[michaelborromeo]

Being allowed to return to work or a business you run, being able to pay rent, feed your family, etc.

These are positive outcomes of lockdowns being lifted.

The danger in looking at this as a binary “opening kills people” is that you miss the trade offs and in doing so you miss the other nuanced policy options that sit in between complete lockdown and no lockdown.

[pjc50]

It's possible that "looser lockdown with mandatory masks" might work - it seems to have done so in Eastern Europe and some of the South Asian countries. But for some reason that doesn't seem to be on the agenda in the US or UK?