Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Twitter vs Facebook
2020-06-20 spoken.md · speaker-labeled ▶ watch ← E2 all episodes E5 →
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Tier crossings
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Kill dates that landed since E2
1 hit · 0 partial · 0 miss — windows that closed after 2020-04-11 and up to 2020-06-20, auto-scored against price data and never hand-set. verdict · R · α
| idea | verdict | R | α | closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🌍 Rapid reopening: weeks, not months | HIT | +29.6% | +0.0 | 2020-06-19 |
Who moved the board
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What got argued (2 ideas)
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Production is being scaled in parallel with trials (mRNA and viral vaccines both), so staged vaccine releases begin Q4 2020 with doses for healthcare workers — years faster than consensus expected, unlocking the full reopening trade.
There's going to be a stage release of vaccines that will probably, believe it or not, start in Q4 of this year, and there's been production ramp up going on in parallel to testing... we could have doses that are available for distribution to healthcare workers and frontline people in Q4 of this year is what I would kind of set the over-under at.
Episode digest
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Core four, taped 2020-06-20. Chamath declares lockdowns dead ('we're out — the genie is out of the bottle; no government can tolerate future lockdowns') — lands ONE DAY past covid-rapid-reopening-2020's eval window (2020-06-19), so era rule keeps it a digest note. Sacks concedes the V-shaped recovery is 'surprising all of us' (captured as a crash-deeper oppose — his E2 U/L walk-back begins). Friedberg's Q4-2020 vaccine call captured (parallel production ramp; write-off risk only a couple billion). Election handicapping with no tradeable instrument (digest): Chamath 75-25 Biden tightening to 55-45, 'Biden landslide' if turnout organizing works; Friedberg 70% TRUMP (agent-of-change/blame-master thesis); Jason Biden; Sacks 'if the election were today, he would lose' + Biden-cognitive-decline debate risk; Oprah-for-VP riff. Rest is policing reform (demilitarize, end qualified immunity, police unions as bipartisan blind spot), mask politicization, cancel-culture/due-process (wrong-cyclist doxxing), Twitter-vs-Facebook moderation game theory (big five's 'position is no position'), Bolton book. Labels clean.