There have already been dozens of objective evaluations that support your intuition. You aren't reading about them because of political infighting: a huge numbe

There have already been dozens of objective evaluations that support your intuition. You aren't reading about them because of political infighting: a huge number of powerful people have committed themselves publicly to lockdowns as a solution, and are not interested in people learning the truth. There's a long list of studies here, many of which are all-country statistical analyses: https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/ https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-co... A representative paper: https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1.-LANCET-LOCKDOWN-NO-MORTALITY-BENEFIT-A-country-level-analysis-measuring-the-impact-of-government-actions.pdf https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1.-LANC... "Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people" Another: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v... "Comparing the trajectory of the epidemic before and after the lockdown, we find no evidence of any discontinuity in the growth rate, doubling time, and reproduction number trends" etc.