Nature doesn't do exponential curves; they're inherently unsustainable. It does logarithmic ones, which look exponential when you extrapolate from the right point on the graph.
Two weeks ago I was constantly being told to just wait a couple of weeks, and I would see overflowing ICUs in the United States.
But here we are, and the only places that are overflowing in the States (and most other nations) are the newsrooms.
If we do the same in the U.S. then it'll be valid to expect similar results.
It's certainly true that the virus will peak and decline naturally, but it does that because most of the population has been infected so it can't find fresh hosts. With 0.7% mortality that translates to over a million dead in the U.S.