lockdowns

7 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2020 by David Sacks · across every show →

Everything said about lockdowns, oldest first

May 21, 2020 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
David Sacks May 21, 2020 ▶ 34:05 E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
May 21, 2020 positive
Prediction Didn’t hold up
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.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 21, 2020 ▶ 31:51 E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
Dec 18, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
David Sacks Dec 18, 2020 ▶ 20:45 E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
Jan 23, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
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.”
David Sacks Jan 23, 2021 ▶ 1:14:47 E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
Jul 3, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
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”
David Friedberg Jul 3, 2021 ▶ 39:27 E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
Jul 23, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
David Sacks Jul 23, 2021 ▶ 10:17 E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
Dec 4, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
David Sacks Dec 4, 2021 ▶ 20:37 E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
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