Global restrictions to Covid-19 result in the loss of approximately 1000 times more human life than Covid-19 itself. Unbelievable but true. These figures are based on official calculations of life expectancy. For example, 650 million life years will be lost in the United States (according to calculations done using data from mid-2021 - by now probably 800 million life years) but less than 800 thousand due to Covid-19 itself. The calculations here assume that the people who die from Covid-19 have, on average, only one year left to live, as most have preexisting comorbidities. These calculations are rough estimates and even if they are somewhat off target (in either direction), it is absolutely clear that the benefits of lifting the lockdowns massively outweigh the benefits of keeping them. It is apparent that the situation is not in the least better elsewhere in the world than in the United States.
The worst situation is in developing countries. As early as October 2020, the United Nations estimated that as a result of the Covid-19 lockdowns, 500 million people would move from the middle class to poverty and that 100 million people would end up in extreme poverty. In extreme poverty, people cannot afford to eat properly, so tens of millions of people are likely to suffer extreme malnutrition with deadly consequences. The United Nations also claimed that 12 million more underage girls would be forced into marriage over the next 10 years because parents who lose everything because of the reduced economic activity that has resulted from the world-wide Covid-19 measures feel that they have no choice but to sell their daughters.
It is obvious that these actions against Covid-19 are not worth it and not even to level the curve, because the strain on the health care system will be many times greater in the years to come, as we will be having to deal with all the mental health, addiction and social problems that are now germinating.