Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 1495 Scott Adams: WARNING: This Live Stream Will Change Your Opinion About Vaccination Risk. Don't Watch it.
Aired: 2021-09-10
Duration: 31:44


=== Warning: This Could Kill You (04:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Good morning, everybody. It's time for the best...
[00:00:04]  Oh, not this time.
[00:00:06]  Sorry. Don't I always tell you that this is the best part of your day?
[00:00:11]  But not today. Not for all of you.
[00:00:14]  For some of you, I'm going to blow the top off your head.
[00:00:19]  For many of you, you're going to get really pissed off if you watch this.
[00:00:24]  And some of you might die.
[00:00:27]  Let me say that again, in case you thought that was a joke.
[00:00:31]  Watching this live stream could kill you.
[00:00:35]  Literally. Because I'm going to say some things today that I do not intend, because it would be unethical in my opinion.
[00:00:43]  I do not intend to change your mind about any medical decisions.
[00:00:49]  But the content will do that.
[00:00:52]  It's not my intention.
[00:00:55]  It's just, I'm going to give you some truth about something that maybe you haven't thought about, and it will have the effect of changing some of your minds.
[00:01:04]  Don't watch this if you don't want a cartoonist to accidentally change your medical decisions.
[00:01:15]  This warning is 100% real.
[00:01:20]  It's not reverse psychology.
[00:01:22]  It's not a marketing trick.
[00:01:24]  I'm not trying to get you to watch it because it's naughty or provocative.
[00:01:29]  It actually could fucking kill you.
[00:01:32]  Do you hear that?
[00:01:33]  Just hear that as clearly as you can.
[00:01:36]  Watching this live stream could fucking kill you.
[00:01:40]  Now I feel like I've done my ethical duty.
[00:01:44]  None of this is a joke.
[00:01:46]  None of this is a joke.
[00:01:48]  Could fucking kill you.
[00:01:50]  I'm not trying to. That's certainly not my intention.
[00:01:54]  But we're just going to try to talk about some truth and see what happens, all right?
[00:01:58]  So bail out now if you don't want to be any part of the vaccination persuasion, even accidentally.
[00:02:06]  And I know a lot of you don't like that topic, and I would invite you to come back tomorrow, and I'll talk less about it.
[00:02:13]  But before that, all you need to enjoy this to the maximum extent is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
[00:02:24]  Fill it with your favorite liquid.
[00:02:27]  I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day, the thing that makes everything better.
[00:02:34]  It's called the simultaneous sip.
[00:02:36]  It makes everything better except the coronavirus.
[00:02:39]  Go! All right.
[00:02:47]  Now, I'm going to be easing into the topic.
[00:02:52]  All right? You'll know it when it happens.
[00:02:55]  And I'm going to repeat the warning because people are joining and missed the original warning.
[00:03:01]  But I'll repeat the warning in a little bit.
[00:03:03]  But first, did you know that today Akira the Don's album dropped featuring my vocals?
[00:03:13]  And if that sounds weird...
[00:03:17]  It's not. Turns out it's a new genre of music in which Akira the Don takes samples from podcasts and uses that as the lyrical part, and then he adds the musical stuff in the back.
[00:03:31]  And you would be amazed how well that works.
[00:03:34]  Because the podcasts tend to be content that has some meaning, because he chooses it for that purpose.
[00:03:43]  And it's not just mine. I think Jordan Peterson's on there, some other people.
[00:03:48]  And check that out.
[00:03:50]  You will be surprised, right?
[00:03:53]  You will be surprised.
[00:03:54]  It's worth checking out only because, well, even if you didn't care musically, Check it out because it's a new genre and it's worth looking at just for that alone.

=== Fake News Alert (07:49) ===

[00:04:06]  Well, Larry Elder got hit by an egg by a woman in a gorilla mask when he was campaigning for the governorship of California.
[00:04:16]  And as every smart person is asking today, would this be covered by the news exactly the same as If he were a Democrat, wouldn't all the news be, you know, it's a big racist thing, it's a gorilla mask, he's black, throws an egg at him?
[00:04:38]  Somebody's saying in the comments that the egg missed.
[00:04:41]  Well, if the egg missed, I guess the yolk is not on him.
[00:04:47]  All right. Yeah, this is one of those hypocrisy things that there's not much depth to the comment.
[00:04:58]  It's just every time you see an example where the news is clearly just propaganda...
[00:05:05]  Because the way they treat these things is so different left and right.
[00:05:08]  You just can't even take it seriously in any possible way.
[00:05:13]  Alright, here's a fake news alert.
[00:05:16]  Fake news alert. This comes to me via Twitter and Adam Dopamine.
[00:05:24]  Adam points out that the breathless reporting on Florida's COVID surge seamlessly shifted to stories about Mississippi and Louisiana.
[00:05:36]  Why is it that all that talk about Florida sort of, just sort of softly, while you weren't looking, sort of just started talking about two other states?
[00:05:49]  Because the surge collapsed.
[00:05:55]  That's why. The surge collapsed.
[00:05:59]  So whatever Florida is doing...
[00:06:01]  They had, I guess, three surges that were pretty bad.
[00:06:05]  But at the moment, it's going pretty well.
[00:06:08]  So watch your fake news.
[00:06:11]  Try to change your direction.
[00:06:15]  It's a little case of misdirection.
[00:06:17]  Hey, look at this hand. Look at this hand.
[00:06:19]  Forget about this one.
[00:06:21]  Look at this one. All right.
[00:06:27]  University of California professor is suing the school system.
[00:06:33]  Because he says he has natural immunity against COVID, but they're going to require him to get the vaccination anyway.
[00:06:41]  Now, how do you lose that argument?
[00:06:46]  Let's say you're smart enough to be a professor at Berkeley.
[00:06:53]  So it's a top university.
[00:06:55]  If you're a professor at a top university...
[00:07:00]  And your argument is pretty ironclad, which is that if you have natural immunity, you're better off than people who have two shots.
[00:07:10]  Now, how does he lose that argument?
[00:07:14]  I mean, maybe...
[00:07:16]  Seriously, how do you lose it?
[00:07:19]  It feels like that's the most slam-dunk argument anybody ever had.
[00:07:24]  Now, maybe it has something to do with you can't verify easily whether somebody has antibodies.
[00:07:30]  I can see maybe they'd require you to have an antibody test, and maybe that's not practical.
[00:07:35]  Because how do you really know somebody had COVID? They could just say they had it and not get the vaccination.
[00:07:41]  So there might be some practical reasons, but this guy's going to lose his job...
[00:07:49]  For not being protected against COVID when he is more protected than just about everybody on campus.
[00:07:58]  How does he lose this?
[00:08:00]  I mean, he might. He might.
[00:08:02]  That's the scary thing, right?
[00:08:03]  He might actually lose this.
[00:08:06]  I don't know how you could lose it, but he might.
[00:08:12]  Chris Saliza over at CNN. He's an opinion guy.
[00:08:17]  And he wrote this sentence on an opinion piece, and it was kind of shocking to see it.
[00:08:22]  He said, Have you seen that?
[00:08:40]  I don't think I've run into anybody who would admit to having rage about unvaccinated people.
[00:08:48]  Are you seeing that?
[00:08:50]  In your personal bubbles?
[00:08:54]  Because I think my audience doesn't really have much crossover with CNN, I don't think.
[00:09:00]  But I haven't seen anything like that.
[00:09:05]  And I'm pretty sensitive to hate.
[00:09:08]  You know, you can spot it pretty easily.
[00:09:10]  I haven't really seen it. But I'm going to guess there's some of it out there, because I doubt Chris Eliza is the one angry person about this topic.
[00:09:21]  Somebody says, I haven't seen it in real life, but you've seen it on social media.
[00:09:24]  Yeah, social media became the place where the outrage goes to thrive, right?
[00:09:30]  Yeah. All right, so there's that.
[00:09:34]  Let's talk about Biden's six-pronged plan.
[00:09:36]  I'm not going to get into the details.
[00:09:37]  You probably looked at it already.
[00:09:39]  But one of the clever things is he's using OSHA to push his mandatory vaccinations for at least people in the government, government workers.
[00:09:51]  And he's encouraging private companies to have mandates as well.
[00:09:59]  But OSHA is kind of a clever way to do it.
[00:10:03]  Would I be complaining if Trump had found this clever workaround to get something done?
[00:10:10]  Let's say it was something else.
[00:10:11]  Not the vaccinations, because that just becomes political as soon as you hear it.
[00:10:15]  But if I had heard that Trump used this clever workaround and I thought it was good for the country...
[00:10:25]  I don't know if I'd complain.
[00:10:26]  I probably wouldn't.
[00:10:28]  I'd probably say, well, yeah, he did what he had to do.
[00:10:31]  Cut through some red tape, used to work around.
[00:10:34]  It was good for the country.
[00:10:35]  So I don't think the question about whether OSHA has or has not authority, just personally, doesn't bother me that much.
[00:10:45]  I know I should, and I get the argument that if you become a dictator and you just start making up laws and finding some rationalization for them instead of using the system, everything could go to hell.
[00:10:57]  But I don't have the same rules during a pandemic.
[00:11:02]  If it's a pandemic, I give my government a little extra power because I want them to have it.
[00:11:09]  If this is one of their little extra powers that they took for themselves, I say that's within the scope of things I'm going to call acceptable during a pandemic.
[00:11:20]  Anything that lasts beyond the pandemic, we've got to talk about.
[00:11:24]  And if any of this happened outside the context of the pandemic, I'd be completely opposed to it.
[00:11:29]  But you throw in the crisis part.
[00:11:32]  And you could argue whether we're still in a crisis or not.
[00:11:34]  I think that's a fair argument at this point.
[00:11:36]  But anyway, I'm just telling you it doesn't bother me, but I do see the red flags.
[00:11:42]  So if you're telling me, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're not seeing the gigantic red flag here of the precedent it sets, I do see it.
[00:11:49]  But I just don't think that crisis examples are going to be as sticky as maybe you think.

=== Assumptions About Vaccination Risk (15:00) ===

[00:11:55]  But I see the risk. All right.
[00:12:00]  I have to give you my warning once again.
[00:12:02]  I said it in the title. If you don't want to be convinced to get vaccinated, turn this off right now.
[00:12:10]  And I mean it.
[00:12:11]  It's not reverse psychology.
[00:12:14]  It's not a trick.
[00:12:16]  If you don't want to be accidentally convinced to get vaccinated, because that might happen, I'm not going to do it intentionally, because it's unethical for me to do that.
[00:12:27]  All right. Yeah, so with my blessing, those of you who don't want to be part of this, please sign off.
[00:12:35]  And come back tomorrow.
[00:12:37]  Come back tomorrow. But for those of you who stay, I'm going to blow your head right off.
[00:12:44]  For some of you. Okay?
[00:12:47]  Now, let me start with this.
[00:12:51]  If I ask you this question, most of you are reasonable people, and I know that you made your decisions about vaccinations or not based on reason and risk, and you thought it through.
[00:13:01]  Would you agree that all of you, no matter which decision you came by, would you agree with the statement that you thought it through?
[00:13:09]  In the comments, can you please confirm that?
[00:13:12]  You thought it through, right?
[00:13:14]  No matter what it was you decided, you thought it through.
[00:13:16]  And some of you came to different answers.
[00:13:19]  Now, second question.
[00:13:22]  Second question.
[00:13:23]  If I were to alter, and you accepted it, one of your biggest assumptions, could it change your opinion?
[00:13:34]  Now, I haven't told you what the assumption is yet, right?
[00:13:36]  So you can hold on that.
[00:13:39]  But if I were to change your most important assumption, could it change your opinion?
[00:13:48]  Just yes or no. If I change your assumptions, and you agree with that change, you go, oh yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way.
[00:13:54]  If I could do that, just one assumption, I'm not going to give you any new data.
[00:14:00]  No data will be presented.
[00:14:03]  I'm just going to change one assumption, and if that big assumption was central to your decision, could you change your mind?
[00:14:12]  Do you know what I'm doing to you right now?
[00:14:15]  Alright, I just primed you.
[00:14:17]  So I made you commit to a change in assumption that would change your opinion.
[00:14:24]  If I had not done that, it probably wouldn't.
[00:14:27]  Because confirmation bias would kick in.
[00:14:30]  And even if I successfully changed your assumption, you would just move to a different argument.
[00:14:35]  It wouldn't change your outcome.
[00:14:37]  Because people don't really change their minds based on new information.
[00:14:41]  But I just primed you.
[00:14:44]  And if you said, yes, Scott, if you change my most basic assumption, I could, I'm not guaranteeing it, but that would be a condition which could change my decision.
[00:14:56]  Now that you're primed, let's talk about some things, and I'm going to ease you into it, okay?
[00:15:02]  Now remember, if you're just joining us late, if you don't want to be talked into getting vaccinated, sign off now, because it might happen, all right?
[00:15:12]  Seriously, sign off if you don't want to be talked into it.
[00:15:14]  It would be unethical for me to talk you into it without adding any new information.
[00:15:20]  But I think I will add a new understanding in a minute.
[00:15:23]  We'll get to it, okay? I'm going to get to it.
[00:15:27]  There are a number of vaccinations that are already required, as most of you know.
[00:15:30]  If you're a kid in the United States and you want to go to school, the things you have to get would be included by seventh grade.
[00:15:38]  You've got to get tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, booster.
[00:15:42]  You've got to get your Varticella, that's the chicken pox.
[00:15:46]  To get in kindergarten, you're required to have polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, your first doses, measles, mumps, and rubella, the MMR, hepatitis B vaccination, and chicken pox, of course.
[00:15:59]  So those are all the ones that you're required to get.
[00:16:05]  Now, how many of you...
[00:16:08]  And the requirements vary by state.
[00:16:11]  So there's a big difference in how they're mandated.
[00:16:16]  So I'm not making any argument about them being similar in mandate.
[00:16:21]  So you got that? It has nothing to do with the government mandate.
[00:16:25]  I'm just saying that they are mandated in most states to go to school.
[00:16:30]  Now, apparently there are a number of people who find workarounds that they don't have to get vaccinated.
[00:16:34]  I heard there are 800,000 unvaccinated people in the country who don't even have these vaccinations.
[00:16:40]  So I guess you can get around it, but that's the situation.
[00:16:43]  Now, here's your assumption.
[00:16:47]  Speaking now to the people who have decided not to get vaccinated.
[00:16:52]  Is one of your assumptions that these other vaccinations...
[00:16:56]  And by the way, if you're anti-vax in general...
[00:16:59]  This has nothing to do with you.
[00:17:01]  If you're anti-vax for all vaccinations, I'm not even talking to you.
[00:17:07]  Nothing I say will be relevant to you.
[00:17:09]  If you've said no vaccinations, have a nice day.
[00:17:13]  You don't want to watch the rest of this.
[00:17:14]  There's no point in it. All right.
[00:17:16]  If you thought the childhood vaccinations are okay because they've been around so long that the side effects are well understood...
[00:17:27]  And the COVID vaccinations are newer.
[00:17:31]  So let's say your biggest reason for not getting vaccinated is that the traditional vaccinations have been around long enough that we would see all of the side effects and we'd have a really good understanding of the long-term risks.
[00:17:44]  Because how could you possibly know the long-term risks of a vaccination that just came out this year?
[00:17:50]  It's not possible, right?
[00:17:52]  So you've got the vaccination that comes out this year...
[00:17:55]  With completely unknown long-term risks, would you agree?
[00:17:59]  How many would agree with me, the statement that the COVID vaccinations have unknown long-term risk?
[00:18:07]  Everybody agree? We couldn't possibly know it.
[00:18:10]  You can't know the future, right?
[00:18:12]  Now, how many would agree with the next statement, that we do know the long-term risks of the childhood vaccinations?
[00:18:22]  Agree or disagree? We do know the long-term risks of the childhood vaccinations.
[00:18:29]  Go. Agree.
[00:18:32]  Disagree? Why would you disagree with that?
[00:18:35]  Not really?
[00:18:37]  Not really. They've been around for decades.
[00:18:40]  What do you mean?
[00:18:42]  Somebody says yes, yes.
[00:18:44]  So I'm seeing your answers.
[00:18:45]  Sure, we know the risk. Now, clearly we would recognize if any of these long-term kid vaccinations, if they were giving long-term problems, you'd know about it by now, right?
[00:18:57]  Because you'd look at the database of all the long-term problems.
[00:19:05]  What's the name of that database?
[00:19:08]  What's the name of the database where they collect all of the long-term problems?
[00:19:13]  Not the VAERS, because the VAERS is more of a short-term problem.
[00:19:18]  But what's the name of the database where they collect the problems, say, 10 years after the vaccination?
[00:19:23]  What's that called? No, not VAERS. VAERS would be closer to the time you got the vaccination.
[00:19:32]  But... Let me give you an example.
[00:19:34]  I guess I'm being unclear.
[00:19:35]  When I was 49 years old, I got an exotic voice problem called spasmodic dysphonia.
[00:19:43]  Was my spasmodic dysphonia entered into a database such that people could look at it and say, here's somebody who got the polio vaccination when he was 6 years old or whenever it was, and now he got spasmodic dysphonia at age 49.
[00:20:02]  Is that in the database? It's got to be in the database.
[00:20:07]  It's in the database.
[00:20:09]  Because how in the world could you know that my spasmodic dysphonia is completely unrelated to the vaccinations I got as a kid?
[00:20:19]  How would you know that without a database?
[00:20:22]  There's no data. Now, which database do they use to test the combinations of Of childhood vaccinations.
[00:20:35]  Because we know that they test each vaccination extensively, right?
[00:20:39]  I mean, we all know that. They do extensive testing on vaccinations.
[00:20:43]  But which database is it where they look at not only the one vaccination, but the combination?
[00:20:50]  Where they test, what if we give you three different vaccinations that are all required, but we give them about the same time and you're six years old?
[00:20:58]  Or whatever age.
[00:21:00]  Which database is that in?
[00:21:03]  None, right?
[00:21:04]  It's not in any database.
[00:21:06]  So your biggest assumption is that we know the risks of those other vaccinations.
[00:21:15]  We don't.
[00:21:17]  And let me tell you what expertise I'm bringing to this conversation.
[00:21:22]  Medical? Nope.
[00:21:25]  Scientific expertise?
[00:21:28]  Nope. Am I bringing my virologist credentials?
[00:21:34]  Nope. I'm the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
[00:21:39]  If you can find a better expert to predict the likelihood that big corporations are gathering data 40 years after they needed to?
[00:21:56]  Seriously? Seriously.
[00:22:00]  Do you think that these big companies are really tracking this data long term?
[00:22:04]  Come on! All of you people who said, I don't want to get the new vaccination because it's not as known as the existing ones.
[00:22:18]  You think you know the risk of the existing ones?
[00:22:23]  Do you? No, you don't.
[00:22:25]  Because nobody tracks it.
[00:22:28]  You're pretty sure somebody was tracking that, weren't you?
[00:22:31]  Try to Google it.
[00:22:33]  See if you can find any data that tells you 20 years after you got the, I don't know, chickenpox vaccination, you show me the data that says 20 years after that, that you can tell what's happening.
[00:22:48]  Here's another problem.
[00:22:52]  Here's another problem.
[00:22:53]  What happens if almost everybody gets the same vaccination?
[00:22:59]  How do you know what trouble the vaccination caused?
[00:23:02]  Because everybody's vaccinated.
[00:23:04]  Almost everybody.
[00:23:06]  Right? You can't tell.
[00:23:08]  Let's take an example.
[00:23:10]  And by the way, this will just be an example for conversation.
[00:23:14]  I'm not making this allegation.
[00:23:16]  We know, for example, that the average levels of testosterone in men has been falling for decades.
[00:23:24]  Right? Has anybody studied...
[00:23:28]  Whether the lower testosterone that seems to be all through the population could be caused by vaccinations.
[00:23:36]  I don't think that's the cause.
[00:23:38]  Let me be very clear.
[00:23:40]  I don't think that's the cause.
[00:23:43]  But did anybody study it?
[00:23:46]  How about obesity?
[00:23:48]  We've got a crazy obesity problem.
[00:23:50]  Do we know exactly why?
[00:23:52]  Because I've heard different opinions.
[00:23:54]  It's everything from fast food to too much air conditioning to too many video games to whatever.
[00:24:00]  But has anybody studied our weight loss or weight gain and whether you got vaccinated?
[00:24:09]  No. Now, do I think that vaccinations cause weight gain later in life?
[00:24:15]  No, I do not.
[00:24:17]  I have no reason to think that.
[00:24:19]  But did anybody study it?
[00:24:22]  How about my spasmodic dysphonia?
[00:24:25]  Probably 30,000 people got it since I've gotten it.
[00:24:29]  How many of them were asked about their childhood vaccinations?
[00:24:33]  And if they were asked, they would all have the same experience.
[00:24:36]  So you wouldn't know.
[00:24:38]  You would just say, oh, everybody got vaccinated and some subset of them got this problem.
[00:24:47]  Let me tell you what I know with complete certainty.
[00:24:53]  Nobody is studying the long-term safety of existing vaccinations.
[00:25:02]  Nobody. So if you made your decision about this vaccination based on the fact that the other ones have been studied for a long time and this one hasn't, you need to check that assumption because it's your main assumption.
[00:25:16]  And it's baseless. It's baseless.
[00:25:20]  Now, I heard somebody say, but Scott, the new vaccines, at least two of them, are a different platform, different technology, and we have much more experience with the older kinds of vaccinations, and the new one just introduces this new kind of risk.
[00:25:38]  Does it? How do you know that?
[00:25:41]  How do you know it isn't safer?
[00:25:44]  It seems to me that the experts are quite unified on the question of if there are going to be side effects, they happen quickly.
[00:25:53]  In other words, if you've watched people for a year, you pretty well have a good idea.
[00:26:02]  But what happens after a year?
[00:26:06]  So we've watched all the vaccines for a year or so, but have you watched them longer?
[00:26:13]  I doubt it. And if you did, did you do it right?
[00:26:17]  I mean, even if somebody did study it, would you trust the study?
[00:26:20]  And we know that half the studies are bullshit.
[00:26:25]  Somebody said that the mRNA vaccines are safer.
[00:26:29]  Now, if you happen to be an expert in the field, I can imagine that you would say to yourself, well, the nature of the way we're using this...
[00:26:37]  Should be safer because we have a pretty good idea what this vaccine grabs onto and it's not grabbing onto things that look dangerous.
[00:26:47]  But if you could tell just by looking at it that it's not dangerous, you wouldn't need to test it.

=== Reconsidering Safety Logically (04:48) ===

[00:26:56]  You don't know mRNA is safer or less safe.
[00:27:01]  It can't be known.
[00:27:03]  You don't know about looking at it, I mean.
[00:27:05]  You don't just look at it logically and say, well, logically, this should be safe.
[00:27:10]  You still have to test it, because your logic can't get you safe enough.
[00:27:17]  Now, let me do a little check on you here.
[00:27:22]  How many people, until this moment, believe that we did have pretty good information about the long-term effects of other vaccinations?
[00:27:32]  How many of you just had an oh shit moment and said, oh shit, my main variable is completely just a guess?
[00:27:44]  I'm seeing no's and yes's.
[00:27:46]  I see one oh shit.
[00:27:48]  Not me. Nope.
[00:27:50]  Me. Don't be a crab.
[00:27:52]  Get the jab, Charles says.
[00:27:55]  Somebody says, but this was immaterial to my decision.
[00:27:57]  Yeah. For some of you, that wasn't part of the decision.
[00:28:01]  So this wouldn't make any difference to you.
[00:28:06]  All right. Let me ask you one final question.
[00:28:16]  Is there anybody here who was anti-vax at the beginning of this, or at least anti-COVID vax at the beginning of this live stream, who, when they realized that they couldn't Know the difference between any of the vaccinations with long-term anything.
[00:28:35]  How many of you are reconsidering your decision not to get vaccinated based on just this?
[00:28:44]  I'm going to watch comments go by for a moment because I want to see.
[00:28:50]  Now, most of you should not be.
[00:28:53]  90% should dig in.
[00:28:58]  Yes, I am.
[00:29:01]  I'm considering, let's see...
[00:29:12]  Let's see. Just looking at your rephrase, please.
[00:29:17]  Rephrase the question. The question is, how many of you are unvaxxed and now reconsidering that because one of your biggest variables just fell apart?
[00:29:33]  All right. A sad realization, yes.
[00:29:36]  Okay. So, I am seeing yeses go by.
[00:29:42]  Now, remember my warning.
[00:29:43]  My warning was, don't get your medical decisions from cartoonists, right?
[00:29:50]  And I would encourage any of you to unfollow me or stop following if you didn't like this.
[00:29:57]  Because this is pretty much the kind of content that I have.
[00:30:01]  So, yeah, don't follow me if you don't like this.
[00:30:07]  And I'll say again that if you find out my assumption is wrong and there is some kind of magic database, I don't think so, but if there is, then reconsider.
[00:30:20]  All right.
[00:30:23]  Now, when we're talking about vaccine persuasion, you convinced me to be more skeptical.
[00:30:38]  Alright, that's it for today.
[00:30:40]  I just wanted to see if I would change any minds.
[00:30:43]  It looks like some of you did change your minds.
[00:30:46]  Generally, persuasion does not change everybody right away.
[00:30:50]  A really, really strong persuasion would get 5% of the audience.
[00:30:56]  That would be remarkable.
[00:30:57]  If you could swing 5% of an audience with persuasion, you'd be the best persuader of all time.
[00:31:05]  Um... Alright.
[00:31:14]  Well, I'm looking at your comments and I see them.
[00:31:19]  Now, anecdotal evidence of existing vaccines being safe isn't a thing.
[00:31:26]  There's no way you could capture problems just by looking at people and saying, oh, this guy's got a headache and he got vaccinated.
[00:31:37]  And this other guy doesn't have a headache.
[00:31:39]  Oh, but he got vaccinated too.
[00:31:40]  So you really couldn't tell. Alright, that's all for now.