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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.