COVID

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2021 by Sujay Jaswa · across every show →

Everything said about COVID, oldest first

Jul 22, 2021 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Jaswa: mRNA vaccines will transform treatment of every known disease

“Not only are they going to have changed the history of the world when it comes to COVID, I think they're going to change every type of disease that we know of.”

Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 34:56 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale

Aug 18, 2021 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Ferguson: Biotechnology and mRNA will produce many more extraordinary breakthroughs

“If mRNA vaccines were the key to defeating COVID, which I think they were, there's a whole lot more that that technology still has to do. My sense is that there are still many more extraordinary breakthroughs to come.”

Niall Ferguson Aug 18, 2021 ▶ 22:33 Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall · Joe Lonsdale

Sep 15, 2021 negative

Assertion Partly supported

Mackey: Over 70% of American Adults Are Overweight and 42.5% Obese

“Over 70% of adult Americans are overweight, 42 and a half percent are obese, and the trend, and the average adult American has gained 27 pounds since COVID.”

John Mackey Sep 15, 2021 ▶ 19:11 Whole Foods Co-Founder & CEO John Mackey: Conscious Capitalism and Repairing America's Division · Joe Lonsdale

Oct 9, 2025 negative

Opinion

Carvalho: American elites failed in recent crises and need a reset

“We saw through many examples in the past few years that our elites are, in some ways, failing us. We're talking, if we think about COVID, the summer of 2020, if we think about October seventh, and we think about what happened in the past few weeks these are ex…”

Carlos Carvalho Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 2:23 This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale

COVID

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