Friedberg argues US lockdowns failed because Americans refused to comply unlike China, wanting freedom and social interaction.
“It's so draconian. We're going to shut down the world. And this thing is going to get stopped in thirty days like happened in China.”
Friedberg argues COVID behavioral changes will persist like post-9/11 TSA security measures that remain twenty years later.
“We go sit in TSA lines and, you know, get our asses swabbed when we get on an airplane now, And that's still going on twenty years later.”
Friedberg compares COVID behavioral changes to post-9/11, arguing permanent shifts aren't driven by science but politics.
“It's all politics and social behavior. It has nothing to do with science. Like, after nine eleven, there were no more serious, like, terrorist attacks on The United States, but our fucking lives changed dramatically.”