I Asked Scott Adams If I Was The Winner

[theLBC]

he still can't admit that other people made a more intelligent decision based upon available information.
no scott, we didn't get lucky because we didn't trust anything.

[johncage]

My take on his comments are different. He described twice, the unvaxed as having a distrust of government et al. and also having an heuristic approach to the issue rather than a purely analytical one.

I agree with him on this in that a purely analytical approach did not allow for the acceptance of that inescapable amount of grey area that is neither black, nor white as we wish it to be. If only decision making could be so easy!

It is good sometimes, to sit back and try to see the larger picture and not discount ones own instincts and gut sense in making decisions. The view from 10,000 feet can sometimes reveal important clues not visible when looking at that which is within arms reach.

In other words, just as important as it was to listen to what scientists were saying was to also discern which scientists to listen to and which not to. Vital to that was weighing politics, agendas (both hidden and open), motivation, propaganda, the silencing of dissent and pervasive subterfuge.

If the last two years having taught us anything, it is that we need to be much more careful about who we decide to trust.

both sides applied analysis in their approach. the anti vaxxers simply had the superior analytical ability.

[gimebakmybulits]

both sides applied analysis in their approach. the anti vaxxers simply had the superior analytical ability.

Some actually just knew and understood the science and therefore the truth ..... not the scripted story that others wanted the world to believe.

[theLBC]

[twinfin]

Yes, it's your imagination Scott.

[Dooligan]

The left seems to really hate that turnabout is fair play.

[Libertarian777]

My take on his comments are different. He described twice, the unvaxed as having a distrust of government et al. and also having an heuristic approach to the issue rather than a purely analytical one.

I agree with him on this in that a purely analytical approach did not allow for the acceptance of that inescapable amount of grey area that is neither black, nor white as we wish it to be. If only decision making could be so easy!

It is good sometimes, to sit back and try to see the larger picture and not discount ones own instincts and gut sense in making decisions. The view from 10,000 feet can sometimes reveal important clues not visible when looking at that which is within arms reach.

In other words, just as important as it was to listen to what scientists were saying was to also discern which scientists to listen to and which not to. Vital to that was weighing politics, agendas (both hidden and open), motivation, propaganda, the silencing of dissent and pervasive subterfuge.

If the last two years having taught us anything, it is that we need to be much more careful about who we decide to trust.

And this is where he's full of sh|t.
It wasn't through luck or lack of analytics or distrust if the government (or big pharma) for that matter.

There was tons of data in fall 2020 that I went over in detail.
ALL of the data was pointing to my age group being at a risk of 0.03% (including everyone with cancer, co morbidities and everything else).
Over 65 were 94% of all deaths.

This was before the vaccines trial was even complete.

By the time they rolled the vaccines out in Jan/Feb 2021 I knew I had time to wait and see the outcome. I was actually open to being vaccinated pending data.
By mid 21 it was clear the vaccines were not without risk.

So Scott Adams can try his revisionist history all he wants but he's full of it.

[Tango_Down]

When in history did the government ever pay you to get a shot? That alone was a huge red flag. I mean if they really cared about people then diabetics would be getting free insulin shots as well right?
There was no way they could have tested it in such a short time and it's not about how many were tested but what were the side effects years later. That data didn't have time to reveal itself.
Then when they started pushing and forcing the shot the more I knew I made the right decision to avoid it at all costs.

[BrokerB]

The government had just orchestrated a public coup. Treason abounds us under the white domes and steakhouses around those domes

[Creeping Incrementalism]

There was tons of data in fall 2020 that I went over in detail.
ALL of the data was pointing to my age group being at a risk of 0.03% (including everyone with cancer, co morbidities and everything else).
Over 65 were 94% of all deaths.

I remember in late Feb. and early March 2020 even before the lockdowns, reading here on CalGuns that 99% of deaths were the elderly and immunocompromised.

And what I never hear anyone else saying, is that vaccine skeptics were the ones listening to conventional medical wisdom from 2019 and earlier. I enjoyed reading about disease and pandemics in the past, and the conventional wisdom was the idea of holding out until a vaccine arrived was a Hollywood fantasy. Regarding masking for the general public, in any book written 2019 or earlier, msking was never mentioned when it came to respiratory viruses, except for the masks of the 1918 being described with a single word: "useless". I know the popular press used masks as a defense starting with the Swine Flu in 2009, but that was in the mainstream news media only and no mainstream books on the subject promoted masking for the general public.

Furthermore, the conventional medical wisdom was that a safe vaccine takes a decade or more to develop. So if the odds of a working person is 0.03% (except for the older people in the office approaching retirement where the odds are maybe 0.3%), why would we rush into getting vaccinated?

Combine that with healthy skepticism of the hysteria of the first two years, and the vaccine skeptics didn't make some bold choice. They just followed conventional wisdom and did not fall prey to hysteria.

[Libertarian777]

I remember in late Feb. and early March 2020 even before the lockdowns, reading here on CalGuns that 99% of deaths were the elderly and immunocompromised.

And what I never hear anyone else saying, is that vaccine skeptics were the ones listening to conventional medical wisdom from 2019 and earlier. I enjoyed reading about disease and pandemics in the past, and the conventional wisdom was the idea of holding out until a vaccine arrived was a Hollywood fantasy. Regarding masking for the general public, in any book written 2019 or earlier, msking was never mentioned when it came to respiratory viruses, except for the masks of the 1918 being described with a single word: "useless". I know the popular press used masks as a defense starting with the Swine Flu in 2009, but that was in the mainstream news media only and no mainstream books on the subject promoted masking for the general public.

Furthermore, the conventional medical wisdom was that a safe vaccine takes a decade or more to develop. So if the odds of a working person is 0.03% (except for the older people in the office approaching retirement where the odds are maybe 0.3%), why would we rush into getting vaccinated?

Combine that with healthy skepticism of the hysteria of the first two years, and the vaccine skeptics didn't make some bold choice. They just followed conventional wisdom and did not fall prey to hysteria.

It got worse.
I remember reading an article in spring/summer 2020 about how the Spanish flu overwhelmed hospitals and they had to use tents.
And how they discovered being outdoors with good ventilation and sun improved those I'll with the flu materially.
I thought this was a turning point and they'd do more research into it and open outdoor areas.
Instead they doubled down on this stay at home crap and let more people get sick.

Data was very clear at the time that most transmission was occurring in the home (masked or not) and not in public spaces (and definitely not during BLM outdoor riots, something that actually proved to be true).

It was so blatant at that time that the lockdowns and mask mandates had zero to do with public health policy.

When I did more research into ventilators it was even more shocking how Gov Cuomo literally committed genocide and there were no consequences. Ventilators were killing people as were sequestering old people indoors with COVID infected 20 year olds.

I would have been more impressed if Trump said let's get this country exercising and he started a daily 15-20 min morning workout routine for the duration of the pandemic. That would have been true leadership and saved hundreds of thousands of lives alone.

[Creeping Incrementalism]

I would have been more impressed if Trump said let's get this country exercising and he started a daily 15-20 min morning workout routine for the duration of the pandemic. That would have been true leadership and saved hundreds of thousands of lives alone.

There actually were like 4 times more people outdoors hiking than there normally were, during the Spring of 2020, mostly because they closed everything else down. I am regular hiker and it got annoying with so many people on the trails, plus you had to deal with idiocy like wearing masks on single-track trails, or someone going by saying we should all hold our breath while passing. Later I read there is not a single documented case of people transmitting the virus from simply passing someone on a trail (any transmissions were stopping and talking face to face).

From what I've read, the best long-term solutions to diseases in offices (other than working at home) are improved ventilation. Also getting rid of packed open offices, which were statistically shown even before Covid to lead to increased illness.

[Libertarian777]

There actually were like 4 times more people outdoors hiking than there normally were, during the Spring of 2020, mostly because they closed everything else down. I am regular hiker and it got annoying with so many people on the trails, plus you had to deal with idiocy like wearing masks on single-track trails, or someone going by saying we should all hold our breath while passing. Later I read there is not a single documented case of people transmitting the virus from simply passing someone on a trail (any transmissions were stopping and talking face to face).

From what I've read, the best long-term solutions to diseases in offices (other than working at home) are improved ventilation. Also getting rid of packed open offices, which were statistically shown even before Covid to lead to increased illness.

Guarantee the 4x increase was more than offset by the hundreds of millions who stayed home indoors for extended periods