I’m willing (kinda) to give them the benefit of the doubt. Don’t forget there have been warnings since 2003 about the eventuality of these kind of pandemics.
They have prepared themselves for that scenario by systematically destroying healthcare.
We had a brilliant national healthcare, cheap and efficient. Then we got the neoliberal free market puppets taking over everywhere.
That would make everything way cheaper and much more efficient.
It’s a bottomless, bureaucratic pit 
Priority number one is to make sure bonuses are payed on time and the actual healthcare comes number last.
So, they ignored the warnings, that’s the downside of democracy, the one who comes after me can clean up the mess, nothing to do with me.
So they might have really thought at some point that this was potentially going to kill half of the planet.
So the only possibility they saw for getting that skeleton they call healthcare to cope with the masses of cases, was by locking everything down and tanking the economy by doing so.
Now it looks like it wasn’t much worse than the common flu, number wise. Apparently it’s not very pleasant to die from it but I can find little pleasure in other ways of dying so…
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but here you are expected to stay home as soon as you get something like a runny nose or a little sneeze, get yourself tested and stay home until you get your results.
Since we are entering the time of year where everybody is always snottering, coughing and sneezing, you can imagine what a chaos that is causing.
Schoolclasses being sent home because the teacher sneezed twice. Teachers are not classified as essential so they get no priority when they have to get tested.
Sometimes the whole thing takes a week. Every Tom, Dick and Harry can get a test nowadays so just join the cue.
It keeps the panic going, I guess that’s what it’s all about. Some people are walking the street looking like they are expecting a poisoned gas attack.
They are dying to implement some emergency law, temporary of course, to take away the few rights we still have left.
Only until we got a vaccin and then all will be fine again.
That’s what they told us 19 years ago. Remember 9/11 and how long they milked that and how scared people were?
Only until the war against terrorism is won, then…
It’s funny that, it looks like every single terrorist has succumbed to Covid-19, they’re all gone.