Again, the real problem is what happens if it comes back like the flu, and the next round is worse. The dude is not even considering that. Also, appeals to authority remain a fallacy.
Which dude? There were like a dozen doctors and scientists who commented on how crazy the response to what is, but numbers and science, a routing coronavirus which goes around every year or two.
You don't seem to understand the 'appeal to authority' game. If you just say something is true because some authority figure says so, that's 'appeal to authority'. If you listen to what an authority figure is saying, analyze the points the authority is making, and ask other people to do the same, that's just good old fashioned analysis.
Anyway, the 'what if it comes back?' argument could be make whether there ever a SARS-cov-2 or not. If something comes around, deal with it as needed. Sure, it would be good to be prepared, but collapsing the world's economies and plunging everyone (except China) into a depression certainly isn't going to help make that happen.
For my part, I'm screaming from the rooftops about '
the next time.' If there actually is something to this particular coronavirus it needs to be gotten to the bottom of ASAP because there are bio-warfare labs all over the world working on such things. If such weapons can be used as '
politically useful tools', it's a pretty sure bet that they will be eventually. It's only a matter of time. If '
we, the peeps' tolerate such things and '
trust the governments' who are in fact operating these labs, disaster is pretty much inevitable.