Almost all these arguments have the same basic structure. 1. We depend on X 2. X is provided by free trade and the open market. 3. Quarantine hurts free trade

Almost all these arguments have the same basic structure. 1. We depend on X 2. X is provided by free trade and the open market. 3. Quarantine hurts free trade and the open market. 4. Therefore, ongoing quarantine hurts X. While the argument is sound, removing or reducing the quarantine (ie, solving point 3) is not the only solution. You can also change point 2, on a case by case basis, and remove the supply chain dependence on markets, money, profit, and capitalism. Of course, someone who is "pro opening the economy" will be unable to accept this option on ideological or often self interest grounds, and thus try to reduce the option space to a simple binary, because mass death is better then the replacement of an economic paradigm from which they have benefited so.