My bet here is that lockdowns, while originally intended to "flatten the curve" (and that was a good idea), turned out unexpectedly effective and appeared to re

My bet here is that lockdowns, while originally intended to "flatten the curve" (and that was a good idea), turned out unexpectedly effective and appeared to reduce infection rates so quickly, especially in the beginning when people were very afraid and lockdown rules were strictly adhered to, that someone got an idea of just resolving the problem altogether by doing "lockdown to elimination", until it became evident that you can't lock down every country in the world unless you threaten/use nukes, and shutting down travel indefinitely is also not possible, and the whole thing became a charade. Lesson learned for the liberals is to listen to those on the right at least from time to time. If they sometimes behave like idiots it doesn't mean they really are. Republicans got it right on the Covid question.