I am not joking when I say I want to get Corona. I'll be fine, and being "Recovered" is the golden passport to freedom. I may already have had it but who the hell knows.
I would add that full lockdown is completely awkward. It's just socially very difficult to do. You can understand the logic of all this and there is still a kind of mental shock when you can't order Domino's. Obviously, many people are not exposing themselves to people who are at risk, so that further lengthens to chain of events between normal behavior and illness. And of course very few have seen anyone actually get ill, it's just all in the news. And most people are conditioned to ignore the constant shrieking and hysteria from our media.
I don't dispute the need for isolation. In fact, obviously, if what you are saying is true, I would expect an Italy situation in a few weeks over there. If stores like Home Depot are open, you aren't on quarantine. So if true, conventional wisdom here predicts bad things to happen. Very bad things. We've had no restaurants, no bars, no going to work for more than two weeks, and numbers continue to rise. Supermarkets only.
Even so, imagine that the solution ends up being that everyone has to wear a mask when they go out. Do you think that's awkward? I do. It's weird. But it may be necessary for six months or a year.
During the first WWI Christmas, they had a truce. Soldiers from both sides crossed into No Man's Land and had dinner and drinks with each other and to exchange gifts. They literally had no idea what was about to happen. They couldn't conceive of it. They were not mentally prepared. There were no Aggies there.
I don't object to the criticism at all, people are behaving stupidly, but I also think almost nobody is mentally prepared for this. Isolation is a huge stressor, as is losing your job, as is losing your entire routine, literally almost every resource that keeps you alive. It's a huge personal and psychological challenge even for those who were on this early, or who are financially secure, like many of us here. To dismiss people as just being "aggy" is kind of ridiculous.