Cure(lockdown) worse than disease?

So maybe the FDA (and Twitter,  Facebook AND  teacher’s unions and Democrats) were wrong and actually did more damage than good with their position on lockdowns and their censoring and silencing if opposing views. 

In October 2020 a group of scientists including world renowned epidemiologist s and infectious disease doctors advised (The Great Barrington Declaration) the US to protect the vulnerable from COVID but to NOT lockdown because

the harm the lockdown would do to the rest of society. Not only was the advice ignored it was silenced and censored by Democrats supported by the administrative state at the CDC and FDA, teacher unions and social media. 

Why?  Who knows for sure. But keeping the lockdown in place was hurting the economy and Trump

A major study by Johns Hopkins University earlier this year concluded that global lockdowns have had a much more detrimental impact on society than they have produced any benefit, with researchers urging that they “are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf