Lockdowns Exist to Combat Uncertainty, not COVID-19

Millions of people are on lockdown all over the world. The debate is raging about whether this is the right strategy to fight COVID-19, but we need to reframe the perspective. We aren’t fighting COVID-19 with mass lockdowns, or we are fighting the mass uncertainty about coronavirus and buying time to figure it out.
This virus feels like a shapeshifter, every time it seems like we know the symptoms we realize that there are more or they can be different in different people. Every time there seems to be a treatment, when put to the test it shows questionable efficacy. In the early stages all we wanted