[skookum]

Opinion pieces in favor of keeping the lockdowns going are a dime a dozen right now. Why are none of these smart people extending their opining to cover exit strategies and timelines? What are the steps being taken to make sure that an eventual relaxation of lockdown doesn't just put us back at the mid-February state of the pandemic?

[orev]

Because with a sufficiently long and strict lockdown, the disease dies out and there’s nothing else that would need to be done.

[skookum]

For that to work requires not only a strict but a globally coordinated lockdown, otherwise one infected traveler can get the whole thing started again.