Like the other post said, reducing the overall number of people infected is good, but spreading out the curve is absolutely essential to avoid completely overlo

Like the other post said, reducing the overall number of people infected is good, but spreading out the curve is absolutely essential to avoid completely overloading the health care system. Given the nature of an unmitigated exponential and the fact that there is an incubation time, by the time hospitals start filling up you are bound for chaos a few weeks later with nothing you can do about it.