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 admits he vastly overestimated lockdown effectiveness, predicting under 20,000 deaths and return to work by April 7.
“I was like, Oh, April 7, we'll be back to work. And I also had a bet going with you guys and I said, gonna have less than twenty thousand deaths in The US.”