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The case fatality rate changes quite dramatically when hospitals are overloaded. Additionally, the fatality rate of _other_ causes increases when hospitals are overloaded.

Flatting the curve saves lives even if the total number of infected people remains the same.

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The issue I see now is that some areas are locking down when there is no curve to be flattened. This is likely causing more harm than not, because hospitals are sitting empty waiting for when people will inevitably get sick.

With the 14 day incubation period there is no way to know if they are locked down needleessly or not.

There's a national (and international) shortage of nearly all covid-adjacent medical supplies and you think it's a problem that we're not using more of those medical supplies right this very moment?

You... you're calling that _harmful_?

Cool.

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