Lockdowns
topic on 6 shows · 13 statements across 11 episodes
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13 statements about Lockdowns, every show
Gurley: Cross-country excess death data shows COVID lockdowns achieved nothing
“They've gone back through, and looked at excess deaths at a number of different countries, and lockdowns achieved nothing.”
Nocera: School closings and pandemic lockdowns exacerbated income inequality
“And then I had a particular obsession with school closings and lockdowns that they exacerbated income inequality, but nobody was talking about that.”
Nocera: Comparing lockdown and non-lockdown country data shows no difference
“They don't work. If you look at countries that locked down versus countries that didn't lock down, you don't, you can't tell which is which. You absolutely can't.”
Sacks: Lockdowns and mask mandates only delayed COVID-19 transmission
“Lockdowns didn't work at all. At most, lockdowns and all these measures, whether it's mass mandates or whatever, All it did was delay the timing of the virus.”
Sacks asserts state data proves COVID-19 lockdowns did not improve health outcomes
“Lockdowns don't work if, you know, if they ever did, they, we now know looking at from What different states did last year, that they don't make a difference.”
Friedberg: Study shows COVID lockdowns had no effect on US reproduction rate
“A recent paper showed that lockdowns had no effect. On the reproduction rate in the United States”
Ridley: Without modern communication tools, governments couldn't have imposed COVID lockdowns
“If we didn't have all these social contact tools, then maybe we'd never have locked down. You know, we just couldn't do it. In which case, of course, the epidemic would have been worse. But to some extent, as it were the existence of the video conferencing and…”
Sacks: Non-lockdown states like Florida performed no worse than locked-down states
“We've seen that states that did not do lockdowns like Florida and Texas, frankly, have been no worse off than those that have done very severe lockdowns.”
Sacks: COVID lockdowns do not work
“The politicians got to keep eating at French laundry, but it was the small business people who got absolutely decimated by these lockdowns, which don't even work.”
Bajpai: ixigo dropped to near-zero revenue for months during initial lockdowns
“When it started in March, when the lockdowns were announced you know, we went down to near zero revenue for a couple of months because there were hardly any transactions happening.”
Chamath Palihapitiya predicts Donald Trump will win the 2020 election
“I think that Donald Trump is overwhelmingly likely to win as a function of people's frustration about the lockdowns.”
Sacks: Lockdown backlash will supersede COVID response incompetence in November 2020
“The unwillingness to end the lockdowns gives Trump an issue for November, assuming this continues that supersedes the incompetence of the COVID response, which is that, you know, our lives and livelihoods are not owned by politicians to You know, meter out and…”