Great paper by Canadian doctor Ari R Joffe, who was PRO lockdown at the onset of the “pandemic”, but now asks his peers to rethink the lockdown groupthink. If nothing else, read section 1 for a good synopsis of the origins of the lockdown.
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202010.0330/v2
From §1.2 - Social media spread a growing sense of panic. Popular media focused on absolute numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths independent of context, with a “sheer one-sided focus” on preventing infection.
A war effort analogy is apt, with the “unquestioning presumption that the cause is right, that the fight will be won, that naysayers and non-combatants [e.g., not wearing a mask] are basically traitors, and that there are technical solutions [e.g., vaccine and drugs] that will quickly overcome any apparent problem or collateral damage.
Maybe the best line in the whole paper: "there is no exit from the pandemic; there is only an exit from the response to it"
More from §1.2 - There was talk of “acting together against a common threat”, “about seeming to reduce risks of infection and deaths from this one particular disease, to the exclusion of all other health risks or other life concerns”...