If we cannot come up with a vaccine or effective therapy, the only point of a lockdown is to avoid hospitalization surges.

The greatest day in any governor's tenure is when some court challenge overrules an executive lockdown order. Governor's WANT their states to reopen, but only if they can say "I did everything I could but was overruled." All of these governors are coming to realize that, so long as they do not completely drop the ball a la Mario Cuomo, there is little they can do to significantly affect the number virus fatalities. Only a vaccine can do that.