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Are you saying that hospitals currently overwhelmed or not?

It seems to me you're saying "we wanted to stop the kitchen from burning, but once that failed we just let the fire take the rest of the house too".

I may be reading it wrong though? Are you saying there is little risk of hospitals being overwhelmed at this point? Or are you saying that things are already so out of control we might as well stop trying?

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In most places in the US, hospitals are not overwhelmed. The situation is under control. In NYS the cases have been hovering at or below 1,000 per day for 3 months. The peak was nearly 15,000/day. Is the curve not flattened? What are we still doing having entire industries shut down?

"I didn't die in a car crash today, therefore I don't need this stupid seat belt."

"You are 50% more likely to die in a car crash if the car is travelling > 70 miles/hour compared to < 40 miles/hour, therefore we should not allow cars to travel > 70 miles/hour."

Bad analogies are available for both sides of the debate.

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