In Alfredian terms, everything we've done thus far is just the danegeld; the Great Heathen Army is still here, and as soon as we stop paying it, they'll go right back on the attack. We need to use this time to burgh up, reform the fyrd, and plan the war. https://medium.com/@wpegden/a-call-to-honesty-in-pandemic-modeling-5c156686a64b

In football terms, we played to spill and forced the back to bounce, but if we stop now it'll just give up the edge. We need to use the precious time bought by our DE's dive to B to get the linebackers in pursuit, bring down the safety, and corral the ball with minimum yardage.

In plain English, the question isn't "When is this over?" it's "When do we unleash it?" #FlattenTheCurve only buys us time--time we need to use to build up our defenses (testing, tracking, hospital capacity,) offenses (a vaccine) and strategies (outbreak responses).