The day that my work group decided to start working from home, there were roughly a couple thousand reported C19 cases in the US. The conventional wisdom among the people around me was that we stay inside until the game changes, which could happen for a variety of reasons:
* We gain a definitive understanding of how the virus works: Its prevalance, severity, etc., and can adapt our plan based on that information.
* Effective vaccine, treatment, etc.
* Massively scale up testing, tracking, etc., so the spread can be controlled effectively.
Sure. What bugs me is that testing is still minimal, and there doesn't seem to be any attempt at setting up a tracking system.
Vaccine/treatment is still at least a year away, and a year of lockdown doesn't seem feasible
* We gain a definitive understanding of how the virus works: Its prevalance, severity, etc., and can adapt our plan based on that information.
* Effective vaccine, treatment, etc.
* Massively scale up testing, tracking, etc., so the spread can be controlled effectively.