Social distancing works.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimate that before the lockdown one positive person would infect 2.6 other people.
Now it's just 0.62.
This means the virus is cornered - it has nowhere to go and will burn out. Good news.
i have heard that it won't burn out. that is why we didn't social distance from the start.
i understand a virus needs to run its course through the population. we are social distancing so that it doesn't run amok and so that the NHS can cope with the level of critical illness. we dont want too many people ill at the same time else hospitals and critical care units will be overrun and people will die needlessly.
so social distancing works, because exactly as you say it slows the amount of people getting sick, and that is what the NHS and medical advisors want us to do