I sympathise hugely with the people who have lost jobs and businesses. The more general quasi-libertarian outrage about having to suffer the life-shattering indignity of wearing a facemask just because it might save some fucker who you've never met and don't give a shit about from dying, not so much.
There's one thing I really don't understand though: The Tories are the party of the "strong economy". It's their brand, they get it into every possible sentence they utter. It was their justification for a decade of soul-destroying, life-destroying (for some) austerity. Never mind how true it is or isn't in practice; the principle of it is the cornerstone of everything they seek power for, from keeping CGT and corporation tax low, to maintaining enough tax loopoles that they billionaire backers can end up paying nothing, to running down the welfare state, NHS and state school system, to undermining trade union power etc. etc. So.....
Do people seriously think they would be taking a path like this, with the extraordinary economic consequences it entails, just for a laugh and because they enjoy the "power" it gives them over people, or whatever? Does it really make any sense that they would do this for any other reason than that they have analysed the available information about the likely consequences of NOT doing it, and they are catastrophically worse?
Tiny changes to critical factors can have gargantuan snowball effects, in a viral epidemic. The main reason the UK is one of the worst affect countries is that the government fucked up for just a few weeks at the beginning by not listening to the science and thinking they could handle it via "herd immunity". Current policy re tiers, schools etc. is designed to keep thing within a level the NHS can just handle (and has to keep changing because there are many unpredictable variables interacting in that). If those policies are abandoned, the result won't be a few more people with mild Covid. It will be something serious enough that the Tory party is willing to sacrifice practically its whole raison d'etre to avoid.
And then there's Brexit just round the corner, a move of the Tories' making ready to further devastate the economy just when it's already at its weakest. But that's OK, apparently, because they Tories really WANT to be fighting the next election having turned us into a third world hellhole with the living standards of Somalia and the economic credibility of Greece.
Seriously people, think about it please.