Thread by @PhilWMagness

Before the second round of lockdowns started in November 2020, the main argument against the GBD was to accuse it of arguing against a lockdown strawman from the previous March.

Lockdowns were behind us, they insisted, and would not be coming back.

aier.org/article/so-muc…

Almost all of the leading lockdowner epidemiologists on Twitter offered some version of this argument: Deepti Gurdasani, Carl Bergstrom, Bill Hanage, Gregg Gonsalves, "Health Nerd" to name a few.

But another who used it was Anthony Fauci, as the recent email releases confirm.

In response to a directive from Francis Collins to "take down" the GBD, Fauci circulated an article from Wired Magazine (wired.co.uk/article/great-…) that supposedly rebutted the GBD - by arguing that lockdowns were behind us.

It wasn't until a month later that the lockdowners abandoned this line of attack, and switched to calling for more lockdowns. Here is Harvard's Bill Hanage revising the history of his own position in real time from 10/31/2020