We were told to "flatten the curve." Everybody understood that the area under the curve would be the same, i.e. total infections would be the same. The goal was to avoid spiking over the line -- the line being health care resources. We did.
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It isn't really up for debate that lowering transmissibility lowers the overall size of the outbreak.
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He answered your question: At a lower R0, less people get infected so less Bobs die. Social distancing lowers the R0. Instead of responding to his point, you appealed to the authority of a heart doc. He responded by appealing to the authority of epidemiologists.
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