The origin story of COVID-19 lockdowns

China's Wuhan lockdown was “new to science.” It was pseudoscience. It didn't work.

On January 1, 2020, if you had asked anyone about the modern history of pandemics, it would have been well understood that locking down and quarantining an entire population was an unscientific act of total barbarism, and a policy measure that was best reserved for the Dark Ages.

Then came COVID-19, and the time-tested consensus on dealing with a pandemi…