I'll try to clarify. The article argues that the death toll from covid-19 is low enough that it doesn't justify shutting down the economy. However, we've seen t

I'll try to clarify. The article argues that the death toll from covid-19 is low enough that it doesn't justify shutting down the economy. However, we've seen that hospitals will be overrun with covid-19 cases for a while even with a lockdown, so this would likely be worse without a lockdown. My point is then that, triage or not, there will effectively be no hospital service for a certain period. So you basically have to add the death toll of having no hospitals for a certain period. Avoiding this additional death toll requires refusing corona patients, not just triage. Perhaps the article was arguing that even with covid-19 deaths plus "health care paralysis" deaths, it's still not worth shutting down the economy. In that case my point is moot.