A similar case can probably be made for South Dakota, whose governor showed similar restraint in not locking down residents of her state.
-NW

Covid Deaths Mount in France and the Czech Republic as Lockdowns Fail
Ryan McMaken | Mises.org
Nov 20, 2020

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Where's the Evidence?

The correlations that the prolockdown advocates want simply aren’t there. The experience of western Europe has not at all illustrated that lockdowns can be credited with “beating back Covid.” The disease has behaved under prolockdown regimes just as would be expected without lockdowns: deaths peaked in the spring, when the cold and flu season typically peaks. And then deaths began to rise again in the fall. Yet this second peak appears to be weakest in the country with the least stringent social distancing measures: Sweden.

Indeed, as Swedish authorities have long claimed, the data points toward an outcome in which most countries will end up with similar total deaths per million regardless of lockdown policy.1 This looks more likely by the day. As noted by Dr. Gilbert Berdine here at mises.org, “The data suggest that lockdowns have not prevented any deaths from covid-19. At best, lockdowns have deferred death for a short time, but they cannot possibly be continued for the long term.”

And then there is the problem of deaths caused by the side effects of the lockdowns themselves.

We already know that isolation, unemployment, and other social ills caused by lockdowns affect both physical and mental health. But we also know that lockdowns lead to deaths from untreated medical conditions. Moreover, government health experts in many cases have callously cut off the elderly from all their social and family support. The Associated Press estimates that for “every two COVID-19 victims in long-term care, there is another who died prematurely of other causes.” Many of these deaths are brought on by neglect and isolation caused by state-mandated lockdown policies...

As Dr. Berdine writes:
It seems likely that one will not have to even compare economic deprivation with loss of life, as the final death toll following authoritarian lockdowns will most likely exceed the deaths from letting people choose how to manage their own risk. After taking the unprecedented economic depression into account, history will likely judge these lockdowns to be the greatest policy error of this generation.