Thread by @GidMK

Calling government action on COVID-19 "Health fascism" - a good start to what I'm sure will be a measured, balanced piece

Hm well I guess if the Human Rights Commission doesn't care about human rights during COVID-19 that would be a proble-oh, wait

Moving on we have...oh, some classic denialist tropes. That's not ideal

We're now numerically above the death toll of any pandemic since 1918, and the "survival rates" give your average 60 year old a 1 in 200 risk of dying

Moving on, we have the old false dichotomy, which pits lockdowns against no pandemic

Also, this wonderful statement by the author

And we end with a few factual errors (for example, here's the excess mortality curve for Sweden) as well as the true but perhaps not very useful observation that death is natural, as are malaria, Parkinson's disease, and cancer