But it turns out, we could still do those "essential" things, so long as we followed a bunch of rules that really would not help considering how even people following the rules to the best of their ability would still not be realistically able to prevent spreading viruses in general.
Along with that, the multiple goalpost shifts for the lockdown timeframe made it clear the government was full of shit there too. The BLM riots being allowed just made it even more obvious.