If it kept my loved ones and other random people from dying, sure. Everyone optimizing for their own benefit only is bowing down to the altar of Moloch.

Statistically speaking, deaths from random causes will not increase by 1% in the next year (assuming that the death rate of COVID-19 is 1%).

the point I was making is that the value of a year in you life and what the quarantine takes from you depends on other factors.

If you look at your argument without the "I bias", there is (or at least I'd argue there is strong empirical evidence for) a tradeoff between "lives saved [from Covid]" and "decrease in the quality of life" which IMHO is the argument of the OC.

what of those who don't quarantine, get covid, and pass the virus on to their elderly relatives? would you make the same trade?

The what if's get awfully tired.

My mother _actually_ passed from cancer in May. I sure wish I could've spent more time with her before that happened despite any risks.