So perhaps it is easy to say Covid when you don't know anyone who has committed suicide or suffered domestic violence or if you are someone whose mental health has broken because of the lockdown.
People suffered from DV and serious mental health problems involving suicidal thoughts before covid. It's harder to cope now but it isn't lockdown that caused this to begin with. If a man punches a woman because he can't deal with lockdown then that problem goes much deeper. He was already a pathetic piece of shit and lockdown is no excuse
What do you think would have happened to the vital services helping victims of DV and severe mental health problems if we hadn't locked down? Those services would have collapsed.
As hard as lockdown is, without it the prospects for the vulnerble would be much worse. Hospitals and GPs would have to deal with a huge increase in covid patients in a very short space of time. Health sevuces, the police and social services, the ones who deal with DV and MH every single day, would be overwhelmed with covid related issues without a lockdown. How about food riots anyone?, when the supermarket shelves empty completely for days, even weeks, on end. How would disorder on the streets help anyones MH?
Those staffing the vital services, health, social care, police, food retail, have never stopped working throughout this pandemic but with no lockdown those services would be depleted even more than they are now because many would be off sick with covid too. What then for those suffering with MH and DV? What then, when no one answers the phone, the police, social workers, GP, ambulance and 999 don't answer because no one is there ?