The measures are not in line with the virus effect. The virus is actually very very weak. The fact that it's new and that all patients to whom the worst-case-scenarios apply all come in once requiring more intensive care beds when most countries have, is the only real issue here. So the measure must force the virus to smear its effect out over more time, so people will not fall ill all in once, but in small amounts. The upcoming years the virus will also be there, but it's then unlikely all worst-case-patients will be there in once.
The measures are not effective at all, since they were taken months too late. And the side-effects are downright too horrible. I won't even start to summarize them simply because these comment box character limits won't let me. So yeah, these measures are by far more harmful than the virus itself ever was.