Go to worldometers usa and scroll down until you find the chart named Total Deaths.
1 person gives it to 3, 3 to 9, 9 to 27, 27 to 81 to 243 to 729 to 2187 to 6561.... It accelerates until it has trouble finding new cases to spread to. If we hadn't have locked down, we would indeed have been looking at our healthcare system overwhelmed.
And if we didn't have the lockdowns it would have continued to spread exponentially. That's why we had to do lockdowns.
Yes, I know there was not an even distribution. I am also aware that the time period was 50 days, and I am also aware that the numbers might include fraudulent statistics.