Unlikely Phoenix thinks that, the argument is not about lockdowns being worse than COVID, only that lockdowns could cause more damage than they mitigate. Those are only equivalent arguments if you think lockdowns prevent nearly all deaths from viruses, which you are the aberration for thinking.
What Phoenixmgs is talking about is, if taken as he says it, would possibly lead to a few thousand deaths in the US. What I'm talking about led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. I'm willing to say it could only be 600, 000 or 700, 000 unnecessary deaths. If you do the math, it could be as high as 1, 000, 000. I was already discounting hundreds of thousands of deaths because I was already thinking about how not all of them would be preventable
That does not mean that there aren't problems with lockdowns. I have many criticisms of Australia's lockdown... But just because I have criticisms, that does not mean that it wasn't the best option at the time. The person who implemented the Australian lockdowns was one of the worst leaders Australia has had. I still say it was the best option. I had to support someone I do not like for the betterment of my country. Phoenix cannot do this
The problem is that Phoenix was wrong, and many of the deaths that he claimed would happen under a lockdown did not happen. I don't mean that they went back to normal rates, I mean they were less than the average year. Most of the criticisms he has about lockdowns are factually untrue. I'm very willing to discuss real world problems, not made-up alternative facts. He kept on going on about how Biden would force vaccinations onto people without realising that Trump, through inaction, forced the US population into a medical crisis, which forced millions of people into medical debt, which forced businesses to close. He never saw COVID as a real threat or thought about the damage it was doing, and he changed the definitions of words to fit this narrative
In short, he put his own beliefs about his own country, and the country paid dearly