Unpopular Opinion: "Flattening the curve" is useless, according to some very negative American person. Here are some reasons why lockdowns are in the long run ineffective (still according to the American)

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Guy says "social distancing provides the illusion of control, not actual control, over this virus". Also, "There is no vaccine. Flattening the curve simply kicks the can down the road. It’s not like we go on lockdown for a few weeks while doctors go door to door inoculating us"

He says without a vaccine, we can stay indoors all we like and it will take one infected person to go outside after the end of the lockdown to send us back to step 1. Says what we're doing right now is delaying exposure and infection. It's not like staying home makes us immune

This negative guy continues by saying a few weeks quarantine is just to make us relax, considering there won't be a vaccine or cure in a few weeks anyway. so committing to this regimen is mos def a long term affair, bcos again, what happens when we come out?

About China, he asks what if they have a "second wave" of infections after coming from months of lockdown? Do they go back in? And does everyone prolong theirs as well?

Now the numbers: he speaks of the mortality rate as determining factor. i.e not the infection rate. Forget how many people have been infected, just look at how many are dying. If the MR was 50% he says, then we'd quarantine forever if necessary...

If the MR is one percent, well he says that's different and suddenly the question becomes how much of our lives are we willing to destroy over this? Is such a low rate really worth destroying everything?

Negative guy further says: "Everyone was all about doing their part to flatten the curve when it meant working from home and doing teleconferencing. But now that they might lose their job? Tunes will change. Quickly"

He asks some more Americany questions: "Heart disease kills 650k Americans each year – what if coronavirus kills that many instead? Would we accept a Great Depression in order to save them? If so, why haven’t we done so before now?

Then he decides to become controversial: by suggesting we stop taking everything doctors say as the gospel truth, instead, we listen, weigh the options and make decisions. I suspect this is what one would expect from adults.

He says it seems the flattening curve decision was made by a bunch of doctors without any other considerations - in a vacuum, he says. In South Africa our minister of health is a medical doctor. Just saying

Source: https://www.pensford.com/why-flattening-the-curve-is-overrated/