What’s the alternative? The virus isn’t going away until mass immunity is gained. The death toll plays out fast “The Curve” or it plays out slow “Flatten the Curve” but the end result will be almost the same.
The lockdowns were intended to slow the spread not stop it.
The rise in death count and hence per capita deaths will start slow and taper off far sooner than the US where we are going to 2 years or so to let it spread. Currently the US has “saved” about 20,000 lives versus Sweden on a population adjusted basis. There is no evidence the lockdowns were the reason for it. It may well be that the US didn’t let its old people die like Sweden did.
All the scary hockey stick graphs didn’t happen and were not going to happen. The use of undefined inconsistent case fatality rates is pure BS.
The "alternative" is exactly what the US is doing, and with which I agree completely.
When this started, we had very, very little knowledge of the specifics of the disease, of tests to detect it, or much of anything else. We have gained ALL of that in an unimaginably short time span. We now have treatment regimes and drug therapies that ARE helping prevent deaths, and we WILL shortly have a (and probably more than one) vaccine....no "herd immunity" necessary, thank you (although "some" of that will indeed happen).
Thank GOD Trump was (and is) President. He has delivered a masterful performance. Those who fault him are simply either idiots or liars. May he win a second term in a landslide, and may Pence be his successor for two terms.