At what cost? we've saved a few 80 year olds, but lost hundreds of younger people via suicide and created a huge long tail of mental health problems along with poor educational outcomes (Australian here).
Don’t try brush it off as a few 80 year olds. Over half a million people have needlessly died in the states. How’s the mental well being of those half a million families, how’s the mental well being of the millions more who were sick and thought they were going to die.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/co...
In NSW suicide fell by 5% last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/23/nsw-s...
There was also a dip in Victoria:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/suicides-in-vict...