The restrictive policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have largely been a failure and we need accountability for those “destructive” measures, said Dr. Scott Atlas, former special adviser to then-President Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic. “We need accountability of the people who got what they wanted. They got implemented the policies they wanted. Those policies failed,” said Atlas, referring to restrictive measures such as lockdowns, quarantines, school and business closures, and vaccine mandates for young people. “We have 900,000 plus Americans who’ve died from COVID, according to the categorization, millions of families destroyed, yet the same people are in charge. I don’t understand how that could possibly happen,” Atlas told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program that premiered on March 22. According to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of March 22, the COVID-19 mortality in the United States is 973,220, the highest number in …