Even smart people died because of what he said,kids with dumb enough parents for example. That said, yes,only a brain dead would follow his advices.

public health is everyone’s problem. you can die from someone else being a dickhead, which is why “personal liberty” should be a far more questionable defence when it comes to transmissible disease that most other things… when your personal liberty can impinge on others’ personal liberty in significant and sometimes deadly ways the its no longer a matter of just personal choice: you’re making choices for others