By closing down economic and social activity in response to the so-called covid pandemic, "from an economic standpoint, when you confine the labour force and you freeze the workplace, the answer is obvious: it's economic collapse, of the real economy," he added. "You confine the workforce, you trigger bankruptcies … There is a logic in that: There's a financial establishment made up of the large banking institutions and they are the creditors. And ultimately, they are intent upon taking control over the real economy, or those pieces of the real economy which they want to pick up."