34,000 dead, and twenty two million newly unemployed, and you think saving a few infirm elderly is worth that damage to American families? Oh I know, jobs will come back. What happens to those who lose everything in the years it will take for those jobs to come back? There has to be an acceptable level of risk to both victims of the virus and to those who survive. I would say, the survivors are being are being thrown under the bus.
You are cold-hearted. So, it's just people over 60 who are most likely to die, so what do you care?
FYI, even if you don't care if the elderly die off (more money for you, amirite?), young people are not safe. My sister in law's young neighbor, mother of two, died a few days ago. When we signed our house over to new owners last week, the settlement officer told us that he knew a 22 year old woman who had just died that day. So, even if your attitude towards older people is "good riddance", people you know, even people in your family could die. But you don't care, do you?
What will it do to the economy if we do nothing to stop the spread of Covid-19 and instead let it kill 6.7% of the people it infects? You really don’t think that millions of deaths will affect the economy?
A physician posted here that pandemics usually start to recede when around 60% of the population has caught the disease. At the current death rate, that would be over ten million deaths. And you really don’t think that would have a lasting economic effect.
Thinking that the economy is more important than human lives is disgusting and cold-hearted.