Simply letting COVID run rampant may have done less economic damage because it’s vastly less deadly to working age populations, but we would have sacrificed a s

Simply letting COVID run rampant may have done less economic damage because it’s vastly less deadly to working age populations, but we would have sacrificed a significant chunk of the population. There are also the forgotten fears of mutation and the unknown of the disease. PPP was envisioned/passed around April 2020. Back then, we knew relatively little of the disease and feared it becoming deadlier and more transmissible if it were able to evolve. Fortunately, it didn't (to the degree we feared) but it very well may have if the US had simply let it run loose.