Is the Pandemic a Hoax?

Mike and Alex are condemning their past selves, but to make it more palatable to the audience, they're ascribing their past positions to the mainstream media. It's cute for Mike to say that the videos out of China were a hoax because it was him and Alex who were scaring their audience with them at the beginning of the pandemic. The reason we wound up getting those lockdowns was because those people treated it so irresponsibly. You can be a complete mask denialist and still sell your audience masks and somehow get away with it.