It's about QALYs, not deaths. Lockdowns have a severe effect on QALYs, particularly mental health, to the point where if you're continuing lockdowns for years y

It's about QALYs, not deaths. Lockdowns have a severe effect on QALYs, particularly mental health, to the point where if you're continuing lockdowns for years you're losing more QALYs to the lockdowns than the COVID. To maybe prime the intuition pump, imagine a society that prohibits non-household interaction for 80 years. Do they save any lives? Nope, everyone dies in the end, aging is a thing. Is this place sufficiently worse to live in that 99% of people would rather lose a year of life than accept it? Yep. Note that the direct shortening due to unvaccinated COVID is a few months.