Yes, exactly. If the lockdown and the subsequent recession decreases the life expectancy of the average person by 0.5%, then the policy is already a net negativ

Yes, exactly. If the lockdown and the subsequent recession decreases the life expectancy of the average person by 0.5%, then the policy is already a net negative. Add the massive wealth destruction on top of that and the picture becomes even murkier. We, sadly, live in a world where lives can be saved with relatively little effort. Clean water, malaria nets, nutrition. If we wanted to prevent those unnecessary deaths we easily could. And now we're settings trillions on fire without even thinking carefully about the humanitarian consequences.