Lockdowns, school closures, universal masking, vaccine mandate; these responses to COVID-19 are “self-destructive” and more politicized than scientific, according to immunologist Steven Templeton. Templeton once worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for four years. Now he’s an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University. This week he shared his views with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” on why he has been critical of governments’ responses to COVID-19. “When it comes to the point of certain interventions that are sort of weakly supported, and if you go back and look at everything that was published before 2020, and come to this completely different conclusion if you read the things that published later on in 2020, about masks or the ability of lockdowns to stop and end spread indefinitely—long term lockdowns that having devastating collateral damage—and that type of thing. And then you realize how politicized this …