Lockdown: possibly a very bad decision.

Cassie-Fooky checks the British government weekly data on deaths in the UK (all causes) for the current year and compares with the data for 2018. She also takes a look at the evolution of COVID-19 in New York and Sweden. In both places, the number of deaths has dropped to zero. Meaning in Sweden they are out of it, because they did not have lockdown. Meaning that both in New York and the UK they are also out of it, even though they went through lockdown and are freaking out about more cases of COVID-19 and still trying to do isolation stuff instead of letting go of the whole thing. The 2018 data do show a drop in total death rates later in the year. And the data for 2020 suggest that by the end of the year the difference in total deaths between a projection from the death rate until mid march and a projection from the death rate after COV ID-19 caused a surge in deaths will be less than the peak difference in the number of deaths before and after the COVID-19 spike. In other words, a large part of the people who died would have died anyway within this year.

Sources.
The article from Full Fact pretending to debunk a guy who said that 2020 had not been the worst year for deaths so far by March. And failing. It all starts here.
https://fullfact.org/health/ons-2020-covid-first-quarter-deaths/

UK government stats on number of deaths in the country (excluding Scotland and Norhter Ireland)
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales

Comparison between Sweden and New York city, showing that the death rates per day and million inhabitants for New York mean that something was horribly wrong there.
https://fee.org/articles/why-sweden-succeeded-in-flattening-the-curve-and-new-york-failed/?fbclid=IwAR2pIMCpWxGAAgOsicuN_5kFsznMuI_TVKOiMuUdIxfn4D3DYJrvvGMFpZo