Per capita cases/deaths in the USA are not worse than many major European countries, so I am not sure why you singled out the USA. Moreover, I am not sure the

Per capita cases/deaths in the USA are not worse than many major European countries, so I am not sure why you singled out the USA. Moreover, I am not sure the strictness of lockdowns really correlated with outcomes - Sweden is a famous example, Belgium vs Netherlands another iirc. The only lockdowns that worked (so far) were either islands (meaning very few points of exchange that are easy to control) or totalitarian (e.g. China). Or a little bit of both, like cops barging into somebody's home in Australia over a Facebook post. At that point I'll take liberty over safety, thank you.