[Nasrudith]

That also isn't a new phenomenon which mostly says bad things about the people doing it from the antisemetic pogrum responses which in one notable case /poisened their own water supply/ to a more pedestrian anti mask league in tbe 1910s and related Black Death there were also some dim enough to think there was a choice of "skip measures for the economy".

Two kinds of choices - look for some scapegoat and manage to make things worse for themselves and far worse for their victims. The other is downright idiotic contrariness and the failure to understand that "normal" is not an option because epidemics alone cause others to stay away. It is like saying that you can ignore the blizzards and keep on making money growing tropical crops in open fields without wasting money on greenhouses that are redundant most of the year. The choice is between bad or worse because "trying to benefit from the status quo by when conditions won't return under the circumstances".