> In a perfect world, the point of a lockdown is to arrest the spread of a disease entirely. The problem with this is, that the whole world has to stop for tha

> In a perfect world, the point of a lockdown is to arrest the spread of a disease entirely. The problem with this is, that the whole world has to stop for that to happen, and by stop, i mean stop entirely. Even if you stop the spread in California, and have zero infected people there, the first infected outsider that comes into the state, will spread infections, and you're back at closing down everything. Basically the second part (keeping healthcare system managable, and hoping for a vaccine soon) is the only think we can do.