A more accurate analogy is only 20% of the population 55 or up is vulnerable to cancer.
Now the government puts everyone in a straight jacket with no end in sight to keep that 20% safe.
Now substitute the word cancer for covid and straight jacket for lockdown.
More people die of car accidents yearly than died of covid in the 80% of the population that is below 55 years old.
The average death from covid is 80 years old with multiple comorbidities.
We appear to be totally fine as a society to let kids kill themselves to save unhealthy old people.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
And if you're going to compare potential covid deaths to car deaths then you should compare suicide to car deaths too.
This article about suicides are just one of many in a massive list of side effects from questionable government overreach into our lives.
Everyone but the rich are going to pay for this lockdown in numerous ways for the foreseeable future.
And can motivate suicides!
Also the numbers in your analysis are totally forgetting the part about hospitals getting overwhelmed and death rates spiking.
> Everyone but the rich are going to pay for this lockdown in numerous ways for the foreseeable future.
Well, let's take more of their money to fix basic societal problems like lack of housing and addiction treatment.
Please provide a source for that and not just a source that says 'near capacity'.
E.R.s constantly operate 'near capacity'.
> Well, let's take more of their money
So use the government to fix the problems that the government created?
That makes as much sense as wanting to increase government regulations but defund police to enforce those new regulations.
> That makes as much sense as wanting to increase government regulations but defund police to enforce those new regulations.
...what's the contradiction? You don't enforce regulations with police.
Using police for the wrong job is half of the problem that "defund the police" is trying to address.
Meanwhile, in Texas all Covid restrictions were lifted in March... and no co-oresponding surge in infections were recorded, infections decrease to record lows actually..only 16% had received first dose of vaccine, TX was 48th in vaccination rates.
Florida and other states had similar results when they lifted restrictions.
From here the evidence appears to be in favor of lockdowns having no effect.
So instead of 10 million cancer deaths per year, suddenly we see zero. But also 10 extra choking deaths.
"The Anti-Cancer Pill caused 10 people to choke to death this year. In contrast, 0 people died of cancer. 10 is much bigger than 0! Why hasn't this pill been banned immediately?"