The lockdown had one purpose - managing workflow at the hospitals. In that it worked - lots of empty hospital beds. But in the long run, lockdown wont save lives or prevent anyone from getting the disease.
Systems are complex and uncontrollable.
Water cycle
Nitrogen cycle
Carbon cycle
circulatory system
respiratory system
digestive system
economic system.
weather
climate
etc
But the real problem is that the study of systems leads to the word GOD, and we can’t have that because we are god.
By saying they want to flatten the curve, at least they are admitting there is a curve but their model ignores any factor that causes the curve in the first place.