No, the reason we initially agreed to lockdowns was to “flatten the curve,” which is a polite way of saying “to prevent coronavirus patients from collapsing our health-care system.” But the system was never in danger of collapsing, lockdowns or no. Now that fact is clear, the lockdown rationale has shifted to the much more nebulous goal of reducing coronavirus deaths at any cost – as if deaths from COVID are the only kind of deaths or societal damage that matter.
