And most importantly, those with immunity can go on to lead a normal life and participate in the economy.
So there’s a middle ground here somewhere.
South Korea has been aggressively testing, contact chasing, and quarantining from day 1. Look at their number of tests per capita compared to ours.
China did indeed shut down the entire economy for months for provinces containing 900M people iirc. In barely hit provinces they have teams of thousands of people doing aggressive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine.
I mean, yes, that's great, but it's not as widespread as people are implying.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
The article you linked is based on a single day’s new case count.
China’s approach (lots of temperature taking, testing everyone with a fever) might not eradicate the disease here, but it could keep it manageable until a vaccine is deployed.