What impact? First, the worst case estimate with soft distancing from the Imperial College paper everyone is quoting is 1M in the US. Even if it isn't an overes

What impact? First, the worst case estimate with soft distancing from the Imperial College paper everyone is quoting is 1M in the US. Even if it isn't an overestimate (their models have tons of assumptions and past pandemic estimates for death rates/etc were usually overblown), 3M people die in the US every year iirc, and given the demographics there'd be a large overlap. It's significant, but not worth messing up the lives of 100s of millions in the USA alone for years, and knock-on effects potentially for decades.