”Saving lives” by ’flattening the curve’ is about having enough hospital equipment for those who are sick so they won’t die and thus lessening the total number of deaths...is that what you mean??
Yeah, that's a curious one.
Flattening the curve is all about spreading out the disease so that hospitals aren't overwhelmed. Except that hospitals in most areas are NOT overwhelmed at all! And many people who should be getting treatment for other things are not getting it - which means sacrificing lives to "flatten the curve". So that one is idiotic.
Then you have the fact for whose who DO have the virus, they don't seem to be using available data and treatments to actually cure people. They seem to just go hysterical and try to inflate people like a balloon, and then cry on camera for YT when patients don't make it. Oops. But it's okay, because we're Health Heroes.
Even that is worse than it seems (the whole Health Heroes) thing. Not only are those on the front lines not saving people as they could while simultaneously being called heroes, but large swathes of medical staff are sent home to do nothing while also being called heroes. It isn't just the "front line soldiers" - it's the NHS or "our doctors and nurses", or our healthcare system, and so on. It's like somebody is
trying to make them all lose their minds due to epic cognitive dissonance.
Anyway, most people seem to believe that the total number of deaths is unavoidable, so it's just spreading out the death. BUT they also seem to be saying that self-confinement and the whole "staying at home AF" thing will save lives, because then we won't spread the virus.
I've read/heard people saying that yes, this is a good thing! When it's pointed out that many people have already had it or they have it now but have minor symptoms and could therefore be spreading it (or already have spread it), they just sort of go cross-eyed and then repeat that we must save lives (and usually add some emotional statement about saving the elderly).
Meanwhile, the elderly aren't getting treatments they need, and/or they are dying of treatable conditions (heart disease, stroke) while being labeled Covid-19 victims. So much for saving lives.
Finally, you have masks and gloves... When everyone is wearing a mask but not protecting their eyes, when they think that will prevent them from getting the virus when it will only prevent them from spreading it, and when even doctors and nurses in hospitals are sanitizing everything and then 2 minutes later passing around papers and pens that have not been sanitized, then very clearly hysteria is definitely at work.
In short: people's brains are being turned to jello, and "saving lives" has nothing to do with it. But it sure sounds good!