When someone who (a) is not ideological, and (b) has a very deep understanding of the data, says something that makes a lot of people angry, it's likely to be both (c) true, and (d) important.
They say pilots are the most dangerous when they have about 200 hours. They have just enough experience to feel like they know what they're doing, without actually knowing what they're doing. We're at that stage with the coronavirus.