> You need to support people who need to isolate so that they can and do isolate. I think this is why the US (any maybe other places) ultimately failed so badl

> You need to support people who need to isolate so that they can and do isolate. I think this is why the US (any maybe other places) ultimately failed so badly at containing COVID. There's strong, partisan resistance to the idea of the government "supporting people." Lockdowns are in fact destructive without significant simultaneous individual-level welfare, but if that kind of welfare is offensive and unthinkable to you, then lockdowns will just seem like needless economic destruction that needs to be fraught tooth and nail. However, the debate ended up being lockdowns vs. opening up, not welfare vs. pandemic death and destruction.