This opinion piece is citing a lot of evidence and blatantly misinterpreting it. At a minimum it defers to the IHME models as the reference standard but they’ve performed terribly; similarly it cites Ioannidis from Stanford who has consistently failed to predict the actual consequences of the disease and is being ridiculed by the scientific community.<p>Soon to be 100,000 dead in the US with lockdowns; how could it have been a mistake? The only mistake was not doing it earlier.