Covid Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure
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>> What he could never acknowledge was that “shutting things down” didn’t stop the virus, and that keeping schools closed didn’t save kids’ lives. Then again, to understand that, you had to be willing to follow the science.
The initial reason for imposing the measure isn’t the point.
The point is to understand whether the measure was effective.
The shutdown was initially to protect health services from becoming overwhelmed. Although it was later re-interpreted as you suggest, that was never a purpose grounded in either good science or evidence.
Although it would have been hard to protect the virus from spreading to the middle aged, we could very easily have limited its spread amongst the oldest and most vulnerable. The size of the group is much smaller, and it would have been easier. "All" it needed was for people to focus their protection efforts. As it was, we tried to protect everyone. It was a waste of resources, and far worse than that, it failed to provide substantial protection to anyone.