Not quite true, at least not for 2020:



But it’s still an ‘n of one’ sort of experiment. What was done was done and who can really predict the paths not taken. Clearly a majority of the early deaths were the elderly (in some countries half the deaths were in those 85 and older though that’s a fairly tiny fraction of the population) and it’s clear that many of the actions were taken in knee-jerk fashion without any consideration to other competing risks. When you shut down Pap smears, mammograms, and other routine health screenings, those other diseases and illnesses don’t stop happening, they just get discovered at later more advanced stages. When you shut down education, that generation may never recover - certainly not at the margins, the kids who have the greatest learning challenges to begin with. And when you shut down a global just-in-time supply chain, it can only be recovered in fits and starts.

I’m willing to concede that many of those people had good intentions, but they looked at the issue too narrowly and too fearfully so overall, yeah, their performance and execution seriously sucked.

And worldwide, clearly the majority of people are attaining their (relative) immunity from GETTING COVID, sometimes repeatedly, not from getting two immunizations and two boosters. It’s difficult to actually say if the outcome would have been a lot worse if none of the Draconian actions had been taken. As I said, it’s an ‘n of one’ experiment.