So in your scenario, you lockdown now when just a few thousand people are infected. In a few weeks when hundreds of thousands are infected, are you continuing the lockdown further, or now telling people to commence life again?
Presumably you are locking down further at which point millions are infected, but people now are mentally fatigued, many households are fecked financially and/or out of resources, and infrastructure has begun to fail. There’s now civil unrest. Are you telling people to continue locking down because the worst shit is yet to come as we still have not reached the point where 10+ million infected at once?
You can’t lock down for 3 months and this shit is going to get worse and worse throughout that period, even with the most stringent lockdowns possible.
The health aspects of COVID-19 are one thing, the economic ramifications for individuals, for normal working class and lower middle class families are even more precarious. In six months time we will look back and realise the elderly in end of life care already were not the biggest victims of all this, but families who have to pick up the pieces are. I say this as someone who has five elderly grandparents of various states who I do not see all making it through this year. They will have it light compared to those who lose their job, their home, their business, all whilst battling ill health.