Very true. But at some point the public discourse and public health policy must consider tradeoffs.
A. Lockdowns have costs. Deficits that will take decades to pay off. Lives lost to alcohol and depression. Economic hardship. A lost education year. Etc.
B. The pandemic has vastly different risk profiles for different age groups. At an extreme, under 20s have 1/1000 fatality risk compared to over 70s. It is fundamentally faulty to design a blanket one size fits all policy under such circumstances.
A. Lockdowns have costs. Deficits that will take decades to pay off. Lives lost to alcohol and depression. Economic hardship. A lost education year. Etc.
B. The pandemic has vastly different risk profiles for different age groups. At an extreme, under 20s have 1/1000 fatality risk compared to over 70s. It is fundamentally faulty to design a blanket one size fits all policy under such circumstances.