Are lockdowns justified?

[The Architect Of Fate]

The failure of communism can conceiveably be blamed on people not acting rationally. But even if we had a proof communism would work if everybody was rational... that does not mean we should try to implement communism. And the same goes for lockdowns (and I believe for quite a few things, including eating meat: If human beings were not irrationally attracted to short-term profits above sustainability, antibiotic resistance would not be a problem with the meat industry.). Sure, it is not exactly the same thing. Whether lockdowns could work in a perfectly rational society is a matter of hard science, while whether communism would work in it is a matter of soft science. But the principle remains the same.

There is only science, forget the hard and soft horsecock bullshit.  Lockdowns work.  If people choose to make them not work, they choose to let more people die.  That's a political choice.  So stop presenting your political choice as a scientific conclusion.

By his logic, we could justify getting rid of any policy.