Im not sure if I agree or disagree that blindly throwing more money is the right approach, but I can say I think we did a poor job of using the information we h

Im not sure if I agree or disagree that blindly throwing more money is the right approach, but I can say I think we did a poor job of using the information we had early on (age, weight being major factors) and using that to selectively protect the most vulnerable. Locking down elderly care to an extreme level and having the social support and food to do so, might have saved more lives-years than keeping everyone at home. All in all, it just wasnt feasible to tell the elderly to stay home while the rest of the world continued humming. This was one way to get everybody to care. I wasn't disagreeing with what you said about flattening the curve, I'm saying its meaning has changed in some usages, from what you described to something else.