Yeah but that's unrealistic proposal that looks nice on paper, but completely ignores real human nature and how complex and diverse real world is.
Who has the authority for global shutdowns? Nobody. Many nations wouldn't agree on that and political discussions would be endless, everybody has their own agenda regardless of virus. Can you imagine some Europeans telling USA 'OK now whole of your nation will stay at home for 2 weeks'. Not going to fly on any US level. Or Americans to Chinese.
Globally it haven't been handled OK by any means, but these naive suggestions don't help getting a workable solution.
'If only all people behaved rationally' can be wished in any discussion, sure, but it doesn't get us anywhere closer to solutions.
Who has the authority for global shutdowns? Nobody. Many nations wouldn't agree on that and political discussions would be endless, everybody has their own agenda regardless of virus. Can you imagine some Europeans telling USA 'OK now whole of your nation will stay at home for 2 weeks'. Not going to fly on any US level. Or Americans to Chinese.
Globally it haven't been handled OK by any means, but these naive suggestions don't help getting a workable solution.
'If only all people behaved rationally' can be wished in any discussion, sure, but it doesn't get us anywhere closer to solutions.