The majority of people who have died are elderly and infirm. They are not the driving force behind the economy. So, the elderly should just die off and make room for the young. Gotcha.
The death rate does go up by age. Even in the 20-44 age range, the death rate is 0.1-0.2, which puts it even or above the death rate of influenza. It goes up with increased age, so people at prime working age, 44-65 have a 1.4 to 2.6 death rate, (https://www.libertynation.com/the-demographics-of-u-s-covid-19-deaths-and-why-they-matter/). People who have diabetes, obesity, heart problems, high blood pressure, etc., are very prone to serious complications and death. When we went to sign the settlement papers for a house we recently sold, the settlement officer told us that a 22 year old woman he knew died of it that same day.
And where you get this "millions" of people dying figure is beyond me.
It is based on the biology of disease transmission. As of this morning, 1.16 million people in the US have caught Covid-19, with nearly 68 thousand deaths. Or, to put it another way, 0.35% of the US population has caught Covid-19. Keep in mind that Covid-19 is a cold virus, with similar transmissibility, and that the entire US population (outside of those who already caught it) has no immunity to it and is therefore susceptible to catching it. So what do you think happens if the quarantines are lifted and measures to stop the spread of disease are discontinued? If half of the population of the US were to catch Covid-19--which is very possible if it is allowed to spread freely in a non-immune population--then millions of people will die (actually, about 9 million would die, based on the current death rate). The death rate right now in the US is 5.8% and climbing, but it would go much higher if the disease were to be allowed to spread freely because there would be no health care workers available to take care of all of the ill. Do you seriously think that doing nothing to contain Covid-19, and instead letting it spread freely among the population, will have no economic effect???
When's the last time you heard of shutting down businesses and employment to save people from a flu bug? Never.
You've never heard of the 1917-1919 influenza H1N1 pandemic, aka the Spanish flu, have you? Quarantines were imposed then, too, as they have been throughout history to try to stop pandemics. Also, FYI, Covid-19 is not a flu. It is a cold. A very deadly cold.
You sound like the global warming extremists. Save the planet. Kill yourself.
This virus is not going away if we stay indoors hiding from it. What good will it do if we keep destroying the economy, the very engine we rely on to survive and thrive? More people might survive but at what cost? They'll have no jobs, no homes, no income for food and the bare essentials of existing. Their livelihoods and lives will be destroyed anyway.
People are not going to tolerate this forced authoritarianism much longer. We are a free country with rights to move about and associate with who we want. Some wanna-be dictator governors or bureaucrats are not going to stop that.
