I spent some time paying attention to him once he said he had covid and I don't remember a single tweet that made it seem he was staying inside and away from people.

For example - I understand if he doesn't want to mention his wife and kids. But if you have a spouse and kids it seems natural to me to at least say something like "It hasn't been much fun being alone and eating alone away from the people in the house."

The easiest potential troll is that he made up having covid for engagement. I can't explain it well at all but I don't think that's the sort of thing he likes to do. To me his go-to style is to give people the middle finger by saying/doing something in earnest like "Sweatshops are good actually." And then he gives everybody the middle finger again by making a non-apology apology.