It's not just a matter of economic activity, although poverty indeed kills people by itself. Living through an extended period of lockdown with no end in sight takes a serious toll on everyone's physical and mental wellbeing. You can't go anywhere other than the grocery store, you can't see anyone, you can't plan anything, you can't do your job - the list goes on and on. It's probably more or less bearable if you are a clinically reclusive type who doesn't step out of their bedroom even in the best of times - and if you have a firm source of income that's not reliant upon the situation outside, maybe a state pension. But, for most people, any further extension of this torture would hardly be tolerable. And not only because people lose their jobs en masse. Something a lot worse is that people who used to be perfectly healthy and mentally stable some months ago now have a deteriorating health and mental issues which are a lot more likely to kill them or decimate their quality of life than corona.