>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.

It is 100% evidence based. Reduction of gatherings = reduction in transmission. There's no way around this. People may be more likely to get covid from costco, but reducing interaction to only costco is still reduction of transmission.

This idolization of Elon Musk and contrarian logic that really doesn't even make common sense is getting on my nerves.

It's like one of those people who said that face masks weren't protecting people from covid using faulty but overconfident logic.

Uh hello? A face mask blocks light and slows down