I don't think that's what he's saying. I think he's saying there are so many degrees of freedom here that the uncertainty range is enormous, and one can construct any money if arguments that this disease isn't close to the apocalypse. Therefore, without data, we don't have any basis on which to judge the damage we're causing by all but closing society relative to what we're saving in terms of fewer infections.
He use the old "we are not sure" argument. It's a scam parading as science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_controversy death rate on the ship just went up to 1,7 %.. And a simple wiki search would have debunked his assumption about infected being old: If the young crew was exposed to covid, his all argument fall even more flat. I cant wait till we find who paid this guy to spurt this non-sense of an articleOpponents of public health and environmental regulations often try to “manufacture uncertainty” by questioning the validity of scientific evidence on which the regulations are based. Though most identified with the tobacco industry, this strategy has also been used by producers of other hazardous products.