> would be over 500K people, which seems absurdly high It's quite possible. Depression and suicides and overdoses are up significantly. Cancer and heart dise

> would be over 500K people, which seems absurdly high It's quite possible. Depression and suicides and overdoses are up significantly. Cancer and heart disease are up from lack of screenings and treatments now delayed and backlogged by over a year. Obesity is way up from closing gyms and sitting at home consuming Ubereats. I'm not venturing guesses on the magnitude of those factors, some of which won't play out for years. And you're right that any such claim needs to provide a lot more detail. But it's quite possible that the cumulative human toll of the lockdowns will indeed be worse than that of Covid itself.