The one thing that can be said about lockdowns is that it's not some obvious clear cut "it definitely helps a ton" type of thing. If that were true we should se

The one thing that can be said about lockdowns is that it's not some obvious clear cut "it definitely helps a ton" type of thing. If that were true we should see nations and US states with strict lockdowns do much better than those without. Instead some places with more strict measures (say the UK and Belgium) are doing worse than Sweden, and Sweden's curve is also flattening. The number of confounding variables just seem too large to make anything close to definitive statements about anything at the moment.