From an economic perspective the question has to be considered:
Do you shut everything down for a month. Which would be god awful.
Or is it better to die by a thousand stab wounds and drag it out.
It all depends on how bad you think this can get. And if you listened to any of the scientists who spoke today to congress it’s going to be ugly. On top of that if you look at the countries who were aggressive about it they have faired better then those who did not.
And it’s not over in these countries like China. They have turned a corner but tens of thousands more will still die