Both NY authorities and Italian have mentioned this exact issue so it isn't coming from out of left field.

This comment from a Dutch guy explains it perfectly:

"Precaution’s answer to COVID-19 is to quarantine the outbreak to try to minimise exposures to the virus. Given the incubation period can be as long as 14 days, this is like locking the doors after everyone has left the room. As that measure will inevitably fail, the next step is to shut everything down. Economies will suffer much longer than our fear of COVID-19 uncertainty, with the undesired public healthcare funding effects, but precautionistas have never been much bothered with lost benefits or dire consequences."

We are just running from the problem instead of coming up with novel ways to attack a novel virus. The vast majority of things we are doing right now to slow this are not helping or are causing worse problems and the data backs that up. It's fine though, this will burn out faster than people think anyway.