[hexsprite]

Good point, one could measure (est.) years lost rather than lives lost as a way to quantify that.

[hackflip]

"Let's lock down young healthy people's lives for 2 years so that the 86 year olds make it to 87"

[spookthesunset]

As it turns out quality adjusted life years has been the gold standard for measuring this before 2020. In a fit of hysteria we decided to toss that out the window (along with just about every single other bit of human knowledge).

Imagine what would have been different if we used the industry standard way if measuring this sort of thing…