I think they are trying to look like they are doing something—to keep everybody calm.
With an exponential virus a 50% slowdown buys you just one day!
Gosh, not picking on you. You’re very good.
But I don’t think the virus spreads exponentially.
It naturally would, but there are inherent barriers that prevent it, natural ones.
And, if you take the 6 day doubling of cases (which is what I’ve seen somewhere) and round it off to a week then that is not a fast growth.
I think it’s too late to contain the disease and we’ll have to concentrate on mitigation (which is too bad) but will go very well.