Consider corona as influenza but much more virulent and 3 times more contagious ..... Now having said that flu season is just ending with about 8% of American population getting it and having a mortality of 0.1% ..... ( Do the math ) ... The question should be why there was no lockdown in flu season .... The answer is scientists know the flu virus , can predict the pattern of flu virus and even prepare the vaccine against the expected mutated strain every October .... Its the unpredictability of corona virus and it’s mutation that has shocked the scientists worldover .... Lockdown with social distancing is the only way to delay spread and buy time ..... The cured patients and their unaffected relatives will hold the key to further studies ..... which will take time ..... Curfew will only compound problems if lifted simultaneously for mandatory break .....