COVID 19 Lockdowns

“Our lockup expired the day of the COVID lockdowns. So I don't know if you remember, there was a big market crash that day. It was also a lockup expiring. One of our biggest investors got scared and he dumped everything that day. So I think, I don't know, we're…”

“Ultimately, the benefit was zero, because we ended up accumulating, call it 10 trillion dollars of, you know, four trillion dollars of net costs that we have to pay off at some point, not to mention the economic consequences of the lockdowns. And, ah, you know…”

“In, in a way, it was very unfair, because actually, when you have kids with the lockdown, you need to Take more time at home with the kids and you are much less productive for your work. And on the contrary, your colleagues are also locked down at home without…”

“And our business, I think we were down 40 or 50% year on year.”

“There's really no correlation between death rates for COVID per capita and the severity of lockdowns. Basically, the data shows that lockdowns don't have an impact on a state's success in battling COVID.”

“I mean, this idea of wearing a mask after you've already been vaccinated never made any sense. This idea of locking down the whole economy instead of isolating the at risk people for a whole year. It doesn't make sense.”

“This feels no different than me growing up in Saginaw, Michigan. The only difference is I know where my next, I know where my next meal is coming from, you know, and I'm in a much better place living space than I was, but this feels no different. Where I'm loc…”

“If the woke left insists on permanent lockdowns, Trump will have an issue that supersedes the incompetence of COVID response.”

“So when the lockdown started happening, we saw in-person bookings declining. Anywhere between 50 to 90% by the end of March.”

“I do think that the lockdowns went on too long. They, I mean, with, I think with twenty-twenty hindsight, we would say that the lockdowns weren't necessary if we had just gone all in on a mass policy.”

“I certainly, you know thought that the lockdowns were unreasonable in the extent, but then the problem was they weren't followed, so they were all for waste.”

“We're gonna be in this sort of start and stop mode now for the foreseeable future. But it's just not possible to ask people now to go back into any form of quarantine or shelter in place. I just don't think they'll do it.”

“Well, nowhere in the country did the hospitals get overwhelmed”

“And these sectors will see the kind of damage that you just talked about, right? Like almost 20 to 40% of them facing very dire situations, right? And surviving itself might be a large issue.”

“So even if demand were to come back very sharply after the lockdown, creating supply back is going to be a challenge and The measures that government can take to ease those to enable people to enable transport to work very well, raw material to be available, b…”