>>511420314 (OP)>Do you think the lockdown saved lives?Objectively speaking lockdowns, at such scale, increased mortality by million(s) of people at a global scale.
It is safe to say even now, mortality is higher due to the 2-3 year economic lockdown. Economic factors alone is enough to explain it.
By 'their' own official statistic, 8 or 9 million people a year die due to hunger related diseases and poverty. By exacerbating the economic difficulties to any %, you are potentially adding million(s) of death a year. How many is incalculable, but logic and statistics suggest it's a lot.
If I had it my way, I would establish lockdowns to be crimes against humanity... and even now I would jail major players in that push. Lockdowns attacked the most basic rights, if I could, I would at the very least run trials for people that may have pushed the lockdown narrative without a good scientific justification, or worse, for political reasons.
Beyond the effects of poverty and unemployment, known to increase mortality, there's also other factors, like elderly isolation, taking their physical and social activities, which is an indirect way of murdering them.
And finally, for the youth, sedentarism and depression, caused by lockdowns, also might have had an impact, albeit smaller in the great scheme of things.
TL;DR; No. Lockdowns didn't save lives, it caused enormous amounts of deaths, greatly surpassing the official "covid deaths" statistics.