It's interesting to compare the Spanish Flu pandemic timeline from Wikipedia with this pandemic:<p>2.1 Timeline<p>2.1.1 First wave of early 1918<p>2.1.2 Deadly second wave of late 1918<p>2.1.3 Third wave of 1919<p>2.1.4 Fourth wave of 1920<p>Though COVID-19 appears to be substantially less lethal than the Spanish Flu [0], the overall trajectory of the pandemic has not deviated much from the historical one, even in countries with high vaccination rates.<p>It's seeming increasingly possible that many lockdowns were ill-advised and will have very poor "health outcome" returns on the astronomical economic costs they imposed. Except in areas where the hospital system was actually under threat of collapse, it appears lockdowns are really all pain and no gain.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210329.51293/full/#:~:text=The%20675%2C000%20deaths%20attributed%20to,two%20in%20every%20thousand%20people" rel="nofollow">https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210329.51293...</a>.