The entire causal relationship of lockdowns and social isolation doesn't sit right with me, I'm sure there are anxious people that decided to spend more time is

The entire causal relationship of lockdowns and social isolation doesn't sit right with me, I'm sure there are anxious people that decided to spend more time isolated but my uncle couldn't do that after a few months, got covid and died. I didn't even attempt to isolate insofar friends had the same mindset and none of them isolated or reduced interactions exept bars were closed. So its not clear to me that people are capable of suvervising their own social interactions. Maybe threatening to 'reduce social interaction' had the opposite effect of creating scarcity which induced demand. This would have been stating the obvious if we're talking economics.