From the beginning, nothing needed to be shut down, and in each and every case, relevant rules to each case could have been recommended regarding health safety measures.
At it’s least it would have meant ideas like everyone going to work wearing masks all the time, and everyone in retail, employees and customers doing the same. Everyone would have seen how far that would have gone in terms of “flattening the curve” with no business shut down.
But then they would not have had the opportunity to scare the hell out of so many people.