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Yes, the biggest issue is that we don't have any protection from this virus. It will be interesting to see how many are naturally immune as well, there's probably some. We won't be able to stop this virus with lockdowns (which will eventually loosen up), we will only be able to stop it with a vaccine, a cure or herd immunity.
Countries that went into lockdown will probably see a lot more cases when the restrictions gets lifted. They didn't stop the spread, they just moved it a couple of months.
The important thing to remember is how drastically the lethality climbs upwards from this age range, in which the real danger lies and the importance that hospitals cannot collapse by any grade, which they already have in Sweden, because the lethality across all age-ranges will increase drastically in response.
While lockdowns may not be our means to an end (unless accompanied by strict in/out border controls and quarantine periods for all incoming traffic + testing + aggressive contact tracing), it does reduce spread to a lower percentage of a population actively sick. This allows for contact tracing and testing to be successful and for hospitals to recover, lowering the amount of human suffering and unnecessary deaths. While spread is still likely to occur on a micro-scale, it can be mitigated by concentrated efforts while society resumes.
To stop a forest fire, you have to burn trees around it before the fire reaches the trees and spreads further. The lockdown works on the same principle, slowing the spread of the fire and controlling it when and where it occurs. This is not a luxury afforded to wide-spread societal infection.