There are no right answers when a pandemic shuts down the world.
It's a fine line between sacrificing the future "economy" to save lives now.
We will have to see if overall life loss is less or more due to the human interventions during covid mania.
When mothers die giving bird, car accidents become mortal, heart attacks are not treated because there are no beds in the hospital people tend to revolt. But because it did not happen you seem to argue that the remedy was not needed.