So you’re saying any academic paper that disagrees with you is written by a conspiracy theorist?
Why? Can you point to some hard data that would illustrate why working from home would reduce the spread of COVID? “It’s obvious” is a poor argument.
I’d also add that the Act underpinning all this (forget what’s it’s called) doesn’t give the government blanket leeway to do whatever they like. Their interventions have to have some scientific basis and overall benefit to society. Masks have some trivial positive benefit and few harms, so it’s clear that mask mandates are within the law. “Lockdowns” of whatever stripe would directly cause a certain number of deaths and some very clear harms, and there is very little scientific evidence for benefit. Which is why, I think, the gov’t is currently avoiding that option.