This is why I prefer the term "Quarantine Pandemics." An origin of the virus aside (though I'm inclined to think of it as a laboratory leak), safety measures taken against it brought, in the mid to long term, much more harm than good, when checked against similar diseases of yore, e.g., the Hong Kong flu of 1968, when snap lockdown measures weren't being forced. Luckily, control groups also emerged (see Sweden or Belarus). Alas, there couldn't be Anders Tegnell of their own in any country.