COVID-19 lockdowns

“Well, nowhere in the country did the hospitals get overwhelmed”

“I certainly, you know thought that the lockdowns were unreasonable in the extent, but then the problem was they weren't followed, so they were all for waste.”

“I do think that the lockdowns went on too long. They, I mean, with, I think with twenty-twenty hindsight, we would say that the lockdowns weren't necessary if we had just gone all in on a mass policy.”

“We're gonna be in this sort of start and stop mode now for the foreseeable future. But it's just not possible to ask people now to go back into any form of quarantine or shelter in place. I just don't think they'll do it.”

“If the woke left insists on permanent lockdowns, Trump will have an issue that supersedes the incompetence of COVID response.”

“This feels no different than me growing up in Saginaw, Michigan. The only difference is I know where my next, I know where my next meal is coming from, you know, and I'm in a much better place living space than I was, but this feels no different. Where I'm loc…”

“I mean, this idea of wearing a mask after you've already been vaccinated never made any sense. This idea of locking down the whole economy instead of isolating the at risk people for a whole year. It doesn't make sense.”

“There's really no correlation between death rates for COVID per capita and the severity of lockdowns. Basically, the data shows that lockdowns don't have an impact on a state's success in battling COVID.”

“Ultimately, the benefit was zero, because we ended up accumulating, call it 10 trillion dollars of, you know, four trillion dollars of net costs that we have to pay off at some point, not to mention the economic consequences of the lockdowns. And, ah, you know…”