What function are you using to compare economic damage to medical damage? Americans started radically decreasing their going-out even before the lockdowns and without lockdowns a significant portion of the US will still stay home. So what's that look like? Economic damage plus health damage? At what point do we encourage people to stop quarantining voluntarily and go out and risk infection just to stop the economic damage?Sweden didn't lock down and has several times as many cases of COVID-19 as the other Nordic countries. Not having overrun hospitals is not the main metric here. Overwhelming resources leads to worse and worse outcomes but thousands of COVID-19 cases is associated in and of itself with excess death.
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