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by JoeAltmaier 2266 days ago
Flattening surely is not going to work if everybody eventually get sick from this. We'd need 3M beds for a month each patient. Divide that by the number we have, it'd take 20 years of 'flattening' to make that work.

No, the reason to try and delay is only to give time for vaccines, better processes and treatments. That's the only path forward.

And it isn't happening fast enough. So there will be some suffering.