The point of locking down everyone is to slow down the spread of the virus through the entire population, which protects the high-risk people from accidental exposure, until a vaccine can be developed and deployed. That way we get herd immunity without killing the percentage of people who can't survive a full infection, but will be just fine with a vaccination.
Having healthy people isolated is not about protecting the healthy people. It's about stopping the healthy people from spreading the disease to the high-risk people.
It has done very little to protect the high risk people I know, who are all going back to work soon, and nothing for any high risk people who worked in an essential service. I know of an 60ish year old person who was sent back to work at his meat packing plant less than 14 days after testing positive for covid because his life apparently didn't matter. If any of them had quit, they would have lost eligibility for any government support and ended up homeless
I'll agree that allowing corporations to steal most of the resources that were intended to help people trying to quarantine, and failing to ensure both the ability to quarantine and the safety of those who absolutely could not, have been abject failures of the governments handling of this crisis.
Having healthy people isolated is not about protecting the healthy people. It's about stopping the healthy people from spreading the disease to the high-risk people.
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