The lockdowns didn't work because people pushed back against them causing the measures to be half-assed as a way to appease those people. This happens all the

The lockdowns didn't work because people pushed back against them causing the measures to be half-assed as a way to appease those people. This happens all the time in politics and it's infuriating. You can't judge the effectiveness of a plan if the plan is modified as a shitty compromise or just plain ignored. But people do judge them, which makes those compromises an effective form of sabotage.