California and Florida couldn't have been further from each other in terms of policy and response, yet the age-adjusted mortalities weren't that far apart [1].
[1] https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-...
How much more? And how would that increase compare to the drug overdoses and other mental health related deaths that lockdowns caused?
What's the control group you're using to make your claim?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13571516.2021.19...
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...
Lockdowns have devasted education:
https://www.economist.com/international/2022/07/07/covid-lea...
The cost to lifetime earnings is estimated to be $17 trillion:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/06/l...
Which will massively exacerbate poverty and all of its associated illnesses.
The education losses have been worst for the poor:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/remote-learni...
Social distancing and other COVID control measures, which became mandatory with lockdowns, have been associated with a surge in childhood obesity:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...
And a decline in children's IQ:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34401887/
97 million more people are estimated to be poverty due to the social reaction to COVID, the most drastic and disruptive of which were lockdowns:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac...
It turns out following the lead of an authoritarian communist state on the COVID response, by totally abrogating civil liberties with community quarantines, i.e. lockdowns, wasn't a great idea.
As for voluntary social distancing, it has been found to impose more measurable costs for 89% of the population than it reduces through mitigating risks of contracting COVID.
Truly the "it is what it is" method of governance.
Otherwise if anyone else gives a counterexample you can easily move goalposts on them.
[1] https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...
Sweden deaths per million: 1834
U.S. deaths per million: 3043
However you can also choose various European countries that avoided masking children and minimized school disruption. France and UK for starters, but also all the Nordic countries. Sweden being quite different from the other Nordic countries, but all of them being consistent in avoiding school disruption or masking children.
Most of Europe does not recommend vaccinating young children either.
France deaths per million: 2242
Denmark deaths per million: 1122
Paris proper is 2mln people squeezed into a 100km^2 city. Greater Paris is 10mln at a definitely urban density. It's no wonder they had larger death rates and this is a apples to oranges comparison.
Even as it is, the medical staff have been overworked and extremely stressed. They've been quitting the medical field in very high numbers:
https://morningconsult.com/2021/10/04/health-care-workers-se...
Yes, because of the lockdown, we have paid a high price, but don't just dismiss the higher price we would have paid if no mitigations had been attempted.