yeapp, New Zealand is exactly doing that starting tomorrow (Wed) for 4 weeks
Meanwhile, in the US...
‘Our country wasn’t built to be shut down’: Trump pushes back against health experts
“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this,” Trump insisted to reporters during a White House press briefing with his coronavirus task force on Monday evening, predicting that “
America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting.”
Trump Is in a Frenzy Over the Economy—Not So Much the Virus
According to two people who have spoken to the president, Trump has demanded officials put together a plan so that the economic fallout of the public-health emergency
does not drag on for even “one month longer,” even as his own health professionals warn that the virus’ spread could last far longer than that.
At a White House coronavirus briefing Monday evening, Trump insisted that he’s looking to
open the country again in weeks, not months, even as cases of COVID-19 continue to surge across the nation.
Trump Considers Reopening Economy, Over Health Experts’ Objections
Health officials inside the administration have mostly opposed that idea, including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an infectious diseases expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, who has said in interviews that he believes it will be “
at least” several more weeks until people can start going about their lives in a more normal fashion.
“You can’t call off the best weapon we have, which is social isolation, even out of economic desperation, unless you’re willing to be responsible for
a mountain of deaths,” said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. “Thirty days makes more sense than 15 days. Can’t we try to put people’s lives first for at least a month?”
The United States will
need “a couple weeks” to see positive effects from its measures, Dr. Inglesby said, and abandoning them would mean “patients will get
sick in extraordinary numbers all over the country, far beyond what the U.S. health care system will bear.”