This type of cynicism is most unhelpful in the context of a very challenging national debate
That wasn't cynicism but more of what is going to happen. If there is no cure apart from isolation then we should be locked down until there are zero cases. That could take a year or more and then we would still import cases with our lax borders. At some point the economy will be restarted because it has to and we will be hit with a second and third wave. By that point the people will start to accept that deaths will have to happen and that the strongest will survive.