Personally, if I were a public health “expert” who constantly berated the citizenry about the need to lock everything down during the epidemic, and all the public health experts did that, I would not be authoring articles now about how damaging those lockdowns were. Those knuckleheads never once questioned their own thinking and never considered the obvious health consequences of the restrictive measures they favored. Yet now we see all kinds of articles on the harms caused. Here is another one, doing a review of all these studies, over 120 in total, and saying it is incontrovertibly true that these lockdowns did great injury to many peoples’ health. These are referred to as “unintended” consequences, but that is bullshit, anyone who thought about it could see what would occur. The authors say “Given how lockdowns and school closures may affect population well-being, policymakers should carefully weigh both the benefits and harms of these interventions…” Gosh, where have we heard that before? I warned about the harms and wrote about it constantly, as did others, who were then derided and attempted to be silenced. Does no one feel any shame anymore, no matter how despicable their conduct? (HSA Article)

The left has moved on. Nothing to see here. Where can I get my free groceries?
Don’t forget the free transportation!
here is a study that claims the government didnt lock down hard enough. This study is written from the prospective that the mitigation protocols were effective and would have been more effective if everyone complied. (similar to socialism will work if done correctly)
symposium piece entitled “Public Health Policy as Public Choice Failure” in the Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy,
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/09/24/public-health-policy-as-public-choice-failure-in-print/
(its a pdf so, I am not providing the best link – my apologies.)
My best educated estimate is that the total deaths would have changed by less than 5% whether the lockdowns were draconian or loosey goosey. As such, the lockdowns provided far less benefit than projected ( even if you pretend there were zero costs)