Scott Adams (speaker) argues that people who avoided COVID-19 vaccination and gained natural immunity are currently in the superior position. He repeatedly states that anti-vaxxers "won," attributing their advantage to natural immunity and distrust of government/big companies; he acknowledges his own prior support for vaccination as a losing position in hindsight. The excerpt is an emphatic, personal commentary rather than an evidence-backed analysis.
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Here's what's going to happen. I'm going to tell you that the people who the anti vaxxers appear to be, right, somebody who did not get vaccinated, got a little omicron or maybe even a worse one, but recovered now you've got natural immunity and you have no vaccination in you. Can we all agree that that was the winning path? The smartest, happiest people are the ones who didn't get the vaccination and are still alive. I want to make sure that I'm not leaving any wiggle room for myself. Have I, have I said as clearly as possible they're the happy ones right now and have a reason to be completely. Having said as clearly as possible that the anti vax people seem to be the winners, I want you to hear that clearly. The anti vax people appear to be the winners. The anti vaxxers clearly are the winners at this point and I think it'll probably stay that way and I don't want to put any shade on that whatsoever. They came out the best, they have the winning position. The unvaccinated have a current advantage because they feel better. The thing they're not worrying about is what I have to worry about, which is I wonder if that vaccination five years from now because really the anti vaxxers, I think were really just distrustful of big companies and big government. That's never wrong. It's never wrong to distrust government. It's never wrong to distrust big companies, right? So if you just took the position, let's just distrust everything the government did. Well, you won. You won. You won completely. I did not end up in the right place. Agree. You would all agree with that, right? I did not end up in the right place. The right place would be natural immunity. No, no vaccination. You should take victory and I should take defeat. We could agree on that, right? That, that my position is now the weakest and. And your position has gone from the weakest to the strongest and that we can just say that's true. The people who didn't get back are absolutely in the winning position. You win, you win. You are the winners. You are the winners. Let me say that part with no ambiguity. You won. You won. All of my fancy analytics got me to a bad place. All of your heuristics don't trust these guys. It's obvious. Totally worked.
