This article is really important. He is not making an economic argument about the value of social distancing. What's not being said often enough, because it's p

This article is really important. He is not making an economic argument about the value of social distancing. What's not being said often enough, because it's pretty scary to hear, is that no matter how much we lower the curve, everyone will be infected with COVID-19. Angela Merkel stated it very clearly last week, and this is why policy makers come to Jesus so quickly when experts and eye witnesses explain to them what is going on in China and Italy. Normal flu has some resistance in the population, but this novel coronavirus does not, and so, to put it very plainly, without emergency medical intervention 3% of the population will die. Curve flattening alone doesn't change that in the slightest. Flattening the curve, as the author of this article says, buys critical time right now, and we need to use it to increase targeted emergency medical capacity right now.