“Lives” are not fungible. Covid almost exclusively kills people who were very close to death anyway - look at the age and comorbidity data. It’s very clear. If

“Lives” are not fungible. Covid almost exclusively kills people who were very close to death anyway - look at the age and comorbidity data. It’s very clear. If anything, the numbers are absurdly inflated because people are dying with covid rather than from covid. It’s abundantly clear that the US’s approach will cause more net long term suffering than Sweden’s approach. It looks like the increase in overdose and suicide deaths among younger people is already on track to destroy way more life-years than the most generous attributions to covid.