DR. JAY BHATTACHARYA: What I’m really concerned about, Lawrence, is to make sure that we never do this again because as things currently stand our template is to lock down again. Next time there is a virus going around we will absolutely lock down again. People like Rochelle Walensky, Tony Fauci, they’re giving themselves awards.

Rochelle Walensky, those clips you played of her are absolutely shocking. They were not reflecting what the science was saying at the time. And she worked with [President of the American Federation of Teachers] Randi Weingarten to close schools very early in her tenure as CDC director. Our kids, minority kids, poor kids are going to pay the price for those school closures for a long time to come.

I think what we need to do is as a nation decide we will never do this again and limit the power of public health authorities to act unilaterally about what they did to copy the Chinese government in its lockdown policies.