IF your nation had some very convenient combination of geographic isolation, small size, decent wealth, and high social trust, then "no lockdown" could work pre

IF your nation had some very convenient combination of geographic isolation, small size, decent wealth, and high social trust, then "no lockdown" could work pretty darn well. But using the easy metric of "excess deaths" masks most of damage to society and the economy that lockdowns - especially contentious ones - caused.