Agreed, but a lot of people are arguing for the thing that will almost certainly lead to a lot more deaths.
Right now, as I type this, many hospitals in the United States have had all of their excess capacity filled with Covid-19 cases. Not most, but many.
Now, please click this link, then click Logarithmic on the top.
https://mackuba.eu/corona/#united_states
Once large groups of hospitals reach saturation, people who could otherwise be saved will be black tagged and left to die.
Two women my wife is Facebook friends with, after two weeks of a mild fever, malaise and a moderate, unproductive cough, started having a hard time breathing. They went in and were both positive for Covid-19. They were placed on ventilators, and were soon in critical condition. One of them died this morning, the other is clinging on to life.
Neither of these people are old; neither of them have any substantial medical history or other comorbidities.
This bug is dangerous for all of us; it's extremely dangerous for some of us.
It's true that few people are soberly thinking about the mid and long term economic cost of this pandemic. In my opinion, there's a good chance we're facing something on the order of the great depression.
Be that as it may, lives must come first.
