My gut reaction to general lockdowns, early on in this pandemic, was that they were driven more by an inviolable ethic of egalitarianism than by a rational asse

My gut reaction to general lockdowns, early on in this pandemic, was that they were driven more by an inviolable ethic of egalitarianism than by a rational assessment of risk, especially since the most dangerous comorbities seemed to correlate with demographics that, historically or presently, suffer from prejudice.