That was a position before the lockdowns even happened. There's nothing new about that thought.

Some local governments even felt strongly enough about that to go against the majority and have the laxest restrictions they could, or even prevent cities and counties from enforcing stronger measures than the state.

It remains to be seen how that plays out in the end, though. History books in a few decades are going to be very interesting.

I mean we pretty objectively know that they are at this point.

Do we? It is arguable that much of what people are referring to as a 'lockdown' was voluntary and would have happened in any case. Especially early on, there was surprisingly little variation between jurisdictions that formalized it with regulation, and ones that did not.

Schools are the biggest one especially since data seems to indicate it did nothing to improve covid outcomes.

This research on the neurological damaged caused by covid suggests that we objectively don't yet understand the long term impacts of covid infection. Given that something like 40% of the US has contracted covid at least once (per CDC), even a small effect on the age-incidence of heart attacks or strokes could cause major social and economic problems in 20+ years.