I’m guessing the numbers, whatever they actually are, will be the same either way. The only difference will be over how many moths they happen. That was the “flatten the curve” idea, if I’m not mistaken.
the only way to change the numbers will be a cure or vaccine to materialize.
Flatten the curve was supposed to be about making sure we didn’t see excess deaths due to hospitals being overwhelmed like they were in Italy. Outside of a very small number of examples, that never materialized here (maybe due to the lockdown, maybe due to other factors). Flatten the curve was never supposed to be about dragging this thing out forever while our economy collapses.
They just didn’t have any plan for what to do after flattening the curve and so now they’re trying to cobble something together all last minute like a kid who’s late with his science fair project.