Cdog923

By working to not overwhelm hospitals, morgues, crematoriums by flattening the curve, we are spreading out the disease over a longer time. 

The alternative is > 1.5% of the infected, which would be somewhere around 70% of the population before herd immunity would kick in, dying along with whatever number of people die from not being able to get treated in hospitals for other health problems or emergencies because we've overrun all medical facilities and staff with coronavirus.  That's 3,433,500 dead just from the virus if they died at the rate they are now, while we still have ventilators and protective equipment left.  We wouldn't have enough for long, so you could expect that ratio of death to infected to rise significantly.

Do you think life just goes back to normal if we kill off more than 5 civil war's worth of Americans in the next couple months?

Worrying about not having football this fall seems a bit childish.

Relax. There is also plenty of concern being shown about more important things. We can’t be expected to constantly be overly serious about things. It’s already quite the adjustment with the other changes society is experiencing. If you don’t want to see discussion of the possible impact on football, probably shouldn’t visit a site operated for that purpose.

"NCAA announces there will be football this fall"

Kirk

(Post game interview earthquake)