That strikes me as one of the most perceptive and sobering (and kind of moving) assessments of what's been happening all along. I'm saying that as someone who's been very happy to see articles re-assessing lockdown and the Great Barrington Declaration. But yes, perhaps simple mitigation, and avoiding the extra harms of lockdown, was the most that could ever have been done differently.

-Jaundice Phlegmatic Possum