Yup. While they had a lot of elderly die early on that's mostly been it. They certainly haven't had the issues of people missing their cancer screenings, alcoholisms/suicide due to isolation in lockdowns etc. that many other countries have had.

And Africa as a whole practically unaffected.

At the time, there were at least claims that, well, even absent government edicts, people did adjust behaviors to a certain degree. It's unfortunate but, at this point, it's starting to look like there are so many confounding variables--and so many people dug in on political positions--that it's going to be hard to say, even with the advantage of hindsight, what optimal courses of action should have looked like. Vaccinations were almost certainly helpful on net but not a silver bullet. Other mitigations were probably more or less helpful at various stages of the pandemic but likewise were probably not as helpful as proponents said they were and some were probably on net harmful.

Missing: Arguments that are deeper than tweets

Missing: years of potential life lost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_potential_life_lost

Perhaps a more useful metric, since so many more older people died from Covid.

Or, to be blunt, they tried to stick with non-fiction.

People asking for estimates that fit their agenda is quite predictable, but those estimates aren't very useful. Anyway, your point stays, ignoring the huge amount of estimates produced, and asking for them later is quite a bad posture.