[spookthesunset]

You are right. Forcing “non essential” small businesses to close, stopping all events, closing churches, parks, playgrounds, schools, making it illegal to walk on “the dry part of the sand”, disallowing dying people to have visitors, forcing hospitals to stop taking elective surgery, arresting people sitting on benches,etc… these all just ordinary things… right? Definitely not a “lockdown”, right?

What is a lockdown if that isn’t? And how come those “real lockdown” places still have Covid? Or did they not “lockdown” hard enough either? I’m very confused here.

[groby_b]

A lockdown actually keeps you in your home.

And as I explained to you above, nobody except you is in any form talking about lockdowns. Put the strawman down already, it's starting to get worn on the edges.

[foobarian]

You may define lockdown as that if you wish, but what happened in practice starting in 2019 was extremely disruptive, especially before the vaccines came. Bottom line, it will be hard to draw conclusions from comparing metrics between 2019 or 2020 and any other "normal" year.

[somewhereoutth]

and they closed Wendy's too!