This global shortage is caused by lockdown. Its clear that lockdown created massive problem. Way more than the virus itself. We need to make sure that lockdowns don't happen again in the future.
If everyone masked/maintained hygiene/social distanced, then lockdowns can be lessened, but the best way to stop infections is to stop providing the environment were infections can occur.
Unless there are both effective and scalable treatment options, then some form of isolation is the only alternative.
Also, Texas recently lifted all the restrictions couple weeks ago, and number of cases and deaths is still falling.
I'm sure there are more examples like that.
The truth is that while this data is interesting, it's not enough to tell us how effective lockdowns are.
I feel like your statement is essentially "no disease and no lockdown is preferable to disease and lockdown"
Of course, like any other disease there will be some death, particularly for old people and people with underlying condition but nothing that could cause problem as greater than mass lockdown.
My statement is essentially, some disease is preferable than mass lockdown.
Wanting to eradicate disease is good and I support it but not with something that caused massive problem that is worse than the disease.
That's a worrying prospect. Do you have a source linking the two?
"As the pandemic spread out from its Asian epicentre, countries implemented lockdowns, halting economic movements and production. Many factories closed temporarily, causing large numbers of containers to be stopped at ports"
You might have been radicalized...
It doesn't make sense to have solution that worse than the problem.