> That's my point: to observably flatten the curve, you need to go almost all the way there of killing it altogether. no, you don't. killing it completely woul

> That's my point: to observably flatten the curve, you need to go almost all the way there of killing it altogether. no, you don't. killing it completely would (hand-waving) require taking R0 < 1, and holding it there indefinitely. any reduction in R0 at all will flatten the curve, at least a bit. and small changes in the rate of growth can have a huge impact when you're dealing with (even temporarily) exponential growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg