Are lockdowns justified?

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There are other factors involved here. Like lockdowns. I don't know about you, but I haven't had any virus in over a year. Flu deaths are way down, and others from other aspects of lockdowns. 
Is that what you mean?

And why are flu deaths down, while COVID is up?

Because flu is equally prevented by the measures in place, but COVID is more infectious than flu.

Could it be that some deaths that are attributed to COVID are actually from the flu?

No.

Or could it be that masks, while they have some effect on flu, have no effect on COVID?

COVID and flu are equally affected by wearing of masks and social distancing etc. Such precautions do not stop either, they reduce it's spread. Once again COVID is more highly infectious.

We know flu is not airborne, but only transmitted via droplets, so masks can indeed do something about it. But COVID can, as far as we know, be airborne, so that masks that are commonly worn have no effect on it.

Where did you get this crapulent notion?

COVID is spread by surface contact, just like flu.
COVID is spread by droplets, just like flu.
COVID is spread by aerosols, just like flu.

In your own words, explain what you think aerosols are.

It is probably a combination of those two things, right?

Wrong.

It is like trying to explain simple things to a child.