> But we can't. We just can't. That's the reality we live in now. Many many many more people than necessary will die if we do. You aren't using the word "can"

> But we can't. We just can't. That's the reality we live in now. Many many many more people than necessary will die if we do. You aren't using the word "can" in its meaning related to ability. You are making value judgement with respect to your perceived results of doing vs. not doing something. When you say "we can't", you actually mean "we shouldn't" or "we mustn't". Moreover, I'd like to point out that your argument that many more people die if we lift the lockdown is based on the model simulations. These model simulations already don't match the reality: we do not observe predicted exponential decay of cases to 0. When we lift the lockdown, and the outcomes will keep not matching the models, which consistently overpredict number of deaths, I expect people like you to keep saying that if we kept lockdown longer, we could have avoided more deaths, based on... model simulations. I think we need to stop confusing the map, that is, the model simulations, with the territory, that is, the reality.