The main reason why we are severely impacting the quality of life for millions of people is because our government is not willing to act to either provide some

The main reason why we are severely impacting the quality of life for millions of people is because our government is not willing to act to either provide some sort of basic income, supplies or guarantee survival for small businesses. As I've mentioned in other posts here, we're remarkably lucky that COVID-19 isn't something currently far more threatening. Considering attitudes such as yours would easily lead to mass extinction as we strive to save an imaginary economy rather than the people. As for how long and how severe a lockdown should be, I leave that up to the medical community. You and I are not part of that community and are not nearly educated to make that decision for them, so trying to argue that the economy must be opened up now is an argument made from ignorance.