Better is to actually read what VP wrote (one could start 3 paragraphs before the 7 bullet points) : https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/how-democracy-end

Better is to actually read what VP wrote (one could start 3 paragraphs before the 7 bullet points) : https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/how-democracy-ends https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/how-democracy-ends The piece is a hypothetical about what happens when pluralism / democratic institutions decline and how opportunists/authoritarians could exploit this. The reference to Nazi Germany was not at all about current US public health restrictions or policy. If you actually read it, this becomes clear. (Given that Germany had essentially no pluralism or democratic traditions entering the 1920s I don't think the comparison is great but oh well.) It is true that VP is an oncologist not an ID doc. But he is also a professor of epidemiology and biostats at UCSF, perhaps the top med school in the US. This means he is vastly more quantitatively savvy than most public health officials or commentators.