"...as even 1 patient is enough to destroy everything"
That implies we are trying to make the virus extinct, which we are not. We want the virus to spread, but at a manageable rate.
That implies we are trying to make the virus extinct, which we are not. We want the virus to spread, but at a manageable rate.
Otherwise you'll just end up with a new trend of locking down things for 2 months, then opening up, only for a new patient 0 to lock down everything 2 months later.
(I wish I could believe that contact tracing and partial lockdown were sufficient but even Singapore, which by all reports was doing these things, is now SIP with 1/4 as many cases per capita as the US. I think our best case if we can't eradicate is going to look a bit like SK, where schools are shut down and life is very different from what we would typically expect. But that is a best case scenario assuming competent and diligent institutions, which I'm not sure we have.)