No one was talking about open slather. There are other options between the extremes. It seems that everyone that's fine with locking the country up believes there only other thing to do would be to do nothing at all.
If we all lived by the advice of medicos no one would play football, ride a horse, bicycle, motorcycle, fly recreationally, drink or smoke and probably a heap of other things. These are all things I have been advised by various doctors to avoid over the years.
I doesn't take much to look at the laws being enforced over the last few months to realise that a lot of them were utter garbage. Nothing wrong with "social distancing", but there are so many examples of "illegal behaviour" that perfectly embody the spirit of "social distancing", but were shut down.
If it's ok to head off to the shop where there are a couple of hundred other people all having everything they handle handled by a few checkout operators, it's probably fine to swim in the surf, lay in the sun or camp in the middle of nowhere.