Are you suggesting the four stage strategy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak

Are you quoting people from an actual conversation, or setting up a straw man to justify draconian actions based on limited data?

While data is limited, the basic premise of viral spread and quarantine is nothing new or ineffective. There is no doubt there is exponential growth, and limiting that would be effective sooner than later health and economy wise.

There is no data as far as the latter is concerned. The current data (Fed actions, pronouncements of 18mo shutdowns, recession worse than 2008, etc.) is to the contrary. What, really, is the economic impact of virus deaths after exponential growth quickly bumps into population size and lots of mostly non-working people die? Nobody even tries to answer this.

Is the growth of testing also exponential? Cause if it is, than it follows the confirmed infected will also look exponential even if the underlying actual growth number is totally different.

You can make anything fit an exponential curve if you try hard enough.