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This guy doesn't get to say shit to us about literally anything after what he did. 2020's John Ioannidis stood on the shoulders of giants (2005's John Ioannidis) and was one of the first "Experts" to proudly proclaim that in his professional judgement, COVID-19 was no big deal and didn't warrant countermeasures.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/mistakes/

If you choose to become a policy entrepreneur and your success ends in a Holocaust-scale outcome, you get to shut up, retire, and thank your lucky stars we live in a society that strongly discourages blood debts. That's the deal. No book tour, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and stay the fuck off social media.



Seems like he was correct though. This article doesn’t debunk him, you can’t use official statistics to debunk a claim that the statistics are not computed correctly


> in an effort— well intentioned—to control the coronavirus, we may inflict great damage on ourselves.

And you believe he was wrong and you believe Covid was a "Holocaust-scale outcome" ? He said the rates would be exaggerated and now with the benefit of hindsight, although some would claim common sense after seeing the sensationalism of the media, we can see he was correct. Or do you believe that's not true ?




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