https://minutesof.com/on/covid/ Everyone on the record about covid: 20 verbatim quotes from 5 people, May 2020 to April 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:53 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/b2a182f4-2f3f-4fdc-965f-3d07044df609/ https://minutesof.com/q/b2a182f4-2f3f-4fdc-965f-3d07044df609/ “I think the marginal cost of a PCR test was below $2, and the average price that was recompensated by the government was over $100.” — Bill Gurley, Tom Bilyeu Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:05 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/72c6c269-0725-46e1-b2c8-4d7da83393ba/ https://minutesof.com/q/72c6c269-0725-46e1-b2c8-4d7da83393ba/ “But thinking through the second and third order effects of what would happen to kids if you kept them out of school for six months, what would happen to the economy if you shut down businesses.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:27:21 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/9997042f-11f7-434d-9294-5ea72a223b2c/ https://minutesof.com/q/9997042f-11f7-434d-9294-5ea72a223b2c/ “I think most people believe there were consequences to lockdowns definitely with kids. Yes. Lost generations of kids from school.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/bbe57580-4923-47c6-97e9-f7e5f30a9cbc/ https://minutesof.com/q/bbe57580-4923-47c6-97e9-f7e5f30a9cbc/ “In the last two years since COVID, we've unfortunately seen a reversal in global malnutrition statistics. You know, we were at 600,000,000 people, living on less than 1,500 calories a day just before COVID.” — David Friedberg, How I Invest Podcast Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:38:21 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/e61dcf06-83c3-45db-82ce-2668d4bc993c/ https://minutesof.com/q/e61dcf06-83c3-45db-82ce-2668d4bc993c/ “This guy's name is Timothy Stenzel. Now, he works for the FDA, and he runs the group that oversees which antigen test gets approved.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:57 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/79404e94-d2a9-404c-8c61-0dd6ca1ed1bf/ https://minutesof.com/q/79404e94-d2a9-404c-8c61-0dd6ca1ed1bf/ “Germany leaned heavily into rapid tests. They got their scientists together, and they evaluated a 122 different vendors and validated 96 of them.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:57 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/c503a8f5-e049-4149-9f2b-e5eec83b1a30/ https://minutesof.com/q/c503a8f5-e049-4149-9f2b-e5eec83b1a30/ “If you trend out and look at real personal consumption expenditures, goods spending is roughly $500,000,000,000 above the pre COVID trend line. Services spending is 500,000,000,000 below the trend line.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/f686692d-04c2-44c6-bc38-135e7cb0e021/ https://minutesof.com/q/f686692d-04c2-44c6-bc38-135e7cb0e021/ “What it has been slow in pricing in is how dramatically different the arc will be for many of these digital businesses. I remember having conversations with Rich and many others in May.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/144d6e82-fec9-4cca-8886-cbd043f300ee/ https://minutesof.com/q/144d6e82-fec9-4cca-8886-cbd043f300ee/ “We go sit in TSA lines and, you know, get our asses swabbed when we get on an airplane now, And that's still going on twenty years later.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/bea4fa5b-b60a-4ae1-bc97-a02d861d1eef/ https://minutesof.com/q/bea4fa5b-b60a-4ae1-bc97-a02d861d1eef/ “It has nothing to do with science. Like, after nine eleven, there were no more serious, like, terrorist attacks on The United States, but our fucking lives changed dramatically.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/aefd1e30-b951-4afc-b3a6-57c1972235c8/ https://minutesof.com/q/aefd1e30-b951-4afc-b3a6-57c1972235c8/ “It's all politics and social behavior. It has nothing to do with science. Like, after nine eleven, there were no more serious, like, terrorist attacks on The United States, but our fucking lives changed dramatically.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/2d4045c8-aded-46ec-ade5-83517a0e349c/ https://minutesof.com/q/2d4045c8-aded-46ec-ade5-83517a0e349c/ “During periods of crisis like we've experienced over the last ninety days, I mean we put hundreds of millions of dollars to work in the private software market at the end of March and early April, because we weren't thinking about the next six minutes or the next six weeks” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:30:00 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/50ee7f2b-5f60-4864-abc0-bf2cabc5d238/ https://minutesof.com/q/50ee7f2b-5f60-4864-abc0-bf2cabc5d238/ “I think there's gonna be a staged release of vaccines that'll probably, believe it or not, start in Q4 of this year. And there's been production ramp up going on in parallel to testing.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 02:45:29 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/5f19391d-b997-4e43-90e9-ae2a3cf45bf7/ https://minutesof.com/q/5f19391d-b997-4e43-90e9-ae2a3cf45bf7/ “I think the right policy is to end lockdowns but wear masks. The problem with the politicians is half of them didn't want to end lockdowns and the other half didn't want to wear masks.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/45b64153-d2b7-4bf2-82fe-2e080e6806f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/45b64153-d2b7-4bf2-82fe-2e080e6806f1/ “South Korea, fifty one million people under three hundred deaths. You take a a Western European nation like Czech Republic, they had a huge COVID outbreak, a spike just like the rest of Europe.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/f5eccc64-d164-4c37-a90e-53264f2455cd/ https://minutesof.com/q/f5eccc64-d164-4c37-a90e-53264f2455cd/ “And the reason is that they've had other coronaviruses through a common cold and they've developed this immune response.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/7b8f2f4c-f5f4-46c9-95cd-c4217aa5820d/ https://minutesof.com/q/7b8f2f4c-f5f4-46c9-95cd-c4217aa5820d/ “And so for two thirds of the population, they don't have a huge risk and we're still locking them down.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/e46e3885-5725-4e3d-bba2-ec5775416256/ https://minutesof.com/q/e46e3885-5725-4e3d-bba2-ec5775416256/ “for people 60 who don't have these preexisting conditions, it's just not, yes, there's always examples to the contrary, but it's not this sort of gigantic risk.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/8c24e534-2732-43ea-bba1-294535d0e723/ https://minutesof.com/q/8c24e534-2732-43ea-bba1-294535d0e723/ “And the reason is that they've had other coronaviruses through a common cold and they've developed this immune response.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 covid https://minutesof.com/q/5ffd6485-1f15-40cb-a183-922efab0bb48/ https://minutesof.com/q/5ffd6485-1f15-40cb-a183-922efab0bb48/ “I was like, Oh, April 7, we'll be back to work. And I also had a bet going with you guys and I said, gonna have less than twenty thousand deaths in The US.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 covid