Also pandemics mean either 70 percent of people will catch it, or we need a vaccine. Why even quarentine?
Flatten the curve so we can die on ventilators instead?
But keep in mind that 20% of the people who go on the ventilators live. Flattening the curve means that, if you reach the point of requiring a ventilator -- and we haven't run out of ventilators -- your chance of survival goes from 0% to 20%. It's not 100% or even 50%, but it's a lot better than 0%.
And like the drugs, a vaccine may not be successful at all. What do we do in that case?
This is a problem for the ICUs only because there is no specific treatment. If we can treat it like we can treat other grave diseases, the impact becomes smaller and more manageable.