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I agree that “lockdowns” failed to protect frontline vulnerable workers- & states also reopened without protecting them last spring- they still worked in indoor, crowded settings w little pay/ crappy PPE if any. So this was not about lockdowns or not- this was & is about inequityhttps://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1374340652599668736 …
Dear @AbraarKaran, Lockdowns have generated enormous health and economic inequality. With the naïve belief that lockdowns would contain/suppress the pandemic, many standard efficient focused protection measures of the old were not implemented, and too many died. Doubly tragic.
There's ~7-fold differences between states not hit hard by the first wave in COVID-19 deaths per capita and vaccines will soon be available to all adults. It's fine to argue the costs of containing the pandemic weren't worth the benefits, but it's absurd to argue it didn't work.
That inequity also existed before lockdowns, & exists even during reopenings- we saw it in spring, we see it again w/ vaccinations. Lockdowns were initially meant to do two things- flatten curve AND build a better response. Latter was inadequate- there was no focus on equity.
You are not even considering the disruption in supply chains globally that has pushed more people into poverty and denied health care to many infants/children. It is not just about the US. You can say that this inequity always existed but the lock downs have made it worse!
What you consider to be "standard focused protection measures of the old" in the long term are not as efficient, as safe, as sustainable, as guaranteed, as you dream!
As a matter of fact the experience of the Real World is... 
https://twitter.com/Capobianco2005C/status/1353707712220114944?s=20 …
Do you think 500,000 dying solved those inequities?
This is the main counterargument I hear. I understand you believe that doing what the GBD suggests would result in more deaths. But please note that published data/results are not suggesting that at all. Some media & govmts still justify general lockdowns, but science doesnt.
Weird how it worked in New Zealand though. I guess proof of concept isn’t really proof to you. I know you can’t believe anything out of China but seems to me they’d be cracking down on large gatherings if their lockdowns in the early stages didn’t work. So there’s that.
It sounds like you're quite scared of lockdowns. Please keep in mind that fear is not good.
Not so much about 'inequality" but lockdowns also suppress our natural immunity (with less daily exposure), not to mention destruction of small businesses, increased depression, child/spousal abuse, etc
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