Brian Burmaster

The idea that pandemic interventions could kill more people than the disease itself is not right-wing misinformation. It is more than a thousand years old. Writers centuries ago estimated that as many as 80% of plague deaths were due to quarantines. Hundreds of years ago, due to these writers (especially Maclean), it became consensus among experts not to mass quarantine. But in our infinite enlightenment, our public health officials decided not just to mass quarantine groups of people but in 2020 to lockdown entire societies. This has never been done before in the history of civilization. It was the first time ever, and it was far worse than mass quarantines. What did we lock down for? Not for the plague but for a bad cold. It's unspeakable stupidity. Our interventions during COVID-19 killed millions of people. We might have had just a bad virus. Instead, we had a bad virus plus the government both killing people. It was like a tag team: virus kills some, then add government on top to kill more. Great. The writers responsible for mass quarantines falling out of favor wrote about how critics of the quarantines were treated terribly, even though they were right, while the proponents were often hailed as heroes even though they were responsible for many deaths. Things have not changed. They have gotten worse. We have regressed. We did far worse things than even Medieval people who didn't have modern science did. And we did it for the cold. And the critics today are persecuted not just by their colleagues but by entire governments. And people say, "Oh so-and-so deserved it. They shouldn't have said anything." And that's not even the half of it. We call ourselves an enlightened, scientific people. But what we are is people who torture and abuse science, who consider ourselves enlightened because of that, and yet who are in fact far worse than Medievals.