Thank you for putting into words precisely how I'm feeling about this situation. The goal was to flatten the curve, not protect every single person from getting exposed which is impossible and seems to be what those who are not suffering economic hardship from this (yet) are now asking for.
There does seem to be a fundamental misunderstanding about how we are tackling this pandemic. We are not trying to prevent infection because we don't want any new infections. We are only trying to keep the rate of new infections low enough as to not overwhelm healthcare capacity. More people getting infected everyday is part of the plan.
In many parts of the US it is time to start cautiously reopening more parts of the economy, exactly as is occurring now in a dozen European countries. The main impediment to that is our testing rate, which still lags other Western nations that are easing lockdowns.
