Think of it like a rubber ball. What happens when you flatten it? It gets flatter, but it also gets a lot longer. The volume of the ball doesn't really change, only it's shape does.
Same thing with Covid, and how the lockdowns will draw out the deaths, but they won't change the number of them.
For a given population, there will be x number of people that are susceptible to Covid19, those that will be hit hard by it and those that will die. The virus and the population makeup (ie. the number of people in the population that will die) is fixed. You can't change it significantly, as there are NO measures that completely eliminate the spread. All we are doing is dragging it out.
The original idea of the lockdowns was to keep the hospitals (already $hitty) from being overwhelmed. In the meantime our spineless governments and Nazi-like health officials have done absolutely SFA to significantly increase our hospitals capacity to respond to the influx of patients once the 'temporary measure' lockdown was lifted.
Flatten the curve = draw it out.
The lockdowns will have minimal effect on the number of deaths from Covid. The people that are going to die are going to die all at once, or one at a time (but they're still going to succumb to Covid, whether it's a day from now or 9 months from now.
To save people who can't be saved, we are destroying our economy and system. 'Wreck it to rule it' in the sense that these scumbag leftists can't "Build back better" until they destroy everything first.