Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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. But there was 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. Where a bunch of people with no face masks are exhaling air in the same space for a couple hours. I m…

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e's not seeing that. And those people of course are handling groceries because they have to eat. So if it's happening it's not happening a lot. I think we're safe to 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 only to make you feel better. I mean if it makes you feel better it's worth it if you have the time.

All right. Don't want to give up my reusable bags. And here are you cutting your own hair 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 days when it's up five percent, days when it's down five percent. You're gonna have some stocks doing well, some stocks doing poorly. But in the long run 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'd tell you the same thing. Which is I think he'd 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 park it in the United States what's the safest asset class to put it in? Probably a broad-based basket of the bigger stocks in the United States probably.

So that's all I got for now and I will talk to you later tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Pacific. And I will see you then I hope. So stay safe. Everything's under control.