're clearly in these vulnerable and nursing homes or you're older or you have underlying conditions, I guess.

A third plan would say Trump would lift the federal guidelines but let the governors work it out. So it's sort of they lift the guidelines, maybe give some extra guidance, but let the governors decide what makes sense in each county, etc. Not bad.

A fourth idea is to keep in place some federal guidelines but change others to give states more leeway. So there's all kinds of hybrid and one or other ideas. Two specific types of workers to return to work, including people who have risk profiles. You can say I'm gonna weigh in.

All right, so here's how I think we should go. I think our federal government, in working with the experts, should categorize our risk in the cleanest graphic way they can. I need a one-pager that says if you know here's your checklist. You do the checklist and then add up the numbers, and maybe they're weighted. So you know if you check th

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at you're 85 with lung cancer, you know that's a hundred points and you just stay home. So imagine they're weighted answers but it's just a checklist. You say okay I'm under 40, I'm healthy, you know, et cetera, and you just say if you filled out this checklist and you got a score under five or whatever it is, you're cleared. Now keep the checklist with you. If somebody comes into your place of b…

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