“There’s no doubt when you put restraints on society that it causes emotional and mental stress. There’s no doubt about that. But you have to have a balance between saving people’s lives from getting infected and hospitalizations.
I’m not sure the lockdowns themselves [caused these problems], and I am wondering why you’re asking me about lockdowns because there were no complete lockdowns in this country. There were restrictions, obviously, but there were no lockdowns.
China is now going into a real lockdown, so I would disagree with characterizing whatever went on in this country as a full lockdown.”
What he’s really saying is, ‘Ha! You thought these last two years were hell? Just wait and see what we do to you real soon!’
Source: Wine Press