There wasn't a lockdown, and it was crystal clear that there never could be a lockdown in this country, irrespective of leadership. There are tens of millions of people spread across this country who are baked from a special recipe of perversity, contrariety, ignorance, and violence. They're not unique to America, but they are uniquely well armed here. If they can manage to break into the Capitol, they can certainly defend their home turf against a few sympathetic policemen--the sort who wouldn't even say a supportive word about the mask mandates, much less enforce them.

Moreover, locking down the whole US? Too big. The only places that succeed in locking down have generally homogeneous and relatively small populations, and unified, rather than federal, structures.

A "hard lockdown" would have resulted in nothing constructive: it would have triggered protests verging on rebellion, along with widespread civil disobedience and prisons and/or courts bulging with violators who wold be spreading illness.