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That's the thing. The more you flatten the curve the longer it takes. You're trading time for lives. New York had significant spread before anyone knew about it. So their curve is much steeper. And needed stronger measures to try and dampen the outbreak. If you can implement measures before the virus gets a foothold in your community, the lower your overall outbreak will be. But the longer you will need them for the outbreak to burn out. If you stop your remediation measures too soon. Then the virus will take advantage and spread like there were no measures taken to begin with.
That is until you have the testing capability to do contact tracing of all confirmed cases. And only isolate those with exposure.
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