However you're making the assumption that lives saved by the lockdown < lives lost even with the lockdown. If the lockdown had prevented all deaths from COVID,

However you're making the assumption that lives saved by the lockdown < lives lost even with the lockdown. If the lockdown had prevented all deaths from COVID, you'd be using this logic to say it was completely worthless. By this logic, the more effective the lockdown is, the more you argue how unnecessary it is.