My point is not that society should take no effort to reduce preventable deaths. Society should do whatever we collectively want to do. Rather, my point was t

My point is not that society should take no effort to reduce preventable deaths. Society should do whatever we collectively want to do. Rather, my point was that it's hypocritical to argue that anyone that does not want to continue major disruptions is either immoral, uncivilized, or an absolute monster. Everyone attaches some value X to human life, and some value Z to normal functioning. Not everyone values these things the same. But everyone certainly has a value, and almost everyone is okay with allowing many tens of thousands annually to die a preventable death in order to avoid disruptions to life. That being true, let's stop the moralizing arguments, and focus instead on why coronavirus is worse than other illnesses, and why it's worth it to continue our efforts to disrupt it. In other words, my argument is really about language and rhetoric, not the coronavirus itself.