Sdajii, I am not sure I follow you?
Destroying the economy, causing millions of people to lose their jobs, businesses, hobbies, relationships, etc, forcing people to stay inside with people and causing a dramatic increase in domestic violence etc (even at the best of times domestic violence involves physical assault and murder, and this will dramatically increase it), massively increased rates of depression due to lack of vocation and socialisation, etc etc etc, is very clearly going to cause far more damage in terms of both death and suffering than the virus ever would, let alone the difference between whatever the virus would have caused and what it will cause with these draconian measures.
To look at the maximum possible benefit, we have to say what was the worst case scenario of the virus itself (generally said to be a 3.4% death rate of those who get infected, and obviously not everyone would get infected). We're not going to reduce the impact to a 0% infection rate or 0% fatality rate, so the damage mitigation of the virus is dramatically lower than that. The vast majority of people who would have been killed by the virus were elderly folks not long for this world anyway. Now, as it is, we're still going to have a percentage of people getting the virus including those elderly people etc. But, we are forcing literally everyone to suffer, most dramatically. Children, teenagers, young adults and every other demographic will be suffering from psychological depression, many from domestic violence, financial distress which will cause long term financial suffering, educational disruption, no doubt some of those elderly and other vulnerable folks have already died due to logistical difficulties, the economic destruction is going to cause hospitals etc to lose funding and become less effective (causing deaths from all causes, not just the virus)...
In short, I was saying over a month ago that the human reaction was going to cause far more harm than the virus, but it is now utterly obviously that the absurd reaction will cause far, far more harm, and despite how obvious that is, we are being expected to anticipate and want draconian rules for an extended period of time.
It's a sad display of human stupidity that most people can't see it already, but my question was: at what point will it be obvious to most people that these measures are causing more harm than good?
By all means, encourage good hygeine etc. We shouldn't be shaking hands, we should cough into our elbow, etc etc, but to destroy the economy and take such crazy action, causing far more death and suffering than it prevents is insane, and we need to be asking why this is happening.