Let's put lockdowns into perspective. We are actually VERY lucky here in Australia. I have a friend that recently posted something on FB that really made me think about numbers. This is the US, not here, but it's still statistically correct.
He posted a picture of an Airbus A350-941. It has a seating capacity of 354 and 7 crew. Imagine if one of these aircraft crashed in a major US city killing everyone on board and a few on the ground, we would all be suitably horrified.
Yet yesterday's (2 days ago) Covid-19 death toll was 369, the day before 374. The day before that: 484. That is like filling up an Airbus and deliberately crashing it into the ground, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
After reading that little analogy I came to think about what is an acceptable death? Plane crash? Shooting? Police brutality? Or dying alone in a hospital of a virus that some people don't think exists?
Without lockdowns, we would be in the same - or worse - situation as the US and a lot of other countries that either don't lockdown or only do it after a large number of cases ... NSW!! We have been criticized in WA for locking down after 1 or 2 cases, but it is a 3 - 5 day lockdown, and afterwards we go back tp pre lockdown conditions. If you wait, you have more community transmission resulting in prolonged lockdowns.