Are lockdowns justified?

[FlatAssembler]

Ahhh, so we've moved on to domestic violence.

Just keep moving the reasons FA.

What should I do? Keep asking for a study showing that closing schools is effective at preventing the spread of COVID? I think that is unlikely to be productive. You will more likely convince somebody if you question their reasoning rather than their premises.

Yeah because without the lockdowns those kids would be living in paradise

The fact is that, during the lockdowns, child suicides have risen drastically. I also find it a bit puzzling that suicides have risen most sharply in children and in the military, rather than in the people who lost their jobs.

The lack of any american policy killed hundreds of thousands.

First of all, the US has had, and still has, many policies to address COVID. Some of them are now almost universally agreed to have been counter-productive, such as putting COVID patients into nursing homes, and then manipulating the statistics to make it look like fewer people in nursing homes died from COVID. Some of those policies are still supported by many people, such as long-term lockdowns and mandatory mask-wearing. Texas is, as far as I know, the only US state without such policies.
Secondly, how do you know which policies are good and which are not? How would a scientifically valid study to determine that even be designed? Lockdowns are not a single policy, they are a bunch of policies, and certainly at least some of them are bad. I think a key to understanding social sciences is to assume that the economic freedom index studies are bad science. But any real lockdown study will suffer from the same flaw.

Plagues don't give a shit about anyone's politics.

Well, I agree with you. Viruses do not seem to care much about which policies the countries have. The number of people with type-2-diabetes and heart disease in a country is a lot better predictor of the mortality from COVID-19.

Would you point me to a time when FA had credibility? I must have missed it.

Well, I guess you are not familiar with my work in social sciences. You can read about it here: https://flatassembler.github.io/toponyms.html