The enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions has been inconsistent, illogical, and detrimental to the economy and general mental health.

“i think it's still a little nutty people can't sit outside on a patio and have a salad but they can stand arm to arm in costco and buy a big jar of icing to eat with their family i don't understand it”

Government health officials should declare a specific end date for COVID-19 pandemic restrictions once vaccines are widely available.

“if biden's correct that we're gonna have 300 million doses by end of may and i think he must be correct because he's been very conservative in his guidance then we should declare a date certain for the end of covet”

The implementation of digital vaccination passports for travel or movement risks creating a permanent, intrusive government capability that exceeds the necessity of the pandemic.

“is there kind of a slippery slope that emerges by allowing this amount of invasiveness of personal decision making and personal data and making it available to government agencies in order to have access to the liberties that you you know believe may be endowed to you as an individual citizen of the”

Parents should utilize school voucher systems to fund micro-schools as a way to circumvent union-led school closures.

“what newsom should do is he should go to these unions and say listen if you're not gonna go back and you're not gonna teach no problem we're gonna take the money that we give to your schools and give them out as vouchers and let the parents do what they want”

Humanity would learn a more valuable lesson if it fully endured the crisis without government bailouts.

“I think humanity would learn a better lesson if we really went through the [ __ ] I think the economy would fix itself without having money injected into it”

The pandemic has negatively impacted his plans to perform at festivals this year after he worked hard to achieve that goal.

“This was the year I was going to be doing festivals for the first time in my life like I've been working so hard for this moment and this fucking virus decides to fuck it all up.”

Live comedy has been significantly negatively impacted by the loss of physical audiences.

“it's almost impossible to describe it's very like we were unrelatable I think completely to everyone else going from being in front of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people every single night sometimes thousands but usually just hundreds to zeros all the way across the board emotionally”

Gillie believes the pandemic will significantly affect entertainers by severely reducing their show and performance income.

“I know it's going to affect a lot of uh entertainers in a major way, man. It's going it's going to affect it's going to affect it's going to affect comedians. Not just that. Uh uh the places the the the uh the the the venues. Uh the the rappers. Yeah. For sure. The singers. For sure.”