The logic of an emergency shutdown was to temporarily hold the line while governments scrambled to create policies/procedures to make a return to daily life as safe and secure as possible.

The emergency line-holding only works if you actually used the time to create the policies/procedures to make a return to daily life as safe and secure as possible. The sacrifices demanded by a lockdown aren& #39;t made to solve the problem. But to BUY TIME to solve the problem.

What we& #39;re looking at now is a group who got an eight-week extension on their final project and spent that eight weeks screwing off as hard as ever. They& #39;re now sick of still being in school and want to go on summer vacation.

Or in the parlance of the President& #39;s war talk: A besieged city is told to hold out for 8 weeks while a relief army is scrambled. They patriotically endure. But the relief army is never actually scrambled. 8 weeks later the besieged city is told hey just break out on your own.