>killing several million extra people without any forms of lockdown would have also had very serious economic repercussions Political, too. Some heads would be

>killing several million extra people without any forms of lockdown would have also had very serious economic repercussions Political, too. Some heads would be bound to roll after that election cycle, in Argentina the ruling party that mishandled the economic and sanitary aspects of the campaign, lost about 30~40% of their electorate and indirectly caused the emergence of a liberal movement in a country that previously was overwhelmingly pro-welfare state. I think the political consequences would be more of an incentive not to try this, the economic part is just a statistic.