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> There is no single scientific evidence that lockdowns save lives.

I'm all for science, but are you implying China's strict COVID lockdown strategy didn't save any lives?

Of course it extended some specific lives. It also shortened others. The question is what the net effect was and I don’t think we’ll ever have reliable data on the net effect of the lockdowns in China.

You say that as if the only measure of a government is the net number of lives saved at the end of that government. I would argue that's largely irrelevant.

Whether extremely strict lockdowns like those seen in China and Singapore save lives or not is completely irrelevant as they are wrong, at the most basic level. Whether other countries went too far or didn't go far enough can be debated, but having police lock people inside their own homes isn't really something you can argue that good government does.

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