Public health experts (& the media who boost them) are, in many cases, living in a delusional fantasy land. People should live a perma-reduced life? OK, what about single people––should they go out and date? What about people who make a living working at crowded bars? 
What about celebrations? Those involve us congregating together! What about when winter in NYC comes––avoiding indoor dining will be a lot harder then. What about people who get joy from going out to fine restaurants, or to packed bars on game day to watch their team?
These things seem trivial & surely there's a point of contagiousness at which people would alter behavior. But it's not at all useful for pub health experts to say "live a life that bears little resemblance to the one you had before for at least 1.5 years, but maybe many more!"
I do not want to sit at home, in my living room, glued to the TV, rarely seeing friends & family, with no social interaction to revel in & no way to mark the passage of time. That has horrible health costs too. Our public health establishment has failed to account for this.
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