Anti-vax/science/lockdown folks facing consequences in the courts

Were they actually convicted?

Read my post again, I said "not" forcibly taken...

How many instances do you need, Lockdown, masks, SD, 5km, 2 metre, Vaccine passport. At one stage it was illegal to leave your home without a valid reason. All this for a virus that at least 99% of people infected survive, most without experiencing any symptoms.

No hindsight needed, the IFR was known from the outset.

You only have to look at places that didn't lockdown and very quickly you'll see that there is no-corelation between the severity of a lockdown and the following result so there was no requirement for lockdowns and there is no real world evidence that they "worked". Likewise with the 5km rule. You have to be able to provide evidence that the interventions you introduce are effective. You cannot say, if we didn't lockdown it would have been worse. That's like asking someone to prove God doesn't exist. You need to be able to prove that lockdowns, masks are effective at controlling the spread which they were not. You have to appreciate how tiny a virus is. When you have an active viral infection you could be breathing out 10 million viral particles per breath. The idea that walking two meters behind someone in a supermarket and not breath in the same air is nonsense. The fact is that lockdowns do not work. If we were all to be sedated, locked in wooden boxes permanently and fed by robots then that might work.

Public opinion is notoriously fickle and public induced by fear is even more fickle. Moreover, there is a well know phenomenon that the way people answer questions by pollsters does not always represent the way they actually behave. Ireland was full of people who approve of the measures but were making their own risk assessment and not always acting consistent with the lockdowns they approved of.

As for the 6 million death toll, not going to get into this again but was it with/of etc. But you only have to look at the death rates in Ireland for the 2 years during covid which were same if not lower than previous years. Lockdown advocates will say "if it wasn't for lockdowns..." but that doesn't stand up to scrutiny because if you remove the people who were supposed to have died from covid those two years it means that the death rate in Ireland would have been significantly lower than average. For that to be true it would mean that people would have to of stopped dying from cancer, heart disease etc which we also know isn't true. Even if you don't accept what just said, just look at places that didn't lock down and there was no material difference in their death rate from previous years.