Where I live most people are over 60, and some of them are saying they want business to go back as usual for the “young” because they don’t want their grandchildren living through a depression. They are at risk themselves, being an older citizen, but they still opt for their grandchildren. Personally, I think if we were not such a greedy culture buying so much on credit, which inflates prices, and if we prepared financially at the micro and macro level better for disasters then we would not have such an economic concern, but that’s drifting to another topic.
I think these people I know who are saying they want life to go back to normal and let the virus work it’s way through the population, I think if we started to lose lots of people where I live they might finally think twice also. For sure if their child or grandchild died, but even lots of their friends dying too. My community is 130,000 people, lets say only 60,000 get it, that would be on the low side 6,000 hospitalized, and 600 dead. That’s rounding down, it could be double. 600 is huge, especially since it would happen in less than a year. 1 to 2 people dying daily just in my city from it. It would likely happen in clusters too. She wasn’t suggesting we go back to our usual deal here, she still though we should distance and take some precautions, but a portion of people would be very lax. Plus, we interact with younger people at restaurants, grocery stores, and if they are infected at higher rates it will effect all of us.