Mental health doesn't respect 'reasoning'. If your policy requires humans to be robots, you are a bad policy maker.

I followed the rules until it became clear that I was becoming psychotic as a result of extreme isolation and about to snap and hurt myself and others.

To avoid a 100% suicide rate, I will take a 10% death rate. If you're interested in convincing me why I should sacrifice myself for your benefit, I'm all ears.

Hyperbolic, 'holier-than-thou' messaging doesn't address the problem.

The idea of “crushing COVID in a month” is a fantasy, and in retrospect maybe it always was. Nobody has done it except a handful of remote island nations (Australia, New Zealand). Even Japan hasn’t managed to do it.

This is the public health equivalent of "beatings will continue until morale improves."

Crushing it in a month was only possible if a controlled, highly acute spread was permitted through a completely isolated low-risk tier.

Lockdowns prevented a more acute spread, and thus increased the duration of the pandemic period, delaying endemic equilibrium.