"Why are you still struggling with this?"

I'm not struggling with this. I'm struggling to get people who don't want to admit error to see the nose on their face.

I've given you this analogy before but you ignored it. I assume it went over your head but let's try again....

To test whether aspirin cures cancer you give two tablets to cancer patients. 98 of those patients continue to have cancer. 2 recover.
Do you say the 2 recoveries proves aspirin works on cancer or do you assume there was something different about those two people and investigate that difference? Outliers never prove an hypothesis.

Islands were outliers. Why?

The world's moved on and all the data now shows that the length or stringency of lockdowns had no effect on the ultimate outcome. Some of us recognised that from early on. Some will takes a few years yet to come around.

Yes. Thank goodness the US state of Florida had DeSantis to prevent mandatory masking, vax and closings. Florida lost a mere ~80,000 to COVID compared to the millions upon millions of Australians that COVID died.

Yep anti-lockdown Florida ended up with about the same number of deaths per million of population as pro-lockdown New York.

It's almost as though locking down or not made no difference.

Doesn't the arguing on this sound like Global Warming arguments.
Not the detail of course, but the tone.