Breaking the Waves

Safety measures break the wave, so you can prepare and coordinate, and deal with the next smaller one, until you have it down to traceable pockets, or to status of entirely virus free. Because it's a natural virus with a lifespan (not the half-life of nuclear radiation) requiring your respiratory system to propagate itself while being unable to live on any given surface past 72 hours.

Otherwise what you have is not diminishing waves, but one single super-tsunami that "just washes over the country" with no end in sight.

The interesting thing about everything the medical experts have been telling us with regards to safety measures, is that what to some ears sounds "draconian" is in fact quite optimistic - in the best sense of the word. That is, the safety measures actually have an effective end that is totally within the realm of possibility. After which, the measures are no longer necessary. But the fundamentalist who absolutizes everything in a bid to fight what he perceives as draconian, is actually helping to perpetuate a super-draconian virus and a truly dreadful scenario.

Extremists like their extremes, and they'll bend every particular of concrete reality to fit their extremes (because of which they are also the biggest ambiguous fence-sitters who are forever vamping off of every situation according as it pleases them).

It's a hoax goes merrily skipping hand in hand with let's welcome this pandemic as a super-tsunami pandemic, and in no other form, because absolutes!

Super-tsunami pandemic is in fact the direct offspring of "It's a hoax!"

Super-tsunami pandemic is also the offspring of "This is all an overreaction!"

Super-tsunami pandemic is also the offspring of "You're all just the sheeple lapdogs of modernist science!"

Super-tsunami pandemic is also the offspring of "The cure is worse than the disease!"

Super-tsunami pandemic is also the offspring of "God will protect us if we are just presumptuous enough yelling freedom!"

Super-tsunami pandemic is also the offspring of "These safety measures are the equivalence of the Jews being packed into train cars and taken to the gas chambers! Oh I walked into the store and there was plexiglass - oh the persecution!"

Super-tsunami pandemic is also the offspring of "The stock market is the best it has ever been!"