Our dear illustrious leaders tried to stop the disease by inflicting other diseases on us. The lockdown was more destructive than the disease.
The COVID-19 Wuhan virus did not cause the lockdown. That was purely a human response to the presence of the disease, and a wrong one at that. Neither this country nor any other country in the world EVER closed down for a widespread epidemic like any strain of influenza, nor were masks actually the first line of “defense” against the spread of the disease. Personal sanitation, particularly the washing of hands, contributed much more to halting the spread of the Wuhan virus than either lockdowns or even social distancing.
I guess because it was called a “novel virus”, then “novel solutions” were supposed to be applied.
They did not work.