Our state is now tightening also. As of tomorrow (11/20) restaurants will be only able to offer take out and bars will be closed along with many other types of businesses and schools. No social gatherings except small gatherings of immediate family. This will apparently be in force for a month, though with caveats that it could be extended depending on how the numbers look at that time.
While I can see attempting to slow the spread of the virus since local hospitals are being overrun with patients and the death toll is high around here these days, the temporary lock down reminds me of a school kid being picked on by bullies. The kid runs home while the bullies wait outside on the street for the kid to come out. If he never comes out, the bullies can't get to him, but as soon as he does come out, there they are ready and waiting. So even if the temporary lock down does slow the spread of the virus (assuming everybody complies), as soon as the lock down is lifted, here we go again, as we have already seen since March.
The only solution I see is a medical one, some sort of vaccine or other means of alleviating the symptoms so that it is less harmful when people do get the virus. So do we lock down until such a medical solution is provided? This could be a ways away yet even though advancements are being bandied about in the media, but the economic suffering on the part of businesses and individuals who lose jobs continues to worsen. The government can't dole out billions in relief packages to help everybody out forever (and it can't not do that either), so at some point there will be some sort of reckoning on all this, bringing it all to a head.
In short, I don't have an answer but I don't see any from anyone else either. Personally, I am fine in the lock down but am also aware that many folks aren't for a variety of reasons. It all seems like a no-win situation and I would not want to be the one making these decisions that affect millions of people.
Tony