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More infections detected because more screening?

You have to have some hope. If there isn't a hope of normality in any form from the current then people will lose patience and the general compliance we have at the moment will go end and likely we get stronger enforcement of stricter rules.

And again the politicos/epidemiologists etc will look at a big picture and say that n thousand deaths out of n million is acceptable and manageable compared to the financial/societal costs and the impact of those. They are also well aware that every single life is worth saving at whatever cost. Now you try to balance that out.

Finally before the lock down we were requested to self regulate, to not congregate etc but too many people didn't. Same with restrictions on certain goods - we were told there is no shortage, no need to stockpile but people didn't.