> protect potentially as low as 1% of the population who are well past the good years of their life. That's not what lockdowns are for. The point is to avoid o

> protect potentially as low as 1% of the population who are well past the good years of their life. That's not what lockdowns are for. The point is to avoid overloading the hospitals. If we didn't slow the pace at which COVID19 spreads, hospitals would become full of COVID19 infected people, leaving no room for people with other kind of afflictions. So we'd still have 1-2% death from COVID, but also a bunch of unrelated death due to reduced hospital capacity.