If no changes had been made, it does seem that the ultimate deaths directly caused by the virus would have been a lot higher, yes. Once one starts thinking abo

If no changes had been made, it does seem that the ultimate deaths directly caused by the virus would have been a lot higher, yes. Once one starts thinking about indirect deaths, especially those caused by attempts to contain the virus, the picture becomes much murkier. And of course, all of this is being done under circumstances of grave uncertainty. We'll likely never really know. My guess, though, is that the "lockdown" is probably working against us, at least at this date. And clearly some containment measures, like moving infected people into care homes for the old and disabled, appear in retrospect to have been disastrous.