[logicchains]

>This sort of cold-hearted calculus is not going to solve anything at all, merely create rifts by polarizing what it means to be 'young', 'old', 'suicide prone', 'depressed' and 'suddenly poor'.

However "cold" the reasoning is, it doesn't change the fact that there are people who'll die decades earlier now than they otherwise would have without the lockdown. I don't see how sixty years of a young person's life is worth any less than 60 years of multiple old people's lives; the only difference is that it's easier to see the direct consequences (old people dying now) than the consequences that take years to materialise. Ignoring and not measuring second-order consequences isn't warm, it's stupid.

[jacquesm]

Yes, but you are not capable of pointing out which people, and that is part of the problem here. If you could then you could take care of them on an individual basis. Which is one of the reasons most countries have some kind of social net to catch people in trouble. In an each-for-themselves-and-god-for-us-all setup those people will likely not make it. But that's no reason to address the superficial symptom, you'd do better to examine the root cause and fix that instead.