I am under the impression the author is missing the point of the lockdown. The main point is not about "saving lives" / "avoiding deaths". Lockdown is about (1

I am under the impression the author is missing the point of the lockdown. The main point is not about "saving lives" / "avoiding deaths". Lockdown is about (1) keeping hospitals under capacity and (2) hopefully slowing the virus to the point it's not an epidemic anymore. If you don't keep hospitals under capacity, people who can be cured have to be either moved somewhere else at great cost (this happened, there have been people moved from France to Germany) or left to die because they cannot be taken care of (I am pretty sure this happened too). Please note people who have another issue than the Coronavirus are also affected. That's what everyone REALLY wants to avoid. Needless to say, letting the virus run its course and overwhelm hospitals would have an order of magnitude more deaths. The hard issue is about how to re-open without letting the virus rampage again. It's a lot of difficult decisions, and no one have conclusive data on what works and what does not. It's going to be a lot of trial and error, as shown by the fact that no 2 countries have the same rules to reopen.