Well it does and doesn't. Let's not conflate it with false analogies... the article is full of facts and the author states (correctly) what a disaster the lockdown/vaccine policy has been.

BUT what if it hadn't been a disaster?

What if we'd faced a Covid that the average age of the dead wasn't 82, but rather was 8.2? Would we react the same way then? Wanna pull the lever yet?

What if these kids were dropping like flies and a vaccine came out that really was 95% effective and did stop transmission in it's wake? Wanna pull the lever yet?

No? Then, yes if the above conditions were true, I'd kill you and pull the lever. My children and their classmates lives are at stake.

If we're going to use thought experiments, let's use them accurately.