The governments who enact the restrictions and the majority who support them are not acting entirely on arguments based on health. For example, origin of COVID is animal reservoir (bats) which makes a bunch of the restrictions illogical (they are predicated on sterilizing immunity / eradicating it entirely - also known as zero covid).

So, it is not cut and dry case that you can present a health policy based on health, like you are making now. You probably need some kind of Girardian scapegoat or a political argument to shock the public out of it. I don't think the latter is coming because majority supports and sees the restrictions as positive.