In this monologue the speaker argues that COVID‑19, while receiving massive media attention, is not a leading cause of death compared with cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and seasonal flu. The central concern is not the absolute death toll but the concept of "surge capacity": if many people become infected simultaneously, hospitals will be overwhelmed, creating a "shit show" that endangers the most vulnerable—elderly and immunocompromised individuals. The speaker criticises political spin that masks the real problem, warns against unnecessary hospital visits for mild cases, and urges listeners to voluntarily slow the infection curve by protecting elders, improving personal health (stop smoking, limit alcohol, get sleep, take vitamins, avoid sugar and fried foods), and building overall resilience. He frames personal responsibility as a way to buy time for the healthcare system and preserve the wisdom of older generations, while acknowledging that most people will eventually contract the virus and develop immunity.
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Let's put coronavirus in perspective. You probably have already heard that I made the decision with my executive team to postpone the bulletproof conference or the now it's called the biohacking conference. It's been going on for seven years. But here's what you need to know. So you don't need to worry about yourself, but there is something to really care about. There are four killers I wrote about in Superhuman, the most recent anti aging book I wrote. These are the things that actually take us out. And every day about 25, 26,000 people die of cancer globally. That's more than have died from coronavirus. This is every day. And that's have died since coronavirus came out. Almost 50,000 people globally die every day from cardiovascular diseases and about 4,000 people die from diabetes. There's different studies and all of that that I published in the book. And these numbers come from Peter Diamandis most recent email about this. But did you know that According to a 2014 study, 500,000 people per year in the US alone die from Alzheimer's disease? Those are the four killers. Coronavirus doesn't even rank. Let's talk about flu. Global deaths are around a half a million from the 2018 flu season. But in this flu season, just the 2019, 2020, about 50 million Americans got the flu and about 50,000 died of it. So given that, what's the big deal? You might ask yourself. Well, this is the big deal. It's called surge capacity. Being a computer science AI kind of guy, cloud computing, surge capacity is what's most important. Because when everyone wants something, you can't get it. So what's happening now is that if everyone gets coronavirus, all of our elder people, all of our weak people who are most likely to get it and weak, maybe you got some extra pounds. Type 2 diabetes, not functioning immune system, the stuff I used to live with. Then you're at higher risk. Now if all of us go to the hospital at the same time, it's going to be, the technical term is a shit show. So that's why this really matters. Because if you can delay yourself getting the virus and if you can keep yourself from giving it to people who might die from it, even if it's not you, you're doing them a huge favor. You're buying them time. The other things that are happening that are making this difficult is that we have lying and hiding politicians who will do window dressing so they'll put stuff in place that is against your interests, against our interests, but makes it look like they're doing something, and that actually amplifies the effects of this so you can kill the economy and not make anyone any safer. Nice work. You also have this idea that, you know, what if someone said, oh, you have coronavirus? You can have people in masks coming to your house and doing stuff to you that is ineffective and probably doesn't help you. They might even give you hospital food. Who wants to be trying to recover from coronavirus on Jell O nutrasweet and soybean oil? It's a terrible idea. Stay out of hospitals if you want to live a long time. Unless you're actually dying, in which case the hospitals will save your life. You don't want to go there if you're just moderately sick because, honestly, they're not going to help you. But isolating you might be of interest and might be beneficial to everyone. But most of us who've been in the hospital don't want to go to the hospital unless it's really time. Now, what you can do is you can do your part, which means slowing the surge because we need more of our village elders. There are some young people going around saying, oh, well, people are old. They deserve it. What the heck? I've actually read about this, and that's just horrifying. We need the wisdom of people who've been here before. I learned so much of what I share with you from people who are 30 years older than me, 40 years older than me. And we all love our parents and all that stuff. So honor our elders and. And be kind towards people who are weak from an immune perspective because their biology isn't working. And we can help them by putting off the surge. This is why I'm staying home for a while, even though I have no fear of getting coronavirus. In fact, it's inevitable that I'm going to get it because I travel a lot. So what? I get colds on occasion, too. I usually don't know if I get them because my immune system handles it the way it's supposed to. So if you are weak, if you are older, I'm asking you right now to honor the sacrifice that society is making to lower the surge for hospitals. So the hospitals will be available to save your life if necessary, and you honor it by doing what you can to become a more resilient human being right now. Sure, you should wash your hands and all the crap like that, but seriously, stop smoking. Don't drink any alcohol for a while. Yeah, even that wine you like every night. Get some extra sleep. Take your vitamins, don't eat sugar, don't eat fried stuff, even if it tastes really good. Now, most of us today either already have corona or we are going to get it. Just like we've all had a cold, we've all gotten the flu, and the vast majority of us won't know we have it because we have resilient immune systems. And the way right now that you become immune to coronavirus is you get it, you go through it, and then your immune system learns. And if it doesn't learn, you end up in the hospital. Let's just make sure that there's space in the hospital if you are one of those people. It will never work to sterilize everything and to never touch humans again. Over time, the only viable solution for this pandemic is if we build highly resilient humans who can take the hits of living in a world full of microbes and walk away smiling. We already know what happens if you're in a sterile world. Your gut bacteria will revolt. We need bacteria, and we can't kill them all because there might be a virus in there that our immune system can probably handle. So what I'm asking you to do right now is just get started. Do what you can to delay your own infection so hospitals will have time to treat our elders when they get it. And right now, you can start becoming more resilient and more awesome.
