2. that's partially true.
But people don't always control having diabetes. People don't control having cancer. People don't control other forms of immunocompromisation. People don't control being older.
3. I don't think it's an overreaction. You said in 2 that there are vaccines, therapies, masks. These things took a year to get to. If not for the actions in the first year, there'd be many more dead.