Actually I agree with you! We should learn to live with COVID and navigate our daily lives better so that the economy can be stabilized. In theory that only works when everyone wears a mask to prevent asymptomatic spread of infection (which in turn helps prevent mutation and advancement of the disease), big events post-pone until after the pandemic, public businesses implement safety protocol, people with office jobs are allowed to work from home (you know, instead of being fired), countries go into strict temporary lockdown early rather than later, and homeowners and renters are both given support so that renters do not become homeless (and get COVID on the streets or in shelters) and so home owners also don't lose everything and become homeless, affordable access to testing is implemented, and schools provide education online from home (instead of cramming children together in a classroom so they can get infected and spread it to their parents and loved ones at home).

As crazy as they may seem to people who aren't you or I, it's actually happening where I live. The Silicon Valley (specifically Santa Clara county) has seen AMAZING results from doing most of the things I just listed above. we've had some of the lowest death and infection rates from COVID in our general area than the rest of California (and other heavily populated states). We've really modeled what successful quarantining and lockdown can do for American cities and counties long term in the prevention of widespread infection spreading. I will say my community is starting to get too overconfident and I see numbers rise as a result of people not wearing masks as much as they did before and not socially distancing as much either, but I am confident we'll get back on track for the most part.

A youtuber who happens to live in my neck of the woods made a video sharing her own observations on the success of our area's quarantine efforts: