TLDR version: control was more important than deaths, especially long term.

Long version:

I don’t think death was the primary goal. I think, globally speaking, the primary goal was control, and domestically speaking (in the US) to get rid of DJT.

What kind of control did they seek? Well, first I’ll define “they” as “the globalists at WEF, WEF-aligned allies, and all of their embedded forces within each country, including politicians like Obama and Biden, and peons underneath them like BLM (the organization)”.

With that definition in place, I don’t think it’s controversial to say they have clear goals of a global financial system, social credit system, and larger society over which they can easily control the behaviors of the people, to maintain their power and wealth, without pesky things like freedom or equal opportunity getting in the way.

More specifically, they want global currency, no property ownership, no weapons, and full scale censorship of information. We know this because they say it openly.

So, control is the goal, getting rid of people not in their control (DJT) is a priority, but how? How do you make people accepting of it?

You need the fear of death, more so than actual deaths. But you still need actual deaths, or the fear doesn’t take hold.

Moreover, they need to divide and conquer. This is a strategy successfully deployed in places like China and Germany - get your fellow citizens to turn each other in for “bad behavior” and you’ve amplified your forces for free.

So the lockdown wasn’t about stopping deaths, it was about preventing communication, instilling fear and isolation and division that would allow them to introduce things like mandatory vaccinations and censorship of “misinformation”.

If they just let everyone spread the disease and hoped for deaths that way, then yes more people would end up in the hospital, more people would die, somewhat. Probably not enough to make up the difference in inflated numbers, but closer.

They’d gain some control specifically in health care.

But they’d still be missing key ingredients of what we went through - willful censorship (“stop the spread of harmful misinformation”), division among the people (“you’re killing grandma by going shopping or not wearing a mask”).

Whole entire precedents like dictating who could go where, and when (as needed for concepts like the 15 minute cities) would not have been established the way they were with the pandemic.

My two cents at least.