CDC

12 statements across 10 episodes · 1 bullish · 7 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →

Everything said about CDC, oldest first

Mar 15, 2020 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Trump's early COVID-19 messaging degraded CDC, HHS, and media responses
“Trump had to draw a line in the sand, which is, I'm not going to threaten my presidency, and so he had to downplay it, and he had to sort of, you know puff up his chest a little bit, and that kind of rhetoric from the president of the United States, whether yo…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 15, 2020 ▶ 6:20 E0: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring David Friedberg
Apr 11, 2020 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Public health agency responses amount to malpractice and negligence
“But if by health system, we mean the FDA, the CDC the WHO, which is part of the U S system, but we do rely on them to some extent. You've just seen, I think, you know, amazing really malpractice or negligence. If they were a pharma company, I think they'd be s…”
David Sacks Apr 11, 2020 ▶ 13:04 E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
Apr 11, 2020 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: CDC published blatantly untrue guidance on masks and social distancing
“You have to, you know, you have on the CDC website things that, I haven't checked it today, but as of a few days ago are just blatantly not true. I mean, saying that you only needed a mask if you were actually taking care of a person with COVID-nineteen, that …”
David Sacks Apr 11, 2020 ▶ 13:40 E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
May 1, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Vaccinated Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning
“So, out of eighty-seven million people who've been vaccinated, there have only been 408 serious cases, which would be, you'd count as hospitalization or death, Related to COVID. So those are odds of one in 213,000. The odds of being hit by lightning are one in…”
David Sacks May 1, 2021 ▶ 8:59 E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
May 13, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks claims actual outdoor COVID transmission rate is under one percent
“The CDC continues to suggest that outdoor transmission accounts for up to 10% of cases when the real number is certainly under one percent is probably under .1%.”
David Sacks May 13, 2021 ▶ 28:07 E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
May 13, 2021 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: CDC accepted all teachers' union suggestions on school reopening guidelines
“So, this guidance that the CDC put forward on school reopenings, the teachers unions were part of writing that guidance, and all of their suggestions were actually accepted and incorporated by the CDC.”
David Sacks May 13, 2021 ▶ 38:21 E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
Dec 29, 2021 negative
Opinion
Chamath Palihapitiya claims the CDC is controlled by big business interests
“The CDC ultimately really is just in the hands of big business.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 45:50 E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
Feb 5, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Bongino was banned for criticizing cloth masks weeks before CDC did
“He was kicked off YouTube for saying cloth masks don't work. Then the CDC comes out two weeks later and says the same thing.”
David Sacks Feb 5, 2022 ▶ 1:22:23 E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
Jun 1, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Urban: Avoidable chronic disease accounts for 75% of US healthcare spend
“According to the CDC, for whatever that's worth to you, avoidable chronic disease accounts for 75% of our health care spend”
Tandice Urban Jun 1, 2022 ▶ 7:36 #AIS: The Lanby's Tandice Urban on solving healthcare's customer service problem
Oct 8, 2024
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: CDC reports 74% of Americans are overweight or obese
“According to the CDC, 74% of Americans are now overweight or clinically obese.”
David Friedberg Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 2:10 Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly | The All-In Interview
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: RFK Jr. withdrew federal mRNA funding and altered CDC guidelines
“RFK withdrew federal funding for MRNA vaccine development, and he removed the COVID vaccine from the CDC recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 1:23:22 Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
Jan 13, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Carolla: Union pressure forced Rochelle Walensky to walk back school reopening comments
“At some point, Rochelle Walensky of the CDC announces they should open schools, but that gets shut down. Really quickly by the school unions. And then she announces that she was not speaking officially. That was just sort of her opinion off the record.”
Adam Carolla Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 14:37 Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
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