Why Destroy Ourselves?

America might well have ended up better off using the German model for fighting COVID-19. We should have isolated those over sixty, those with underlying respiratory issues, or immune disorders, but kept the rest of our economy up and running as Germany did. We should have had old-fashioned house calls with medical professionals monitoring the sick and taking them immediately to hospital if their conditions deteriorated, as the Germans did with their "medical taxis". That way hospitals would not have been overwhelmed but those entering medical crisis could still have received timely care to save their lives. We can not put the genie back in the bottle but can still adopt these life-saving policies without destroying our economy in the manner that Germany has instituted to preserve the German economy.