That’s exactly right. On the other side of the shutdown, you need to do proactive screening and quarantining people who came in contact with sick people to create the conditions where you can safely ease the shutdown.

Absent that, there’s not much point of the shutdown. I guess it buys time for medical professionals to retrain and gather supplies, which is crucial.

Everybody and their brother is working on finding treatments. You're right, but the quarantines are stalling for time, in the hope that we can knock something off that 5%/7 days hospitalization figure.