Another interesting penalty of delayed action is that any exponential increase that happened while you were delaying needs to be balanced by a period of exponen

Another interesting penalty of delayed action is that any exponential increase that happened while you were delaying needs to be balanced by a period of exponential decrease once you have measures in place. Exactly how much depends on assumptions, but e.g. delaying applying measures by 2 weeks could mean they need to be kept for 4 additional weeks. So the overall cost picture is strongly in favor of early action.