Of course.

That's the idea of flattening the curve.

Which is the strategy in the North America and Europe. And it requires a ton of effort. So no, it's not just 0.2%

When you try to flatten the curve you still need to keep 2-3 weeks of headroom because exponential growth is a bitch.

This is much repeated, but has never actually happened.

Already happening, there are 100s of articles like this, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/joel-valdez...

That's a primary reason we're so serious about it in NZ, also it would kill tens of thousands of our native people.