truth be told without the lockdowns Covid would have killed a lot more people, and virsuses that can jump species also develop and change as they spread. The variants were nothing compared to what we would have gotten without the precautions. You people are pissed off because more people didn't die.
This is wrong....
Most of the world went into lockdowns in March 2020 response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but what has been the impact in those that didn't impose strict restrictions?
www.bbc.com
This deletion of the public from city streets, venues and businesses first began in China, where Covid-19 emerged. Quarantine orders were soon replicated in other countries after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. At no prior point in human history have people faced restrictions like this on such a scale.
But a handful of countries did things differently. Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, Iceland and a few others never enacted a lockdown that involved severe restrictions on the movement of people, such as legally binding stay-at-home orders applied across large swathes of the population. Those countries instead chose other measures, such as restrictions on large gatherings of people, extensive testing and quarantining infected people or travel restrictions.
Usa deaths per million. 3659.
Sweden deatgs per million. 2733.
Uruguay 2269 per million
Taiwan deaths per million 739
Iceland deaths per million 186
Take the nation with the highest death toll per capita. Lockdowns didnt do shit
The virus spread to Peru on 6 March 2020, when a 25-year-old man who had travelled to Spain, France, and the Czech Republic tested positive.[4] On 15 March 2020, President Martín Vizcarra announced a country-wide lockdown, closing borders, restricting domestic flights, and forbidding nonessential business operations, excluding health facilities, grocery stores, pharmacies, and banks. As of May 2023, Peru has the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world, with over 6,400 deaths per one million citizens.[5]