I think with all these sorts of things, hindsight gives 20:20 vision. Every path seems obvious once you look back in time. But it is much harder to know what to do beforehand. The concept of the wheel seemed obvious, after it was invented!
In any case, all these arguments are going to be a mute point. The vaccines are coming and soon!
I did have a thought about the future though. With all the international travel, increasing population densities and congestion, future pathogens will spread even more rapidly. If Covid 19 is here to stay on a seasonal basis, what happens in 30 years time, when we have had another couple of pandemics? We will have colds + flu + Covid + pan1 + pan2 and so on to content with. Maybe masks will be an everyday thing in the future, where no one can go in a public place without a mask. It sounds apocalyptic but it is plausible.
Our saviour might be AI, that invents solutions for the common cold, flu and so on. Throw in a bit of gene editing with CRIPSER-case9 and we will all be saved!