Please also read this, I believe it's the right approach:
https://medium.com/@jb_89278/the-11-day-plan-to-contain-covi...
The guy is tech enterpreneur and VC investor who has been advising our (Czech) PM.
https://medium.com/@jb_89278/the-11-day-plan-to-contain-covi...
The guy is tech enterpreneur and VC investor who has been advising our (Czech) PM.
Or maybe even twice per year, for the northern and southern hemispheres, if they have different flu season schedules. (Edit: Or just do it once per hemisphere, but with restricted travel between hemispheres during the quarantine.)
22 days at home every year... okay, a bit boring, and the economy would take a small hit from that... BUT, there would also be far fewer people taking sick days, and workers would also get more rest and come back more refreshed. It may only be a net loss of a couple days of work, lets say 3 days of work, 1% of Global GDP.
Global GDP grows at about 2-3% per year from what I can see. So a loss of 1% would set us back to the level of late 2019 or New Years' 2020, which was hardly the dark ages.
Not to mention Work From Home policies would adapt so it's likely very little productivity would be lost.
I'm personally a fan of controlled, opt-in infections to help speed up research for a vaccine along with moderate quarantine (cancel many public events, encourage self quarantine). It may not be as effective, but it's much less likely to end in riots.