"clearly, you're not aware of doctors reporting from their care homes "
As mentioned: "... Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes that was reported."
-Yet you quite specifically claimed to be talking of something other than these: " not by the virus..." were your words...now you post a link concerning...ahem... Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes? -Its not that you've lost me, its that you've thoroughly lost yourself.
"...Was a lockdown needed at all?"
-Can you read a graph and extrapolate? If so see above. "eg what's happening in Belarus?"
-The same kind of thing as happened here: leadership denial/not-give-a-feckery.