LurkerJ said:
But even the experts are telling you we're trying to flatten the curve rather than stop the spreading. The same number will be infected in both scenarios, more people will manage to survive if the curve is flattened. Flattening the curve will NOT alter the course of the disease or change the total number of infected individual. |
The asian countries were able to contain the epidemic. That includes even China. They had to lock down the Hubei province, but the rest of the country had taken way milder actions and therefore wasn't bogged down economically that hard. So why only try to spread the time for infections, if we can defeat it completely?