No one disagrees that many, if not most, of the "calculated" openings make no sense. I think that @Yehuda57 is right, in that the frustrations about the regulations not making sense are causing people to abandon the facts and all reason when it comes to that actual virus itself. If you keep the argument to your issues with government inefficiencies, we'll probably agree on much more. But when you bring the costs of the lockdown for suicide and anxiety, and risks of younger people being negligible, so precautions taken to avoid getting sick are misguided, that's where you lose me. The science is what it is, and just because we're missing some of it, doesn't mean we abandon safety until we learn more.
The risks of lockdown are so much worse than this upticks in anxiety, and having stricter lockdown advocates continually minimizing them is as frustrating as it is to you when you feel people are being reckless about other people's lives.
How many people had cancer treatments paused because of lockdown? Thousands. How many will die because of that? Unknown. I know of one person who was informed last week that because of his missed treatments, his cancer has advanced too far to be treated when he had been treatable pre covid.
How many people had hip or knee replacements and haven't been able to have the required physical therapy? I have a relative who had an ACL repaired, a meniscus removed, and was in the midst of therapy which was put on hold for two months (and counting). There's no telling the long term effects of that - from early-onset arthritis to his leg not fully recovering altogether.
Just today the NYT had a story talking about all the deaths caused by people not making it to the hospital in time.
There are the special needs kids who cannot get their therapy remotely, and cannot go to school remotely and need constant supervision from their parents who haven't been able to work remotely even if their job allowed for it.
Thousand upon thousands have lost everything. And I mean everything. I happen to be extremely lucky to have a job I could do remotely and a home I could escape to away from my apartment. But what of my neighbors who don't have such jobs? Neighbors who have been couped up in a one, and two-bedroom apartments for more than two months with anywhere from 1 to 6 kids?
This is a tiny drop in the bucket.
Believe me, we know how bad Corona is. We don't want a second wave. We've buried enough people. But we also know that the however bad the lockdown is, we haven't even begun to see the long term effects it is going to have. People are sick of being called "grandma killers" and cold-hearted murderers who never think of the yesomim.
People would be far more inclined to heed your concerns if there was a drop more empathy in your posts and if you acknowledged even slightly the dangers of these long lockdowns. People aren't just giving up because they are "fed up" - people are barely hanging on by a thread.