it would indeed, as it posits spurious claims and is factually inaccurate, ER doctor or not.

The fact is, over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war, so there's no real minimizing such a figure.

It's likely precisely due to a failure to contain the spread of the causative virus, precisely due to waffling around lockdown.

> over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war

US deaths in WWII: 419k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties)

Maybe he didn't know about that war?

Perhaps they meant in a single year of any war? Not to mention, we have 1/3 of this year left to go.

80k died in 2017-2018 US flu season. I'm sorry but where was the shutdown? Luckily this whole thing is going to be gone November 4th.

"Only" 80k died from flu, without needing a shutdown, but 150k have died from covid-19 even with a shutdown, so how is that an argument against the covid-19 shutdown?

At best it's an argument that we should do more to stop flu deaths, but at worst it amounts to "If someone ever dies of any preventable cause then we should never take any measures to prevent any other death".

How is it factually incorrect?