Nah, he's far from a moron. He knows to spew this crap to keep his handlers happy so he can get his buddies those sweet city contracts that he'll get paid for later.
Here’s my plan:
Wait for quarantine to end.
Commit crimes.
Get arrested.
Sue the city because they told me I could continue as a criminal once quarantine ended.
Also, if you want a deterrent, how about we start telling them that standards for incarceration have dropped, and just about everyone who commits anything more than a moving violation is going in gen pop, which no longer has isolated spaces... it's all one big room, and they already have some coronazombies in there.