I think you're absolutely right. Some people seem to have forgotten that the plan was never to completely stop by the spread of infection (impossible) but to slow it down so the health system isn't overwhelmed. It's a global pandemic, there's gonna be suffering and death no matter what actions we take - mitigation is our only option.

The sad part is our incompetent government was supposed to get their act together in the meantime (more testing, etc), which hasn't happened.