The downsides are of different characters - lockdowns will have a bad but generally predictable downside in the field of economy, whereas not locking things dow

The downsides are of different characters - lockdowns will have a bad but generally predictable downside in the field of economy, whereas not locking things down will have an unpredictable downside where lots of people - how many we do not know - die. During the Great Depression, death rates went down, so it doesn't seem very substantiated to claim that lockdowns are going to kill people.