> While this may be true, I think it's important to remember that the negative effects of not doing the lockdowns would have been much worse would is definitiv

> While this may be true, I think it's important to remember that the negative effects of not doing the lockdowns would have been much worse would is definitive. You don’t know that, and there seems to be plenty of real world examples of hard Covid mitigation policies to soft Covid mitigation policies that indicates it’s not that simple. Could it have been worse? Sure, but frankly it could have been better too with less lockdown.