So when it came to the lockdowns in USA, we saved all these lives from other things because everyone hunkered down, but also USA has so many deaths because no one listened and didn't hunker down.
The USA has "so many deaths" from C-19 because:
1) They have one of the largest populations in the world
2) Their C-19 response has been full of fuckups.
Nevertheless it would be 10X worse without the extreme safety measures (lockdowns, masks, social distancing, etc, etc, etc) they employed.