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Numenor posted...

Have you even considered that there is another issue aside from COVID deaths? Namely the deaths that result from a closed economy?

Depression, murder, suicide, violent crimes all rise during economic downturns as people's lives are ruined and their future destroyed. Alcohol and substance abuse skyrockets.

Not to mention the effects on food production, general maintenance of utilities (spare parts being in short supply due to massive supply chain disruptions), and elective medical procedures (my Mom had heart valve replacement surgery delayed and she really needs it done).

Stuff needs to start opening soon or the long term affects will really manifest and dwarf what we currently are dealing with.

None of what you said contradicts anything I've said. What you're proposing also doesn't solve the problem. Stuff reopens and then what? People start dying by the thousands, and more people commit suicide, depression rates get even higher, and these same businesses suffer as a result of the lingering health risk. It's a problem that's going to exist no matter what because the current circumstances, and this is the best way of dealing with it.