I was agreeing with your comment until: >>the necessary closures Are you suggesting that the state needed to force private establishments to close, and that -

I was agreeing with your comment until: >>the necessary closures Are you suggesting that the state needed to force private establishments to close, and that - putting aside the human rights implications of this abridgement of private-property/free-association rights - we can definitively say the net effect of these closures was positive?