Based on that comment, Barr apparently thinks stay-at-home orders designed to reduce the spread of a deadly virus are a greater violation of civil liberties than Jim Crow laws, oppression of Native Americans, and Japanese internment camps run by the US during World War II.
In his prepared remarks , Barr said elected officials and political appointees like himself must prevent overreach by the DOJ's career staff.
It is utterly unsurprising that prosecutors continue to do so today to the extent the Justice Department's leaders will permit it.