Which brings up a greater issue. IMO the best way to deal with this disease is to make special accommodations for the vulnerable, to fortify the medical industry's response capability, and to let the disease run its course in the general population, which has high natural immunity to it. Then herd immunity will be built up quickly, and everyone will be the beneficiaries. Some epidemiologists have concluded are that only ~23% of the population has to attain Covid immunity in order to achieve herd immunity.
By making a super big deal of this, we have only empowered it. It feels like a Kafkaesque world when I go out, because 85% of it is pure nonsense. But then Democrats have noticed that Trump's popularity has been inversely proportional to the impact of Covid. Funny how well that comports with the totalitarian, destructive, and nonsensical decrees of many Democratic governors.