I am against general long-term lockdowns. I think they are quite mentally harmful and should be a very last resort.

No, I don’t think gyms and indoor dining should be open during a pandemic, but other than that I think the long-term cost is worse than the benefits of closing everything and telling everyone, “Just deal.” I include most border restriction in this now that we have working vaccines, though lockdowns should be considered separately really.

I support masking indoors, I support test and trace/contact tracing, and I support vaccine passports. But I can’t get behind lockdowns. They are enormously harmful psychologically and socially, set a terrible precedent, and destroy businesses (which, you know, employ people, so they are kinda important).

Lockdowns “work” in the sense that cutting off an arm works to cure a hangnail. Doesn’t make it a good idea.