You can recognize the virus is a real threat while simultaneously not liking the idea of the government making you a prisoner in your own house to combat it. His big consistent point was making fun of people who claim it's a total nothingburger. It poses a lethal threat to at risk populations and can even fuck up an otherwise healthy person if they get unlucky. Simultaneously, faced with scenarios like Australia where they literally have military patrolling and enforcing universal 23 hour a day house arrest, many will opt not to trust their government with even an ounce of emergency power lest they fall down a nasty slippery slope.