You're going to get massively downvoted here because you dared question the hive mind. None of their approaches place any consideration on the damage caused by

You're going to get massively downvoted here because you dared question the hive mind. None of their approaches place any consideration on the damage caused by the mitigation efforts themselves. Suicides, domestic violence, overdoses, and other negative outcomes are all up and will cost lives. At what point does the conspiracy theory that much of it is a pure power grab become validated?