Eventually pandemics burn themselves out -- the entire susceptible population becomes infected. At that point all the mitigation becomes pointless. The goal o

Eventually pandemics burn themselves out -- the entire susceptible population becomes infected. At that point all the mitigation becomes pointless. The goal of doing this is to lengthen the time it takes for that to happen so we don't overflow hospitals when ever gets it at once. It could be the difference between 500k people dying over 2 years and 4 million people dying in 6 months in the US.