>So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised. Although even if that percentage is right, flattening the curve is still important beca

>So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised. Although even if that percentage is right, flattening the curve is still important because if hospitals are slammed with Covid patients in various states of urgency then you're likely going to be failing to save a lot of patients with other ailments. Also you're saving the mental health of hospital workers who will be massively overworked and then be forced to endlessly be unable to do anything for patients and have to let people die rather than try to give them a chance with a ventilator.