Given the mortality rate (roughly on par with 2003), I wouldn't say it proved to be "so deadly". On top of this, a lot of the people who died were already vuln

Given the mortality rate (roughly on par with 2003), I wouldn't say it proved to be "so deadly". On top of this, a lot of the people who died were already vulnerable, so we will likely see a downtrend on elderly deaths in the next years (all the people who would have died in 1-5 years for other reasons but died now because of covid). Sure, a lot of people died but I don't think it warranted 2 years of isolation and aggravating the already dire financial position of millennials. Our goal as a society is not only to ensure most people stay healthy and alive; we could just put everyone in confinement cells for the rest of their life if we wanted that. I think our goal is to balance that with what people desire are. I'd happily take a higher chance of dying to live the free life I want.