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I would tend to trust Victor David Hanson on plague that killed Pericles, less so on Covid-19. His doctorate is in history, not medicine.

• redis_mlc 6y ago
  He's studied multiple plagues, so knows what the outcomes were. His comment about corona is that somehow society allowed medical science to be the only voice, when there are equally important societal and economic impacts not being considered. (Somehow can be interpreted to mean "in an election year.") To me, that's a more important message than what an epidemiologist says in isolation. I'm guessing that the result of lockdown will be that more years of life were lost to cardio problems (no exercise) than corona itself. In developing countries, there already is starvation.