I agree with everything you wrote there.
Imagine if you will that at the start of this we put all at risk people in luxury accommodation somewhere free of charge. It would certainly have cost a lot less than what is happening now.
I think that in the end one of two things is going to happen: Governments will admit they were terribly wrong (unlikely) or they will skew the statistics and control the news to pat themselves on the back for doing "exactly what needed to be done."
Yes, politicians and governments almost never admit to being wrong. I think the proof will be in the numbers though you will have to look for them. You can inflate the COVID-19 deaths but it will be hard to do without causing other types of death to mysteriously decrease. But the claim will always be that it would have been so much worse if anything other than exactly what we did had been done.
indeed, i as noticing a very suspicious drop in pneumonia death rates in USA hospitals as of late.
Have you heard the story about the trumpet-player in the tower analogy?