The measures were certainly very effective under the metric of limiting deaths.
British Columbia and New Zealand have about the same population, both are rich jurisdictions. BC was relatively open (compared to other Canadian provinces) while NZ was more locked down. BC has dramatically more deaths than NZ.
And then if you compare BC, which was more locked down than various US states, BC had less deaths than them.
It seems pretty clear to me that the "lock downs" worked.
(putting "lockdowns" in scare quotes here because really the only thing BCians were prevented from doing was going to restaurants and bars. You could still go to the grocery store and home depot etc with a mask on)
If you have some other metric well I dunno, but I don't think there's any better metric than deaths avoided.
British Columbia and New Zealand have about the same population, both are rich jurisdictions. BC was relatively open (compared to other Canadian provinces) while NZ was more locked down. BC has dramatically more deaths than NZ.
And then if you compare BC, which was more locked down than various US states, BC had less deaths than them.
It seems pretty clear to me that the "lock downs" worked.
(putting "lockdowns" in scare quotes here because really the only thing BCians were prevented from doing was going to restaurants and bars. You could still go to the grocery store and home depot etc with a mask on)
If you have some other metric well I dunno, but I don't think there's any better metric than deaths avoided.