Only 0.6% will die (on average over all age groups). 99.4% will have an immunity for half a year.

Only 472,497,943 can die from it then. Adding on all the other impact of creating much larger pools of folks losing spouses, parents, caregivers, along with everyone else who's loss will cause lasting and life-changing harm.

And then there's long Covid. . .

So yeah, sheesh. It's hardly any worse than taking out several nations worth of people with VX.

Everyone will die. Eventually. Those over 60 sooner than those in their twenties. Neither tests nor masks will change this fact.

>Neither tests nor masks will change this fact.

According to the original article, masks do change this fact.

Please, read the article again. Masks might affect COVID-19 spread. They don't prevent people from dying eventually.

> They don't prevent people from dying eventually.

The paper does not say this. It shows an 11% reduction in spread in the group that was encouraged to wear surgical masks. Masks were not mandated, only encouraged. It also shows that 5 months after the researchers stopped encouraging mask-wearing, compliance dropped by 14%. So masks reduce the spread, and encouraging people to wear them leads to higher compliance.