trying to say in here for weeks that's been falling not on deaf ears but argumentative ones.....thanks.
We are just chasing our tail on this. EVERYONE will eventually run into this virus, and I suspect the same number in the end will be dead, whether it's sooner, or later. Those who are destined to die, will die. I give you an example. Say you have 12 boxes, all exactly the same area, and let that represent the dead. Those doing the social distancing, the stay at home rules, are like 12 boxes placed in a long line of boxes. Those like Sweden, with more openness are instead those same boxes arranged in a group that is 3 rows of 4 in each row. The same number of dead, no matter how you arrange the boxes. The long line of boxes are "flatten the curve" countries, which alleviates immediate strain on hospital services by drawing the death rate across longer time line, but at expense of their economy. The stacked boxes are those which have the same number of destined deaths happen quickly, but their economy suffers the least, the populations freedoms suffer the least. The main factor is Time, not eventual number of dead. Consider the dead, like the area in the boxes, no matter the timeline for each country, is a set figure for both, the "flatten the curve" approach, or the "get it over quick" approach. There is nothing at this time such as vaccination, which could favor the "flatten the curve" approach, and the timeline of waiting for a vaccination is too long probably to favor the "flatten the curve" crowd. Yes, some who will die eventually, get a few weeks, maybe months, to live, but die they will anyway. Increasing the time till that happens also gives families more time and chance to spend quality time with those destined to die, so that's another advantage to flatten the curve approach. Which is better? Keep an economy running, people working, not losing so much of the savings, not requiring so much govt money for relief, and coming out of this quicker, OR stretching out the suffering, a longer period of depression, both of economy and emotional, mental? I believe the death rate in the end, no matter which approach is done, will be exactly the same.

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