We don't kniw if lockdowns work, there hasn't been any proper research to provide evidence that they do. It could be that history will show us that they make things worse, by prolonging the course of viruses by preventing community transmission at an earlier stage when the virus strain is less evolved and less infectious. We don't know.
But lockdowns do really protect politicians from blame, now and in years to come. They are a really good tool for politicians. Boris and the Conservatives would be unelectable in 4 years time if they didn't have lockdowns.
I grew up in another country and I find the attitude of some members of the medical profession exasperating here. There is so much obsession sith stopping doing things fir the slightest injury. I get the impression that some doctors would just love to have us locked away, wrapped in cotton wool, so they had less injuries and illnesses to treat. But in reality, it's obesity, lack of outdoor activity, heart disease, strikes, type 2 diabetes, etc which really need tackled. People don't need to become softer, they need to be one tougher. The expectation of people's personal fitness is set at an incredibly low bar in this country.
The recording of covid deaths (as anyone who died within 28 days of a positive test) is also problematic from an evidential perspective. As is the early recording of some care home deaths as due to Covid despite no positive test.
At one point, the average age of death was 82.4 years and less than 1000 people under 60 have died of covid with no underlying health conditions. Those still might be accurate. Yet on threads like these, every second person seems to know of a fit athlete under 50 in a ward with covid. The media must interview the family of every single person under 50 who dies.
So what I'm saying is that there is deliberate scaremongering to justify lockdowns and the economic problems that are now just beginning to start. I'm just saying covid isn't quite dangerous to catch, just that the amount of scaremongering and selective, emotive use of examples isn't the same as evidence. And that probably, its not a good idea to live your life in fear because of this, as that in itself correlates quite closely with lowered life expectancy.
Lockdowns are really good for politucuans because they make them look caring and in control, when in reality they're not very sustainable and really harmful in other ways. The rest of Northern Europe isn't locked duwn as strictly as the UK, with travel vans within their own borders. (I don't include France as being in n Europe). They're also really convenient for some members of the medical profession who like to control people's lives to reduce risk.
And before someone says to me "I hope you don't get covid be abuse you'll know about it then", I strongly suspect I did have it, and it was a walk in the park compared to getting pneumonia a few years ago, which my GP failed to diagnose or treat properly with antibiotics 3 times and which ended up with me in hospital. There was almost approaching disinterest/lack of basic knpwledge in pneumonia in young people within NHS GP then, compared to the sudden obsession about a statistically less fatal virus now.