The root cause of this article seems to be that it's inconvenient having my adult kids in the house and how long must this go on. The idea seems to be to someh

The root cause of this article seems to be that it's inconvenient having my adult kids in the house and how long must this go on. The idea seems to be to somehow isolate at risk populations (the elderly, mostly) and resume business as usual. As pointed out by others, it's too late in the absence of a vaccine to do anything but try and reduce the infection rate, unless society decides to just let the cards fall where they may and sacrifice the old and sick. How long it goes on would depend on the effectiveness of this strategy, and you can tell be monitoring the infection rate. China claims that it has essentially stopped new infections after ~3 months, so this doesn't seem like it will be an indefinite lockdown.