I was an early advocate of some lockdowns but now it has just become ridiculous. Look at how Sweden did. They didn't do any worse than anyone else essentially and they had no mandated lockdown. I still think a lot of businesses would have closed at least temporarily anyway but the lockdowns did cause a lot of economic harm etc.,(reply>), One small country is not a basis for comparison. Some countries have lost as many as 0.6% of their population because covid ran wild before they had no vaccines. That's two million people in the USA.  To suggest we should have actually sacrificed another half a million people or so is quite deranged.