Who Screwed Up Worst on Covid
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
5 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Did Florida's fast-and-loose Covid policies fail compared to New York's strict lockdowns? How effective were mask mandates? How did the United States stack up against Europe and Australia?
Maxim Lott of "Maximum Truth" crunched the numbers on which regimes saved or lost lives during Covid 19. And offers a tool to asses if otherwise effective restrictions are actually worth it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm your host Andrew Heen. |
| 0:16.2 | And today I'm going to bring on a number-crunching friend of mine |
| 0:19.8 | to ask, who wanted COVID? Who sucked at COVID. Did we actually learn anything from COVID policy in case |
| 0:28.7 | I don't know next year we get Quantum POCs or some other melody. This show is made possible by |
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| 0:48.3 | appreciate it. That's Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton now on with the show. |
| 0:55.0 | I am joined by my friend Maxim Lott today he is a producer he's very much a numbers guy I've known him for several years and he's |
| 1:04.6 | also the author of an excellent newsletter give us the name of that newsletter maxim yeah it's |
| 1:10.3 | maximum truth it's maximum truth dot sub-stack.com. |
| 1:15.0 | And you were doing the Lord's work maximum. |
| 1:17.8 | You're one of those poor souls that sits down with a stack of numbers and does heavy quantitative analysis then kind of comes into the room bleary |
| 1:26.1 | and goes, hey I figured out what all these numbers mean. And then people like me talk about it. |
| 1:30.7 | So you're you're the very necessary part of the media |
| 1:34.2 | ecosystem that allows other people to exist. Thank you. Yeah. Unfortunately I am |
| 1:38.8 | that person crunching the numbers for 10 hours or whatnot. |
| 1:43.0 | And you're in... |
| 1:44.0 | So I have a new analysis on COVID, which you saw. |
| 1:46.0 | Go ahead. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, we'll talk about that in a minute, but first, you said we're on the same island right now. |
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