"I purchased travel insurance for my last trip and didn't even make a claim. Therefore the travel insurance was a failure." The lockdowns failed because: 1. C

"I purchased travel insurance for my last trip and didn't even make a claim. Therefore the travel insurance was a failure." The lockdowns failed because: 1. Covid wasn't as deadly as thought (although plenty deadly or disabling) 2. Covid was far more transmissible than even guessed at 3. The vaccines barely worked at blocking transmissibility, if at all If Covid had been respiratory Ebola with the same transmissibility, you can bet we'd all be locking down instantly and staying locked down for years, no matter what the government said. If the vaccines gave 90% of the population a year of immunity, after wide release, we'd only have to lock down for a couple weeks and then Covid would be a distant memory. For years public officials either refused to admit this is a virus transmitted in the air or admitted it but acted like it isn't. Therefore: lockdowns for a contact-transmitted pathogen. I remember even 2+ years (!) into the pandemic I was at a public library in Canada during winter which let you sit there for 30 mins max, because in between people they'd fastidiously alcohol-disinfect the computer area. I asked them if I could keep the window open a crack while I was there and they refused. I said "COVID isn't really transmitted by computer keyboards so much as being in a tiny community library with no ventilation". "Sorry sir, I just follow the policy". Lockdowns probably (or maybe) work: just not for COVID.