It can be used to effectively stop it. Flattening the curve doesn't work if we need to put people in quarantine for a year, no one will accept that. But if we w

It can be used to effectively stop it. Flattening the curve doesn't work if we need to put people in quarantine for a year, no one will accept that. But if we wait long enough until there's at least some treatment, we can loosen restrictions then. I guess that's the plan of most governments now. Because without a treatment, the current strategy will backfire when rules have to be relaxed again in a month or two.