How does one "lockdown" the largest free country in the world? Tell everybody to stay home? That's not going to happen. People have to get food and move about for a country to function.
People are going to get this flu and maybe many will die, but what can you do?
Wash your hands, and don't be touching your face with your hands. Nigh on impossible for most people to do.
I've been sick with back-to-back bouts of pneumonia since mid-September. And now I have a cough and runny nose. We have a two year old who lives with us and goes to daycare. She brings home the crud regularly and makes my wife and I sick. We're both in our 70s.
What's the treatment for this coronavirus if you do get it? Any different than what I have been doing to get well from the respiratory crud I've had since we had to take in our granddaughter to live with us?
Breathing treatments. Antibiotics won't touch a viral infection. So everybody panics and then does what? Sit on our thumbs and hope we get better?
Mass public hysteria.
That's what it is, overblown mass public hysteria. We're seniors. Last week, we picked up our 7-yr-old granddaughter from school. She was coughing, and it seemed like a deep cough with congestion in her chest. Told our daughter, and she said it's allergies. Huh? She took the child to a doctor, and the doctor said it's allergies. Well... a couple days later she kept her out of school because the coughing was bad. Then, my wife started coughing with the same cough. I don't think it was allergies, despite what the doctor had told my daughter.
Did we get hysterical? Nah. Took plenty of vitamins, and wife and granddaughter got better after a couple days. As for me, nothing caught and I'm working in the garden and carpentry hobby as usual. If our relatives pass something to us, so be it and we'll deal with it, but no panic.