Because the standard of care that people receive in a regular flu season is with a health service that can say that it gave someone the intensive care they need

Because the standard of care that people receive in a regular flu season is with a health service that can say that it gave someone the intensive care they needed, but unfortunately it didn't work out. With covid left unchecked, the intensive care isn't intensive at all because the health care resources are spread more thinly. Over a large enough population, this will lead to many more deaths that would not have happened had those people not been in a healthcare system that was overwhelmed. So as a society we'd be saying that "these people died because our health service was overwhelmed, we knew that this would happen if we didn't lock down, and we chose to not lock down anyway". >It is crazy how people opinion like mine is fully ignored in Europe. I don't believe it's crazy that your opinion is ignored. I think it's rational and moral to do the opposite of your opinion. I just happen to think your opinion is selfish and deliberately and unproductively obtuse.