Its not cynical, if the entire point is to flatten the curve below maximum capacity. Flattening significantly below capacity (or increasing capacity and not usi

Its not cynical, if the entire point is to flatten the curve below maximum capacity. Flattening significantly below capacity (or increasing capacity and not using it) only extends the required time in lockdown (based on some admittedly questionably assumptions, but assumptions currently being relied on). And no matter how much you trivialize costs, it's always better to spend on resources that will be used that ones that won't. Like funding the ERs that are currently dealing with the double whammy of covid patients and seeing only 40-50% of normal patient numbers (and therefore 40-50% of normal income). Plus we really don't want to flatten the curve to the point where people start losing aquired immunity before we've reached levels for herd immunity. Then it's no longer a curve, but a never-ending line. At least until a successful vaccine is developed.