The Health System of the United States Did Its Job?

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David Frum: The centralized nature of the american system is both a blessing and a curse in this type of situation. He says it's been very hard to create a unified national strategy, where people move around between areas that are not locked down or start new outbreaks. But decentralization has allowed for private companies to react, he says,. And you see a lot of people a helping in different ways," Frum writes....

0:01 Jason & Chamath catch us up on their quarantines
1:20 Chamath intros David Sacks
4:40 David explains what their poker group chat has been like since COVID-19 started, and how Jason, Chamath & himself fall on the optimistic/pessimistic spectrum
6:58 How have the past few months defined David's view on the world, and what is his reaction to the US government's response?
12:22 Did the US health apparatus do its job? How could it improve? Why aren't masks already mandated?
19:33 Culture clash between scientific experts & entrepreneurs, thoughts on Chloroquine as a treatment method
27:00 Are US bureaucrats taking the intelligence of US citizens for granted? How liable is Trump?