A whole lot of people in this thread not understanding the nature of exponential growth, and the fact that we're still at a relatively low point in the curve. Every other country that is ahead of us on the curve did all they could to avoid locking down until they got farther up the curve and realized they had no other option, because another thing that brings governments down is millions of people dying from a virus in a matter of months, which is where we'd be heading absent any mitigation measures.