Who cares if opening the borders is a 'death sentence', what people are suffering economically and socially at the moment is death by a thousand cuts and I can assure you when we look back on this in years to come we will realise just how many died as a result of these restrictions through inability to access health services, suicide, isolation etc. Those who have opened their borders such as the UK are having daily deaths but the overall mortality rate for each day is no higher than in a non covid world, the average age that someone dies from COVID is 82 years old, the same as the average lifespan in the UK. We will find the vast majority of people who die from COVID simply die 'with' covid. We don't worry about any other instances of deaths in younger people, we let people drive (that kills many people per year), we let people smoke and drink (kills many people every year), we don't ban meat or nitrate use even though the evidence is clear that this leads to many cases of colon cancer in western society every year. The thing is we have learned to live with many risks in the modern world and covid is one we need to add to the list, the sooner we accept this the better.