You say that, but your intuition about those measures isn't good enough, which is why we needed a reliable model to tell us whether those measures were going to

You say that, but your intuition about those measures isn't good enough, which is why we needed a reliable model to tell us whether those measures were going to be effective, that's the entire point of the research. If our starting point is "Oh well obviously we need to do lock down" then why are we wasting money on modelling it? And since we haven't modelled the system without public policy intervention, none of the results mean anything.