I think the "flattening of the curve" should be measured and the intended results should be based on hospitalizations. Since you are in healthcare, please correct me, but from what I've seen it appears that the system is being inundated by not only those who actually have COVID19 bad enough to be there, but also by those who have listened to too much media/politicians to where they are panicked that their sniffles are going to kill them. In our state, roughly 13% of those being tested, and only those with matching symptoms are being tested to start with, actually have it. One popular comparison in New Orleans is that the game has gone from "gunshots or fireworks?" to "pollen or plague?". Everybody with a sneeze, most likely due to allergies (they are bad right now for many), sees a ventilator in their future and are going to be tested, which has been taking a week for results, so out of fear of their lives, are monopolizing medical staff's time. "Out of an abundance of caution" are those waiting for results being admitted "just in case" and to quarantine? And if so, how reliable are even the hospitalization numbers? I'm hoping that the new 15 minute test will fix a lot of the current problems, but the numbers will appear to spike has last week's tests that are just now being reported and the 15 minute tests from this morning are all lumped together.
But to respond, I do think everything should open back up again, with the social distancing features that many incorporated before they were forced to close. Those more at risk, for any reason, should be allowed to work from home, collect unemployment if they can't work from home but don't feel safe at work, etc. Restaurants were taping off every other table for dine-in guests, so that there was 6' between tables. Movie theaters were restricting capacities to where a show was "sold out" if half full, with a maximum number of people allowed in the building. Let retail stores re-open with similar limitations on total number of people inside at any one time. Let schools re-open, with any students with potential health issues (or with family that they could potentially expose) allowed to continue virtual school. Those restrictions were sufficient to protect the most vulnerable, while everyone else could let it run its course. By letting it run thru us, there would only be a very very very small burden on the healthcare system, and we wouldn't be able to infect those more vulnerable because we would have already had it.