It's obvious what is being conveyed here, and I question the intellectual honesty of your statement. I posit that by "playing dumb," you hoped to be able to convey the notion that there's no "obvious" message here.

Being on lockdown is making people ill and driving them crazy. This is being compounded by the cognitive dissonance embraced by half of the media-consuming world, which is telling them that their attacker is a respiratory virus, and not their local, state, and national governments.

Many people live in a society today where, saying this to the wrong person could get you injured, ostracized, or even killed - or, you may even get branded with the worst noun of all: racist. Anxiety is clearly through the roof everywhere you turn - now, I wonder why this is?

Are we actually going to go around thinking that these high-anxiety times haven't contributed to peoples' illnesses?

I totally get what he is trying to say. It is becoming so obvious after 8 months of social isolation, lockdowns and a ton of toxicity in the community. The aftermath of this "lets lock down everything to protect a few" strategy is going to be horrible. Not just economically. Lockdown lovers seem to think people are machines that you can turn off and on whenever you like. Thats not the case.

The symptoms are zero-sum, leaping from host to host.

That we live in a stressful time, which we are being reminded of constantly, and lockdown (With its restricted social interaction) is hard on mental health.

I don't think anyone disagrees that lockdown is hard on people. The cost of lockdown is worth it, but lets not pretend that its free.

Probably that psychosomatic is real?

That these symptoms might be caused by the hysteria over the virus, as much as the virus itself.

Lockdown and the fear mongering can cause those anxiety/depression/mental issue. Its a cure that worse than the disease.