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I was in a blue state that issued a strongly worded stay at home recommendation, but no "lockdown" with legal force. It worked great, owing in part to still having some sense of social cohesion. When your society can't get through novel disruptions with leadership informally keeping most everybody on the same page, that's what you should be worried about.
Unelected people like public health experts should always be important parts of any discussions about issues that affect the health and safety of all members of a community. They can work with elected representatives to help define policy and guidelines that protect our property and keep us all employed and healthy.
Ignoring the input of unelected experts is dangerous to society and leads to exactly the conditions we have now where people chose sides based on partisan identity politics instead of solid pandemic management principles.
We can't elect everyone who should have a voice in defining policy but we can consult them and take advantage of their expertise and skills when bad things happen.
You don't gripe when other disasters like prairie fires require evacuation notices do you? Those people are also unelected. They are also recognized experts at their trades who spend their careers trying to keep us all safe.
Did Chuck Norris and the Texas Rangers lock you up? Where did the bad man touch you?
The closest thing to lock down this country has seen in recent memory was Minneapolis police marching through the streets firing paint rounds at people standing on their own front porch during protests about George Floyd.
Nobody has ever told you that you couldn't leave the house. You could leave the house any time you wanted. What you couldn't do is partake in activities that would gather crowds.
Which was 100% unenforced in nearly every state. Most places with "lockdowns" had several verified superspreader events
How many people ended up fined or in jail during "lockdowns"?
When it's obvious that your answers will be an order of magnitude longer than any question or input they provide, it is too likely that they are unpersuadable, and are wasting your time on purpose.