So Tom Woods has released a quiz that shows all the Cova charts from the past year or so. So I'm going to go ahead and share this. Now, this is definitely going to be more video friendly, so for those who are watching, this will definitely be beneficial for you. But for those who are just listening, I'm going to try and explain as much as I possibly can to kind of paint a picture
on what we're doing. So this quiz if you go to covid, charts Is.com covid, charts quiz.com, you can follow along even play along with us while we're doing this. So just the intro here, it says, welcome to the covid. Charts quiz in 2020, people were told that business closures, stay-at-home orders, lockdowns and mask mandates were necessary to slow the spread of SARS COV to. That's the scientific name for the CV.
Some people expected that places where these measures were absent or Acted half-heartedly would have drastically worse results with more than a year of these measures behind us. It's time to evaluate the results. Preliminary academic Studies have already been published and they deserve our attention. This quiz is intended for the Layman because if these radical measures were truly Justified, the results should be clear and unambiguous in the data.
So let's take a look. And then there's a button that says, take the quiz so we'll go ahead and hit that button. All right. So Keith, the first question, pinned The Mask mandate on the country's basically, like pin the tail on the donkey. So this first one for those who are just listening, I'm going to describe, what is the question here? Says when did United Kingdom Institute, a mask mandate? Click on the chart to mark your
guests, then click show answer. So, there's a chart that it's showing here where, again, it shows United Kingdom covid-19 cases, and in parentheses under that and small file size per million, Ian seven-day average. So it shows from 310 2020 all the way to April 10, 20, 21. So basic about a year at about 13 months, they're kind of showing where the the Line is now right at the beginning of three 1020. It's right at zero and then it's just a little bit over.
So it's like about a hundred so it's not it's not too high or it's not. It's not like super high whatever. The highest where it's at is just before 125 21, and it's right over that 750 Million number or 750 number where it shows on the left side. So Keith, where do you think that mask mandate started? So just scroll down a little more real briefly so it says Source our world in data and if anyone wants to check out more, they can look at Ovid charts and forgot.
That was a great free Tom Woods book, that that really lays it out. So do me a favor, just scroll up, I want to read the question again carefully because I want to take the position that our opponents might. I want to make sure we're getting both sides here. So when did the UK Institute a mask mandate? So mask mandate people. Now have to wear masks masks, make the virus spread less therefore we'd get lower
numbers. So Was I am told by the scientist that this would lead to a drastic decrease, scroll down a little. I'm going to say that right after this very downward spiral at around 120, 125 21. So this would have been January 25th 2021. Yeah, maybe stop right there because we would expect there to be a little more growth and then and then it would spiral down because people are wearing masks now that they're mandated and
the virus cannot spread. So that is my guess around 1, January, twenty, fifth twenty Twenty-One based on. Yeah, yeah. Like you said it's right where it's about the spike and then just a little there's a little bit more of a spike upward and then right when I'm asked mandate that you say it was implemented that's one of the that's when the numbers start going down drastically.
So yeah, well, click on show, answer and you were off now, so when you hit show answer it will show you the actual time. At the mask mandate was actually implemented and Keith. I am sorry to say you were way off by a hundred, sixty seven days rights just after July 14th 2020. So that's, you know, like you were saying, you would think it would be right when it's about the peak right here in the, in the January 7th to 2021 date. But it actually, it was at Brown
seven, twenty four. 123 somewhere around that area. So again, way off by one or 67 days. Okay. Well you know it's possible that you know what we have these sort of these sort of examples that don't make any sense. They're sort of outliers. So let me give me give me another one. I am going to use all the knowledge I've gained from both dr. Fauci and dr. Brian stelter in order to guess the next. The next one let's let's try buzzing through.
As I can see we got what we got, quite a few to get through. Yeah, alright so again putting the mask mandate on the country. The question is, when did Spain Institute a mask mandate? All right, Spain cases per million, seven day, average.
I'm going to stick with my gut here and whenever I see a downward number of cases cases the virus just spreads when there's this unregulated and are Key of people doing whatever they want to. So therefore, the best indicator is just before maybe just before the peak. So I'm actually going to go to a different Peak are give me. What is that? 11 November 10th?
Yeah, give me November 10th that is that looks good because we're just getting over a peak and then it starts to downward spiral from there that had to have been caused by. The Masks masks and vaccines are only things that are possible to decrease the virus from spreading. Okay? And again the source is our world and data. So let's go ahead and show answer and again, Keith you're off by a hundred seventy three
days. It actually was around this day of a 522 2020. So, I mean, what do you have to say about that? Well, again, we have two outliers that, Here's both Spain and the United Kingdom small countries. I've never heard of either of these places. Give me another country. Let's see, let's see if if my logic is able to apply, oh Italy, yes, Italy. This place had Italy and Iran were two of the biggest countries at first. So I'm seeing the death per million big spike, right?
At that second Spike. I'm going to say November 30th of 20 I'm sorry, November 15th of 2020. There's a big drop after that. Drop equals fewer virus fewer virus only caused by masks or vaccines. That's my guess. What if, what do I have? Okay, let's see. And actually you're off by a hundred, ninety five days and it's yeah, yeah, it started right around. May 3rd 2020. So again, I guess, Celia was another outlier.
It appears so that gosh I maybe we just they never should have gotten rid of Mussolini, and they needed the strong arm of the state to really lock down because I could have sworn lockdowns and mask mandate, stop the spread and they keep people safe friends. Okay. Emmanuel macron, we stopped Marine Le Pen from becoming president and France. Shirley France will be my savior. I see a big dip around, November
November 8th. Teenth yet, give me November 18th, because I see a big fall right after November 18th. That's when the mask mandate went into effect people started wearing masks in the virus. Stop spreading. All right. And no you're off by a hundred ninety-one days and it looks like it started around May 10th 2020. All right. Look, let's keep going. Let's see if I can get any of these. Correct.
By using the logic given to me by the great intellectual philosophers at both, NBC MSNBC and CNN Belgium. Okay, this is where the Germans invaded and we're putting babies on bayonets that that very accurate story, but we have a big decrease round. November 1st, give me November 1st and And that area. Let's see when the mask mandate took place. No off by a hundred, Thirteen Days. And it looks like it was around July 11th 2020. So again, it looks like Belgium was another outlier. Huh.
All right. What's next right? Austria Austria. Okay. All right, I see a big dip again. I'm actually going to try later, dips us. So, here we have masks jobs, sort of staying down for a longer period of time. So I'm going to guess, April 14th 2020, right? What we see a decrease in cases and then they Flatline, so give me give me that day. Right there and let's see how accurate it is. Oh yeah. Your this is your most accurate one to date off by 15 days. Yeah.
So let's like I started just about the beginning of April, only 15 days. So another words after the mask mandate, they saw the worst spikes ever two months, Lisa. Well, so I'm still not right Germany, Germany, give me. Um, where would Germany be? Ooh, they had a big drop than a big peak in March of 2020. So it had to have been a All right, there. Mask mandate must have taken place because cases fell, and we never celebrated cases falling in places. Only heard about them when they
were on the rise. So that must have been the mask Mandate of days off my 12 gauge. Yeah. But even when I'm close to the days, we still have the worst amount of cases after the mask mandates are imposed. So still, it's it's not exactly. So our final score was the you were off by an average of a hundred, twenty four days. OH, Ivy I should have listened to more fauci. I must not close enough. All right, so let's look at the next section and looks like, Okay, so this one is spotting
the lockdowns. Now this says here, each of the twenty charts below shows the daily deaths per thousand in a US state. So this is American Centric 10 of them. For the states, with the most stringent restrictions EG lockdowns mask mandates, business closures, and the other 10 are for those, with the least stringent restrictions, if these restrictions worked, it should be easy to tell apart. Click on the charts. You think had the most stringent restrictions when you're done?
Click show Answer to see how you did. And just below that again, it shows some small boxes with charts. And in bold here, it says, daily debts. And then in parentheses blow that says per thousand population seven-day average and C 5, 10, 15 20. So there are 20. So, Keith wit, which 10 do you think had the most stringent restrictions just based on these charts that you're looking at, all right? Starting with the top row. I'm certainly going See the first the middle and the last on
this top row. They have very very strict lines with very small increases so they must have had the most stringent or severe in the second row. Certainly the first one and the middle one in the second row, those are those lines are much more closer to 0 or lockdowns, equal less virus, equal fewer cases in the third row. Certainly the center had more locked. Downs. And the one just to the right of that, that this is certainly lower than the other ones keep scrolling. Let me see how many.
And then at the bottom, it would be the one furthest to the right the center and then for this to the left, if I have any more options I would say that those are the ones that had the most stringent because they're the closest to zero and have the flattest lines. Okay. Yeah, that is. Attend there. So we'll go ahead and show answer, all right. Now once they hit that, it'll show you which state court
correlates to each chart. So it looks like you got that first one on the first row that was Main and you did get that one. And then the one that you also wanted me to click on was the one in the middle on the top first row that was Oklahoma, but that was a wrong answer. And then you also got Washington here. That was on the top right corner. Give me a favor, scroll up, and let's just see if there is an overall numbers. My score was 40 percent womp-womp. That's worse than random kind of
a gun. Yeah, I feel as though I had this three by Favre 5 index card of fauci is allowable opinion. And this SOB is just setting fire to it at for no reason other than to make me feel insecure. This now is horrible. It's important to note here that for this particular section, the sources are the US Centers for Disease, Control and prevention and wallethub. So are you telling me that the CDC? This is there. This is the source that that this is coming from is from the CDC itself.
So just important to note that that's rough. Let's keep let's keep going. I got to get some of these right? Yeah. Okay. We feel insecure now Thanksgiving now, this was one of those times where people were saying, oh, people are going to be spending time with their families and this is it. This is when covid really going to get its grasp on people and start killing a lot more people because people just being so selfish want to spend time with their families. I mean, come on.
Why would you do that? So separating people from their families, virtuous families wanting to be together selfish. Let's eat now. Now this one, I know I'm going to get this right because this Was a super spreader event. And when two words rhyme, that means they're trailing. Raise the minimum wage. That's good. No, I know by. That's obviously, right? So, super spreader. Is another thing.
That's objectively true. We don't even need to think about if item over there before we have to fight them over here again, all this truth. So, yes, were sooooo good. Good catchphrase is there, right? So here in this section, it says Public Health, experts, warn that the US would see a spike in cases after Thanksgiving call Get quote, the mother of all super spreader events unquote. So where do you think Thanksgiving is on this chart?
Click on track to make your guests then click show Answer to see how you did. So, it appears we're dealing with 12 Midwest states again, cases per million through a seven day average chart on the left hand side going from 0 to 2000. Now when was Thanksgiving so thanks get so, people are safe and then they go to Thanksgiving, get the virus and then it spreads after. So I am Keep moving to the left, so because cases would have gone
from low to extremely high. So that's why I'm going to pick low right there. Stop click right there and then I'm guessing that because we had people staying in their homes obeying, the mask mandates, but then they traveled left their house and then the cases shut up very quickly. So, so right there in the middle is probably after Thanksgiving after there was all this. Spreading and hospitalization. So there's my guests in the center left of the chart.
All right? So again, the source to note here is the New York Times GitHub. All right? So let's show answer. And it looks like the actual was right at the end of this peak here in the middle of this chart and so you're off by 86 days and here, it says, actually cases peaked in the Midwest. For Thanksgiving and fell afterward. Even though people in the midwest behaved no differently
from people anywhere else. That would surprise me if the people in the midwest were less likely to see their families then California or New York. So I would imagine that they saw their families even more than a now than usual. And that makes the the lockdown thesis even worse. Throw another one at me. Let's see if I get one.
All right, let's do this. Okay, spot, the open State, Iowa, lifted all Statewide restrictions on February 8 2021, the other Midwest States retain various degrees of restrictions. So again, where do you think they lift it, or not? Lift the restrictions. So where do you think? Which one of these lines here? Do you think is Iowa? So I will lift restrictions restrictions lead to lower
cases. So if they lift restrictions will see higher, cases on the right portion of the screen, you'll see one line much higher than Others, lifted restrictions would mean significantly more cases so do me a favor and click on that one? The one that. Okay? Yeah. The the one that's highest because that's what lifted restrictions lead to show me the answer. So I could celebrate. Lord have mercy. Nope, that was actually Michigan.
The one that I had clicked for you and Iowa was his pink line and again, that's kind of middle-of-the-road. It looks like. So, again, it kind of looks a lot like the other lines that are there. And then, again, Michigan is right, right?
At the right of the chart, is just shooting right up there, isn't that funny of all the ones I could have chosen, I chose Michigan well without even knowing it when it was California, Michigan, and New York that had like the hardest lockdowns Gretchen Her fighting with you know if you remember they were called insurrectionists at the time and everything so I'll write again, it looks like there's no correlation between restrictions and cases. The lockdown people are very weak.
Very weak, Iowa is in pink, you pick Michigan well son of a gun, give me another one. Let's let's see how I'm doing. All right, so this one is State versus State and this says that so So since March 2012, we've been told that various interventions like lockdowns masks and stay-at-home orders are really effective so much. So in fact that the devastating damage caused by such measures, have generally been neglected at
these measures. Were effective enough to justify such sweeping measures that did so much damage to people's physical mental health and employment. Prospects their children's education and much more that Effectiveness should surely be evident in the charts and override all other factors. So let's go ahead and start the quiz. And this one here is one of these midwest states had some of the toughest lockdowns in the country and was praised by dr. Fauci for having quote, a really
good Governor unquote. While the, oh, while the other lifted all state level restrictions in early February 20 21 and was raked over. The coals for not quote, following the science. Unquote, there's that lovely phrase. You gotta follow the science. You're not following the science, can you tell them apart? So, here are the two lines. So, Keith, which one do you think? Us. Scroll up, just a little. I need the rewording of the final.
It says, which state had a quote, really good Governor. Click the line to select then show answer. So in reference to that he's talking about fauci found, she was praising the governor who had done the best job because they had the lowest numbers there for the places that the place that ended up after we had had covid. Willow us numbers would be the governor that he praised. So that would be Be the line that on the right hand side, is closer to the bottom, because yes, that one.
Because even though it started High, what the governor did was intervene and as a causal result, we ended up with much fewer cases later on because they followed the science. That's what I'm going with. That's my reasoning. Yeah, it says that it's for the deaths and so the time frame that they're showing here is from just before November 27th 2020 and all the way. April fourteenth, twenty twenty one. So it's a pretty pretty good amount of time that they are showing.
And the source is the New York Times GitHub. So let's show answer. No, actually the blue line that you wanted me to select here is Iowa. And the red line is Michigan. So thank you. The correct. Answer is Michigan. Dr. Fauci was referring to Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan. When I was governor, lets it all state level restrictions and early February 20 21, the New York Times complained. Iowa was quote, easing restrictions at exactly the wrong time, CNN celebrity dr.
Sanjay Gupta called it quote, really frustrating. And frankly, really disheartening not to be outdone The Washington Post declared quote, welcome to Iowa. A state that doesn't care if you live or die. So unbelievable. Well, I feel almost as stupid as the Washington Post CNN the New York Times, but but not that stupid. Let's keep going. Maybe I'm sure I'll redeem myself because I'm just using everything. I've got steak, okay, back to State versus state was, which one is this for?
All right, so one of these neighboring, states had very stringent lockdowns, the other never closed indoor or outdoor dining or issued another stay-at-home order after the first one. Which one had tough lockdowns, click the line to select then click show answer. So again, it's going to show a blue line and a red line. And the time frame is before just about before, May 4th 2020 and all the way to April 14th 2021. And again, the source is the New York Times GitHub.
So Keith, which line do you think it is? Scroll up a little more so I can reword reread the wording, which one had tough lockdown. So we're looking at the ones. Add the toughest lockdowns, I'm a little discouraged because these lines actually look similar, which is odd for having such wildly different approaches. This is not exactly how the lockdowns were sold to me. I was told that if I bought lockdowns, I would reap the benefits of lower death, but it looks like I bought into
something. Unjustly reminds me of a multi-level marketing team. I joined in high school. It's, I haven't felt this screwed in really sometime. So what I'm going to go with. Is the the red line. I believe that is. Yes, that one right there. They have fewer numbers overall. They had a smaller Spike. This is because of the lockdowns, which keep us safe, and stop the virus from spreading. That's my answer in my justification.
All right, showing answer. And so, okay, the correct answer is California. California had some of the toughest lockdown measures in America while neighboring state of Nevada, remained much more open, yet their results. Very similar. So for those watching the red line was Nevada, and California was a blue line and Nevada, red line was the one that I had selected. So it looks like, I mean. Yeah. And again like you were saying they look pretty similar.
I mean, I California does have a little bit of a higher Spike but not too much higher than what Nevada is. Although I guess when you look at the numbers here on the left, California is going above. 900 million and Nevada is Just below the 900 million. So I mean they do look pretty similar again, but it basically, just shows that in terms of these two states, one had toughest lockdown measures and the other one didn't. And yet their results look
pretty much the same. Alrighty, get, give me another one. All right. So again, stay versus State. One of these neighboring, southeastern states had a Statewide mask mandate the other two did not, which states had the Mandate click the line to select then click show answer. So this is for covid-19. Yeah, for a covid 18, that bad things were happening to people, they were dead or dying. So, and this is from the time frame. Is May 4th 2012.
A to April 14 2021, so Keith again, which line is it? Alright, but so here we have almost a year and one of these had a mask mandate, that's what I'm looking for. Again, I'm a little taken aback by how similar these lines are considering masks save lives and one of them had a mandate in the others didn't, so I'm just going to go with that green one. Right there. It seems like that is the lowest even though it has The highest peak in June, give me that one.
I'm guessing that. That want that? That state had a mask mandate. All right, well, let's see. No, it looks like you're incorrect. The correct answer is Alabama in July, twenty twenty Alabama, added a Statewide mask, mandate to it's already stringent lockdown, measures Florida and Georgia. Never had masks mandates. Georgia was decried as in quote, experiment, and Human Sacrifice unquote.
When Governor Kemp lifted Down restrictions in April 20 20 all three states follow the same trajectory. So again it's showing here that it's saying that Alabama, added a Statewide mask, mandate to it's already stringent lockdown measures but Florida and Georgia didn't. And yet when you look at this chart here, the lines look fairly similar. It sort of feels like seeing a psychic or something where you say, I know that good things are going to happen and that's so vague.
You can never falsify it but no matter what happens, the future doesn't change. Whether you go to the psychic and they give you the terrific potion that's going to change your life. It seems as though the potion called lockdown potion is actually just a fraud.
Like so many other snake oil gifts that the state loves to give us much like when they'll say, well, we have to go to war against al Qaeda. So, if they start a multi-trillion dollar war against al-Qaeda in 2001, where there are Al Qaeda members according to the CIA. Now, today after 20 years of fighting Al-Qaeda spending trillions of dollars, losing thousands of Americans. There's like 10,000 Al-Qaeda members on more continents than
ever before. They're siding with Al shabaab in Somalia, they have people in the Philippines now. So, again, this is just another thing where the state says. All right, we have the right to violently control people, and control the economy. Now, why do we have this? They, of course, start backwards. So these are some, some great Examples. I want to see if I can get at least one right using status
logic. Alright, so again, Savers a state one of these neighboring states had a Statewide math mandate until February, 20 21. The other never had a Statewide mandate which state had a mandate click the line to select then click show answer. Again this is for covid, 18, deaths, and there are two lines here. So is it the red line or the Blue Line Keith? There are fewer numbers with The Blue Line mandates lead to lower numbers. That's why we have them.
If you don't lock down, you get higher numbers, therefore, the blue or line equals lower numbers according to the New York Times. All right, let's see. No, you are incorrect again and the correct answers. Montana Idaho, never had a Statewide mandate and band local mandates in April of 2021. Yet. It far fared about the same as Mast Montana. And again, Idaho, Montana is And here they look fairly similar.
Now Montana did Spike higher here here around the November just before a December time, looks like but yeah, the numbers look pretty similar. All right, I think I got one more to question. Four or five section four out of four. Okay. This is the last one. So, one of these neighboring midwest states had a Statewide mask mandate for nine months. And the other two, never had a Statewide.
Mandate which state had the Mandate click the line to select and then click show Answer covid, 18 deaths. There are three lines here. Green blue red, which one is it Keith? Well it's a little discouraging to see that they have the same spikes at the same time and the same drips at roughly the same time, regardless of how they respond to see 18. However, if I had to put my money on it Ike Keep getting told, we need lockdowns.
I keep getting told they want to save lives, so I'm putting those two together. The third one right there. Yes, that one that you're highlighting right now, click on that. Those have the lowest numbers. Therefore, it must be as a causal result of the mandates because without them, you get higher numbers and More Death. All right. Well, let's see. Well, you're incorrect again. The correct answer is Kansas the results for masked, Kansas. Look about the same as the
unmask. It's and the two states that were unmasked here in this example, were Missouri and Nebraska so it looks like again. Like you were saying, they look pretty similar yet even though one state had masks and the other one didn't or the other two, didn't you? Look pretty similar. So I don't know what's going on here, man. I don't know. Well, that's a that's a hard pill to what to swallow turns
out. After lying to us every day for the first 24 years of my life, the state continued to lie for the 25th year and and I'm now I'm really upset. Nope. What we got one more? Oh, you have one more okay. Excuse me. So okay, so one line on this chart represents hospitalizations in the 25 states with the most stringent
interventions. Again, that's lockdowns mask mandates Gathering size limits, business closures and the other represents the 25 states with the least stringent interventions can you tell, which is which, so the question that they're asking here is which line represents the states with the most stringent measures. Now, it's again showing the CV, hospitalizations 25, most versus 25, least stringent US states per 100,000.
And the timeframe that they're showing is a before July 18 2020, all the way to May 8. 2012, he won and the source is health data.gov and wallethub, Well, this is why we had two weeks to slow the spread because even though it might not save lives or stopping the hospital's from being overwhelmed. So, so since that was a good policy, I never got any apologies in the mail or any phone call. So I'm assuming that had to have work. So, it seems that we have a bigger gap between these.
I want to get the wording of the question, right? Scroll up just a little more which line represents the states with the most stringent most stringent means, more severe more. Towns less virus. That would be the what appears to believe the blue or purple line? My screens, a little small. There we go. There's a there's a much fewer it seems therefore I'm going with those that group of states having more severe lockdowns. Alright. So yeah those the purple line here that that I'm seeing an
orange line. End, you chose the purple line. All right let's see. No actually it looks like the purple one was not Correct. So we really can't fault you for missing this one. The lines don't look very different, do they and I mean, they're not wrong and they do look pretty similar. So now, okay, the orange line is the most stringent in terms of how they fared with their restrictions and everything like that.
Now, in terms of the timeframe the orange with the most stringent, it looks like the numbers peaked around the December January time and then it started going Down towards March and the least stringent was again the highest amount was in that December January time and then it started going back down in March with just a tiny bit of a peak between that March 16th and May 8th time. So again they look pretty similar to me. Huh. So the lockdowns were or for nothing.
Just just like the stimulus packages that don't help us just like the Federal Reserve just like the welfare state that doesn't help us and decrease poverty, just like the educational system that doesn't make us smarter. Just like the military system that doesn't make us safer. Just like the monopolized police that doesn't stop burglars and robbers and rapists. Oh, just like the EPA that doesn't keep our environment cleaner. Just like the FDA that doesn't keep from having more choices
and healthy foods to eat this. This is wild man. Well, let's let's see what your score is. Wow, your score is zero percent. Are you still sure that government restrictions made a difference?