scientific journals have recently published several papers purporting to show that lockdowns saved hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives. Not to put too fine a point on it, these papers are junk – mathematical models created in some cases by the very same epidemiologists whose forecasts four months ago proved entirely wrong. And these models are even more useless, because they aren’t even trying to predict the future but instead describing an alternative past that didn’t take place and thus cannot be proven true or false.
