minimize the death toll? okay so what do you call 50,000 excess deaths from cancer in the UK alone due to the lockdowns? what do you call 120 million people dying, in not such far away places like brazil, of starvation (many childhood deaths included) due to the lockdowns? this isnt according to "some guy on the internet". everyone is saying this. unicef is saying this. amnesty international is saying this. how are the lockdowns "minimizing" the death toll? theyre not. they're trading lives for lives. in this case, trading possibly young vital lives for old already lived lives. this is not a skillful reaction. it's not taking a wide view of things. yes, if we narrow our view and concentrate only on covid patients, only a certain "type" of person, than yeah, we're minimizing the death toll. if we look at the grand scheme of things and how everything is interconnected then what we've done is create huge amounts of unnecessary death. it's an absolutely tragedy, and it's no longer "what we're doing", it's "what we've DONE" because the damage now is irrevocable, there's no easy way back from this. and in 20 years or whatever when we look back and think "what were we thinking?!", i hope people like you hang your head in shame, because you absolutely should and it shouldnt be forgotten by anyone.