Here in America, our governments did lock-downs, got the disease anyway, and lied about protecting the elderly.
Truth. This was never about stopping the virus which was going to go through the population until it burned itself out. It was about control and finding out what the populace would put up with without push back.
Sometimes it's hard to be a free-thinker in a sea of group-think followers who refuse to listen to anyone but the idjits on TV.