I have a similar albeit slightly different take: halfhearted lockdowns and restrictions only put undue stress on the vast majority of workers given the state of our unemployment and government assistance. This is only made worse through means testing assistance and fumbling the welfare back in the spring (I got called back to work for a week and missed out on $500 because I was at work. In a pandemic). This stress turns into anger and reaction which plays right into the hands of the arch capitalists who would gladly see millions dead as long as they’re replaceable. We either do it the right way, or we don’t do it at all. The problem is the right way would terrify most Americans into thinking the end of days had begun when in reality it would just be a copy of how China handled it: hard quarantine, little to no internal travel, no international travel, full assistance provided by the government along with contact tracing and mandatory shelter-in-place while using the police and military to deliver food and medicine and essentially fulfill vital industrial roles for about two months. The glaring issue being that Americans wouldn’t go for it, politicians wouldn’t go for it, capitalists wouldn’t accept it and the military and police would, at the very least, bitch and moan the whole time while getting even bigger hero complexes. As for me and my house, we’re just doing what we can to stay safe and healthy while seeing select few friends and family who we know have also taken their health seriously. It didn’t have to be this way, but hey, it’s america so what do you expect?