Well, it depends on what the goals were; it seems to me that it was a complete success, for the deep state

Paddleboarder Arrested for Violating California's Stay-At-Home Order

Conditioning the serfs to submit to the power of the state, mass hysteria, and the creation of an underclass of despised rebels; all goals reached. And in this country, the added benefit of getting rid of Trump, expanding federal spending by 40%, and establishing a new level of government entitlement programs.

COVID lockdown benefits dwarfed by social and economic costs.

Add another notch on the win column for lockdown skeptics, once derided as “conspiracy theorists.”

Via The Telegraph:

Lockdown saved as few as 1,700 lives in England and Wales in spring 2020, according to a landmark study which concludes the benefits of the policy were “a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs” imposed.

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University examined almost 20,000 studies on measures taken to protect populations against Covid across the world.

Their findings suggest that lockdowns in response to the first wave of the pandemic, when compared with less strict policies adopted by the likes of Sweden, prevented as few as 1,700 deaths in England and Wales. In an average week there are around 11,000 deaths in England and Wales.

It’s also worth noting, as The Telegraph does, that Johns Hopkins is perhaps the single most-cited authoritative source that the lockdown left cited during the pandemic to justify their three-pronged forced masking, vaxx mandate, lockdown agenda. Something tells me they won’t be citing this study, though.

The study’s authors conclude: “The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.”

The detrimental impact of lockdown on children’s health and education, on economic growth and its contribution to large increases in public debt has become increasingly clear since the policy was introduced.

Of course, we shouldn’t need studies like this to understand the mental health damage, perhaps irreversible to some extent, that was wrought on the populations of countries where lockdown and masking were enforced.