COVID-19

“At this point, I think everybody admits that this thing is going to roll through the population of the United States.”

“Only 80% of people that get this thing end up with a fever, you know, when they kind of get checked in. And so that's kind of a crazy stat, right? One fifth of the people don't even have a fever that are actively infected with this virus.”

“And so if you have a multi-week asymptomatic, you know super spreader population in any of those states you're going to see some really difficult circumstances and it will unfortunately in the near term be drawn on what seems like political lines not dissimila…”

“If I were to put my money on this, look, I'm a betting guy. I would be a little bit nervous at this point, but I'd say it's probably somewhere between .15 and call it 1.8%, you know, call it, that's an order of magnitude, I know. So, you know, but you could do…”

“If you're found to be An asymptomatic carrier, then you can self quarantine and socially distance, and we can really you know, nip this thing in the bud in a, you know, four, five, six week time frame.”

“And the latter approach is smart when You know, there's a lot of upside in trying something and not much downside, you know, and the other approach of this sort of this scientific, the pseudoscientific sounding approach where you're constantly demanding conclu…”

“Because otherwise the number of deaths and the numb and the amount of pain that it, that is caused by economic destruction will far outnumber the number of people that die from this, which is tragic already.”

“All of the testing and iteration, all of those things are must-haves in peacetime. They are nice-to-haves in wartime.”

“Great paper out of MIT, by the way, that shows how this happened on the subway. Identified the subway as kind of the primary vector that drove transmission in New York city.”

“You take a Western European nation like Czech Republic, they had a huge COVID outbreak. It spiked just like the rest of Europe. They went all in on mask wearing, and they've completely controlled the virus. It's knocked out.”

“There was a good analysis done that showed in tracing cases where they actually found the origin of where transmission occurred, 97% occurred indoors.”

“I think COVID is going to be a distant memory by next summer. I really do.”

“I think the most likely outcome here is that because he's got the best care he's, you know, I'd say it's probably like at least 50% that this is over for him in about a week. And it redounds to his political advantage. I think there's probably 40% chance that,…”

“I think the overall mortality rate for someone of his age is in, call it the two to four percent range, right?”

“It feels to me like we are really winding down on the whole COVID thing.”

“More people on average say it's a health issue than an economic one. Trump with Trump supporters overwhelmingly say the crisis is one that's financial, not health related.”

“We now have certainly more cases. We have more deaths and we have more deaths per capita than Florida, despite the fact that Florida has no lockdowns and a much older population.”

“COVID is going to be over in May.”

“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…”

“We've known since last summer that there were no cases, no documented cases of casual outdoor spread anywhere in the world.”

“It's pretty clear that this was something that leaked out of that lab.”

“They're at very low risk for getting the virus. They're very low risk for transmitting the virus if they get it. And even if they get it, they're at almost no risk for it being harmful or, you know, to cause serious illness or death.”

“If 40% of Americans remain unvaccinated two or three years from now, the odds that there will be a strain that is the killer strain that does meaningful damage to those people, I think is basically a hundred percent.”

“This is gonna, I think, permanently impact human life expectancy.”

“This bestie got a breakthrough infection outdoors at a restaurant. Number one, got it outdoors. Number two, got it from somebody who was also vaccinated.”

“This is, you know, as we talked about earlier, and as I think everyone is coming to terms with, this is going to be an endemic virus, and that means that it's going to be circulating in the population in a modest way, causing sometimes severe, sometimes, you k…”

“I got it. I was vaccinated. I got it from someone who was vaccinated.”

“It'll be a seasonal disease, and it'll, it'll, it'll be something like the flu in terms of how it cycles each year. And it seems unlikely that it's going to be eradicated through vaccination.”

“This is an endemic kind of circumstance. We're going to be in this for a while.”

“A healthy teenager has a one in a million chance of getting and dying from COVID, which is way lower than, you know, dying in a car wreck on a road trip.”

“Fauci, with respect to COVID, we talked about it before, 100% participated in a suppression of the investigation into the origins of COVID. There was an active attempt to suppress that.”

“So I am vaccinated against COVID.”

“Where it originally came from was the Wuhan lab. I happen to think it escaped from the Wuhan lab.”

“After COVID and the injections, a lot of young people, these turbo cancers that are happening, because their immune systems have been harmed, and so now everything starts to shake up.”

“In private, Anthony Fauci is saying, I'm fifty-fifty, whether this came from the lab or animals.”

“Shutting schools down for COVID may be the safest thing to do, but you damage kids, you cause a lot of collateral damage, and it was never dangerous to healthy young kids in the first place.”