> Enough for what? Hospital capacity was wildly sufficient for regular times, but the pandemic turned that around.
Indeed, "enough" for normal times is not the same as "enough" for pandemic times.
> Even Germany, which has multiple times the capacity per capita than France, is struggling in that regard. What is "enough"?
Of course it's a "struggle" to suddenly work at capacity, but Germany wasn't in the situation of having to turn down patients. To the contrary, Germany was able to pick up patients from neighboring countries. That's "enough".
> Events with more than 2000 people outside ( at the best of times, usually it has been flat out forbidden), and 6-100 inside have been forbidden in France since last year. That obviously didn't help.
How do you know that it didn't help? We know from epidemiological studies that superspreader events were responsible for causing a surge of cases in a short amount of time.
> There is, check the US and Brazil.
There really isn't, we have countries with strong lockdowns doing poorly and countries with weak lockdowns doing relatively well, and everything in between. Lockdown measures are also difficult to compare, as are populations, as is testing and reporting.
For example, Brazil with minimal lockdowns is doing just as poorly as Peru, with heavy lockdowns. Florida is doing better than many other US states with heavier restrictions. Japan is supposedly doing well with few restrictions, but also performs little testing.
There are lots of variables and unknowns here and one can always cherrypick data to argue for or against lockdowns in various forms.