Once again johnforbes conveniently overlooks the science.
"Life years"- criminy. johnny, spending your "life years" in isolation is not the same as losing your life, dimwit. johnforbes wastes more of his precious "life years" picking his nose and strutting around Fire Island in a Speedo.
"(Bloomberg) -- Covid-19 survivors remain at higher risk of psychotic disorders, dementia and similar conditions for at least two years, according to a large study that highlights the mounting burden of chronic illness left in the pandemic’s wake.
"While anxiety and depression occur more frequently after Covid than other respiratory infections, the risk typically subsides within two months, researchers at the University of Oxford found. In contrast, cognitive deficits known colloquially as “brain fog,” epilepsy, seizures and other longer-term mental and brain health disorders remained elevated 24 months later, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.
"The findings, based on the records of more than 1.25 million patients, add to evidence of the virus’s potential to cause profound damage to the central nervous system and exacerbate the global burden of dementia -- which cost an estimated $1.3 trillion in the year the pandemic began. Oxford researchers showed in March that even a mild case is associated with brain shrinkage equivalent to as much as a decade of normal aging."-Bloomburg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/c ... li=BBnb7Kz
As we can see, no one even knows how many people were saved from serious long term illness by lockdowns. (To the extent that lockdowns even occurred, which is hardly any.)