you are right in a certain sense. The point of lockdown was to avoid triage deaths, ie deaths from a lack of hospital capacity. We have not had an issue with ru

you are right in a certain sense. The point of lockdown was to avoid triage deaths, ie deaths from a lack of hospital capacity. We have not had an issue with running out of capacity so it looks like we could have kept triage deaths to zero even with basic preventative measures like masks. On the other hand we are actually saving lives due to reduced traffic, because of lockdown.