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,

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.