There are some people who are indeed saying this.
Some people have been cooped up with children in tiny New York apartments. Flat-out child abuse, if you ask me. "Their extracurriculars are all online." Super.
I've seen numerous social media threads in which people exchange their stories of refusing human contact for ten months.
Among the more adventurous ones in a recent thread, we have these:
"I get my groceries delivered and have gone out (in a mask) to take a walk around my neighborhood," says one.
"If I take walks I wear my masks. I do not hug others even here at home, except the dog," says another.
As I say, those are the bold ones.
And how about this:
Stanford's John Ioannidis and his colleagues just released a study that failed to find any benefit from "stay-at-home orders and business closures." "The data cannot fully exclude the possibility of some benefits," the study continues. "However, even if they exist, these benefits may not match the numerous harms of these aggressive measures."
Translation: this misery is all for nothing.
When the world goes "back to normal," no doubt these people will at last emerge from their homes. But even among non-hysterics, plenty of habits picked up during "quarantine" will persist.
That's what I discussed in a recent episode of the Tom Woods Show -- why the whole home delivery, buy-everything-online phenomenon is going to remain elevated, and why this ought to inform the way we think about that business you resolved on January 1 to start this year.