If the government forces people to stay in house arrest, it saves lives.
Slavery saves lives, and anyone who opposes it has “blood on their hands.”
/Left think
Would imagine that highway deaths are down considerably, but also, while COVID-19 is not a regular flu, it is in some ways this winter’s flu substitute, so whatever was going to be the regular flu is being equally suppressed (inadvertently) by the social distancing, and perhaps it was a weaker strain than past years, for example, winter 2017-18 had quite a large death toll from that winter’s flu.
None of this logically says abandon the campaign, although I think we are close to the point where a phase two of more specific targetting (mostly in care homes) should be undertaken and the wider restrictions eased then dropped.
While it is easy for the media to find clusters of mortality caused by the pandemic, it is impossible to demonstrate who survived because of the other factors in play, as in, who wasn’t in the wrong place at the wrong time on the highway or during some criminal activity, or who didn’t get the seasonal flu. Those whose lives were prolonged by this will never realize it, if in fact there would be any way to identify who they were.