Excess mortality went way up. Lots of people died because of that (not to mention the harmed but not killed). I wouldn't call it meaningless.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline
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Who called it meaningless? But the fact remains that most people were neither helped nor harmed. Hence it is meaningless to most people. That doesn’t equate with meaningless to all people.