mighty presumptuous that we wanted anything to be done.

Best response would have been to do nothing. But politicians can't be seen to be doing nothing so they have to do something, anything.

If they had done nothing or minimal disruption like the original SARS or swine flu, we would have been at herd immunity already naturally without destroying half the economy in the process.

They also ignored and suppressed treatments that could have had maximum lifesaving impact and are cheap.