[tuna-piano]

The economic loss of a lockdown is just extraordinary. Just think about how many people and resources are idle... Literally trillions of dollars in lost economic potential (let alone the harder to quantify human+health consequences).

So it's crazy to me how little, relative to the hard economic costs of the virus, is being spent on mitigation.

I'm a totally uninformed lay-person, but the below seems reasonable:

Huge testing effort, something like 5% of the country's population gets tested every day (once every 20 days per person). Manage electronically. If positive, quarantine that person and known contacts.

Huge contact tracing and small lockdown strategy (found 10 cases in Omaha, Omaha lockdown for 2 weeks).

Seems that would be doable, cost billions and billions, but enable economic activity and minimize health+human consequences. Would be a great RoI.