Totalitarian leaders always invoke the benefit of the masses when justifying their abuse.

Personally, I believe very strongly in personal freedom, so I would absolutely rather have a million deaths than go into a state-mandated nationwide total lockdown.

Anyway, the truth is it’s not an “either or” scenario.

Hopefully there’s a sane middleground that we converge on :)

Would you sacrifice members of your family? A million is easier to justify when it's some nameless mass of people.