> I also wonder about attributing poverty deaths to economic shut downs. But this is always the case. If you can't solve this issue during normal times, how co

> I also wonder about attributing poverty deaths to economic shut downs. But this is always the case. If you can't solve this issue during normal times, how could you solve this issue during crisis? Force part of the society to pay more taxes during this time? There's certainly a lot of people dying all over the world due to poverty - these deaths could be prevented as well. Since there's less production things are probably even more scarce and expensive during crisis - if economy is shut down and people can't be productive. Regarding ethical/moral dilemmas, to me it seems like the trolley problem is definitely highlighted during this crisis (it to some extent exists also during normal times), but now it's extremely apparent in my opinion. Especially because also another question is very apparent - how valuable are different human lives? Loosening economy means less deaths within general population, while it means more deaths specifically for elderly. Loosening isn't binary either so there's a balanced line that you have to draw. So you have to draw that balance between somewhere where you have to weigh economic damage, young productive human lives vs lives that are about to end anyway. For instance. Would you save 20 people who were expected to live 1 year compared to a person who would go on to live 40 years? If we considered years and probably higher quality years it would be 40 > 20 however death count would be 1 < 20