I've been saying this for a while, and happily it is becoming less and less controversial. Our response to Covid has shown that we have already abdicated responsibility for decision-making, at all levels, to possibly well-meaning but misguided and uninformed people. This is fine when there aren't any hard decisions to be made. But now, the result is that we are all living under restrictions that we know are absurd, and do absolutely nothing to slow the spread of an airbourne virus.
On the upside, I look forward to building a greenhouse out of all of the discarded plexiglass.