I see you've got a fair bit of stick for this so I'm going to tread carefully with a response of a different order.
While I disagree with your predictions of what will be here beyond the present situation (I actually believe there may be some positives out of it), I can't help but have some sympathy with yourself and others who are questioning the extent of the response compared to the extent of the threat.
In fact, I'd go as far as to say that we should be asking those questions. For that reason I'm particularly interested to see how things pan out in Sweden.
We are currently preparing vast medical units in buildings that were prepared for other purposes. We are accelerating manufacture of medical aids and research for vaccinations. We are inviting former NHS workers back and ensuring that, belatedly, those staff who are providing care get the help and support they need to do the job.
If we had done all the above, and provided advice/restrictions on movement of people in vulnerable groups, and pumped the money and resources (which are now being handed out to cover the cost of the shutdown) to the NHS, why could we not have allowed everyone else to crack on as before?
Don't worry about the response. Mundanes will be mundanes. You can teach ignorance, but you can't teach stupidity. People who are unable to think for themselves will always retreat into Groupthink during testing times.
It's mainstream economists that are saying it, GS.
https://reaction.life/economic-impact-of-coronavirus-crisis-is-unparalleled-in-modern-times/
https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a31915611/coronavirus-timeline/
Meanwhile the Imperial College, whose broken model is one of the reasons for the overreaction, is now proposing a Carbon Tax to claw back the money Government spends during the crisis.
Taken together, the expert opinion is saying exactly what I'm saying:
Eradication of working class to be replaced by Professional consumers.
Eradication of high street in favour of online portals such as Amazon.
Massive new taxes on Carbon that will effect the freedoms of many, many people's lives, from their businesses, to their choice of foods, to where they can travel.
Meanwhile:
https://www.independentsentine.....ed-from-it-directly/
According to the Professor, only 12% of the Italians who have died have actually died of the coronavirus.
The problem is Governments are saying that anyone who dies and has the virus are being listed as dying OF the virus, massively inflating the mortality rate. The actual reality is their deaths are from other things, like heart failure.
In Germany where they are far more specific, the mortality rate is a paltry 0.3%.
As you say, serious questions are going to be increasingly asked. There's a point coming soon when what we have to lose is far greater than anything we have to gain. The Financial Crisis of 2008 cost an additional 260,000 lives due to cancer. How many are going to die from the economic catastrophe being enacted now?
