Originally Posted by
guy_incognito
The "few more thousand dead people" are in overwhelming majority people who didn't have long to go anyway.
BS. A recent study taking into account their pre-existing conditions found that CV-19 victims died on average 13 years younger if they were male and 11 if female. A lot of people are losing their lives long before they otherwise would have. Medical staff are dropping like flies too.
You might think making things a lot worse is a price worth paying, but people who are actually in charge do not. Sorry, democracy and all that. Your position is not shared by a majority or plurality of voters.
It's also a fallacy that you'd save the economy by re-opening virus be damned. The amount of sick will go up, fear will go up, the economy will still be in the sh!tter. People don't act and spend as normal in a pandemic.