I haven’t read the article but he has recently published a book on Disasters and how humanity deals (or otherwise) with them. One point he made on a podcast I listened to was that although people keep comparing Covid to the Spanish flu pandemic, in terms of fatality and contagiousness Covid is actually more like another influenza pandemic that happened in 1957 (except that one affected children as well). But the public health response to that one was completely different to our current response: schools didn’t close, there were no lockdowns. People died - because that’s what happens in a pandemic. Life went on, and it was widely accepted that people would die, and that wasn’t seen as something outrageous.
I wonder when it changed? Maybe our expectations have been changed as we live such cosseted, risk free lives these days.
Anyway, he came across as very anti lockdown. I don’t think he’s anti vax as such, more anti what he sees as a totally unrealistic and OTT response to a natural, periodic event.