Business and school closures are not lockdowns. The abuse of terminology for political purposes is at the heart of this inability to communicate (and both political machines are guilty).

If you could legally leave your home (ie you were not subject to a stay at home order with the force of law), you were not "locked down".

This is a bizarre definition completely at odds with the commonly understood meaning of "lockdowns" in the U.S.

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You could still get in your car and drive wherever you wanted, right? There just wasn't much to do. People were dying and we didn't know anything about the illness, though, so that wasn't that bad.

It's like claiming you were a prisoner of war because the theme park was closed for maintenance when you wanted to go.