Lockdowns, though they greatly lessen the spread of COVID and save lives, have negative consequences to people lives in other ways.......mental health........unemployment........lack of quality of life/health care....and so on.

When the (especially) big US cities and high population centers had their hospitals filled to capacity and there was no vaccine in 2020, there was very little choice but to have a lockdown...........or suffer an apocalyptic surge with millions of seriously ill people that had nowhere to go.....flatten the curve.

Outside of situations like that.........when there's just no choice, I believe lockdowns, in many cases,  cause more of a negative impact/harm than the lives that they save from lower COVID(and flu) deaths. 

What do you think.