This utilitarian reduce-to-numbers approach misses the important matter of the inevitability of death.
In the grand scheme of things, all those who died purely from COVID were going to die anyway.
A more important question is what has happened as a result of societies responses to this pandemic, especially in light of how marginal this virus' lethality was (this was no plague).
It has set precedent that in the case of relatively minor social distress, the government can take unlimited power, and the populace will just knod their heads.
It has also set precedent that the old can parasitize the young even further. Saving a few boomers a few years is worth masking up young school kids, affecting their communicative and social development.
The only silver lining to this has been the resulting explosion of remote work, which of course the boomers are now trying to undo. Fortunately, that's a cat-out-of-the-bag.
It's unfortunate that the boomers didn't learn an important lesson from their parents, who fought WW2 - sometimes dying is the right and proud thing to do.
In the grand scheme of things, all those who died purely from COVID were going to die anyway.
A more important question is what has happened as a result of societies responses to this pandemic, especially in light of how marginal this virus' lethality was (this was no plague).
It has set precedent that in the case of relatively minor social distress, the government can take unlimited power, and the populace will just knod their heads.
It has also set precedent that the old can parasitize the young even further. Saving a few boomers a few years is worth masking up young school kids, affecting their communicative and social development.
The only silver lining to this has been the resulting explosion of remote work, which of course the boomers are now trying to undo. Fortunately, that's a cat-out-of-the-bag.
It's unfortunate that the boomers didn't learn an important lesson from their parents, who fought WW2 - sometimes dying is the right and proud thing to do.