Seems like a risk worth avoiding.
“It’s not simply about the numbers of people who can be infected. It’s the overload that can be placed on our system of hospitals already running at close to full capacity at any one time. The effects can be catastrophic, as they are now in some hospitals in Italy where sobbing nurses are being forced to decide which patients are most likely to survive because not everyone can be treated.
It’s not even that necessarily fewer people will be infected, simply that the curve of the virus’ infection rate won’t be so pronounced at one juncture. If the numbers of patients can be spread out over a longer period, all of the critically ill will have a better chance of survival. Fewer nurses and doctors will be overworked, their metabolisms won’t be so compromised. And so, fewer will fall ill to the virus themselves and won’t have to be sent home and exacerbate a manpower shortage.”