There was/is definitely a lot of people prone to what I call the Seatbelt Fallacy - 'why do we need seatbelts [airbags, ABS, etc.] when deaths in car accidents aren't even that high!??' - which becomes "we didn't need lockdown, hardly anyone died" ...
I find it hard to impose a lot of restrictions when there’s basically 10 people per day infected, but suddenly it’s 500+/day.