This will all follow the statistics. For example, if 500,000 people would perish in two weeks if we did not nothing, it would be the same as 500,000 people perishing over several months. Flattening the curve was never about saving lives. Flattening the curve is about stretching out the inevitable as much as possible.
Opening up too early implies that the mortality rate would be different if we continued to keep things tight. The reality is that the most vulnerable would be just as vulnerable in a few months as they are today. It is folly to think that we're saving lives by taking precautions. We're just prolonging the inevitable, extending lives of those who would succumb.
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In a vacuum this would be correct. However, given that there are limited hospital beds and medical supplies
prolonging things does in fact save lives. I know of several people that had to go to the hospital due to the virus and were literally on the verge of death but eventually pulled through. Had there been so many people sick all at once that they couldn't receive treatment, they would most likely be dead right now. That is just one example...