Rapid Response: Nothing matters but this. w/Eric Schmidt (frmr Google CEO)

The way this disease [COVID-19] will play out: We had the most acute phase where we were worried about overloading our hospitals; we now have the poor leadership phase where we know roughly what to do—I'll call it the mask phase; then, we're going to have the getting it under control phase, which I hope occurs very soon, but that phase is going to take quite a bit of work.

For the life of me, I do not understand why people run around denying the existence of COVID-19 or the seriousness of it ... On the other hand, I also never understood the Holocaust deniers, and I also never understood The Flat Earth Society, and I never understood the people who denied the moon landing. I never understood the anti-vaxxers.

This disease [COVID-19] is spread by aerosol and airborne mechanisms—literally in your breath. You want to avoid confined areas with a lot of virus...

The longer-term concerns about AI are largely based on movies that people have watched. The reality is that AI is going to make us smarter [and] more productive. It will help with education; it'll help us reach people who've not been reached; it'll make our businesses more efficient...

My goal is a measurable goal. I want the [COVID-19] infection rate to be below one, I want the disease to die out in America, and I want that to happen as quickly as possible—not just in the United States, but in the rest of the world.