Fox News interviewed TV personalities Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew in the early months of the pandemic, though none of them are infectious disease experts. (Video: The Washington Post)

Dr. Phil had much to say about the coronavirus lockdown the other night on Fox News.

“Look, the fact of the matter is we have people dying — 45,000 people a year die from automobile accidents, 480,000 from cigarettes,” the talk-show host said Thursday, “but we don’t shut the country down for that. But yet we’re doing it for this?”