Lockdowns were a mistaken policy that failed to achieve their goals while causing catastrophic damage to the poor, working class, and children.

“I don't think lockdowns in in a in a society that's as unequal as ours could possibly succeed”

The multiple lockdowns imposed in the UK were unjustifiable and caused significant harm to children, the economy, and healthcare.

“For me, I think there are very, very serious question marks over whether we needed to do so repeatedly for the best part of off and on 2 years in a way that had, we now know, devastating collateral damage uh on our economy, uh but much more importantly uh on people's health in in other respects and ”

Lockdowns were significantly more harmful to people than the virus itself.

“it made no sense to me the lockdowns were so much more harmful than the actual virus”

Lockdowns were a massive, reckless, and self-destructive error that should never be viewed as a standard public health tool.

“I think very frankly that lockdowns were a huge mistake that they may come to be viewed in the longer arc of history as one of the great self destructive errors of civilization.”

The speaker characterizes the COVID-19 lockdowns in California and Australia as draconian and unnecessarily harsh.

“I was, you know, subjected to the unbelievably draconian lockdowns that that you guys here I certainly don't have to talk about from an Australian perspective.”