The problem is, covid has tons of indirect negative consequences on people's health. Folks overall stopped moving around and exercising so much. Tons of people with all kinds of medical complications stayed at home rather than receiving checks and treatment in hospitals. Imagine finding some lump on your body, but staying at home. Or missing regular health check.

Probably impossible to estimate how many people died because of this, and how many will have their lives shorter because they didn't get treatment earlier. Here at local cantonal hospital, this has been recognized as a big failure of general directions given to the population, and is a huge problem for old people.

Its far from the trivialization you make out of it about some kids missing some festivals and parties.