A large amount of excess deaths are a result of Lockdowns that cause mass unemployment and subsequent Drug overdoses, Heart attacks/strokes from Stress and bad Food, people dying from lack of medical care, along with suicides from depression caused from increased poverty and Social alienation. It’s also worth noting that of the 300,000 who have died of the virus, around 50% were in Nursing homes (in many states they put ICU patients their which caused massive outbreaks among the elderly patients), and around 80% were over 70, and hardly anybody under 50, let alone under 30, have died of it (thus showing how absurd it was to close schools and Universities). This is backed up by Antibody studies from the WHO and CDC showing a .23% and .65%, with massive age variations (Here’s a link to the WHO study
https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf).
In conclusion, the sane approach would have been a targeted stay-at-home order only for the very Old and/or very Sick, while everybody else would be able to continue their normal life with only minor precautions (washing your hands and voluntary Mask wearing), that would have saved Millions of jobs, thousands of Small business's, Hundreds of thousands of excess deaths, and potentially a good chunk of the Covid-19 fatalities. The reason this wasn’t done was because the Lockdowns were never about saving people from the virus, but instead were a sneaky way for the Global Capitalist Elite (in the U$, EU, Russia, China, and all the Third World banana republics) to accelerate the 4th industrial Revolution to eliminate the Working Class.