I live in South Carolina https://www.scdhec.gov/monitoring-testing-covid-19 https://www.scdhec.gov/monitoring-testing-covid-19. You are correct testing is still

I live in South Carolina https://www.scdhec.gov/monitoring-testing-covid-19 https://www.scdhec.gov/monitoring-testing-covid-19. You are correct testing is still low, but I don't think that data is useless. I don't agree with the notion that it 'will be too late'. As others have said, the point of a lock down should to prevent the hospitals from getting overwhelmed, prevent ventilator shortages, etc. Nobody even knows if a preemptive lock down can 'squash' the virus. While testing is being ramped up, aren't there other ways to determine outbreaks? Can't our leaders communicate with hospitals and find out number of open beds, ventilators, an influx of patients with suspected symptoms? It is still going to be around once we come of of hiding, whenever that is, so it's possible we are just delaying the acceleration phase and we end up with the same result later instead of facing it now. I'm not saying there is never a time for a lock down, I just wonder if my local leaders panicked and did it to early, because they didn't know what else to do? So in my area, the hospitals are fine. People are not flooding in the doors. Meanwhile thousands of jobs & businesses are being torched. My mom is a massage therapist, and is out of work for the foreseeable future. I just think there are smarter ways to go about it.