I think there will be a lot of debate in the future about the options that could have been chosen instead of a lockdown - but lockdown is here and its a week old. The most serious argument against lockdown is the economic costs - and that those costs will be particularly acute in Africa and other developing countries with a high poverty incidence (like India). Also, the standard objection to that argument is that saving lives now is worth a temporary loss in economic value. I do not think the trade-offs are so stark - but that is not what I want to discuss. Rather, I want to talk about how policymakers should think about helping people get through a lockdown.
In other words, we should be kind to one another...in the many different ways possible.