This looks like an interesting read:
www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-happens...tter_impression=true
Shows on close inspection no link at all between lockdown and Covid death rates. The only "statistically significant link" is between "stringency (of lockdowns) and economic damage".
Pandemics tend to bring social change: will ours be the adoption of Chinese style erosions of liberty.
What a terrible, catastrophic mistake the Western world has made.