[cameldrv]

This is a very good point. The lockdown measures, while very arguably necessary, are an extremely severe measure. They were perhaps the only measure that would have been effective at the beginning when there was no preparation.

Yet, things like enforced mask wearing, or enforced out of home quarantine/isolation somehow were off the table. It is a weird path-dependent quirk of the fact that we had no testing at the beginning, that instead of quarantining and isolated the exposed and infected, we are effectively quarantining everyone.