If Mr Acosta had taken the time to look at Spain he would "might have" come to a different conclusion.

Things have been pretty strict here. First they isolated the hardest hit areas (confinement and closed roads). Then as soon as the businesses closed they also started running public transportation at half capacity. Despite those precautions people still fled the cities and went to the pueblos, bringing covid with them.

IOW very strict measures here have at best bought the hospitals a couple days.