If not, then we destroyed our economy for something that needs to work its way through to herd immunity anyway but instead of ripping the bandaid we are spreading out the suffering.

Also highly doubt total deaths in US in 2020 will be much different than 2019. COVID-19 will get full credit for 200,000 deaths that would have happened this year anyway from their co-morbidity cause. It’s just the tipping point for tens of thousands already on deaths door.