If you think that is what 'flattening the curve' means then why did they not just call it 'reducing the number of cases'?
It's not actually to do with deaths, is it? It was to limit the number in hospital at at any one time.
Doesn't one work in hand with the other? If the pressure is reduced on the NHS, the bath not overflow, there is more ability to deal with covid patients and help them survive the covid. In India the bath is overflowing and there has mass deaths on the streets - many of them would have been avoidable with hospital care. That is what our 'flattening the curve' did in the UK, but you knew that already - you just wanted an online argument, to troll didn't you.