Replying to add more nuance to my point: this unorthodox position is fine and useful for scientific discussion, but responsible public policy advocacy ought to

Replying to add more nuance to my point: this unorthodox position is fine and useful for scientific discussion, but responsible public policy advocacy ought to be based on a consensus, especially when so much estimated risk is attached to the public policy decision. In addition, his correspondence always misrepresents what starting a lockdown is: a lockdown need not be necessarily long, yet Ioannidis constantly portrays it as a "long lockdown". Ideally, lockdowns happen at the early part of a poorly understood epidemic, and as soon as reliable evidence becomes available that the epidemic is not dangerous, they are quickly lifted.