we are just making it last long with..masks,social districting,and lockdowns...
I agree. Had we just lived life as normal, it would have be over in a few months.
NYC lost about 1/4 percent of its population in April. Spread too fast for the health system to keep up and develop better treatments. Sometimes making it last a little longer has a benefit. In Florida for example the case fatality rate is 1.7% In New York state it is 7.2%
An average person would be four times better off getting the disease later in Florida than in New York earlier. That same four times better off ratio is repeated across the country.