“We’d have been far better off if governments had done absolutely nothing.”

The governments and the Left and (most) of the media still won't admit this. Despotic social controls cost lives | The Spectator

So did all of the COVID-19 "interventions" mandated by governments without regard for civil rights actually do anything with respect to COVID? No. They did do a lot of things, like destroy the education of a generation, increase suicide and mental illness generally, and our blue cities saw tremendous crime waves. So they did accomplish something, just not what they intended.

Another example of "Do Something!" resulting in the wrong thing.

Given the perfect absence of any correlation whatsoever between the severity of restrictions and Covid mortality rates, even when comparing like regions with like, it’s probable that this plethora of ‘interventions’ that made our lives hell while making a mockery of representative government – all those ludicrous ‘tiers’, the Harry Potter-ish ‘rule of six’ – made not the slightest difference to the death toll. Waves of variants came and went, oblivious of state diktats. Nature prevailed, as nature is wont to. We’d have been far better off if governments had done absolutely nothing.

Go read the whole thing. For the bad that was done and the worse that is being planned by the World Health Organization. (Hat tip to Samizdata quote of the day – our right are extremely alienable. That is, the opposite of inalienable rights.)