No, my claim is that the models that were used with the lockdown were wrong. Cuomo claimed to need 40k ventilators after the lockdown was put in place. He ended up needing only a fraction of that. Obviously, without the lockdown, there would likely be more needed. Of course, modeling has errors, but this is an extremely large error, and one that has direct policy implications.

Had the model's predictions been more accurate we could have found a better middle ground when it comes to lockdown. Every job saved and individual financially secure is one more person who can contribute to the community's well-being. I think it's pretty safe to say in retrospect that the lockdowns need not have been as draconian as they were. We had the hospital capacity to have less severe lockdowns and we should have done that. While we can't change the past, we can certainly look at how our models failed and rework our approach in the future. Anything else is irresponsible.